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
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
Infamous 2 cleared!
I finished Infamous 2 earlier today, well at least the good side. It was pretty okay, but I thought the ending for the good side where kinda meh. I was hoping for a little more, still good thou. I liked the game and I think I like it more than the first one, they got rid of some of the things I didn’t like with the first one.
Now I’m gonna restart the game and play on the evil side, get the last of the stuff I need and get that platinum trophy for the game. Oh yeah!
Hehe, as you can see. There are more videogame parodies in this game. Together with my earlier post, this is what I found.
Tags: Beaten, Games, InFAMOUS, Parody, Photos, PS3
Ar Tonelico Qoga cleared!
Since Playstation Network came back and I could sync my PS3 slim with my PSN account, I’ve been playing Ar Tonelico Qoga like a madman!! This is also my 50th Playstation 3 game I’ve finished. I’m glad a JRPG took that spot. So what can I say about the game? It has its ups and downs, and I think I’m fairly pleased with it.
Even if the older games are better, this was the best of the two Gust games I’ve played this generation, I feel much more satisfied with this game than I ever did with Atelier Rorona. It took me about 37 hours to complete and there is still a bunch of stuff to do. If I want to do all the extra stuff that is, but I’m gonna save that for some other time.
Well, I’m heading off to bed now and when I wake up, I’m gonna give No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise a shot. Looking forward to see what I’ll be thinking of that. Now I’m gonna go dream of my wonderful Saki and be happy since I got her best ending in AT Qoga. Yay! (Saki is the one to the right)
Tags: Ar Tonelico, Beaten, Games, Girls, Gust, JRPG, PS3, Stripping
Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions
I was interested in Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions for some time. It seemed to actually be a pretty decent game and it actually is. It has its problems but its one of the better Spider-Man game in years.
One thing I really do love about this game is the humor, I think they’ve successfully captured Spider-Man’s humor. And that they have reused some old Spider-Man voice actors to do the voices for the four Spider-Men in the game is a really nice touch.
Shattered Dimensions tells the story of four Spider-Men from different dimensions, I’ll be coming to that very shortly. The game starts with Mysterio breaking into a museum to get a hold of a mystic tablet. Let’s sell it on the black market he says and make a fortune!
But good old Spidey comes in to save the day. But he accidentally shatters the tablet, sending its pieces into three other dimensions. And this whole scene has been narrated by the man himself, Stan Lee. Don’t know who he is? Shame on you, go google him right away.
First out we have the dimension where is all begins. The Amazing dimension, with the classic lovable Spider-Man we all know. Amazing S-M is voiced by Neil Patrick Harris. This dimension is also more cell-shaded than the others, to give of that cartoony feeling. Then we have the Noir dimensions which is a dark and a bit more mature, its also almost always in black and white. To give that feeling of being an old movie. The 2099 dimension is a futuristic hightech take on Spider-Man, something I didn’t look forward to. But ended up liking really well. And last but not least, my favorite dimension Ultimate Spider-Man. The Spider-Man here is a bit younger and its also a bit more serious at times and sometimes funnier. And it has Deadpool in it, instant win.
The controls are okay, but could use some more work. One thing I do hate is that the Spider-Men have all the same attacks and never feel really special to use. They have a special attack that is unique to them, but its more of a variation between the attack the others have. The game is not free-roaming as the last games featuring Spider-Man has been, they gone for a more level design of it all. Some levels are big and give of a bit of a free-roaming feel, I think if the developers but down more time on an squeal they could make a real good Spidey game. The potential is there, but it really doesn’t come to surface because of the four Spider-Men. It would have been better to concentrate on one Spider-Man and making that game awesome.
All in all Shattered Dimensions is a pretty decent game, it has its problems. Problems that I’m hoping will be fixed, its a fun game. And I think I haven’t enjoyed a Spider-Man game like this since Spider-Man 2 on the GameCube. I’m looking forward to a new Spider-Man game and I hope they don’t do a dimension game again, focus on one Spider-Man that is more than enough. Flesh out that Spider-Man‘s story and level. I think everyone will benefit from this, play the game, borrow it or rent it. I think you’ll enjoy it if you like Spider-Man.
Tags: Beaten, Comics, Deadpool, PS3, Review, Spider-Man, Stan Lee
3D Dot Game Heroes finished!
And with that my most anticipated game of 2010 has been completed. I’m talking about 3D Dot Game Heroes, it was an awesome game. I’ll probably write a review about it and post later, but it will be written in Swedish like all my reviews will be from now. I just like it more that way and to be honest there are already a bunch of sites out there with English reviews, there needs to be more Swedish reviews.
And speaking of reviews, I’ve posted two of my reviews that I previously posted on RPGaiden. Its the review for Cross Edge and Folklore. Of course like mentioned earlier they are both in Swedish, but it you speak or understand the language feel free to comment. Its the only way I can get better if you tell me what you think.
They have both been tweaked a bit, fixed some errors and just added parts I felt needed to be there. If I ever get my new project up and running both of these reviews (plus others i hope) will be found there. As I have nothing to show right now, I won’t speak more of it now.
Ever since RPGaiden “died” (its back now BTW) I’ve been slowly been working on this. More info on it when its in a show-able stage and I know that, things will happen.
Tags: 3D Dot Game Heroes, Beaten, PS3, Review
How I kicked Olympian ass
Before anything else I once again want to thank Robert S.C for lending me
God of War III. I finished the game just a few minutes ago, a great game. But it felt kind of short, the second game felt a bit longer and I actually liked that game more. I didn’t like they changed some of the button actions either, but that’s hardly something that would make you hate a game.
But all in all its a great game and certainly a must have if you’ve enjoyed the past
God of War games. A great ending to the Playstation trilogy. Its gonna be interesting to see if we get a God of War IV or something like that. I will at least get GoW3 when its cheaper and I can afford it, for now I’m just grateful to have been able to play the game. Don’t have much more to say about the game right now, to tired to think of anything. A good game you really should give a try if you have a PS3.
I’m gonna make a mini-review on the game as soon as I have replayed the first two games, so I can freshly see which of the games I like the most also.
So I’ll hopefully be doing a review on all three games, I hope I can get the time to do this at least. I would really like to do it.