Finished Uncharted

Earlier today I finished Uncharted. It was a wonderful game. I can’t wait to replay it, but won’t untill I’ve finished Ratchet & Clank and also have gotten a Dualshock 3 controller. Mostly since I like the feedback I get in the controller with rumble.
As I said the game was great, and beautiful. The music was drawn from an adventure movie. It was awesome. <3

Ohh, the time is closing in on both Metal Gear Solid 4 and Soul Calibur 4. Must get a second controller untill SC4 is released. Hope the RPGs will start to drop in on the PS3 soon. I feel like I really could use one right about now. Guess I’ll have to settle for Enchanted Arms untill better stuff comes along. And now I’m off to start playing Ratchet & Clank Tool of Destruction.
The third game I’ve been drooling over of the games released on the PS3. For those who don’t know or remember the other two where Folklore & Uncharted. Of course there are more games to drool over now, but they where the original three. ^^

Review: Folklore

FOLKLORE

This is one of those three games (that are out) I’ve really wanted the most on Playstation 3. The other two being Uncharted (review coming later) and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.

The story takes place in the village of Doolin. Ellen who thought she lost her mother 17years ago. suddenly send her a letter. Telling her  she is alive and in Doolin. She travels there but finds nothing… Until she gets a hold of the messengers cloak. With it she can travel to the  Netherworld and meet the dead. And hoping she might meet her mother or get clues about here mother there. The Netherworld is the  world the soul goes to when you die. About the same time Keats, a journalist for an occult magazine get a phone call. A woman screaming for help and that she is going to get killed by something in Doolin.
Keats being as curious as he is, he heads to Doolin. Where he by “chance” is also receives a bit of the cloaks powers.

Both Ellen and Keats have different, rolls to play. Ellen wants to regain her lost memories, while Keats..
Well he’s just curious and loves a good story. Anything to sell a magazine…. But as always things gets more complicated and they first  turnout. You gather monsters called Folks in this game and use them to fight. You can set a Folk to any of the four buttons, Triangle, Circle, Cross or Square. As I said you use these Folks to fight. Sometimes you need a certain Folk to absorb another Folk.
You hit them until you see their soul or ID as they call in the game. When it turns red, you have to yank the controller to get the ID our of the body of the Folk.
Sometimes you need to shake the controller up and down, turn it left and right. There are a few different ways you  have to do it. But this is almost never used on Folks, just on Folklores.
the bosses of the game.

I can’t seem to remember a single piece of music from the game, so if there ever is a squel they need to fix that part. And I would have liked more voice acting. I’m actually a bit dissapointed. I know I’ve said I rally liked the game to others, but when I finished the game and got the whole impresion I realised I actually only continued to play for the story. I was expecting a bit more. Guess I had to high hopes for this game. Still worth a rent/playing once. Or if you really want but it. Its up to you. Myself I’m going to see if I can get this traded for Ratcher & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction..

TOTAL: 6/10

PLUS
+ The story is moved forward with a comic book like style. I like it.
+ The story is actually really interesting and kept me going.
+ You can collect cloaks (dresses) for Ellen. I love it when you can change clothes in games.

MINUS
– The game sadly get repetitive, and you don’t need much of a tactic to capture the Folks.
– I wish they had added voice acting too those comic book scenes.
– The music is okay. Nothing more nothing less. You won’t remember it

More playing!

So I’ve been playing a hell of a lot Folklore. I like it! I guess its the closest you can get to a game that will give you a little Tim Burton feeling.
Oh, yes. Said that in my last post, didn’t I? XD

Well all I can say right now that I’m happy. Since I got the PS3, I feel like a lot of stress I’ve had has disappeared. I feel happier, I AM HAPPIER! I can sleep like normal again. Something I haven’t done for about 6months. So I’m very happy about that also. And that I have gotten my lust for playing games back. I feel like I’m reborn and I really needed this.

