Pokemon D&P, review

Yes, thats right, I’ve finally gotten far enough into the game to assume some things among my notes. For this game I’ll actually have a score sheet at the end of my ((hopefully)) lengthy ,or intermediately lenghty, review.

Graphics

The center of games to most people now a-days ((especially PS3 and Xbox360 gamers)). Mainly, and flat out, the graphics were great compared to just about, if not all, other GameFreak games ever made. The main things that popped out was the main RO type graphics effect, kinda. Okay they really weren’t anything like RO graphics but it’s a good sum point for the big buildings and energy windmills that litter the game and make you spaz at almost every given moment. The graphics really make the PKMN world jump out at you with vicious ferociousness. Really quite the sight to see. The avatars of the game, y’know your game character, have also been upgraded a bit with new and improved pixel techniques to actually make your guy hold a pokeball high in the sky whenever he/she summons a pokemon to do their bidding on natural items. Ex. Rocks that have the breakable look. In the end the graphics were quite stunning compared to just about every other GameFreak game out there. It was also nice to be walking along and BLAM you see an energy windmill standing there proudly in it’s 3D greatness. Almost teasingly sitting there. The graphics are practically covered as atleast “good” in my book.

General Gameplay

The heart of just about all games. This game had something about it that made it much, much more fun than past games, be it the stunning graphics, the arousing battle system, or just the fact that it’s a freaking new PKMN game. It really made it worth it’s money, ((atleast I reserved otherwise my plan B would’ve let up with a bloodied up knife and some injured fanboys….)). I also noticed that alot of the same tunes with added parts and extended things are ever so present throughout the game. Thats a definite, even the Pokemon Center music is tweaked. Although, even with it’s masked goodness, it still had some major flaws that didn’t take place in past games that may just be me not liking the adaptation. I noticed that any PKMN that were caught and trained to lvl 12-13 with only the first badge wouldn’t listen at all. It was annoying, irritating, hatefully mean, and most of all repetitive. Following this train of thought, it really seems to expect you to only level up your starter pokemon until you’ve got atleast the second badge which you first must beat a lady with a level 16, fairly powerful, cat-like pokemon, and expect to win. Oh goody. It really had some good mask features and background things that could be noticed after atleast an hour or two of play, but that was to mask the repetitive PKMN raising and battling flaws. Which really gets me thinking that they went lazy on that part or they wanted this game to get to real in the care department. Whoever heard of PKMN in the past games that didn’t listen after getting the first badge and being level 12-13? Mainly, the gameplay was flawed with the care issue and basically ruined a good division of the game that was well loved in past games. Looks like some veterans may or may not like this. Or I’m just too picky.

Wi-Fi

The part most people have been waiting to get to. The Wi-Fi was/is quite fun to use. To an extent. They evidently didn’t take in the fact that Japanese players would be flooding the trade service and be asking for Level 100 Palkias, and etc. When PKMN has only been in the US for what? 2 days? I think that the JP players should lighten up on what they want they’ve gotta note that all the US players have most likely not even gotten to that division of the game. I also had/am having issues with the battle service. To me, the battle service just seems like it’s local just with Wi-Fi stuck in the front to hype people up. I’m sure that you can do it, I just haven’t figured it out. I’ll need to get back to it though. Altogether some parts of Wi-Fi have been quite disappointing while others are okay as they are.((My apologies for not having any coverage on the tunnels, I haven’t gotten to them yet.Evil cat lady…)).

Battle System

Yet another I’m quite excited to talk about. I liked all the flashy battle effects. They were quite nice, like watching fireworks, just not exactly always on July 4th. And that varies to different attacks. It kept you awake while battleing thats for sure. The touch screen battle commanding was a fairly nice battle feature to have too. It was/is fun to use. It definitely makes it unique above other PKMN games from the past handheld systems. The battle music also seems to have some new and old-yet-tweaked tracks for it. They weren’t astoundingly great but they were chosen right for different moments in battle. Victory music really made me feel victorious, that really shows how much attention was put towards the music and less towards the PKMN-too-much-real-life-care-feeling subject. <_<.

General gameplay: 8/10 – thanks to certain things that weren’t contentful >_>

Graphics-10/10- for excellent work in graphics.

Wi-Fi- 9/10- Not as well as boasted Wi-Fi

Battle System- 10/10- For keeping me awake while battleing.

Pokemon D&P: Now out to the public.

Yes, I’m sure many of us got up early this morning to go grab our pre-ordered copy so we could vigorously run our DS’s battery into the ground. Boy, do I sound enthusiastic. Mainly because I have to wait until tomorrow to go grab my copy. Thats why I can only put up a preview. Otherwise I would have a review up probably right now. Oh yeah and to whom it may have concerned, they did have a celebration in New York today over it’s release. Too bad I/you most likely missed it since most people wouldn’t just go to New York to celebrate and pay all that money, but then again….Nevermind.

