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HarmoKnight is a downloadable game from Game Freak. The same developer who brought the likes of Pokemon and Yoshi.
This demo follows Tempo as is introduced to a muscial world. Your guide a rabbit named Tappy. These names aren't just puns but truly fit.
The demo plays like a Mario side scroller game. You have to constantly jump to collect notes and use your staff to beat enemies while running. You can also interact with the flowers in the levels which are set up like musical notes giving. Striking them not only gives you notes but also helps you progress.
The game has beautiful background music but it has gaps, and that's where Tempo fits in. You constantly have to be jumping to collect notes (Like coins in Mario) and striking your enemies this fills in the gaps of music with more sounds.
That's where Tempo's actual name fits in. You have to listen and time each strike to fit the tempo of the songs, use measures. You can look at the game as sheet music, reading it left to right. Your timing is key to collect notes, fill in gaps and beat enemies otherwise the demo causes you to repeat that level.
Check out this gameplay and it'll demonstrate what I mean.
Now like I said earlier this game is developed by Game Freak so they're many scenes with Pokemon blimps and balloons in there air giving a nod towards Game Freak's most successful series. The cut scenes feel like your playing a Super Mario Bros. game which is always a plus.
I had one problem with the demo and it's minor. When the game goes into shaking cut scenes this makes the 3D aspects unbearable and I have to switch back to 2D just for those scenes.
Our Honest View gives HarmoKnight Demo 5 out of 5. This demo is probably one of the best side scrollers I've played that's not Mario. What's even better is this game is only going to be 14.99$ with a tentative release date of March 28th, 2013.
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Hey Pokemon fans Nintendo has finally announced a new 3DS XL design!
After seeing many commercials featuring children playing the new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates To Infinity on what it seemed to be a Pikachu 3DS XL is true. At first I only saw this as rumors or something that would be released only in Japan.
This BUNDLE will retail for 199.99$. Yes we said bundle besides the system you'll also receive a 4GB SD card so at least you can transfer your data from your older system.
But...
Nintendo has announced that on March 24th along with the release of the new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon AND Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon will also have this great 3DS XL.
Now for the people who JUST bought the Fire Emblem Awakening 3DS or a XL back at Christmas to get the free Mario Kart 7, Nintendo has offered a sweet deal.
Buy AND register this limited edition 3DS XL and purchase EITHER Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Gates To Infinity OR Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon between March 21st and April 30th and receive a free game to download from the eShop channel.
Nintendo is even offering a sweet selection of games; Art Academy, Super Mario Land 3D, Star Fox 64 (Thought that disappeared forever), Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask OR Freaky Farm Deluxe. I'm guessing that 4GB memory card will come in handy!
Remember to check back for updates on this, plus more information for when you can preo-order Nintendo's Pikachu 3DS XL bundle!
UPDATE:
According to Target's website the bundle itself will be onsale on launch day for $159.99
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For me, the
love story and conversation for best game series began roughly two to three
years ago. It might even have been four now, but I’m not positive about the
details. A lot of my good friends were playing a ton of Nintendo DS, and to say
I was jealous would be the world’s biggest understatement.
Most of them religiously
played Pokemon, and I’m not gonna lie; I wasn’t even remotely excited. I mean
seriously, a turn based children’s RPG with no real storyline? Yeah, count me
out. So naturally, part of the conditions of me obtaining my first DS included
the play-through of all Pokemon games. It’s an agreement I still haven’t fully
met to this day (sorry guys).
I started
with Pokemon Soul Silver. On paper, it was the most one-dimensional, straightforward
games I’ve ever played. There was an amazing lack of storyline, loads of cute
monsters, half of which I never intend to use, and an end game that apparently
ends with me getting a bunch of legendary dudes that look well... let’s just
say silly. I coasted through the badges and elite four in something like 20
hours.
At that point, in my heart it was one of the biggest wastes of time I’ve
ever endured. I’m talking to my good friend Nick one day, and he’s explaining
to me that there’s a large amount of time and energy to invest into playing Pokemon
competitively, and that folks, is where our love story really kicks off.
