Creepy Pokemon Story

Here's something nice for Halloween! Not so long ago tinycartridge.com posted a creepy pokemon story on their blog which you can read in its entirety here:

http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack

This story inspired some Nintendo DS programmers to make a visual novel out of it. Tinycartridge.com also posted about it here:

http://tinycartridge.com/post/988304533/super-creepy-pokemon-hack-turned-into-a-homebrew-visual

If you have a chance to play this on a Nintendo DS I recommend you do. It's a very nice Halloween treat! Enjoy!

Donkey Kong Country Returns promises challenge

The general impression from those who have played DKCR at press events and such have found that it provides a good challenge. This is in stark contrast to the other new game that has people excited, Kirby's Epic Yarn.

The DKC games were certainly challenging in a decent way so this sounds like it could be on par with them. This is something else that is making fans happy and excited!

Brand new Donkey Kong Country Returns trailer released!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjwPYj-HQHY

Enjoy!

Map of Earthbound Zero's Duncan's Factory

Duncan's Factory is without doubt one of the horriblest dungeons I've ever come across in an RPG. It's very easy to get lost in and trying to draw my own map of the area proved disastrous. Finding this map on rpgclassics.com was a godsend! If you ever intend of playing Earthbound Zero, please use this map!

Other stuff about that Kirby's Epic Yarn Iwata Asks feature

I mentioned before on how someone from Good Feel helped make Kirby's Epic Yarn turn out the way it did and now I just read the HAL Lab staff's side of it and about their collaboration. They were really happy to work on the game and glad to see Kirby in a different style. There's even a little clip of one of them playing the new rendition of the classic Green Greens level theme from Kirby's Dream Land on a weird little air piano thing.

Today I completed Dragon Quest IX

Just a few moments ago I finished DQIX's main story. There's a lot to do in the game with the list of sidequests and everything but I just concentrated on the following the plot to the end. My playthrough took up to 35 hours. I'm curious about the extra scene that appears after the credits so I'll go check that out. I can concentrate on sidequests now if I like even though I have the main story completed.

This game is marketed and promoted for a lot of things including multiplayer, sidequests, the downloadable stuff and the tag mode but it's still just as solid and straightforward a DQ adventure for a single player as the previous ones in the series are and just as satisfying as a regular DQ game.

It's true you can play this game as deeply as you like and I'm glad I don't have to connect online a single time or go travel overseas to the UK to a promotional event(like the one I posted about yesterday) to experience the game in a different way if I don't want to!

Dragon Quest IX events in the UK

I got an email from Nintendo recently talking about Dragon Quest IX events that are taking place in the UK. I like the game myself but this event is of no interest to me really since I live in Ireland. But hey, you guys have a look.

They're also giving away a special figurine if you show up with three friends. I wonder if there are many fans of this game over here who personally know three other people who are also fans?