Gamerforlife wrote:You make some valid criticisms of the story, but everything you put in spoiler text was so amazing that I still have a great appreciation of that game's story. I just did NOT expect the story to go there. That one cut scene really shocked me as it was very emotionally powerful. Unfortunately though, as you said the story does go a bit downhill after that. That game's story has moments that are so ballsy, but then it pulls back as if it's afraid to follow through with the bold steps it has taken and would rather go with something easier and safer.
I still love the game overall though and disagree that it's not a good game for newbies to the genre. I think it's PERFECT for that actually. It's easy, fun, and accessible.
I also don't regard Patapon quite as highly as you do, but I did have fun with it. It has its flaws though
Yeah, Jeanne d'Arc definitely just felt a little too safe. It's artwork didn't do much to help that either, the boxart makes it looks like it'll be pretty heavy stuff, and apart from that one admittedly awesome segment, it never quite reaches those heights. Another issue I had were that the game let you have 14 playable characters, but some of those guys had maybe 4 lines in the whole game, so you never felt very close to them, even though compared to the likes of Fire Emblem the cast is comparatively tiny.
I can understand people not getting into patapon as much as I did, but I'd love to know more specifics. What were the issues you had with it?
