Tales of Vesperia, eat my artes!
Just finished the second RPG of this year, Tales of Vesperia. Sure, I had played most of the game early last year. And finally got around to finish it now, that I had a working Xbox 360 to play it on. And boy I really do love the Tales of series. Probably one of my favorite RPG series right now, if I must be honest.
So I’m really looking forward to the Playstation 3 release of Tales of Graces F now! And speaking of PS3 is it such a shame that Namco Bandai didn’t release an English version of the PS3 version for Tales of Vesperia. I want my KOS-MOS costume on Judith, goddamn it!!
So if I find a Japanese/Asian copy of the game cheap sometime, I’m gonna buy it. Yeah, I’ll buy it for just such a simple reason…
Anyway… I loved this game very much, the characters, music, the world. Just about everything. I think my biggest complaint about the game is the last part of the game and the last boss. I wasn’t feeling any of it, so yeah that might be just me. But I thought that whole part of the game was pretty weak. I had hoped for a tad more. Just to be clear it does in no way make the game any less, fun or good. This is just what I think anyway. And if you have a way to play this game, I can highly recommend it.
Probably one of the best RPG’s I’ve played this generation, if not my favorite so far.
I’m not going to go much deeper into the game than this, experience it for yourself if you can. And I hope you’ll buy future Tales of games, so we can get more of them translated. I’m really crossing my fingers and hoping we can get Tales of Xillia localized in English at some point. Hopefully Tales of Graces F will sell well enough for Namco Bandai, so they’ll consider it…
I’ll be taking a little break from gaming now, there are stuff that I need to do in my life right now. Like study to get better and be able to more on my job. Mostly it’s just that, so sadly that will have to take up all my game time right now. If I was better at studying I could perhaps do both, but as I am right now I want to give 100% focus on my work. Its only for three weeks or some, I can hold on. I can also play some older unfinished games at weekends, so its not like I am taking a whole vaccination from gaming. But when I get back, sometime in the beginning of February I hope to be able to play Soul Calibur V. I’ll still make my posts here as usual.
Tags: Bandai Namco, Beaten, Games, JRPG, Life, PS3, Tales of Graces f, Tales of Vesperia, Work, Xbox, Yazuka
Blue Dragon: Shadows, Magic & Eternity
I just finished playing Blue Dragon, a great game! I first played this game around 2009, but just played it for 2-4hours. But now almost 3 years later I played it from beginning to the end. It took me around 37hours to clear this game, I spent a few of those ours training my shadows so I could take on the last boss. I was so under-leveled that he owned me hard, time after time…
Once a year, violet clouds appear and bring with them disaster. For Shu’s hometown Talta, they bring the yearly land sharks. Shu’s friend Kluke lost her parents to the land sharks and together with Jiro these three kids are trying to take it down for good, so the people of Talta don’t have to be afraid anymore. They get dragged away by the land shark and this will lead them to find Nene, the evil mastermind behind the land sharks. And other evil doings, being cast aside by Nene, a mysterious voice tells them to swallow the light spheres that has appeared before them. It will grant them magic, to fight against Nene. After a small hesitation they swallow the light spheres and their shadows transform. They gain the form of mystical animal, apparently having a shadow like this is proof that you can use magic. Now with power, they can right the wrongs Nene has done in the world.
This is a pretty simplified/short down version of how the game starts, I don’t want to give it all away and to explain everything as it exactly goes down would take an eternity.
The battles are pretty standard JRPG, turned based just like Final Fantasy. And speaking of FF, this was one of the reasons I wanted to play this game. Since its made by the father of the Final Fantasy series, Hironobu Sakeguchi. With Nobuo Uematsu doing the music and doing one hell of a job with that! I’m probably one of the few who actually really like the boss song “Eternity” I really feel like this game game is a spiritual successor to the Playstation 1, Final Fantasy games. With a more cartoony style of course. And ‘m looking forward to trying their other game Lost Odyssey, which seems to be even more inline with being a spiritual successor to the FF games.
I really enjoyed this game, it’s been a long time since I played a classic JRPG. And one that was good and enjoyable! 2012 is of too a good start when it comes to games so far and I’m currently going through my old save file of Tales of Vesperia, which I think I’m near of nearing the end of the game. Well, there where a few stuff I liked in the Blue Dragon anime more than, I liked in the game. In the anime, the shadows all have personalities and are “alive” so to say. While in they game, they are just a form/symbol for magic users. I might go deeper into the differences of the anime and game later, or just post what I liked and disliked about them. I was expecting them to be the same, but boy I was wrong. Its just about the characters and the shadows that are somewhat the same, the story is way different in the anime. Well, as I said I might go deeper into that in a later post. If you have an Xbox 360 and want to play an good old JRPG on a modern console, I can highly recommend Blue Dragon.
