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Crushing the Competition

Finally finished Dirge of Cerberus yesterday, and MAN, it certainly wasn't a walk in the park.
That is to say, the game's pretty easy most of the time, but as you progress you'll get into some EXTREMELY annoying boss fights, and you'll face plenty of them before you get to the actual final boss, which, adversely, was pretty easy.

Overall, Dirge of Cerberus is kinda enteraining although the fun definitely does not last as long as the game itself, and with the game being a measly 11 hours long or so, that IS saying something. It could also have used some variety.
It sports some absolutely stunning FMV, this is still Square (-Enix) we're talking about, on par even with the mighty Advent Children (same character models probably), which makes it all the more sad that the actual in-game graphics are totally pathetic. Seriously. This looks like a first generation PS2 game, it's exceedingly lacklustre and dull. In fact, it reminded me of one of Square's first PS2 games The Bouncer, which might even have looked a bit better.

So, um, unless you want to see some nice FMV, stay away from this game.
In fact, even if you want to see nice FMV stay away, and get FFXII instead, which has even nicer FMV, much better graphics and is just a much better game.

What!? Was I just praising FFXII!?
Well.....uh.....only in comparison to Dirge of Cerberus of course. Ehem.
Actually, quite scarily, I'm enjoying FFXII considerably more right now than I did the first time. It's still not as good as, well, any of the PSX games (including 8!) but it is more fun than I have previously led you to believe.
I might even make a review some time in the future.
Maybe even before FFXIII comes out.



On a side note, the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA!) apparently also has a Video Game category (nice one!) and october 5th will see the winners for 2005 (only 10 months after the actual year!), and I was pleasantly surprised to see that Shadow of the Colossus has been nominated in just about EVERY possible category.
Here's hoping Justice will finally get served.

Still, it's enough of a victory to see that God of War isn't even ANYWHERE in there:

BAFTA Nominations

posted by Ingen! @ 11:29 AM 1 comments

Update!

Although I'm not quite sure why, since noone's reading this anymore anyway, including myself.

Let's just say it's therapy, which, of course, works best when noone is listening to it.

First of all: I'M GETTING BLOODY SICK OF ALL THESE "WII" PUNS.
Seriously, STOP IT RIGHT NOW, all of you.

Secondly, although I've clearly expressed my dislike for FFXII in the past, I have recently picked it up again (something I hadn't expected myself to do), after purchasing one (of the two! Thanks again, Square!) FFXII Ultimania, the Scenario version to be exact, which is the (only) one I wanted.
It was 700 Yen at the local Book-off, and I still had 700 Yen worth of discount tickets, so there you go :)
Even more unexpectedly, I'm kind of enjoying it right now (I'll put that down to those Ultimania's just being so goddamn good they make EVERYTHING fun), and I've even started......*gasp*.....levelling up! I never do that.

Also, I recently bought Dirge of Cerberus for a measly 980 Yen, despite all the rather negative reviews (it averages 59% on gamerankings!). And so far, I gotta say, it's actually rather entertaining.
Kind of easy though, but definitely not bad at all.
And Vincent just rules.

Still haven't acquired FFIII for DS, much to my shame, I'll probably wait until it becomes somewhat cheaper.

I've bought plenty of games recently, most of them from the bargain basket, and I just finished Ratchett & Clank (380 Yen!) which was amusing until the last couple of levels or so. Also picked up Maximo (380 Yen) which is supposed to be entertaining.
Haven't tried it yet though.
I ALSO tried getting the secret ending in Kingdom Hearts II by clearing the Jimminy Memo notes, which is goddamn IMPOSSIBLE. Or at least an insane amount of work.
So I decided to just play through on Hard mode and get it just for finishing the game :)
Great stuff though, as usual. In fact, if you're going to play the game, just start on Hard Mode, cos it's the only way you'll get a decent challenge. The first game was MUCH harder.

Well, that's it for therapy right now. Must fly!

posted by Ingen! @ 8:33 AM 2 comments