ASTROBOY [gba]
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One of the best games on the system.
It's also dirt cheap.
It's also dirt cheap.
dark penguin
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I put a lot of time into the game. Great overall, lots of replay to it.
Awesome last boss.
Awesome last boss.
Professor Denim
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The last great treasure game.Better than Gunstar Heroes Advance.
and it looks amazing.
and it looks amazing.
Electric Cake
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i think its ok..
but you have different stuff you can unlock or something. and thats lame in my opinion.
but its ok
but you have different stuff you can unlock or something. and thats lame in my opinion.
but its ok
Loopz
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I also thought this was a fucking wickedly fun title.
Probably the best title they have done in recent years. It totally captured the spirit of the character and everything about it rocked. I would also take it over their other GBA offerings or recent console titles, hands down.
Probably the best title they have done in recent years. It totally captured the spirit of the character and everything about it rocked. I would also take it over their other GBA offerings or recent console titles, hands down.
dark penguin
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Electric Cake said:
Unlocking stuff is lame? I don't really follow here. Most games these days have some form of unlockable content. I'd go as far to say they lose points in a review score from most of the big game sites if there is no unlockable content.
Back on topic, this game had some great level design. I liked how some of the characters were hidden in the backgrounds, ie behind a window or whatnot.
Jedah Doma
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Amazing game, Went through it three times or so. Although I'm trying to get the true ending for the game.
Jedah Doma
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Kid Aphex said:
Friend of mine just picked up that Tiny Toons Bad Dreams game Treasure did and said it was pretty good as well.
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I have mixed feelings about this title. On one hand, it was really exciting to see practically all of Osamu Tezuka's characters tied into the Astro Boy universe, it was like the KOF of timeline crossovers. The story is definitely this title's strength. Its weakness is the slowdown... oh man, is there slowdown. I thought it unlike Treasure to not completely optimize their games... but then, I guess it was probably Hitm@ker that programmed it, and Treasure published it?
Jedah Doma
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Kid Aphex said:
LOL
That's a good question. It has to do with going through the game multiple times and beating/playing the game in a certain way to get a true ending. I've looked online, but I'm still not sure how to truly beat it. Once you get to the nd, you're sent back in some sort of time warp to play the whole game over again until you get it right.
Jedah Doma
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bokmeow said:
Sure there's slowdown, but what do you expect when you have 20+ guys on the screen at once all shooting and moving? I don't care if you're Houdini, the game will slow down just because of the huge tax on the GBA's resources.
Jedah Doma
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bokmeow said:
I'd rather have 20+ guys with a touch of slowdown then 15 with none. It was fun and this whole slowdown thing is being nitpicky as hell IMO.
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astro boy is one of my favorite games of all time. top 10 definitely, top 5 maybe.
for a handheld game to pull that off...
at one time, I had memorized the ending dialogue between Tobio and his dad (the guy who built Astro). I wrote it down in Word a while back.
and yeah, it would have been perfect too, except I had some major trouble going through the game on the second loop to get the true ending. you have to talk to certain people to trigger certain events so you can progress, god it's been so long...but I remember having to resort to the internet to see who I had to talk to and where they were.
still, nothing but love for it.
i'll admit, i got emotional at the end when astro was flying nuka to the sun.
for a handheld game to pull that off...
at one time, I had memorized the ending dialogue between Tobio and his dad (the guy who built Astro). I wrote it down in Word a while back.
and yeah, it would have been perfect too, except I had some major trouble going through the game on the second loop to get the true ending. you have to talk to certain people to trigger certain events so you can progress, god it's been so long...but I remember having to resort to the internet to see who I had to talk to and where they were.
still, nothing but love for it.
i'll admit, i got emotional at the end when astro was flying nuka to the sun.
bokmeow
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Jedah Doma said:
Loller
Slowdown is no goddamn fun. Nothing more frustrating that getting killed by slowdown, it's like throwing a fireball in SF2 on Xbox Live service, wait for lag, then realize that you got killed while the lag was in progress.
Hikaru Ichijyo
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Good to see a thread devoted to some Astroboy GBA luvin'. Count me in the crowd of people who enjoyed this game. 
