Are You Game? [Volume 8]

                                       

Volume 8: Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth

   Miles Edgeworth, doesn't that name just scream awesomeness. Well Shinx here and today we will be reviewing Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.This game is pretty damn awesome. Any person who plays Ace Attorney should definitely pick this game up. 

   You play as Miles Edgeworth as he tries to solve five investigations. The first one has you trying to find out who was responsible for the murder in your office. The second one has you on an airplane trying to investigate a murder. The third one has you trying to solve a kidnapping and a murder. As for the fourth and fifth ones, you go back in time and you witness arson. This is definitely a PW game.

    The game itself includes walking around, searching for clues, and interrogating potential suspects. The main part of the game involves you debating with another person over what is and what isn't, during which, you can press them for more answers and show them evidence which can break their logic. You have a health bar that goes down if you show a person wrong evidence or say something wrong. And when your life bar is empty the case ends and the truth is lost for eternity. You also gather logic throughout the game. Whenever you find something startling or out of place it goes into the logic section. There you connect two points of logic so it all makes sense. But if those points are wrong you lose health. You also have to gather evidence to break other peoples line of logic.

   Some of the debates you have with other people are pretty easy, but some are quite challenging. And color me retarded but i once was stuck on one debate until my whole health bar was depleted. I also like how bluntly the game ends once you lose your life bar. "And thus the truth was lost for eternity". That seems rather harsh, doesn't it? And this game, let alone the whole series, seems more fit to be an anime than an actual game.

   And with that all said it's time for a rating. It's a solid 8 out of 10. It's an all around good game but it's to short, and nothing seems to pop. And the games cut scenes are pretty long. Not Metal Gear Solid long, but pretty long. Not much to complain about, but it could've been better. And with that I shall end with a picture.

You might be asking, "Is this a man or a woman?" If you guessed woman, I have some bad news for you

                                                                 

                                                                         

Dragonite & Jirachi - Best Friends Forever

I thought I would mix things up a bit and post two pokemon moveset compilations at ounce, for the best team in pokemon history, Dragonite and Jirachi. They both cover eachother's weaknesses perfectly, and do an amazing job of taking hits in general. Quick sweepers like Jolteon can be a problem, so it is nice to have a special wall handy. Another thing that is so great about this duo, is that both Jirachi and Dragonite are incredibly adaptable. Your opponent will have no idea what to expect.










Paraflinch
Jirachi@leftovers
252 Atk/252 Hp/252 Def
Adamant Nature

-Thunder Wave
-Iron Head
-Fire Punch/Zen Headbutt
-Wish/Substitute

With paralysis and the 60% chance of flinch from Iron Head, the opponent has a whopping 30% chance to attack. Use this to annoy the opponent to death. I'm not fond of this set, but it does work.

Calm Mind
Jirachi@leftovers/life orb
252 SpA/168 Spe/88 Hp
Modest Nature

-Calm Mind
-Psychic
-Thunderbolt
-Wish/Hidden Power Ice

The EVs give you your best bet at outspeeding and 2HKOing standard stealth rock lead Heatran with Thunderbolt. With a life orb, you can be sure to beat Heatran. Watch out for scarfed or extra specially defensive variants.

Offensive Wish Support
Jirachi@Leftovers
252 Hp/164 SpD/92 Def
Calm Nature

-Wish
-Psychic
-Thunderbolt
-Protect

I love this set. It works very well on a team that requires a pokemon to set up wish, but not a pokemon to be a wall. Set up wishes for yourself and teammates, and if they switch into a counter that can't do more than 50% damage to you, just Wish-Protect until they either run of PP for the move that is super effective on you, or you get to an Hp level where you can safely attack.

Duel Screens
Jirachi@Leftovers
252 Hp/252 Spe/4 Def
Jolly Nature

-Light Screen
-Reflect
-Wish
-U-turn

Very simple. Set up screens. Prepare wish. Switch out. Benefits all types of teams.

Over 9,000! Week: Day 4

On Over 9,000 Day 4, we have a transcript of a fictional conversation between Mudkip and the other writers.

