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The Wonderful 101 |OT| Diplomacy has failed
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EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
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Box of Bunnies
Banned
I hope there's an alternative way to unlock secret characters for those of us not so good at the game like Bayonetta's dpad codes+millions of Halos for Jeanne, Pillow Talk, etc. but there's probably not since they're tied to bottlecaps.
No, but this is their first game to use the gamepad. I just figure that it must be intentional because it's still completely responsive for things like skipping cutscenes.
Edit: not talking about that 33% success rate you mentioned though. I haven't experienced that myself, just that the buttons require more of a press than a tap.
So...I just started playing the game on Normal. I've only done, like, two levels, but this game is already SUPER hard from the beginning! I've died so many times already! Does it get easier as you play more and gain new abilities and such? If not I may have to restart on Easy or Very Easy... ._.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Yes. I hope you bought Unite Guts and Unite Spring. If you haven't, you done goofed.
Like most Platinum games the encounters get (generally) harder, but you also get stronger, and your skillset expands. Unite Guts upgrade with spikes > vanilla Unite Guts. Drill Spring ? vanilla Spring. There's a custom block that gives you Bayonetta-like witch time on a successful spring dodge. As the game progresses your team is given more tools and skills to deal with encounters, which expands combo and tactical diversity.
But if you are having a hard time, and by hard I mean the difficulty is impacting your enjoyment, reduce it down to easy. The game wont stop being demanding of your skills and attention, even as you get stronger, so a lower difficulty might be more enjoyable.
Argh, I fucked up, I meant Hero Time, sorry!
Hero Counter is still quite a bit of a mystery to me too. I usually trigger it by accident.
Rock thingy? You mean the ZL block or the ZR ball move?
It's definitely something software side, meaning its probably intentional. You have to press and hold the button to pause during movement, but a tap during a cutscenes will make the "Skip Cutscene?" box appear immediately.
I'm not ashamed to admit my first run is on easy, and I can attest to this.
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Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
you press it in the direction of the incoming attack right as it's about to hit.
Nope.
I'll double check in the guide but when I looked earlier there wasn't.
Yep.
You also get a unique unite morph that his extremely powerful for maxing out the rank of all regular(not secret character) 101's. and you have to be using them to access it.(so you can't do it with Bayo in your group. So that should definitely be your end goal with the mechanic
It doesn't take long to do. Like midway through stage 2 I had Red Blue and Green all maxed.
I think it does.
For a game with so many options as this has, they start you off with literally nothing. I didn't even get Wonder Rising until the tail end of the second stage.
and it seems like the game is designed to still be challenging even with all these other optional accessories and skills, so it's really hard when your moveset is so limited.
The more you play the more techniques you unlock and the more money you get to buy modules for the more slots you'll have unlocked to put them in. I think the game gets alot easier once you're finally done shaking most of the pieces out of the box.(at least on Normal)
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Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
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Shin Johnpv
Member
Ahhhhhhh that's how you get them. I probably spent 15 minutes right where they were at trying to get to them.
I got to put in an hour yesterday on normal, and it is definitely beating me down so far. I need to replay the first missions and get better at the mechanics. I wish I could put time in now, but I have I a crazy week ahead of me with a wedding for a friend 6 - 7 hours away this weekend. I just want to enjoy some Kamiya wonderfulness. The game really makes me ache for a new Viewtiful Joe.
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I don't remember seeing that at E3. :|
But yeah hnnnnnnnnng, Bayonetta 2 is going to be awesome just wish that Bayonetta 1 get a Wii U release. ;_;
I'm at 003-A and finally I'm starting to get silver-ratings for completing missions which means I'm learning to play more efficiently. Btw, I don't find BF4 and CoD:Ghost's collapsing skyscrapers particularly impressive anymore when in TW101
. Gotta let that sink in for a while.
you're standing on one as a boss throws another skyscraper at you
ShockingAlberto
Member
Box of Bunnies
Banned
Yeah, I didn't expect there would be, but wanted to live in hope.
I can play the game alright on normal and would probably be able to beat hard but the difficulty above that, most of the Kahkoo-regahs and Platinuming everything are probably well out of my reach.
