Here's some random thoughts on GAMES I've purchased recently:
Guilty Gear Judgment JP -- don't buy the American version unless you absolutely NEED English text. Get the JP/Asian version, which comes with GGXX Slash instead of the earlier #Reload. GGXX Slash on PSP is an improvement over the already astounding #Reload -- the effects and backgrounds are in an even higher resolution, and the load times remain well masked. Slash also nets you ABA and Order Sol as playable characters. The Judgment beat-em-up is loads better than the miserable one in Isuka, but it's still pretty dull as far as BEUs go. I beat it with Ky and while some of the boss fights were neat, beating up bugs and mannequins ad nauseum gets real old real quick-like. Slash, however, is easily the best portable fighting game -- even moreso than Tekken DR. That said, even if you hafta have the American version, #Reload as found in the US Judgment will blow your little fuckin' nerd minds.
Enchanted Arms -- Our pal TVC made me buy this one, threatening to ply me with "the pinkest of pickles" if I didn't. Terrified for the vestiges of my already-compromised masculinity, I took it in the ass from GameCrazy to the tune of $70 rather than risk TVC's "special love sauce". Aside from the ghastly-ass cowgirl loli -- seriously, her design makes me wanna gouge my eyes out with a tack puller -- it's a pretty solid B-list RPG. Grid-based combat for the win. And as MAF said, if m0rphix hates it, that's as good as the Nintendo Seal of Quality -- I don't think ANYONE I know is going to recover from the absolutely fecal explosion of bad design that was Ninety-Nine Nights.
Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams -- OMG FUCK AWESOME TOTAL. I'd borrowed TVC's copy and been duly impressed, so it was time to snatch up my own. The graphics are fuckin' astounding -- they spank anything on the Gamecube and most of the stuff on the Xdude. The new controls and combat feel great, although the camera remains typically wonky in that Capcom DMC way. The boss fights are nowhere near as difficult or a tedious as the idiot reviewers made them out to be, and the visual design in the game is staggeringly great. OH TEH NO ANOTHER SAMURAI GAME the journo feggits lamented, but they'll shit their Osh-Koshes for another fucking game starring a fey little elf in tights. feggits.
Been warming up to Disgaea 2, despite the ridiculous loli factor. I hope Hanako dies in a fire. I'm gonna try to beat the game with at least three prinnies among my regulars.
Why haven't you purchased Gradius Collection, Daxter, or Ultimate Ghosts and Goblins, homos? They're still better than anything on the DS.
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