RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accesories.
01-21-2012, 02:31 AM
So let's talk Action Commands for a second.
I am Pretty Good at them, I am not some nigh untouchable master, but I rarely miss them in these games.
Except, oddly enough, the Hammer Action Command.
Every time I had to use it with just the babies I failed. It looked like I was too early or too late. This was incorrect!
I thought this because I was under the impression that the game had two states of "failing an action command" that you were too early or too late. As it turned out, this was wrong!
The babies have a walking to the enemy animation, if you press the button here then you get what I thought was the "too early" operation, the baby falling forward and awkwardly dropping down the hammer.
Then they lift the hammer up, this is where I usually pressed the button and then I got a different animation, that they drop the top bit of the hammer and then they hit the enemy with the handle.
AS IT TURNS OUT, THERE IS ANOTHER ANIMATION AFTER THIS, THAT I NEVER SAW BECAUSE I WAS TOO EARLY EVERY TIME I HAD TO USE THE HAMMER.
In other words, I am a dummy who thought he was SO GOOD at Action Commands that he kept pressing the button too early and then ended up never realizing this until he had the chance to experiment.
What a dummy.
ANYWAY, I am now in a new area from where I first played through this game before stopping, and I got a badge that lets me use special attacks at no cost so that's cool. Luigi is probably never going to just jump or hammer again.
Re: Competency, yea I really love silly incompetent bowser mainly because he makes more sense when you account for things like the games where he races with them or plays tennis or other sports. He's like "OH MAN LOOK THEY ARE HAVING FUN I BETTER GO BEAT EM AT THEIR OWN GAME GRAAAAAAAAR"
The game really does like to make a deal out of the shroobs, from when they beat Adult Mario and Luigi in the first dungeon the less sublte things like how there could only be one of them when other enemies come in packs of four or something.
It's neat.
I am Pretty Good at them, I am not some nigh untouchable master, but I rarely miss them in these games.
Except, oddly enough, the Hammer Action Command.
Every time I had to use it with just the babies I failed. It looked like I was too early or too late. This was incorrect!
I thought this because I was under the impression that the game had two states of "failing an action command" that you were too early or too late. As it turned out, this was wrong!
The babies have a walking to the enemy animation, if you press the button here then you get what I thought was the "too early" operation, the baby falling forward and awkwardly dropping down the hammer.
Then they lift the hammer up, this is where I usually pressed the button and then I got a different animation, that they drop the top bit of the hammer and then they hit the enemy with the handle.
AS IT TURNS OUT, THERE IS ANOTHER ANIMATION AFTER THIS, THAT I NEVER SAW BECAUSE I WAS TOO EARLY EVERY TIME I HAD TO USE THE HAMMER.
In other words, I am a dummy who thought he was SO GOOD at Action Commands that he kept pressing the button too early and then ended up never realizing this until he had the chance to experiment.
What a dummy.
ANYWAY, I am now in a new area from where I first played through this game before stopping, and I got a badge that lets me use special attacks at no cost so that's cool. Luigi is probably never going to just jump or hammer again.
Re: Competency, yea I really love silly incompetent bowser mainly because he makes more sense when you account for things like the games where he races with them or plays tennis or other sports. He's like "OH MAN LOOK THEY ARE HAVING FUN I BETTER GO BEAT EM AT THEIR OWN GAME GRAAAAAAAAR"
The game really does like to make a deal out of the shroobs, from when they beat Adult Mario and Luigi in the first dungeon the less sublte things like how there could only be one of them when other enemies come in packs of four or something.
It's neat.