Gamer--freakz

Thats it man, enough PS2 games. The PS2 was a beastly system, it was great, but its time to move on.

I will be doing the final PS2 game reviews and thats it, never going to touch on this system again. Here are the final 2 games before I close off the system.

Odin sphere RE
Kingdom hearts 2

Yep, thats all.

Gamespot score:8.3(great)

my score:8.5

(+)Pros:-Good lenghty game with addictive and stragetic combat,-interesting story,-a total of 3 different playable characters add into variety,-some amazing boss fights,-amazingly good visuals during the time of release

(-)Cons:-very hard to play on normal mode,-some story loopholes

gameplay time:10-20 hours




Now time for a game of the past. The onimusha series was one pretty well renowned one. For one, it has 4 running main games, and a few spin offs. Sadly, 3 was the only I played, and dawn of dreams crashed on me. Back on topic, onimusha fans and newcomers alike(me) will love this game for a few reasons, an intruiging story, solid combat, and a bunch of lovable characters. Though the game is one of the hardest I have ever played, I can't say that its unplayable, its just really hard. Well, moving on, it even has characters based on REAL LIFE PEOPLE. While I didnt know these guys back then, this should be enough to spark some interest in some people.



Story goes as samanouske, a honourable samurai, goes to assualt a temple to kill oda nobunaga, the reason for genma appearances. There, during the final battle, he is teleported away, for an unknown reason. He is brought to the future in france, where he finds out that most of his power has been sucked away. At the same time, police detective jaq is facing problems of his own. his squad is wiped from the genma and hes barely surviving killing the monsters with his machine gun. At the most crucial moment he is saved by samanouske, and is teleported away as well. Samanouske, suprised, looks around for a cause, and notices guildinstern, a mad genma scientist, at a faraway tower. Presuming the source of the time travel, samanouske goes to confront him. Jaq on the other hand, is teleported back into samanouskes time and gets powers of his own similar to samanouske after unforseen events, and he fights to get back to his time. 2 fighters, 2 times, this game is just that awesome.





Being a hack and slash game, onimusha 3 is friggin awesome. The gameplay isnt as fast as something like, say, devil may cry, or even god of war, but its still as great as or even better than those. For one, the pacing is pretty great, you cant jump and do air combos and all, but hitting your enemies still require great presicion, especially the big and powerful ones. Slashing blindy will only cause you to die terrible deaths. Almost everything requires some strategy, thats if you're playing the brutally brutal normal mode and not the easy mode. The maps are great, the environments are nice to explore and roam around. The game requires some backtracking, but its nothing serious. Monsters get infinite spawn, but you can ignore them so its not that big of a deal, especially if even the weakest of genma can decipitate you if you are playing blindly. Still, theres such a thing called a FAQ.

For the characters and genma, you are in for quite a treat. You play as 3 characters, samanouske, jaq and that 1 police chick michelle. Samanouske is your run of the mill swordsman with a few cool weapons. Among the 3 he fights the most up close. He has basically swords in his arsenal, be it great swords dual swords or any other blade related crap.Though he is the main character and is used the most, I would say I enjoy using him the least, not that he isnt fun, the other 2 are just better. Jaq is a blast to play. He using whip based weapon, he can hit them from afar, go toward them to dish out pain, or drag them to him. Most of his weapons are whip based so they have quite similar properties. He is personally my favourite character. Michelle on the other hand uses modern day weapons, like machine guns, grenades, rocket launchers etc. Tough you only play her for a small bit, she is suprisingly fun. That 1 zoo level was one of my favourites in the game, due to the sheer fun of shooting genma. Combinging 3 characters with the slaying of some interesting looking genma, this game is just great. Some of the normal genma look really good (that 1 chainball guy and the bear looking dude from the zoo level, even those ninja dudes look cool), and bosses are just a blast to fight.

I overall only found the difficulty in this game to be a major issue. The game is really hard on normal, and since I was just a sore kid back then I played easy after dieing against the 1st robot boss like 20 times. Years later I tried again on normal mode and cleared it.....it was hell. Also, the story has parts where it doesnt make sense, more so, the time switches. When ako time travels to the different heroes, the other hero just sits back in his time, idling and doing nothing, when the world is at stake, wth? You would think the other hero would go off and kill some stuff before ako comes back.

Demon siege is a great game, though hard, its really satisfying once you clear it. For a game that was released such a while back, its really something. Once again, a great game, too bad I didnt get to finish dawn of dreams, also, its a pity samanouske didnt make it into MVC 3, they really needed a samurai character in there.

Happy gaming!

Gamespot score:n/a

my score:8.0

(+)Pros:-Great song selection,-vareity of different charts and playstyles ,-good replay value with different characters and song difficulties,- costume unlocks provide more initiative to play,- overall cute visuals,-great co-op play features

(-)cons:-only 19 songs,-no particularly very challenging songs

gameplay time:20-30 hours(average)






K-on! is a popular japanese anime that speaks about 5 girls that attend a light music club and do nothing all day long. Fans waited for a game, since k-on had quite a collection of songs. The fans waited and waited, and finally, late last year,k-on! houkago-live!! was released. Published by sega, which also published the well known project diva games, its more of a rock-band based game unlike project diva, which was just a flat out music game. Sharing many similarities with rock band, guitar hero and many other music games, the concept is there. Rather than using instruments of course its the PSP controls. Equiped with a co-op feature too, houkago life is ready to take the fans for a ride, and it sure succeeds in that area.




Im still no good wif jap( bear with me, I'll probably learn it next semester), but the story is easy to guess. It follows the events of the anime, after azusa joins the group. Basically its just the band playing songs over and over for practise, and later the game introduces the several different characters. Some of these include ui, yui's sister, sawa-sensei, the club teacher in charge and nodoka, yui's childhood friend. Needless to say, in a music game like this, the story plays little role, in the end, if you want to know more its much btr to jus watch the anime.


Houkago live is a pretty solid game for the music genre, especially for the fans. For one, there are 19 well known songs all in this game, each with normal and hard mode and 5 playcharts, one for each of the characters, yui,mio,ritsu,mugi and azusa. Each of the playcharts are different, and the one that differs the most is mio's, since its all arrows(shes left handed). That kinda adds variety, since you can play a song 10 times to fully finish it (5x 2 difficulties). The song selection is kinda solid, though sadly its missing season 2 songs. Still, we get songs like fuwa fuwa time, sweet bitter beauty song, heart goes boom, and the signature openings and endings, cagayake girls and dont be lazy. Most of these 19 songs are a blast to play, and playing them with different characters will still feel different.


Of course theres more to that. Now I shall explain the gameplay, though its kinda simple since its concept its kinda same as many other music games. Its kinda like djmax, but slower, and instead of the vertical notes its horizontal. You will see a bunch on notes appear on the horizontal bar, and there will be a moving slider. Every time the slider comes in contact with a note, hit the corressponding button to clear it. Kinda easy, though sometimes there are pretty crazy moments ( mass jack hammers, etc). Also, you get only a couple of songs in the beginning, and continue to unlock more as you play. The visuals you see during songs are the models of the girls, which if you ask me are pretty well done. The mode selection character chibi models are so damn cute to boot! Theres co-op, which you can join up to 5 friends to play as any of the girls, kinda like rock band, it works, and its pretty good. Finally, as an incentive, you unlock costumes for your girls each time you get great grades for your songs with them. Keep playing to unlock those swimsuits boys!


With only 19 songs, the song amoung is pretty inferior to many other games of the music genre. Sure most of them are great, but 19 is still too little, even with the different charts and all, its better to play new songs rather than play the same song with just a different character. And since theres only 19 songs, its really hard to find an extremely difficult song, like disappearance from project diva or nightmare from djmax. Hope if they release another game, it'll have more songs and particularly some hard ones.
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Houkago live does the k-on series justice, its a great game, and it boots up some really good songs. Though more songs would have been better, houkago is still a good impression on the all so popular k-on anime. Maybe they'll do another one for the season 2 songs, who knows? Lets just hope they do.






Happy gaming!

Gamespot score:8.5(great)

my score:9.0

(+)Pros:-Is pretty damn long for a shooter,- intense atmosphere makes for an incredibly breath taking journey,-great shock and scare moments keep you on your toes,-manages to be shocking and challenging both at the same time,-interesting array of weapons,-big variety of monsters keep things interesting.

(-)Cons:-You probably wont be making use of all weapons given to you and only use a few that you are accustomed to.

Gameplay time:20-30 hours(average)





Godamnit marvel vs capcom 3 is eating my life away. Anyway, today Im finally doing a post, sorry about my negligence during the previous week.
Doom 3 is a very old game now, roughly about 7 years old, since it was released way back in 2004. I only got the previlage to play this awesome game last year, and man, I tell you, even though the graphics are rather dated, this game took me by storm. Its probably the very 1st shooter to impress me so much, as to giving it a 9( bioshock 1 and 2 come pretty damn close).



