NINTENDO 3DS

haha not Layton, Phoenix

The second Miles Edgeworth game is much better than the first one. There is a fan translation that is worth pirating.

shin megami tensei iv was really hard to find. sold out from all sorts of official places. had to go for some kind of ENTERTAINMENTFORLESS_A1 seller on Amazon.

Now sitting sealed on my desk. Waiting for the weekend. Also haven't been sober enough to play a JRPG for the past couple of days.

Shin Megami Tensei IV voice acting

addicted to Fantasy Life at the moment. I saw someone call it "a cute Skyrim" which is funny but not totally wrong. It feels a bit like Animal Crossing but with a massive actual gamey game added in - a simple action RPG like Rune Factory or Ys, but with jobs, quests, equipment etc and a main storyline you can dip in and out of.

Very happy with my purchase of SMT IV. For some reason I thought it had just come out (August 2014 instead of August 2013) so was initially feeling baffled at a) how hard it was to find, and b) why nobody was talking about it.

This is absolutely great stuff about 6-7 hours in. It's one of the most batshit game world concepts I think I've ever played... App Store? Medieval France-Japan? A weird sky tunnel that goes from Medieval France-Japan to a weird contemporary Tokyo? I'm also really enjoying how stupid, funny, and plain weird some of the demons are. At some point I feel I'm gonna go up against a tea kettle with wings and a bag of goldfish crackers. (Of course ending up in a ruthless total party kill that causes me to hurl verbal abuse at my 3DS. Goldfish crackers smirks.)

The dialogue is weirdly stilted. "Hey, do you know about demons? I hear there are demons under the city, do you want to find these demons?" But actually I find this is adding to the creepy, hallucinogenic experience.

SMT IV is still great 20–25 hours in. I've been doing side quests and occasionally getting stuck in the main story. One of the great things about this game is how it refuses to hold your hand with regard to progression through the story quests. It feels very old school to have to remember dialogue with NPCs and not have a big blinking quest marker in your face at all times...

Well done, ATLUS! I had always shied away from this series, but I am now legitimately interested in Persona Q and I wish there was more information out there (in English) regarding the gameplay... If it's anything like SMT IV, they've won me over.

from what i understand persona Q is going to be more like etrian odyssey

I started as an Alchemist in Fantasy Life and now I'm trying to decide what I want to add to that. With Alchemist I'm finding I can make money very quickly just buying materials through the artisan district and selling back potions. But taking on monsters in the field is a slog. Something like Hunter/Alchemist/Angler might be fun.

Surprised nobody's playing Smash? But then again, I picked it up at release and haven't opened it...

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I started as Alchemist as well, then went Mercenary then Blacksmith. It's nice that they let you skip the tutorial for every Life after the first one, without any punishment. Reached the end credits at about 40 hours, but feels like I missed about half the content. Game is huge!

homebrew channel is going to be released in a couple of days for the 3DS, and about 12 hours ago the developer let everyone know that it exploits the game Cubic Ninja - yesterday you could buy it for £2.50 from CeX but the price has been going up all day, at the moment the cheapest copy on Amazon is £59.95! Apparently the game is needed to launch the homebrew every time so prices are not going to drop unless Ubisoft who published it reprint the game.

ha, damn, I remember that game getting clearanced out ages ago

exciting but i'll probably just wait until a less cumbersome flashcart hits the market

yeah, seems inevitable

anyone grab persona Q? thinking of grabbing the digital but it's a bit $$$

Persona Q not out til Friday in EU, super excited about it tho
Yumi's Odd Odyssey i.e. Umihara Kawase is currently $10 in the US eshop, buy buy buy this game if a whimsical but ultrachallenging puzzle platformer appeals in any way

Probably going to pick up a 3ds Xl in a couple weeks. First Nintendo console I've owned in 7 years

Don't do it! Wait for the new model coming out next year.

The "New Nintendo 3DS" *ugh* is a significant hardware upgrade, more buttons, faster processor, exclusive games etc.

Btw, those Umihara Kawase games are so cool but I was always so bad at them

I like whimsical and puzzles and platformers... thanks for the tip.

We don't have a Prof Layton or Ace Attorney thread anywhere do we? Has anyone played the Prof Layton/Ace Attorney crossover game?

I finished it over the weekend but I'm still trying to sort out how I rate it. Good things: integration of art/design styles into one world, interaction of characters from the various games, courtroom bits. Not as good things: Luke's voice acting (the accent is even worse in this game), way too easy puzzles, a bit too long (longest of any Layton game I've played), absolutely ridiculous storyline (I haven't played much Ace Attorney to know if they usually go for wacky storylines, but Layton games definitely do - and this one is more absurd/potholed than any of them).

