Ar Tonelico, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved
Quick comment of Your Shape, because I haven’t actually been playing it lately, but popped it back in tonight. (only 7 more sessions to go! *vomits*) Must say that a lot of the game is crap, the fitness classes only give you two options, Yoga (which is dull and silly) and boxing, and the gym games are lame-o, but especially the hula hoop one, which basically boils down to looking like a moron for 30 seconds while some arbitrary crap happens on your television. Just commenting how pointless a lot of this is. I did find the balance one pretty interesting, too bad it doesn’t account for weight and you have pretty much no ability to catch tumbling blocks.
Enough of that! I played some more Ar Tonelico today, because I thought to myself, “Man, I should really return that.” But somehow, I managed to convince myself to hang onto it for another weekend. It wasn’t the story, or the confusing crafting mechanics, or the artwork (which looks like it was created, oh, you know, six year ago), or the pacing. (Wait, my first boss fight happens AFTER I assume I’m homefree and out of the death forest?) I think it was just the combat mechanics, as inscrutable as they are, once you get a singing lady in your party. She doesn’t have a turn; you instead tell her to do x, and she’ll either do it right away, or need to build up energy. If you do something just right, it also makes your basic attacks better somehow. It’s just odd enough that I need to experiment with it.
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What I Played Today: November 5
Dance Central, Your Shape Fitness Evolved, Innovation, Back to the Future Card Game
I played more Kinect this evening, breaking the plastic of the third game I got, the fitness game. It is exactly what you think it is, although I don’t think the camera is doing enough. I mean, it says that it’s diagnosing me, but it doesn’t make any suggestions besides “Start at the beginning,” which I was going to do anyway. But I won’t be talking about it unless it does something fantastic, because I plan to use it a lot more, and it’ll get boring to talk about after a bit.
Also played some more Dance Central, and my opinion of the game hasn’t changed. They do a lot of things right, the flavor is good, the game works well, and while it sometimes doesn’t give you credit for your dance, you soon realize that it’s not that big of deal, you can still do pretty well as long as you’re doing it right. I actually goldstared a song on easy, which I wasn’t expecting to do, so that was neat.
There was also a moment when the magic technology was really kicking our butts, so some analog games were played. Innovation hit the table, and I lost pretty soundly…my opponent was able to get a few good cards that ramped up his score while keeping me down, and it was down to a situation where I had to drain his score pile quickly, which isn’t really all that possible. I had the card, but it was in my hand, not on the board.
I lost the round of the Back to the Future Card Game too. I hadn’t realized how many cards allow you to dig for the card you need; there are five rewinds in the deck, which let you play a card from the discard, and three others that allow you to search the deck. The game doesn’t have a lot of tension with two players; you’re basically just trying to screw the other guy with cancellation cards, but most likely you won’t interfere with each other on the timeline.
I played more Kinect this evening, breaking the plastic of the third game I got, the fitness game. It is exactly what you think it is, although I don’t think the camera is doing enough. I mean, it says that it’s diagnosing me, but it doesn’t make any suggestions besides “Start at the beginning,” which I was going to do anyway. But I won’t be talking about it unless it does something fantastic, because I plan to use it a lot more, and it’ll get boring to talk about after a bit.
Also played some more Dance Central, and my opinion of the game hasn’t changed. They do a lot of things right, the flavor is good, the game works well, and while it sometimes doesn’t give you credit for your dance, you soon realize that it’s not that big of deal, you can still do pretty well as long as you’re doing it right. I actually goldstared a song on easy, which I wasn’t expecting to do, so that was neat.
There was also a moment when the magic technology was really kicking our butts, so some analog games were played. Innovation hit the table, and I lost pretty soundly…my opponent was able to get a few good cards that ramped up his score while keeping me down, and it was down to a situation where I had to drain his score pile quickly, which isn’t really all that possible. I had the card, but it was in my hand, not on the board.
I lost the round of the Back to the Future Card Game too. I hadn’t realized how many cards allow you to dig for the card you need; there are five rewinds in the deck, which let you play a card from the discard, and three others that allow you to search the deck. The game doesn’t have a lot of tension with two players; you’re basically just trying to screw the other guy with cancellation cards, but most likely you won’t interfere with each other on the timeline.
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