Anyway, I’ll probably have my review up in a couple of days, I have to take some notes on it first and get it all together and organized before I can put it up on here. (What do you expect for me to recklessly just start writing about every single thought on it right now?). Until then I’m sure you’ll either be occupied with 1 of 2 things, 1) You are quite engrossed in your copy of D or P, possibly both. or 2) you don’t have it but your too engrossed with how your gonna pull together the money to get it before all sanities lost. Maybe you don’t even care/know about Pokemon and are doing better things than sitting silently in your room playing/crying/talking to yourself frantically over crazy scams for money. I kid you not though, everyone considering it but don’t know how good it is shall know it, in 2 days, thats mainly just to have me not procrastinate with it and get into a full-fledged Pokemon frenzy like never before.w00t.

I’ll write up a summary for people curious about this game and don’t know zip about it. This is the 3rd installment in the series, of traditonally, two games at release then a third game added later on. (You can find my post on “the cousin” if you take a good look around, it’s not that far back there). This is only predicted information though, usually though past repeats itself, as it has been seen to happen before. Anyway this game will have Wi-Fi connection allowing you to battle people all over the world as well as trade. There’ll even be a globe where you can see what place each of the people you traded with came from. It’ll definitely be fancy. Then when it comes to battle settings you’ll actually ,instead of button pressing battles, be using your thumb or if you’d like your stylus to choose battle options. And the animated scenes will be more lively and actually make you want to fight wild pokemon more than in past games.Altogether the impression it’s giving off his making it seem like a good game, so it’s probably worth getting but I can’t gaurantee that so to be safe, if your unsure, wait until I get the review up. I beg it. Until then you can read this over and over again.

((sorry about switching to bold and all, it kind of messed up on me for awhile so my deepest apologies.))

Now listening to: Gorillaz-Demon Days-Dare

Joining the apple side of the force…

I seemed to have taken a major liking for Apple products and now terribly want one above all other things. It seems to have deeply entranced me to spend all my money on their shiny, sleek products ((Too bad I don’t have any money…Well for freewill spending anyway)). This was partly supported by my sudden cling to a webcomic called “AppleGeeks” it is quite a good webcomic. Fairly funny but can get very serious in some parts.

Anyway, now that I have turned “to the apple side of the OS force” ((Yes cheesy isn’t it..?)) I now, in everyway shape and form, hate my PC to the fullest extent. Seriously, it’s true. After I get a Mac I’m so taking this thing apart to better my knowledge with computers. The only real , yet somewhat small community-wise, competitor that I see in my horizon is a small OS project called “Altimit OS” at first it was just a project made by fans for fans. Now it has definitely turned into something more than that. It has really shifted over to the more business side that you can find in a company.In-fact they are even asking Apple if they’d like to affiliate, I think this would be great for both sides. It may seem unlikely since they’d both be somewhat competing OS’ against eachother but it’d probably boost the traffic of Altimit and maybe even land Apple a team for if they desperately need one at the time to come in and help. It’d definitely equal out both sides of the bargain in my opinion.

Altimit OS progress shot

Apple, one of the biggest OS companies and also hardware of their own computers, travel computers, media devices, and much more has now switched me over to their side of the OS market. Seeing as now that I’ve seen “The Light” or “Shiny apple” ,as some others would maybe say, Windows is now my sworn enemy who I am forced to cooperate with seeing as I have near zip of spending money available. As much as anyone would care Apple really truly should get more glory than it gets in the real world. It actually doesn’t shut down all the time from viruses.

Apple co.

All in all, Apple online store has become one of my most favorite places on the net to gawk at all the pretty pictures and flashy brochure type descriptions.^^

Now listening to: Gorillaz- Demon Days- Every planet we reach is dead

Cyberconnects LTD. releases TWR:2 release date…

The release date for ,the already, burstingly popular game by CCorp has finally been released on their homepage at www.cyberconnects.com. This has been greatly anticipated by the [The World] community. If your a .hack fan and would love to play it and live the experience, then in June you’ll be a pretty happy camper.

The concept for The World was first made by Jstacko in, at first, a RPGmaker style format. The game is currently still out for download and play but is rumored to be shut down when R:2 releases to the public. R:2 was first really started in October and September when the first screenshots came out but had been worked on for months before then. TWR:1 has been a major success in the .hack community but the release of R:2 is predicting an outrage of downloads possibly even clogging up the server with traffic for weeks on end. My advice, download when they first put it out for download.

As calm as I may sound, this is truly an illusion created by the power over virtual text. I’m truly quivering with anxiety and will be bursting with happiness, come June time, that being a straight two months from now. So, if you’d like to play, make an account and be patient for a little longer. Once I get a chance to play it I’m sure I’ll find a way to take screenshots for all you people waiting for a review. Those pic’s will most likely come with a review though ;D.