04.16.09
Holy shit, it’s an actual post.
Hey, I’ve always been wondering what the hell I’d do with this blog besides use it as a home for my Supporteil add-on. I mean, I could talk about lots of things like how silly Fox News is with its teabagging or how awesome Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert is. Or how Scrubs is kickass and I love watching it during work (don’t do this, by the way. Bad habit. Do as I say, not as I do). Or even about the various new anime that’s coming out this season and I definitely enjoy.
So I decided to totally not choose at all and talk about whatever the fuck I feel like. So for right now…let’s talk about games! Cause a couple of days ago, I have gained a Xbox 360! It is truly amazing for now my apartment is graced with all three next-gen systems! The Wii (which has like 5 games I consider good), the PS3 (which is totally not mine and really only has like…less games I would want), and the Xbox 360 (which I don’t trust with RPGs at all). To be honest, they may be new gen systems with their AWESOME GRAPHICS (Wii didn’t sign up for that) and stuff, but the PS2 is still my favorite system until like…more RPGs get released. But enough of my preferences. It’s talking about something more specific time.
So…since there’s really nothing in anime I really want to talk about except how I like a ton of the new shows, especially Saki (if only for my delicious lesbian mahjong action), I’ll talk about Star Ocean 4! At least a couple of thoughts. Probably random spoilers ahead.
The first Star Ocean game I ever played was Till the End of Time, which I’ve heard from other SO fans who’ve actually played SO1 and SO2 say was not particularly good. I…really didn’t know why. Maybe I should actually play the earlier ones. I mean, I have SO1 lying right next to me now. I’ll play it later. But the thing is, I liked SO3. Maybe it was the characters (I love Maria so much it’s not funny) or the cheezy “WE’RE ALL PART OF SOME PERSON’S GAME!” twist at the end or even the “We’re flying a giant magicannon-carrying dragon against alien battleships in an awesome battle!” scene, but I’ll stand by my “I like SO3″ stance. I doubt it’d ever drop…but hey, maybe the first two games are just so awesome that I’ll be totally blown away. We’ll see.
As for SO4…I’ve seen some vids, watching some attack movies and the like. I’m not particularly far in the game so I guess I can’t speak about much (so I won’t), but even now there’s a couple of things I’ve noticed about it. The plot itself is nice, I guess. Last hope of humanity going to find new planets to colonize. Has the typical “Dude my superior is a fat jerkass” character who you immediately loathe. The voices are fine, I guess. Nothing super special but having Rise of Persona 4 fame being the voice actor for Reimi was awesome. Edge is…fine, I guess. At some points his voice seems to just seem too…unnatural for the scene. It’s kind of odd and hard to describe. Lymle would be a lot more tolerable if she didn’t add “‘kay” to like…almost every sentence. I understand that they were quite faithful at translating the verbal tic from Japanese to English (I hope that’s what it is because if it isn’t I will be so annoyed), but seriously some verbal ticks can sound charming in Japanese while being goddamn annoying in English and ‘kay is one of those things. Seriously.
The game is really, really pretty though. I can’t doubt that. And the battle system isn’t all too bad although I definitely miss parts of SO3 (although that has to do more with Side Kick, Side Kick, Side Kick and Aiming Device, Aiming Device, Aiming Device). The Bonus Board is…eh, it’s easier to customize and in that is better, but the rewards definitely aren’t as high (which could be seen as good). Crafting is back to old basics from what I’ve seen, although I do like SO3’s system more than this one (just a little though).
Anyway, that’s it for now. I’m sure people will be upset about how I don’t like this game so far as much as I like SO3 (cause I don’t), but hey if they want to argue that’s what the comment section is for. Or they could make their own blog! Or something :V
Hopefully I’ll actually make more posts in the future.