Game Recommendations V.2

The new Phoenix Wright game!

Originally Posted by Carge

The new Phoenix Wright game!

Definitely pure awesomeness.

Legend of the Mystical Ninja for VC! (800 pts, SNES)

Best when played with a friend. Running around beating up undead samurais, living umbrellas and fireballs (basic japanese minions) with yo-yos and smoking pipes.

It has this Pocky & Rocky feeling over it (if you ever played that game, which, by the way, is totally awesome).

So, I'm almost done with FFX. I need some help choosing what to purchase. The systems that I have: DS, PS3, Wii. I have FFX-2, but I'm not sure that I want to play that one next.


What do you think? Any recommendation on what order to play them in would really help me, seeing as how there are so many to choose from. I heard that FF3 for the DS is good -- that's a remake, right?

FF6 is by far the best.

The GBA remake isn't completely up to snuff (they cut out 'Son of a Submariner!' D:) but its still better than any other FF game.

If you can get the PS1 version (called Final Fantasy Anthology, also includes FF5) then get it. You WILL NOT be dissapointed.

Should I get Pokemon Diamond? Also, what is a good but cheap game for gamecube or Wii?

Originally Posted by Captain "William Kilgore" Cornflake

FF6 is by far the best.

The GBA remake isn't completely up to snuff (they cut out 'Son of a Submariner!' D but its still better than any other FF game.

If you can get the PS1 version (called Final Fantasy Anthology, also includes FF5) then get it. You WILL NOT be dissapointed.

Great! Thanks.

It took 3 hours just now to finally finish FFX; I cried. A lot. I'll look for this FF Anthology (FFV and FFVI ?)... I assume that I'll have to get it used. But most of the game stores carry used games now, so I'll have a look.

Originally Posted by Zeldafan1

This game isn't really all that great. I have no idea why you are recommending this heap of garbae.

First of all because if you want a little fun I would recommend this game. Sure its not going to get any awards but its the feeling of completing that bonus objective in time and then proceeding to decimate the enemy forces in a shower of pretty explosions. Story line is total Cheese, even if the voice actors play it straight to their credit, but so was the last Film that featured fighter planes heavily and all the way back to top gun. The graphics, sure they’re not great but your description seems to want to put into to a category with 3d graphics of the early N64 generation. Essentially if your planes recognisable and you can clearly identify what you want to shot at you shouldn't care. Motion Control is good on both settings and the use of the analog stick for the throttle seemed very natural and I often find myself pushing forward just to feel that little rush even if technically the after burners weren't needed. It has faults but not any that destroy the game experience. As for your PS2 price argument, well I have only played the game on the Wii so can only recommend the game for Wii. And as an Australian the prices are closer to each other both being well over fifty dollars Australian. The PS2 version is still cheaper but not by as much.

Secondly this is an original Intellectual Property from IR Gurus, an Australian Developer. Now my sunburnt homeland is quickly developing a reputation as being one of the industry's code monkeys for hire. While licences are great and give many programmers a start in the business we are not allowed to express ourselves as fully as with an original idea and we will eventually lose these jobs to much cheaper labour in the Asian region. Thus we need more original games. To do this we need more of the original games to sell well. So that’s why I'm here as an Australian gamer recommending this game. I'm sick of seeing nickelodeon title after nickelodeon title from my local developers and I'm sure they are sick of making them. As I mentioned this game was made with the support of an organization that traditionally finances films (in order for them to be viable). Now for a few months now local developers have been calling for their popular art form to be afforded the same breaks as afforded to film that other place of popular artistic expression. IR Gurus seemed to have already taken those crucial first steps in achieving this. It’s a co-operative effort I would like to see more of in the future.

A review of the game I agree with

Finally I have to call you out on your classification of this game. This is not a flight simulation game; it's an arcade game. Frankly I played old Super Nes games which were more demanding in their physics and had you landing on aircraft carries many more times then this titles grand total of one. Heck for over half the missions you are already in the air not even needing to take off. It is more comparable to say the Rogue Squadron series or the classics of the 16-bit side scrolling shoot-em ups. You shoot, you dodge, you shoot and then you shoot and dodge again, a return to basics if you will. Go download Galaga and come to the realization that a wave of enemies is a wave of enemies despite there being a protect the fleet objective. Now you’ll probably criticize me for saying the core game play is old and thus giving me less reason to recommend it but it’s a return to basics that has worked well in the past. (I’m thinking the first Burnout here and New Super Mario Bros.) By stripping it back you get back to what makes it fun and are able to experiment with new directions. In this case it is the impact cam and the general use of slow motion during evades. It makes the game cinematic and satisfying. Cinematic in the slow down when you break left and that missile slides through the air space you used to be in and satisfying when you get that close up explosion of that ace pilot’s plane being scattered across the sky. Also the satisfaction of the impact cam on the guided bombs increases ten fold.

