The World Ends With You - Done!

I finished 'The Worlds Ends With You' last night and massively enjoyed my time with it. Seriously recommended to any DS owners who have yet to try it. A fairly steep learning curve but once it clicks you'll find one of the most interesting, different and above all entertaining action-RPG's available.
The story follows Neku who wakes up in Shibuya to find his memories gone, a timer on his hand, and himself invisable to the people around him. Stuck in the limbo between life and death, Neku must partner up with other players who have shared his fate and compete in challenges set by the mysterious "Reapers" to try and win another chance at life or face erasure. Battles take place over both DS screens with Neku being controlled on the bottom with the stylus and your partner being controlled on the top-screen by the D-Pad. Sound confusing? It is at first, and you feel like you'll never manage to follow action on 2 screens at once, but you do, and it's brilliant.

Left:The battles will make your head spin at first but you'll get there

Right: Neku, Joshua, Shiki, Beat and Rhyme. You'll like these guys...well maybe not the lad in the skull hat, he's a bit of a nob who says "yo" a lot.

Mid Week Video Update

Just click to play! I don't really say much worthwhile, it's more of a test. Better video's to come, definitely*

*not definite

The World Ends With Who?

I started “The World Ends With You” on DS probably about 7 months ago. It’s another one of Cassy's and I honestly can’t remember why I stopped playing. Something must have come up. I was only a couple of hours in so I’ve picked up where I left up pretty easily! Great art style, great music, fun gameplay. Let’s get this one done after the cock-up that was Tactics.

As Neku would say “Focus!”

Trying to focus here..

                                                                  

Tactical Failure

After scoring a few “easy goals” I thought I should tackle something on the list which I hadn’t even started, which really means I’m picking one of Cassys. After a week or so of action I decided it was time for a bit of strategy, and where better to get confused by numbers than on the PSP!

I loved and hated the time I spent with Tactics but I’ll save you the suspense and tell you now, I’ve stopped playing and it’s not complete.

I know, that’s terrible, its against the whole concept of the mission! I know that, and I will finish it eventually, I swear…I have to! For now though, it’s so frustrating I might accidentally dunk Cassys PSP in the fishtank, which will not only make it much harder to finish the other PSP games but won’t be netting me any house-points with the missus.

Don’t get me wrong, when the game was going well, I really enjoyed it and genuinely want to finish it.

Tactics has you command a gang of medieval warriors through turn-based battles over board-like area's. Expect plenty of lines beginning "hast thou" of "forsooth!" and variations of my favourite "you forget yourself!" which I'm thinking of adapting into my own brilliant catchphrase.

You have knights, you have mages, you have bows and arrows, you have enemies that counter-attack for more damage than you do to them, you have chocobo's that go just out of reach and heal themselves relentlessly, you have neer-do-wells dodging, blocking or surviving with 1HP at the worst possible times, you DON'T have your dead party members back after battle despite the fact the battle should have ended 10 damn turns ago if the healing, dodging, goddamn chocobo would just die already!!!

Lady luck watches over your shoulder while you play this game and she hates your guts.

Maybe I was just unlucky with the fights I had and the game wasn't actually weighted against me, but it certainly felt this way at the time and due to a sore back, freezing cold feet a long day at work I put this one back on the shelf for something that would make me swear less.

pictured: The bain of my life

I will be back for you tactics, thou hasnt not forsaken me yet!

Graph Update 1

5 games complete since I started a few week ago. No games bought.

Bit of a boring graph at the moment to be fair. Any questions? No you can't leave, sit down!

Pre-Blog Progress

Since starting the graph I’ve not bought any new games and managed to finish a few! . Between then and this blog post I followed the path of good and  basically sorted everything out in 'Infamous 2', beat-in Bowser in 'Super Mario World', did-in Ganondorf in both 'Ocarina of Time' and "Spirit Tracks" and  ruined that pirate fella in 'Ratchet and Clank: Quest for Booty'. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? Well to be fair, I was remarkably close to the end for all 4 of the latter (finished between 10/10-16/10) and infamous 2 was too brilliant to not finish within a week and a bit (finished between 03/10-09/10)

I made a commemorative image.

MISSION STATEMENT: To complete every game I've bought since 2005.

I buy a lot of games, or at least it feels like I do, and I thought I was generally quite good at completing them. One day I decided to go through my games and finish one which I'd got close to finishing but never did and only then did I realise the horrible truth, that I have't finished anywhere near as many of my games as I thought.

Not one to dally about, I went straight to work on excel listing every game I've bought since getting my Xbox360 back in 2005. I could have gone back sooner and covered the Megadrive - Gamecube era, but decided this was too ambitious, there needs to be limits. My list also contained games owned by my other half, Cassy, as many of them I know I would enjoy but for some reason never picked up, usually going and buying a brand new game instead. I knew adding these would be the motivation I needed to play through some stuff we already own but I hadn't touched.

my final list included Xbox360, PS3, Wii, DS, 3DS, PSP and a couple of miscallenous games for Dreamcast and PC respectedly. I also included all virtual console and PSN/XBL arcade games.   The list totalled at 114.

Marking through games which were complete revealed only 58 of these have been finished. A poor 51%. I whipped up a small graph and would update the stats every Sunday with any new games to add to the list any I'd managed to finish, ticked off.

While getting to100% is the obvious goal,  I've decided on a sub-goal of getting to and maintaining over 80% completion, anywhere above this is the golden zone that I want to be in. Basically, if you look at the graph, the red line needs to reach over the yellow line.

So without further ado, let the games commence!

(so cheesy)