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Uh. So someone got me Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time a few days ago. Anyone here have this? I don't know why I thought I remembered there being some kind of CC thread on the multiplayer board, but I don't see anything.

I haven't ever played a Crystal Chronicles title before so I'm sure I'll want to get a grip on what the fuck I'm doing by myself first, but if there's anyone willing to dick around in this thing with me that'd be nice too. I'll make a thread in SBF if that's the case.

Or if anyone who knows better thinks this isn't the kind of thing that's even worth playing alone, that'd be nice to know now too.

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Yeah probably!

Just a warning, I guess. What most people fail to reconcile when getting into NG2 is that taking damage is much more inevitable than you may be used to at high levels of play in the DMC games or even the first NG. NG2's more about skillful endurance than skillful perfection.

You take semi-permanent damage inside the space of a single encounter, and whatever you don't recover with blue essence (dropped by enemies) stays gone until the next save spot, which fully heals you the first time you interact with it. The pace is pretty heavily built around its save spots. The game's design choices are easier to understand when you think about it as minimizing mistakes instead of nullifying them entirely.

But yeah it's a pretty good game, particularly for ten dollars!

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I think the thing that makes NG2 a worthy buy in light of DMC3, particularly for SB tastes, is that all you really even do is kill massive quantities of regular dudes. There's no platforming or puzzling nonsense. It's just about the closest thing to the sensibilities of an NES game I've seen in a while, especially in terms of its level structure.

And while both games have some pretty ridiculous instances of getting its camera caught up on shit (particularly near the beginning in both games), at least NG2's is fully controllable. If you turn the camera speed all the way up, I find it fairly reasonable to keep track of with the right stick.

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I kinda don't even know anything about this game, but it's what I immediately thought of for some reason. Based on the footage, it seems about right!

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I forget--was it ever confirmed whether or not you still have to go through all that obnoxious bullshit to unlock the rest of the characters/colors/whatever in the new MvC2 port or is it all there from the start this time?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAUOCMzgNBs

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I've been having the same problem as Wall of Beef and patience in the face of loading is almost certainly not the issue.

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