PM series? For the story, exploration, humor, bossfights. Train chapter in TTYD was the best with almost no fights.

You know that having a good writing is different from having a good story and characters, right?

It´s a good game, but Nintendo launched it with no advertsiment at all. I bet many WiiU owners don´t even know about its existence......

I don't really know if it's doable tbh. I ran into some trouble because of my low ink, and I actually spent some time battling. I guess you can beat the game that way, but it would probably make it really challenging. So the more you fight, the easy it gets. That's actually "leveling up". I still dislike it for a number of reasons and prefer a more traditional one, that's for sure. It's an improvement, but I'd prefer that they get rid of it ASAP.

I'd say that the game is actually puzzle-based, so it's interesting just because of puzzle-solving and writing. That's where the gameplay is focused, battling is secondary. The game starts more battle-based, but it shines when it's focused on puzzle solving, so I'd say that there's definitely gameplay involved.

Colour Splash is a very good game. I wonder how many people bashing it have actually played it. Its my 2nd favourite in the series behind Thousand year door. The writing and presentation are top notch.

I should've  put *story then.

But but every Nintendo game is amazing quality + sells mill of copies quz it's "Nintendo"

You know some games grind works just fine, and can be rewarding enough... hell some games even the grind can be challengeing enough.

Like in FF11 (the mmo).

Alone you could maybe do 2k-3k exp pr hour solo.... but in a party you could do 20k experiance points pr hour.

But for a party to work,  you needed to keep optimal gear for your level range (which ment grinding for gold, to buy items), and it required medicines/sneak oils/invisibility powders/food buffs/ninja tools/juice buffs ect (which also ment grinding for gold).

So you had to make up if you wanted to solo, go slow, use what you found via random drops fighting trash mobs.

Or if you would grind for gold, use gold to be in party, and level faster that way (finding a party could take time too).

And you know what? that party based leveling system was a million times more rewarding than solo questing for xp in World of Warcraft.

The world felt alive, and it was a "real" mmo, you depended on others working together to get just about anything done in it, and the experiance was all the better for it. Fighting monsters that where way above your level, as a party, even just getting to the best EXP area's could be risky and tough... it made exploration fun.

That XP based party grind to level up, was much more fun than quests in WoW.

Grind mobs > silly quests.

Well, because other people say that, doesn't mean it is true. I enjoyed the battle system, as there felt to be a bit of a puzzle element to it, rather than just choosing your attack and just.... doing it. I'd say it's more interesting than some of the standard RPGs out there. There are some of those things in CS in a sense. Being able to get enemy cards is in a sense like having partners, and since there are many types of those, there are some great situational moments for some of the enemy cards. Shell enemies can attack multiple enemies on the ground, spiked enemies can't be jumped on, and the shy bandit is great for collecting enemy cards you don't have. Plus, they stick around as long as possible, until they're knocked out by enemies. Battles are interesting in that there is a lot of experimentation in it. When you get deeper into the game, you can use multiple cards, and enemies are arranged in a certain order, which makes choosing your cards and in what order to use them more interesting. It def gives a new twist to the standard battle system. Also, there are a variety of moves and improvable stats as well. They're just not done in a traditional sense. There is no new gear, but really, that's not really needed. CS does an excellent job pacing itself, coming down to not how high leveled you are, but how skilled you are.

I'm shocked.