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The World Ends With You - Aliens.

10.6.2008

I've been leaving TWEWY in "talk to other Wi-Fi devices mode" frequently over the past week. I've had good luck on gaining experience from this, though some of the "Aliens" (non-DSes - probably iPhones) are quite weird:

  • A Childhood Memory
  • An Angry Monkey (some kind of monkey, anyhow)
  • An Evil Spirit
  • A Psycho Hose Beast
  • the one that got away

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The World Ends With You.

10.1.2008

Recently, I've been playing The World Ends With You, one of Square's non-Final Fantasy RPGs for the Nintendo DS. It's very engrossing; fast paced and highly configurable.

Game progress is broken up into very distinct stages, with clear goals for progressing to the next stage. Within each stage, game play is pretty much up to you. You can spend lots of time exploring, fighting, or even running around Shibuya shopping. Or you can focus directly on the tasks to progress to the next stage. I'm really enjoying the in-game flexibility to do whatever I want, whenever I want.

The game difficulty is also configurable at all times, in a variety of dimensions. And great rewards are available with the increased difficulty settings.

One very unique attribute of this game is the powering up system. Equipment (which grants abilities) earns experience; not just for fighting, but also when the game is shut down, and when it communicates wirelessly with other devices. The DS/TWEWY can detect WiFi communications from other TWEWY players (ESPers), DSs playing other games (Civvies), and non-DS devices (Aliens)! Very fun.

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DS Wednesday.

9.24.2008

We played Nintendo DS during lunch again today. I won at Clubhouse Games Darts and MarioKart Balloon Battle, but lost at everything else. I'm not such a hot MarioKart racer, and you never know who's going to win Clubhouse Games Bowling, but the Tetris DS loss rankles a bit. My only defense is that it was a boss-based loss. The big boss was very excited with some kind of great news for the company while I was trying to concentrate down a rain of fire and blocks! Ah well. Guess I'll have to practice the Tetris.

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DS Wednesday.

9.18.2008

It wasn't as epic as Burning Man's Tetris, but we got some great multi-player gaming in at work yesterday. I lost Clubhouse Games Bowling by 2 points, ruled all Tetris, and did about 50/50 in Mario Kart. It's so much fun to play with real people.

I may have overdone the smack talk just a wee little bit though. Next week we'll be playing all Mario Kart. While I have been playing Mario Kart for well over a decade, I'm not very familiar with the DS levels. I ought to practice.

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Iron DS Players.

9.3.2008

I'm going to take a break from jQuery to state that I'm very pleased. Today I successfully cajoled some coworkers into playing Nintendo DS with me during lunch. Billy won some tightly fought Mario vs. Luigi battles in NSMB. But my Tetris skills still reign supreme in a 4 player battle. It was so much fun. I hope everyone comes back to play next week.

Also, the soup place at the bottom of my office building has left. Bamph! The simply vacated over the long weekend. Now I'll have to leave the building for a lazy person's lunch.

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