2nd July 2017, 3:26 PM
It isn't the most grammatical title, but at least it is descriptive -- you play as the Hero, mostly, moving around the screen bonking into enemies to hurt them, as you try to protect the frozen Witch in the center. See, Medusa turned her to stone, and your quest is to undo the curse and beat Medusa. When the Hero touches an enemy that does drain his health too with each hit, though. If the Witch dies it's game over, but the Hero will regenerate health after running out, but you'll be down for a few seconds. As you kill enemies you collect red powerups, and if you return to the center where the Witch is you charge up a meter. When the meter fills, the Witch is unfrozen for a few seconds and can attack with one of two spells, either a random shot attack which goes in all directions, or a targeted fireball attack that shoots in the direction she is facing. While unfrozen you can rotate her with L and R.
That's how everything goes up until the second form of the final boss, though. For the last fight you only control the Hero, and have to beat Medusa, who has quite a bit of health. It's a tough fight, which is why I gave up the first time, but with practice and grinding I finished it.
Now in the sequel, as I think I mentioned it's a bit better. The sequel stars very similar looking but new characters called the Little Witch and Little Hero. Again you mostly will fight as the Hero, since he regenerates while if the Witch dies it's game over, but in W&H II the Little Witch isn't frozen, and can move around the screen as well, with the face buttons. She moves slowly, but it is very handy to be able to move her around. Otherwise the formula is the same though, as you bonk enemies, collect red stuff to charge the magic meter, grind levels or money to be strong enough to survive in the next stage, and such. They're short enough games that the grinding isn't too bad, but it is a bit annoying.
Anyway... so, today, I finally got around to finishing the rest of the main single player campaign in...
Wii U
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Splatoon -- Yeah, I finished the short but really fun single player campaign in this. I wish there was more here because what single player the game does have is pretty good, but it's fun while it lasts so it's alright. I will say though, I wish that they had made some good AI opponents for this game; the AI Octolings are just hopelessly terrible, and the option for decent AI opponents in multiplayer as well as single player really should have been in the game. Fortunately there are still enough people playing this game, at least now, to easily get into a match, but seriously, bots are a must in a good shooter! Otherwise though it's a very good game. The multiplayer is the better half overall, since the single player is pretty easy for the most part, but it's all good.
That's how everything goes up until the second form of the final boss, though. For the last fight you only control the Hero, and have to beat Medusa, who has quite a bit of health. It's a tough fight, which is why I gave up the first time, but with practice and grinding I finished it.
Now in the sequel, as I think I mentioned it's a bit better. The sequel stars very similar looking but new characters called the Little Witch and Little Hero. Again you mostly will fight as the Hero, since he regenerates while if the Witch dies it's game over, but in W&H II the Little Witch isn't frozen, and can move around the screen as well, with the face buttons. She moves slowly, but it is very handy to be able to move her around. Otherwise the formula is the same though, as you bonk enemies, collect red stuff to charge the magic meter, grind levels or money to be strong enough to survive in the next stage, and such. They're short enough games that the grinding isn't too bad, but it is a bit annoying.
Anyway... so, today, I finally got around to finishing the rest of the main single player campaign in...
Wii U
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Splatoon -- Yeah, I finished the short but really fun single player campaign in this. I wish there was more here because what single player the game does have is pretty good, but it's fun while it lasts so it's alright. I will say though, I wish that they had made some good AI opponents for this game; the AI Octolings are just hopelessly terrible, and the option for decent AI opponents in multiplayer as well as single player really should have been in the game. Fortunately there are still enough people playing this game, at least now, to easily get into a match, but seriously, bots are a must in a good shooter! Otherwise though it's a very good game. The multiplayer is the better half overall, since the single player is pretty easy for the most part, but it's all good.