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Mr. Pin?

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This is another one of those games where I wish I could show it to a 10 year old Sock Drawer, just to blow his mind with the crazy games of the future!

I reckon the GC controller on it's own would be enough to get the stake-burning mobs going! Especially if it's a Wavebird...

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Bah! Not been able to play it for a couple of nights now. I'm getting withdrawal symptoms!

What is everyone's favourite "place" in the game? I think mine is the Graveyard, incl the church and the walkways suspended over the lake. It just has a really spooky feel to it, but also includes the gorgeous colours inside the church, and the dramatic wind-swept vista over the lake. It's especially gorgeous in the rain, with lightning illuminating the church.

In terms of atmopshere it's hard to top that, I agree.

The village itself is wonderful too I think. The small path leading up to it with the signposts, beartraps and crows gets your blood pumping for the village itself. When you first enter it you see them grilling one of your drivers and then they spot you and all hell breaks loose. I love the design of it. All the different buildings you can enter, a dog running around, cows doing nothing, chickens everywhere....and crazy villagers coming at you with axes, knifes, dynamite and a motherfucking chainsaw.

The village is just a brilliant playground. Throwing yourself trough windows, climbing up ladders (and knocking villagers down), shooting them from the roof...aces.

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Couldn't agree more Vemsie. I must've played that section about 30 times now, not to mention Mercs. I also like the outlying areas, the bit with the boulder chase where you can walk back up and pop the two Ganados on the bridge, the Farm etc. I love the way they've nailed the feeling of a cold autumn day in the lighting etc. Oh, and I really like the room the villagers go into when the bell rings, with the light coming through the window onto the typewriter.

There is still much to like about the Castle though - the bit with the billowy curtains and all the paintings is ace.

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Resident Evil 4 is brilliant but it's a 9, not a 10. it doesn't raise the bar sufficiently to be awarded top marks. this is not a criticism, it's ace in every way and the best entertainment i've had in ages. i'm just trying to inject a bit of perspective.

it seems EDGE agrees with you, sir :o oh well, i'll rue that for a million years...i still believe a ten would be most appropiate. it just so happens to coincide with HL2...like a twin star.

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I'm not sure what else Edge would have liked to see in the game to warrant giving it a 10 (proper physics maybe?), but a 9 is still a great score. I'm interested to read the review though, to see if it's a gushing "this was so nearly a 10, it's brilliant!" type review, or a "Here's loads of complaints, oh but we're giving it a 9 anyway" review, à la Mario Sunshine.

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Nintendo make thier controllers to an incredibly high standard, don't they? No amount of throwing, twisting or biting will destroy these things. I'm impressed.

What I'm not impressed with, is my battle with Krauser, that took 90 (Nintey, 9x10) minutes before I gave up and switched it off. Death, after death, after death. After an hour, I reloaded my save and bought a rocket launcher from the Merchant, hoping that this would sort me out. But no. Leon turned out to be a big girl who couldn't pcik up a rocket launcher and aim it successfully in 3 seconds.

Pussy.

So I died for about the 30th time, and gave up. Got some fresh air, came back, upgraded my Broken Butterfly, and, finally did it, 30 minutes and 9 deaths later.

*Sigh*

For Sale: One Gamecube controller, Spice Orange. Scuffed plastic coating, tainted with white wall paint. Bite marks on lead. Carpet fluff on button an optional extra. Pretty much mint

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Nintendo make thier controllers to an incredibly high standard, don't they? No amount of throwing, twisting or biting will destroy these things. I'm impressed.

What I'm not impressed with, is my battle with Krauser, that took 90 (Nintey, 9x10) minutes before I gave up and switched it off. Death, after death, after death. After an hour, I reloaded my save and bought a rocket launcher from the Merchant, hoping that this would sort me out. But now. Leon turned out to be a big girl who couldn't pcik up a rocket launcher and aim it successfully in 3 seconds.

Pussy.

So I died for about the 30th time, and gave up. Got some fresh air, came back, upgraded my Broken Butterfly, and, finally, did it, 30 minutes and 9 deaths later.

