My most hated game ever.

Today I will be speaking about my personal worst game ever. But first lets talk about something very close to me: Banjo Kazooie (this I don't hate). The game features an anthropomorphic Bear named Banjo and his faithful and rather rude companion Kazooie the bird who rides around in his blue backpack.  In the first game Banjo Kanzooie are just lying around while Gruntilda, the mean old witch on the mountain shaped like her head, tries to capture Banjo's sister to steal her beauty. In other words you have to stop this witch from becoming attractive. The plot wasn't all that important because the game itself was glorious and one of the most fun and entertaining games I've ever played. The game did something that all out of games didn't seem to be doing at the time be wacky, humorous and an entertaining adventure which is why I remember it fondly and if you haven't guessed by now that this is a retrospective then you are in for a shock.



Soak in the awesomeness.



So moving swiftly onwards to Banjo Tooie, yes it's a silly title but re-read the premise and the try complaining. So in this Gruntilda has been trapped under the boulder from which you trapped and has turned into a skeleton but is rescued by her sisters. During all this your cohort Bottles is killed and advises you a little while in spirit form. In this installment Gruntilda tries to suck the life force out of the kingdom of the jingos (don't ask) so they become zombies!!!! Thankfully though you have some help such as Jamjars (related to Bottles) , Mumbo Wumba and of course your various powers. Anyhow the game was a hit and expanded on many of  the features in  the game also adding in a skin for Kazooie which turned her into a fire-breathing dragon. The ending of the game was something that excited everyone the promise of Banjo Threeie!

But alas nothing can last forever and the good company Rare, they made Banjo Kazooie , was bought by microsoft and my hatred rose to new levels as we shall be discussing what happened next.

So this is what spawned form the twisted fusion of Rare and Microsoft,  this trash, This utter abomination that makes me puke. As I stare into the eyes of Banjo I know there is no hope for humanity until retribution for this is achieved. The main problem with this "game" is that it isn't a Banjo Kazooie game it is a game featuring Banjo and Kazooie. This crap DARES to call itself a Banjo Kazooie game well lets get started shall we. We open with Banjo being fat and a horder(large pile of xboxes and ice-cream tubs), oh Microsoft go to hell. So you're acosted by Gruntilda's head  and you must race but then this guy named L.O.G transprts you to a world you must build cars and race to get jiggys. So you get rid of all the interesting things you could do for building cars that each seem to obey their own version of the laws of physics. It's just so boring, nothing about it is new or really fun, games like this don't exist anymore for a reason! So you have to either bash something, race it or both, it is just so tedious. The levels actually are really interesting and look amazing making me think they were making a Banjo Threeie but were forced to change it. The most irritating thing about this though is the disappointment from this. I remember the joy on the way home that I could possible get a nostalgic feeling while also getting some new memories but then Rare decided to spit in my face. Anyway in this game Gruntilday is now a robot and I don't care. But now we move onto L.O.G who feels like Microsoft talking directly to us saying "Banjo Kazooie is gone  but now you get a newer better version, our version ". Liars! . So that is about it for my rant I'm done as this was also my last blog post so thanks for telerating my rage goodbye and thanks! 

One of my favourite games.

Now this will be a review of my personal favourite game ever and I will try not to let my love for this game blind me as I will admit that it is by no means the best game ever it is just my personal favourite. So lets start this totally bias review
Sonic was in1999 by Sega's sonic team for dreamcast. It of course stars Sonic the Hedgehog but in this game you can actually play as his cohorts such as Tails, Knuckles Amy E-102 gamma and bloody Big the Cat.
 The game opens with sonic noticing some SWAT members heading towards a building in town being a rather dimwitted fool sonic thinks he can help the people with guns and decides to see what the problem is. Turns out some horrible creature made out of something that looks like water is being shot at for no adequately explained reason. Sonic sees the bullets are having no effect and decides to take down the strange creature. After managing to defeat it it slinks away into the sewer like a coward. After all this Sonic decides to relax in the hotel when suddenly Tails crashes his bi-plane into the local beach so sonic must rescue him. Now from here on in the game begins to diverge into different perspectives of the story and I will cover each when I talk about gameplay. Anyway the main plot revolves around the water creature Chaos being controlled by Eggman/Doctor Robotnik who is feeding him the seven chaos emeralds to make him big and strong and Sonic plus his crew must stop him at all costs. During this each character is contacted by a mysterious character who helps explain the origin of chaos and how he came to be. This all leads to a climatic showdown in the end but more on that later.
 The gameplay varies from character to character so I will focus on the common elements such as upgrading in this game you can obtain upgrade for your powers that actually appear on the characters which I personally enjoyed but the overworld makes upgrading difficult as it either makes them a chore to find or makes it unnecessarily difficult such as when they change the camera angle suddenly in the middle of the goddamn puzzle making me restart it. Now as I mentioned the overworld can irritate me as the jungle is designed in such a way that if you don't have a map you will be lost for hours and I feel the game should a least give you a crude map so navigation is easier. The overworld does have some good qualities though such as the different music that plays in each area for example in the jungle you will hear pan flutes and drums which just adds to atmosphere. But personally I wish they had put a bit more effort into the overworld as it can be awkward to go from one area to the next.
 Time to take about the characters starting with Sonic his mechanics are pretty much the same as they have always been you run jump and spin although the unique and interesting levels make the difference and make the normally mundane controls interesting. Sonic also a few puzzles near the end of the game which come completely out of nowhere and are never seen in any other characters game. There is one major problem with Sonic though, the bad lip syncing and voice acting is really annoying and is bad for all except Gamma and Amy.
Tails' gameplay is almost the same as Sonic's only you must beat Sonic but where Sonic has speed you have flight. One of the best parts of Tails' story is his insecurity about whether he is useful without Sonic and how he overcomes this by the end. The only real problem with Tails is that it rehashes all of Sonic's levels only now with a time limit.
Knuckles is the dumbest characters in the game as he believes Eggman without question when he claims Sonic broke the Master Emerald which keeps his island afloat. Anyhow minor complaint aside knuckle's quest is to go into every level and retrieve the three pieces of the master emerald. Now Knuckles is a bit different to the others as he will punch and dig as well as glide (which makes an amazing sound) so he is one better to play if you're looking for something new.
Amy the creepy stalker of Sonic who follows him and is convinced he will someday marry her. Amy's levels mainly involving being chased by a robot who wants to capture your bird as he contains a chaos emerald. You mainly run and walk the robot with your hammer to slow him down these levels can be rather trick as it involves knowing the level really well.
E-102 Gamma has the best storyline in the game originally created by Eggman to capture the chaos emeralds. You start of just obeying Eggman blindly until you encounter Amy's bird and something within you changes you realise that you must hunt down your brothers and set the animals within them free. At the end of this you come up against E-101 and after defeating him you self-destruct in order to release the bird inside you which was the parent of Amy's bird. Gamma is completely different as he has a timer that ticks down and will only increase when you kill enemies with your right arm gun just awesome.
Bloody Big the Cat it's Sega bass fishing only the controls are even worse that is all.
   This game gets a solid 8/10 from me as I may love it but it does have some problems both mechanically and story wise but is utterly fantastic and creative.
Next post will be my most hated game of all time.



The Walking Dead



Zombies just want some hugs

     The walking dead is the newest video game from telltales games and is currently one of the thirty best-selling games on steam. It is not hard to see why this is happening as the game is a point and click that actually challenges the way point and clicks normally work with having the fact that you can tell whether or not you will need an item for a specific task instead of trying absolutely everything in your inventory before working out the puzzle. Puzzles is this game are scarce and the main point of this game is the choices you make as well as the interactions you have with the NPCs around you, no matter how small a choice you make it will effect the game and will come back to haunt you in the end. Although the game does introduce new elements into the point and click genre it still has some of problems such as quick time events that require you to just bash a button as many times as possible until the sequence ends. Anyway the game is set around your character Lee Everett just as the police car that was taking him to jail crashes. You find yourself in the suburbs and rescue a girl called Clementine from her zombie babysitter.
    The main goal of the game is find a safe place to permanently stay for you and Clementine. Throughout the game you meet other survivors and your interactions effect how they act around you for example if you choose to try and save someone or leave them to die. The characters in this are well acted as well as well -written and you come to see them as more than video game characters. My personal favourite character is Clementine though as Lee's relationship Clementine is the best part of the game and you see how she handles all these different situations and how what you say as Lee can influence her behaviour. The ending to this game is the most heartbreaking things I have seen and will bring a tear to the eyes of any video game player out there.
    The most fascinating thing about this game is just how much they actually focus on the characters which doesn't take away from the mechanics and make it some movie but the style of the gameplay compliments the story. The visual style which is sort of comic bookiness look gives you sense that it will be light hearted this is not the case and surprisingly adds to it rather than creating tonal whiplash but thankfully doesn't. Due to the number of choices present in this game it is highly replayable as even one line of dialogue can change someone's attitude towards you. Walking Dead upon its release had an interesting idea split the game into episodes now I would've liked to have seen this in a way to buy a chapter as I go along and still have the option to buy it all at once. Unfortunately you could only buy a season pass on this game
     Now if that isn't enough of an endorsement I recommend checking out a few videos of gameplay on the interwebs to get an idea of whether you'd like this. But personally I will give it a 9/10 is an amazing game and I don't know why you aren't buying this game right now. Stop reading and buy it!!!
"A brief message from me!!!!"
We are reaching my last few posts which undoubtedly will upset both of my readers and also there will be a first person shooter of  the walking dead in 2013 so I look forward to that.

Fun 2 Play

Super Crate Box

 

 Play this game and play it now!!!!!!!!! Why are you still reading this go and get it.
Stop reading and download it now!!!

Digital d23 plays Assassin's Creed 3

  

This game puts the ass into assassin's creed



Now I like the assassin's creed series I got into at brotherhood and have played most of the games and liked them despite their flaws. So I had some hope for this game to be good and it was hyped up before the launch with that video of Connor just slaughtering British troops left, right and centre. Unfortunately the game isn't like that.  (There will not be any spoilers except for notes at the bottom with an  ' beside them) So the game opens with a little cutscene that doesn't help to explain what is happening to newcomers, who will be confused by this and are there really that many people who are going to buy this who aren't fans of the series? The opening to this game is a five to six hour tutorial that restricts as much as possible.

The game is just so slow to pick up and when it does there is limitations to what you can do such as the fact that there are guards perched so close together that it is an accomplishment not to be detected while trying to free run on the rooftops which you could do all of the other games. The problem with free-running is the restrictions as you must follow the path given by the game or fail which in comparison to the last games is ridiculous as you were given the freedom to forge your own path.

So the plot is of course rather silly but the main problem lies with the ending and how moronic what happens at the end. It revolves around Desmond making a choice either one is stupid so I calling this game "mass assassin' effect creed 3". Although I do like the revolutionary setting and have to admire the towns look and feel to them. The one good thing I can say about the plot is at least John De Lancie's(Q see Star Trek The Next Generation. ) character was actually interesting. Desmond is now more involved than ever I really don't care that much as Desmond has no personality behind his derp face. I mean Desmond exists and that is about it.

Speaking about main characters let's talk about our new protagonist, Connor is mainly just angry and humourless throughout the entire game except for one scene that is actually amazing. Allow me to elaborate "Your village is burning and run through it crying out for your Mother you find trapped under a fallen log as you enter a quick time event you realise there is no way to save her she tells you to find your Father while you refuse to leave eventually on of the villagers drags you off, kicking and screaming". That is really well crafted in the game. So he has vendetta against the man who burned his villager but at points he becomes ridiculously obsessed with it almost costing other people their lives or causing the revolution to be hindered, which he supports!. Connor is humourless, aggressive and bland and I never really cared about what happens to him.
Side missions in this game mainly involve either liberation missions, trinkets, war at sea, almanac pages or homestead missions. War at sea and liberation missions are the only fun side missions in this game the rest are just boring and tedious. Naval combat in this game is some of the best I've seen and I hope to see in the next one.The liberation missions are great because the combat system allows you to go in Rambo style and just mow down all the guards in your path and I am not complaining about that. But the rest are boring especially the homestead mission as they are incredibly linear for example in one mission this couple are making a crib as the wife just became pregnant the next mission she is giving birth in the woods.
So overall the game is a mixed bag as there is a lot to complain about but it still has some good if not great elements I would give it a 7/10.


'So Desmond must sacrifice himself to release Juno to save the world but turns out she is evil and wants to rule it, the end.
This makes no sense as she has no reason to want to conquer the world as all she has ever known was destroyed millenia ago also why does she want to what possible reason could she have to rule the world and finally what will she do once she has conquered the world all she is is a ghost in a machine. This is the height of laziness all they did was write turns out she is evil!! OMG!!!. More on this later.