Saturday, 14 November 2009

kingdom hearts RE

Gamespot score:8.2(great)

my score:8.5

(+)pros:-long gameplay for an action RPG,-many disney and final fantasy cameo appearances,-deep and intruiging story will keep players coming back for more,-many variety of different and creative looking heartlesses,-fairly challenging and fun boss fights.


(-)cons:-gummi ship travels are boring and lame until you get warp drives,-synthesis is pointless since you can merely run through the game without it.


Gameplay time:30-40 hours(above average)





Welcome to the re-do review of kingdom hearts, a very old PS2 game, and one that I have replayed and completed 3 times due to its overwhelming funness. With published versions of this game in many varieties such as "greatest hits" or "platinum hits",this game is said to be awesome to have so many different publishments. Kingdom hearts is a game by square enix with featured cameos with disney shows and movie as well ,this may turn people off but its actually very fun as cameos from final fantasy games are here as well.


Sora is a young boy who has been living on his island for his entire life with his friends riku and kairi,thier dreams have always been to see the outside world,as they are sick of thier island,so they decided to make a raft to leave the island(sure like that will work).While making the raft the island is suddenly bombarded by a swarm of shadow like creatures known as heartless and to fend them off sora is given the keyblade due to his strong will in his heart.Later as the story goes he is seperated from riku and kairi,the story progresses as he tries to find them by travelling to different worlds with donald and goofy,whom he meet.







Yup its cloud. This game has cameos like squall and yuffie too. Kingdom hearts is an action RPG with these cameos,and the system is pretty good. You go around pounding hordes of heartless that assault you along you quest to find your friends to seal keyholes that heartless go after.The system for every world is pretty much it, you walk through the world and meet disney characters,then accompany them in your party and go defeat that respective villian in the world.







As for the battle system,its really quite creative. You get 4 actions,attack,magic,item and the last action for situation fitting actions,if you are at a save point the action will be save,if you are in the middle of a close range combat,it will be a melee skill like ragnarok or sonic blade.Attack is the most common action you will use,you will obviously use it to attack,magic is quite useless,casting spells do low damage unless you choose the magic build.Items are important,for healing hp/mp stuff like that,you can however only hold a certain number of items.You will be using these actions for killing enemies and bosses.Speaking of which,bosses are fun,they provide a challenging difficulty level for a first timer,you even get to fight guys like squall and cloud too(you know they arent just in the game to look cool).Bosses include disney villians like jafar(aladin) and hook(peter pan),they are actually quite fun to fight,despite being from childish shows.







The game has a lot to offer,even unnessasery nonsense like synthesis that is useless, you can do fine completeing the game without having to touch it,in my opinion,it is only good for the making of the game's ultimate weapon(which i shall not spoil). Even after story events,the game throws a few insane optional bosses at you!These guys are the real deal and only real pros can defeat them,to name some are sephiroth(final fantasy 7) and ice titan(hercules).The overall gameplay time for the game would be around 30 hours to just clear the game,and an additional 10 hours to do optional stuff like defeat bosses or challenge tournaments at the olympus collisuem.


Ha!Overall kingdom hearts is a great gameplay experience for RPG gamers,or even just casual players.I recomend this game to all who own a PS2.Peace!








Happy gaming.

Friday, 13 November 2009

Djmax portable 2 RE

Gamespot score:n/a


my score:8.0


(+)pros:-has many nice songs,-easily addictive,-easy to learn if you are a music game noob,-extreme challenges provide a fun difficulty curve,-many different button modes give a long time for players to master.


(-)cons:-some glitches when challenging human players via WLAN,-speed increase during 4 or 5 times fever is annoying.



Gameplay time:100 hours plus(very long lasting)






Cover chick is hot,no doubt about it. Wasup!O levels are over and im enjoying life.I bought my PS3 and heres my 1st review with the new rating system. This is an old game that I have done before so long ago.Dj max portable 2 is my first music game and my first game that consumed more than 120 hours of my life. With the easy learning curve and addictive gameplay, Dj max portable 2 is a great game. With more than over 50 songs and 4 button modes this game can last very long,and some songs with hard styles.





Dj max portable 2 has no story. Its just a pointless music game, you play the game, play the songs until you drop. Seriously its very simple to understand, you get stage play for 4 buttons,5 buttons,6 buttons and 8 buttons,and a free style mode to play every song you have unlocked in stage mode.








This is the song select screen. This is where you screen through the long lists of songs and find a song to play. The tracks vary from korean songs,english songs, or just a piece of music. Djmax portable 2 has very nice songs, varying from many genres, R and B, pop,rock,jazz and many more. The majority of the songs are beautiful,out of the 50+ songs,only like less than 10 songs suck(dream of you,show time,higher etc).
Also,in addition,many songs have more modes,such as hard styles or MX,hard style songs are songs which hav a tad small increase in level for the song.The hard style songs are only a little bit more difficult than their normal style counterparts.MX songs are best avoided unless you are a pro,they are always level 13 and above,which is friggin hard.Here is the difficulty level curve. Level 1-14,with lvl 14 the highest level a song can go.







