Game Changer

[heiligekuh]

I picked up Planet Puzzle Leauge again, after misplacing the DS during the move and a far-too-long dallaince with WoW.  It's still, if you like arranging blocks, a fantastic, mind-blowing version of one of the best games ever.  There's a few little annoyances in the version, but I feel petty whining about a game that gives me WiFi play and vocie

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[heiligekuh]

Everything you say is true. Games play very different at different skill levels, and TA/PPL is notably suspect. When we first met Christine (now Flores), her mode of Vs. TA was to set the speed on 10 and just break whatever random shit you could and see who lasted the longest. The whole notion of dropping cheese was a brief afterthought.

Which may well be a valid play style! Certainly I would suck at that mode on a d-pad, and lost to her frequently.

I think my point is that for a certain level of play, vs. TA breaks and becomes isolated and dull. While I never reached that level when playing on the SNES, on the DS I'm there. hence why I'm only now noticing that people who are good at this game have known for years. Good at this game and *less high.* That seriously impeded my analytic skills.

Have you watched any of the videos of what Time Attack looks like with Exploding Lift on? It's more crazy that 3D mode. Here we have another minor change that creates an entirely new game. I can only imagine that VS with Exploding Lift would consist of "Start chain. First person who breaks it, loses."

WARNING: You may need extra pants.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NCoVg99c9g

Sorry to hear about your DS. I can't imagine you could service an out of warranty DS for less than the $100 purchase price.

[jeliaser]

I am incapable of processing the information contained in the video you linked to. Was that PPL? Was he playing with the d-pad?!!

I've a suggestion for enable your future enjoyment of versus mode. Heavy narcotics. It sustained enjoyment of the game for us in the vortex.

Yeah, unfortunately, 100 bucks isn't worth it to play PPL to unemployed Iason. Employed Iason, no doubt, would feel differently. And then I wouldn't have to wrench it from M's Suduku-maddened claws.

[heiligekuh]

That was PPL, but it was a saved movie so the cursor movements seem a bit erratic (since you don't see the stylus, it looks like it's warping all over the place).

Yeah, my brain gives up on that video. There's so many simultaneous breaks, that I lose track of which is the "real" chain and which is just exploding craziness.