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Hatena Satena (GBA) Hatena Satena is a puzzle game best described as a mix of Picross and Minesweeper. You have different size grids, and you reveal a picture using the available colours. You will also receive a number which will gives you a clue how many of the same colour are around the one you just placed. Added to the pressure is a time limit and a life bar. This simple puzzler gets addictive, and I enjoyed chipping away at a puzzle or two every night. This was an exclusive for the GBA in Japan. I’m not sure why it never made it to the West, but it is a pretty decent puzzle game that probably should have. The art style is nice and colourful and the music is catchy and never distracting (an important thing with puzzle games). It does fall short in some areas unfortunately. The pictures aren’t very interesting or at times don’t really look like the final object they are meant to be (there’s definitely a stretch of the imagination on some of them). The core game revolves around four stories and each story has a set of puzzles to complete over different sized grids. Unfortunately, the core gameplay never changes things around except for the grid sizes so it really does start to drag towards the end and eventually the game overstays its welcome. I think with a few tweaks this could have been an even better puzzle game. It’s still worth a play if you’re into puzzle games, you may find yourself getting addicted to the simple nature of the game. 7/10
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Movie selection format
Brickman replied to G-type's topic in B-Movie Club's What Movies Will We Watch
I’d like to see some sort of rotation, although it doesn’t have to be exactly like I said. You’ve raised some good ideas too so any variation of those would be good. I just figured with such a small group that it would be good to get a good variety of people’s tastes. I agree that if you put a movie up for nomination and it gets selected you have to have a small intro about it and maybe some facts about it if you know any or do some quick googling. -
May movie nominations
Brickman replied to G-type's topic in B-Movie Club's What Movies Will We Watch
Faster Pussycat KILL KILL! is my recommendation. Should we make a rule that once you get a movie selection you have to wait until everyone has a go? That way we can get a good spread of movies and everyone feels included. -
Yes this is 100% a perfect summary of one of the main reasons the Japanese (and a lot of other foreign languages) do it. It’s seen as interesting, cool, smart, in fashion or whatever other adjective you want to use. It’s funny that you mention about Taiwanese throwing in English words or speaking English when they notice a foreigner is near them. This exact same thing happens in South America. I’ve walked around rural areas where they’re speaking Spanish but then they’ll see me who is as pale and white and they come with my South American wife and they’ll instantly start throwing in English words while looking my way. My wife says it is very common for South Americans to do that when they see English speaking foreigners. So it’s interesting to hear the same happens in Taiwan. Language is such a fascinating thing and I wish I had the time to study linguistics like yourself. For now, studying Japanese keeps me busy enough though
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As we slowly march towards games being made more in the 21st century vs the 20th century more and more games from the 21st century are starting to earn the title of being an influential game. Which game do you think is the most important of the 21st century (Jan 1st 2001 onwards) so far? For me it probably would have to be GTAIII, that game has had a huge impact on current games and it expanded on the open world nature of gaming.
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Oh yeah if you work in tech you will spend the whole series relating somehow. Especially if you worked in Silicon Valley or deal with companies/work for companies that do.
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AFA/VGA Population Reports Coming
Brickman replied to Gulag Joe's topic in Sealed & Graded Collecting
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In what way? Loved that show, not many like it get released.
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US Xbox Collecting Lists and Information
Brickman replied to DefaultGen's topic in Collecting Guides
Best list I’ve seen. The guy who wrote it has a full US set as well: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XvrA3ewQkJ06AW3_stzOrTW5NvZecVc2acQHcPSYD7U/htmlview -
Only 5 More Games to Complete your Collection
Brickman replied to T-Pac's topic in General Collecting Discussion
I am talking about the normal NWC not the gold. The gold doesn’t have the same meaning as the grey because it wasn’t used in the actual competition so I can see why it wouldn’t be in a museum. I’ve been to a couple of gaming museums but they were in Europe. They didn’t have a NWC but they did have some rare items there. -
Only 5 More Games to Complete your Collection
Brickman replied to T-Pac's topic in General Collecting Discussion
I hadn’t heard of this one but it sounds epic. Although the article I read said the competition never finished and some of the prizes have an unknown location. I’m sure Atari nuts would be all over it if they ever did finish it and had a significant prize to show for it. -
Only 5 More Games to Complete your Collection
Brickman replied to T-Pac's topic in General Collecting Discussion
It’s because it was an absolutely huge video game event that very rarely happens and especially not of that size. I don’t even live in America but nothing like that would ever happen here. It also happened on Nintendo’s first console which adds to the historical significance. Zoom out 50 years from now. Hardly anyone is going to even care about most of the NES library, but sitting in gaming museums will definitely be a NWC telling the history of a huge gaming event. This is why people value it so highly. Which other events have been as big and significant as NWC? I know of the Famicom one thanks to defaultgen but I’m not aware of anything quite as huge as NWC or the Famicom competition. Especially in the early days of gaming. Also, it’s good to question people about why they think a certain way. It creates discussion. You don’t have to agree but at least we can have a friendly back and forth -
Only 5 More Games to Complete your Collection
Brickman replied to T-Pac's topic in General Collecting Discussion
I think the NWC is interesting because it’s a piece of video game history. It’s literally something that should be in a video game museum. Although I personally only think Thor’s NWC is worth having because he was the winner. Retail games don’t have the same feeling to them. -
What are your thoughts on it? I’ve been picking up Japanese 360 games for super cheap and they got a couple of the GH games in Japan. I only played 1 and 2 so was interested to maybe check this one out too.
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10. Played it this year for my backlog so I won’t repeat myself. A must play for RTS fans who haven’t played it.