The Gwampy Thread

[reyler]

358/2 Days. I'm trying to get all the way through it. I should probably be waiting until I've got it in English to judge it, of course.

[Toy and Minion]

Not sure that makes a huge difference.  I mean, in the end, it's the gameplay, not the story.

[reyler]

Yeah well the gameplay is crap, so...

[Toy and Minion]

Oh.  Well then, I guess that just leaves the story that you can't really understand right now.

[reyler]

Well, the gameplay is basically the same as the first game, it's just the implementation on the DS. Of course, it might be a different experience on an actual DS, but that's not the point.

[Toy and Minion]

Yeah, I liked the 2nd games gameplay.

[reyler]

Having reaction commands to separate NPC talking from the attack button, plus the camera being assigned to an analog stick, those were good moves. 358/2 Days dumps both of those, and the camera and target lock systems are actually worse due to having fewer buttons to deal with.

[Toy and Minion]

Well, I guess it's like what I've hear of Transformers 2.  Bay dumped all the stuff that made the first one any good.

[reyler]

I am still annoyed that the missions you get sent on have even less relevance to the game's plot than the Disney worlds usually do.

[Toy and Minion]

You understand the plot?

[reyler]

Enough of it. The only real relevance to the overall plot is that Roxas is chopping up Heartless for the Organization just like Sora gets tricked into doing later on.

 

The thing I'd like the most to see in a future KH3 is some actual point to having a party, specifically, make me want to swap one of the world-specific characters into my party. Make it matter who I've got in my party. I think what I really want is to be able to take party members like Beast or Aladdin out of their own worlds and into others. Maybe apply a light touch of set character classes. As it is you don't really even need Donald or Goofy after enough time.

[Toy and Minion]

Yeah, they're just there to take some hits for you until they're dead.

[reyler]

That's exactly the problem and it's a wasted system.

 

Another thing about 358/2 Days is how much frigging HP enemies have relative to your ability to do damage. Expect it to take several minutes to bring down mid-level Heartless.

[Toy and Minion]

Well, that sucks.  And you're still playing?

 

Well, I guess you might as well.

[reyler]

I'm playing a game this unbalanced that I can only understand about 5% of the text in and you think I'm not cheating the hell out of it?

[Toy and Minion]

I suppose so.  How do you even know where to go next?

[reyler]

That much is pretty easy; accepting a mission sends you to that world, and any paths the game doesn't want you taking are usually blocked off by that jaggedy Nobody pattern.

 

Also, walkthroughs on GameFaqs.

[Toy and Minion]

Of course!  It's so simple!  walkthroughs - getting us through those crazy Japanese games.

[reyler]

I probably wouldn't need the assistance as long as I had my invincibilty code active. Mostly missions are either "run around and kill all of this thing in the picture down here" "run around and collect a bunch of the things in the picture down here", "run around inspecting things", or just "kill everything in sight"

[Toy and Minion]

KILL EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!!  KILL IT!!!  KILL IT ALL!!!!!

[reyler]

I *definitely* should pick up God of War.

[Toy and Minion]

I was thinking about that just now too. 

[reyler]

I think mostly I just want to see Tetsuya Nomura adapt the Disney characters to his design aesthetic and especially see what they look like in Atlantica and Halloween Town. Waspinator has plans!

[Toy and Minion]

No idea what you're talking about, but I'll just smile and nod.

[reyler]

I'm saying I think my gameplay gripes are really just a cover for wanting to see the Disney movie characters redesigned like Mickey/Donald/Goofy were, and to see their alternate forms in the worlds that have them.