John H.

Let's put this one to rest.

There is really no reason an experienced DS developer couldn't make the likes of Sam & Max work on the DS. Cart sizes can be surprisingly large, and access speed, while not ROM-quick, is still much greater than from floppy or CD, AND the system doesn't have to constantly keep an operating system in memory, AND the DS's lower screen resolution means graphics can be downsampled, further saving memory. Even Grim Fandango would probably work on the DS; in fact, it might work better than the later 2D adventures, seeing how low-poly its models were. Mario 64 was an early DS port, after all.

But Lucasarts wouldn't want to use an experienced developer for this. They'd cut corners ruthlessly. It's not like the adventure guys still work for them, after all.

Looking forward to World of Goo the most, although the Strong Bad game's tempting.

I don't know about 97%, but it is not hard to imagine the DS isn't selling just because everyone who might want one already has one.

On that basis, I can't imagine that even fanboys would begrudge the PSP some success.

There's already been an Earthworm Jim animated series, and it was AWESOME.

So, who's going to tell David Grabiner?

Rescuing people is surprisingly fun, yes. It seems to give you a guaranteed monster house on a rescue....

(Oh, and to respond to imaginary thomas' statement, although I haven't yet gotten to it in the DS version, if it's like the SNES game there ARE random herbs and scrolls, including bad ones, in Fei's Final Problem, the final "super dungeon.")

It is shocking how some people, whose jobs it is to review games, know so little about them. I've played this game for nearly every waking moment of the past two days (and got up to 41st place on the internet ranking for Table Mountain). It is just awesome. It is challenging, intelligent and engaging, all in ways that nearly all other RPGs are not.

No matter how much many of us want to hype it, realize its going to be a lot of running through the same series of levels, fighting the same guys over and over!

Superficially, this is true.

However, what you fail to recognize is that, since the levels, numbers of opponents, and the stuff the player might have found by that point are randomized each game, situations in fact vary tremendously.

I seriously wish there was a cat cafe around here.