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| ZamIAm 755th Post
 
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|  "Nintendo Cube Club Impressions"
, posted Tue 12 Nov 18:30
Saturday I went to the Nintendo Cube Club that stopped in town. There were a few different games there with a mix of new and already released. The atmosphere was nice and they had free Snapple and preview DVDs. The first half of the day was family friendly so the M rated games were put up until later. On to the goodies:
1080 AVALANCHE
Just a demo and not the full game (which won't be out until 2003). Keeps the legacy of 1080 Snowboarding but Avalanche has the obviously prettier graphics. Unfortunately, it seemed somewhat grainy in resolution. Decent level design and trick setup is similar but there are two trick buttons now and a sort of stabilizer for when you land unevenly. Lean the control stick to balance as this circle symbol shows you which direction you need to lean to keep from tumbling over. I'm slowly starting to build a love-hate relationship with the GC controller. I want to get more used to it--I want to hurl it across the room from agitation (and no, throwing it won't actually break it).
METROID PRIME
Pretty! Nice control! Charged shots look like they warp the air around them! It has Samus! First Person Shooter! Not a bad game but as you can tell, I didn't play much.
GODZILLA: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! MELEE
Most of my time was devoted this game. A fighting game in a loose party game/Power Stone feel. Controls included Punch, Kick, a "Fierce" attack, Block, Jump, and a "Special" button. Special is mainly for your projectiles but a few extra moves use it. Grabs are performed by pressing punch and kick at the same time and can be used to carry your opponent until you decide to throw them or use various grabs ranging from simple to over the top. You can also lift damaged buildings, ships, and other objects in the 3D arenas to throw. Certain specials and carrying your opponent for too long will tire out your monster. There are powerups that are activated simply by touching them. One of them is Mothra (who I wish was playable). The levels are limited to forcefield that damage those who touch it and can actually setup juggle combos.
The game sports several modes including a 4 player battle and a adventure mode. Adventure=Story. A rather hilarious/cheesy/lame (pick one) set of movie sequences have aliens talking about taking over the Earth and putting the monsters under mind control because "It's what we do." Pick a monster and go off on the others. This mode is harder than it seems and you've got limited lives. Cool as it is, it presents one pet peeve: you have to do Adventure mode to unlock monsters and cities and you only get only 3 monsters at the start of the game. Time for the individual monsters...
Godzilla 90's
The one we all know and love and the Ryu of this game. His one asset is his range (breath and fierce tail attacks). If you tap his special you get a mini fireball with very fast recovery.
Godzilla 2000
The "new" design from the Godzilla 2000 movie. Basically Ken/Akuma for our Ryu. First unlocked character.
Angirus
Somewhat fast. His walk is a low crawl that can dodge most projectiles (coughtwelvecough). Limited range and low damage on his breath but it dizzies the opponent. Opponents who hit you in the back get injured by the spikes.
Megalon
Limited gliding in the air. Can dig underground and chase opponent. Completely immune until you come up but you are tired if you stay under too long.
King Ghidorah
Only played against and not as. Can fly and has a few ranged moves but somewhat laggy monster. His tactics get irritating but his better attacks and his flying are easily countered by hurling an object at him.
Mecha King Ghidorah
Only played against and not as. Another EX. Has limited usage homing missles.
Rodan
Only played against and not as. Fast, can fly, and has deceptively long range all spell for a headache. Hurling objects is good if he's airborne but unlike the Ghidorahs, his size and speed allow him to dodge easier. Luckily, he is balanced out by having low defense.
Gigan
Only played against and not as. Seemingly average but he has a teleport.
Destroyah
Only played against and not as. Slow heavy hitter. Despite having a projectile, his gameplay revolves more around pressure attacks involving his lightsabre style horn. Absolute murder on grounded opponents.
Mecha Godzilla
Only played against and not as. Unique play with homing missles, beams, combos, and charging attacks. A good character but with his own brand of quirks.
MORTAL KOMBAT: DEADLY ALLIANCE
Maybe it was not as good as VF4 Evo since MKDA had oddly floaty jumps and semi choppy moves in comparison, but it's better than I'm describing and a phenominally GOOD game for this to be Mortal Kombat. Warning: If you are diehard against this game in the gameplay consideration (as in, the game has to be 100% liquid smooth animation with perfectly accurate to real life physics) you might as well stop reading here. To everyone else: I was surprised. Though I would normally say MK is "Krappy", I'll say that the game is fun despite its flaws. I will complain that it seemed to sport Avalanche's grainy res (yet, Prime and Gozillaaaaaa! didn't). Otherwise it did look decently nice. Maybe not the same as Soul Calibur II, but still nice. Most noteworthy are the fact that Sub Zero's breath had a continual frost effect and attacks that lit up (namely projectiles) would reflect light off of the user and receiver of the attack. The game sports 2 Punches, 2 Kicks, Block, Special (really just another normal attack), and the famed stance switch button which really does work on the fly but is not instantaneous. This is most noticable when going from open handed stances to weapons mode. You physically pull the weapon out, put it up, or change to a different stance meaning you should only do this when it is safe or you are in mid combo. You can, however, switch as the round starts up. The game has simple 2-3 hit button mash combos and long pro style injury fests. The longer combos actually do take work to pull off though it seemed like a few people were getting good at it. There are grabs but I don't know how they are done. I started out with a character that I didn't pick but eventual I got to play a few of my own choice before leaving.