So do you know my reasons now?

I'm getting a DS and I would like to know which game to get with it. (I have animal crossing already)

2 games i want, i already said the first one, here's the other one:
Pokemon diamond or pearl

Originally Posted by Captain "William Kilgore" Cornflake

FF6 is by far the best.

The GBA remake isn't completely up to snuff (they cut out 'Son of a Submariner!' D but its still better than any other FF game.

If you can get the PS1 version (called Final Fantasy Anthology, also includes FF5) then get it. You WILL NOT be dissapointed.

I beleive it was an awesome game. But I wouldn't call it the 'greatest'. Personally some of the points in the game were kinda hard to find without a guide. (The Phoenix cave, the hole was suspicious in the mountains, but who would've guessed to try landing there?) Then again FF7 had that as well.

Oh and if possible, do NOT play FFX-2. It is such a bad game, only play it if you have a fetish with Yuna.

Here are the FF's I'd advise to play in this order: FF9, FF7, FF6, FF8...Those, in my opinion, are the best in series in that order.

FF9 was generally great. It was a type of game you could play over and over.

FF7 has the best storyline. Supppppeeeerrr deep and if not paying attention, you could get lost.

FF6 was also generally great. Some parts you can easily get lost. And most of the things you would've never guessed. (If you want Shadow later on you have to wait till 4 seconds before the flying continent is to be destroyed.) Sometimes some of the characters seem important, but you later find out they are useless. But nevertheless, it has some of the greatest character development in the game.

FF8 was farely decent. Music and story were cool. Yet the "monsters level up with you" was kind of annoying. As well as the loop hole where you level up 2 characters to a high level and have a lvl 10 character....The monsters only level up to the person who has the lowest level in your party.

Originally Posted by _FTW_

Oh and if possible, do NOT play FFX-2. It is such a bad game, only play it if you have a fetish with Yuna.

I played it last night for 30 minutes. I'm just not sure that I can get used to the dancing. She says, "this is kind of embarassing;" and I'm inclined to agree.

:/

Here are the FF's I'd advise to play in this order: FF9, FF7, FF6, FF8

Thanks! Between the advice from you and CC, I'll see what's available and purchase accordingly. Of course, I might put FF on hold to play The Wind Waker (tried to start it last night but found out I need a memory card ).

Originally Posted by Jehanne

I played it last night for 30 minutes. I'm just not sure that I can get used to the dancing. She says, "this is kind of embarassing;" and I'm inclined to agree.

:/



Thanks! Between the advice from you and CC, I'll see what's available and purchase accordingly. Of course, I might put FF on hold to play The Wind Waker (tried to start it last night but found out I need a memory card ).

FFX-2 was the even STUPIDER version of Charlies Angels....literally.

If anything...play FF6 for the GBA (when outside the house) and play FF9 while inside the house.

I am also a HUGE FF fan so I'd say play FF9 instead of WW. Even though I love that game too, I love FF even more.

Most of the old FF series is just pure awesome. I pretty much agree with _FTW_ on FF6-9. FF7 is the general fanboy's favorite, but still a very solid and deep game, while FF9 is a VERY underrated game--it's just a very solid FF, with old-school mixed with new-school in a good way.

The older FF's (pre-6 mainly) often test your RPG patience, as with the PSX FF's and 6, you generally don't have to sit in one place and level for a long period of time..while with the older ones, it's likely you will. Although the last time I played IV, it was the retranslated Japanese version, which is significantly harder than FF2 that was released here for SNES.

And for the newest one, XII, I was very disappointed in it. Although I really put a lot of that on my former massive playing of World of Warcraft, which is real-time combat in an online world, while XII is real-time combat in a single-player format, so it felt kind of bland to me.

FFX-2 seems to be popular with younger girls due to the "dancing" and the "dresses" and such...it seems to have been Square's pitch at getting the female crowd, maybe more so in Japan than here. At least I hope so, because that's just what it feels like to me--a really bad Hollywood ripoff of Charile's Angels.