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[3DS eShop] The Rolling Western/Dillon's Rolling Western |OT|
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RelentlessRolento
Member
downloading now regardless of reviews. Been loving the design and concept ever since it was shown. More original IPs Nintendo, plz ^_^
More like 8.
abstract alien
Member
Damn a review. It's a good game.
Neoriceisgood
Member
So is this game good? I'm half curious about it. The reviews were negative?
ScreenSplitter
Member
No, as far as I can tell the only negative press the game's got is from IGN, who from what I read don't seem to have spent much time with the game.
In other news, Dillon for Smash Bros. 3D
gato_busta
Member
Played it for a few minutes and I quite like it. Just got through the first wave of Grocks, haven't upgraded any of the defence towers though. Combat is pretty fun, I like the combo system mixing the rolling attacks with the claw attacks (all with the touch screen) and dodging enemies with the circle pad (more like moving out of the way from their attacks). So far its pretty simple but fun. Overall, I like it better than Sakura Samurai.
Yeah, they just played a short demo, I think. For example: they play a preview version of Sakura Samurai, said that it sucked and the same person reviewed the game and gave it a 9. So yeah, I think that Nintendo games usually get a lot better at the end of development. Look at Kid Icarus, now I feel like it's going to be an amazing title for the library.
slaughterking
Member
It's not nice when monsters attack my towers in their blind spot.
Fare Godmace
Member
I just saved the first town, and I'm loving the game so far! Great character design, cool control system, a little touch of Zelda when you open a chest... And Dillon is definitely a cool character, he really should appear in Smash Bros. 3D, at least as a support character!
Nintendo is on a roll (literally) with these releases. Just played the first 3 levels and I'm having a blast. If you loved rolling around in Termina as a Goron, then you'll love the mechanic here. It's pretty simple, but a lot of fun. I like it because it looks cool, it feels really good thanks to the 3DS touch screen, and it requires precision and timing.
And like most Nintendo games, it has awesome character design, music, and from the looks of it, it's gonna get more complex as it progresses.
Totally recommend it.
And like most Nintendo games, it has awesome character design, music, and from the looks of it, it's gonna get more complex as it progresses.
Totally recommend it.
slaughterking
Member
After saving the first village I'm convinced that this is a good game. Lots of fun.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I haven't even beat Sakura Samurai yet and I have Miles Edgeworth Investigation/Ghost Trick left to finish.... along with multiplayer for MK7 and RE:R.
Yet you all are making me want this game now!!!! Have mercy on my gaming soul
Nintendo.
Yet you all are making me want this game now!!!! Have mercy on my gaming soul
wallet
Loving this. I'm not one for Tower Defense, but this has such minimal Tower Defense elements that I can forgive it. It's very fast paced and rolling around the field is so much fun!
Seconding Dillon for Smash 3D. What a great character design! Will have to make some fan pixelart of him soon....
More like this, Nintendo! Lovely!
Seconding Dillon for Smash 3D. What a great character design! Will have to make some fan pixelart of him soon....
More like this, Nintendo! Lovely!
Uh oh, NWR really did not like this game. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/impressions/29365
You gaffers who bought it need to do a better job of convincing me it's good! Things are looking down right now.
You gaffers who bought it need to do a better job of convincing me it's good! Things are looking down right now.
ScreenSplitter
Member
Wow, very, very harsh. No charm whatsoever? The game is brimming with charm.
To say the price is "disgusting"? Fuck off back to the App Store.
abstract alien
Member
Do you usually trust their reviews? I don't. I don't trust reviews period honestly.
ouch, that was a tough review. i was really looking forward to this game, but maybe i'll wait till i hear from a few more reviewers
For me, it's not so much a question of "trust"; it's not like I think reviewers are being dishonest when they give their impressions of games. I'm not that cynical about reviews.
All I can ever take away from a review is whether the reviewer liked the game or not, and what his/her reasons for that stance are. Unless I'm intimately familiar with a certain writer's gaming taste (which is usually not the case), it's hard to infer if *I* will enjoy the game. I'll definitely need more than one review from a guy I don't know before I can decide if I should buy it.
