StreetPass Mii Plaza games discussion.

JayMoyles wrote:

Fishing's great fun - quite relaxing and easy enough to grasp. Zombies is alright - it's a bit basic in regards to its actual gameplay, but the sheer silliness of the items makes up for that. Worth picking them both up, for sure.

What exactly is Premium? You don't seem to be getting much for your money there, unless I'm totally missing a pivotal feature.

There is no pivotal issue. It is the greatest waste of money Nintendo ever invented.

JayMoyles wrote:

Fishing's great fun - quite relaxing and easy enough to grasp. Zombies is alright - it's a bit basic in regards to its actual gameplay, but the sheer silliness of the items makes up for that. Worth picking them both up, for sure.

I like the story and the silly items in Zombies. Fishing is what it should be like in the next Animal Crossing.

I don't give two shits about Premium. Is it a subscription or a one-off purchase? Depressingly, I've StreetPassed loads of people who are using the customised speech bubbles, unless Nintendo craftily works them into the software at random to entice you.

The custom speech bubbles are apparently free, they sit just below hats in the store and you get a free one for each of the streetpass games. I had also assumed they were premium until I found them.

You need Premium to actually use them though, as far as I know. I had a brief search online and that is apparently the case; I can see no option to utilise them as it stands.

Nope, I can use them. You just go into your mii settings.

Really?

Found it, cheers! I misinterpreted a comment I read in a GameFAQs thread.

Yeah, I'll be steering well clear of Premium. What a depressingly obvious money-grab from Ninty.

I've settled on a Pikmin speech bubble; even though I'm not much for the game, the short films they were in were ace. I'm also happier about Zombies, since Jo has started to become the lead Mii in each story segment.

So we're back with a set of five (!) new StreetPass games: two from Good-Feel, two from Prope and one from Arzest. I've just had a quick play of them all: Racer is fun, if simple; Trader seems slight (and I'm bad at it); Chef is going to be all about the colours, which means I hate it; Ninja is my favourite; Explorers is fussy and complex. Phew!

Did anyone else indulge? What are your thoughts?

I've not jumped on board quite just yet, but I plan to later on!

Also, Streetpass Premium now seems to have a bit more value with the cap on number of Streetpasses being lifted to 100 with Premium! So... could be worth a look if you get lots of Streetpasses on a regular basis.

I'd have gotten Premium after the update if that were the case but they seem to have dried up and not picked up with these new games either which is a shame.

On the games themselves, you can tell they've gone for a more streamlined approach, it's probably a good thing in the grand scheme of things but I've found my favourite to be Explorers, the biggest of the 5. I'll agree Ninja is good fun, I've gotten to the stage where I have to figure out the trajectory myself so it looks like it'll have legs.

Slot car racer is quite tough I'm finding so that'll keep me busy, the remaining two are fairly lacklustre stuff.

Arghnostopit. By which I mean "three more StreetPass Puzzles have landed".

They don't usually come with pink pieces lately so I tend to use up all my play coins to complete them now and move along again.