"Square generally does inject originality into each installment of the Final Fantasy series"
Exactly in the same fashion that Nintendo. If you say that, then you haven't played any Nintendo game lately. Saying that the games are the same because they are the same franchise maybe is true for another developers, not for Nintendo (a common uneducated guess).
"What Nintendo has, basically, promised at this point are rehashes."
I think that I've never seen (nor you) a rehash that is controlled with a touch panel and two screens. Go play hte SAME games that you have in PSP in the same form that you have played before in your PS2 and come back to tell us about rehashes.
"...another Mario Kart game (a series which hasn't really changed since the SNES games)"
You don't know anything about Mario Kart, or Nintendo. Stop pretending. What about dual pilot karts? What about two player controlled karts? Name another game that has that.
"Then again, I don't blame Nintendo, really. Super Mario Sunshine tried some new things with the Mario series, and that game was greeted with overwhelming antipathy from a public that seemed, basically, to want a clone of Mario 64"
I think that you don't catch the picture. Nintendo fans were expecting a revolution , not an evolution and therefore the dissapointment. The new promises a revolution in the series. You are thinking with the typical mainstream Sony mind and thinking that others are the same.
I like Square and Sony like everyone under the sun, but you should speak with knowledge.
This game is like Zelda: "Four Swords" except you can play single player, and you can play multiplayer with a standard GC controller. It replaces the GBA screen with an emulated GBA in the TV screen.
You are right. Project Gotham Racing, Halo, Metal Gear, GTA, Manhunt, Final Fantasy and every non-Nintendo game are pushing originality as well.
Have you played the games or what?
I think you should see this if you think that Japanese games don't appeal to you. Note that there is a lot of violence too. It's a Nintendo-only game, and it's nearly Doom3-ish quality.
If you haven't seen it you will be pleasantly surprised.
There are two versions of this game: The first is GBA-only, and the newer is for Gamecube (with or without GBA).
If you do some investigation, you'll find that this game works without GBAs.
If a player goes into a mini-dungeon, a GBA screen appears in your TV and you play in it. If you have a GBA, you simply see the screen in your GBA instead of your TV screen.
If one of the links goes away the screen, the screen zooms out (to a limit).
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"Square generally does inject originality into each installment of the Final Fantasy series"
Exactly in the same fashion that Nintendo. If you say that, then you haven't played any Nintendo game lately. Saying that the games are the same because they are the same franchise maybe is true for another developers, not for Nintendo (a common uneducated guess).
"What Nintendo has, basically, promised at this point are rehashes."
I think that I've never seen (nor you) a rehash that is controlled with a touch panel and two screens. Go play hte SAME games that you have in PSP in the same form that you have played before in your PS2 and come back to tell us about rehashes.
"...another Mario Kart game (a series which hasn't really changed since the SNES games)"
You don't know anything about Mario Kart, or Nintendo. Stop pretending. What about dual pilot karts? What about two player controlled karts? Name another game that has that.
"Then again, I don't blame Nintendo, really. Super Mario Sunshine tried some new things with the Mario series, and that game was greeted with overwhelming antipathy from a public that seemed, basically, to want a clone of Mario 64"
I think that you don't catch the picture. Nintendo fans were expecting a revolution , not an evolution and therefore the dissapointment. The new promises a revolution in the series.
You are thinking with the typical mainstream Sony mind and thinking that others are the same.
I like Square and Sony like everyone under the sun, but you should speak with knowledge.
In Japan "Zelda: Four Swords +" was launched a few days ago.
This game is like Zelda: "Four Swords" except you can play single player, and you can play multiplayer with a standard GC controller. It replaces the GBA screen with an emulated GBA in the TV screen.
Yes, it's coming to US and EU.
You are right. Project Gotham Racing, Halo, Metal Gear, GTA, Manhunt, Final Fantasy and every non-Nintendo game are pushing originality as well. Have you played the games or what?
Nintendo has stated that they'll launch another Game Boy console in a year. The DS is not another Gameboy, it's a different product.
I think you should see this if you think that Japanese games don't appeal to you.
Note that there is a lot of violence too. It's a Nintendo-only game, and it's nearly Doom3-ish quality.
If you haven't seen it you will be pleasantly surprised.
There are two versions of this game: The first is GBA-only, and the newer is for Gamecube (with or without GBA).
If you do some investigation, you'll find that this game works without GBAs.
If a player goes into a mini-dungeon, a GBA screen appears in your TV and you play in it. If you have a GBA, you simply see the screen in your GBA instead of your TV screen.
If one of the links goes away the screen, the screen zooms out (to a limit).