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Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? (PSP) |  | From: Tecmo Koei
Category: Video Games
List Price: £29.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
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Platform: Sony PSP
Genre: role-playing-games
Media: Video Game
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Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.1 x 0.6
UPC: 813633010014
EAN: 5060073306497
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| Customer Reviews:
 Dood we totally get to be the hero! September 13, 2009
CowInSpace
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
There is nothing cooler in videogames than the prinnies. Souls of corrupt criminals contained in penguin like bodies till they work off their debt (or until someone throws them and the explode). Their first solo adventure(to replace Etna's dessert that they may, or may not, have eaten) is a well built platformer with great graphics that keep to the style of the other Disgaea games. There is nothing insanely hard, but nothing too easy and the learning curve is perfect. Only thing left to say is buy it now dood!
PRINNY!!!! EXCELLENT - DOOD!!! June 30, 2009
J. King (London, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was travelling around America and bought this game while out there...It is AMAZING!!! Great fun to play! You get 1000 of the little Prinny penguins when you start the game, and you have to go off and find the Ice Cream Sundae desert to get back to Etna....it's great fun all the way! DOOD!
The different levels and backgrounds in the game are so colourful and fun to see...they must have taken AGES to make! It's just loads of fun to play, and you don't have to get to stressed eaither, as it's easy enough in the beginning to enjoy and have fun with, but then as you progress it gets harder and harder! But in my mind, I want a game that I can play, get used to, and then as I'm learning the characters and moves, things start to challenge me.
In my mind it's the perfect PSP game, with colourful backgrounds, fun and cute characters (PRINNY!!!), and a good enough objective at the end, which is crazy and fun at the same time!
Everyone should buy this game for PSP as it's hours and hours of fun! The best PSP game I have ever played, and a great game for the summer! Loads of FUN DOOD!!!
 For the Masochistic Gamer May 29, 2009
S. Rhodes
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Pros:
+Cute adorable prinnies!
+Good music
+Beautiful game
+Simple gameplay concepts
Cons:
-Unusually difficult game to the point of frustration. The game's elements all come together and blend really well, but dying over and over again through what can mostly be considered trial and error makes what is a very fun game somewhat more frustrating
Prinnies, if you don't know, come from a cult classic SRPG by Nippon Ichi called Disgaea. They've become quite iconic in the series for providing humor and their constant use of the word "Dood". What they're probably best known for, however, is being those little penguins that when tossed at the enemy... explode.
Prinny: Can I Really Be a Hero? is not a Strategy RPG. It is a side scrolling platformer, in which you are on a quest to create the ultimate dessert. If the quest itself seems dumb... well, you haven't exactly played a Disgaea game, which is not known for having deep enriching stories. They're mostly known for having ridiculous premises and their humor. That is exactly what you get from Prinny.
Let us talk about what Prinny does right. The first is simple, it's a beautiful looking game. There are vibrant, colorful environments and backgrounds throughout each level. You'll recognize a few Disgaea characters and enemies as well. It's quite nice to see this kind of detail in a 2D platformer. The game also sounds incredibly good. There are some surprisingly catchy tunes. The voice acting is not exactly strong, but it isn't like nails on a chalk board either. It just needs a bit more emotion than what it gives you from time to time.
When it comes down to the gameplay Prinny has simple basic concepts. Like any platformer you'll jump a lot. But you've also got standard blade attacks as well as a ground stomp to take on your enemies with. There's not much more to the gameplay than this, but there doesn't have to be. It's simple to learn but difficult to master... really really difficult to master.
As you begin your adventure you are given 1000 lives. This is not a joke: 1000 lives from the start. Surely a game must be crazy to give you 1000 lives, right? Well, this is where Prinny's big problem comes in. The game is designed so that you'll die. A lot. Make no mistake, Prinny is an incredibly challenging (and frustrating) gaming experience. Most of it comes from level design and the jumping mechanic. If you remember what it was like to play Ghost n' Goblins or the old school Castlevania games, you have an idea of how jumping will feel in this game. The difference is that timing is much more important than in those games. In fact, aside from bosses, the majority of your deaths might come from jumping. The first time you might not think it's such a big deal. But after missing a jump more than 20 times (which can and probably will happen) it becomes quite frustrating. You can double jump, but the problem will still persist. You can't change direction once you begin jumping. It sounds like something that wouldn't be a big issue, but it's actually a huge one. Even worse is that after dying several times from missing or having the wrong timing with a jump... your reward just might be another very frustrating and unreasonable test in jumping. The good news is that there are a lot of checkpoints.
Another aspect which really contributes to the difficulty level are the boss fights. For the most part it's all about pattern recognition. But this means a lot of trial and error goes into defeating a boss. You'll learn their pattern eventually, but it might be after dying 25 times or so. After a while dying... becomes repetitive.
Normally, difficulty is a very good thing in a game. Gamers have been complaining about games being too simple lately. Prinny is the antithesis to simplicity, but for the wrong reasons. It's difficulty, for the most part, comes through design. But missing a jump more than twenty times or having to die at a boss more than twenty times just to learn how to do it is a bit excessive. The game in and of itself isn't very long, but you'll see that by the time you get to the end, you might have lost half your lives (and remember you begin with 1000 lives!). You'll definitely feel good if you can slug through the entire adventure, but it hardly seems worth the trouble to do so.
However, for what it's worth, the game is fun. But it would've been more fun if it weren't quite this difficult. The amount of death you'll run into can elevate from a simple "whoops" to sometimes wanting to throw your PSP across the room. In short, it's a fun game, but not if you're going to be frustrated easily by what could largely be considered meaningless deaths.
Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero? is by no means a bad game. You just might have a lot of fun with it. But for the easily frustrated it can be a test in patience as much as it is a test in skill. If you're a die-hard Disgaea fan or a die-hard Platformer, you just might enjoy this one.
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