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  • roz123 22 Feb 2012 16:00:08 6,708 posts
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    Its a new Nintendo IP on eShop £9.




    Its a tower defense game with action elements where you build during the day and defend at night. No reviews yet.
  • roz123 22 Feb 2012 18:52:13 6,708 posts
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    http://kotaku.com/5887346/nintendos-new-3ds-western-is-cool-and-worth-playing-except-for-one-thing/
    Good game but might cause issues for lefties. Article includes a video of the game in action
  • Raiko101 22 Feb 2012 18:56:32 4,056 posts
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    £9? Wow. I wasn't expecting that. How much was Pullblox again?

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  • DFawkes 22 Feb 2012 19:48:47 19,589 posts
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    I've been generally positive on eShop prices even when others have felt stuff was expensive, but £9 is way out of my impulse buy territory.

    I still might consider it, but as considered purchase. I don't even have Pullblox yet so would certainly get that first.

    Apart from that, it looks quite good. I do love a nice tower defence game, and I quite like the visual style.

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  • Raiko101 22 Feb 2012 20:09:12 4,056 posts
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    I still think it's been developed out of the ashes of a rejected Zelda game. Maybe a Zelda spin-off or something. The character sounds just like link and the artwork wreaks of the Wind Waker/Phatom Hourglass era.

    I'm not going to say that £9 is too much, just yet. I'd have happily paid that for Zen Pinball, considering how many hours i've got out of it. Will be waiting on the reviews though!

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  • roz123 22 Feb 2012 20:34:59 6,708 posts
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    Yeah I think the devs who made this have done some Tingle games on the DS. £9 is more then usual but it might be value for money, gonna wait for reviews though as it looks like a bit of hard work building defences
  • acousticwilliam 24 Feb 2012 11:24:28 682 posts
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    Played this for a couple of hours, love it. Extremely high production values and really fresh gameplay. Worth the £9 easily.

    @Raiko101 I know exactly what you mean about the Zelda parts, but that's a good thing, right? A nod to another franchise, great character art direction.
  • Raiko101 24 Feb 2012 12:14:30 4,056 posts
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    Oh yeah. I wasn't trying to knock the game. I do wonder how old the project is though, and if it would ever have come to exist like this had it not been for the eShop. I am quite tempted to pick this up, but i've still got a great number of games sitting around at the minute.

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  • roz123 28 Feb 2012 09:19:19 6,708 posts
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    Some more reviews coming in and it still seems a bit marmite
    1up: Best 3DSware game yet A-

    Metro: High production but slow, frustrating and not fun. 4/10

    It also got an IGN 8.0 and an official nintendo mag 87%

    It sounds like some people are finding it a pain as the game doesn't have a tutorial like most do these days and even the manual doesn't tell you everything, others enjoy finding stuff out for themselves.
  • lucky_jim 28 Feb 2012 11:24:54 4,920 posts
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    I don't even acknowledge the likes of Metro as review sources, they never know what they're talking about. I remember the time the Standard slated Link to the Past for the GBA for having too much writing. I already knew that mainstream media coverage of games was totally clueless, but that made my mind up to not even bother reading what they've got to say anymore.

    Looks like the games sites rate it though, which is promising.
  • Murbal 28 Feb 2012 11:40:31 19,655 posts
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    @lucky_jim Metro is the old C4 teletext Gamecentral guys.
  • mal 28 Feb 2012 11:53:13 20,710 posts
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    Gamecentral was Ceefax, not 4-Tel, and was always a bit shit. Now if it was the old 4-Tel guys including Paul Rose I'd be interested, but the old Gamecentral peeps? Not so much.

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  • Kay 28 Feb 2012 12:00:41 15,761 posts
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    Pretty sure Gamecentral were not Ceefax. Besides, they've always been reliable for me and are headed by an ex-Edge editor. I'd usually take their opinions over most websites in fact, including EG.
  • Murbal 28 Feb 2012 12:05:20 19,655 posts
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCentral
  • mal 28 Feb 2012 12:12:00 20,710 posts
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    I stand corrected. Just goes to show I gave up reading teletext for games once Digi got canned. What was the BBC version again? That was truly shit.

    And for reference, comparing reviews against EG reviews is damning with faint praise if ever I saw it.

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  • lucky_jim 28 Feb 2012 12:28:52 4,920 posts
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    I never liked Gamecentral anyway, Digitiser crapped all over it.

    Still, perhaps I shouldn't tar all the newspapers' games coverage with the same brush. That review does read a bit like "waaah, it's too difficult for me" though.
  • lucky_jim 28 Feb 2012 12:30:54 4,920 posts
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    mal wrote:
    And for reference, comparing reviews against EG reviews is damning with faint praise if ever I saw it.
    What's the problem with EG's reviews? The scores are flaky but the text of EG reviews always, always gives me an indication of whether I'm likely to enjoy a game (I've bought plenty of 6/10s because I could tell from the text that the game was up my street)/
  • Murbal 29 Feb 2012 17:07:39 19,655 posts
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    http://www.edge-online.com/features/dillons-rolling-western-review

    Clue: as good as SSX ;-)
  • roz123 1 Mar 2012 10:20:59 6,708 posts
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    http://www.gameinformer.com/games/dillons_rolling_western/b/3ds/archive/2012/02/29/dillon-39-s-rolling-western-review-grock-and-roll.aspx

    So thats an edge 5 and above a gameinformer 8. I think this game needs a demo because some people obviously like it more then others.
  • Deleted user 1 March 2012 10:41:03
    I agree, it needs a demo. I was going to buy it until I saw the price. I bought Zen Pinball for £4.50 instead.

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