Social Smash 4 Social Thread 5.0: ITT - ANYTHING CAN CHANGE! Including the page we end at.

[Deleted member]

Hmm... never seen it.
Know any way I could watch it?

You shouldn't. It's awful. Couldn't get a particular scene out of my head.

 

[Soul.]

You guys are forgetting the best YouTuber.....
PewDiePie!

 

[WolfieXVII ❂]

This movie was so bad. So very bad.
Oh, and for those interested in that dudes channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/vegetta777

I haven't seen any Cinema Sin videos in forever :0

You guys are forgetting the best YouTuber.....
PewDiePie!

Pls

 

[Luggy]

There are other kinds of PewDiePies? Oh no, the disease is spreading....

It spread far beyond my friend.

France has it's Pewdiepies, but even worse : podcasters.
You know, the guys that will film themselves in their room and makes jokes about the daily life. For a long time, this was a trend in France, and it was the worst. One guy even had the opportunity to make a movie thanks to his little videos. Not related to the podcasts, but still.

If we're talking about "Pewdiepies", only one needs to be known in France : Squeezie. This guy makes me want to puke everytime someone say his name. Even worse, we have a "Game Grumps" like channel with Squeezie and a popular Podcaster.
And it's horrible. I only watch videos in english now, except for some exceptions. Mainly "Benzai", who was with the Nostalgia Critic for a long time, "Le Joueur du Grenier" who our french AVGN, who made a collab' with the Nostalgia Critic and appeared on Cinnemassacre as a cameo, and some others.

France is like a bootleg of the english youtube : sometimes it can be good, and sometimes it's worse than the original product.

 

[Deleted member]

You guys are forgetting the best YouTuber.....
PewDiePie!

We're talking about lots of famous YouTubers around the world also called PewDiePie.

 

[The Stoopid Unikorn]

You guys are forgetting the best YouTuber.....
PewDiePie!

Strange way to spell...Oh! You did say PewDiePie. huh? Nevermind, then

 

[Still~Wolf]

You shouldn't. It's awful. Couldn't get a particular scene out of my head.

I'm sure it can't be any worse than... I dunno... Fifty Shades of Grey?
Yeah, I was forced to watch that in theaters. They gave us the wrong number and my mom was like "OH I WANTED TO SEE THIS ANYWAYS!"

I haven't seen any Cinema Sin videos in forever :0

I love 'em. I could live by just watching YuriOfWind, CinemaSins, SomeOrdinaryGamers, and Shofu.

 

[Deleted member]

It spread far beyond my friend.

France has it's Pewdiepies, but even worse : podcasters.
You know, the guys that will film themselves in their room and makes jokes about the daily life. For a long time, this was a trend in France, and it was the worst. One guy even had the opportunity to make a movie thanks to his little videos. Not related to the podcasts, but still.

If we're talking about "Pewdiepies", only one needs to be known in France : Squeezie. This guy makes me want to puke everytime someone say his name. Even worse, we have a "Game Grumps" like channel with Squeezie and a popular Podcaster.
And it's horrible. I only watch videos in english now, except for some exceptions. Mainly "Benzai", who was with the Nostalgia Critic for a long time, "Le Joueur du Grenier" who our french AVGN, who made a collab' with the Nostalgia Critic and appeared on Cinnemassacre as a cameo, and some others.

France is like a bootleg of the english youtube : sometimes it can be good, and sometimes it's worse than the original product.

Squeezie.. sounds horrible already and I didn't even see his videos yet.

 

[Luggy]

Squeezie.. sounds horrible already and I didn't even see his videos yet.

Kill him, please, the world would be better without him.

 

[Deleted member]

I'm sure it can't be any worse than... I dunno... Fifty Shades of Grey?
Yeah, I was forced to watch that in theaters. They gave us the wrong number and my mom was like "OH I WANTED TO SEE THIS ANYWAYS!"

I love 'em. I could live by just watching YuriOfWind, CinemaSins, SomeOrdinaryGamers, and Shofu.

There is an execution scene in the film. That's the part I couldn't get out of my head. Lots of brain cells were lost at the time of watching. It just looks like pure fan fiction.

