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Zone of the Enders.

 

Man, they're not kidding when they say it's short. It's about 6 hours long. There's not a whole lot to the gameplay, honestly. The combat is fast and fun but it gets rather repetitive pretty quickly. The story is terrible, the writing is cringe-worthy and the voice acting is atrocious. So I feel like being so short actually worked in its favor. I enjoyed it but I don't know if I would've finished it had it been twice as long.

 

That being said, The 2nd Runner is supposed to be massively better so I'm looking forward to checking it out. It's not a bad game but there is a shit ton of room for improvement.

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Well, I finally beat P4G. I got it when it came out, but I stopped at the last dungeon. I was talking about the game to a friend a few days ago and it made me want to pick it back up where I left off. Great ending to a great game. 

I did find it weird that the game is still a few hours long even after the last boss fight.

 

Now I just wish P4A was on Vita. I cant play that game on my PS3.

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I love BlazBlue, but the story mode made me hate words. Guilty Gear was much more to the point, thankfully. Although MK9 has the best fighting game story mode so far IMO.

 

Finished Asura's Wrath. It's like all the good things from TTGL and Heavy Rain in one. The "Part IV" DLC was a bit repetitive at times, but otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Yeah, I felt the same way. Its the same problem Blazblue has. Adding so much dialogue and story to a fighting game is just...wrong.

 

Honestly I thought that them adding story to the game would be cool. But having spent 50+ hour with this game being an OP main character to have to play different storylines in the fighter where everybody can beat him takes away from the original game. At least for me. Plus the story takes place before the extra scene in the true ending and kind of takes away from it. Not to mention gigantic text and simplistic formats to convey the story. It was a nice experiment idea but, for me at least, a failed attempt.

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Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner.

 

Well, shit. This game is actually fucking awesome. It's much more linear and story driven than the first one (first one was slightly open in that there was some minimal exploration involved) but it's also much less repetitive and the combat is more varied. There were a few sections that made me rage pretty hard but I think my own ineptitude was at fault there rather than the game, because for the most part it's a blast. Some of the set pieces are quite memorable, including one where you basically take on an entire fleet by yourself.

 

It actually doesn't look half bad for a PS2 game. I really dig how it looks and feels like it's taking place in the future of the Metal Gear universe. I'm pretty sure it runs on the same engine as MGS2 and the visual style and sound design are both very similar, so it's hard not to make the connection. 

 

Other than that, the story is absolute fucking nonsense. Seriously. Half the time I was just staring at the screen wondering what the fuck they were even talking about. But, unlike the first one, it's actually entertaining nonsense. The story bits in the first one were just excruciating (think the worst parts of MGS2 and multiply that by at least 11) but I actually enjoyed this one.  

 

So, yeah, I guess now all I can do is join the ranks of those desperately hoping for a third one.  

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By one sitting I mean between 5 and 6 hours. Compared to Crysis 1 or even 2 it's just not worth the full price. It's not bad, just probably not what you are hoping for.

 

Crysis 2 was also super short.

 

You don't buy a game like that for its single player campaign, anyways.

 

 

I beat Vanquish. I hope they eventually do a sequel as that was tons of fun for a TPS.

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