Thursday, November 16, 2017

Gaming Purchases - November 2017

November 16th:

A visit to a local secondhand shop resulted in a Buzz game for PS2, some DVDs, an old Babar book and a few bags of Hot Wheels.

PlayStation 2:
Buzz! The Mega Quiz

Cartoon DVDs:
Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
THe Hunchback of Notre Dame (Noble Entertainment)
Superman (1941)

Books:
Télé-Babar (1969)

Other:
Hot Wheels
other various toy cars

Lego:
Ninjago magazine + hovercraft polybag set

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November 24th:

A trip to the local GameStop resulted in a new Vita game today, also got some other stuff in some other places, like some new shoes, a Lego magazine and candy.

PlayStation Vita:
Gal*Gun Double Peace

Lego:
Nexo Knights magazine + Macy Halbert minifigure

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November 28th:

Some second hand finds.

DS:
Littlest Pet Shop Garden

PC:
LEGO Rock Raiders

PC Hardware:
USB numeric keypad

CD:
Citycat's pure dance music tv-cd citycat club essential dance traxx attention 1997
Dance Trance 94
Sonic Dance (1994, 1996 Norwegian edition)

DVD:
Pippi Långstrump
Starzinger Vol. 1
Starzinger Vol. 3
Starzinger Vol. 4
Starzinger Vol. 5

Books:
Garfield Julalbum 2008
Babar Pianisten
Heidi
Kon
Marsupilami 3
Marsupilami 6
Cartoon Network klassiker (Jesons, Flinta, Scooby Doo, Huckleberry Hund, Tom & Jerry)
Pomperipossa

Toys:
Batgirl McDonald's figure (2016)
Daphne Blake action figure
Knuckles The Echidna classic 90s McDonald's figure

Other:
Kasta Gris
Plockepinn

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Now Playing - November 2017

Alien Trilogy (PlayStation)

Jersey Devil (PlayStation)

Sonic R (PC)

Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (Mega Drive)

Sonic The Hedgehog (Mega Drive, played on 3DS via SEGA 3D Classics Collection)

Baja Edge of Control (Xbox 360)

Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360)

Shadow The Hedgehog (Xbox, played on Xbox 360)

Race PRO (Xbox 360)

Tomb Raider Legend (Xbox 360)

Gal*Gun Double Peace (PlayStation Vita)
Finally got hold of a Gal*Gun game, it's definitely a game with my kind of humor, I like it already. Too bad there's no instruction manual in the box, it's all digital only.

Littlest Pet Shop Garden (DS)
pet collecting and minigames aimed toward children, an extremely typical DS game in every way imaginable, mostly touch screen controls, a couple of minigames that are more puzzle focused can be enjoyable for a bit but overall it's nothing I'd recommend to anyone outside of the targeted little girl demographic

Remember Me (Xbox 360)
It looks pretty good with lots of detailed visuals and such but it also looks very cluttered making it hard to see stuff, especially early in the game in the slums where you have piles of garbage and scattered trash all over the place, the combat is sluggish and annoying relying on combos with a really poor timing system that's really hard to get a good feel for, I've managed to get it down enough that I can get through a fight relatively unscaved but it's clunky at best, the audio quality is downright some of the worst I've heard in modern times, more often than not literally sounding like the game takes place in a wooden box streamed over internet radio from the late 90s to an internet modded Mega Drive, yeah if you've played any 16-bit version of Street Fighter 2 you already know exactly what this game's voice compression quality sounds like, it's full of annoying real time info stuff and intrusive tutorials that pop up during gameplay or pause the gameplay entirely forcing you to do other stuff before you can continue doing what you were actually doing, frequently taking you out of the experience and breaking what little immersion there might have been otherwise, the camera is awful with slow control, glitchy and jerky movement as if it doesn't update the camera in real time or something and it's constantly switching between the normal (barely) controllable view and static camera angles for platforming segments and "cinematic" moments, I say that in quotation marks as it's literally just parts of the level where it forced you to walk and no other inputs work while some music plays as you're suppose to take in the visual impressions of the graphics they made, it's as shallow as it gets and because it's done so poorly it fails to have the impact it could've had if only someone with artistic and cinematic expertise had been in charge instead of the janitor or possibly a son or daughter of one of the programmers, clearly no person with any kind of knowledge on how to direct cinematic scenes ever came close to working on this game, the level design is confusing and awkward, especially in combination with the cluttered visuals and bad camera and the game has glitches, lots of glitches, sometimes the characters during cutscenes will freak out like Silent Hill monsters, twitching, turning and spassing out all over the place in the most unnatural ways possible.
Oh, there's no proper instruction booklet in the box either, just a thin pamphlet thing, so they didn't even manage that properly.