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Sunday, 1 November 2009

Final Fantasy XIII Crystallium System revealed!

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Yes!!!

Finally XIII’s levelling system has been revealed! And its everything i wanted aswell! Its pretty much another version of the sphere grid which is fantastic!

It basically works like X’s, you gain crystal points for battling (presumably you get more for a 5 star battle and such) and spend it on the grid to advance further. Everything is on the grid! Im just so happy about this!

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

*sigh*

Hello everyone, joe here….

And its been a long time since i have posted here so while im waiting for this thing to download (it is neither illegal games nor porn im proud to say) i thought i would spill the beans on what’s been going on since my last post. Don’t worry its nothing exciting.

I rewatched elfen lied! Woot! Its a brilliant show but its a shame that it never finished properly. Apparently the manga goes on twice as long after the ending of the anime. So why no second season? It was a pretty successful show (i assume).

And i have finished playing silent hill 2! Took me long enough, i got the leave ending for those who are interested. It was a pretty boring ending if im honest, and its annoying how absolutely no ending is happy days for maria!

I do love the game though! Its got an amazing storyline and my favourite character is probably angela just because of the drama. Her last line “for me… its always like this” is completely heartbreaking!

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People say the fire represented hell which i agree with “its hot as hell in here” but people also say this means she is going to hell. I dont agree with that at all! First of all, why would she? Second of all, it makes more sense to me that she was already in hell. The flames were there when she was alive and when she was going up the stairs to kill herself she was leaving the fire behind. It just makes so much more sense!

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Also i 100% spyro the dragon! Yay! The original one that is. And i did it all in one playthrough, as in i didnt complete the game and then go back. I 100% the game as i played to the end. Those flying levels drive me crazy!

Also i have been playing pokemon fire red. I love that game, i used to play it sooo much! I seriously got like 120 pokemon! That was a good couple of years ago though and my save got fucked (at that point i spontaneously combusted).

Just so you know my favourite pokemon is wobbufett. But the cutest pokemon EVER!!!… is charmander!

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Ahh!

As for wobbufett. I just think its such a happy existance. A wobbufett is smiling 100% of the time! Unless they are whispering through the side of their mouth “kill me now”.

So i guess there is nothing left to say. I know this is totally late but i would just like to thank kanye west for making a complete dick of himself.

Bye!!

Monday, 12 October 2009

Final Fantasy XIII Episode zero: Promise

So i just finished reading the novel prequel of FFXIII. Wow, that was definitely a good read, i definitely like everyone a lot better now than i did before. Although there was no Vanille or Sazh. My favourite character is lightening, which is weird because i almost never favourite the main character. But she’s wonderful i love her, and she is definitely more cloud than squall!

The familyness was kinda cute, i even awww’d at hope and his mom, which makes me feel bad about what happens to her…

I liked serah of course, because who doesn't like serah? But it makes me wonder if she will be playable or not, because she is a l’cie and i kinda got the impression early on that all l’cies would be playable. There is definitely a possibility of her dying, seems very aerithish to me, maybe the lightning-serah sister relationship is a redo on the cloud-aerith relationship?

Well i don't have much to say but if you are interested in the game you should definitely give it a read. It works well as a taste of what's to come.

Sunday, 27 September 2009

Early impressions of Silent Hill 2

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So i got Silent Hill 2 last night, its the directors cut which is probably worth mentioning.

I wouldn't say I'm totally unfamiliar with the SH formula. I have played a little bit Silent Hill 3 and a good amount of hours on Silent Hill 5. And i have played lots of similar Survival horror stuff like clock tower 3, so i do know a little bit about how it all works.

Anyway so far the game has been really fun and interesting even though I'm not that far through. The game is definitely scary! Most of the scariness is actually just the dreading of things like when you see a new monster or when you run into pyramid head. But their has been a little bit of “boo!” scares as well which is nice.

If i had to choose the thing i hated most, uhh I'm sort of leaning towards combat. But its hard to say because even though the combat is frustrating and kind of dull, it does work in the way intended. Its not very complicated and James is very unresponsive with attacking! In a normal game that would suck but in silent hill it kind of works in a positive way because it adds a lot of the scariness to it and it gives you the idea that the character is a very normal person and they aren't about to totally own 3 monsters at once.

The voice acting (especially for the protagonist) is pretty bad. Maybe its just because i have recently been playing Clock Tower 3 where the voice acting was excellent and really helped the mood though.

One thing that kind of made me raise an eyebrow was how quickly James got used to the idea of monsters. He isn’t Chris Redfield he is a regular guy who has only come across monsters in his wildest nightmares. God damn ridiculously dense Survival Horror protagonists! The thing is they realise that something is wrong about what's going on but they don't seem to be all that worried.

“Hmmm a deformed leggy creature just tried to rip me apart, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever, oh well”

A lot of Survival horror games do that though, in order for the story to progress the protagonist cant be constantly scared to death like how it would be in real life.

So that's pretty much all i have to say about this game for now, I'm really not far enough into it to start telling you all how amazing it is but considering the fanbase the game has, I'm pretty sure it will happen sooner or later.

Peace out!

Thursday, 20 August 2009

Fable III artwork

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Hmmmmm, seems like they are once again deciding to extend the family portion of the game. Which i am actually happy about, the system in II was really stupid. Seems like the development team couldn't be bothered to make the entire process make any sense.

So we once again have a dog (of course!) and we are king… hmm. Maybe the canon ending of fable II was the player becoming king and this character is the descendant, a vague connection just like in the one between the first two.

Personally i cant wait to see more of Theresa! She was really intriguing throughout Fable II and it seems like she may be evil? And she has control of the spire which she seemed very insistent on.

Also apparently this game takes place in a more technology based time. Basically Albions industrial revolution.

Sounds interesting so far…

Saturday, 8 August 2009

Learning Japanese!

That's right, well i only started 2 hours ago... but im a fast learner! Here’s me counting to 19 in japanese soley on memory!

Ichi, Nii, San, Shi, Go, Roku, Shichi, Hachi, Kyuu, Juu, Juuichi, JuuNii, Juusan, juuyon, juugo, juuroku, juunana, juuhachi, juukyuu!

Huzzah! And my birthday in japanese is Hiyuuhachi, sangetsu!

I know how to pronounce these words too btw. Sorry for the patheticness of this post, i can imagine a japanese pro reading this laughing his ass off.

Bye!

Final Fantasy VII remake at GamesCom?

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So Square has revealed their line-up for GamesCom and VII is officially on the list! It will probably be another game in the compilation, and mine (and everyone else’s) hopes are up for a remake! Then again i was the same at E3 and there was no remake >.<, but this time there is definitely going to be some VII!

Im actually in progress of replaying VII, the scene where Red was howling to his dad who had been encrusted in stone actually brought a tear to my eye! Which is weird because that almost never happens to me. Apart from when *spoiler* gets *spoilered* by *spoiler*.