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We have been playing so many games lately. What is this sunshine thing I have heard so much about I don't even.
Awesome games we have played:
Okami Fffffff this game is the coolest thing and I am so in love with it. I started it over almost immediately after beating it and I haven't done that in ages. I know I am late to the party on this one by like a billion years but this game is literally a work of art. Amaaaaazing. I don't even have any words. If you like video games and mythology (and Japan I guess) and all that is right in the world, this game is a sheer delight.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin Okay I'm going to have to take Alisa's word for this one because she was playing it at the same time I was playing Okami so I missed a lot of it. But any game that has a character as wicked awesome as Eikichi has my vote.
Persona 3 FES This one is Alisa's too, and having not really had any exposure to the series before I was pretty enthralled. I missed a lot of it because I didn't make her stop when I left for work and such, so I picked it up with her game + when she finished it to see what I missed and to finish up the social links she didn't get around to. Basically I thought this game was the shit until she started playing Persona 4. M-more on this below.
Persona 4 I don't think there is a single facet of this game that doesn't make me cream my pants at least a little. It is vastly superior to Persona 3 in SO MANY WAYS. It's hilarious, it's charming, it's filled to the brim with characters who are cooler than anyone you know (Kanji~ ♥) and watching Alisa play it made me have to give up on P3. It just fails in comparison.
Terrible games we have played:
Final Fantasy X So this is not a surprise. Okay, to be fair, this game is actually better than I give it credit for. The visuals have really shown their age, and it's clear the aural rape this game is so famous for isn't the fault of the voice actors, but some kind of hideous lack of direction. The story is actually pretty engrossing, I guess, if you're not the kind of person who tires of the "Know what's evil? ORGANIZED RELIGION" trope. For me, the reason FFX doesn't compare to it's predecessors is it's the utter lack of freedom.
It marked the beginning of the end of the Final Fantasy franchise (as far as I'm concerned) because it's LINEAR AS FUCK and removes any sense of exploration with the removal of the overworld map. I don't care how well rendered your environments are, nothing compared to finding the hidden nooks and crannies of world map. It's like, even though I've done everything there is to do in FFX, I still don't know their world. I know the Thunder Plains come after Guadosalaam and before Macalania, but if you gave me a world map of Spira, I wouldn't even recognize it as such, let alone be able to pinpoint these places. Give me a map of Gaia, though, and I can name the continents, cities, gates and chart every single fucking Chocograph treasure by heart. Because I've fucking been to Gaia. Gaia is a place I care about. Spira is just a word.
/nerdrage
Final Fantasy X-2 You guys I couldn't even do it. COULDN'T EVEN. Remember when this game came out how we all played it like, three times in a row? COULDN'T. EVEN. I hear this game is actually pretty solid if you play it on mute, and one of the reasons I was so willing to go back to it was because of the class system and I am SUCH a whore for the class system. (See: Final Fantasy 5) But I was like what the fuck is this garbage I don't even. And then I started playing P3.
Persona 3 FES Okay, so it's not terrible. B-but come on. Compared to P4? In P4 you and your totally awesome friends attend a small high school in the middle of Buttfuck Nowhere, Japan trying to unravel the mystery behind a rash of murder/kidnappings and OH you do this by using a TV AT THE LOCAL WAL-MART AS A PORTAL TO ANOTHER WORLD that is totally wicked awesome and shit. And WACKY HIJINKS and HILARITY ensue because everyone you hang out with is the coolest fucking person on the planet. In P3 you and some boring people who are barely more than acquaintances (if not ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER) will kill stuff when you're told to and when you're not doing that you're just climbing and reclimbing a 250+ floor dungeon every night. Half of your party members are srs bsnss with sticks up their asses and the others are exciting as watching paint dry. The only saving grace is Junpei "the DudeBro" Iori and the damn dog I mean what the hell. (F-for the record Koromaru NEVER leaves my party. Strategy be damned HE'S A GODDAMN DOG how cute is that.)
Persona No, not the PSP version. The original PS1 North American localization nightmare release. The one where every one in inexplicably blonde and has names like Mary and Mark and Brad and Bobby "Of COURSE this is set in America, why do you ask? Th-those aren't shoe lockers, they're uh...mailboxes! Yeah!" Smith. The plan was to play this for shits before we acquired the re-localized one but I just couldn't do it. I was too insulted.
