Something Different

Quick writing today/this morning because I gotta get more sleep because today is going to be a long one!

I just downloaded the newly released "Crystal Defenders" game and it is kicking my ass! I wish I could say otherwise, but I won't lie like that. I'll tell it like it is! My ass is getting kicked all over the damn place!

From playing the demo and even after several rounds, I thought this game was just a easy time killer. You know the type, a game that just isn't really that serious and its only purpose for existing is just to help pass the time. But how wrong was I?! This game takes more brains then I expected and it has proven so time and again.

I mean the objective is to protect your crystals (you start with 20) from lines of monsters that walk through the map. They don't do any attacking, only your people can do that part. Sounds so simple huh?

Looks can be deceiving.

And experimenting with the other two modes (same game, tougher monsters and a few different job classes to choose from) just made me realize that things are definitely not what I thought.

I think my favorite job of the mix is easily the Fencer, which in my short time of utilizing them, they proved to be monsters on the battlefield!

On an unrelated note, we just picked up our first Wii game in over 6 months. It isn't even a new game really, but how could we pass up the chance to get Pikmin again?

Rented both Resident Evil 5 and Star Ocean: The Last Hope, in hopes that I could find another good game to play through. And while I haven't played Resident Evil 5 yet, I did put a very nominal effort into Star Ocean.

My thoughts? The game gives me a headache and this is only after 30 minutes of play! What bothers me so much is the camera system, which just goes all over. Now I'm hoping that maybe I missed an option somewhere that will allow me to keep that damn camera bouncing off of the walls and going ballistic whenever I pass through a doorway.

The voice acting is another thing that irritated me early on, I mean the voices just don't match. I mean the main character looks like a 13 year old kid and here he is, sporting a voice of a older guy. A little creepy? Oh yes.

Oh, right, maybe the kid hit puberty a little early? Or maybe it just goes along with the fact that his name is Edge Maverick?! What the... did Square-Enix run out of names? Or are they hording them all for future Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts games?

Anyway, I think I'm going to put in a little more time with it, just to see if it really does induce headaches. Maybe I am wrong and it'll turn out to be one of the greatest games ever convinced in the history of humanity. We'll see...