Looking at
my team that absolutely demolished the Elite Four, I was thinking I’d wreck a
few of my friends nice and quick, and they would let me move on to better
games. Well, I got my behind handed to me. Before we continue this story, I’d
like to note I’m a decent loser. You can learn a lot from your losses, and no
real winner never loses, but I was pissed! Who cares that they have played Pokemon
since seemingly the dawn of time. It’s a simple, crappy, one-dimensional RPG at
best right?
Right?!
Oh, it’s not huh?
The game has more mechanics, silent
factors and features, and cool abilities than any game I can quickly remember.
Turns out I’d been coasting through the game wrong for ages and I needed to
start over.
Training,
breeding, nature checking, countless articles, and dozens of losses later, I’d
invested well over 100 hours into my Soul Silver file. It’s depressing really.
I think I lost 30 or so matches before wracking up a single win. The win was
sadly pathetic too. A friend literally built a one-dimensional team and I
stumbled into its flaws.
You ever
get that odd feeling one win is a cure-all though? I went on a cute spree,
assembling a fundamental team that literally re-created Pokemon for me. I still
wasn’t feeling it. Fast forward another 20-30 hours of play, and I’m just about
done caring about Pokemon yet again. I’ve built what I think is a sweet team.
I’m not always winning, but I’m comfortable where I sit. I had nothing new to
prove.
Then I stumbled across Marowak, and this dude is freaking awesome. He’s
missing a lot, but he fights with a bone club and he has a bone mask. He was,
and is, literally the most badass pokemon ever! My first real Pokemon obsession
began.
I will
win with this guy I told myself. He’s a baller. Well, my normal winning strike
began, but this time was different. I was having a blast. The universal
response to my awesome Marowak was an awesome mix of disgust and admiration. He
lost a lot, and boy do I mean a lot. He was too slow and defensive, but not
defensive enough, but boy could that club hit. And by the way, did I mention he
was a bad ass? I needed to fix this!
Thinking
back to my old MMO days, I realized I needed the Pokemon equivalent of a
support cast to level the playing ground for him. Insert Ninjask, this speedy
ninja fly, and Umbreon, a super cute dark themed four-legged monster. If you
look into this yourself you’ll see I’m doing Umbreon no justice here. I started
to truly love my team!
There’s
no true reference to explain its results, but for my own sake I’ll try. You
know the old crappy cars in every neighborhood that always gets you where you
need to go? That’s the best I got. I piled up a bunch of awkward wins and even
more awkward losses, and I was at the peak of my Pokemon fun.
Pokemon
Black and White comes. It’s like the one time the prodigy had a really ugly
accident baby. I’ve never loved a game and hated its sequel so much ever. It
took me 40 hours of playing to get through Elite Four, mostly because I keep
nodding off while playing. How much money do these people make?
They need to
hire a better story-writer.
That games "story" was awful. I put story
in quotations because calling it a story is an insult to other stories. With
post game, I get to transfer my dudes though, and start competitive with my
mates again. The romance not only continues, but grows.
A hundred
or so more hours are consumed creating, recreating, scheming, whining and
reading. How the hell is this the best gaming series for you one might ask? The
process to me was simple. Pokemon to me was the first time ever to me that I
endured years of loss passionately. I looked forward to playing, and plotted
the best way to accomplish completely mundane tasks with a smile on my face.
I
can’t think of a single game that has a chore factor that I’ve ever looked
forward to. I invested 200-300 hours into the game, and I know for a fact that
I haven’t enjoyed the games to the fullest. Everything is so cute! There are
hundreds of unique monsters for you to catch and level, and competitive Pokemon
is more complex than most games I have ever played. It’s a gaming goldmine. If
for some odd reason you have been under a rock for ages and haven’t already
done so, I highly suggest you pick up a copy of Pokemon and begin your own love
story today!
