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[PenPen]

Recommend some games that you enjoy playing that no one else seem to even know about here. Explain the reason why you like it and sell sell sell! (your idea, and not your game)

RIBBIT KING
Available for PS2 and GC

I bought this game after I saw a demo of it at the local Game Stop GC. I pretty much bought the game just because of the fact that the character design was pretty much that is very "me". The black alien in the game is very similar looking to my alien doodles. The price of the game was very low at 19.99 for a new one, so I bought it not knowing what I was investing my money into. After I started playing, I was totally hooked on it.

The game itself is a "FROLF" tournament all over the galaxy. So what is "FROLF," one might ask? It's a golf-like game but instead of hitting a golf ball with your club, you hit a mechanical apparatus that will make your frogs jump high when you hit it. (Similar to ones at the amusement park) Another big difference between these two "sports" is the frogs themselves. They are living creatures after all, so a fly may distract its course, they will swim in the pond and they also hop a few times even after they land. The course itself is very different from your conventional gold course as well. There are elephants, robots, smiling bubbles, snakes, presents, aliens, fishes, rainy clouds, thundering clouds, etc... They all either contribute positive or negative bonus points for each turn or they sometimes even alter the direction of where your frog is heading.

Each world has a different themed setting as well. There's the ice world, lava world, mechanical world, and so on. Each world has a different effect on how the frogs will act and what the strategy will be to win the rounds.

Ribbit King comes with a bonus disc that contains unlockable videos. In total, you will unlock 25+ characters and frogs, bottle caps, and these videos. You can also play the game again after you cleared it the first time which is a lot tougher. This second playthrough is not an exact replay, and contains a different storyline and characters. The courses are now in reverse direction as well.

I think you can find both version of the game around $12.99 now, so it's definitely a great investment.

[I<3Curly!]

*Cough!*

Yes! I know this thread is old but the topic attracted me like moths to a bug-zapper ( poor things... ;_; ). Anyway you probably heard this game before ever since its 'grand' media coverage a while ago, but somehow people look at me funny whenever I try to recommend it to them. I guess its my explanation of the game that puts people off. The game is Katamary Damacy. Yes! Its that one game that involves a weird little 'hammer' man, named 'The Prince' and not to be mistaken for the-Artist-Formally-Known-as-the-Prince, that rolls a Bumble Rumble ball for a living. The object of the game is to roll up, run over, a bunch of stuff on your Katamary ball so that you can replace it with a star that has mysteriously disappeared all thanks to your dad, the King of Cosmos.

It sounds simple enough to do but there is a catch. Everytime you are sent back to earth to create another Katamary masterpiece you start out really small, and when I mean really small, I mean 5 Centimeters small! To makes matters worse, your deadbeat of a father gives you a time limit on how large the Katamary ball is supposed to be! So not only do you start out small, but you also have a small chance of success because your given a rather small time to complete a satisfactory sized Katamary ball!

Nevertheless, the game has decent retro Super FX block graphics, and it has a great sound track that you can hum to while you're taking a shower. Best thing about it is that the game will only cost you $19.99. You just can't beat that price unless they were giving the game away for free!

[PenPen]

Oooh, another Katamari Damacy fan.

I translated an interview that was featured on Dengeki Online with the creator of Katamari Damacy a while back.

http://www.dreamsfro...terviews/kd.php

[I<3Curly!]

Oh! Oh! That's like so neat! Also since you're a fan, PenPen, have you ever tried playing the game with your toes? It isn't very difficult to do unless you need to jump around for a bit. XD

[PenPen]

Toes!

Hmm... Never thought of that before. I don't think I can control my toes well enough to accompolish it.

[Zonder]

Fire Emblem
Gamecube, GBA, DS

From what I hear the Fire Emblem games are pretty popular over in Japan, but here in the states they aren't so much. The first Fire Emblem game I played was Path of Radiance for Gamecube, and needless to say I was very impressed. The Fire Emblem series is a strategy RPG that progresses in a pretty linear fashion, but gameplay wise is very deep and varied. In Path of Radiance there isn't any travel-able world map to speak of (there is a world map, but its only purpose is to tell you where you are in the setting of the story), and you progess by chapters. Each chapter usually consists of story, followed by a battle, followed by more story. Sounds boring, but the story is interesting enough to keep my attention, and the battles are a LOT of fun. Fire Emblem was like a breath of fresh air for me, as I hadn't experienced a good strategy RPG at that point since Final Fantasy Tactics.

[rubyedd]

Shining Soul II

it's such a abandoned game. it needs more attention

[S. P. Gardebiter]

Shining Soul II

it's such a abandoned game. it needs more attention

I'm playing it

[D.Einder]

Pole Position, nuff said.