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@ spinkle: Which ranked match is your favourite? I personally like Shinobu... not only did you get some damn good music to go along with it, but she's probably the hardest boss in the game.

I agree that she's the hardest. I got stuck on her my first runthrough on Mild and it forced me to drop down to Sweet...then when I played her on Sweet I beat her without getting hit once, it was seriously the most elegant boss fight I've ever had. That might have been the moment I fell in love with the game, actually. In a way, she is both my favorite and least favorite fight.

Bad Girl was also VERY interesting XD The first time she dropped to the ground and started crying, I was like "sweet" and tried to unleash all hell onto her before she got back up... BIG mistake, she grabbed me and did some super combo which killed me. I retried her and this time when she'd fake cry I'd stay away from her until she stops and she'd spit out "fuck!" and get back up XD lol.

oh man, she pissed me off so badly when I first fought her because of that, haha. FUCK YEAH, CRY, I'MA KILL YOUR ASS! Oh wait, I'm apparently dead.

At least Bad Girls super combo is easier to avoid than Shinobu's is though. It was also fun hitting the gimps back at her, Legend of Zelda style lol.

Her attacks were remarkably easy to avoid, but it was also a pain in the ass to get her to put her guard up for an easy stun. Definitely a fight that requires patience. I did love the LoZ stuff, I have to think that it's a shout-out to the series, haha. It sure was a pain to hit the gimps back twice though...the timing was really tight on that, with no room for error.

The ranked match for Letz Shake is also really funny XD

That was the fight I'd been waiting for through the whole game, haha, I knew there would be at least one huge shark jump coming.

Speed Buster was fun if a bit of a letdown...and I don't think I'd've been able to do it without the Show Enemies on Mini-Map powerup. Harvey is just a fucking joke, though it's kind of a fun fight (real annoying on Bitter, but fun overall). Holly Summers is kind of an obnoxious fight--I hated having to wave the wiimote or nunchuk fast to get out of the pit traps, it killed my wrists (same thing with Harvey and being trapped in the crates)--although the only level where she caused me any difficulty was Bitter. Excellent end-scene for that fight, though.

I think I like fighting Jeane and Henry the most, though, since both of them require some measure of skill, patience and coordination, which (at least for me) makes them more gratifying to beat.

OH! and I absolutely *love* Travis' internal monologue during the initial fight with Death Metal, going from euphoria and overconfidence to absolute doubt...a brilliant addition to an otherwise routine scene, and one of many game-making moments.

Oh, and you know that part at the end which was sped up? Here's the slowed down version XD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhuMHw4aPg You don't unlock this in the game or anything, someone actually did slow this down themselves.

I watched that a couple days ago, right after I beat the game on Mild, and I lmao'd, just because of Travis' reactions to the story having a context. It's funny as hell to see him facepalming while she's blurting out all this seemingly random crap at 10x speed XD but it was even funnier to know what she was saying and watch him at the same time. The best part of the story is the fact that it basically starts with "You know that manga Miyuki?" XD

@ kin: "even for a cell shaded type game"?[/QUOTE]

FWIW, I thought WW was a superb game, and graphically it defined (or defines) a new aspect of the franchise--Phantom Hourglass is one of my absolute favorite in the series, and much of the reason why is the familiarity of the graphics. IMO, it demonstrates both the ability of the DS and the appropriateness and integrity of that artistic style to the franchise, and as a result anyone who downplays WW because of the graphics can get bent =)

Frankly, though I know a lot of people weren't pleased with it, I thought Twilight Princess was an absolutely tremendous GCN game and demonstrated the graphic capabilities of that machine in the same way the Metroid Prime series did. (I didn't find the Wii version to be as much fun, but that may have a lot to do with my inability to navigate the inverted maps and the slow response times on the sword swinging, plus on Wii it looks like...well, a GCN port. Which is fine, we all know I love the GCN and would snuggle with it if it wasn't so boxy, but at the same time I wanted it to look at least a little better. I probably need a better TV)

And now, with all that said, I'm gonna go beat Henry's ass on Bitter =D