100% Objective Review: Final Fantasy XIII
A few people have claimed recently that they want completely objective and unbiased reviews lacking personal opinion. I have been criticized for using my own feelings and thoughts when writing a review, which I am informed is actually a bad way to review videogames. My last Jimquisition video tackled this subject but the critics didn’t understand it.
With that in mind, I have decided to actually put their “objective reviews can be written” theory to the test and am now re-reviewing a game in a manner that completely negates objective thought. I decided to use Final Fantasy XIII, one of Destructoid’s most controversial reviews, as the guinea pig, so please enjoy this brand new review — untainted by opinion, uncolored by emotion, and unclouded by my own personal thoughts.
Does it make for a better, more insightful, ultimately more useful review? I can’t say … I don’t have an opinion on the matter!
Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PS3 [Reviewed])
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
Released: March 9, 2010
MSRP: $59.99
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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair shots of Soma, Charlotte
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair comes out in a scant two weeks! I can not think of the last time I was so excited to play a Castlevania game. I fully expect to see all of you online and available to play it with me when it comes out on July 28th.
In the meantime, some new screenshots have surfaced. These are focused on the characters Soma Cruz (Dawn of Sorrow, Aria of Sorrow) and Charlotte Aulin (Portrait of Ruin). One of these characters is a whiny bitch, and the other one is a Belnades.
Can’t wait. Cannot. Must play this.
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair Screenshots [andriasang]
Japan special edition No More Heroes 2 comes with stuff
He who laughs last, laughs best. That’s what I always told myself whenever the Japanese would get a game months or years before I would get the opportunity to play it. I would hope, often against fate, that the version I got would have a special edition full of nifty stuff the Japanese didn’t get and then I could feel better about the wait.
Now the shoe is on the other foot. The difference is that Japan is getting a special edition that I’d actually want. Behold the No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Hopper’s Edition. It comes packaged with the game, a DVD featuring an all-new film and some other goodies, a soundtrack CD and an art book. Then, just to rub it in, people who pre-order in anticipation of the October 21st release will also get an “erotica comic.”
The whole package will be sold for 8,980 yen or just over a hundred US dollars. If I hadn’t already purchased the game once, I’d probably give some thought to importing this. But, honestly, I’m mostly just curious to see where they take that comic.
Marvelous Makes Beefy No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle Limited Edition [siliconera]
Blacklight: Tango Down 2 Is In Development
Are you a fan of Blacklight: Tango Down? It’s possible you haven’t even had the opportunity to make a judgement call one way or the other: the multiplatform downloadable shooter was released on XBLA last week, and only just came to Games For Windows Live today. It still hasn’t come to Steam or the PlayStation Network, but it should launch on those platforms in the coming weeks.
So, there’s a good chance you haven’t played the game yet. But even if you haven’t, someone out there totally has, and it sounds like there were enough of those fans out there to keep Zombie Studios working on Blacklight. The team revealed to Big Download that the team was already starting development on the sequel to Blacklight: Tango Down.
A Metroid: Other M gameplay trailer with pew pew pew
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Here’s some gameplay footage of Metroid: Other M. It seems focused on shooting gameplay, which appears to work well enough.
Games which present gun combat in this way should remind me of things like Smash T.V. but you know what I almost invariably see? One for the PlayStation. As a result, I’m always a little bit wary. But this looks good and appeals to my interests more than the Prime trilogy, so I’m keeping those fingers crossed.
Milo (And Kate) Appears at TEDGlobal
Milo isn’t dead, but the snail the little digital boy splattered this afternoon at the TEDGlobal 2010 conference sure as hell is.
After a mini-PR campaign launched by Microsoft revealed that Lionhead Studios is still developing the Milo project, the Kinect-controlled simulation has now had its first public demonstration since E3 2009.
At TED, Peter Molyneux took the stage and allowed a demonstrator to show off the curious title for those in attendance. According to Wired UK’s coverage, a few different scenes were shown, one being the inside of a house, where the demonstrator had Milo clean up his bedroom. Another was outside by a pond, where the player was asked to teach the boy how to skip stones. The best one, of course, was outside in an area with snails, where the aforementioned murder of mollusks occurred.
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Free App of the Day: Warblade
Kind of pissed off that I missed out on N.Y Zombies yesterday, but nevertheless, I’m back with another freebie for you. This time it’s Warblade and it’s free courtesy of OpenFeint. Be aware that :Shift: is also meant to be free today but at the time of writing, it was still asking for money. Keep an eye on that!
Warblade is a classic arcade-style shooter with more than a little Space Invaders flavor to it. Collect powerups, earn points, shoot aliens. Pretty simple, and worth picking up for the price of free.
That’s about all there is to say on this one. Go download it if you want, or don’t.