I'm playing that as we speak, I hadn't played any games from either series so it's pretty fun and different from what I'm used. On that note, I'm not sure I would play a tremendous amount more of either series, since my attention span seems to max out around 30 mins in this game.

Dual Destinies is also on sale for $15 on the eShop, I'll finally grab it.

I haven't played much Ace Attorney to know if they usually go for wacky storylines

the answer is
very much yes

lol

i love that the incredibly wackiness is mixed in with DEADLY SERIOUS crimes afoot. like oh no, a gruesome murder! let us keep talking to this cantankerous old busybody dressed as a clown in gym sweats for a clue.

Okay, picked one of these up on sale. I figure, if I'm still playing within a year, I'll just upgrade.

Right then, down to some friend code business.

About 20 hours into Persona Q. They did a really good job of fusing the Persona battle system into the Etrian setup, and there is a larger amount of puzzle solving than in either series which adds a lot to the dungeon crawling. Really enjoying it, the only downside is the dialog - groanworthy fanfic which goes on and on hammering the same one note jokes, hey let's pause halfway through this dungeon floor and listen to Chie talk about how much she likes meat ffs. Luckily you can hold down x and fast forward through this garbage.

yep my thoughts exactly. i just got to the third labyrinth so ~20hrs or so in as well

How's the art style?

character models are very 3DS, cute but jaggies everywhere. The dungeons themselves are well done though, themed like P4 but laid out like EO, lots of nice attention to detail.

Okay, found my friend code:

2981-8218-5328

Plz add me, we can talk about the success of Elllo the social network on there

one day i'll start my Animal Crossing town...

it's been months since I've played Animal Crossing... I live in terror

Between Fantasy Life, Harvest Moon: Two Cities, and Rune Factory 3, I currently have way too many life/farm-sim games even contemplate investigating Animal Crossing.

Also funny: how much the Villiager amiibo is going for on eBay right now

ugh, sold.
http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/7/7512563/puzzle-dragons-super-mario-bros-nintendo-3ds-gungho

Two huge things combine to get huger!

And it's coming with the unreleased Puzzle and Dragon Z in a double pack in May!

Oh, and the New 3DS XL comes out in a month. No non-XL version for the US.

new Fire Emblem game too! if anyone in EU needs a MH4 demo code let me know

Playing the MH4 demo on my new3ds ;)

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/zt4cxkpkpkc7ys4im9rg.png

Yeah it looks cool but I have a rubber covering over like every portable electronic thing I own.

http://rack.2.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE0LzA4LzI5L2JkL2NvbnRyb2xzYnV0LjRlNmQwLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4OTYwMD4/c72a35a5/738/controls-buttons.jpg

The Super Famicon button layout I'm much more interested in.

But I bought a 3ds last month and won't be upgrading for quite a long while, so who cares. I wonder if I can get a spare parts kit and just replace the buttons.

New Fire Emblem looks properly Fire Emblem-y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2LJ-4DDWU

New Harvest Moon in all but name:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5SxW6xDoo

And I have no idea what this is gunna be but the music is doooooope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTlWYbapmFw

Tings a gwan.

Are any of the SMT games marked at 50% off in the eShop worth picking up? I was eyeing SMT4 and the Hackers one because yay cyberpunk but it seems very easy just to splurge on all of em.

Soul Hackers feels very 90s in its design, I love it but they've not done much to make it accessible to modern audiences and some of its systems can seem quite opaque. Short for an Atlus game though, maybe 20-25 hours long? Very 90s idea of virtual reality, quite funny script at times.
SMT4 is a lot more friendly and has a great soundtrack, only problem I had with it was the balancing where it felt incredibly difficult at the start and too easy towards the end. Oh and the overworld map revealed after about 10 hours can be frustrating if you don't know it's real world counterpart (Tip: print one out so you know where you are supposed to go.) Script is a lot more serious except for the demon conversations which are hilarious.
People love DSO but I can't get into it, battle system felt so slow. Neat idea though.
EO4 is the most accessible EO game, these games are like crack to me and this is probably the best of them. There's a demo I think so try it out to see if it sinks its hooks into you.

EO4 reminds me so much of Might & Magic

yeh that old PC style dungeon crawling & graph paper mapping is so addictive to me
the guy who came up with the Cubic Ninja exploit has released a simple hack that enables region free gaming on any 3DS with no modding required, just tried it out and it works! https://github.com/smealum/regionthree/

at this point, I just want the ability to play any ds or gba cart. Its the only way we're ever going to be the english translations of certain Fire Emblem titles or Mother 3.