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Star Fox Adventures vs. Luigi's Mansion
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| Chuk Goodin 2005-06-07, 8:31 pm |
| Looking at getting a new game for the kids and have narrowed it down to
these two. Any suggestions? I know the kids would like LM, but we rented
it once and had almost all the ghosts by the end of the weekend, and
they're older and faster now. Would the same thing happen with Star Fox
Adventures?
Also, I noticed it's rated T. Is that T like Super Smash Bros., or T like
Tony Hawk? I'd rather not have gory violence, but a little bit of blood in
a cutscene is not too bad.
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chuk
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| Mr. Hams 2005-06-07, 8:31 pm |
| Well, that's tough. If you hadn't played either of them before, I'd
recommend Luigi's Mansion, since they are both very short games. But if
you've gotten almost all the way through LM before, you might go with
SFA. Although the story sucks, the visuals could be improved, the two
major "plot twists" are basically the same thing, and are horribly
cliched, the multiplayer is surprisingly enjoyable.
And it's more Super Smash T. There's not even any blood. There's no
cursing, everyone says "heck". It's only rated T for the guns.
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| Vitani 2005-06-08, 8:31 pm |
| Chuk Goodin wrote:
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> Looking at getting a new game for the kids and have narrowed it down to
> these two. Any suggestions? I know the kids would like LM, but we rented
> it once and had almost all the ghosts by the end of the weekend, and
> they're older and faster now. Would the same thing happen with Star Fox
> Adventures?
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The easist answer is to rent Starfox and see how you like it. You seem
to be talking yourself out of getting Luigi's mansion, so I'd go for
SFA. I really enjoyed playing it, I thought it looked like a very
beautiful game - and excellent parting gift from Rare. The story is
nice, and progesses well. BUT there's very little, well vertually /no/
replay value in the game, but then, you can always sell it on. I
recommend SFA.
I'd definately rent it first.
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> Also, I noticed it's rated T. Is that T like Super Smash Bros., or T like
> Tony Hawk? I'd rather not have gory violence, but a little bit of blood in
> a cutscene is not too bad.
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Definately a SSB:M "T", there's no blood, or real violence in it at all
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| I have both,I played Luigi's mansion once all the way through it was OK.
I have played SFA all the way through 5 or 6 times, my 5 year old really
likes it too,she plays it almost every day.
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| Vitani 2005-06-08, 8:31 pm |
| Mr. Hams wrote:
quote:
> Well, that's tough. If you hadn't played either of them before, I'd
> recommend Luigi's Mansion, since they are both very short games. But if
> you've gotten almost all the way through LM before, you might go with
> SFA. Although the story sucks, the visuals could be improved, the two
> major "plot twists" are basically the same thing, and are horribly
> cliched, the multiplayer is surprisingly enjoyable.
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> And it's more Super Smash T. There's not even any blood. There's no
> cursing, everyone says "heck". It's only rated T for the guns.
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afaik there isn't a multiplayer in Starfox ADVENTURES, there is in
Starfox ASSULT though. Maybe you got confused between the two games?
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| Mr. Hams 2005-06-08, 8:31 pm |
| Ohhhhh. I thought the dude was talkin' about StarFox: Assault, not
StarFox Adventures.
StarFox Adventures was hideous. But StarFox Assault was fun. I hate how
they're both SFA...
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| Miles Bader 2005-06-08, 8:31 pm |
| Ash <furroash@nb.sympatico.ca> writes:
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> I liked SFA myself, and I thought that it was one of the best games I'd
> ever played. It has amazing graphics, but the actual fighting
> sucks.
SFA does have very cool graphics (I spent a lot of time just using the
zoom function to look at my environment in various places!), but I found
that after a while it started to feel very repetitive. I also got
annoyed at some of the save location placement, where it forces you to
repeat a long boring section if you die on a "boss".
-Miles
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"An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there
can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence
on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf
question." [John McCarthy]
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| Chuk Goodin wrote:
quote:
> Looking at getting a new game for the kids and have narrowed it down to
> these two. Any suggestions? I know the kids would like LM, but we rented
> it once and had almost all the ghosts by the end of the weekend, and
> they're older and faster now. Would the same thing happen with Star Fox
> Adventures?
>
> Also, I noticed it's rated T. Is that T like Super Smash Bros., or T like
> Tony Hawk? I'd rather not have gory violence, but a little bit of blood in
> a cutscene is not too bad.
>
I liked SFA myself, and I thought that it was one of the best games I'd
ever played. It has amazing graphics, but the actual fighting sucks.
It's basically just tap one button untill your enemy collapses in a heap
of light and disappears -> so, not really much gore. Probably the most
'Teen' thing about it is the lovey-dovey saxaphone music that plays when
fox meets a Krystal.
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| "Mr. Hams" <hampika1a2@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1118265561.720707.276650@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
quote:
> Ohhhhh. I thought the dude was talkin' about StarFox: Assault, not
> StarFox Adventures.
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> StarFox Adventures was hideous.
What was hideous about it? It's just Zelda with fur................. I
liked em both!!
But StarFox Assault was fun. I hate how
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> they're both SFA...
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"Chuk Goodin" <cgoodin@sfu.ca> wrote in message
news:d853dd$1d4$1@morgoth.sfu.ca...
quote:
> Looking at getting a new game for the kids and have narrowed it down to
> these two. Any suggestions? I know the kids would like LM, but we rented
> it once and had almost all the ghosts by the end of the weekend, and
> they're older and faster now. Would the same thing happen with Star Fox
> Adventures?
>
> Also, I noticed it's rated T. Is that T like Super Smash Bros., or T like
> Tony Hawk? I'd rather not have gory violence, but a little bit of blood in
> a cutscene is not too bad.
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To be perfectly honest, Star Fox Adventures is a mediocre game at best,
while Luigi's Mansion is a better game in general. I suppose for a young
audience Star Fox Adventures would appeal more, but the ending for the game
feels ridiculously tacked on, and the overall feel of the game doesn't fit
the Star Fox universe.
But then, like I said, a young audience wouldn't really care. Either game
is a fair play, I just think SFA has more glaring flaws. And the T rating
is more of a SSBM thing, with cartoonish violence being the driving force
behind the rating rather than blood.
--
A god, an angel and a detective. What do they have in common? Not a thing,
and thats what makes it fun.
http://www.keepitcoming.net/univers...stigations.html
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