Re: Manamon, worth playing or not? definitely worth the time!
Well jayde, one thing I do think is the next release from Vgstorm will likely be something of a step forward just based on their levels of progression from one game to another.
I do not know precisely if I agree about your "lack of streamlined" and comparisons to pokemon, since to me such comparisons don't exactly matter as much if the game works and is playable on it's own merrits, and if indeed Vgstorm come out with a manamon Ii I personally will be looking more for things like a decent plot that keeps my interest, expanded mechanics, less grinding, more manamon and above all a better and more efficient online trading system if that is to be part of the game, rather than say whether or not the equipment does or does not resemble that of Pokemon.
The question of clones of mainstream games is an interesting one in and of itself anyway. Since personally if a developer came out with a game where you played an amnesiac sword wielding hero, coul
d gain and equip elementally charged magical metals onto items, had a story about a world where a distopean city was ruled by a large weapons company who were extracting life from the soul energy of the planet to create said powerful metals, and then had a soldier who was an experiment gone wrong who attempted to use alien cells to over power himself and take control of the planet's life energy (likely stabbing the healer character and killing her along the way), my comment would be a resounding "[[wow]]! this is a game I always wanted to play! or it's enough like one that I really don't care! about whether all the mechanics are replicated efficiently or not" .
I suppose it's a difference of emphasis. Likely if I'd taken the time, sighted assistance and inherent frustration to play my way through the mainstream pokemon series I poss ibly would feel differently, ---- though I will say even when I see attempts at audio recreations of mainstream games I am familiar with such as Mario or sonic I am all for the idea, and I'd love to see people get the same or similar experiences I've had with games like the metroid and mega man series.
Btw, a textual guide to manamon would be good, is the link in the audiogames archive's manamon page to a current version? I'd be interested in knowing since I do plan to restart manamon when i've got a new computer and got finished with my doctorate and thus have the time and headspace to give it enough attention, plus, I'd like to obviously have links to manamon resources available on the database.
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