Saturday, February 28, 2015

Bayonetta 2



Love: the protagonist, so devastanting and lovely, her new look,

Love: the weapons, some new some not but being able to equip the legs and arms with different weapons lead to a huge amount of different combo attacks and playstyles.

Love: lots of extra content to do, characters, costumes, weapons, power-ups, challenges, getting the best scores...

Hate: ... but it feels short and at the same time it gets a bit tiring, I think it's because of the gameplay formula can be simplyfied to "dodge->combo attack->dodge", I think this needs a revision to make it nearly perfect.



Love: Each battle is very frenetic, there's like no little filler enemies, everying is big and powerful. The difficulty is tight enough to be a fair challenge.

Hate: Load times, it takes a while to load things and can get tiring when you are going for Pure Platinum and need to keep retying the same stage.

Love: Online multiplayer, great addition though I would have prefered a second mode with harder enemies where you don't compete with your partner for the best score but for just defeating them all.

Hate: There's no offline multiplayer. If the gamepad comes with every WiiU, why not?



Love: Music is awesome, though I barely notice it while I'm focused on kicking ass.

Love: The art is very good, impressive scenarios, nasty enemies and everything moves so smooth that it really surpised the first time I took control of Bayonetta.

Hate: The textures and resolution make the game look worse than it should, those times I wish the WiiU was a bit more powerful.

Can't say it enough, each stage of this game is like the best stage from each other hack&slash.

Did I like it? Give me more.
I think you will like it if you:
- Like action games

I rate my experience with a 8.5 out of 10.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor


The only fun I have in these games is the recollecting part, I like exploring and getting all the "hidden" items, but it's starting to get boring because it's always the same with little reward, and in this case very bland enviroments.



The game itself is super easy, I'm an orc killing machine that dominates climbing, magic, bow, sword and stealth, surrounded by idiotic orcs who forget about me having stabbed them by just jumping a wall or crossing a corner. The new abilities learned through the game only make it easier.

Graphically looks fine, the orc textures are pretty but the enviroments are not very good, the detail is low and not very inspired. Mordor can look better and nasty than that.



The so hyped nemesis system where orcs level up is... bullshit, I kill or let live the orcs that the game tells me to and I can't choose otherwise, what's the orc name and his hobbies barely matters.

I liked one part of the story: the one that doesn't have anything to do with the protagonist and have more to do with the Middle Earth. The game took me 17 hours to 100%.

Did I like it? Only because of the lore and recolleting things like a slave.
I think you will like it if you:
- Like Assassin's Creed or Recollector Simulator
- Like Middle Earth

I rate my experience with a 5 out of 10.

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Lords of the Fallen



A good and short action rpg, with many lacks but with a better combat system than many wrpgs.

The combat system is like a light/less static version of Dark Souls, it's not better but the difference is apreciated. The gameplay gets very repetitive, but I think it's due the lack of different enemy types and their AI being a bit soft and predictable. Boss fights have the same problem, they are fun at first but gets tiring when you have killed 4 of them.



Another problem I found is that the level design is confusing, not because it is bad but because the places are too similar,  got the "i've been here before feeling" quite a few times as it's all "snow and stone". Also the main world is really small taking around 12 hours to finish the main quest and many sidequests.

The customization is okay, weapons are armors are nice looking tough there aren't many of them, there's also some light crafting/enchanting options.



A cool feature is the experience gained in battle, if you don't spend it you keep gaining a experience bonus multiplier for each kill, at the risk that if you die you leave all that experience on the floor which slowly dissapear with time, so you need to get back quick! The player can choose to spend this experience to increase the stats or gain new magic spells.

Visually looks good though as I mentioned before, everything looks too similar. Music and sound effects are correct and so is the story, I don't mind this too much as I like these games for the gameplay.

Did I like it? Not bad.
I think you will like it if you:
- Liked Dark Souls
- Don't expect Dark Souls quality

I rate my experience with a 6.5 out of 10.

Saturday, February 7, 2015

Star Ocean IV: The Last Hope

A very good sci-fi rpg with a story that at first seems very typical, the hero of infinite justice wants to save the world with his party plenty of sexy costumes and funny colored hairs, but after a few hours something changes and suddenly becomes way darker and destructive, It really surprised me and that's when I started to enjoy the characters and the whole game.



The combat is some kind of real-time action, there are no random encounters (thanks!) though it takes place in a "stage" aside from the main scenario like the usual turn-based games (I'm explaining this so bad ;D) and is actually pretty addictive, where the player controls one of the characters and leaves the other party members to the ia.

Customization is good, there are a few interesting choices and each character has a different play style and a huge list of achievements to complete.



Exploration is not great but at least has nice places, cities and I remember a few cool designed dungeons.

Graphically as always I have no complains, I remember good models and a enviroment has some very nice designs with a few poor textures from time to time. Music is nice enough.

Did I like it? Yes.
I think you will like it if you:
- Like Star Ocean games
- Don't hate jrpgs

I rate my experience with a 8 out of 10.