Monday, June 25, 2012

xenoblade chronicles

Finally, Nintendo agrees to publish game, in role which is not
that green-wearing elf-guy, or that red-wearing plumber and that is actually good. I don't know, if there is something familiar same with the xenosaga except creators (Monolith soft) and the xeno-word, but whatever, it's good.

Gameplay
Xenoblade Chronicles ImageJust like in all jrpg:s, story happens in magical world, which in this case was formed from corpses of two Titans, Bionis and mechonis, on which all humans and animals lives on Bionis and a main hero is, of course early orphaned, teenage boy, who is destined to defend his kind from inhabitants of Mechonis, mechons, with power of magic sword, Monado. It is the only weapon against mechons, (alongside pushing them down the cliff, unfortunately, thats not an option.)  that works against mechons, gee, i wonder why, maybe because it's a frickin laser blade. For some people good thing is, you don't have to play as a shulk all the time, but you can also play with other charaters, that for similar to all jrpg:s for example loyal, big, meatshield friend,
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Awesome views are the best thing in a game
almost-a-girlfriend, who's good with daggers, Magician girl, gunner/medic, talking ball creature with the mace and war veteran. it was the classic thing, that all jrpg:s have. New is liking. Of course everyone like others in cutscenes, but how do that help them. in Xeno, you got an answer.
There, everyone has a skill tree. The more the liking, the more skills you can borrow from a friend. Plus, the chain attack lasts longer. Bad thing is, that this game doesn't have very
changing missions. Go, destroy, fetch, it's making me crazy doing this all the time. But still game is very long. It took me 30 hours just to get to the half of game

Overall 8,7/10.0
Story of epic quest is good, views are good too,
but even i, who loves jrpg:s, that cannot played all the time.

 

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Disgaea 4

This is a new game to more-or-less popular Disgaea series and i heard, it was one of the best Disgaea series since the first game. When the third game has involved demons (japanese?) school, this one involves japanese-demonic politics, when main hero, former tyrant Valvatorez, has to aim for the hell's president in order to save his people. He will have also to many monster's asses to achieve his goal and in that he will have help, like his butler werewolf Fernich, Demon Axel, Valvatorez's people prinnies (that are actually penguins), cat's, dragons and other god-know-what things that actually are also politicians. As fun it sounds, it still pretty good actually.

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Should i make fun of that?
Gameplay
As any strategic role-playing game, you have to control many characters at once. Each one has his special moves, that makes nasty stuff. Playable characters are separated into two categories, human-likes and monster-likes.
Human-likes are those, that can have swords, bows, guns and other stuff and
monster-likes (kittens, prinnies, undeads, living mushrooms, vice versa)  are those, who can be all those things above due to special magichange stuff, that
is between human-like and monster-like magic.


Overall 8.3/10.0
I hadn't much more to write. the game is fun,
challenges your strategic thinking, as you think of a best
attack plan possible.
warning: weird game idea of demonic politics, but
hey, at least it's something new.

Monday, June 4, 2012

okami

This is one of the best games I've ever played!
sure it's a little old, since it's released in 2008 and Zelda rip-off but it's still frickin awesome! In game, you are a
goddess of sun Amaterasu, who have woken from her 100 year old slumber to help nice people of Nippon, who have been attacking by rising army of dread Orochi. As sidekick, she have a little helper called Issun the wandering perv... artist and a magical celestial brush , by help of which amaterasu, or called by Issun, Ammy, can make magic tricks, like magic slash, controlling elements, making bombs, (obviously) creating sun, vice versa.

Gameplay
 Controlling is not best part of game. It is graphics. Whole game is made
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Issun, you are damn right in this case.
in cute japanese-styled inked graphics, that are good to see in every part of the game. In game you will travel in forests, fields, cities ice mountains and even underwater, man's insides and tower, that reaches the clouds.  All celestial brush techniques you can obtain by helping thirteen different "god" animals, that live in a constellations that requires to use the brush to connect the stars and listen to their speech, that is same at every god animals, that is greeting Ammy, telling that evil has locked them in stars and giving awesome abilities. You cannot just use Magic brush, as each move uses
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did i mention beautiful world?
one inkwell and it requires time to refill them automatically and in that case you should use your weaponry. Weapons in this game are three types: Ammys basic weapon, solar disk, celestial ummm... whip and Japanese two-hand blade.
They can be put either primary or alternative, which will make their use of pretty different, that means converting solar disk into shield, whip into gun and blade into lance. Enemies are obviously related with japanese  mythology, so they contain imps, tengus, angry Buddhist statues and undead flying fishes (sushi time!). While in battle Amaterasu can do some special "finishing move", that can give 1-3 special demon fangs, that are used to buy
more awesome stuff, like magic peaches, inkwell stuff or even special blanket, that helps you to walk on water (you mad, Jesus?). Also, in game alongside with
main quests you can also help people of Nippon in various side quests, that rewards you with praise points, with what you can upgrade your life and inkwell counts and with special clay beads, that if you collect 100, you will become truly
goddess of that goddamn sun, as you will have infinite life and ink! AAAWWW
YEEEAAAHH!

overall 9.5/10.0
Graphics are awesome, music is too and gameplay too.
What then can go wrong? well i tell. i didn't find the bad thing. except for over-candyish graphics
Forget it's one of endless Legend of Zelda rip-offs,
you must buy this game, alongside the Zelda: twilight princess
and xenoblade  chronicles, you simply must.