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Halo3's "believe"... as enacted by Viva Pinata (now they've done the museum ad)
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It's Chopin's Raindrops Prelude Op. 25 no. 15.
But seriously, I liked the original Viva Pinata a lot and will be picking up the sequel. I'm also excited for the DS version allegedly coming out this year.
Banjo I have mixed feelings about, but will be willing to give it a try. The original game was very entertaining at the time, although I became less and less into Rare platformers as time went on. Perhaps this whole vehicle customization thing will go over well.
i've been jonesing so bad I was forced to dig out my N64 and cables from Deep Storage the other day just so I could reply B:K and B:T.
It better have pleasant, peppy, infuriatingly catchy music, too. And random inanimate objects should have oversized cartoon eyes slapped on them and be treated as characters.
For me, there is no Rare hate.
just Rare disappointment.
You know, that was cool and all, but thanks to that ad the whole way through H3 I was expecting the game to end with some kind of epic, massive balls-to-the-wall defense of earth style battle, one that would make up for the sheer unadulterated shit that was 'Cortana'.
And it never fucking happened.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM-qViAk08k&eurl=http://blog.wired.com/games/
Here's the original so Pika won't bitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq2akuhFaB0
That and all the furry porn that came out becuase of the damn game. o_O
Eurogamer has a nice preview of the game that makes it sound pretty good to me, although indicates that it might still have some of the flaws of the first, which could end up leading to poor sales again (although it's now topped 1 million, which is nice)
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=218695
Were there other issues with the game I might have missed?
Eurogamer said how, in the original, they felt it took too long to get into anything fun, and that may still be a factor here. Can't say I noticed that so much myself, but if it's an issue with others, then that could still be something that holds it back.
Now that I have played it a couple of times (and once I clear the garden of sours and ruffians) I let my 4 year old run amok to her hearts content in the garden. Hell, the other day I left the room for 10 minutes and come back to find out she had figured out what she needed to do to get an elephanilla into the garden and was well on her way to getting one. The only problems she has with the game is the pre-romance dance mini games.
Either way, I feel I am raising my kids the right way. Getting them into gaming, but keeping them active outside that. My dork lineage will be continued.