So anyone planning on getting this? I played through some of it last night, and found it to be quite interesting.
For those of you who don’t know the story, you’re essentially given a mystic book. The world’s gonna end, so it somehow falls on you to create the new world by putting information into the book (Book of Prophecies). By Code Scanning objects, people, and enemies, you find that they’re made of different Codes (like Light and Darkness, Ill, which has negative effects, Dog and Cat, and much more).
It’s been pretty cool so far. I like editing the Codes of enemies to make them easier to kill, and editing weapons. Combat’s pretty simplistic. X and Y control each arm for hitting enemies, B lets you Code Scan enemies (whack 'em with the Book), and A lets you do Judgment Link, which tosses the enemy in the air, and you do a minigame juggling them up into the atmosphere and eventually into Space where they explode and give you Health, MP, and EXP.
My only complaint so far is that dying comes easy if you don’t know what you’re doing. Health works like Hearts in Zelda. Enemy hits you, you lose one point of health. So even weak enemies can screw you over if you’re not paying attention. And if you die, you can continue, but you only come back with 1/2 Health and MP. Case in point, I died within 5 sec upon entering a forest area where an Invincible Hobgoblin whooped my ass. (Yes, some enemies have invincibility within their Codes.) Other people mentioned issues with the Book’s interface, which once it starts filling up, there’s quite a bit of info to go through. There is an index for reference, but you still have to go through pages to get where you need to go.