Ep. 278 - Nintendo 3DSpectacular, with Mathew Kumar

exodus

aerisdead I liked valkyria chronicles quite a bit (aside from it getting more anime) so WE SHALL SEE how I feel about that. I do get the sense it’s cheap because folks didn’t pick it up in great numbers, which I always assumed was because of the aesthetic, but I wonder if it was something else??

[edit] I just found two metacritic reviews that say the exact opposite thing about the same part of the game (overly difficult vs overly simplistic) so I guess there was more folks were confused by.

Dunkr

The best thing about glasses-free 3d for me was the camera. It’s a shame they didn’t keep upgrading it with future weirdly named models. Some of my favorite baby photos/videos are on my 3ds. I just remembered this site where you could upload your 3d photos as wiggly gifs and was surprised to see it was still up. https://stereotastic.com/photo/03d494

exodus

Dunkr oh wow, I forgot about that entirely!! that would’ve been something to mention.

ukigusa

Any thoughts on Radiant Historia? I know it’s a DS game but it got a solid 3DS remake (Atlus did this often it seems!). I don’t think it’s the greatest game ever but it’s fun and would do very well on PC and consoles now that 2D JRPGs are more popular.

sabertoothalex

ukigusa Definitely worth a play! 3DS version is good, worst thing about it imo is the new art for the character portraits but Atlus very generously gives you the option to spend $3 on DLC to use the old character art lol

2501

ukigusa Because it’s so intensely hyped by fans I bought and tried the game twice on both the DS and 3DS and both times I bounced off in the first couple hours because everything about it felt so flavorless and drab. Maybe it gets better idk

LeFish

I’m rather astounded that there wasn’t a single mention of either Bravely Default or Bravely Second - two of the finest, goofiest, job-systemiest, hardcoreiest JRPGs games on any platform. What a treat they both are, and one of them, I think the first, made fantastic use of the hardware at one point that I had to stop for a moment to take in the brilliance of it - the final battle has part of the screen showing your face as an observer in the sky peering from another dimension in reference to the game taking place over multiple dimensions and them fracturing / merging.

Some cool recommendations in the episode for some lesser known choices. I’d not heard of Soul of Darkness so that’s on my little curated list of games to get now.

It turns out that I also haven’t had my 3DS online for nearly 4 years as I had a handful of games yet to be downloaded that I’d bought via the webstore - what a treat!

kyleprocrastinations

Thanks for the reminder to get save data transfer tool. Punch club sounds neat too. I’m sweating bullets thinking about the value of my 3ds shelf right now. I picked up a lot of the good ones for less than retail price due to the advantage of working at a major retailer of video games. And while it’s great I have all those fire emblems and whatnot, I did have to work at said retailer to get that discount, so you tell me who the real winner is.

esper

big thanks to @hellomrkearns for help with the youtube thumbnail this week:

hellomrkearns

esper haha! heck yea! I just noticed it :)

cleobirdwell

Dang I just recently got my 3DS hacked and have been downloading a lot of games and doing a lot of research and the 3DS library kiiiiiinda stinks. I might unironically think Style Savvy: Styling Star is the best game on the system.

2501

I’ve also never heard of Soul of Darkness but was always a little curious to try the eShop game Swords & Darkness. Anyone ever play it?

Personasama

Dunno if anyone mentioned it already in the thread but

RE: Brandon talking about SMT IV 40 min in, he mentions how other people had a tough time with the intro of the game but he doesn’t remember having a problem with it:

I distinctly distinctly distinctly remember Brandon absolutely not liking SMT IV AT ALL because he got OHKOed on the first few enemies, over and over, and he didn’t continue playing the game for a while. And then it turned out it was because he was wearing the pre-order bonus Amazon/Game Stop/Best Buy/whatever armor that had WEAKNESS TO PHYSICAL.

Hilarious, incredible, I applaud whichever developer decided this was what had to be done. Also the armor looked great:

kyleprocrastinations

Personasama that is a very apocolypse-appropriate outfit

exodus

Personasama OH MAN. No wonder I forgot it, it was so stupid I blanked it out of my mind forever. I’m gonna have to update the podcast with this story later.

I also never saw it in such detail as this, it has the amazon logo all over it. EMBARRASSING!!!!!!!!!!!!

Personasama

aerisdead Also, it still costs less than $10 physical–it’s a worthy budget pick-up!

I remember picking up Code Name: STEAM for $5 from Frys like a month after it went on sale. I thought: “Valkyria Chronicles-style combat on the 3DS! That sounds fun!”

I played two missions and never touched it again. The gameplay is so slow, the AI takes forever, and the aesthetics/character design/etc were so violently unappealing to me that I regret buying it even at that price. Just not for me at all.

@exodus If I ever find it, I can give you my copy if you want.

aerisdead

Personasama Did you play before it got patched? I never noticed the AI taking long at all after the patch, but it’s a thing people still say about the game. I get people not liking the aesthetic though, but man, I still feel warm towards it.

Personasama

The Last Grateful Dead Concert discussion made me laugh pretty hard. I want to see that poster now.

treefroggy

Moroni is pretty interesting, being directed by the producer of Metroid, in many ways, it was not just the last gasp of an the prior generation, but carried the torch of the golden era, with R&D1 flavor. I could see Nintendo doing something even weirder with fake voices in the future, maybe incorporating AI. If R&D1 was still a thing today, they would probably be looking into crazy novel uses for AI and other emerging or outdated tech…
… Warioware go AI yourself

DaveedNoo

This was fun!

As one of three people here who live within driving distance of Milwaukee it saddens me that I have a prior engagement this Saturday :(

edward

DaveedNoo
I’m going to be in Milwaukee on Monday, so this timing is also a bummer for me.

billy

aerisdead The AI turns went by much faster after the patch, but if I remember correctly the post-patch game was still best experienced on New 3DS. On the original models it was faster, but not fast enough to take it out of the potential annoyance zone. I liked it though, icky art style and all.

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