Ar Tonelico, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved
Quick comment of Your Shape, because I haven’t actually been playing it lately, but popped it back in tonight. (only 7 more sessions to go! *vomits*) Must say that a lot of the game is crap, the fitness classes only give you two options, Yoga (which is dull and silly) and boxing, and the gym games are lame-o, but especially the hula hoop one, which basically boils down to looking like a moron for 30 seconds while some arbitrary crap happens on your television. Just commenting how pointless a lot of this is. I did find the balance one pretty interesting, too bad it doesn’t account for weight and you have pretty much no ability to catch tumbling blocks.
Enough of that! I played some more Ar Tonelico today, because I thought to myself, “Man, I should really return that.” But somehow, I managed to convince myself to hang onto it for another weekend. It wasn’t the story, or the confusing crafting mechanics, or the artwork (which looks like it was created, oh, you know, six year ago), or the pacing. (Wait, my first boss fight happens AFTER I assume I’m homefree and out of the death forest?) I think it was just the combat mechanics, as inscrutable as they are, once you get a singing lady in your party. She doesn’t have a turn; you instead tell her to do x, and she’ll either do it right away, or need to build up energy. If you do something just right, it also makes your basic attacks better somehow. It’s just odd enough that I need to experiment with it.
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What I Played Today: November 15
AR Tonelico
Another obscure RPG arrived from Gamefly today, and once again I am starting to curse the slow burn of the RPG. The game started slow and didn’t explain nearly anything, and it started throwing around a lot of terms that I just didn’t get. Apparently this sky city that some people live on is suddenly under attack, and our main idiot is a knight to some lady without a face, and they can’t defeat the viruses, so instead they send the MC to the land below to get the MacGuffin, even though my first thought is, “There’s no way he could get it and back before the viruses kill absolutely everyone.” So he’s shoved into an airship, which is shot out of the sky by some random monster, and crashes, and we’re suddenly in an idyllic land that has clerics with lady slaves, and I’m beyond confused.
Also, the voice acting isn’t very good. I typically don’t balk at voice acting unless they are noticeably inappropriate, but I just felt off whenever the main character talked, especially since the majority of his lines were just shouting some lady’s name. Nobody says someone’s name that often.
Another obscure RPG arrived from Gamefly today, and once again I am starting to curse the slow burn of the RPG. The game started slow and didn’t explain nearly anything, and it started throwing around a lot of terms that I just didn’t get. Apparently this sky city that some people live on is suddenly under attack, and our main idiot is a knight to some lady without a face, and they can’t defeat the viruses, so instead they send the MC to the land below to get the MacGuffin, even though my first thought is, “There’s no way he could get it and back before the viruses kill absolutely everyone.” So he’s shoved into an airship, which is shot out of the sky by some random monster, and crashes, and we’re suddenly in an idyllic land that has clerics with lady slaves, and I’m beyond confused.
Also, the voice acting isn’t very good. I typically don’t balk at voice acting unless they are noticeably inappropriate, but I just felt off whenever the main character talked, especially since the majority of his lines were just shouting some lady’s name. Nobody says someone’s name that often.
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