Tags: Anime, Beaten, Blue Dragon, JRPG, Review, Thoughts, Xbox
See Fall of Cybetron in this trailer
We finally have a real trailer, well at least more real than the little teaser we got last time! I’m eagerly awaiting the release of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. It looks awesome! We get to see a combiner, namely Bruticus (fuck yeah!) and Grimlock who is huge as hell! (Fuck yeah X2!)
I hope this game is bigger, have more areas and are more freely. I’ so much looking forward to kick ass with Grimlock, maybe eat a Deception or too. Yummy. I’m not a fan of the song in the trailer, but people seem to love it. so I’ll leave it at that…
Tags: Combiners, Cybertron, Grimlock, Trailers, Transformers, Videos
Date & trailer for Tales of Graces F
We’ve finally gotten a trailer and a date for Tales of Graces F. It was about time for Namco Bandai to release an English trailer, check it out and let me know what you think.
I can’t wait to get my hands on this game! It will be released March 13 2012, this is the US date. Its unsure if the European release date will be the same or if it will arrive here later… Hopefully it will be the same date. Soon… Soon it will be mine!
Tags: Bandai Namco, JRPG, PS3, Tales of Graces f, Trailers, Videos
Uncharted 3 cleared!
Earlier today I finished Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. A good game, but in my opinion not as great as the first or second game. The adventure doesn’t feel as great as the one in the first and second game, it actually feels a little lacking. Don’t get me wrong, I like it very much but it didn’t live up to my expectations. One of the things I’m most frustrated with is that the writers leaves so many questions unanswered.
The villains where lacking, I hardly noticed them in the game. Just their henchmen, not like Lazarevic in Uncharted 2. Which was ruthless and a real asshole, who did anything to get what he wanted. Sure they fit the game, but I wish they had more presence in the game.
Especially since both Drake and Sully had a past with Marlowe. And how could Talbot disappear like he did? Is he a wizard? No, but seriously. I wish there was a bit more too it. Both game wise and story wise. Still a good game, that I recommend everyone to try if you like the other two Uncharted games. For me this game was contender for GOTY (Game Of The Year), but this time I don’t think it will win that for me. The same year Uncharted 2 came out, so did also Batman: Arkham Asylum. Both of them competed for GOTY for me that year, the winner was Uncharted. But this year with Uncharted 3 and Batman: Arkham City. It could very well be Batman what will take my own personal GOTY this time. We’ll see, I am not finished with that game yet, so anything can happen.
Tags: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Batman, Beaten, Games, GOTY, PS3, Uncharted
Do we become assholes or something?
That hilariously funny line from Back To The Future. Gotta love it, right? Almost laughed my ass off when they said it in Back To The Future: The Game. A game which I’ve been playing this entire weekend, it’s an great continuation on the BTTF story. Firstly I love that they got Christoffer Lloyd back to reprise his role as Doc Brown and while Michael J. Fox is not in the game he gave permission to use his likeness. That’s mighty fine of him and his voice actor in the game, does a pretty good job sounding like him. I’m also impressed with how much of a BTTF feeling I am getting from this game, well I guess that’s what the creators where going for. But I could never have hopped it would feel like it does, this is probably the closest we’ll ever get to a BTTF4.
I guess my biggest complaint is the control of the game, its a bit stiff and clunky. At least the Playstation 3 version, I can’t say how the other versions are. It’s not that bad, but it can be a bit frustrating at times. Other than that I found the whole game or rather its five episodes to be very nice. The voice actors in general does a really good job. All in all the game was very enjoyable and made want to watch the movies again, so perhaps I’ll do that soon again.
Tags: Back To The Future, Doc, Games, McFly, Time machine
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Ohoho! I’ve been waiting for this! The squeal to Transformers: War of Cybertron has finally been announced! It is called Fall of Cybertron. I really liked WoC, sure it had its problems but its my favorite Transformers game. And I’m certain FoC will be better and hopefully a bit longer.
Grimlock has been confirmed to appear in the game, in his T-rex form no less. That’s awesome! And I’ll guess you’ll love that wont you ZX-Omega? But you are not the only one. The Combaticons are also in the game and will combine to form Bruticus. Glad we are seeing some combiners in this game and for once it isn’t Devastator. Based on some artwork from a video (can’t find it right now) Megatron has been given a little redesign. Wheeljack and Swindle seem to be joining th fight too. I’m eagerly anticipating this game.
