I suspect that if White Knight Chronicles hadn’t been a huge JRPG, it would have been a half hour, or one-evening game at most. But it isn’t, and that more or less gave it a buffer for me. It’s a comfortable genre, and it seemed that it was going to do some interesting things. Of [...]
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First Impressions: inFAMOUS
February 18, 2010 – 9:10 am
The PS3 game inFAMOUS was one of three angry-man open-world games that came out about the same time. The other two, Prototype, and Red Faction: Guerrilla were also available on the Xbox 360, so I played them months ago. Prototype was a 30 minute game, although I gave it a few hours of play. Red [...]
First Impressions: Bayonetta
February 17, 2010 – 9:15 am
Bayonetta made the rounds of the blogs when it came out, largely because of it’s hyper-sexuality, and the fact it’s from the same creative mind that made the Devil May Cry franchise. Most of what I read was focused around the design of the titular character, Bayonetta. Some of what I read cast her in [...]
Overlording II
February 9, 2010 – 9:15 am
I’ve had Overlord 2 for a while, but hadn’t played it (as it lived at Girl’s house for some time). I recently borrowed it, and began playing it. This isn’t strictly a First Impressions post, but I’m about that far into the game. Girl and I played the first game fairly differently. One of her [...]
Darksiders First Impressions
February 3, 2010 – 9:10 am
Borderlands plot — at least as far as I’ve gotten into it — is largely non-existent. I’ve gotten several quests to kill some dudes, and a ghost lady that suggest I should do these quests to kill some dudes. I’m pretty good at killing dudes, and that seems fun. Darksiders plot is much more [...]
Borderlands First Impressions
February 2, 2010 – 9:10 am
Most of the old posts of this type went with the great hard drive failure of ’09, but I like to talk about games before I’ve fully experienced them. I’ll gladly analyze them to death the whole time, but I tend to drift away from games, or finish them. Neither is a good way to [...]
Echoes
January 22, 2010 – 9:10 am
I think some of it is nostalgia. Some of it is the nature of games to build on what came before. Some of it is certainly the hit driven nature of games, that forces repetition. Too many games I’ve been playing this year echo an older game that I find I’d rather be playing. Dragon [...]