 

[Still~Wolf]

There is an execution scene in the film. That's the part I couldn't get out of my head. Lots of brain cells were lost at the time of watching. It just looks like pure fan fiction.

Oh well, guess I'll watch that scene considering it's readily on YouTube.

 

[Professor Pumpkaboo]

I'm sure it can't be any worse than... I dunno... Fifty Shades of Grey?
Yeah, I was forced to watch that in theaters. They gave us the wrong number and my mom was like "OH I WANTED TO SEE THIS ANYWAYS!"
.

Tell your mom she has **** taste in movies

 

[Deleted member]

Kill him, please, the world would be better without him.

I can't stand this.

 

[Luggy]

I can't stand this.

Oh yeah, here's him with his "Not so Grump" podcaster bootleg friend :

Yes, that's a commercial. For a convention in 2014.
It's like the convention had nothing other than two guests and needed to promote them for making the people go there.
How modest are the youtubers of France, amirite ?

 

[Deleted member]

Oh well, guess I'll watch that scene considering it's readily on YouTube.

Good luck, then. You'll probably go speechless, traumatized, or depressed after watching it. Like me!

 

[Soul.]

Strange way to spell...Oh! You did say PewDiePie. huh? Nevermind, then

I know man! PewDiePie is the best YouTuber!!
Alright, for real: YouTubers I watch aren't your typical "let's do a vlog!" and then make a video with a camera on the top left corner. Videos like that.... I don't know, they bore me after 5 minutes. I mainly watch Smash and Pokémon videos (mostly VGC), and then I watch speedruns and stuff that isn't seen by many; when I say this, I mean no Minecraft, no LoL, no Starcraft, no Game of Thrones (lmao) and, like I said before, PewDiePie and his army of PewDiePies.

Fifty Shades of Grey

This **** still exists?

 

[RamOne]

This **** still exists?

Well, books and movies don't magically go 'POOF!' and disappear.

But eh, I don't watch YouTubers. Can't stand them.

 

[CrusherMania1592]

Like ?
or
.....





?

More like older people. I was just looking at a Walking Dead actress Melissa McBride, and damn she looks gorgeous! There's something about older people that age like fine wine


I love how one of my buddies nearly screwed up our whole amiibo plan by almost telling another group of people where he's going and what time he will arrive. I don't know if he realize that people on facebook aren't very easy to trust, ironically anyone. I can't say that you guys aren't because I love getting to know every one of you and enjoy having a blast with you all here. Guess that's what I get for having a socially awkward but nerdy best friend haha

 

[Deleted member]

Oh yeah, here's him with his "Not so Grump" podcaster bootleg friend :

Yes, that's a commercial. For a convention in 2014.
It's like the convention had nothing other than two guests and needed to promote them for making the people go there.
How modest are the youtubers of France, amirite ?

Well, that's absolutely disgusting. What's with their poses, anyway?

 

[T1T0]

Well, that's absolutely disgusting. What's with their poses, anyway?

Looks like beckoning

 

[Still~Wolf]

Tell your mom she has **** taste in movies

Already did.

Good luck, then. You'll probably go speechless, traumatized, or depressed after watching it. Like me!

Eh, hated that scene for a few personal reasons.
Actually though, I'm pretty sure I've seen that movie before. The setting seems familiar to me.

 

[Digital Hazard]

Oh yeah, here's him with his "Not so Grump" podcaster bootleg friend :

Yes, that's a commercial. For a convention in 2014.
It's like the convention had nothing other than two guests and needed to promote them for making the people go there.
How modest are the youtubers of France, amirite ?

This is one of the worst pandemias on the internet.

 

[Knuckles the Knuckles]

It spread far beyond my friend.

France has it's Pewdiepies, but even worse : podcasters.
You know, the guys that will film themselves in their room and makes jokes about the daily life. For a long time, this was a trend in France, and it was the worst. One guy even had the opportunity to make a movie thanks to his little videos. Not related to the podcasts, but still.

