It's Holiday Time!

From us here at Quarter Munchers, we want to wish you all a happy and safe holiday season. Have a good time and enjoy!

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- Bill Jr.

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

I got NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams yesterday, its good. The movies and flight levels are GREAT, the kid levels are blah, and the in-game cimemas look bad.

You can tell they rushed the game, they should not worry so much about x-mas. I like the game, but it could have been a lot better. You can't skip the cinemas, the story is ok, but the cinemas look Dreamcast quality, not Wii. The rest of the game is not like that, the rest of the game rocks.

The 1st boss NiGHTS. Its like the old game too where if you die past the 1st loop of a level or a boss, you start from the beginning. Thats waht can make it hard, but once you know what to do it gets easy.

There are a few control setups. It plays interesting with the Wiimote where you just point at the screen, it’s a tad harder to do the loops though. Then I tried the classic controller, works great, like classic NiGHTS. I think the Wiimote + Nunchuck works the best, the analog is a tad smoother overall.

Overall the game is good, would have been great if it was all flight levels and the in-game cinemas didn’t look so bad (ie. DC quality). Ya, these may seem like more than minor gripes, but the main levels are so much fun (like the original), most people won't care.

Thats my intial impressions, lets take it to the boards for more discussion.

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- Bill Jr.

Beggers can be losers........

Here's an incident that almost ended my retail gaming career before it even got started. This took place shortly after I was hired for the store, I think about my third shift in. I had several things going on at once, which is the usual when you're the only person working the store. I'm waiting on a guy in line buying a lot of new release movies, so spending that much money will get you most of my attention. Behind him is a store regular wanting to sell a PS2 set.

As I'm ringing up the movie guy, a colorful character walks in and starts talking to the ps2 lady. They talked like they knew each other and I didn't think much of it. Until I started to actually look at the guy - he's dressed in street gear, which isn't too unusual, but he's got his jaw wired shut or something, and he's holding some kind of drink in his hand. He starts talking, and I see a Flavor Flav style metal grill in his teeth, and after a few words I figure out what kind of drink he's carrying - beer. I don't catch the whole converstation, but the ps2 lady points next door, and he leaves.

She walks up and I start to hook up her set to verify it works. She explains that he was soliciting her for some bus money, and she told him to try next door. She was creeped out by him, and said he's drunk and I should lock the front door. Not a bad idea, so I start to do that, when the store owner comes in - which takes some pressure off of me. We mention the colorful character, and speak of the devil, he strolls back in and starts yelling at everyone - "why'd you shend me necht door - they didn't give me no dolla either! Ya coulda just said no....." I thought he was going to punch the woman, the way he was looking at her. He then curses off everyone in the store, and the owner gets into it with him. It took a fake phone call to the cops to finally get him to leave.

I ask the owner if this is what I have to expect all the time. He said no, and thankfully Flavor hasn't returned to the store, probably nursing that jaw back to health, which I can pretty much guess someone caused with a large fist to his face. Makes me appreciate the geeks who come in and talk you to death that much more: at least they are non-threatening.

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- Postman

Puzzle Quest

I got Puzzle quest on Wii, the basic game rocks. I missed the DS version and I tried the PC Demo and loved it. But there is an issue, the Wii conversion wasn’t near the quality of the awesome like PC Demo or XBLA versions (same as PC).

It’s the same as the PS2 one with tiny text and much smaller board. Its has cool pointing controls, but the small size, makes pointing harder. It’s a great game...sadly the Wii version isn't as good as the other versions. I am very disapointed in the very lazy port of this great game. All the content is there, but these issues do take away from the game. Sadly, this made me get another version.

So I want out and got the DS version, wow the game rocks. It is so hard to put down. The graphics are better in the PC and XBLA versions, but this version has a nice size board, good music and stylus controls, which rock. Great game!

It is going to get harder to find though for DS (It's been out since March.) I found it at a Gamestop (the 3rd one I tried) for $20 and that was the last copy. Target now has it for $15 while supplies last.

Its a very addictive game with cool RPG elements that had a very D&D feel mixed with great strategy. So I recommend you get a copy soon! You won't want to stop playing!

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- Bill Jr.