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Quite Late -- Astro Boy: Omega Factor

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OK so I thought I'd grab a new GBA game today because I knew I was in for a wait (Dr. appointment) so on the way to my appointment I stopped at Best Buy. I had heard a lot of good things about AB:OF but never checked it out. I guess because I've never been a big Astro Boy fan...Anyway at $20 I figure what the hell.

OK seriously...I was told it was good but why the hell didn't anybody tell me Astro Boy really is this good!? I mean a quick checklist:

Lots of action: CHECK
Varied levels: CHECK
Sidescrolling goodness: CHECK
An absolute assload of Tezuka characters: CHECK
Challenging: CHECK
Quality and fun from SEGA: CHECK
The ironic humor seeing Sony Pictures/Sony Television on a GBA screen: CHECK

Why didn't wanybody pull a Drinky Crow and spam the forums with BUY ASTRO BOY: OMEGA FACTOR?

Quick question though...Am I way out of practice with sidescrooling action games or is Pook (the shape shifting kid) really that hard?
 
your action game skills are just rusty.

and practically everyone was saying that astro boy rocks. now go buy advance guardian heroes, which rocks just as hard, but wasn't treated nearly as well by press/fanboys/etc.

edit: hang on a second: quality and fun from sega? sega just published. you mean quality and fun from treasure.
 
I get tired of trying to tell people how great a Treasure game is, cause most people won't listen, and those that will listen already know.

I thought Astro Boy was technically a collaboration between Treasure and Hitmaker. If not, what exactly did Hitmaker have to do with it?
 
Dude, there was an Astro Boy thread up for a month in the summer professing the game's joyous virtues. Not to mention all the glowing reviews.

But better late than never :)
 
Since drohne is now in full DMC supporter mode versus naive detractor mode; I may have to believe his word on AGH.
 
actually i'm on the verge of denying i ever disliked dmc. there can't be too many people left who remember! and yeah, go get agh.
 
Good man, now to figure out the best way to convert you on Fzero GX... Itagaki isn't planning a Ninja Gaiden hovercart game is he? Cuz that may help...
 
Astro Boy is certainly great. I'll even go as far as putting it in my only personal list of the best that GBA has to offer.
 
mosaic said:
Dude, there was an Astro Boy thread up for a month in the summer professing the game's joyous virtues. Not to mention all the glowing reviews.

But better late than never :)
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Yeah...Seeing as I'm fairly new to GAF (December or so) I just plain missed the thread. But yeah I'm catching up...God this game is fun.
 
It's too short. Even doubling over the levels, it goes really fast. Also, lets upgrade slots than upgrades = boo.

That said, I still can't beat the multi-boss endurance at the end.
 
Son of Godzilla said:
It's too short. Even doubling over the levels, it goes really fast. Also, lets upgrade slots than upgrades = boo.

That said, I still can't beat the multi-boss endurance at the end.
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When the biggest problem with a game is that there isn't enough of it, you've got quite a game.
 
damn, i still need to pick up the US version of this game before it dissapears. (stupid region free GBA!)


Shard said:
Ah, Astro Boy Omega Factor, prehaps the last Sega game of any merit.
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there are at least 3 things wrong with this presumption.
 
Brandon F said:
Good man, now to figure out the best way to convert you on Fzero GX... Itagaki isn't planning a Ninja Gaiden hovercart game is he? Cuz that may help...
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i was replaying gx when i got my component cables a couple months ago, and i hated it much less than i initially did. i think i was just pissed off that i paid $50 for it. now i can sort of appreciate the pretty-but-shallow-ness. bring on itagaki kart, though. i wonder how titties would react under heavy Gs. :/
 
This thread makes me cry.

If there's anything I felt about Astro Boy GBA, it's that it further continues Treasure's mediocrity trend.

Well made game or not, the game is just not special. It is only when pitted against the pit of crappy modern gaming that it stands out at all. It's not that it's a bad game. It's just not particularly good.

I'd play pretty much any Capcom NES platformer over Astro Boy any day of the week.
 
Astroboy OF. Definitely US version is far superior to JP version. (Easy mode in US ver. is normal mode in JP, US Normal being Hard mode in JP - meh!) The true treasure identity and strategic layout of the gameplay comes out indeed ingeniously in US Hard mode. When you are done with Normal difficulty (which would be mildly challenging until you get used to) - but definitely try to master Hard difficulty. It's definitely worth it.

lachesis
 
lachesis said:
Astroboy OF. Definitely US version is far superior to JP version. (Easy mode in US ver. is normal mode in JP, US Normal being Hard mode in JP - meh!) The true treasure identity and strategic layout of the gameplay comes out indeed ingeniously in US Hard mode. When you are done with Normal difficulty (which would be mildly challenging until you get used to) - but definitely try to master Hard difficulty. It's definitely worth it.
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Wait, all reports I've heard said that:

Jp easy = US easy
Jp hard = US hard

and that a US normal mode is a newly created thing with up to 9 specials stored (easy has 30 and hard has 3 IIRC).
 
I played Advance Guardian Heroes for a half hour or so and didn't care for it at all. Maybe it appeals more to people who played the original.
 
Best looking GBA game ever! I played it when it first came out but it got put on the back burner. Just got back to it and WOW!

Just something so tight about it, the Treasure weirdness (horse/duck/? in a rubber tire boss?WTFWT?) and the super slick anime presentation take this game over the top.

This game made me put down Yoshi DS....
 
sasimirobot said:
the Tezuka weirdness (horse/duck/? in a rubber tire boss?WTFWT?)
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Fixed.

It's a very fun game. I played through on Easy like a chump and didn't realize how solid the combat system was until I started on Hard. Still, compared to Treasure's best, it's a minor masterpiece. I played though Gunstar Heroes a couple times after completing Astro Boy, and there really wasn't a thing it didn't do better than Astro.
 
I agree about AGH... recently picked up the game for $20 new, and played through, based on the recommendation of my brother (I was kind of skeptical due to the press slamming the game). But, aside from the poorly layed out jumping portions, I thought the game was a lot of fun... countering adds a great dynamic that was lacking in the original, and to everyone who complained about the game's slowdown, have you played the original??? You wanna talk about slowdown? Game is still a lot of fun, though a little on the easy side. I think I preferred it to Omega Factor, since in Omega Factor your recovery time is a bit too long for my tastes and I think that disrupts the flow of the game.
 
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