If we're talking about "Pewdiepies", only one needs to be known in France : Squeezie. This guy makes me want to puke everytime someone say his name. Even worse, we have a "Game Grumps" like channel with Squeezie and a popular Podcaster.
And it's horrible. I only watch videos in english now, except for some exceptions. Mainly "Benzai", who was with the Nostalgia Critic for a long time, "Le Joueur du Grenier" who our french AVGN, who made a collab' with the Nostalgia Critic and appeared on Cinnemassacre as a cameo, and some others.

France is like a bootleg of the english youtube : sometimes it can be good, and sometimes it's worse than the original product.

Wouldnt it be Vlogs instead of podcasts? Podcasts are mostly audio-only and focus on discussion between multiple people about virious subjects, for about an hour or longer.

In the end tho, good for them that they found an audience and made money giving it what it wants I suppose.

 

[JamesDNaux]

Well, that's absolutely disgusting. What's with their poses, anyway?

Looks like they're trying to lure you into a candy filled van.


Bring me back a Mars bar.

 

[Deleted member]

Already did.

Eh, hated that scene for a few personal reasons.
Actually though, I'm pretty sure I've seen that movie before. The setting seems familiar to me.

The Changeling execution scene is perhaps one of the worst scenes I have ever watched. I have no idea who came up with this travesty.

Yeah, it is the "I WANT MY SON BACK!!" movie. **** it.

 

[Yoshi-hara]

Oh yeah, here's him with his "Not so Grump" podcaster bootleg friend :

Yes, that's a commercial. For a convention in 2014.
It's like the convention had nothing other than two guests and needed to promote them for making the people go there.
How modest are the youtubers of France, amirite ?

They look like two pedophiles inviting kids to their homes to have some "candy".
EDIT: only now I realize I was Ninja'd. Goddamnit.

 

[Knuckles the Knuckles]

The Changeling execution scene is perhaps one of the worst scenes I have ever watched. I have no idea who came up with this travesty.

Yeah, it is the "I WANT MY SON BACK!!" movie. **** it.

GIMME THE MONEY

 

[Luggy]

Well, that's absolutely disgusting. What's with their poses, anyway?

I don't know, ask them. If they ever listen to anyone except the high guys.
Note also this : they went on TV. The "Not So Grump" named Cyprien went on TV and looked like the biggest idiot on television. Thank god there's actual good french youtubers, but the fact those 2 are the most popular digusts me.

Wouldnt it be Vlogs instead of podcasts? Podcasts are mostly audio-only and focus on discussion between multiple people about virious subjects, for about an hour or longer.

In the end tho, good for them that they found an audience and made money giving it what it wants I suppose.

In France, it's wrongly called "Podcasts". The thing they do are not Vlogs, more like little sketches about life stuff, like "Airports" or "Video Games when you're a kid".
It's horrible, it repeats itself quickly but was a trend because it was easy to do. All you need is good camera, a room and talk about simple and boring stuff in front of it.

Should I also mention this : there was "Youtube awards" in France.
Called "Web comedy awards" and sponsored by "Orangina", this horrible thing was made by the television to, quote and quote, "promote youtubers". It was horrible. Heck, it made some people angry. One of the youtubers I watched even refused to go because he hated the idea.

France, please, stop being this awful.

 

[Deleted member]

GIMME THE MONEY

Lol, good one. I felt like the South Park kids after they watched the fourth Indiana Jones film.

 

[Still~Wolf]

The Changeling execution scene is perhaps one of the worst scenes I have ever watched. I have no idea who came up with this travesty.

Yeah, it is the "I WANT MY SON BACK!!" movie. **** it.

I'd link it for all to see, but pretty sure it's kinda filed under "not suitable for children" type thing, so not gonna bother.
Now, do you mean worst in terms of bad in quality or just messed up? It's kinda both for me.
Though, think the most disturbing scene in a movie is that Girl Next Door movie which wasn't even that great, but that last scene is just...

 

[Soul.]

Well, books and movies don't magically go 'POOF!' and disappear.

Dude, remember you can fight fire with fire. I guess you can say that book is....ove---mentio--never mind.

