Tranced Shadow said:Goddammit JAO, I read this and got my hopes up, went home, only to find a parcel which turned to just be a stinkin' copy of INAZUMA ELEVEN!
So relieved! Probably won't be using GB again but oh man...
Domstercool said:I got mine as well Just saw my post on the floor when I got in and there it was, didn't have to sign or anything.
Oxx said:Boooo. I still haven't received my copy.
The tightly scripted ones at the beginning were a bit annoying because I was still coming to grips with the basic mechanics and wanted to just go out and experiment a bit more at the time. Also, some were done better than others.GhaleonQ said:Haunted, did you prefer regular or scripted matches more?
!GhaleonQ said:Don't watch, people, unless you really don't care or need a reason to buy it, BECAUSE THIS IS HIDDEN.
And the other people are on the team, too.
SalsaShark said:Well i got it.
Really enjoying it so far, except for one fact.
Early in the game the first real match against. I hate how the save system works and that i have to do scripted stuff in order to win the game (pass the ball to X player, make the shot with Y player). The save system issue comes from the fact that if i lose (or even draw) the game i have to start from my latest save point (thank god i saved before the match, there was no warning of this whatsoever) and have to sit through all the cutscenes and scripted dialog during the match, no way of skipping it or anything.The Occult
stupei said:Just as GB is proven to be reliable enough that I'm willing to try to have them ship to me here in the US, they're now out of stock. Dammit.
platypotamus said:As reliable as they may be over there, their site doesn't seem to handle input of American addresses very gracefully. That's actually what held me back during the first wave of orders.
I actually ordered when it was in stock. I'll let people know if I actually get mine in the US.platypotamus said:As reliable as they may be over there, their site doesn't seem to handle input of American addresses very gracefully. That's actually what held me back during the first wave of orders.
zoku88 said:I actually ordered when it was in stock. I'll let people know if I actually get mine in the US.
I'm worried about the county thing too, but they did ask you to submit a state code if you were in the US, so I assume they must have some experience with delivering here.
I was, but I gave up on that idea and took the leap.platypotamus said:Nice, I thought you were waiting for me to Guinea Pig it up. I hope it works out for you. Any package tracking option?
SpacePirate Ridley said:Well, beat the game story yesterday. What an incredibly fun ride!
Liked a lot the ending. The credits are "censored" in the PAL version as there is only an instrumental version of the theme the japanese one uses, which is a little bit strange watching. Its seems that is really similar to the first ending of the anime, which strangely and amusingly its dubbed in spanish, so they could have used that song instead, like the opening in the game using Tachingariyo! instead of the original game theme. I suppose that is becuase only spain has the ending dubbed and the rest of the countries have the opening repeated again or no credits at all (correct me if im wrong).Celia, Silvia and Nelly sing
Also I love how the credits are drawn professor Layton style instead of the more typical animezided they use in the game and the anime. They have more charm like this.
As a fun note (yep, you can laugh at me if you want) Ive been watching the anime as I played the game. Starting from chapter 5 I was curious how the anime was similar so I started to watch it from there. So I played a whole chapter in the game and then watched the episodes of the things that happened in that game chapter, lets call it, the intros that DS game does not have :lol
I have to say... I am pleasently surprised with it... yep. The even more fun thing is that instead of watching the japanese version with subs, ive been watching the spanish dubbed version (so it be similar to the game)... I liked it :lol Lots of nostalgia in it thanks to being the same dubbing studio that did the original Digimon here, which I saw a lot when I was smaller. The adult voices are great, the kids voices, and they are fuking lot, are some times good and sometimes mediocre, but not really bad. The voice of Jude is the best one of the bunch, really great. Mark does a better dub in the anime that in the game, and its the same person. The same with Axel (he was Tai in Digimon). Nathan (Matt's voice in Digimon), Kevin and Bobby are also really good. Theres even some tributes to Captain Tsubasa spanish dub, as you can hear the famous Benji voice (in Jack). The three girls have also good voices, Silvia sounds better in the game than in the anime though, were sometimes she souds strange. The better of them is Nelly.
And even if the anime follows the games plot its changes it in some places, and strangely the majority of this changes are much better than in the game. Lets say it has better flow and the characters are better presented. Some changes:
-The beggining is really similar up until the Otaku match, there is were it starts to change.
