December 2010

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Resonance of Fate

Posted by NickasLT on 21 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

I really loved one sentence I heard somewhere – “This is how Final Fantasy XIII should have looked like”! And when I was playing this game, I really had exactly the same thoughts. This game is pretty hard (but not as hard as Demon Souls), and it’s one of rare RPG’s where you are able to play with guns, instead of futuristic swords or axes. Also, the battle is a little different from regular turn based or hack/slash battles. You will have to the video review from GameTrailers to see what I mean. Basically you have two types of bullets, one of which does “temporary damage”, and if you want to do “permament damage”, you have to use your second bullets, or the temporary damage will heal fast.

What else I liked about this game, is the moving between battles. You still have some random encounters and you have to battle enemies even if they are way below your level. But you don’t have to run with your character around. Instead, you are using grid to move around. While playing, you open new levels of the grid, new blocks to put on the grid and later be able to move around it, and so on.

CONS of this game – sometimes I got really mad with all the random encounters while wandering in low level territories – I still had to fight enemies which were way below my level, and that took time! So I couldn’t always enjoy battles with worth enemies. Also, game got harder and harder when going further.. It sometimes killed the fun. UPDATE – (thanks to Grug) – There is item in the arena called Strongman’s Bangle, which prevents all random encounters unless the enemies are much higher level. I didn’t know that before! Thanks!

But overall, this is really great game. I would give 8.5/10. Yay!

As I can see now, this game is on sale on Amazon.com ! Now it’s only 20$, while the regular price is 50-60$.. So you should really consider buying it if you want to have a nice addition to your PS3 RPG collection :)

Deathspank

Posted by NickasLT on 21 Dec 2010 | Tagged as: Uncategorized

When I first saw this title, I was a little skeptical. What possibly you could get from a game called Deathspank? Well, it looks to me that I was wrong. Deathspank actually delivers fun for RPG fans, even though it’s a “hack’n'slash type of game.
First, this game is RPG, so you will have opportunity to dress up your characters, choose the guns you want to use, will have potions and other skill-changing items. Secondly, it endless fun to listen for the conversations between NPC and Deathspank! If you have a good humor sense, if you understand ironic humor, this will be a really well spent time while playing Deathspank. I actually laugh out loud for a quite few times when playing this game. And this doesn’t happen a lot to me :)
The PROS for this game that it’s colorful, good looking, graphics – while not the “Realistic” ones, still “drawn” graphics deliver. Quests are fun and the reading/listening part is very funny.

CONS is that the game sometimes is a little bit repetitive. It’s hack’n'slash – so there is a chance you can finish your game spamming X button.

I would give this game 8/10. It’s a really nice adittion to your best PS3 RPG games collection, while waiting for some other games. Did I mention that this game is downloadable from PSN (means no actual disc). When I got it I paid something in a range of 8$. There is two expansions for this game, but I still didn’t got it – currently playing Fallout: New Vegas :)

As always, there is a video review from gametrailers about this game: