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Your enjoyment of Asura's Wrath is going to depend largely on your ability to put spectacle over gameplay. At only about six hours and consisting mostly of Quick Time Events and cutscenes Asura's Wrath is more of an interactive anime than a game by standard definition. Even though it's short, the simplicity of the systems in place could easily turn a six hour experience stale, but the three different styles of…
Infamous 2 is almost exactly what you would expect from the a sequel to the first game . Almost. Infamous 2 improves on every aspect of the game, even story and characters. While being chased out of Empire City by "The Beast", agent Lucy Kuo brings Cole Macgrath and friend and partner Zeke Dunbar to New Marais. Throughout the course of the game Cole's objective is to collect blast cores to becomes more powerful so…
Shadows of the Damned is the second joint project of game making crazy people Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami . Joining the crew this time is sound design genius Akira Yamaoka of Silent Hill fame. Any fan of Suda and Mikami should have a certain expectation for this game going in, but it's up to you if that expectation is met. When I first started playing Shadows of the Damned I was fully expecting a crazy, weird,…
Skies of Arcadia is a game I originally became interested in because I used Vyse and Aika in my squad in Valkyria Chronicles . Thankfully, I was not dissappointed by my interest and curiosity. Skies Of Arcadia: Legends in it's simplest form is your average JRPG. Teenagers fight monsters and the evil of humanity. Only this time they're sky pirates. Skies of Arcadia does a decent job of creating a world for you to…
I played through the first Portal and loved every minute of it. However, from the initial announcement right up to when I put the game in I felt like Portal 2 might suffer from being too much Portal. The first game felt like the perfect length and a sequel on that, while probably still great, may have become tired quickly. The opening 5 minutes of this game shattered those fears and reminded why I loved the first…