Story wise doom 3 is pretty good, but nothing very phenomal. The story goes as an unamed marine(you) goes to the mars base for a mission. As soon as the marine gets to know the place by moving around and familiarising himself, he notices how the people are acting strange and saying how being in the base itself is a mistake. After awhile, the whole base goes haywire, normal humans start becoming zombies, demons start popping out of nowhere. In a struggle for survival, the marine starts moving about the base hoping to find some help. Basically the whole story is about the marine struggling for survival and finding a way out of hellhole.



Doom 3 is a survival horror game shooter, something like that. But unlike most survival horrors like dead space or, doom 3 manages to stay a very fast paced shooter and enjoyable shooter. While you still get many scares such as monsters popping out behind doors, bodies floating out of nowhere and hearing monster cries while navigating empty hallways, the gameplay is still fast and challenging. The areas you will roam are mostly a hi-tech science base on mars, and its very intenese. Everywhere you go you will see blood splatters and piles of bodies scattered like seeds. Also, almost every room you go to has monsters spawning, so being on your toes is natural. There are practically scares everywhere, everytime you open a door and get jumped by an imp, you are sure to jump, for the 1st few times at least. Monsters appear behind you and attack without warning, and when those little spiders crawl out of unsuspecting vents to kill you, you know you are in deep shit.

Doom 3's battle system is like all other shooters. You get a variety of weapons, which you will get throughout the game. These include machine guns, mini guns, shotguns, pistols and even RPGs. It also has its own share of futuristic guns like the BFG and the plasma gun. Oh yeah, theres a chainsaw too. For your health you get a basic HP amount and armor. You cant carry any medicine or bandages with you, so basically its take what you get. Any med kids on the flloor must be picked up on the spot, same for armor shards. This is awesome since it makes the game mighty challenging, when you get hit, you dont recover your state until you are back to normal, you health stays. The variety of enemies you will fight are pretty awesome as well. Though at the start of the game you are limited to battling mindless zombies and imps that toss fireballs, you will encounter alot more perplexing and deadly enemies. There are spiders which come in masses, a skeleton which is able to fire missles at you, a giant gerbil, a great lurking hell knight and many more. Following this, there are no shops to buy ammo, so as with your health, you take what you have, so its a good idea to spend as little ammo as possible to kill these critters.Oh yeah, bosses, they're here as well, but they're kinda touch and go since you will have bigger problems killing normal monsters than the bosses.

Theres really nothing too bad about doom 3, other than perhaps the weapons. Though you get so many, its very rare that you will find a situation where you require to use all of them. You will probably just stick with the shotgun the whole game, with rare situations where you will use the machine gun, and later in the game, the plasma gun. The rest are kinda...just there. Even for the bosses, using the big hitters like the RPG and BFG arent really necesarry. My opinion? I just think they should make some enemies that can only be defeated by certain kinds of weapons. Again, its only my opinion.

Doom 3 is a very impressive shooter, I really enjoyed playing it. Good thing I played it even though it was an old game, glad I didnt overlook it. Im not really a shooter person, but I'll say it, doom 3 is a shooter that no one should miss, though I think already half the world have already played it, since its already 7 years old -.-.

Happy gaming!

5 days missing huh?

Well this week has been pretty shitty for me. I started my school's studio project, and even in all that chaso and havoc, I took the time to get MVC 3.

Heres the shit, I have been working my ASS OFF to get mvc 3 more than doing my project. While it was supposed to arrive on 15 feb, tuesday, it was delayed. FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-. It was a massive rage induce that day. I searched the web for any store which had it in stock, but to no avail. So I sucked my thumb and slept at 2am (I searched for a damn long time mind you).

Wednesday, 16th. I had my friend check the same store if it had any stock. Nope. Pissed, I went to other stores, still no stock.Damn.

Finally, on thursday, I called the store to ask about stock. AND YES, IT CAME IN. I reserved a copy, and after my school activities, I went to pick it up in a hurry. And since then, I have been knocking myself out playing it. ITS AWESOME.

So yeah, was too busy playing it to post anything. Today Im here to say Im gonna continue enjoying myself with mahvel 3, so now reviews and shit. Tomorrow Im going out, so maybe sunday I'll post something. MAHVEL 3 IS THE SHIT.

If you havent bought it, do it now, seriously.