animlboogy said:
Which baseball game is the best to get? There's so many that have been received well in this thread alone!
Baseball Slugger is the best game on the platform as far as I'm concerned. The online is fantastic.
I'm a sucker for Power Pros, and Konami games don't seem to drop in price much (and now that I've said that it'll be 99 cents next week), so I bit on PP Touch. I've only played one game on the easiest difficulty but it doesn't seem nearly as junky as the DS version and I enjoyed it more than Baseball Superstars. Pretty polished for an iPhone game. Nice menus, doesn't take long to get a game going on 3GS, and thankfully there's no virtual d-pad. It's all touch. Batting is similar to Ouendan and it works pretty well I think. Pitching seemed a bit too simple at first - just choose your pitch, then tap where you want to throw it - but it's slightly more difficult if you choose the Sliding option. Then it's somewhat closer to aiming your pitches in the console version. Kinda wish you also had to set the power of the pitch but this isn't too bad.
I suck at fielding in these games so I just left it on auto and it was fine. Tap on the base you want to throw to. Works well enough. Baserunning works well on manual, since you just tap ADVANCE or RETREAT depending on what you wanna do, and you can Dash. Dunno if you hold that down or mash it or what, but it's there. I don't approve of games that don't let me dash!
My exhibition game went 12 innings before it ended in a 2-2 tie. I suck. It was fun, though. Maybe I'll sour on it as I play more but right now I'm digging it, which I really didn't expect.