**Borrowed From Nintendo Magazine**
FUTURE:
Now with the second anniversary of the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo is promising us a brand new story, brand new Pokemon on a brand new platform! 3D! Something that hasn't been done before. Though the battle specs have been in 3D scopes, this game will be in complete 3D! Let's get the training and breeding beginning so we can destroy this new game!
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When I heard that the creator of Howl’s moving castle, Spirited away, other great Anime films Hayao Miyazaki was making a PlayStation 3 exclusive called Ni No Kuni I was more than a little excited.
Now while this game’s beginning cut scenes is a beautiful anime art style that will make your jaw drop it leaves just as quickly as it comes for a more computerized style which after the hand crafted anime leaves a lot to be desired.
However, I am happy to say that that is really my only complaint and while the game is not a technical and graphical masterpiece like Uncharted, but it makes you feel like you are playing in an anime and the characters that you will meet as Oliver along the way are beautifully fleshed out. Now the main protagonist Oliver will be who you will mainly be using the entire game now while the combat allows you to switch around which charter you want to control Oliver and his starting familiar which I will go into more detail later will be your go to guy.
Now for the combat imagine Final Fantasy meets Pokémon. If that sounds as fun and as addicting to you as it does to me then this game will very quickly captivate you as you try and capture the perfect familiar team. When you get into either a boss battle or even a fight with just the local wildlife looking for more familiars to catch the whole battle field opens up and allows you to move and run around dodging attacks and getting behind monsters to land your own attacks, and while the combat is fast paced and exciting you will find yourself fumbling with the controls sometimes trying to run away from your enemy and get to your special attack or spell ability.
Luckily the game pauses whenever you push the L1 button meaning you can take a break from the action and plan your next attack. Another interesting aspect is that there are two parallel worlds, Oliver’s world and the magical familiar roaming world that Oliver is trying to save.
Now each person has a soul mate in the other world that can be a spitting image of that person or could even be a completely different gender or species. There was one quest where you had to help a Dragon get there confidence back up to fly in the magical world, while in Oliver’s world they are a human boy. These kinds of twists are refreshing and always make you have to pay attention to the clues to find the right person or animal.
However, while the combat may be intuitive and addicting make no mistake this game was made for little kids. It will hold your hand and tell you how to do things numerous times. In fact it will hold your hand and tell you how to solve puzzles about 20hrs in and even then Drippy who is your loveable fair companion will still treat you like and idiot and tell you how to do things over and over again.
Now my only other complaint is that exploration is rather fickle in this game. While this is a big open world to explore and once you have the tools necessary to explore the ocean and the sky you will never know if you are traveling into a brutally high leveled area where the familiars will make you wish you have never even thought of going to this area, or they are the perfect level to grind and level up for a bit.
Also another important thing to learn is to diversify your party of familiars in fact this is the best advice I can give you, while the game may hold your hand and treat you like a child on story missions it leaves all your combat and party options up to you so always have a diversified party for in situation or you will find yourself running around the battlefield scoffing down bread and coffee trying to cast one last spell. Though again not like dying is any real travesty you only lose 10% of your total amount of money so while it may emasculate you when you get destroyed by an opposing team you can very quickly get back into the action an plan accordingly.
Now while this game may treat you like a toddler and not inform you on if the area you are trying to explore is a beautiful land full of death or just the right level this game is truly remarkable and the story and characters will captivate you.
Greatest Review's gives "Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch" (2013) 5 stars out of 5. Oliver is a very grounded kid and you will enjoy his enthusiasm has he embarks on quests to save those who may not even deserve it and also for being an excellent experience and really worth the 40 plus hours you will be putting into it playing it again and again.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>By:Tyler Comp
Replay value: Moderately High!
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Now like I said earlier this game is developed by Game Freak so they're many scenes with Pokemon blimps and balloons in there air giving a nod towards Game Freak's most successful series. The cut scenes feel like your playing a Super Mario Bros. game which is always a plus. 