Would've been fun to have a way to play around with "that" character but oh well.
All good! I'm now saving for hero time. I actually think you need to get hero counter first so no biggie
ShockingAlberto
Member
Did you ask them or was it totally sold out? Often they just won't bother to put things up until a weekday.
Jaded Alyx
Member
Kids.
ShockingAlberto
Member
It helps to level them up but really you just need to be varying up your weapons, which is kind of impossible not to unless you are using just one or two weapons to counter enemies.
As long as the hero is involved in that attack, they'll gain experience. The hardest one for me to level up is green because I just forgot about it during combos until I learned its Wonder Rising attack (which is a doozy).
Finish the game
Does anyone know of a way to turn off certain secret characters? Basically Wonder-
keeps interfering when I change to the fist power, he isn't even set as my main one so it's really annoying in the midst of battle when I want to change to a fist quickly and make it larger, but because that annoying character can't increase the size of his fist it has a major impact on the flow of battles.
I get that the problem may be who ever my fist character is set to be may be occupied being knocked out or something, which is why it changes to Wonder-Future. But every single time it picks him and it's really starting to annoy me because he can't change his fist size.
It doesn't matter that his special ability is an
because i've got
for that and he can change the size of his fist.. it's really starting to become a huge annoyance now. Anyone else come across this problem
Future
I get that the problem may be who ever my fist character is set to be may be occupied being knocked out or something, which is why it changes to Wonder-Future. But every single time it picks him and it's really starting to annoy me because he can't change his fist size.
It doesn't matter that his special ability is an
always flame fist
Poseman
Kids.
He's got COD also. Wonder how many busted eardrums he's caused.
Kids.
Have you got a link to that?
HitokiriNate85
Member
Really enjoying the game so far, but like Bayo I feel like I'm more fumbling around initially compared to the mechanics and techniques that are available. That's not a complaint in any sense, and I think I'm going to enjoy the game more as I progress(and more on replay).
I just finished whichever operation you fight
and get Wonder-Pink. I was doing some reading yesterday and didn't sit down for a marathon, but that's all right. I don't think I can resist playing all evening today. Getting through work is going to be tough.
Loving the dialogue so far and the combat is great. Like other Kamiya games you can tell how you're just barely scratching the surface early on. Crazy that Unite Gut/Spring have to be purchased, but it's pretty inconsequential if you played the demo. I imagine some people out there didn't start with those, though. Bet that's interesting. I'm playing on Normal and damn, haven't died this much on a game in a while.
My biggest complaint so far is that there is a bit of jank when it comes to particular actions. When you have to use Unite Build on the
, I got most of everyone in except a few, and didn't realize at first that I needed to keep it up until all my units were in(that's right, right?), so I was just fumbling around for a few minutes just kind of giving the screen a WTF look until I got it right. That kind of precision being required instead of just auto-filling it for you once you start is a bit silly. I'd rather be kept in the game and be given a 'freebie' in that sense than have to fight with the game. Also, some of my units got caught half in the ground/flattened during a piece of dialogue. Really not a big deal, but it sticks out and takes away from the game feeling super polished.
Also, it was disappointing to find out the game isn't locked at 60FPS. It feels like it should be possible on the hardware, but it's not the end of the world.
Great/hilarious dialogue and atmosphere. I love the banter between Wonder-Blue and Wonder-Green(laughter is imminent when he speaks) and the slapstick-ness of breaking the fourth wall during the intro with the posing, etc. The characters are pretty endearing off the bat. I feel pretty certain it'll happen, but I really hope to see the Major/Captain enter battle at some dramatic moment. Also, I really like the almost clay-like quality to the dialogue heads, though I imagine some people don't.
Oh, and I was really glad that so much of what I had seen of the game takes place early on. How many operations are in the game? Can't wait to see what sort of insanity it has in store.
I still have a bunch of Club Nintendo coins sitting in my account. Really hoping for some cool 101 merch.
I just finished whichever operation you fight
Prince what's-his-face
Loving the dialogue so far and the combat is great. Like other Kamiya games you can tell how you're just barely scratching the surface early on. Crazy that Unite Gut/Spring have to be purchased, but it's pretty inconsequential if you played the demo. I imagine some people out there didn't start with those, though. Bet that's interesting. I'm playing on Normal and damn, haven't died this much on a game in a while.
