I thought the first Darkness underrated (not that it was rated poorly).
The hub-based exploration and mission discovery, the accessibility of the game’s combat, the RPG style development, depth of dialogue, and urban desolate environments all combined to make a brilliant game.
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You know those people who harp on about gameplay as if it’s the only thing that determines whether or not a game is any good? Can you hear them in your head right now? Claiming that the graphics don’t matter, it’s the gameplay that counts, story can be great or terrible, but if the gameplay is good, then it can still be a great game? Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the game these people should be forced to play (that and text adventures), because gameplay is pretty much the only thing it has going for it (well, actually the graphics and score are hardly shabby, but we’ve seen it all before), and is the main reason why this is, unfortunately the worst Assassin’s Creed I’ve played. If you thought Brotherhood was pushing the boundaries of having a light story, then let it be known that Revelations is worse in every respect.
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Perhaps Tomm Hulett shouldn’t be the one talking to Silent Hill fans. Every time he talks on the subject, it is as if millions of Silent Hill fans suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced I can’t help but think that he doesn’t really get Silent Hill. In fact, he first came to my attention when talking about the voice acting changes, and when he talked about the decision to only include Silent Hill 2 & 3 in the poorly-named Silent Hill HD Collection. I suspect he’s just not very comfortable speaking to the public since the perceived nervousness some commentators have written about is present in every video I’ve seen.
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Let’s call them by their Roman numeral names first so the search engines are happy. Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Good, now I can write them in the form where I don’t have to constantly double-check how many ‘I’s I’ve used.
Did you enjoy Final Fantasy 13 in general?
If not, then, well, I’m afraid 13-2 isn’t going to make you love the series once more, since it is largely similar to 13.
Unless the only reason you disliked Final Fantasy 13 was the linearity, lack of freedom, or the weapon upgrade system, all of which have been banished in 13-2.
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Three demos, one connection error, several quick-time events, TOTAL WAR!
Except there wasn’t Total War.
Don’t worry, this will be short.
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Congratulations must go to Sony on this, the day of my daughter’s wedding release of firmware version 4.1 for finally enabling the browser on the PS3 to correctly render pages and the ability to not only render italicised text without deleting the space before, but giving me the ability to visit websites without the entire system crashing.
It took them six years.
Everyone clap slowly.
Recently, my PS3′s blu-ray diode gave up and died. Specifically that bit for some reason. Anyway, I did the sensible thing (or so I thought) of backing up the PS3′s hard drive before sending it off to the local shop for repair (AD Computers).
This isn’t going to be a complaint about that shop, they were great, it’s the backup bit that’s important.
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Well I finally got around to playing the Final Fantasy 13 – 2 Demo, and I have to say that I’m very likely going to buy it, and I like the look of it. It supposedly fixes many of the problems with 13, but obviously, in a demo you aren’t going to see all of that.
As most people are saying, they do seem to have recognised the linearity of the previous game which is a good thing. The demo was full of little sidequests, optional paths, more people to talk to, even a shop, etc. I’m glad to see that they haven’t listened to all the criticism though, and the combat system remains intact. Continue reading
Are there some?
No, I don’t mean trophies, it will have those, hopefully reasonable ones. Nor do I mean the abundance of extra outfits you can open up by entering codes. I’m talking about the one thing missing from the PC version.
The few extra scenarios and the extra enemies that were opened up by the presence of a PS2 save from Silent Hill 2 when you loaded up Silent Hill 3. Like the scene with Heather and the wallet, or at home with the mail boxes (no letters from any dead wives).
It’s a shame, that sort of thing seems to have rather died out, but was always nice. I hope it’s present.
EDIT: Yes, it does have the extra scenes. Check out my full review.
My thoughts on Amy are covered by my last post on the subject, but this statement from the people at VectorCell confirms one of my suspicions.
Amy was intended to be hard with few checkpoints.
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