Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Star Fox Command

Yet another in the list of "franchises I never played before playing them on the DS and now I love them!"

Have not played through this completely yet, but this is a really fun little game. It's in two parts - the "strategy" mode where you draw the paths of your ships on the touchscreen. Most missions have 4 or 5 teammates, all with differently powered ships and abilities. Then the "battles" where you are actually flying your ship around and shooting at the target enemies, flying through rings, and so on.
I was stupidly stuck here for a while when trying to shoot the missiles after flying through a set of fast moving rings. Stuck because I didn't realize you could be shooting the missile before you even get that close to it. But the spell was broken a little bit - the rest of the functional mechanics are such a joy in this game, and were challenging without being annoying.
But overall I did really like it.

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