Saturday, March 31, 2007

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

The game's story revolves around the pair's attempts to catch the villainous Cackletta, a powerful sorceress from the neighboring Beanbean Kingdom, who steals Princess Peach's voice. The voiceless Peach is only able to communicate in bizarre symbols that explode shortly after being uttered. While Peach's condition is quite alarming for the members of her court, it's especially upsetting for longtime kidnapper Bowser, who arrives shortly after Cackletta's attack to log in some quality kidnapping time. Unable to nab Peach for fear of the damage her explosive talk will inflict to his castle, Bowser offers to help Mario track down Cackletta and offers to help restore Peach's voice... so that he can kidnap her. A series of unfortunate incidents, involving Bowser's lackeys and Luigi, find Mario's younger brother, usually content guarding the home front, along for the ride as well. The zany setup is a perfect segue for the goofy adventure across the Beanbean Kingdom that will find the brothers facing all manner of danger.

I was hooked on this game for a long time. This game was really funny too, it had a Lot of humor. If you like RPG's if you have a GBA or DS and if you like Mario and Luigi, get this game you will love it I guarantee it. Graphics were awesome for GBA. The Bros. Attacks were cool as pie, Specially the Knockback bros. for Luigi if you did it at level 3 and had good timing you could keep launching Mario back-and-forth for a decent amount of time and damage. If you haven't got this game i suggest picking it up sometime in the near future.

ROM of this game can download here

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories


You'll be controlling Sora alone on his adventure, because whenever he enters a new world by means of a set of special cards, Goofy and Donald are separated from him. Moving from floor to floor in Castle Oblivion is accomplished by clearing the various worlds, which are essentially the same Disney worlds you might have visited in Kingdom Hearts. The desert city of Agrabah from Aladdin is here, as well as ghostly Halloween Town from The Nightmare Before Christmas, Winnie the Pooh's sleepy 100 Acre Wood, and more. You won't be visiting any new Disney locations or very many original areas, which might be disappointing for those who hoped for new places to explore. The worlds are all segmented into a series of small, interconnected rooms. You move from room to room by unlocking doors with cards that you'll find in the field, pick up from enemies, or gain from special encounters or events. You can jump and swing your keyblade in the field; your blade can strike objects to open them, allow you to interact with doors, or let you hit an enemy for an initiative attack. The rooms are typically filled with foes (called the Heartless) that will roam the area, and while you can avoid them if you wish, getting the first attack nets you a good battle advantage.

This game is unique in almost every way. the battle style is cool, using cards is a great idea, basically the whole gameplay revolves around them!
The sprites are cool, the attacks are cool, the whole game is cool!!!
The music is pretty good, some of it is better than others.
The cutscenes ROCK they look better than some of the really old ps2 games look.
The story is set between kh1 and kh2, and sora, donald and goofy are trapped in castle oblivion. along the way, they start to lose their memory....
If you enjoy kingdom herats, get this game, no matter how hard it is to find.

You can download ROM of this game here

Saturday, March 24, 2007

Final Fantasy VI Advance


The story in Final Fantasy VI isn't especially original, but it's delivered so well that you'll want to relish each and every plot twist, character introduction, conflict, and line of dialogue. It takes place in a world that was nearly destroyed 1,000 years ago during a legendary war involving magic. In the aftermath of the war, the power of magic was lost. As a result, people started to develop technology to replace magic as the primary facilitator of "the good life." The technology certainly isn't rudimentary, but it's not quite what you would call advanced. The world has a very dingy, industrial feel, with locomotives, zeppelin-like air ships, and lumbering mechs. As is the standard in role-playing games, there is a powerful empire amassing strength and expanding its reach in an attempt to rule the world. Of course, an overbearing empire needs more than technology to assert its dominance over the masses, so Emperor Gestahl decides to revive magic and use it as a source of ultimate power. You play as a ragtag group of adventurers who team up with a rebel faction known as The Returners. You set out to put an end to the empire before Gestahl and his forces destroy the world.

This the game, this is as good as it gets for two dimensional role playing games. Final Fantasy 4 and 5 set the stage for this game. Square used 4 and 5 to to prepare for this masterpiece. From beginning to end this game is enthralling. For this review, I'll avoid any repetition of the battle system or gameplay and instead focus on the amazing story and experience while, of course, avoiding spoilers.

From the first scenes with the 3 sets of Magitek armor trudge across the snowy wasteland to the final epics battles, Final Fantasy 6 grabs you and never lets you go. You will be there as the story unfolds with you in the drivers seat and love every minute of it. Unlike other RPGs at that time, this one gets very dark at times. Truly catastrophic and world changing events will take place. Sometimes your group will win out, and sometimes your party will be crushed before your incredibly powerful foes. To be sure, the world is vastly different by the time you finish this adventure.

If you like it you can download ROM of it here