As if you cared about what I thought about movies. As if you cared what I thought about books. Now I'll talk about video games! I realize this serving entirely as a journal for me to remember what I thought of these things, but oh well, here it is anyway. Plus I got a gamefly subscription, so I'll be going through more.
Stuntman: Ignition - The idea here is a car game, where you have to run through these stunt courses to make scenes for movies (or commercials), and then when you are done you get to see the "trailer" for your movie. I played the first one of this on PS2 (I think), and I loved it. This is more of the same. It's a certain type of game, for a certain type of person. You do the same thing, over and over, until you do it exactly right (or close enough) to pass. There's one path, one right way, and you don't get to be creative. That said, you create really cool scenes when you are done. I had a lot of fun, but I ran through it in two days and was glad to be done with it.
Odin Sphere - This is a PS2 game, a throwback to the 2D side scroller brawlers of yore. It is very fun, nice art style, nice combat system. But I only got part way through the second chapter (there are 4 or 5) and sent it back. It just got super old super quick. I had heard only great things about this, so I was sort of disappointed.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - Wow, this game is awesome. It's like indiana jones made into a game. funny, well acted & animated, charming, good story, good everything. Plays great too, you get to do lots of cool things. It looks beautiful, all islandy and green. It's really a movie you get to play, the characters are really great and enjoyable.
Heavenly Sword - Holy wow!! I had heard middling things about this game, fun but not great. I thought it was awesome. It's real short, beat it in two days, so I guess I'd be grumpy if I paid $50. But as part of gamefly it is beautiful. The graphics aren't amazing, things are a bit shiny (everything is these days), hair moves in clumbs, not strands, some textures look a little weird. The world isn't as pretty as Uncharted, and it certainly doesn't have the same movie length story. But it is amazingly well acted, I was totally into it. The voice sync is a little off, but the facial animations are great, you really get emotion from these people. The game itself is kind of a button masher with the tiniest bit of combo awareness. There's "styles" that determine how you attack (quick, strong, long range, etc) which is a nice addiction. Overall, this was a brilliant way to spend a few hours. Some good extras too, the animation series includes is amazing. It's a cartoon, very short, done in a sort of sin city shadows, rotoscope simple colors simple style. I don't know how to describe it, I don't know these things, but it was super cool and well narrated.
Finaly Fantasy VII: Dirge of the Cerberus - Umm.... at least it's FFVII, right? This game takes Vincent Valentine, the badassest of the people from FFVII and gives him a shooter game. I guess his story should be interesting, but I guess I'm too far removed from FFVII to care. And the game it self pretty much sucks. Bad aiming, bad controls, horrendous homicidal camera. It had a little bit of fun with it, but I couldn't convince myself it was worth going all the way through just to find out more about Vincent.
Devil May Cry 4 - Pretty dang fun! Nothing mind blowing, but fun to beat up some demons for sure. Certainly better than what I remember from the previous ones. It's pretty over the top, the showboating from Dante is kinda ridiculous, but it's fun. One big complaint, fighting the same minibosses THREE TIMES. Think up some new ones, dammit!
Burnout Paradise = I dunno, totally disappointing for me. I loved the old burnouts so much. This is fun to be sure, and I'm fine with the open city thing. But it doesn't bring anything else to the table, and it LOSES the amazing hte crash mode. The crash mode in this is stupid and boring. I guess online is supposed to be fun w/ your friends driving around in the same city, but I don't care about online much, so meh.
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