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[jinian]

What games for the Wii are fun? I have Nights Into Dreams, and that's it. (Okami I have for PS2 -- really I am looking for another Okami, but I will try to content myself with lesser things.) Will it play earlier Nintendo games? I mostly like RPGs and oddities.

My classmates at FHL mentioned that they were starting to associate me with FRUIT by the time we were done. They didn't seem to understand that it was SUMMER. Today at the farmers' market I got about 5 pounds of delicious peaches and nectarines, four Ginger Gold apples, and a half-flat of blueberries. And at home I had only-decent cherries already. And plums on the trees. Maybe they have a point.

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[jinian.livejournal.com]

No, I seriously have only one game for Wii! No Zelda as yet, partly because I tried to play Ocarina of Time and couldn't even get out of the village with its awful controls. But I should at least try the new Zelda on the revolutionary new controllers. I'm wondering now if I could rent games from anywhere nearby to see whether they're worth buying.

I want you to love love love Okami! I'm crap at complex fighting moves, too, and they totally were not required, but I may have higher dex overall than you do. There are parts where you have to jump or do brush moves as well as bash on the weapon button, so it might be too much, but I think baratron has claimed to be bad at such things and she did love love love the game appropriately. It's planned so that you ramp up slowly on the brush moves and the battle difficulty, and any timing/movement stuff in the puzzles actually gets easier progressively as you fail to manage it. (That annoyed me in one place, since it had fun skill development potential but I didn't improve quickly enough before it became dead easy.) The premise, story, and look would make you really happy, though! It's fun and interesting and beautiful, and there are a bunch of takeoffs on Japanese folklore, and you are a WOLF who is a GODDESS and flowers spring up where you run!!1! Definitely try it if you get the chance.

[oyceter]

Oooo! I am now looking for used copies of Okami Wii! Possibly I will suck at the fighting, but it sounds so pretty.....

I think I tried Ocarina of Time a long time ago and couldn't get past the first challenge. I never tried playing Wind Waker, but I watched my (now ex) boyfriend play it through, and it was incredibly fun to watch! Also, the animation is just SO CUTE! It's sort of 2D-ish cell-shading or something instead of the usual hexagon whatnot things (haha, I know so little about video games), so everything is incredibly stylized and sort of cartoony and I love it so much.

Zelda

[baratron.livejournal.com]

Ocarina of Time is not the best Zelda ever. On the GameCube port, I have got as far as the last dungeon but have basically given up there. I find it too frightening when the monsters jump out at me, even when I KNOW exactly where a monster will do that! On the other hand, Wind Waker is amazing - I spent many hours doing all the side quests, visiting the unimportant islands to collect all the spare Pieces of Heart, etc. I love love love the graphics, and find it significantly less scary that OoT. I also managed to finish it, although I'm sure that Richard helped me do the final boss because it was too difficult for me.

The Wii will play all GameCube games, which is fortunate as I'm yet to find a decent Wii game. Richard bought me Twilight Princess, but the controls are too difficult for me. Both Richard and Alexa have far more dex than me (heh), and are struggling with it to the point of giving up. It is highly tedious at the beginning and doesn't look fun the way Wind Waker (and Phantom Princess) do.