But that's also why I'm appealing to you guys in this thread. I figure I'm more likely to be of a common mind with you than this NWR fellow.
Duly noted! Thanks.
So I read NWR's PSA then bought the game. I wish he had called the price disgusting at the beginning of the article and saved me some reading time, I can't stand that sort of hyperbole. For $10 I think I can find out for myself, I'll post my early impressions after I've had a few hours with it.
ScreenSplitter
Member
My Impressions/Review
REVIEW: Dillons Rolling Western
RELEASE DATE: February 22nd (EU, JP, NA)
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Price: £9.00/$10.00
If nothing else, Dillons Rolling Western is a good argument against the oft-used criticism of Nintendo sticking to their guns with old IPs. The game stars all new characters, including the titular Dillon, an Armadillo ranger who happens upon a group of Western towns that have been beset upon by evil Grocks, giant rocks that are eating the towns livestock. Its your job to defend the town, using Dillons roll, guntowers, and stone gates to protect the town from the attacking monsters.
The livestock is also what you are primarily protecting in the game. Held inside the village, there are only a certain amount of livestock. You can get more through collection of special plants, earned funnily enough by rolling around, but once this livestock is depleted, its game over. This also occurs if Dillons hearts run out.
The game takes place over a three day structure for each village. In the day, you spend your time rolling around the landscape, collecting plants to increase your livestock amount, finding randomly placed mines to collect ore and diamonds to increase your defences and sell for money, and building up the various towers and walls you have to protect the village. You also complete side quests for villagers, in return for money. It usually amounts to fetch quests or defeat x amount of enemies, but its a nice addition outside of the normal gameplay.
You have a brief warning before the Grocks come, but when it turns to night its battle time. The Grocks come, and they come fast. Its a pretty steep difficulty curve, and if youre not careful youll find yourself easily outmatched.
You do this mainly via the touchscreen, the circle pad, and the L button. As far as I can tell, the game doesnt use any other buttons. This simplifies the control scheme, but sometimes you get the claw reminiscent of games such as Metroid Prime Hunters. This may be one of the games that the Kid Icarus stand might come in handy for. The primary means of transportation, attacking, and the games namesake, is Dillons roll move. This is quite simply done by pulling down the touch screen and releasing, making Dillon zoom across the desert landscape. Its really quite a satisfying way of getting round, and the touch screen controls are fairly intuitive, in combat and outside of it.
The combat is interesting; Dillon attacks bigger enemies, which begins a very RPG style random battle, taking you to smaller battle field where you fight either smaller versions of the enemy, or the boss monster. Its worth keeping in mind that the enemy movement outside your battle continues, so its a good idea to get the battle over and done with as quick as possible. At first it can feel very repetitive, with Dillon simply rolling and rushing at enemies. But then, as you learn more moves like Dillons claw attack, the combat becomes very rhythmic, with the player having to tap at the right time to initiate combos. This in turn allows combat to be over quicker (allowing you to get back to the other enemies laying siege to the village), and also lets you get better items.
This alone isnt enough to defeat the Grocks, who easily outnumber Dillon. You have to increase the towns defences. You do this by spending currency and items on upgrading village walls and defensive and offensive towers. There are two types of towers; watchtowers and guntowers. Both provide a form of defence, but the guntowers are the main offensive force outside of your own rolling rush. This, along with all other upgrades, including ones for Dillon himself, gives you a lot of chance to customise your own strategy.
Its not your standard tower defence game, as youll have to explore and seek towers/mines out to upgrade your defences. There are also hidden caves that hold very Zelda style treasure chests, which hold rare items you can sell for lots of cash. The whole game, with hearts and treasure chests, has a very Zelda vibe, and I wouldnt be surprised if some members of the Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass team were drafted in to help with the game.
Something I find most endearing though is the art style. The game strikes a very cute midway between western grit youd see in the likes of Red Dead Redemption, and anamorphic characters akin to Star Fox 64. Character models are sharp and crisp, using what seems to be a touch of cel-shading. There isnt exactly any story or character development, but the art work is very appealing, and the random characters you do side quests for have plenty of charisma. The use of 3D is one of the best Ive seen on the 3DS so far. Its a visual treat to roll around the desert at high speed, and the colours are lush.