*Sigh*

For Sale: One Gamecube controller, Spice Orange. Scuffed plastic coating, tainted with white wallpaper shards. Bite marks on lead. Carpet fluff on button an optional extra. Pretty much mint

Is that on Pro? That's the hardest bit in it. I think half my deaths on Pro were at that bit too. It's all plain sailing from there on in though. And, by the way, I ended up knifing the fucker to death.

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Is that on Pro? That's the hardest bit in it. I think half my deaths on Pro were at that bit too. It's all plain sailing from there on in though. And, by the way, I ended up knifing the fucker to death.

:)

That's most impressive. I couldn't even kill him with a rocket launcher. And you managed it with a knife.

Squirtle>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>emjay.

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I'm not sure what else Edge would have liked to see in the game to warrant giving it a 10 (proper physics maybe?), but a 9 is still a great score. I'm interested to read the review though, to see if it's a gushing "this was so nearly a 10, it's brilliant!" type review, or a "Here's loads of complaints, oh but we're giving it a 9 anyway" review, à la Mario Sunshine.

If that Mario Sunshine review had no score, I would've thought it a 6. I hated that review. Let's hope it's a gusher. It deserves all the soundbites it can get.

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You were shooting him in the feet, weren't you?

On Pro it is impossible. I had to resort to getting him on his feet and as soon as he started going down change to the rocket, quickly try to aim and pray i had enough energy to surivive the blast. When i did it with the Typewrite on Pro it was piece of wee wee.

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On Pro it is impossible. I had to resort to getting him on his feet and as soon as he started going down change to the rocket, quickly try to aim and pray i had enough energy to surivive the blast. When i did it with the Typewrite on Pro it was piece of wee wee.

Yeah, on Normal shooting his feet was easy, but it's just not possible on Pro. I had to just let him do his QTE attacks, and hope to avoid them. I only managed to hit him after he'd left himself exposed from a missed attack. And doing it with a shotgun isn't going to work. It's not powerful enough.

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Pro - Krauser. Get him on the walkway between the two open bits. Shoot him in the leg with the magnum and then just knife, knife, knife. Doesn't take very long and he's dead. You need to dodge a couple of attacks but I found it the easiest (for easiest read still pretty hard) way to do it. I'd say it was about 10 knife slashes in all.

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it seems EDGE agrees with you, sir :) oh well, i'll rue that for a million years...i still believe a ten would be most appropiate. it just so happens to coincide with HL2...like a twin star.

I've played this more than HL2. It's just more fun!

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I've played this more than HL2. It's just more fun!

I'm not sure about it being more fun than HL2, if only for the gravity gun and continued awesomeness of CSS and HL2 DM....

That said, this looks like being the first game in years, apart from HL2, that I'm going to be motivated enough to actually complete.

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ah but ask yourself this question.

what game can you stack up trash cans?

who cares if the enemies are fun to fight or not. it's the amount of pointless things you can do in a game world that equals points.

Mind you I've already put more hours into WOW that I have into RE4. And I got WOW on friday :)

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Having a flaming mass of chainsaw women who you had thought you had dealt with using a fire grenade completely blindside you and lop your head off while you try to deal with a crowd of villagers induced more panic in me than just about anything else, ever.

That's honestly the last shit I need before I go to sleep :) .

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Hehe. Like I said some pages before, I could hear those roaring chainsaws when lying in bed wiht my eyes closed :)

When I was playing, one of my neighbours apparently decided he needed to hang a picture and used his powerdrill on the wall. The sound freaked me right out.

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emjay2kay

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When I was playing, one of my neighbours apparently decided he needed to hang a picture and used his powerdrill on the wall. The sound freaked me right out.

Heh, the fire alarm in my halls went off the other week, at pretty much the exact moment some bastard hit me from the side with an axe. Absolutely terrifying.

One of the Malaysians in my ktichen asked me what film I was watching today, because he could hear shouting and swearing, gunshots, and elephants (!!) dying. Not sure about the elephants bit, but it made me laugh nonetheless. I'll turn the volume down, me thinks.

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