Now Playing - Oktober 2016

Haven't played much this month, just sporadic short bursts of gameplay in random games, some new, some old.


SoulCalibur IV (Xbox 360)
Finally decided to get this game. Have to say I'm thoroughly disappointed. It lacks pretty much every single thing that made the previous games so great. There's an almost complete lack of story more and locked away fundamental content you have to pay extra for that for example the vastly superior SoulCalibur III on PS2 had in it are a couple of top reasons why this was so awful, also the controls are a lot more sluggish and unresponsive and the animations more jerky and don't transition anywhere near as well as they did in previous instalments, and it's technically ugly too, every SoulCalibur before this looked more visually impressive, I'd say even Soul Blade on PlayStation was better looking, at least from a design point of view and how well it managed to push the hardware it was on because it still holds up well today and it a lot more fun than this game is, also Yoda fucking sucks and the whole Star Wars thing in this game is a fucking joke that should never have been told, this is worse than SoulCalibur II's stupid bonus characters bullshit with the more shallow than a cardboard cutout lack-of-character Link from The Legend of Zelda for the GameCube version, the painfully unfitting and forced inclusion of one of Tekken's worst characters Heihachi Mishima for the PS2 version and a very lacking rendition of a less than optimal version of the otherwise badass comic book character Spawn for the Xbox version, no really, there's a medieval Spawn they could've used that would've fit the game perfectly and been a fucking blast to play as, such a waste, still it was a better game in all respects than this disappointing turd.

The Adventure of Willy Beamish (Mega CD/MS-DOS)
Trying out this old game for the first time. It's not bad, it's not good, it's a mixed bag. It's got one of the best intro songs I've ever heard though and I like some of the humor and characters. The Mega CD version has awful voice acting, slow loading times and choppy animations so overall the MS-DOS version is far superior with silent text based dialog, shorter loading times and smoother animations, also the MS-DOS version has far more colors and therefor better details. I like how there are a lot of funny death animations, it makes up for the fact that the game is overly cryptic with retarded logic for puzzle solving a lot of the time causing you to die without having a clue what to do to avoid it. An unbalanced game to play but still an interesting experience.

Steel Talons (Mega Drive)

Eternal Champions (Mega Drive)

Virtua Racing Deluxe (32X)

Race Drivin' (Mega Drive)

CastleVania Symphony of The Night (PlayStation)

UniRally (Super Nintendo)