If you are over 20, do you remember the orange TV game box? At that time we don’t have computer, the only way to entertain is reading, outdoor activities and watching TV. I can remember my most enjoyable time was playing the FC game with images form with little square pixels. Some classical games such as Tetris, Pacman and Mario even become the ‘forever’ game for many peoples and crossing two generations. After the period of Family Computer (FC or FAMICOM), it is time for Game Boy Advance (GBA) and Nintendo DS (NDS) become the most popular handheld game console. People are fever of it, from kids to adult over 40. Those games can bring with you and play it while people are moving on transportation, outdoor, even walking or using toile! :P It is no doubt to say that gba/nds is the most convenience and interesting game that suitable to out gen Y group.
This time I’m going to introduce some of my favorite gba and nds games.
First, here are some really great GBA games:
1. Castlevania (name in Japan: 悪魔城ドラキュラ)
In western countries people usually called it Castlevania, however, in Asia Chinese people are following the Japanese naming method, which is add the word ‘Dracula’ at the end of the name depending on if the final boss is Dracula or not. Castlevania may be the famous action game, it have 24 series from 1986 to 2010 appeared on a lot of game console such as FC（disk-system）、SFC、 MD（Mega-Drive）、Game Boy、Gameboy Advance、Nintendo 64、Playstation 1,2&3、Xbox， Nintendo DS, PSP、Wii、Xbox360 etc.
My personal experience is two of GBA series: Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance & Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow. I love Aria of Sorrow most. As a role-playing game, our main character is a transfer high-school student, Soma Cruz, who possesses the “power of dominance”, which allows him to absorb the souls of monsters and use their abilities. The story beginning from a solar eclipse after Dracula’s death, Soma Cruz and his childhood friend drawn into the eclipse and came to the Dracula’s castle. He wants to save his friend because his friend cannot survival in the castle, then Cruz lead by Genya Arikado and realized that he has “power of dominance”. This is a interesting setting that player can collect the monsters souls and use, but it also pain because you need to collect 100% of souls that means randomly get 111 souls from nearly all of the monsters! Some monsters only appeared one time and need to repeat save and load may be a hundred times for soul collecting. I only finished one time and it is so difficult! Monsters in this game have religion or mythical background which came from different countries (most came from western) such as Medusa (come from Greek mythology, I think every one know her :D) and Salome (the Daughter of Herodias and depict by Christian traditions as an icon of dangerous female seductiveness) etc. This series also have a lot more choice of weapons, it is also easier to control and more fun to play!
2. Ace Attorney (or Gyakuten Siban逆転裁判 “ Turnabout Trial”
I have been fascinated about this game from few years ago and completed all the series more than 4 times! It is a series of adventure/visual novel games but it is really interesting and challenging player’s intelligence and ability to reasoning. In the game player’s role is a defense attorney and based on the Japanese legal system. The aim of this game is to strive to find their clients “not guilty” using investigation, evidence and cross-examination to prove their case. There is also some super nature element in the game such as the Psychic family (who can allow ghosts inside their body and changed outlook as the ghost).
The story is excellent and characters are very interesting! You will feel like they are the real people and following their mood while the game is continue. There are also some moral issues in the game. For example, in one of the case, the clients had sent a killer to kill another man, than he tried to ask the killer to kill our main character’s friend. At the end player need to design is he “not guilty” or not, if he is “not guilty” he will be murder by the killer because he broke the rule and agreement with killer. If he is guilty, he wasn’t the “murder” base on Japan’s law and he will have the death penalty. This game is nice for people to play in any time and not worried about suddenly stop the game!
Next we will turn to the NDS games:
1. Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! (押忍！闘え！応援団)
A very fun Japan rhythm video game, fully use the function of screen-touch technology of NDS game console but only release in Japan. In the game, Ouendan stars a cheer squad rhythmically cheering for various troubled people help them achieved their goals, and player need to touch, rolling or dragging on the screen to achieve the aim. The reason of I chose this game introduce to you and not other rhythm game, is because it is very special on how the game can be play and the style of game. The concept of this game is quite meaning that based on the real Japan social issues- people suffer from different problems in daily life such as exam and works. On the other hand, as we can see from the image, the style of drawing is inspired by modern Japanese culture- print comics. The mix of those factors created an unreal world or saying kuso (internet using word) style, that means deconstruct and created a comedy or irony elements, in order to construct entertainment culture that referring to the serious topic. The idea of Ouendan has broken a lot of stereotypes. For example, they are all form by masculine males which usually should be sexy females group. Those males characters outlook are also usually consider as “violence group of people” but they are very helpful in the game. The game is very fun but very difficult to play! Although the story is written by Japanese, but it is form by comic image so people can understand it even don’t understand Japanese! Is that so great? :D
2. America's Next Top Model
How can you believe?! This famous TV show can become a game! Player can created their own model role in the game and control her diet to win in the game! However, it is better for you to find out you own way to become the top model! :D
Try it and see if you like it!
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