Sub Zero
At this point I was getting beat down so I sould see only so much but he has his trademark freezing abilities. His sword can actually be impaled in his opponent's chest for the rest of the round.
Scorpion
Seems to have a bit of a range game with his spear and a close range fire explosion (Inferno). He also has an inflamed flash kick. Rather slow but one of the most visually impressive moves I saw.
Johnny Cage
So far, the only person with the infamous MK uppercut. Even then, it is different than it used to be by having a built in ducking dodge giving it good avoidance abilities though it suffers from horrible recovery. Also had an extremely basic projectile and a forward slide kick.
The roster showed about 15 characters playable from the start and about another 15 hidden. I just remembered, unless it is in the options menu, you can't use the control stick, only the D pad.
--I played Mortal Kombat longer than Metroid. I feel so dirty now.
NEVER SPEAK TO ANYONE.
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| RugalBernstein 2824th Post
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| "Re(1):Nintendo Cube Club Impressions" , posted Tue 12 Nov 18:38
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GODZILLA: DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! MELEE
Most of my time was devoted this game. A fighting game in a loose party game/Power Stone feel. Controls included Punch, Kick, a "Fierce" attack, Block, Jump, and a "Special" button. Special is mainly for your projectiles but a few extra moves use it. Grabs are performed by pressing punch and kick at the same time and can be used to carry your opponent until you decide to throw them or use various grabs ranging from simple to over the top. You can also lift damaged buildings, ships, and other objects in the 3D arenas to throw. Certain specials and carrying your opponent for too long will tire out your monster. There are powerups that are activated simply by touching them. One of them is Mothra (who I wish was playable). The levels are limited to forcefield that damage those who touch it and can actually setup juggle combos.
The game sports several modes including a 4 player battle and a adventure mode. Adventure=Story. A rather hilarious/cheesy/lame (pick one) set of movie sequences have aliens talking about taking over the Earth and putting the monsters under mind control because "It's what we do." Pick a monster and go off on the others. This mode is harder than it seems and you've got limited lives. Cool as it is, it presents one pet peeve: you have to do Adventure mode to unlock monsters and cities and you only get only 3 monsters at the start of the game. Time for the individual monsters...
Godzilla 90's
The one we all know and love and the Ryu of this game. His one asset is his range (breath and fierce tail attacks). If you tap his special you get a mini fireball with very fast recovery.
Godzilla 2000
The "new" design from the Godzilla 2000 movie. Basically Ken/Akuma for our Ryu. First unlocked character.
Angirus
Somewhat fast. His walk is a low crawl that can dodge most projectiles (coughtwelvecough). Limited range and low damage on his breath but it dizzies the opponent. Opponents who hit you in the back get injured by the spikes.
Megalon
Limited gliding in the air. Can dig underground and chase opponent. Completely immune until you come up but you are tired if you stay under too long.
King Ghidorah
Only played against and not as. Can fly and has a few ranged moves but somewhat laggy monster. His tactics get irritating but his better attacks and his flying are easily countered by hurling an object at him.
Mecha King Ghidorah
Only played against and not as. Another EX. Has limited usage homing missles.
Rodan
Only played against and not as. Fast, can fly, and has deceptively long range all spell for a headache. Hurling objects is good if he's airborne but unlike the Ghidorahs, his size and speed allow him to dodge easier. Luckily, he is balanced out by having low defense.
Gigan
Only played against and not as. Seemingly average but he has a teleport.
Destroyah
Only played against and not as. Slow heavy hitter. Despite having a projectile, his gameplay revolves more around pressure attacks involving his lightsabre style horn. Absolute murder on grounded opponents.
Mecha Godzilla
Only played against and not as. Unique play with homing missles, beams, combos, and charging attacks. A good character but with his own brand of quirks.
Bwa ha ha!! Awesome. I'm astonished Mothra isn't in it; Anyway, about Megalon, are his hands still drills, and can he shoot electricity from his horn? And how about Gigan, he still have a buzzsaw in his stomach? ^_^ Or are these not clear yet?
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