-The worst change in the anime, is ommiting characters as Samatha and her team or not talking about the Otaku trainer, instead, they try to flesh more the character of Will (the one in the team with glasses), to be better. Also he is the one that puts the name tto the special moves in the anime, as his in nearly all the matches(he is good in the anime, theres also no poison in the maiden restaurant part, nor sadly the hentai magazine Jack founds in the bin :lol)sitting in the bench.(I think he only plays against the Otaku and thanks to him they win)
-Characters are much better in the anime. Bobby is likeable from the start (has a really great and fun voice). Nelly starts as the game tsunedere, but she changes fast to her likeable selfwhich makes the non betrayal better presented, also here past with Silvya and Eric is more fleshed. Her father is also much better presented in the anime. The trainer andwhich makes more belivable her passion for football and her later love triangleALL the team gains some shine, Nathan, Kevin (similar to him in the game), Jack, and even super secondaries as Max, Sam or Timmy. Which is more, the one that is the less important of all is Tod, he does absolutely nothing, and is really used in the game, probably the anime director hate him as he was a creep in the game.original Inazuma Eleven is a mix bag, some are more fleshed, like the trainer and funnily Nelly's butler, and others are worse, like the guy that trains the little kids. As a pack, they are better used.
Jude is MUCH better, in the game he is a whinny son of a bitchIn the anime, apart from having the best voice of all, he is at the start cool and typical respectfull enemy and then he becomes really likeable, and he doesnt whine, thank god.even worst when he is recruited. Well, the part where he is recurited is much better explained, and also his adoptive father (that has an awesome Professor Layton character style), his past and his sister Celia, the football magazine and his later friendship with Mark.
-The surprisinglove triangle, in the game and the anime. Yep, that was really surprising, never thougt they were going to do something like that in a kids football game or in a kids anime, is a little more fleshed. I dont know how it finsihes (ive yet to see the Zeus match) and I dont know at the moment if is good or bad, as it is know, really lighthearted, is not bad, but I hope it doesnt go to the typical anime love triangle whinning.
-There is a character that you can only recruit in the game if youve seen the anime :lol (or you have read the cheat somewhere). There is a character in the chess room that tells you he likes to be a commentator in the matches, like his father and you can recruit him if you tell his name to Celia. Well, he is the commetator for the first matches in the anime, and says his name too many times in it :lol He is also a really great and fun character in the anime (so I have leveled him up in the game :lol ). His father (another great character) is the commentator of the last matches.
You can recruit him giving Celia this name.Chester Horse Jr.
-The second part of the tournament is also better presented, instead of going to schools to play matches with a small audience, like in the whole game, it starts with a whole ceremony like a world cup, presenting the teams, and all the matches are in the same giant football stadium with lots of audience. Also instead ofcommetning the first anime matches, is his fatherChester Horse Jr.Chester Horse.
-that I dont know if his a secret character in this one or appears in the second game, jumps aboard in the match againstEric,, he has a backstory and is given lots of importance.Kirkwood
-Some special moves are changed place in the storyline and fit much better, likethe magic hand, that is going to be used against Zeus
-Ray Darkis also better explained, with the detective better placed in the storyline. Props to how they explained the beams falling in the anime, in the game is stupid and looks like an acame cartoon :lol . In the anime, it looks like a real trap.
So yeah, even if both of the stories, the game and the anime ones, are lighthearted and really similar one to each other, I think is much better told in the anime than in the game. And is not that is not possible to have that type of story in the game as its only change some of the things that the characters say, and give a little more flesh to some of the chapters, even if its done with ingame graphics.
So if someone has time and wants to have a better fleshed story, I reccomend them watching the anime (i suppose in japanes with subs). Its a kid anime, but its lighthearted and fun.
But the game is aweome and Im really waiting for the second one.
Yes.Caesar III said:When recruiting guys through the friends board can I dismiss guys I don't want and remain the gate access on the board?
Is there a way to recruit the guys from Inazuma Kids? Higgins is so cute
The downside being that when I got to that point in the game,Caesar III said:thanks! Good news!
There's different growth levels for some players, I think.Caesar III said:I figured this will be the case indeed But I can play a lot of friend matches and such later then.
btw why is the lvlup so different from player to player ? Wallside is lvl 17 still and Alex is 29 (both in 4 team)
the_painted_bird said:Has anyone in the U.S. successfully imported this yet?
vareon said:This is what I want to know, thanks!
I don't know those names since I watch the anime subbed, though. I just know Endou Mamoru = Mark Evans and Axel = Gouenji. Bobby is Kidou (guy with cape and goggles), I think?
Yep, Mark (and Jack) have a totally fucked up growth system. I undesrtand Mark, as his always in your team levelling up, but Jack? 2000 something experience points for level 26 to level 27 is incredibly shitty. Even more when guys like Axel go up level as if it was the easiest thing in the world.Haunted said:There's different growth levels for some players, I think.
I can recruit Samantha now? Fuck YES!Haunted said:Yes.
Yes, but only very late into the game.
Dash Kappei said:Guys, PLEASE HELP ME OUT.
I, like others on GAf, did an order from gamebasement.co.uk for Inazuma Eleven.
Order placed on 30Gen at £27 circa, after a Gaffer reported they were legit. After 4 days with the order under processing status, which was in stock and supposed to be shipped in 24h, I wrote 'em to cancel my order. Nothing for 4 days, so I wrote 'em again, but nothing still and it has been 10 days since my first email.
