For the sake of the people who actually keep track of what games I’m playing, whether to get recommendations or try to play multiplayer, a quick log of what I’m doing in gameland hides beneath the jump.
Archive for the 'PSP' Category
No That Is Not An Upcoming Square Enix Title
Look, I understand that Final Fantasy is a Fantasy game. It’s right in the title. That makes it hard to miss. Given this, I am willing to suspend my disbelief in a lot of situations.
Sharks are teal blue? That one’s easy to work with, because teal is not far from a realistic grey.
I'm a Shaaaaaark
Mermaids are pink? OK, sure. I don’t know what color real mermaids are, anyway.
All the mermaids are identical
Mermaids are suspicious of my characters’ ability to breathe underwater. This is fair. My party possesses “oxyale” (Magic Fairy MacGuffin #802), with which mermaids may not be familiar. (I mean, you can’t even buy the stuff. You have to find a pirate who’s kidnapped a fairy and sold her into slavery to a desert caravan… look, it’s complicated.)
How can YOU talk underwater?
But come on… White Sharks…
I'm a Shaaaaaark toooooo
…are purple? They’re not… white?
(This post is dedicated to my wife, who was willing to buy into all the pseudo-scientific claptrap underpinning Mass Effect, including the mysterious Element Zero (Space MacGuffin #2193) – with its ability to produce both the titular gravity distortions, and make unborn humans psychic – until they mentioned running a “negative current” through a device. “Negative current?! There’s no such thing!” Welcome to our household of nerds.)
P.S. – I almost forgot my obligatory FF8 teaser!
A gun? That's also a sword? e_e
Now With More Ninjas
Ninja vs. Gilded Lily
Still playing, after playing all weekend… It helps to have a cable that hooks the PSP up to the TV, so that I don’t get eyestrain from playing a portable game for so long! Also, this way K gets to participate.
Disassembling Unnatural Creatures
…And of course, this means that other games still have to wait!
"Try to control your emotions..."
To Brawl Or Not To Brawl
Sony released Guilty Gear Judgment on PSN today, to run on the PSP. I wavered…
- It’s a best-of-class brawler series…
- but I’m not a huge brawler fan…
- but I liked it just fine when they were still calling it a platforming series[1] …
- but it’s almost 500MB I have to free up on my Memory Stick…
- but it’s only $5.99…
Oh wait, Majesco[2] put it out? I guess I have to buy it now. ;)
OH HAY UPDATE
So, I once again am wrong on The Internets, and have gotten the Guilty Gear and Metal Slug bits of my brain crossed. ><
This is a brawler, or as we say in the ancient past where I live, a beat-em-up. So says Giant Bomb Dot Com. (Thanks, Giant Bomb Dot Com!)
But… it’s based on Guilty Gear? Does that mean…
WRYYYYYYY
- I like 2D platformers. Why do they have to rename the genre now? [↩]
- Where PrismGlass‘ brother now works as a beta tester… [↩]
Ongoing PSP Adventures
I have played this game many times. And seldom do I break the tradition of the first group I ever fielded, well over a decade ago[1]:
The Original Party
Admission: this is senseless. When I first played Final Fantasy on the NES, I was not familiar with the genre, despite coming in well after the fourth game in the series had been released on the SNES. I chose these classes because they were on the screen to begin with, and I figured I didn’t know any better. I didn’t even have the instruction manual to guide me.
(Also, it always struck me as strange that the names could only be four letters long. Later on, I learned Japanese, and then it made sense: In the Japanese kana, each character represents a syllable. So, allowing up to four characters is allowing up to four syllables, and a four syllable name is quite long enough! Allowing longer names after the translation to English would have required an interface overhaul.)
And now, I have the PSP version.
It looks and sounds very good, even by comparison to the GBA version of a few years ago:
My "Expanded" Names Aren't Much Classier
I think it’s hilarious that I keep buying and playing new versions of this game, and I love it every time. This time, it’s even pre-empted another old favorite I had started back into.
Don't Wait Up...
- One of my little brothers will have to tell me if I got the Black Belt’s name right. I keep oscillating between “Kane” and “Kage”. [↩]
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