Poll of the Day > Pick the game I try to finish next

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Just finished Exile (TGCD) -- 6/10 Took me a little under 6 hrs to beat.

The game was disappointingly short. Much like Cadash, the beginning dungeon boss is very difficult, but if you grind up a handful of levels, it becomes extremely easy. With the turbo function on the controller, grinding simply means finding a spot where an enemy keeps respawning and just holding down the attack button for 5-10 minutes. Unfortunately, the rest of the game is also very easy. The end boss took me all of TWO tries, and that's only because I didn't pay attention to my health for some reason and didn't use any of the healing items I had. The magic attacks remove pretty much all difficulty from the bosses. Being an action game, this lack of difficulty is a pretty big negative for me. The only thing I had to look up was a map of one rather confusing dungeon, due to all the doors, but I was just about to make a map myself, so I simply saved myself a little time.

The game is extremely linear, with a few locations accessible at a time where you'll have to go between them to trip the next flag to progress the game, and once you get to a new area, you can't go back. There is no real world map, with the locales simply being spots on a map that you select. You get fully healed on this screen, so there are no inns. It was nice to have towns being a top-down view, rather than being setup as a side-scrolling section, like in Cadash and Popful Mail. Needing to run into an NPC to talk to him/her was a bit tough at times as you need to line up perfectly, especially with the NPC that walk around. I'm not a fan of this convention, and especially in this game, since the I button has no purpose while walking around the town. At least the II button has a run function in town.

Voices in many of the cutscenes were very hard for me to make out, and with a good amount of the plot being given during these, I really don't know much about what was supposed to be going on.

I did have fun with it. I would just have a hard time recommending it, since it can easily be beaten in an afternoon by a first-time player, as was the case with me. To me, it's definitely near the bottom of the Working Designs catalog.
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I understand Working Designs made one small change to the enemies' stats in Exile: Wicked Phenomenon, making the game extremely difficult. I also understand the original Jpn version, which I also have and will also knock out if it wins, is brain dead easy.

Advance Wars came in 2nd again, so it gets held over again.

I'd never heard of the book The Moonstone.

Swordquest just happened to come up again. I didn't intend to include it twice in a row.
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How do you decide what games end up in the list to vote? I mean, I know the Exile games are there because of the whole playing them in release order. Do you use some program to pick them randomly?
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Backloggery has a feature called the Fortune Cookie. It just ramdomly selects a game that fits your criteria, such as which systems to pick from, whether to only include unbeaten games, etc.
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Ah ok.
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Yup, Fortune Cookie function on the site is useful.
https://imgur.com/Mi2E24m

On topic, nothing I really care too much about, voted Advance Wars DS. Much prefer Dark Conflict (AKA Days of Ruin), only one I own on cartridge, though have the other three Advance Wars on Wii U VC.
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Delta, since you like Gauntlet IV, you should check out Dungeon Explorer. It's very similar. I think it's been available on VCs, and it's one of the games on the upcoming TG16/PCE Mini.
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Blaqthourne posted...

Delta, since you like Gauntlet IV, you should check out Dungeon Explorer. It's very similar. I think it's been available on VCs, and it's one of the games on the upcoming TG16 Mini.

I own it on PSN, can play it on PS3 / PSP. Didn't know about the Mini though, might have to take a look if it comes to New Zealand, the system had a few games that would be nice. Unlikely to have the ones I want though. :P

Got the following games.
Bomberman '94 (Wii VC)
Bonk's Adventure (PSN)
Cho Aniki (Wii VC)
Dungeon Explorer (PSN)
New Adventure Island (PSN)
R-Type (Wii VC)
Ys Book I & II (Wii VC)
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From what I've read, the Minis are apparently going to be sold exclusively through Amazon, but Play-Asia has pages for all three regions' Minis.
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So I won't be getting one, don't buy on Amazon and would need a plug converter if they aren't making a local release.
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NZ doesn't use the same standard as Europe?
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Nope, need something like this
https://imgur.com/7dxkPN3
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