Attention DS Owners
If you haven’t played it yet, get your hands on a copy of Contact. It’s put out by Atlus, who also have their name attached to quirky, excellent RPGs such as Disgaea. There’s an interview with Atlus’ Tomm Hulett at Siliconera worth reading. Its average review over at 1up.com is an 8.1.
While it’s very easy to compare the game to Earthbound, a few other games came to mind when I started getting into the gameplay. It’s got elements of RPGs with real-time battles similar to Star Tropics, Illusion of Gaia or Land Stalker. (As well as other games of the real-time battle RPG genre, but those are some of my personal favorites.)
It’s got fun side quests and job-type things like cooking, and playing with the Professor’s cat. It’s got plenty of internet nerd humor, too.
When you first fire up the game, it asks you to put in your name, and asks you a few questions about yourself. I have a sneaking suspicion that is related to the online play feature. I have yet to explore that.
Nintendo Gal has some pretty neat articles about this here game too under the tag Contact.
I’ve barely scratched the surface of this game and I already love it. Took me a few minutes to figure out some of the finer points of combat, but that was largely because I refused to consult the booklet. My one complaint is that it’s pretty easy to drag the stylus over your character (Terry) and bring up the menu prompt. It makes finding hidden triggers, walking, and sometimes combat difficult if you’re like me and don’t learn from your mistakes right away. I think I’ve gotten a handle on how to avoid that, and it’s just a quick tap of the stylus to clear that menu if you do make a mistake like that anyhow.
Forgive my disjointed review, I’m distractable today and I haven’t quite learned enough to provide a real full review. I’m just so excited about the potential of this game that I had to at least encourage further investigation. :)
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