So yesterday, super pissed, I was to send yet another email when I decided to try ring 'em even if me not being in the UK meant $$$. Nothing more than an answer machine ALL DAY LONG.
Freakin' out, I looked around on the net and discovered the company is basically a FRAUD which only sometimes honors the orders.
And I don't mean the usual pro and cons with lots of good experiences that all retailers enjoy, I mean the kind of feedback you usually find for scammers. Half an hour ago I went looking under my account to see if anything changed and yes, it suuuure changed...
they FREAKIN' CHANGED MY ORDER to a £89 charge!!!
It doesn't even say what's in my order! I got copy of my order correct total, what item it was and everything, sent by them at the time of my order, and my VISA has yet to be charged.
WHAT CAN I DO? -_-
Help, please, I've been shopping online since 1996 and I've never had any problem, always been careful so I really don't know what can I do.
Oxx said:HOLY SHIT, you're not kidding!
They changed my order to £86.97. Wtf!
Why in the blazes they can't tell their customers this vital info I do not know...apparently they are having staffing issues...http://ds.nintendolife.com/news/2011/02/nintendo_inazuma_eleven_not_officially_launched_in_the_uk#comment said:"ALL Inazumas are out for delivery today. If anyone wants to track their order they need to type in the last six digits of their order reference number into www.thedx.co.uk on the right hand side and then their post code with a space in it"
Sad lol :/Oxx said:Tracking currently unavailable.
Why am I not surprised?
Indeed.Dash Kappei said:You know what sucks the most?
That I have no intention of buying this game anymore, not if I don't get my money back... And to think that I wanted this thing localized from when it was first announced by Level 5 back in the day...
lostinblue said:It's out on sale on my country, I've been to tons of stores and still haven't managed to secure a copy, it's sold out everywhere. And then we have these con artists selling the game. It's turning into quite a bit of a trainwreck; initially I even thought it was working for the game, creating buzz, but now it's being counter-productive.
f*ck this sh*t :/
Wh where are you from!? English text version of it?Kandrick said:Stores here are literally flooded with copies of the game. So much that i couldnt resist buying it yesterday, despite wanting to play it in english. Also sucks about the whole game basement thing, hope things get sorted out.
lostinblue said:Wh where are you from!? English text version of it?
Here (portugal) it's been quite the nightmare.
EDIT: ah, I guess the french/italian/spanish/german version? I won't bite those :X
ISIS, internet shopping is safe, a secure trading body program run by IMRG.org where Games Basement is affiliated (oh the irony!) are helping me out A LOT in trying to get the money back and taking them down for the fraud. As soon as I've contacted them GB wrote me their first email (full of lies but that's another story) in a matter of hours.Oxx said:Tracking currently unavailable.
Why am I not surprised?
slaughterking said:The German OP is preeeetty bad. It's like they took an awkwardly literal translation of the Japanese song and altered it with some obscure phrases and words ("schlammverkrustet" :lol ) to make it rhyme and keep its rhythm. The singer isn't really into it either.
SpacePirate Ridley said:Just heard the english opening...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKjN92WXN6M
What the mother of fuckity fuck!
GhaleonQ said:^.
Also, it's lame that they use subsequent anime songs for it instead of the original, phenomenal opening.
I mute the volume and spam taps as fast as I can so I don't have to hear any of it. The first line alone makes me fucking cringe. "Auf gehts auf gehts - rauf auf den raaasen"slaughterking said:The German OP is preeeetty bad. It's like they took an awkwardly literal translation of the Japanese song and altered it with some obscure phrases and words ("schlammverkrustet" :lol ) to make it rhyme and keep its rhythm. The singer isn't really into it either.
Just Dance 2? jesus christ, Italy.slaughterking said:The game entered the weekly Top 10 charts in Italy. :0
Italy:
Week 5, 2011
01 (__) [WII] Mario Sports Mix (Nintendo)
02 (04) [WII] Just Dance 2 (Ubisoft)
03 (01) [PS3] Dead Space 2 Limited Edition (Electronic Arts)
04 (04) [WII] Wii Fit Plus + Balance Board (Nintendo)
05 (__) [WII] Wii Party (Nintendo)
06 (07) [PS3] Gran Turismo 5 (Sony)
07 (__) [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo)
08 (__) [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (Nintendo)
09 (10) [PS3] Call of Duty Black Ops (Activision Blizzard)
10 (__) [360] Kinect Advetures (Microsoft )
Thanks to dabra: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=25956040&postcount=30
Nah, I don't think we'll ever see the second one.Kids are really loving it, so thats good news for the second one.
Haunted said:I mute the volume and spam taps as fast as I can so I don't have to hear any of it. The first line alone makes me fucking cringe. "Auf gehts auf gehts - rauf auf den raaasen"