What are you playing on your 3DS/DS right now?

I wager it's Terrific Role Playing Game.

I get the feeling you won't like fire emblem as the clever gameplay isn't enough on its own to motivate you past the shite anime story.

Is there a way to skip said shite anime story? I'm not willing to tolerate anime. Sorry to anyone reading who is a fan.

Pretty sure start skips all cut scenes though without the story it's half the game.

As an avid anime fan, I thought the story was shite, although that may well have been coloured by me not liking the game in general.

andyman949 wrote:

Pretty sure start skips all cut scenes though without the story it's half the game.

It's not just the cutscenes though the text box chat is boring too, I just wasn't willing to mash A to get to the good bits.

Being able to skip rubbish cutscenes is a big thing for me. I canned Metroid Other M (which I was otherwise enjoying) because of the cutscenes. I'm not willing to piss about when it comes to crap story-telling. I liked the way Kid Icarus Uprising did it, through telling you the story while you played the missions. More of that in future, please!

You can skip the text box conversations too I think, doubt I'd have the patience if I couldn't whilst retrying.

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

I liked the way Kid Icarus Uprising did it, through telling you the story while you played the missions. More of that in future, please!

KIU's storytelling and dialogue, disjointed/camp respectively though it was, was excellent.  "I go by 'Thanatos' now: the extra 'h' is for 'ha-MAZING'!"  

You can skip conversations too but one of my favourite parts were the random team building conversations in the barracks, some funny stuff in there. I can forgive the crud story too because if you're playing a Nintendo game for the story then that's just a bit silly isn't it?

KIU is also excellent game, has to be one of the best games on the system.

If you hate your hands it's excellent.

I actually stuck KIU on for the first time in ages today. What a disappointment that, while it's obviously such an exciting game, all I can think about are the controls.

I still never had any issues with the controls of that game

treesmurf11 wrote:

You can skip conversations too but one of my favourite parts were the random team building conversations in the barracks, some funny stuff in there. I can forgive the crud story too because if you're playing a Nintendo game for the story then that's just a bit silly isn't it?

True but it should have enough motivation in the story to make you want to continue & this just didn't have that for me.

If I'm playing an RPG it ought to at least have some good story/characterisation.  That was one of the disappointing things about PMSS as well.  

Go Team I Had No Problems With KIU's Controls Yeah!

I never had any issue with KIU. Then again, I have tiny, womanly hands and Herculean strength, the perfect combination.  

Yeah controls were fine on KIU.

The Cappuccino Kid wrote:

Stu_the_great wrote:

More Animal Crossing for me, and I also had my first go on Aero Porter this afternoon. I can see why some people may love it, but I don't think it's for me.

I feel the same way about Aero Porter. Something different, but I just didn't enjoy it very much. Too stressful?

A bit of that, coupled with the fact that you're basically staring at six or so carousels constantly and nothing more (even though I expected it ). It could almost be a Game & Watch game. Kudos to them for giving it a go, though.

masofdas wrote:

Yeah controls were fine on KIU.

Nope, more like unecessaryly awkward.

The controls are unnecessarily awkward, and this is coming from someone who rates KIU as the best game on the 3DS. There's a reason the Circle Pad Pro thing exists, and it's for games like KIU.

Because I'm a right handed gamer but a left handed writer, the set-up with the stylus was horrible for me - as I needed the left analogue to control movement (I can't do it on the right, so the CPP would have been useless), but I also need to hold the stylus in my left hand.

Luckily, I managed to track down a thumb stylus from the original DS, and the controls were brilliant with it. And no need for a silly stand.

I remember that! It made SM64DS almost playable.

Swinging the thread back on track, I'm playing Pokémon X, interspersed with Bike Rider DX, as recommended by Cap (and now, by me - it's very addictive).

Replaying Hotel Dusk, with the intention to get the super secret ending (which needs two playthroughs). I've pretty much forgotten everything about it, so it's feeling very fresh to me.