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| The Ultramind12 | Jul 1 2008, 03:58 PM Post #1 |
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Fist of the North Star
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Fun little Xbox Live Arcade game. You play as a mad scientist named Edgar, who has turned himself into an orb of energy capable of summoning tornadoes, earthquakes, and lightning. Goal of the game: Use those powers to blow the crap out of everything. Yes. A game about little more than using some forces of nature to annihilate stuff. The person who thought this up deserves a fucking medal. Of course it has a bit of a story. Edgar is pissed at his former employer, AIC, because they booted him so they could make extra money off his inventions. So he turned himself into said orb of energy to get revenge. The game consists of one not-really-helpful tutorial, then launches into three segments. Each segment has two levels that have you blow up some specific targets and then move on to blowing the crap out of everything else to get as high a score as possible, and then a boss fight. The bosses are pretty easy, but they look neat. It's kind of short, and at times can get a bit frustrating when fifty billion AIC hovertanks swarm over to rape the hell out of you, with you unable to really fight back because tesla tanks are nearby to absorb your lightning and earthquakes and tornadoes are unusable because you can't muster the energy to use them because of all the shots you're taking... but you can usually find a way around that by scurrying off and picking the tanks off one by one. But god those tesla tanks piss me off. Depending on your score at the end of the level you get "research points" to put into upgrading your energy bar and more powerful versions of your elements. Of course, there are only two upgrades, because it's a small game, but what the hey. Lightning is quick, doesn't take a lot of energy, and is useful for taking out enemies that come along, but doesn't do a whole lot of damage. Earthquake... well, what do you think? Funnily, the first tremor from earthquake will kill any air units over the effected area, so that's useful. Takes a bit to use, but the damage to infrastructure is massive. Large energy drain. The tornado lets you use a moving force of destruction to wreak havoc. Unfortunately, the charge up to using it is enough that when surrounded by tanks, it's not really viable. The tornado lasts until you run out of energy or cancel it. Additionally, there are some "Superpowers" in the second level of each segment. You use a specific power on a doodad in the environment, then you start glowing purple and can move wherever, then hit X to unload the special for mass devastation. First is a volcano. Use earthquake on the fissure to ready it, then unload it for a huge blast of lava. Second is an orbital strike. Hit a satellite with a lightning bolt to activate, then use it to call down the strike and blow the crap out of everything in a wide radius. Third is a hurricane. Use a tornado on the maelstrom, then use to spawn a huge hurricane around yourself. Lastly there's the Overload. Use one of those superpowers while sitting on a recharge station for MASS DESTRUCTION. Or so I assume, I only just checked GameFAQs to figure out how to cause an Overload. But yeah. Short game, but it accomplishes what it sets out to do. If you want to unleash your inner mad scientist, here ya go. |
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| The Ultramind12 | Jul 1 2008, 04:47 PM Post #2 |
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Actually it lasted me more like 4 hours, and that's just going through normal campaign. After that you have Free Play to get as high a score as possible and Survival campaign, where your energy is constantly draining. |
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| The Ultramind12 | Jul 1 2008, 05:11 PM Post #3 |
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Fist of the North Star
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You don't need to worry about topping the charts. The score is charted in monetary damages. For instance, Hysteria Lane. My score, I believe, was in the two hundred millions. Then I went to the top of the list to look at the number 1. Nine billion dollars worth of damage. I didn't even think you could do that much on Hysteria Lane. I'm not sure how they managed that. It gets better. The first level. I managed to destroy all of the buildings by going back with level three abilities. My score was maybe in the twenty millions. Top three: 3: Also in the 20,000,000 range. 2: THREE BILLION. 1: EIGHT BILLION WTFUX MATE How the FUCK? |
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| The Ultramind12 | Jul 1 2008, 05:53 PM Post #4 |
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Hard mode. Whoopie. ... Why hasn't anyone gotten a 100% on that? |
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