AIM - 5:00 PM

Mudkip: Yo Dragonite!

Dragonite: Hello.

Mudkip: So... I have no idea what to do for Day 4.

Dragonite: Don't ask me what to do.

Mudkip: PLEASE!!! I AM DESPERATE!!!

dragonite is offline

Mudkip: Shoot.

AIM- 5:15 PM

Mudkip: Hey Shinx!

Shinx: Wazzup?

Mudkip: Great job on the WiiSports review!

Shinx: Thanks, but more importantly... how did Dragonite like it?

Mudkip: Umm... Lemme put it this way

dragonite has entered the brawl chat

Dragonite: You don't have to: ill say it myself.

Shinx: Oh Shoot.

Dragonite: It Was-

shinx is offline

Dragonite- -great, and keep working on it.

Mudkip: Umm... he left.

dragonite is offline

Me: Oh gosh, I am screwed for this Day 4 thing.

xatu has entered the chat

Xatu: The End!

--Sorry for this day's thing, but tomorrow is the Day of the Dragonite, and for day 6 and 7 we'll be better. This is Mudkip saying

GOOD NIGHT!

Are You Game? [Volume 7]

On the 3rd day of Over 9,000 Week a Wee Shinx Gave to Me...

SCREW THIS LOGO

                                                                   Volume 7: Wii Sports

   So everyone it's Shinx, and today we'll be tackling one of my most hated games. Wii Sports. This game was packaged with the Wii when it first came out and still even today. But unlike Mario this is just an average game with not a lot special about it.

   Wii Sports is a composition of five sports minigames. Some are good and some are bad. My favorite one is tennis. It's easy, fun, and sometimes very competitive if playing with a friend. But you can't control the player as it automatically moves to where the ball lands.

   The bowling game is okay too. It's very simple and very easy and just about anyone can pick it up. But it can boring cause all you do is just fling your arm at the screen, well all of the games here require you to do that.

   All you do in the baseball minigame is just throw and swing. Hit detection is fairly well and way easy to get a home run. One complaint is that you can't control your outfield and the other team is batting. 

   Golf kind of sucks. And by "kind of" I mean a lot. You swing to light, it barely makes it, swing to hard and you overshoot it. There's a swing meter with a shaded area that shows how hard you're supposed to swing. But most of the time you overshoot it. This minigame is not a lot of fun. And as for the boxing one, get a copy of Punch Out or Fight Night and play those as opposed to boxing in this game.

    So that's all the games for Wii Sports. My personal rating will be a 6 out of 10. 3 out of the 5 games are good, but not great. The game is just a showcase for the Wii's motion control, which in itself is not much.

   

                                                                

Over 9,000! Week: Day 2

On the second day of 9k week, we talk about the video game that has the whole world talking.




Over 9,000 Week: Day 2


Professor Layton x Phoenix Wright 


Thats right. Today, the most AWESOME game was announced, a crossover between Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright. If you have never heard of these people than SHAME ON YOU.

This awesomeness level is OVER 9,000!

Over 9,000!

Thank You to our fabulous PGV (Soon to be a subdivision of NNN) Crew: Dragonite, Shinx, Blastoise, Xatu, and to all of you viewers who come back every day to see our blog. And, in celebration of today, I present to you...

DAY 1- OVER 9,000 WEEK

On the first day we analyze the root of over 9,000! Take a look:

Xatu's A History of Pokemon [VOLUME 1]

     

On August 28, 1965, a man named Satoshi Tajiri was born in Japan.  In his early years, Satoshi was very interested in insects.  He loved catching them and also figuring out new ways to catch them.  However, as with most places with trees, the parks he hunted in were demolished for construction.  Because Satoshi could no longer collect insects, Satoshi decided to create adventures in his own mind.  Around the same time, he also gained an interest in video games.  He, along with a couple of his friends, started a magazine dedicated to video games titled Game Freak.  The magazine turned into a video game developer that made all of the Pokemon games that you know of today.  Next week, I will tell you about some of those games and the Pokemon introduced in them.