The Princess is in another Castle

So I’m back from the dead.. no I’m just not that busy at the moment so I decided to review a Game, which I just get from oversea. First of a short statement. The Digimon series has so much potential, I don’t get why they don’t make a big game. They only develop, in my homing opinion, Minigames. I really don’t get it. But enough of those idiots who calles them self game developer.

The Game I now review is called: Digimon World – Championship.
It’s a simulation where you can train Digimon so the digivolv to higher levels and fight in tournaments, collection medlas, to raise your Tamer-Rank and to parcipiate at the great Digimon Championship. You’re a tamer, who is a newbie with Digimon training. You start with a short tutorial, which tolds you everything you have to know for train your Digimon.
In this game Digimon live in terretorys which you have to visit to hunt them. You can stun, damage and paralyze them so you can cath them easier. For catching them you use a rope which has different ranks which you have to unlock with higher Tamer-Ranks oder new medals. For real. You can’t get forward in this game until you win some tournaments. When you finally and succesfully hunt a Digimon, it is brought to your cage.

The Cage is your personal boot camp for Digimon. You can train and torture them until their nearly to their death, like give them nothing to eat or train them altough they have this stunning stars around their head and 1 HP left. But I’m not that sadistic that I tried this out. Okay… one time. But anyway. You can change the cage parts with other parts, which you can buy at the store. Every part of the cage trains another attribut of your digimon. The most of your time you look at this cage and your digimon which do not train all the time, when you put, I usually throw them, in their cages. You have to put them in, wait a few seconds so it trained, the you have to put it into another cage and back into the cage where you want to train it. This sucks.

When you think your Digimon is enough trained, by the way to max. out the stats is so damn easy, that you have a full trained Digimon after three ingame days. And another fact: When you rise an attribute another is sinking. So when you train attack your defence will sink, but if you wanna train your defence, your attack sink. So you have to specialise into one direction. Anyway. When your Digimon is strong enogh you can enter tournaments, which has special categories, for example that only Vaccine or Data Type Digimon can battle or only Mega Digimon can participate. Another funny but sucking fact: Your Digimon can’t digivolve to higher levels until you have the right or higher Tamer-Rank, again. But you can also fight against some free teams, to test your Digimon.

The style of what the fights proceed is really the most negative thing in this game. Your Digimon enter the arena, which has different zones, the whole fight is automatic. You have nothing to do, expect watching. You can’t give orders, move the camera, surrender. Yes you can do nothing! When the KI sucks your Digimon which have the highest stats and are on the Mega level, loose, because their KI suck. Yeah. Very well thought this battle system.

The graphic is Gameboy Advance style. So I have not to tell something ‘bout this expect: I like it. I like this style of graphic.

Fazit:
After a long amount of time when I played Digimon World on the Playstation 1, I played this game and at first I was impressed of the gaming style. But after 5 years, in ingame time when my best Digimon dies exactly before a important tournament, it really gets boring.

For the next time, I can’t write any reviews to games because I’m very busy with a secret project I’m working on. So this is a goodbye message from me to you! But I’ll sure will be back someday! Goodbye have a beautiful time!

Since a short time I started to collect the Mario Games for the NDS. Games like: “Mario Party DS”, “Mario Kart DS” or “New Super Mario Bros.”. And there’s also “Mario & Luigi – Partners in Time”, which is very interesting for me because Luigi is my favourit character from all the characters from the Super Mario Universe. Seriously! Make more games with Luigi as main character. “Luigi’s Mansion” was a nice game! But for now I’ll review “Mario & Luigi – Partners in Time”.

The Story begins with an short introduction, that a strange lifeforms form outerspace is heading to earth, to overtake the power of the Mushroom Kingdom. In the present time, the adult Mario and Luigi awaits the arrival of their Princess Peach, who traveld back in time with a Timemachine to visit the Mushroom Kingdom of the past. But when the Time Machine arrives, a purple Shroom jumps out of the machine and attacks the Mario Bros.. After a short battle, Mario and Luigi jumps into a Timewarp, and found out that the Princess was kidnapped by the Princess of the Shroobs, which are the aliens. In the past Mario and Luigi met their self when their were babys. From this point, the four brothers start the battle against the Shroob Kingdom, to save the past and the Princess Peach of the future

The Gameplay is a mix with Jump ‘n Run and RPGs. You run around, you can jump, walk, do special moves to reach special points, and you can fight against enemys. But this is not like in the further Mario Games, expect Mario & Luigi – Superstra Saga for the Gameboy Advance or another Mario game, in this game you fight in RPG style against the monsters. The system ist round based, what means. The fastest attacks first. Very cool is the action-button system. The most items you use or attacks you perform, requires the push auf a button in the right moment, to make stronger attacks or to perform combos. After a victoriuos battle you gain Experience so you can level up, and you gain coins to buy better equipment or new batlle items. Then when you get a level up, there is a Slotmachine-Bonus-Stat-System. You can choose one of your stats to give it some bonus stats. But how much you can add to your stats, depends on your luck in the slotmachine.

The Graphic is not this better than on the Gameboy Advance Version, but it looks quiet good. I like the style of art and colors in this game. But for the Nintendo DS it’s not enough but the graphic works finde.

Fazit:
I like Mario & Luigi – Partners in Time. It’s something different, when you look at further Mario Games. I also like the style of humor in this game. I’ve never ever heard Mario and Luigi say so much things. Okay it’s mostly one word or a Sound they make and no complete sentences, but it’s enough to get funny moments much funnier.

YAY!

A few days ago, we ordered our specialized TPIIAC Blog-Shirts, and they came in at Thursday! Unfortunately we had no time writing about that because fo the gamescom, but now, it’s about time!
The T-Shirts are black, at the front is our main logo, and at the back you will find our Nicknames and our new domain, http://tpiiac.org. If you meet us on any event, feel free to talk to us =D

I think I’ll post pictures the next days.