What's So Great About Handheld Consoles?

A long, long time ago, my mother bought me copy of Pokemon Blue and a Gameboy Color. I spent countless hours catching monsters and battling gym leaders. I was even able to battle with friends through a cable link cord. Eventually, I began to build my library of games up with instant classics like the Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX and Super Mario Land 2. When the time came to upgrade, I bought myself a Gameboy Advance. Great games like Golden Sun and Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced were developed for this system and thrown into my giant library of videogames. Fast forward to today and now I own both a Nintendo 3DS XL and a Playstation Vita. I love playing on the both of them as well.

What made handheld consoles great and what makes them still great? For one, they are accessible no matter where you are located. When it comes to accessibility, that one is an easy answer. I can bring these bad boys with me and play. I don't care with what my friends playing on his Xbox? Fine, I can just reach for my 3DS and play Fire Emblem: Awakening or turn on my Vita and play some MLB: The Show '13. I am going from New York City to Washington, D.C. and staring out the window bores me. Not a problem with handheld games because I can play them right on that train for four hours. Yup, they are pretty awesome like that.

Believe it or not, handheld consoles have a pretty awesome game library. I mean, you get the Legend of Zelda, Sonic the Hedgehog, Monster Hunter,...and you get the point. These games are some of the best you will play too! Take for example Pokemon. Yeah, that sums up the greatness of portable systems. Even Persona 4: Golden on Playstation Vita was one of the best games put out last year. I could continue to name games all night, but I think everyone gets the point.

Lastly, they are affordable. That's right, they are affordable (see my last blog post). One thing I have always found convenient is the fact that I don't need to pay $300.00 for a videogame system to get the same quality. I can pay much less. I also don't need to spend money for extra controllers, adapters, wotcha-ma-callits, and miscellaneous things. Also, game are far cheaper and they can be just as entertaining. So I hope that answers my own question.

Tuesday's Classic: Mega Man Legends

This makes me feel old

Out of all the installments of the Mega Man franchise, Legends has to be the second best. It was an open world adventure game that allowed for free exploration. To sum up the main plot of the series, "the player controls Mega Man Volnutt, a teenage digger and archaeologist of sorts who searches underground ruins mainly for Quantum Refractors, which are the civilization's primary source of energy" (Wikipedia). Yeah, it was much different from any Mega Man game at this point and really pushed the series into a new direction. It made Mega Man (FYI I am going two words here) more human then in his pervious games. You got to go into shops and explore cities. It had an actual plot to the story. It was a good one too!! I am not going to lie, it was a really colorful game to play, it might even be one of the best games ever released on the Playstation.

You are thrown into a flooded earth where one must hop from island to island and explore ruins to find power sources. Mega Man is a ruin explorer (archaeologist, duh) and makes a living from doing such. While doing such exploring, he finds himself constantly harassed by pirates. You also spend portions of the story trying to figure out where you came from, but that's more heavily focused in Legends 2 if I recall.

The game played as a typical third-person shooter. You took a behind look at Volnutt as you explored the world. You had your standard blaster rifle and could continuously upgrade it as you progressed through the game.You could interact with most of the environment and NPC's in this world.

Too bad Capcom cancelled a third installment considering this game needs a new one...unlike all the other games coming out this year. I would have thrown all my money in to buy a new installment. I will throw a video in here, F*** it.