VIDEO GAME PURCHASES

Yeah, that was me being a faggot when I was posting instead of sleeping. I meant Kungfu Panda

Many games lately for me. Fallout 3, The Orange Box, GTA: IV, Final Fantasy IV, and The World Ends with you. I blew my budget.

I'm thinking about buying Skate 2.
I never bought the first one, but the Skate 2's demo had me hooked.

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The World Ends With You earlier today for about 24$, after being pressured by RPGamer telling me over and over how awesome it is.

It is. In fact, you should've insisted on paying more for it.

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author=Orig link=topic=2773.msg59892#msg59892 date=1233474903
The World Ends With You earlier today for about 24$, after being pressured by RPGamer telling me over and over how awesome it is.

It is. In fact, you should've insisted on paying more for it.

Yeah I like it. The only thing that bothers me is that the main character is the kind of guy you see in malls shopping alone at the Hot Topic looking for the latest My Chemical Romance hoodies.

I've been hearing only good things about "The World Ends With You" lately. So what's the game like?

What genre is it?
What's the gameplay like?
What are the characters like?

I just wanna know cause I might end up buying it.

The thing about TWEWY that you can't get from simple questions about the genre or the plot is what a novel experience it is. It's set in Shibuya (as in, the real life shopping district), uses real indie music from acts that play the Shibuya area, with monsters based on tattoo designs, and character stat/ability management based on clothes and food. And then there's your magic, which comes from pins which "evolve" over time (in fact, the time between your save and when you load it can provide different types of experience for your pins than other stuff), and from battles and even from your DS "talking" to another DS running TWEWY in "mingle" mode.

In battles you have two characters that you control simultaneously (The computer will control your second character if you don't want to try to invoke schizophrenia in yourself, but it won't do it as well as you could, of course). There's a lot of different settings you can change to throw additional challenges on yourself that will result in better returns from battle, like better item drops or increased experience....things like fighting a bunch of enemies in a row without a chance to heal, or fighting them at higher levels. And about a billion other things that make TWEWY such a fantastic experience.

It's like spitting in the face of people who call jRPGs stale and same-y. But since no one bought it, we're probably not going to see something this daring again, at least from Squenix.

Also, while I don't hate Nomura the way the rest of the RPG community seems to, his designs seem to work better in a modern environment than they do in the Final Fantasy / Kingdom Hearts types of games he usually does.

Baroque for $20, Siren for $25 and Unlimited Saga for $4. The former two I've been wanting to play for a while and the latter I was just curious about and it was cheap.

It was quite a few months ago now, but I'll always remember buying Grandia on the PS1 for £3.50 at GameStation. It was pre-owned but still in brillant condition! I still have the price sticker on the case xD. Bargin!

...barely played it though.

The lastest game I brought was Brawl back in June/ July. I have barely any games =P