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"Where do dreams end and reality begin? Videogames, I suppose."- Gainax, FLCL Vol. 1
"The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1
"I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes
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"The beach, the trees, even the clouds in the sky... everything is build from little tiny pieces of stuff. Just like in a Gameboy game... a nice tight little world... and all its inhabitants... made out of little building blocks... Why can't these little pixels be the building blocks for love..? For loss... for understanding"- James Kochalka, Reinventing Everything part 1
"I wonder if James Kolchalka has played Mother 3 yet?" Jonathan Holmes
Wild Holmes pic by Cadtalfryn
AnthonyDressRun sprites by Jonathan Holmes
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I've never been the biggest Mario Kart fan. I actually loathed the SNES and N64 titles. But Double Dash and MK DS were both good for about a months worth of fun, and after reading Nick's review, I figured "what the hell? Worst case scenario, I re-gift it."
The game is NOT full of surprises, but it's more fun that past Mario Karts, largely due to the new trick system. It's endlessly fun to pull a trick, especially as opportunities to do so are so ridiculously plentiful. If you get even one foot of air from a small jump, hill, even the curb on the side of the road, you can get a trick off it. It's almost like Jet Grind Radio, but not quite that awesome. But what is, right? As for the Wii Wheel? Sillyness. Playing with the Wii Remote alone offers an almost identical experience. I do prefer this motion control based method over the GCN or Classic Controllers, but they could have left the wheel out of the package and I wouldn't have minded. Or at least, that's what I initially thought. Then I threw Brawl in for a test drive with the Wii Wheel, and it all suddenly made sense. Not all of us have the extra money for More Nunchucks and classic controllers and GCN controllers and all that. If you are such a person, then you have been saddened by the fact that you can't play local multi-player in Brawl without one person suffering the severe handicap of playing with the Wii Remote alone. Well, I have your answer. Stick that jammie in the Wii Wheel. All will be right with the world. The reason why the Wii Remote alone control scheme doesn't work for Brawl is because the freaking block button is nigh-impossible to hit when you want to. It's in a deep, dark, out of the way spot on the neither regions of the controller, so unless you have the dexterity of a ninja and the delicate touch of lady-hands, it's been pretty much understood that " Wii Remote alone" players wont be blocking in Brawl (on purpose). The Wii Wheel, and it's big, man-hand friendly B button changes all that. It's actually easier to block in Brawl with the Wii Wheel than with the Classic Controller or the Nunchuck. Well, what are you waiting for? Go try it and see.
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Living the dream since March 16, 2006
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Note that you cannot set any other button on the Wiimote to Up, so if you decide to change D-Pad + UP to shield or grab (because you hate that effing B-Button Shield), you quickly find that you can no longer do ANY up moves at all.
Or maybe it's just their way of giving you the chance to show how much of a badass you are when you don't ever have to use an UP+B to recover because you rock the mic so viciously. Who knows. At least now I'm curious about the Wiimote again for SSBB and will give it a try thanks to your insight.
Done and Done.
you amaze me holmes.
you amaze me holmes."
LOL