Im sure we have all been there before, where you travel downtown to pick up a game or 2, or perhaps you download a game after hearing about it from a friend and played them out on a whim?
Patapon 2: allthough it's premise is basic, it is addictive: the jist is that you are a commander, you listen to the rhythm and press buttons in a certain order to issue commands, from things such as moving forwards to defending and attacking. You can also suit up your Patapon army with equipment you find during the stages and spoils to offer to a tree to improve your forces appearences and strengths or to bolster your forces, its remarkably deep for a simple looking game.
Start at 1:00 (Note, the video is in Japanese)
Half-Minute Hero: At first it looked like shovelware based purely by the case, but it is an alright game, the graphical style is remiscent of 8-bit games (or possibly 16 bit?) and has 3 starting modes set in different time periods with a different protagonist and gameplay elements, though some story elements overlaps.
Word of warning, the 3 spoilers are pretty lengthy, you might only have to read Hero 30 to get the basic premise.
Hero 30 (should be played first in order to get the basic plot and to avoid spoilers later)
Evil Lord 30 (again, serious spoilers)
Princess 30
Start at 0:57
Sorry if the post is large, though it is probally comprehensive of the games are. (did use spoiler tags to shrink to slightly, not to mencton trimming out Gitarooman Lives, though if the topic is a hit, ill devote a post to it)
Patapon 2: allthough it's premise is basic, it is addictive: the jist is that you are a commander, you listen to the rhythm and press buttons in a certain order to issue commands, from things such as moving forwards to defending and attacking. You can also suit up your Patapon army with equipment you find during the stages and spoils to offer to a tree to improve your forces appearences and strengths or to bolster your forces, its remarkably deep for a simple looking game.
Start at 1:00 (Note, the video is in Japanese)
Half-Minute Hero: At first it looked like shovelware based purely by the case, but it is an alright game, the graphical style is remiscent of 8-bit games (or possibly 16 bit?) and has 3 starting modes set in different time periods with a different protagonist and gameplay elements, though some story elements overlaps.
Word of warning, the 3 spoilers are pretty lengthy, you might only have to read Hero 30 to get the basic premise.
Hero 30 (should be played first in order to get the basic plot and to avoid spoilers later)
One is a satarical real-time RPG, you are a boy who discovers that Darklords across the land keep using a world destruction spell that kicks in after 30 seconds, each stage has 30 seconds to complete and has an isolated story, in the very first stage you meet a being called the Time Goddess who can wind back time for cash, you can replay the stages you have previously if you wan't. you can even try beating your record times, replay stages to obtain missed armor or to try stages on a diverged path.
Evil Lord 30 (again, serious spoilers)
You play as a redeemed darklord who has to save his love from a curse from turning her into a monster entirely, allthough there is no World ending spell to worry about in this mode, the main character is picky about skin blemishes and would fail the mission if the sun came up in 30 seconds, it's sort of a Rock-Paper-Scissors dealie where you have to summon goons whilst avoiding being hit. Again the Time Goddess will help by taking payment of coins.
Princess 30
you are a crossbow-crazy princess who has to cure her father of his mysterious illness before your curfew is in effect by collecting medicinal cures orelse you'll be locked outside of the castle at night, its a rail shooter where you have freemovement of the basic axis, stages will go forwards then backwards once you complete the objective then dash home as fast as you can, but remember to protect the guards that is carrying you.
Start at 0:57
Sorry if the post is large, though it is probally comprehensive of the games are. (did use spoiler tags to shrink to slightly, not to mencton trimming out Gitarooman Lives, though if the topic is a hit, ill devote a post to it)
