Now that I have finished up Saints Row IV, I was expecting to jump into DOOM, but that didn't really happen. I started up the first level and made it about halfway through, but I guess I am not feeling a big budget PS4 game. So, I jumped back into Chrono Trigger on the Vita, which I had started over my vacation. Chrono Trigger is just such a fantastic game, and alonf with FF IV got me into RPGs when I was younger. We had some RPGs on the NES, but they didn't pull me in like FF IV and subsequently Chrono Trigger...
Started Monday playing Halo: Master Chief Collection. Mark and I are playing the cross game playlist that includes all four games. We were in the last parts of Halo 2 when the power went out in the neighborhood due to a storm. I'm feeling like 343 has tweaked gameplay in Halo 2 a little bit. It feels less like a run-and-gun power trip and more like a strategic cover based shooter. Weapons are less powerful and enemies are a little tougher. I used to melee enemies with one mjolnir powered fist, but now it takes several hits. It just doesn't feel right. A grunt should go down with one punch from a Spartan. Anyway, I'm feeling like Halo has gotten the COD treatment across all the games now and it disappoints me. This is not a realistic game. You're supposed to be a super soldier not just another vulnerable combatant. That being said, it was still fun, just not as fun as it could have been. After the power outage, Mark and I played Minecraft instead.
Got a pretty good selection of games I’ve recently reviewed over at GamerDad.com, so here’s another blog with links and such. And some of these in this batch are pretty weird and kooky! I hope you get a chance to check them out and maybe even post a comment or two here or there. I appreciate it! Let’s see what we got this time!
Looking back now, was it really that difficult?
The only Castlevania game that I gave up on was Order of Ecclesia on DS. I felt the game was a bit too hard at the time for whatever reason, and there was this weird mechanic introduced in the beginning of the game where you used a magnet power up, which created a sphere of magic around you and you had to hold down a button combination to sling yourself across the stage. I got used to it of course, but then you were required to also do this during a boss fight and I just wasn’t feeling it. Thus, I gave up. Revisiting the game now, I still feel that magnetic pinball power-up to be a bit annoying, but I definitely love the rest of the game regardless. It is more of a throwback to the original stage-by-stage Castlevania template rather than the large interconnected world of Symphony of the Night and other games like it on DS. That’s exactly what I was looking for. I nice little throwback in a franchise I enjoy. It’s like a retro remake of a classic like Megan Man 9 & 10, or maybe dare I say Might No. 9?
Anyhow, this game is very Darks Souls 2 and Bloodborne—in atmosphere and level design. Sure, there are plenty of influences in Dark Souls from other genres, but it’s pretty cool to see a pixelated action game with the weapons variety, level design, boss fights and feel of a Souls game. I guess I can appreciate it more now looking back. I still think it is pretty difficulty, especially the boss fights. The game is definitely giving me a retro challenge I hadn’t experienced in quite a long time.
I picked it up yesterday and have been playing it ever since.
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I am currently watching the Live Stream of the Star Wars Celebration from Europe so at times this latest entry might feel a little more broken up than usual. I see Brienne of Tarth is doing the hosting. Someone needs to ask her what she thinks of this past season of Game of Thrones…and maybe her thoughts about the next Star Wars flick. Anyways let’s get started because there is a calm point in the presentation.
A potentially quick update. I made it back from third world countries and that vacation was amazing. I read significantly more than I had expected and burned through the three books I brought along... Name of the Wind, The Fabulous Riverboat and Darth Plageuis. I played some Downwell, and had fun until I hit the third 'world' or whatever they call them. I also started up Chrono Trigger on Vita and had forgotten how much I love that game.
have a quite short relationship. I mean short. I mean I have barely played any of the games that a lot of people have a lot of love and attachment to. Back when I was a youngling, I had what we call an allowance. Twenty bucks to be excat and while that bought me enough games to keep me entertained I stayed in a more familar line of games that I knew I liked and only took risk on rare occasions. Dragon Quest was not one of them and that wasnt because I instantly disliked it. When I was young I didnt seek out games like I do now as an adult. If I did, I might have learned about it and for sure given it a fair chance. However me and Dragon Quest didnt cross paths till I played Dragon Quest 9:Sentinels of the Starry Sky and that really made me wonder how I missed out on rpg series this good. I also had thought I had played another one of the series at one point but I was wrong, I was thinking of Grandia 2 actually. After seeing some trailers for the new remake for Dragon Quest 7 Im pretty excited to get to play it and DQ8 when it releases as well on 3DS. However Im thinking of playing some of the older titles that I can get on DS so this is where you come in. If there is a Dragon Quest title that you think I should play by all means suggest it. It has to be on a gaming platform I have access to so keep that in mind as well. I know there are several on DS which I can play on my 3DS. Feel free to share any stories you have on the series and why you enjoy them.
So Amazon has preorders open for a Steelbook dual pack for Sun and Moon. You have to buy both but if your a Prime member you also get that 20% discount which takes it down to like 77.93$.
It's garbage. It took literally all morning to get running (doesn't work with Razer headphones) and when I got it working it wasn't worth it. Combat is the biggest offender here, and feels more like Ocarina of Time combat than Dark Souls combat. Now, if that sounds appealing to you, imagine that Ocarina of Time was only combat and only against the minion enemies.
Let me tell you the story of the villager and the emeralds. A villager was minding his own business: he traded with strangers, mumbled nonsense, opened and closed doors for no reason, and huddled with ten others in a house to avoid the terrors of the night. Then, one day, he found himself the last villager of the village. The zombies had finally taken them all. Then, he was taken as well.
Kotaku gave 7th Dragon III a great review. I think Mothman said he's going to buy it, but I might wait for a price decrease cause I'd kind of rather buy Grand Kingdom for the Vita. Don't know yet. http://kotaku.com/7th-dragon-iii-code-vfd-the-kotaku-review-1783454790
Good morning Pixlpeeps! I hope you good people had a wonderful weekend and are ready for the week. This past weekend I changed up my gaming routine a bit and I powered up my 3DS XL for some gaming, and to be shocked that the battery still had 70% of its juice since I last powered the dang thing up. Before we get into that let’s check out my progress in Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
For the longest time, I didn’t own Sony’s newest handheld, the PS Vita. Which may seem strange at first, because I loved the PSP, Sony prior handheld. In fact, other than the Neo Geo Pocket Color, the PSP was the only other handheld I bought that wasn’t made by Nintendo! There were lots of PSP games I loved to play: Loco Roco and its sequel, Ys Seven, Half-Minute Hero, Gurumin, Mega Man Powered Up, and many more. But the Vita just didn’t have as many games that I wanted to play, or at least not enough to warrant purchasing one. But after a few years they’ve built up enough games that interest me, and since I couldn’t think of anything to ask my family to get me for Christmas, I just threw a Vita on my list and to my surprise I got one late last year as a present! So here’s my impressions on the Vita and some games I got for it (probably a little too late, but hey, better later than never).