I reserved a copy of this game and want to pick it up today. I was juston the fence. I was hoping poeple who got it yesterday would share their thoughts on gameplay, sound, diffuculty, length replayability. Thanks!
I liked the fact that you can choose to make it simple to control or harder and therefor more versatile in how you kill the Noise.
Definitely worth playing for anyone who likes that kind of RPG.
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Thanks! I am having a great time with it! It may consume my time more than Okami OR Mario Kart.
P.S. 'm not that far, but I've only seen one "Emo" kid.
Quite possibly my favorite DS game. Especially loving the story.
I gave the game a shot the other day but honestly found the battle system too busy. Perhaps it just needs a little more time for it to grow on me, as I stopped playing at the first or so joint battle between the two characters. The story did indeed seem interesting, but the battle mechanics turned me off. From what I've read, if you give them a chance, you'll grow to like them, so perhaps the game is worth a repeat visit.
utopianmachine:I gave the game a shot the other day but honestly found the battle system too busy. Perhaps it just needs a little more time for it to grow on me, as I stopped playing at the first or so joint battle between the two characters.
How well this will work when the game gets more difficult, I can only hope for the better.
I actually found controlling both characters suprisingly simple.Exellent story.
I don't know where I stand on this. I love the character designs and the setting of the game. It's a bit annoying trying to watch 2 screens and fight with both people, but I may try auto-fight out later. I can't stand the male lead character as he is so annoying. But I like all the other characters and storyline. I'm gonna give this game another week or so and see if my impressions of it change.
I think Neku becomes more relatable as you go on, but of course that may be since I'm a teenager.
I played on normal the first week, but now I'm on easy for the second week. Weird.....
I've had a lot of fun with the game. Definitely the most hours I've sunk into a DS game since Pokemon Diamond/Pearl.
T Skillet:I couldn't get past my hatred of the majority of the characters. It seemed like it had potential, but the main character made me wish he was real so I could punch him.
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I thoroughly enjoyed it ...much better than the other recent Squeenix RPG (i.e. the one for the PSP)
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I put about 10 hours into it and lost interest. The game is extremely unique and original, which counts for something. I like the j-pop music well enough, some don't. I'm not too hot on the story and characterization, some are (it's pretty standard JRPG stuff). The gameplay really grabbed me at first, and I was initially excited about all the different pins and combos you can potentially set up, but eventually I realized there's not really any point: You can try leveling up all kinds of different pins, but once you max out a few that you like, they're as good as anything else, really. You can spend a lot of time and money optimizing your warddrobe for use in different sectors of the city, but the benefits are negligible (and some of them are confusing: 'Combo tree becomes shape of cactus'? Is that good?)
I think you if go for the JRPG/anime style characters and plot, are into heavy collection-oriented gameplay, and enjoy controlling cranky, feminine, adolescent males with amnesia, you'll definitely like it.
