27th November 2011, 9:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 27th November 2011, 10:32 PM by A Black Falcon.)
Some final stuff from Gamestop's buy 2 get 1 free period. (That is, I won't be buying anywhere near this much stuff for some time now.)
PSP
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Generation of Chaos - free, would be $6. Disc and case, no manual. Idea Factory strategy/RPG... my hopes aren't too high, but eh, it could be good?
Gradius Collection - $7, complete. Awesome find, I was really hoping to find a copy of this, but wasn't sure it would happen so soon... :)
Rush - free, would be $5, complete. The PSP port of the horrible disaster LA Rush, this is a game I probably should never own... it has nice cover art, but that's the only positive pretty much. Why did I get it anyway? Well, it says "Rush" on the cover, and I had to get LA Rush sometime... also, this PSP version did add stunt and battle modes back into the game (the PS2/Xbox versions don't have them). They're awful junk compared to the past games' stunt and battle modes of course, but still, it's something.
Outrun 2: Coast 2 Coast - $5, disc in generic case. Yeah, I have this for PS2 and PC already. It's one of the best racing games around, so I got this version too. Plus, the PS2 version has some stuff you can only unlock by linking it to a PSP with this version, so I was probably going to get it for that, at least, anyway. :)
PS2
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Chaos Wars - disc in generic case, $9. Japanese strategy game with infamously, INFAMOUSLY terrible English voice acting. :) Good price for this it seems.
Mana-Khemia: Alchemists of Al Revis - $13, disc in generic case. Gust RPG. Maybe a bit overpriced, but it's decent once you average it out with the prices of the others in the buy-2-get-1 deal.
Shadow Hearts: Covenant - $20, complete. This game does sell for that much (or a little less), but once averaged out (three for $32) the price becomes pretty good. This is the third of the games in this franchise (following Koudelka and Shadow Hearts); I have, and like, both of the first two, so I definitely wanted this, but that price had been holding me back, until this deal.
Wii
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Mushroom Men: Spore Wars - free, would be $13, complete. It's a 3d platformer with a unique theme. If I remember right it got solid reviews, and I'd been interested in this one since it came out pretty much (there's a DS version too).
DS
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The Legend of Kage 2 - $5, card only. I'm not a big fan of the NES original, but hopefully this sequel adds enough to be good anyway. I do remember hearing good things about it.
Game Boy
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Tetris Blast - $2, cart only. This SGB-enhanced title is basically a Tetris spinoff with an interestingly changed game mechanic. Called Bombliss in Japan, this was the only version of Bombliss released in the US unfortunately. It's pretty good, too bad the SNES versions weren't. The first version of Bombliss was on SNES actually, packed in with Tetris 2 (no relation to the game called Tetris 2 in the US; that is "Tetris Flash" in Japan), but this later handheld release (and also Super Bombliss for the SNES, also Japan-only) are stand-alone. It's Tetris, except there are two types of blocks, normal or bomb. When you make a line, the line doesn't get destroyed, only the bombs in that line do. Each also destroys some blocks to their left and right (but not above or below unless you make larger bombs). Four bombs put into a square form a giant bomb, which makes a huge explosion that takes out a good part of the screen.
The game has three modes, first a Puzzle mode (with password save) where you have to clear each stage of all blocks. Each stage starts with a preset set of stuff on the screen, and you need to clear it. The other two modes are an endless mode called Tutorial (oddly enough, but it's your standard Endless mode), and a versus CPU mode called Fight, where you have to defeat a computer adversary who is walking around on your lower screen, messing with stuff and trying to get you to fail. You need to catch the enemy in bomb blasts enough to defeat them. There's also a hidden harder Fight 2 mode. This is a pretty good game, makes me want a console version of Bombliss too, Oh, Tetris Blast has some nice Super Game Boy support, too -- no multiplayer of course (none of the GB puzzle games have that, on SNES), but it does have multiple borders (depending on mode) and good auto-selected color palettes.
PSP
--
Generation of Chaos - free, would be $6. Disc and case, no manual. Idea Factory strategy/RPG... my hopes aren't too high, but eh, it could be good?
Gradius Collection - $7, complete. Awesome find, I was really hoping to find a copy of this, but wasn't sure it would happen so soon... :)
Rush - free, would be $5, complete. The PSP port of the horrible disaster LA Rush, this is a game I probably should never own... it has nice cover art, but that's the only positive pretty much. Why did I get it anyway? Well, it says "Rush" on the cover, and I had to get LA Rush sometime... also, this PSP version did add stunt and battle modes back into the game (the PS2/Xbox versions don't have them). They're awful junk compared to the past games' stunt and battle modes of course, but still, it's something.
Outrun 2: Coast 2 Coast - $5, disc in generic case. Yeah, I have this for PS2 and PC already. It's one of the best racing games around, so I got this version too. Plus, the PS2 version has some stuff you can only unlock by linking it to a PSP with this version, so I was probably going to get it for that, at least, anyway. :)
PS2
--
Chaos Wars - disc in generic case, $9. Japanese strategy game with infamously, INFAMOUSLY terrible English voice acting. :) Good price for this it seems.
Mana-Khemia: Alchemists of Al Revis - $13, disc in generic case. Gust RPG. Maybe a bit overpriced, but it's decent once you average it out with the prices of the others in the buy-2-get-1 deal.
Shadow Hearts: Covenant - $20, complete. This game does sell for that much (or a little less), but once averaged out (three for $32) the price becomes pretty good. This is the third of the games in this franchise (following Koudelka and Shadow Hearts); I have, and like, both of the first two, so I definitely wanted this, but that price had been holding me back, until this deal.
Wii
--
Mushroom Men: Spore Wars - free, would be $13, complete. It's a 3d platformer with a unique theme. If I remember right it got solid reviews, and I'd been interested in this one since it came out pretty much (there's a DS version too).
DS
--
The Legend of Kage 2 - $5, card only. I'm not a big fan of the NES original, but hopefully this sequel adds enough to be good anyway. I do remember hearing good things about it.
Game Boy
--
Tetris Blast - $2, cart only. This SGB-enhanced title is basically a Tetris spinoff with an interestingly changed game mechanic. Called Bombliss in Japan, this was the only version of Bombliss released in the US unfortunately. It's pretty good, too bad the SNES versions weren't. The first version of Bombliss was on SNES actually, packed in with Tetris 2 (no relation to the game called Tetris 2 in the US; that is "Tetris Flash" in Japan), but this later handheld release (and also Super Bombliss for the SNES, also Japan-only) are stand-alone. It's Tetris, except there are two types of blocks, normal or bomb. When you make a line, the line doesn't get destroyed, only the bombs in that line do. Each also destroys some blocks to their left and right (but not above or below unless you make larger bombs). Four bombs put into a square form a giant bomb, which makes a huge explosion that takes out a good part of the screen.
The game has three modes, first a Puzzle mode (with password save) where you have to clear each stage of all blocks. Each stage starts with a preset set of stuff on the screen, and you need to clear it. The other two modes are an endless mode called Tutorial (oddly enough, but it's your standard Endless mode), and a versus CPU mode called Fight, where you have to defeat a computer adversary who is walking around on your lower screen, messing with stuff and trying to get you to fail. You need to catch the enemy in bomb blasts enough to defeat them. There's also a hidden harder Fight 2 mode. This is a pretty good game, makes me want a console version of Bombliss too, Oh, Tetris Blast has some nice Super Game Boy support, too -- no multiplayer of course (none of the GB puzzle games have that, on SNES), but it does have multiple borders (depending on mode) and good auto-selected color palettes.