So I wanted to knock out Persona 1 and by the time I'm done with that Alisa will be done with Persona 4 so I can play it, but I can't make myself suffer through it. Now I don't have any games to play. :(
Awesome games we have played:
Okami Fffffff this game is the coolest thing and I am so in love with it. I started it over almost immediately after beating it and I haven't done that in ages. I know I am late to the party on this one by like a billion years but this game is literally a work of art. Amaaaaazing. I don't even have any words. If you like video games and mythology (and Japan I guess) and all that is right in the world, this game is a sheer delight.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin Okay I'm going to have to take Alisa's word for this one because she was playing it at the same time I was playing Okami so I missed a lot of it. But any game that has a character as wicked awesome as Eikichi has my vote.
Persona 3 FES This one is Alisa's too, and having not really had any exposure to the series before I was pretty enthralled. I missed a lot of it because I didn't make her stop when I left for work and such, so I picked it up with her game + when she finished it to see what I missed and to finish up the social links she didn't get around to. Basically I thought this game was the shit until she started playing Persona 4. M-more on this below.
Persona 4 I don't think there is a single facet of this game that doesn't make me cream my pants at least a little. It is vastly superior to Persona 3 in SO MANY WAYS. It's hilarious, it's charming, it's filled to the brim with characters who are cooler than anyone you know (Kanji~ ♥) and watching Alisa play it made me have to give up on P3. It just fails in comparison.
Terrible games we have played:
Final Fantasy X So this is not a surprise. Okay, to be fair, this game is actually better than I give it credit for. The visuals have really shown their age, and it's clear the aural rape this game is so famous for isn't the fault of the voice actors, but some kind of hideous lack of direction. The story is actually pretty engrossing, I guess, if you're not the kind of person who tires of the "Know what's evil? ORGANIZED RELIGION" trope. For me, the reason FFX doesn't compare to it's predecessors is it's the utter lack of freedom.
It marked the beginning of the end of the Final Fantasy franchise (as far as I'm concerned) because it's LINEAR AS FUCK and removes any sense of exploration with the removal of the overworld map. I don't care how well rendered your environments are, nothing compared to finding the hidden nooks and crannies of world map. It's like, even though I've done everything there is to do in FFX, I still don't know their world. I know the Thunder Plains come after Guadosalaam and before Macalania, but if you gave me a world map of Spira, I wouldn't even recognize it as such, let alone be able to pinpoint these places. Give me a map of Gaia, though, and I can name the continents, cities, gates and chart every single fucking Chocograph treasure by heart. Because I've fucking been to Gaia. Gaia is a place I care about. Spira is just a word.
/nerdrage
Final Fantasy X-2 You guys I couldn't even do it. COULDN'T EVEN. Remember when this game came out how we all played it like, three times in a row? COULDN'T. EVEN. I hear this game is actually pretty solid if you play it on mute, and one of the reasons I was so willing to go back to it was because of the class system and I am SUCH a whore for the class system. (See: Final Fantasy 5) But I was like what the fuck is this garbage I don't even. And then I started playing P3.
Persona 3 FES Okay, so it's not terrible. B-but come on. Compared to P4? In P4 you and your totally awesome friends attend a small high school in the middle of Buttfuck Nowhere, Japan trying to unravel the mystery behind a rash of murder/kidnappings and OH you do this by using a TV AT THE LOCAL WAL-MART AS A PORTAL TO ANOTHER WORLD that is totally wicked awesome and shit. And WACKY HIJINKS and HILARITY ensue because everyone you hang out with is the coolest fucking person on the planet. In P3 you and some boring people who are barely more than acquaintances (if not ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL EACH OTHER) will kill stuff when you're told to and when you're not doing that you're just climbing and reclimbing a 250+ floor dungeon every night. Half of your party members are srs bsnss with sticks up their asses and the others are exciting as watching paint dry. The only saving grace is Junpei "the DudeBro" Iori and the damn dog I mean what the hell. (F-for the record Koromaru NEVER leaves my party. Strategy be damned HE'S A GODDAMN DOG how cute is that.)
Persona No, not the PSP version. The original PS1 North American localization nightmare release. The one where every one in inexplicably blonde and has names like Mary and Mark and Brad and Bobby "Of COURSE this is set in America, why do you ask? Th-those aren't shoe lockers, they're uh...mailboxes! Yeah!" Smith. The plan was to play this for shits before we acquired the re-localized one but I just couldn't do it. I was too insulted.
So I wanted to knock out Persona 1 and by the time I'm done with that Alisa will be done with Persona 4 so I can play it, but I can't make myself suffer through it. Now I don't have any games to play. :(