According to Nintendo of Americas Director of Marketing, Bill Trinen, the game has a length of roughly 20 hours. This is pretty long for a downloadable title, and should go towards justifying the hefty price tag in comparison to other cheaper titles on the eShop. Though saying that, Im a big believe that not every game should be $1 to be successful. Not naming names. For Rolling Western, I would definitely recommend it as a downloadable game, as the day/night structure fits portable play perfectly.
REVIEW: Dillons Rolling Western
RELEASE DATE: February 22nd (EU, JP, NA)
Developer: Nintendo EAD
Price: £9.00/$10.00
If nothing else, Dillons Rolling Western is a good argument against the oft-used criticism of Nintendo sticking to their guns with old IPs. The game stars all new characters, including the titular Dillon, an Armadillo ranger who happens upon a group of Western towns that have been beset upon by evil Grocks, giant rocks that are eating the towns livestock. Its your job to defend the town, using Dillons roll, guntowers, and stone gates to protect the town from the attacking monsters.
The livestock is also what you are primarily protecting in the game. Held inside the village, there are only a certain amount of livestock. You can get more through collection of special plants, earned funnily enough by rolling around, but once this livestock is depleted, its game over. This also occurs if Dillons hearts run out.
The game takes place over a three day structure for each village. In the day, you spend your time rolling around the landscape, collecting plants to increase your livestock amount, finding randomly placed mines to collect ore and diamonds to increase your defences and sell for money, and building up the various towers and walls you have to protect the village. You also complete side quests for villagers, in return for money. It usually amounts to fetch quests or defeat x amount of enemies, but its a nice addition outside of the normal gameplay.
You have a brief warning before the Grocks come, but when it turns to night its battle time. The Grocks come, and they come fast. Its a pretty steep difficulty curve, and if youre not careful youll find yourself easily outmatched.
You do this mainly via the touchscreen, the circle pad, and the L button. As far as I can tell, the game doesnt use any other buttons. This simplifies the control scheme, but sometimes you get the claw reminiscent of games such as Metroid Prime Hunters. This may be one of the games that the Kid Icarus stand might come in handy for. The primary means of transportation, attacking, and the games namesake, is Dillons roll move. This is quite simply done by pulling down the touch screen and releasing, making Dillon zoom across the desert landscape. Its really quite a satisfying way of getting round, and the touch screen controls are fairly intuitive, in combat and outside of it.
The combat is interesting; Dillon attacks bigger enemies, which begins a very RPG style random battle, taking you to smaller battle field where you fight either smaller versions of the enemy, or the boss monster. Its worth keeping in mind that the enemy movement outside your battle continues, so its a good idea to get the battle over and done with as quick as possible. At first it can feel very repetitive, with Dillon simply rolling and rushing at enemies. But then, as you learn more moves like Dillons claw attack, the combat becomes very rhythmic, with the player having to tap at the right time to initiate combos. This in turn allows combat to be over quicker (allowing you to get back to the other enemies laying siege to the village), and also lets you get better items.
This alone isnt enough to defeat the Grocks, who easily outnumber Dillon. You have to increase the towns defences. You do this by spending currency and items on upgrading village walls and defensive and offensive towers. There are two types of towers; watchtowers and guntowers. Both provide a form of defence, but the guntowers are the main offensive force outside of your own rolling rush. This, along with all other upgrades, including ones for Dillon himself, gives you a lot of chance to customise your own strategy.
Its not your standard tower defence game, as youll have to explore and seek towers/mines out to upgrade your defences. There are also hidden caves that hold very Zelda style treasure chests, which hold rare items you can sell for lots of cash. The whole game, with hearts and treasure chests, has a very Zelda vibe, and I wouldnt be surprised if some members of the Spirit Tracks/Phantom Hourglass team were drafted in to help with the game.
