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In a little break from the RPGs I wanted tackle something I liked but a lot of other people are far more critical about and Sonic Adventure 2 fits this description perfectly; Sonic games seem to have hit their ’3D’ high point while Generations success, could be argued, is down to the series taking a step back ass opposed to trying to progress forward… But the franchise as a whole is a discussion best left for another time… for now here’s Sonic Adventure 2:
SONIC ADVENTURE 2
When it comes to Sonic games and 3D ones in particular there generally a consensus that as the series went on and tried to create a capable 3D game the series took a downward spiral in quality until the most recent games when it finally came to stripping out the 3D elements and restoring the it to its 2D routes that it seemed to begin to capture its wonder again. Anyway before I loose my point lets look at Sonic Adventure 2; possibly the best game that came out of all the full 3D games.
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Today on Gaming with Killatia we take a look at hit rpg for the Gamecube Tales of Symphonia. Now Granted its not often that we talk about role playing games on this review show but I enjoyed Symphonia so much that I wanted to play it once to see if I still enjoy it. The answer? Watch to find out
Catch my Tales of Vesperia Review on gotgame.com right now!
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Welcome to Level Up, where you get the score on video games.
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Once again, hello members of TGWTG, hope I'm getting some of you into following my podcast. For those of you who have just stumbled upon this and haven't read/seen/listened to my previous blog, this is my podcast called Level Up: a weekly random video game review. I've been doing them for a while, and decided to start posting them here 7 at a time (you can listen to one each day until I post again next Wednesday!). For those of you have been following me, sorry I missed last week (AGAIN!): I have no good excuse, other than being forgetful... But I remembered this week! These episodes would have played from May 14th to June 26th 2011.
Remember, constructive criticism over insults (and I do always like hearing different opinions on video games).
Level Up 71 - Pokemon Blue part 1
Level Up 72 - Pokemon Blue part 2
Once again, hello members of TGWTG, hope I'm getting some of you into following my podcast. For those of you who have just stumbled upon this and haven't read/seen/listened to my previous blog, this is my podcast called Level Up: a weekly random video game review. I've been doing them for a while, and decided to start posting them here 7 at a time (you can listen to one each day until I post again next Wednesday!). For those of you have been following me, sorry I missed last week: I started working full time once again and was wrapping up Spider-month (you'll see it soon enough). I just basically dropped the ball because I was so busy. These episodes would have played from March 20th to May 7th 2011.
Remember, constructive criticism over insults (and I do always like hearing different opinions on video games).
Level Up 64 - Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy Kong's Quest
Level Up 65 - Amazing Island
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is one of the most shallow games in the Final Fantasy franchise. I’m not saying it’s terrible or awful, merely shallow. The overall experience is mixed, because it doesn’t do anything so wrong that the game is ruined, but it doesn’t make up for its problems with anything good enough to redeem it. This game is like being stuck in limbo and the ending is ironically something quite similar to that. Role-playing games usually try to accomplish things like tell a story, provide great combat experiences, or a vast onslaught of sidequests. But Crystal Chronicles just exists and forces you to undergo community service to your fictional hometown. The thing I’ve discovered about this game is that it accomplishes what it claims to be its selling points, but fails to accomplish the things they don’t mention. That way somehow it’s not false advertising.
Selling point as advertised: Really interesting premise for the story, with miamsa covering the world. What they don’t mention: A good premise needs a good payoff for it to be worth anything. The setup for Crystal Chronicles is great, but it never has a payoff. It just keeps going on until you discover the secret area and the secret final boss and the secret final ending. It baffles me that after going to all that effort to set up a really good story, then go nowhere with it, and at the end suddenly decide to give it a villain and a spirit thing saying some mumbo jumbo about memories and the human nature and all that. There is no satisfaction in killing Raem or the Meteor Parasite because there is no buildup to them. There was no buildup to them because they were thrown in at the last minute because the game needed to end somehow.
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Hey there members of TGWTG, I missed last week. Didn't notice? Thought I was going to forget this week? Don't know who I am? Well all that matters is I'm posting now and you're reading. If you haven't seen them already, check out the other episodes in my blog archives. Originally these shows were produced betwee July 4th 2010 and August 15th 2010.
Remember, constructive criticism over insults (and I do always like hearing different opinions on video games).
Level Up 36 -The Death and Return of Superman (Note: Canada Day special!)
Level Up 37 - The Legend of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass
Hey there members of TGWTG who happened to stumble across this blog, this is my series of video game review podcasts. If you haven't read my previous blogs, then I suggest you check them out for the other 14 episodes. Here's the next 7 (listen to one a day until next week, or all at once if you like, just giving you that option).
For those of you who have seen the earlier ones, sorry that I'm a day late. I'm actually on vacation and lost track of the days of the week. Oops. Anyways originally these shows were produced between January 23rd 2010 and March 20th 2010.
Remember, constructive criticism over insults (and I do always like hearing different opinions on video games).
Level Up 15 - Freedom Force (My birthday special)
Yeah, yeah... another guy with his own opinion on Nintendo's E3 2011 conference. Oh, and an in-depth analysis of the new trailer for Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
Now, with twice the blue shells!
you are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
Due to technical issues, last weeks video has only just been upload, but along with it is this weeks so things don't fall behind! So, Big Cal finally brings the final 2 parts of his 3 part wrestling video games special, along with his top 5 wrestling games ever at the end!
In this 3 part special, Big Cal talks about some of the wrestling video games he owns, from some of the best, to the absolute worst!
I get all philosophical and analyse Shoshana Felman's reading of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan for clues about how meaning is created when we read a work, and how that relates to the ultimate lesson of Metroid Prime.
In which I descend once again to the surface of Tallon IV to look back on why Metroid Prime was such a landmark title, both to the medium and to me personally
