I got through Professor Layton a bit fast then I expected, still took a while, but I just plugged through it. Once you get near the end it’s pretty straightforward, just follow the path and bat away all those puzzles they throw at you. All the mysteries got solved in time, and there was my favorite part, where Professor Layton does something awesome that you can’t participate in at all, and then everything gets tied up in a bow. The big reveal wasn’t as ridiculous as the last game, but it was still pretty weird.
I’m almost convinced that Layton is gay, and that the gentlemen’s code that he follows is specifically designed to prevent him ever being near a women in a romantic manner. I know it’s a cheap joke, but this game doesn’t even try to create a single moment of attraction with him. There’s one point where a woman that’s actually close to his age is on the screen and he seems completely uninterested, instead trying to keep his young protégé away from her. It’s just...give us less fuel, guys.
I finally said screw it to the sidequests in Mass Effect, and managed to get a fair distance on the story tracking, getting through an entire chapter and shooting a great deal of geth. I had made it through 10 hours of gameplay before accidently finding out that I have a missile launcher on the vehicle that I’m forced to drive on all the planets. That would have been nice to know...pretty much anytime. I’m reminded of hearing that someone couldn’t figure out you could apply upgrades to weapons, despite that 60% of the loot you get is upgrades. But it was a lot more entertaining when I was following the story, even if it did feel exactly like an episode of Star Trek.
I started Kingdom Hearts 368/2 Days, which is probably the stupidest title for a game I’ve heard in a while. As far as I can tell, it follows the 368 days in which Roxas, Sora’s Nobody, is active as gets dragged into the Organization, and I really do not know who this game is for. I can guess; they wear a lot of black and listen to MCR, whoever the hell they are, but it definitely isn’t a game for me. So far every time the main character has opened his mouth, he’s had his chin buried in his forearm, for christ’s sake. This is an emo-ass game, and I’m really not sure why I rented it. An unusual adherence to a ridiculous franchise that’s gone terribly astray, maybe, despite the fact that I’ve no real reason to like it? I shrug lightly, and will continue to play because of forces that I cannot begin to understand.
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