Something I find most endearing though is the art style. The game strikes a very cute midway between western grit youd see in the likes of Red Dead Redemption, and anamorphic characters akin to Star Fox 64. Character models are sharp and crisp, using what seems to be a touch of cel-shading. There isnt exactly any story or character development, but the art work is very appealing, and the random characters you do side quests for have plenty of charisma. The use of 3D is one of the best Ive seen on the 3DS so far. Its a visual treat to roll around the desert at high speed, and the colours are lush.
According to Nintendo of Americas Director of Marketing, Bill Trinen, the game has a length of roughly 20 hours. This is pretty long for a downloadable title, and should go towards justifying the hefty price tag in comparison to other cheaper titles on the eShop. Though saying that, Im a big believe that not every game should be $1 to be successful. Not naming names. For Rolling Western, I would definitely recommend it as a downloadable game, as the day/night structure fits portable play perfectly.
abstract alien
Member
Well, in the game's defense (not that it needs it), it's one guy telling you it's terrible vs a few others telling you it's nice for the exact opposite reasons in a few cases.
Colonel Mustard
Banned
You won't last long with razor tongue.
Find a better way to express your opinion, man.
MegaByte
Member
What does this even mean?
ScreenSplitter
Member
Short bursts of play, in other words.
UncleSporky
Member
I assume convenient stopping/starting points for saving. In other words it's not a huge long adventure without natural breaks, you don't have to worry about getting off the bus and forgetting what you were doing, etc.
Yeah, I appreciate it.
It had just seemed that a lot of you here hadn't played for more than a few minutes yet, so I was going to wait a bit longer. Like, for ScreenSplitter's impressions up there!
Got to the first day on the second town. Things get a lot more hectic there: three town gates, grock dens right next to the town, large map and
. On top of that, the goddamn mayor gave me only 4K gold for reward, which will barely be enough to weaponize three towers. Gotta loot the fuck out of the map next day.
This game might not be truly a tower defense game, but you need similar planning and resource management skills (with *you* being a valuable resource as well as any towers).
ranged grocks
This game might not be truly a tower defense game, but you need similar planning and resource management skills (with *you* being a valuable resource as well as any towers).
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
I played the first day and defeated first wave of monsters at night. Fun!
Now I'm at the saloon, doing the three practice tasks and can't pull off the Claw attack. I need to touch with the stylus the moment I hit a target with a Roll attack, right? It's not working. Can someone help me out here?
Now I'm at the saloon, doing the three practice tasks and can't pull off the Claw attack. I need to touch with the stylus the moment I hit a target with a Roll attack, right? It's not working. Can someone help me out here?
ScreenSplitter
Member
Yeah, like I said, it's all about rhythm. At the precise moment you come into contact with them, tap the stylus. Then use the circle pad and tap the stylus again to chain the claw attacks together.
Wolfe
Member
Impressions? Felt more like biased bashing, you did see where he called the price point of a 10 dollar (possibly) 20 hour download game disgusting right? It was pretty blatant, dude goes on and on about preventing people from wasting money on it.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
Wow... I get like 1 out of 20 and I'm not that bad at rhythm games normally...
EDIT: ok, it gets much easier if you don't go in fully charged. So you gotta choose between technic and pure power
slaughterking
Member
Just tap the screen frantically.
abstract alien
Member
Yeah, I appreciate it.
It had just seemed that a lot of you here hadn't played for more than a few minutes yet, so I was going to wait a bit longer. Like, for ScreenSplitter's impressions up there!
Oddly enough, the combat and a few of the mechanics are making me enjoy this one even more as it goes on. Small touches that add a lot of flavor. Could be a love/hate thing though. I didn't really care for it too much when I first saw it, just thought it looked kinda neat. Now, I'm really digging it! Only thing that kind of bugs me is the framerate in the overworld. I'm sensitive to that sort of thing though.
AkimbO_Arcana
Banned
They also didn't like my favorite 3DS game of the year so far, Sakura Samurai.
Neoriceisgood
Member
Another bad review huh?
ScreenSplitter
Member
Is there something wrong with me? I'm loving this game so far. D: