I love Melia. Controlling Melia gives you so many battle possibilties. 

Also, having Melia, Fiora and Shulk in the party gives some great after- battle conversations. Just like Melia- Dunban- Riki. Great times. They also complement each other very well, which is nice!

Conegamer said: AndrewWK said: Conegamer said: AndrewWK said: Soriku said: AndrewWK said: There is such an emptiness since I finished this game. Damn you Nintendo why did it had to be so good . And there are no worthy replacements on the market right now :-/ Xenoblade is great but there's many good RPGs out there too. Persona 4 and TWEWY are quite as good (if not better in P4's case. Seriously you have to play it if you haven't.). Persona 3 FES is also good, so is Tales of the Abyss, Baten Kaitos Origins, SMT: Devil Summoner 2, SMT: Digital Devil Saga 1 and 2, SMT: Devil Survivor 1 and 2, etc. Never heard of the most games there, except Persona. But isn´t Persona a PS 2 game? and whats TWEWY and SMT? The World Ends With You (DS) and...I dunno. But Tales Of The Abyss (3DS/PS2) is AWESOME! As it Baten Kaitos, made by the same people   Also, though of re-playing it? Never, the last time I did this was with mass effect :/. Games like these are like a girl you really like and care about, but after you break up with them you start to bang other chicks and hookers frequently but you still can just think about this one girl. And replaying it would just stall you to get over it. Btw. You said once Dunban was the character who suffered most. Thats incorrect the poorest of all characters was Melia. She lost her father, lost her mothers, her brother, almost her whole kingdom had no real friends left and the person she loves doesn´t love her back. I din´t like her through the whole but I felt so sorry for her at the end . She deserves somebody to hug her and say: "Nah Nah" True. If I was Shulk, I'd choose Melia over Fiora. I just prefer Melia overall as a character.  I think she deserved it, and the game should have given you a choice. Melia may have lost her family and her friends, but at least they weren't trying to kill you, kill your sister and try to destroy the world, forcing you to kill them. And he wrecked his arm, having to watch Shulk be the hero he never could be. Every character, bar Riki, lost a lot in the game. I like that. And I suppose you're right about not replaying it. I enjoy re-doing games like this after a break for a while. Because the story still seems new, and you can do so much differently, you uncover new secrets each time. For example, this playthrough I'm liking Reyn a lot more than the first time. Who knows if this will continue...

I will replay it once thats for sure, just like I did with God of War and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, so it can feal fresh and you can enjoy it like it was new. Btw. you should get Castlevania if you have a PS3?

What did Fiora do to you? :-O she was always so lovely and lost her life and was a machine. You are right about Dunban but I think he was proud of Shulk and he was a part of the team that saved the world as much as shulk was, and he got his home and his sister back, he had a true happy end. I felt that everybody had a happy end except of Melia.

An you are it would be very cool if you could choose between them.

As far as people mentioning "The World Ends With You" any fan of RPGs should play that game. Criminally under appreciated, that. No other game like it really, the control two people at once aspect seems dumb and clumsy until you master passing the puck, then it all makes sense and you start to run train on bad guys.

Right now I just fought "Metal Face" on the mountain, found out that he is someone familiar (though I guessed it since it was heavily hinted at on Prison Island), and met Gold Face for the first time. You guys were right, this game's story does really pick up as it goes along.

Conegamer said: gumby_trucker said: man... I find myself thinking about this game more often these past few weeks, wishing I had more time to play it Well, why not just play it?

ahhh... to be young again

Perhaps it's not criminally underappreciated, but it deserves far more than what it got. I know the cameo in DDD, but that means nothing in the long run. 

Just like with ICO. Everyone seems to love it online, but you talk to your friends and you'll find that, actually, fairly few people have actually played it. It deserves more. Some with TWEWY, and even Xenoblade to an extent, despite the Operation Rainfall.

I mean, it sold 650k, which is good, but from the way everyone calls it the best game on DS, you'd expect it'd have sold more...

It is definitely criminally underappreciated.  It never even sold over a million units, and the deep, very interesting combat system deserved to be experienced by millions, not just a few hundred thousand.  That's without even touching on the story, which started out with an extremely stereotypical disengaged teen protagonist but got so damned good and interesting as the game went on.  This was Square-Enix's answer to people's charges that they didn't inovate anymore, and it got the sales numbers to convince them not to try it again.   Unfortunately, the RPG audience was split fairly evenly across DS and PSP (in that gen), so this is a condition that lots of games found themselves in.  The other problem with TWEWY is that it is so deeply ingrained in the DS architecture that it doesn't really lend itself to emulation, without a duel screen set up with a touch screen, DS games really just don't play right.  

I really like the Day/Night cycle of this game.  Monolith Soft really stepped it up and made a world that feels like it is alive.  There are tons of HD games that may have higher poly counts and better resolution, but very few come close to touching the art style of this game.  Loving every minute of it.  Tonight I am planning on drowning my sports sorrows in 4-5 hours of Heroponning. 

I suppose so. The game will be considered a success, even if it deserves more sales.

True about the emulation thing. Though, I'm not sure it'd really hold people back who want to play it...

Also, I too enjoy the day/night stuff. Especially in areas like Fallen and Bionis' Leg, and of course the drastic changes to Satorl and Valak. Makes it more alive IMO.

In that time you'll probably get the 7th character, or will just about to. She's very good! But requires much customisation to suit your playstyle. Experimentation is key here.