Everybody, even the Washington Post, likes Brawl. There's a good chance that even your girlfriend likes Brawl, because it's just so easy to pick up and play.
So how are the character tiers shaking down in your homes? Who are the favorites and the anti-characters? Where I am, Samus and Zelda are frequently treated as "too good" characters; being able to effectively swap movesets mid-combat between their two forms seems to dominate the game. No one's really trying anti-character stunts yet, but Metaknight is pretty popular when desperation sets in.
I'm especially wondering if you're noticing any characters handle SSE's platforming sequences better than others. Right now Kirby seems to have an easier time ferreting everything out of a stage than anyone else. Which makes sense--a lot of the SSE level design is very similar to a Kirby game, and just runs into the problem of most characters not being Kirby.
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
When we left Our Hero, he was dead in a ditch. The magic of roguelikes is that you immediately get better and get to have a second go at it from the start.
Things have gone pretty well since my last crawl. I've been able to advance some NPC quests, gathered up some decent gear, and had better luck. So, I've passed the Mountain Stream area that killed me next time, and gotten into Mystery Dungeon's next town.
Now, you may think "Ah, this is where she will save her progress, so now she can start over in this town," and you are completely wrong. The towns are basically just waystations, and I'll have to claw my way back here upon death.
Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
I love Shiren the Wanderer DS. I'm not especially good at it, yet, but I also never played the popular fan-translation of the SNES version. If you want to read Shiren diaries written by a more advanced player for the SNES version, go here. Just bear in mind that some of the SNES tricks don't work now.
What I want to demonstrate here is Shiren's amazing depth. This is a game I expect to be playing, off and on, for the next year or two before I "beat" it, insofar as beating Shiren is possible. So I'm just going to recount what I do and accomplish on a single Shiren the Wanderer DS run, and ramble a bit about the game mechanics as I go.
While I have a DS screencap unit, it, uh, dislikes retail carts, so I do not have screencaps for you fine people. Sorry! When I do my inevitable Baroque diaries, I should be able to take actual screens.
Anyway, let's get started...
Mysterious Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
I like to keep the pulse of our... howevermany readers we have. I'm pretty sure it's at least a dozen, possibly more. So if you're out there, chime in and let me know what Nintendo you're going to be playing to help usher out 2007 and bring in 2008?
Over here it's probably going to be playing catch-up on Super Mario Galaxy and spending more time with that copy of NiGHTs I got over the weekend. I've also got Tales of Symphonia to start, Shining Force to finish, and some imports I'm working on some nice detailed reviews of for all you happy people. I'm actually not playing much DS lately at all, and I'm not sure why, but I do want to finish off Orcs and Elves so I can post my post-mortem of it.
But enough about me-- what about you?
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