The 3DS Thread - The Bear and Badger

mistercrayon

it is that game. It's a decent rhythm game.

AJ

One button, is it?

Since it's open in another tab, here's the link for anyone that wants it:
https://my.nintendo.com/news/441d318c0da95cac

Current games all look fairly decent, if they're your kind of thing:
Mighty Switch Force 2 (50 Gold Points)
Noitu Love: Devolution (90 Gold Points)
Severed (150 Gold Points)
Radiohammer (55 Gold Points)

mistercrayon

it's three (at least on level 1) because you have to manage the beat accross two lanes and sometimes get a bonus behind you.

AJ

Guess you can't go wrong for 70p. I'll grab it tomorrow, if I remember.

Thanks for the heads up about the promo, I'll be keeping an eye on that in the future.

Skondo

Luigi's Mansion up for pre-order at the Nintendo be Store. Standard version, or for an extra £5.00 you can have a Luigi cap or Boo light.

Raiziel

I hovered between the game on its own and the lamp bundle last night, ended up not going either way. I can see me crumbling at some point though. I adore Luigi’s Mansion. I can probably do without the lamp.

AJ

If it's the same lamps they usually give away, they're meant to be pretty shit.

Wookienopants

AJ wrote:

If it's the same lamps they usually give away, they're meant to be pretty shit.

Thanks for shedding some light on their quality.

Blue Swirl

Boo.

mistercrayon

Re: bravely.

I find a fair amount of this game really really tedious. In order to build up fight experience to charge specials for a boss fight I find myself beedling around for mobs. Even with max encounter, auto fight and low level dudes I’m spending ages to get prepped for the boss fight.

It’s annoying because I just want to move on with the story but this bit is just kind of dangling before the story and is taking way longer than it needs to be.

And the random streak breaking for the job points bonus can do one.

Nina

At some point (think in chapter 5) I just went for it and grinded all characters to max level and all jobs to max. Put on a Twitch stream and it isn't too bad. Search for "grind in chapter 5" and there are some setups that make it fairly painless.

Chapters after that have been easy enough, and I could focus on the crazy ride the story provides. No need for small mob fights anymore, just do whatever is actually marked on the map. Still need to finish it though, don't get that much time now my mom's here.

And sorry about the spoilers earlier, I thought I only mentioned stuff that was outside spoiler tags in the BD thread, but I guess that doesn't get that many readers.

mistercrayon

Ah it’s fine. It’s kind of fun actually to kind of see how the character shows enthusiasm.

I’ve been playing chapter five, mostly in a clearing blue dots but I’m avoiding fighting mobs.

hylian_elf

I was just doing some cleaning up in the room today. Decided to put old handhelds in the loft. I was so surprised to find that despite not switching it on in years, my DS Lite has power! Showed as full battery but not sure how reliable that is. One of my 3DSes has power too and not used it in years.

tigersgogrrr

Heh, I was doing the same recently and found my DS Lite still charged and working a charm. Phenomenal system.

EvilRedEye

It's nuts how old this stuff is now. DS Lite is over 10 years old! I remember when it was all shiny and new...

Ed_Flanders

and no regional lock... that's the main reason why I haven't bought a 3ds.

Blue Swirl

Region locking on the 3DS was a curious move.

mistercrayon

So some bravely chat here:

I got to one of the last bosses

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and I died. And then I thought: fuck this shit you’re conning me with your mechanisms. I built a character and system that builds power over time and you plonk me back to square one when you feel like? Boo to the hiss. Is my only recourse now to cheat by w stealing a strategy that regularly 9999s a baddie? How am I supposed to know where this strategy is (you know there must be one because the game goes: hey are you regularly hitting 9999 damage? [answer no] THEN TRY this for more!!)

There’s a fair bit to be said about bravely/default’s battle mechanic and its relationship to future time but in the envelope of how the game just eats and eats and eats at your time with the same shit over and over again. The clever yak reading of this is that it feels like they had a

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.

There are some nice twists though re: friends (although it’s an illusion that is easy to see through- maybe if the game was shorter and had some kind of procedural engine for each game).

And so I checked out, perhaps as it was going to get interesting, but the game really cashed in a lot of its patience points. Look if you’re gonna plonk a whole bunch of tedium in dont fucking book end that shit with a wall eh?

acemuzzy

Oh dear

It's not a 100h game though. And you're right at the end. And you can just scrub some stuff to do the bosses easy peasy.

mistercrayon

Yeah the thing is...

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acemuzzy

Aha yeah lol I got kinda stuck there. You can grind below decks. But it's not a great spot.

Nina

So I'm back on Bravely's Bullshit, still enjoying it but taking chapter 8 slowly as it can be pretty exhausting. Fights so far have been close enough that I can't just go auto mode and watch Twitch.

One thing I'm scared about (guess second half of chapter 8 questions, I've cleared 3 blue dots and 2 yellow dots on the map so far)

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And another thing, I went through the BD thread for chapter 8 setups, and there was some talk about an optional

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Worth looking into that if I get to that point?

acemuzzy

I think I started skipping some shit at that point

Nina

Part of me feels like that, other part of me can't put the game down.

Did a blue and yellow dot this morning, thinking I'd do the other one tomorrow, but I was back on it tonight.

Had trouble with the

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but just looked up an interesting sounding team on gamefaqs and went with that. Was a pretty awesome team and some combo's I didn't think of myself. Best one was a Ninja - Pirate. Use the free lunch from the Ninja to do that Amped Strike twice in a row (costs 248mp without free lunch). That was fun. Guess I'm gonna look up a new team for the next battle, just to see what other stuff people have thought of that I'm just not smart enough for to figure out on my own (and honestly, I don't want to spend the time doing that).

Nina

Ok, everything cleared, on my way to the end game I think. I don't know why I'm still playing a game that's actually calling me a fool for doing so, but here I am. Just doing whatever the game tells me to.

I'm even gonna peak into the (end of chapter 8 spoilers)

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I've just been following a guide for the last part. It's relatively spoiler free, will of course mention the bosses but I knew them already. It's mainly tips for team set ups, I've cheesed through a big part of chapter 8. The mechanics are really good, just reading about strategies other people have used shows you quite a few ways of beating certain enemies. That's pretty ace.

3DS is on charge, hopefully have it finished some time tomorrow. It's been a great ride and there's so much going on, but I must admit I'm glad when it's over.

acemuzzy

Ninja-Pirate was I think my go-to

Blue Swirl

Dammit, people. Who was it who originally mentioned that you can get Luigi's Mansion via Nintendo.co.uk, and it comes with a hat* or lamp? Cos now I've ventured into the rest of the website, and you get all sorts of ~~collectibles~~ tat with games if bought directly from Nintendo. I especially want Captain Toad for Switch or 3DS as you get super cool** Toad and Toadette badges. WHAT HAVE YOU GUYS DONE TO ME AND MY WALLET.

*Which I thought was about three inches across, but no, it's an actual adult size hat. I COULD WEAR IT WHEN I GO FOR A RUN.

**Once again proving cool is relative and that I probably need to get out more.

retroking1981

I'm gonna guess reg or elf

Blue Swirl

FUCK THOSE GUYS

Raiziel

Careful now, Swirly. It’s a slippery slope.

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