Mass Effect, Final Fantasy XIII
I beat Mass Effect tonight. It was pretty satisfying. I shot the big bad in the face a couple hundred times, a lot of shit WENT DOWN, and in the end, everything turned out, if not great, at least awesomely, and I was posing in front of a planet in the depths of space. Hell, yes. What a satisfying conclusion. It wraps up the conflict of the first while at the same time hinting at potential problems in the future. Well written, entertaining, nothing more to say except that I can’t wait to get the sequel.
I also started playing Final Fantasy 13 tonight, and I am hesitate to make any initial observations. I’ve heard all the complaints going into it; the overly-linear gameplay, the cookie-cutter characters, the non-traditional combat system, and any other fanboyish whiny little things that any jerk on the Internet can say before actually playing the game. I’ve been unfazed by most of it, because really I find half of it to be kneejerk reactions to previews people don’t get, and half of it actually sounds great. Linear gameplay? No more dicking around trying to find what I have to do? Sign me up!
Anyway, the game starts in medias res on a train, with a resistance force beating up the soldiers of the government, which doesn’t sound familiar at all! Okay, it’s obviously a homage to FF7, which is just fine, but man I have no idea what’s going on. Luckily there’s a datalog, which tells me exactly what’s going on, and man is that nice. I mean, I can just push a button and know what happened in the past ten minutes. I can complain about storytelling or something, but nope! I’m staying positive.
A couple of moments of note. When we first see Snow, we see his crew, and I spent about a full minute laughing hysterically because of this guy! Look at his hair! He looks ridiculous! With his big blue coiffeur! All the other members of NORA are just as silly-looking, from the guy with the Heatmiser haircut to the whiny nerd with a big dumb mess of blond on his head. I really hope they all don’t die horribly, but I know that they will. Poor guys. Also, every weapon in this game was apparently designed by Leatherman. Everything folds up, including the neat but stupid “fishing pole” weapon that Vanille conveniently finds right before she needs to fight. It’s a weird design decision.
I beat Mass Effect tonight. It was pretty satisfying. I shot the big bad in the face a couple hundred times, a lot of shit WENT DOWN, and in the end, everything turned out, if not great, at least awesomely, and I was posing in front of a planet in the depths of space. Hell, yes. What a satisfying conclusion. It wraps up the conflict of the first while at the same time hinting at potential problems in the future. Well written, entertaining, nothing more to say except that I can’t wait to get the sequel.
I also started playing Final Fantasy 13 tonight, and I am hesitate to make any initial observations. I’ve heard all the complaints going into it; the overly-linear gameplay, the cookie-cutter characters, the non-traditional combat system, and any other fanboyish whiny little things that any jerk on the Internet can say before actually playing the game. I’ve been unfazed by most of it, because really I find half of it to be kneejerk reactions to previews people don’t get, and half of it actually sounds great. Linear gameplay? No more dicking around trying to find what I have to do? Sign me up!Anyway, the game starts in medias res on a train, with a resistance force beating up the soldiers of the government, which doesn’t sound familiar at all! Okay, it’s obviously a homage to FF7, which is just fine, but man I have no idea what’s going on. Luckily there’s a datalog, which tells me exactly what’s going on, and man is that nice. I mean, I can just push a button and know what happened in the past ten minutes. I can complain about storytelling or something, but nope! I’m staying positive.
A couple of moments of note. When we first see Snow, we see his crew, and I spent about a full minute laughing hysterically because of this guy! Look at his hair! He looks ridiculous! With his big blue coiffeur! All the other members of NORA are just as silly-looking, from the guy with the Heatmiser haircut to the whiny nerd with a big dumb mess of blond on his head. I really hope they all don’t die horribly, but I know that they will. Poor guys. Also, every weapon in this game was apparently designed by Leatherman. Everything folds up, including the neat but stupid “fishing pole” weapon that Vanille conveniently finds right before she needs to fight. It’s a weird design decision.
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