This is the jamming screen.After you select a song, the game brings you to this screen. Its like any other music game,as the notes fall,you press the corresponding button.Your accuracy will be counted for every note hit. Every time you manage to hit 50 notes on a 100% accuracy,you get fever.Activating fever results in counted each note you hit as 2 notes,to accumulate combo.Fever can go up to as high as 5 times,but the speed increase is annoying and ruins concentration.The songs all have around 2 mins duration,which is pretty managable.MX songs are always insane,with notes cramming up your screen and coming down at unimaginable speeds,your thumb skills will have to be top notch to match such songs.


The last thing to cover would be extreme challenges.These are missions that consist of you playing a series of songs and to reach the given target,such as achieving a certain level of accuracy,or a certain score amount,or even not having a certain amount of breaks.These challenges are hard but provide challenge to veterans who want to give them a spin.


Overall djmax portable 2 is a game worth trying out,wheter you are a gaming fan or not,it is an awesome music game for one to play both at a hardcore level,or even at a casual level.Gamers should check it out.








Happy gaming.

Monday, 9 November 2009

New rating system

Hey man,Im thinking that my ratings are kinda mediecore,without stating the pros and cons like gamespot.

From now on Im dong every review like that,with its own pros and cons, to make it look more complete,and stuff like that.Its not like im copying gamespot or anyting, but if any credits from this system is needed I guess it'll go to them.

Every new game will be rated in such a way,and I will be doing all the games I have reviewed this year and reformat them in this way,cause I think many of the games I have reviewed this year are very noobish and lousy(wolfteam,etrain odyssey,djmax series),so Im gonna make them nicer,but among all this,Ill still be doing new game reviews.

Peace to all.

Saturday, 7 November 2009

taking it easy

Yo man.

The critical week of O levels is godamn over, next week is only chinese and MCQs,no need for studying much,so im currently taking it easy. Its been a long journey,kudos to myself and all those taking O levels. This blog will be more active as O levels are over, which is great! As additional info im gonna buy a PS3 on november 11th,after my chemistry/biology MCQ paper.Oh yea man.

Games to buy for a start have been decided,killzone 2 and little big planet FTW. Reasons why is because they are cheap compared to other games. Next game will be tekken 6,but ill have to save abit on that 1.Anyways, playing an awesome online game that I once ditched before,dekaron SEA. Its a great MMORPG that I once quit cause I didnt see it from the perspective of the positives sides.Currently using a level 35 incar magician,my previous account was a level 47 vicious summoner.Its a fun game, recommended to online game players,its fairly easy to level up too.

Enough chatter,Ive gone on long enough, my next post will be directed back to gaming.Once again,kudos to myself and all those taking O levels.

Sunday, 1 November 2009

wolfteam-smart wolf




Yo. Today im gonna continue posting about wolfteam.Today's post will have a theme, with the feature being the smart wolf. One of the current 8 different wolves usable in wolfteam. Smart wolf is the 2nd wolf from the left in the above picture. The smart wolf is an annoying piece of crap that is used by many people in wolf conquest mode. The smart wolf can be used in Wolf conquset,EX mode,destruction S2 and wolf war mode. Well time to talk about it.












Pros(+)

-very very small.It is smaller than a human,making it hard to be hit in wolf conquest mode. It can also conceal itself toatally by hiding behind the crates around base C in paien lab, as well as going into the human hiding hole near the human base in power plant map.

-life drain ability. This is uber gey.It gains 20 hp into its shield every time it slashes an opponent succesfully.And a full smart wolf jump-right click attack is 4 hits.Also when it kills something,it can crouch and slash the dead body to rapidly gain hp.It can store up to 300 hp to its shield,starting with an initial amount of 100.

-fast moving speed,combining this with its small size,smart wolf is the ultimate bullet dodging machine.When engaging a human,by just jumping around the human will have trouble hitting it.

Cons(-)

-weak defense. Altough it can store lots of hp,its weak defense makes it prone to dieing alot when being hit all around. This is the smart wolf's weakness, good smart users can prevent the opponents from exploiting this weakness by camping,not allowing them to attack.

-weak damage. Though it has rapid clawing,each claw does no more than 60-70 damage,that means unlike many wolves,it cannot 2 hit KO human,and this makes smart wolf useless in any mode outside of wolf conquest or destruction S2. Smart wolf will most likely lose to any wolf in a head to head battle.

-gets 1 hit KOed alot by rocket launchers and grenades.

Best used for killing humans.NOTHING ELSE.

Well thats it for its pros and cons.Smart is a potentially good wolf in wolf conq or des S2,but outside of it,its really crap.For those smart haters,in EX or wolf war,just use any wolf under the sun and you can kill it.Not kidding,even a basic wolf can own it.In wolf conq,it is advised to use rocket launchers for easy pickings. Since it is small, shotgun also works.

Thats for for today.Next post will most probably be about guns,or the almighty ice wolf,depends on my mood.Peace.

Heres the rating.

Rating:2.5/5


Oh yeah for those wondering why the fk im still posting altough O level is gonna continue the next day,its cuz I need a break,I simply cannot stand social studies.