[Toasty]

This game is pretty awesome. It's been out for a while, and it's an RPG, but it doesn't have any of the cliche's (so far) that any typical RPG has. I.E. a guy with spikey hair or amnesia. The battleing is sorta like the gameboy DBZ games. You see a baddie, go up to it, fight it, and either kill it, die, or run away. It's not turn based.
The graphics in it are amazing. They're on par with FFIII for the DS, if not better.

You increase your stats individually based on the usage of that stat. For instance, the more you get hit, the more experience you get for you defense. The more damage you take, the more you get for your health. The more you attack, the more you get for your strength, etc. Heck, you even move around faster from just walking araound. There's also four different elemental attacks, Earth Wind Fire and Water, which can only be used when their corresponding outfit is worn by the character.

The NPC's in the game don't treat you as the main character, they treat you as a guy in a far off distant galaxy watching over the main character through a screen on this newfangled thing called a "DS". This is seen mostly in the professor.

Anyway, the goal of the game is to find all the energy cores that got knocked out of the professor's space ship. I don't know anything past that. But there's bosses involved.

Even if you don't like RPG's much ( but truthfully, you probably wouldn't be on these forums if you didn't), you'll probably enjoy this. If you do like RPG's, you love this game.

[EDIT] Forgot to mention. This game was designed by Goichi Suda (aka Suda 51) who also made Killer 7, and is currently makeing No More Heroes.

[R-dog]

I've played it. Let me tell you the ending is freaky.
Anyways, I haven't played it in a while mostly because the side-quests at the end are a pain in the neck to complete. I hate fishing.

[Nemphtis]

I kept track of this game prior to release for ages, yet when it finally came out the reviews weren't very favourable and I had better things to buy at the time so I totally ignored this. Matter of fact, I still have betters things to play even now so too bad Contact.

[Folcon]

For thouse that have played this game, can someone tell me where I find the wind element clothes, I need it to advance through the area I'm currently at.

[FlamingDuck]

escout:

Spoiler

On the island, you have to go to the airfield and kill the pilots running around. The boss is kinda hard, so be prepared.

And R-Dog, I love the ending :P

[Folcon]

FlamingDuck, on Jan 5 2008, 04:18 PM, said:

escout:

Spoiler

On the island, you have to go to the airfield and kill the pilots running around. The boss is kinda hard, so be prepared.

And R-Dog, I love the ending :P

Spoiler

Which island, and where is the airfield?

I'm only up to Aegis right now.

[R-dog]

@ escout- Fort Eagle.

Spoiler

Travel until you are at the outside of the big building. Instead of going inside, go to the right of it.

@ FD- It is an awesome ending, but it raises several questions, such as

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is the professor good or evil? Were you playing as the bad guys the whole time?
You saw the second part of the ending too, right? That really got me thinking. What if data really was alive?

[FlamingDuck]

escout, on Jan 5 2008, 04:22 PM, said:

Spoiler

Which island, and where is the airfield?

I'm only up to Aegis right now.

My bad, I forgot they were all islands XD.

R-dog, on Jan 5 2008, 08:05 PM, said:

@ FD- It is an awesome ending, but it raises several questions, such as

Spoiler

is the professor good or evil? Were you playing as the bad guys the whole time?
You saw the second part of the ending too, right? That really got me thinking. What if data really was alive?

Spoiler

The ambiguity is what really set it apart for me. I don't think anyone was plain "evil" or "good", but a mix. I believe the professor had good intentions, but questionable means. Terry was undoubtably used, but was that such a bad thing? I don't know. The note at the end is one of my favorite endings ever...

I guess I'll have to finish it again and rewatch the ending.

I'm also trying for 100% item completion. It's pretty hard.

[Folcon]

Thanks R-dog, now to just find the fishing and theaving suits, but I may not be that far yet.

[FlamingDuck]

You're around halfway through, I'd say. The game is too short :(

But there is a sequel!

[R-dog]

@ escout- Once you finish up Aegis, you'll be able to get both. The thief suit is pretty hard to get though.

@ FD- I didn't know that there was a sequel. Has it already come out?

[Caael]

I downloaded this on supercard ages ago, and got bored in 10 minutes. I might pick it up again, but I still have better games to play and more work to do.

[Toasty]

Nemphtis, on Jan 5 2008, 06:51 AM, said:

I kept track of this game prior to release for ages, yet when it finally came out the reviews weren't very favourable and I had better things to buy at the time so I totally ignored this. Matter of fact, I still have betters things to play even now so too bad Contact.

It probably got bad reviews becuase it's MUCH different than any other RPG. So, the people who reviewed it, which were probably more used to normal RPG's, gave it a bad score.

I can't really say if you'll like it or not, but at $18 USD, it wouldn't have been a big waste of money even if I ended up not likeing it. So you'll really only be wasteing time if you don't like it.

And FD, what's the name of the sequel?

[FlamingDuck]

I dunno, Contact 2, probably. It's been announced, but it's not out yet.

[Nemphtis]

Dude of Wind, on Jan 7 2008, 02:26 AM, said:

It probably got bad reviews becuase it's MUCH different than any other RPG. So, the people who reviewed it, which were probably more used to normal RPG's, gave it a bad score.

I can't really say if you'll like it or not, but at $18 USD, it wouldn't have been a big waste of money even if I ended up not likeing it. So you'll really only be wasteing time if you don't like it.

And FD, what's the name of the sequel?

You talk as if I read reviews written by biased nine year old. Nothing wrong with a game being different, but many were complaining about the very lame combat system, plus exploration was apparently highly repetitive.

[Toasty]

Both are true. For combat, you pretty much just stand and watch your character attack the enemy, save for you determining whether to use special attacks or not, and to heal when his health gets low. And the dungeons (so far) are pretty linear with a few hidden passages that lead to special items.

But, I still think the game makes up for it with origionality. It's nice to play something that's finally different than all the other RPG's.