Don't be fooled by the vector graphics and similar basic mechanic. There are strategic layers to Space Giraffe that just aren't in Tempest.
Perhaps it'd be more appropriate to say
Space Giraffe : Tempest :: Street Fighter Alpha 3 : Yie Ar Kung Fu
because, yeah, both the latter games have the subtle theme of "dudes punching," but if you try to play something highly technical like SFA3 with the same techniques as you do an early fighter game, you're gonna miss out on 99% of the game play and end up like the poor dweebs from Official Xbox. :)
In short, you don't talk to Minter, man! You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "What's your score?"... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a sexy goat scuttling across meadows of tall green grass...[/silly]
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Date: 2007-09-04 02:42 pm (UTC)*smirk*
Don't be fooled by the vector graphics and similar basic mechanic. There are strategic layers to Space Giraffe that just aren't in Tempest.
Perhaps it'd be more appropriate to say
Space Giraffe : Tempest :: Street Fighter Alpha 3 : Yie Ar Kung Fu
because, yeah, both the latter games have the subtle theme of "dudes punching," but if you try to play something highly technical like SFA3 with the same techniques as you do an early fighter game, you're gonna miss out on 99% of the game play and end up like the poor dweebs from Official Xbox. :)
In short, you don't talk to Minter, man! You listen to him. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "What's your score?"... I mean I'm no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man. I should have been a sexy goat scuttling across meadows of tall green grass...[/silly]