 

[Still~Wolf]

Dude, remember you can fight fire with fire. I guess you can say that book is....ove---mentio--never mind.

You know what else you can fight with fire? Books. You what I'd fight fire with so it can burn? Fifty Shades of Grey.

 

[Yoshi-hara]

My FTL run was almost ended because I accidentally shut down the oxigen generator and didn't notice,
Somehow I managed to survive after my oxigen level reached 0%. Bless the OP medbays.

 

[aldelaro5]

Spoiler: sort of an actual spoiler, not story related but more general

The main thing about the final boss is the actual battle, that's what makes it so great imo rather than the story implications and events behind it.

The problem came before it AND right what would happen after.

Look, I think I anyway played enough of the game so, here's my kinda review of Golden sun (note, there's spoilers everywhere, beware).

Spoiler: please, read the warning above

ok, I won't be actually writing a typically long essay, but long enough.

When I played through the game, the MAJOR thing was the speed of battles. By far, it is the fastest I felt of any turn by turn RPG I played. Seriously, it's not like pokemon, earthbound and even Paper Mario, IT'S DANG FAST! You have the command that takes a fraction of a second to confirm them, seriously, it feels so good. This alone is something I would be interested to see more developed. I tried lots of rpg in which one major complain I had is the speed of battles.

This however became obvious that this game was designed to be extremely fast paced. The dungeons have very little puzzle so, random encounters doesn't hurt much and if there's big puzzles, they turn off the encounter rate. That was a very interesting solution and I hope I'll play other rpg that try this in the future. You can have random encounters and big puzzle together, this is a good thing.

Now, it does change the way you enjoy this game: you don't take much time to appreciate the design except in towns. Which I will say, for the gba, it's kinda cool, but what impressed me the msot is the music. I had really bad stories with how the gbs sound system is used: either the system is too limited or devs aren't aware of these limits. I really don't like the trumpet in pokemon emerald despite liking the trumpet itself. And M&L had weird sounds that I wondered why they are there. This game however, the devs were CLEARLY aware of the limits. The sounds sure isn't the best, but it reflects so much instruments that it was just feeling like it was not comming from a gba. My favorite is the file selection / healing facility, I heard this music in a video before and it was such greatness because it was fitting. I knew beforehand it was coming from golden sun, but the music basically just feels ANY state of explanation. It's weird, it likes fits with almost everything. The music is quite despair tbh, but the sounds are quite good. Note: it's not memorable enough, but from a gba, it's the best I saw so far.

As for cutscenes, it's

. I really praise the details in the silence, they give you the time to grasp the plot situation and there length. It's clear that a lot of effort was put into them as well as the text. Btw, lol, there;s shake text effect, this is Paper Mario

Now, these were the good things I got of this game, it;s quite decent, but unfortunately, some cons made me think it wasn't worth in the end.

Well first, I will point this out right away: this game has not enough integrated tutorials. The onloy real one is the status screen and the first Djin you met. Though, I appreciate that the msot complex thing about the game is explained well, I wish other stuff was more explained. For example, I had to check the status screen to realise that PP heals on walking, it does tell it, but I wish there was a way to know before. I guess I didn't want to read the manual but the point i, I honestly shouldn't really. If I played games like Earthbound and ESPECIALLY the Paper Mario series, I feel it's not only exempt from any ambiguity, but I also feel it's so explained well that it might have overdone a bit, but for tutorials, more than enough is better than not enough. It eventually became fine, but I think the game would be improved in that departement.

And the next thing is honestly quite picky, but I have to point this out: there;s some logistic weirdness. No, don't worry, it's not that major like sticker star, but it's stuff like how can i know I can ride logs? Or how can I realise you CAN open the psynergy menu while caught in a sandstorm? I tought you use drows outside of it because it seems to rain in the sandstorm. For both of these and certain minor stuff, I had to look online, BUT, once you know, it's fine, it's not a really frustrating thing, I at least knew there was something wrong before.

Now, let me point out the next thing and you will realise I'm very picky in sounds, but THE TEXT SCROLLING SFX JUST SUCKS!!!!! I understand the goal: simulate a voice, but frankly, the sfx is just weird. I can't explain what it feels, it's like a constant rambling. The worst is when you talk to a kid, what is this noise? It sounds like kids are always crying. Seriously, much more improvement could be done. It's not bad to do a generic one like Earthbound does, you get used to it quickly.

And now starts the REALLY annoying of this review, these is why I didn't enjoy the game like I feel I should.

After arriving at the first forest of the game, I just remembered something I thought I forgotten:

I
HATE
EVERY
RANDOM
ENCOUNTER
SYSTEM!

With passion even. Explaining why is going to be long, but for short, I hate the fact that my exploration progression is abruptly stopped every time to do another task. I really suck in multitasking, it eats my concentration and it's really hard to manage it properly. I however really am extremely efficient one task at a time. The problem is that when I come back from random encounters, I'm like confused every time: where was at? What was I doing? Did I already went this way? Basically, it's just so annoying for me, I really got bad experiences when i could build frustration over time. This is when the speed helped, it toned it down, but I still felt on some places the will to just stop. I actually was pissed at one point that I spammed the feather.....this is why guys, I cannot enjoy pokemon without some repels, I consider them essential. This is not jsut for this game, but every of them, including pokemon, but pokemon had trainer battle which I KNOW I will do beforehand.

So, the speed of battles made me continue this game.

Now, here's where the game instantly became a disappointment for me: I got to the second lightouse and I thought "wait, this game must be quite long because the game keeps telling me there's 4 lightouses and anyway, there's tons of plots question that I\'m asking". ....I was doing a research on the wiki (more on why later) on that lightouse and as it turns out, I was NEARLY the end of the game!

WHAT????

Seriously, I felt really weird. How the freak can this game ends while I have so much question and so much plots stuff unanswered?

I really didn't get it. Until I read a bit about the sequel, but I'll come to it later, as for why I did go online.....

guys, I couldn;t handle the game anymore. it started when I fought the kraken, It was really thought and even thought I enjoyed the battle, I realised the one that came after are much harder, but in a very bad way. I had heavy trouble on the dessert, one attack could kill one of my party instantly. I really tough I was underlevelled, but after grinding some levels, it wasn't doing much. I actually read that you could skip the tornado boss and the problem is because the game requires you to beat 3 lizard before, it was nearly impossible to do it without grinding at least to say level 30 and have a crazy planning going on. I read that you can outrun it, so I did. Add the random encounters, i really couldn't do much, I had the best equipment and I was using the most powerfull psynergy I had.

I did tried to grind after in the world map to buy the best equipment, but I quickly realised it was pointless given how few exp they give, I had to grind in a dungeon, but it was so hard to just beat one encounter that the chance of having to revive were too high for my tastes.

When I arrived at the second part of the lightouse....geez, it was impossible. Seriously, I could do almost nothing and it was so much OP that it's not some levels that would help me. I came to the wiki because I had to check if I was underlleveled and I realised to my surprise that my levels were slightly better than the enemies. Meaning I should theoretically have not much problem, but i have so much that I was scary to walk. I had to actually save every room near the end of the dungeon and reset if I die. I took the liberty to AT LEAST make it to the top while knowing it was 100% impossible to win, but it's the farthest I could go.

Now, I severely question this game. There's a button that seems to open a shortcut, but even tought you can press it, it's not permanent. meaning if I die at the second part of the dungeon, I have to redo the whole tunnel path again.....I don't have the patience to try this 10 times....it's freaking a frustration builder.

As for Djinn, I missed quite a lot, but they were either seemingly unreachable, too annoying to get or they were just not worth my time.

Eventually, I was so freaking pissed, I just stopped. I got that it would require a crazy grinding job to even have a chance. Isaac was level 27-28 and the party was quite similar to these numbers. The enemies are like 26-27, I was in the right level.

As for the psybnergy stone room as grinding, I was just too annoyed to do it. I left the game in that room fully healed and I was coming to the conclusion it wasn't worth it to beat the game.

It;s honestly quite sad it had to end like this because this game do bring some interesting gameplay philosophy. I feel exploring and random encounter were more manageable than average, I feel the battle flow is the best of random encounters, it just match what it should do, I feel that the cs are detailled, but unfortunately, I don't feel playing this game was worth it in the end. i realised again how much I hate random encounters and I still do a lot (maybe more with this game), but the biggest disappointment was how incomplete this game actualy is.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel this game was in the thought of being a prequel. I read a bit on the sequel and apparently, it starts in the exact dungeon of where the first ends, you can transfert your progress and most importantly, the plot actually continues. What it tells me is this game merging thing was INTENDED but I have to question one thing: if it was necessary to do 2 cartbridge for the whole game, why they didn't went from doing it? Seriously, I saw GC disc that came with a 2 disc set, I don't think the gba was limited to not permit it, but I really question why the game alone is so incomplete. There's SO MUCH plots that is jsut floating in the air and I'm sure I would have to play the sequel to know, BUT WHY DO I HAVE TO DO IT? it's jsut ridiculous, normally, the plot should feel complete and a sequel to extend it, but not be the sequel is the last part of the prequel, it makes no sense to me.

So, if i did played the sequel (which I won't, not really think it'll worth my time), i would have to consider both games merged. If i did, I'm sure it would make a very solid plot, but unfortunately, it still doesn't make sense per game to do it.

So, that's pretty much everything I had to say on golden sun: it was a huge disappointement, but there's really good stuff that i want to see in RPG. As for the djinn gameplay btw, I honestly feels it was a really weird system, but my final thought on it was that it was just so messed up that I didn't messed with it much. I don't think it was a game changer and the fact it wasn't made the battles quite weird.....

Now i think you got it.....

 

[Digital Hazard]

Vloggers are kind of ´popular here too. From what I've seen the most popular is called "DrossRotzank".

He's a guy who makes "Top 7" out of everything and a few podcasts. He's not a bad youtuber, really. Many of his videos are interesting or decent, but the biggest problem is that he can sometimes be too brash with his opinions. That and his fanboys army. For example, he's an atheist, which even though I'm catholic I have no problem with other beliefs. Thing is, when he made a podcast on it, not only he was brash, his fanboys suddenly all become atheists who started to bash all religions calling them "ignorants". Or when the "Goku vs Superman" thing was still popular, he made a video full of mistakes and Superman bashing that glorified Goku.

 

[Deleted member]

I'd link it for all to see, but pretty sure it's kinda filed under "not suitable for children" type thing, so not gonna bother.
Now, do you mean worst in terms of bad in quality or just messed up? It's kinda both for me.
Though, think the most disturbing scene in a movie is that Girl Next Door movie which wasn't even that great, but that last scene is just...

It's bad in every single aspect, so yes.

 

[Kirbyfan391]

I

The problem came before it AND right what would happen after.

Look, I think I anyway played enough of the game so, here's my kinda review of Golden sun (note, there's spoilers everywhere, beware).

Spoiler: please, read the warning above

ok, I won't be actually writing a typically long essay, but long enough.

When I played through the game, the MAJOR thing was the speed of battles. By far, it is the fastest I felt of any turn by turn RPG I played. Seriously, it's not like pokemon, earthbound and even Paper Mario, IT'S DANG FAST! You have the command that takes a fraction of a second to confirm them, seriously, it feels so good. This alone is something I would be interested to see more developed. I tried lots of rpg in which one major complain I had is the speed of battles.

This however became obvious that this game was designed to be extremely fast paced. The dungeons have very little puzzle so, random encounters doesn't hurt much and if there's big puzzles, they turn off the encounter rate. That was a very interesting solution and I hope I'll play other rpg that try this in the future. You can have random encounters and big puzzle together, this is a good thing.

Now, it does change the way you enjoy this game: you don't take much time to appreciate the design except in towns. Which I will say, for the gba, it's kinda cool, but what impressed me the msot is the music. I had really bad stories with how the gbs sound system is used: either the system is too limited or devs aren't aware of these limits. I really don't like the trumpet in pokemon emerald despite liking the trumpet itself. And M&L had weird sounds that I wondered why they are there. This game however, the devs were CLEARLY aware of the limits. The sounds sure isn't the best, but it reflects so much instruments that it was just feeling like it was not comming from a gba. My favorite is the file selection / healing facility, I heard this music in a video before and it was such greatness because it was fitting. I knew beforehand it was coming from golden sun, but the music basically just feels ANY state of explanation. It's weird, it likes fits with almost everything. The music is quite despair tbh, but the sounds are quite good. Note: it's not memorable enough, but from a gba, it's the best I saw so far.

As for cutscenes, it's

. I really praise the details in the silence, they give you the time to grasp the plot situation and there length. It's clear that a lot of effort was put into them as well as the text. Btw, lol, there;s shake text effect, this is Paper Mario

Now, these were the good things I got of this game, it;s quite decent, but unfortunately, some cons made me think it wasn't worth in the end.

Well first, I will point this out right away: this game has not enough integrated tutorials. The onloy real one is the status screen and the first Djin you met. Though, I appreciate that the msot complex thing about the game is explained well, I wish other stuff was more explained. For example, I had to check the status screen to realise that PP heals on walking, it does tell it, but I wish there was a way to know before. I guess I didn't want to read the manual but the point i, I honestly shouldn't really. If I played games like Earthbound and ESPECIALLY the Paper Mario series, I feel it's not only exempt from any ambiguity, but I also feel it's so explained well that it might have overdone a bit, but for tutorials, more than enough is better than not enough. It eventually became fine, but I think the game would be improved in that departement.

And the next thing is honestly quite picky, but I have to point this out: there;s some logistic weirdness. No, don't worry, it's not that major like sticker star, but it's stuff like how can i know I can ride logs? Or how can I realise you CAN open the psynergy menu while caught in a sandstorm? I tought you use drows outside of it because it seems to rain in the sandstorm. For both of these and certain minor stuff, I had to look online, BUT, once you know, it's fine, it's not a really frustrating thing, I at least knew there was something wrong before.

Now, let me point out the next thing and you will realise I'm very picky in sounds, but THE TEXT SCROLLING SFX JUST SUCKS!!!!! I understand the goal: simulate a voice, but frankly, the sfx is just weird. I can't explain what it feels, it's like a constant rambling. The worst is when you talk to a kid, what is this noise? It sounds like kids are always crying. Seriously, much more improvement could be done. It's not bad to do a generic one like Earthbound does, you get used to it quickly.

And now starts the REALLY annoying of this review, these is why I didn't enjoy the game like I feel I should.

After arriving at the first forest of the game, I just remembered something I thought I forgotten:

I
HATE
EVERY
RANDOM
ENCOUNTER
SYSTEM!

With passion even. Explaining why is going to be long, but for short, I hate the fact that my exploration progression is abruptly stopped every time to do another task. I really suck in multitasking, it eats my concentration and it's really hard to manage it properly. I however really am extremely efficient one task at a time. The problem is that when I come back from random encounters, I'm like confused every time: where was at? What was I doing? Did I already went this way? Basically, it's just so annoying for me, I really got bad experiences when i could build frustration over time. This is when the speed helped, it toned it down, but I still felt on some places the will to just stop. I actually was pissed at one point that I spammed the feather.....this is why guys, I cannot enjoy pokemon without some repels, I consider them essential. This is not jsut for this game, but every of them, including pokemon, but pokemon had trainer battle which I KNOW I will do beforehand.

So, the speed of battles made me continue this game.

Now, here's where the game instantly became a disappointment for me: I got to the second lightouse and I thought "wait, this game must be quite long because the game keeps telling me there's 4 lightouses and anyway, there's tons of plots question that I\'m asking". ....I was doing a research on the wiki (more on why later) on that lightouse and as it turns out, I was NEARLY the end of the game!

WHAT????

Seriously, I felt really weird. How the freak can this game ends while I have so much question and so much plots stuff unanswered?

I really didn't get it. Until I read a bit about the sequel, but I'll come to it later, as for why I did go online.....

guys, I couldn;t handle the game anymore. it started when I fought the kraken, It was really thought and even thought I enjoyed the battle, I realised the one that came after are much harder, but in a very bad way. I had heavy trouble on the dessert, one attack could kill one of my party instantly. I really tough I was underlevelled, but after grinding some levels, it wasn't doing much. I actually read that you could skip the tornado boss and the problem is because the game requires you to beat 3 lizard before, it was nearly impossible to do it without grinding at least to say level 30 and have a crazy planning going on. I read that you can outrun it, so I did. Add the random encounters, i really couldn't do much, I had the best equipment and I was using the most powerfull psynergy I had.

I did tried to grind after in the world map to buy the best equipment, but I quickly realised it was pointless given how few exp they give, I had to grind in a dungeon, but it was so hard to just beat one encounter that the chance of having to revive were too high for my tastes.

When I arrived at the second part of the lightouse....geez, it was impossible. Seriously, I could do almost nothing and it was so much OP that it's not some levels that would help me. I came to the wiki because I had to check if I was underlleveled and I realised to my surprise that my levels were slightly better than the enemies. Meaning I should theoretically have not much problem, but i have so much that I was scary to walk. I had to actually save every room near the end of the dungeon and reset if I die. I took the liberty to AT LEAST make it to the top while knowing it was 100% impossible to win, but it's the farthest I could go.

Now, I severely question this game. There's a button that seems to open a shortcut, but even tought you can press it, it's not permanent. meaning if I die at the second part of the dungeon, I have to redo the whole tunnel path again.....I don't have the patience to try this 10 times....it's freaking a frustration builder.

As for Djinn, I missed quite a lot, but they were either seemingly unreachable, too annoying to get or they were just not worth my time.

Eventually, I was so freaking pissed, I just stopped. I got that it would require a crazy grinding job to even have a chance. Isaac was level 27-28 and the party was quite similar to these numbers. The enemies are like 26-27, I was in the right level.

As for the psybnergy stone room as grinding, I was just too annoyed to do it. I left the game in that room fully healed and I was coming to the conclusion it wasn't worth it to beat the game.

It;s honestly quite sad it had to end like this because this game do bring some interesting gameplay philosophy. I feel exploring and random encounter were more manageable than average, I feel the battle flow is the best of random encounters, it just match what it should do, I feel that the cs are detailled, but unfortunately, I don't feel playing this game was worth it in the end. i realised again how much I hate random encounters and I still do a lot (maybe more with this game), but the biggest disappointment was how incomplete this game actualy is.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel this game was in the thought of being a prequel. I read a bit on the sequel and apparently, it starts in the exact dungeon of where the first ends, you can transfert your progress and most importantly, the plot actually continues. What it tells me is this game merging thing was INTENDED but I have to question one thing: if it was necessary to do 2 cartbridge for the whole game, why they didn't went from doing it? Seriously, I saw GC disc that came with a 2 disc set, I don't think the gba was limited to not permit it, but I really question why the game alone is so incomplete. There's SO MUCH plots that is jsut floating in the air and I'm sure I would have to play the sequel to know, BUT WHY DO I HAVE TO DO IT? it's jsut ridiculous, normally, the plot should feel complete and a sequel to extend it, but not be the sequel is the last part of the prequel, it makes no sense to me.

So, if i did played the sequel (which I won't, not really think it'll worth my time), i would have to consider both games merged. If i did, I'm sure it would make a very solid plot, but unfortunately, it still doesn't make sense per game to do it.

So, that's pretty much everything I had to say on golden sun: it was a huge disappointement, but there's really good stuff that i want to see in RPG. As for the djinn gameplay btw, I honestly feels it was a really weird system, but my final thought on it was that it was just so messed up that I didn't messed with it much. I don't think it was a game changer and the fact it wasn't made the battles quite weird.....

Now i think you got it.....

Honestly I've actually not played the entire game , lol. But I might read this once I do!

 

[T1T0]

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Honestly I've actually not played the entire game , lol. But I might read this once I do!

Wait, I thought you never played games you talk about

 

[Still~Wolf]

I forgot how much I love this game.

 

[Deleted member]

Wait, I thought you never played games you talk about

I was talking about a movie.