I wasn’t very fond of GT5 prologue. So I traded it with Kntheking, and I got Uncharted. Which I’m enjoying very much! Well at least the little of it I’ve played. I’m trying to finish Folklore before settling down with Uncharted. But its beautiful! And I’ve also bought Castlevania SOTN and Super Stardust HD from the PlayStation store. This years, its 10 years since I played Castlevania SOTN for the first time. So on New Years Eve I’ll play it again to celebrate the exact 10year anniversary day. Next game on the shopping list is Metal Gear Solid 4 and after that its Soul Calibur 4. And if I have the cash, I’m going to try and get some of the older games I want. Like Ratchet and Clank.

First impressions

So I’ve had my Playstation 3 for about 24hours now. And What have I done and what do I think? Well… I haven’t actually played very much on it. I’ve been checking it out, trying to learn the different things about it.
I’ve downloaded some demos and tried them, right now I’m downloading the Uncharted demo. I’m impressed at how good the divx function was, I was honestly expecting something not so good.  And it was a pretty good music player. Overall I’m very happy with what I can do.  And OMG! Its quiet! I’m actually amazed at that since I was expecting it to sounds a little, but it dead silent.

I’ve just played the start of Folklore, the first chapters with Ellen & Keats. But its a lovely game. I like the atmossphere. It really does feel like a Tim Burton movie. The story goes by in a comicbook way, its pretty hard to explain but its cool. Too bad there isn’t voiceacting in those scenes. The music?
Well can say very much about it now, not more than it fits the game. But I would have loved if they had Danny Elfmans music in the game, that would give it more of a Tim Burton feeling. But I’m liking what I’ve played so far. Going to continue after I’ve had something to eat.

I haven’t even opened GT Prologue yet. I’m saving it untill I’ve played a bit more on Folklore. But all in all I’m very pleased with my PS3. And when games like
Metal Gear Solid 4, Valkyria Chronicles & White Knight Chronicles are released, I’m going to be in heaven! <3

Yes! YES! YES!!!

Yes, yes yes!!! Finally! I have a PlayStation 3!! I’m really happy right now.
And this is all thanks to my friend Kntheking. Without him, this would not have been possible. Thank you so much!!!! I also like to thank my other friend ZX-Omega who has helped me a lot. Well there is not much to say.
Now I’m going to check my mail, take something to eat and hook it up!

About the PS3

Since a bunch of stuff has happened recently, it seems like I yet again have to wait to get a PS3. But actually this time, I myself think the wait is good. Since I’ll have more money over when I buy it next month or in June.
Depends on if they release a MGS4 bundle here in Europe, if they do I’ll wait for it.
Well actually that’s just about it. So I have two more month, I’ll be able to at least buy one or two more PS3 games I want, so I’ll have enough to play with when I get the console. ^^

So I’m not that sad really, If I had bought it this month I would have been entirely broke until May, not the wisest of choices.But still something I could have lived with, but since trouble has been happening at home, I’ll pitch in and try to help there. I traded in some old games on EB games and bought Folklore. So I can’t wait to try it. Well other than that, not much has been happening.
Well hope you are feeling better today, Lania. ^^

Meme taken from nordiclania

1. My username is ______ because ______.
Its Yazuka. its a misspelling of the japanese word Yakuza, which is the japanese maffia.
Well I liked this wrong spelling and eventually started using it when I started to go to online forums around 1999-2001.
and I’ve been sticking with it since then.

2. My name is ______ because ______.
Sven Christer Mikael. Sven is after my grandfather (my mothers father) and Christer is after my dad.
Mikael is what they wanted me to be named. Some think its a nice name, but personally I can’t stand it. I don’t know why.
But there is no one who calls me Mikael its always Micke. And when I have a job I’m going to change my name to Micke, so I have it on my ID card, bankcard and all that.

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
Yazuka.tk, Home of Micke Johansson.
Well I suck at names, and this was the best I could come up with.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
Its just called friends. Pretty original I know, oh well.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
This is my own personal logo. Which I’ve made myself.
i’m pretty proud of it since design isn’t my cup of téa. I just wanted to have something, that people would remember and everytime they see my logo they’ll think of me and the work I’ve done. ^^