My biggest complaint so far is that there is a bit of jank when it comes to particular actions. When you have to use Unite Build on the
Bayo dragon's head
Also, it was disappointing to find out the game isn't locked at 60FPS. It feels like it should be possible on the hardware, but it's not the end of the world.
Great/hilarious dialogue and atmosphere. I love the banter between Wonder-Blue and Wonder-Green(laughter is imminent when he speaks) and the slapstick-ness of breaking the fourth wall during the intro with the posing, etc. The characters are pretty endearing off the bat. I feel pretty certain it'll happen, but I really hope to see the Major/Captain enter battle at some dramatic moment. Also, I really like the almost clay-like quality to the dialogue heads, though I imagine some people don't.
Oh, and I was really glad that so much of what I had seen of the game takes place early on. How many operations are in the game? Can't wait to see what sort of insanity it has in store.
I still have a bunch of Club Nintendo coins sitting in my account. Really hoping for some cool 101 merch.
Thanks, already found it on the wii u and just had to reply back to him. Replied "You're a stupid copy of Pikmin!", knew it was going to get removed but it was still worth it lol
Interceptor
Banned
And this is why i love Miiverse.
Jaded Alyx
Member
And this is why i love Miiverse.
Yep. That's exactly why I posted it. Clueless idiot.
godofcookery
Member
picked up the game yesterday, and cleared mission 001. but only got the consolation prize on normal (had to continue due to a personal error, and dying on a mid boss, because I had no clue how to time blocks properly. Anyone want to give me some input on whether or not I should go easy? (picked up Guts and Spring btw)
ViewtifulJC
Banned
I LOL at every single "Ah, MAMAN!"
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Do you have the official guide? any good? Its 20 euros for me (buy it from amazon us and then getting it here, and would arrive in october
) so Im weary is not going to cover everything. The descripiton says it has the all secrets, all rank requriments and enemy strategies (thats what i want) but I dont know how well it explaisn all those things.HitokiriNate85
Member
I'd like to know as well. I rarely ever buy guides(I think Dark Souls was the only one in the last uh...forever) but was hoping Futurepress was on duty since they did Bayo/Vanquish. This seems like a game where a guide would be nice, though, since I'm probably going to want to go for everything. I'm hesitant since it's a Prima guide, and I think theirs are often pretty bare bones in terms of design/layout.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Wonder Green is my favourite character. I love the french accent he has.
Also i laugh every time he says Sacrevert, instead of sacrebleu. Its a perfect joke about changing a word similar to blue in french (bleue) for vert (green) and still sounding very similar.
The only thing I know it's that the guide is from Prima, dont know if they are good making guides.
EDIT. Didn't read the rest, you already know its from Prima.
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
Meh, just went looking in my guides collection for Prima ones and the one I have is for Super Smash bros Brawl, is pretty shitty and they leave the secret for the two last stages instead of saying strategies to get all trophies and stickers. Not good if the W101 guide does the same thing.
HitokiriNate85
Member
Thanks for taking a look. Damn. Ill probably hold off then, unless someone here has good things to say about this one.
Oh, a couple more things. How do you reflect lasers with the sword? Swing? Unite a sword in in with counter timing? Just stand there? I got smacked a few times without getting it so I've just been dashing/springing out of the way.
Also, can the campaign be played without the gamepad? I figured it might not have a way to handle the gamepad sequences and I tried to switch controllers last night and it wouldn't work. It's just confusing since there's an option. I like the option setup with the gamepad but I'd rather play an action game like this with the Pro controller. Also, is it just me or is the rumble on the gamepad really loud?
Box of Bunnies
Banned
With lasers, you just need to have the sword out and be in line of it.
You should be able to play without the Gamepad. Just use minus to cycle through the display options whenever things shift to the bottom screen.
Interceptor
Banned
Actually it´s quite easy. Just do a quick 360 with the analog stick and just tap it into whatever direction afterwards. Throw it with x and you are good to go. Even better if you locked on earlier.