Whats all this then?
An RPG for the DS developed by the same guys who did Harvest Moon and Rune Factory. It features top down real time combat and a book that you smack people with to change the world.
Literature as a weapon?
Not quite. The world is ending and its your job to record everything worth saving for the next world. This is called a code scan and the person you are smacking dosent even know it happened. The fun part comes is that every thing has a code much like DNA. You can alter anything that you can smack which includes NPCS, Items, Monsters, etc.
Ohh I wanna know more!Here is the English website. Also you can download a DS demo through the Nintendo channel, which is highly recomended.
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Then you should have made it first, also you smell and have a butt for a face!
Honestly I really wanted to talk about this. There isnt that much info out there that I could find as there is a deluge of DS RPGs in March. But I think this one is going to be one of the best!
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Japan still fails at drawing boys, though. http://www.avaloncodeds.com/images/char2-8_02.jpg
In the demo you remove Illness from your sword to eliminate the rust on it. Then remove Iron from a goblin to drop its hitpoints. You can do much more than that, but thats the basics.
Also, the 'E' in the title of the game is kind of fading into the background so I keep reading "Avalon Cod" which just sounds delicious.
Sounds intriguing. Since I can't access the demo, can you elaborate a bit on how in-depth the "DNA" system is? Is it open-ended with room for experimenting or is it just stuff like "remove the sick from the sick guy so you can do his quest" sort of deal? If the former, that could be loads of fun.
We'll wait for the implementation.
Also, the idea of being able to essentially play Noah sounds like it could have really fun implications - how many of you wanna' bet there'll be some annoying little shit that you'll have the choice of keeping out of the literary Ark as the floodwaters rise?
I was killing all the goblins in one hit so I slapped the copper back on them to give the air juggles some more time. They always stayed goblins but eveything I changed messed with their title so they were sick goblins, tired goblins, and Iron goblins.
I imagine there is going to be alot of expirementation and messing with stuff outside of the obvious quests of just curing sick people.
Well color me curious. I'll definitely be keeping my eye on this one.
Very easy to use. Air juggling seems like a cheap gimmick but you get items with it so if you're low on health I could see it coming in handy.
Also you can touch the bottom screen at any time which automatically pauses combat.
Sounds like fun to me. And so far as I'm concerned, as long as the code modifying mechanic is robust, the rest of the game could be utter tripe and I'd still play it.
Of course, I need to finish up WEWY (or at least the "main" game; I'll find time for the postgame stuff later). Only 5 days left, I think...
The combat system was tons of fun. I do agree the juggle system is a bit gimmicky, and I didn't see what items you could get from the gobbo's... also, there's a farming aspect where you have to kill a certain amount of gobbo's to progress... but the DNA system was a lot of fun... after I de-rusted my sword and make the goblins sick and then put the iron on my sword... I was thoroughly enjoying myself... then it ended. heh... I had to go back and play through again to figure out the juggling thing.
Also... did anyone figure out what you could do with the flower that you smack first? Is there anything you can do with it? Or is that going to be another farming aspect...
There also seems to be around 1000 pages in the book, so lots of stuff to smack. (Creatures, items, plants and maps all ended up in the book, and you can turn the page to access the different items... hopefully there's a search function in this thing.)
e: n/m... guess I missed the screenshot at the totp that shows page 1683... oops. that's a lot of smacking.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
Demo? It's still up on the Wii shop?
Yeah, just played it like an hour ago.
Who the fuck could not love this game?
EDIT: Oh, it's not Atlus. Still, I can't imagine this one being not hard-to-find after a while.
PSN: Dyvion -- Eternal: Dyvion+9393 -- Genshin Impact: Dyvion
And Knights in the Nightmare is a looooong way off you should at least buy something to hold you over :P
Should I be upset or should I just wait a few days to see if it ships?
Alternatively I was thinking about just waiting for suikoden next week. Pending reviews on that though.
PS2
FF X replay
PS3
God of War 1&2 HD
Rachet and Clank Future
MGS 4
Prince of Persia
360
Bayonetta
Fable 3
DS
FF: 4 heroes of light
Not a complaint but I do tend to overthink things in this game. I was trying to nerf one of the first major bosses and nothing in my book seemed to work. However, all it really took was a minute or two of careful dodging to put him down (compared to the 10-15 minutes I spent perusing my book, swapping codes around). Come to think of it I also really would have liked a few more free spots for swapping.
Lots of great stuff here tho - the book/codes are a great concept, the 3D environments are probably the best I've seen on the DS (textures especially), the juggling is fun, and unlike other games you will want to search every nook and cranny, slap every flower/npc to make sure you get everything.
But maybe that's just me having played too many Hotel Dusk-ish games lately.
PSN: SAW776
Otherwise I'm enjoying it, though.
It's... different. It's not really an RPG, or else I'd have more than 5 (now 6) hit points and each room of a dungeon wouldn't be self-contained mini-games. Also, I wish there was more of an indication of when MP is consumed while messing around with codes.
Is it just me, or is there pretty much no penalty for dying? Every time I get dropped I'm just able to continue right at the same spot, with all of my alterations retained.
Not sure what to think of it yet, honestly. Coming immediately after playing WEWY isn't doing it any favors, that's for sure, but since I really can't consider it an RPG I'll have to realign my thinking.
About to go digging for the Ice Sprite. Hopefully I can find stuff with Frost codes, since I have a ton of tablets that want them. Learned the hard way that ICE != FROST when my hammer wouldn't change. :P
Stupid four-letter codes that are spelled out explicitly in the back of the big-ass book that I can't be bothered to look up or pay any attention to as I move things around...