I like the 3DS a lot. It’s my favorite gaming device at the moment and probably has been for a while. Just recently I got a new special edition Yoshi 3DS XL and I love everything about it. Yoshi has always been one of my favorite characters in the Mario Universe, along with Bowser, so I was pretty excited to see the system announced around the time Yoshi’s NEW Island came out.
Plus, green is my favorite color so that’s a great bonus. That may sound curious since my Graev character has always worn a purple shirt but here is a fun fact: When the characters where originally conceived they were just made up, not based off us, and I had the dark hair, green shirt guy in mind. When I showed them to Keen he pointed to said character and said something like “Oh cool, that must be me!” and I was stuck with the the dumpy blond guy with the purple shirt. I’m not even sure I’ve mentioned that to Keen.
Anyway, back to the topic at hand.
Stuff I’m Playing
Right now I’m actually working through Yoshi’s NEW Island and I will be doing a full write up on that soonish. Other than that I’m bouncing around in:
INAZUMA ELEVEN – A long time ago I heard about a game series that was like an RPG that played out in a soccer (football) game. I believe the games eventually made their way to Europe but they were never released in North America until recently. It was actually right after one of Nintendo’s more recent DIRECT broadcasts that they put the first game up on the eShop. I decided to give it a try since I heard a lot of good things about the game. The premise of the game is that you are a member of a soccer club at a school and you are trying to get your club up and running and your team put together.
The actual matches are played out in somewhat of a real-time strategy format. You have to use the touch screen to draw paths for your players to take and tap to have them pass or kick. It plays a lot like Blitzball from FFX, actually. When you come into contact with other players the game pauses you are given a choice of what to do to try and maintain, steal, or score a goal. Depending on your stats and who you are up against you will get different odds of success. Your players also get special abilities like powerful goal shots or ways to block shots if they are the goalie. If it sounds like I know nothing about soccer then you would be right, but I still find the game very enjoyable.
POKEMON BATTLE TROZEI – This one actually just hit the eShop today and I haven’t had a lot of time to check it out. Still, I love almost all things Pokemon and puzzle games. (more…)