Final Fantasy XIII was a major disappointment to me as a fan of the series – while visually fantastic, the game was a linear experience with uninspired combat that was far too automated for my liking. Gone were the exploratory elements and all civilisation, instead replaced by pretty graphics and overly drawn out battles that only allowed you to directly control one party member at a time, the others left in the hands of less-than-perfect AI. As much as I [...]
Now the past few months I have been playing the more mature, gruesome and to be honest, the more morbid and frightening games which are every increasingly growing in popularity – things like Fallout 3, Grand Theft Auto IV and Halo. This past week or so I have decided to take a break from that norm and go down a different route, so I dug my PS2 out and started to re-play the classic Kingdom Hearts (KH). Ever since my [...]
Dissidia: Final Fantasy was an excellent PSP title for fans of the Final Fantasy series. For the first time, players could play as many of their favourite characters from the series – from the Warrior of Light from the very first title, through the Squalls, Clouds and Zidanes of Final Fantasy VII-X, even a pair of characters from Final Fantasies XI and XII. With an equal amount of villains from said games to fight them, Dissidia was an FF fan’s dream mash-up [...]
I didn’t enjoy Final Fantasy XIII – amidst the beautiful visuals, and the… erm. Well, aside from the beautiful graphics, the game left me feeling entirely underwhelmed. While previous titles in the series had kept me entertained sometimes for over 100+ hours at a time, XIII felt like an empty shell of a game. Gone were the cities, full of civilisation and places to explore, instead forcing us to shop through menus at save points while we were forced to [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Crystal Defenders is, along with Voice Fantasy, part of a wave of Square-Enix apps to recently arrive on the iPhone. This fun little game has previously been released on everything from the iPod Nano to the Xbox (as a Live Arcade title), and its easy to see how its simple tower defence gameplay could be easily adapted to so many formats. It is more overtly connected to the Final Fantasy series than Voice Fantasy, lifting many [...]
Contributed by Helen Doherty Voice Fantasy is an innovative new iphone (3G and newer) title from Square-Enix and Koto, where you generate Final Fantasy-style battlers using the power of your voice! Its not a game per se, as you don’t actually control your character during gameplay ; you merely watch as your creation battles it out, hilariously trilling whatever it was you said during their birth as their battlecry. But its feel and abundance of Final Fantasy influence makes it [...]
Kingdom Hearts is one of my favourite series, comprising so far of two main titles, and three handheld – Birth By Sleep being the latest of the latter. While KH1 and 2 were great games, the handheld titles (Chain of Memories and 358/2 Days) felt as though they lacked as individual games – they were playable, of course, and enjoyable in some aspects, but mainly they worked as components that fleshed out the Kingdom Hearts backstory and more than likely [...]
3rd person shooters are a mixed bag with me. I love Max Payne possible one of the greatest 3rd person shooters there is. I have tried my hand at Gears Of War and I really did get into it. Thing was I lost all my save data mid way through 1 and couldn’t be bothered to start again. (I must pick that up again some time) but there are some just some 3rd person shooters that don’t cut the mustard [...]
After the initial release and success of Kingdom Hearts, it has been a rapidly growing franchise – initially followed by the fairly quiet GBA title Chain of Memories, it wasn’t quite so apparent how successful the series was until it was followed up by the equally amazing sequel, Kingdom Hearts II. A master at annoyingly tantalising cliffhangers, Tetsuya Nomura and his band of miscreants have never failed to want me aching for more – each game feeling so complete before [...]
First of all I’ve got to get THIS out of the way… …cause its awesome and relevant. AND I almost counted it as a vote, but it wouldn’t of made a difference as you’ll soon notice. HERE IT IS! EBAY/KEEP/(EBAY LATERS) Gamespot: 1/2/1 IGN:2/4/2 GiantBomb:8/13/5 1UP:2/1/0 Twitter/FB:1/1/0 PlusXP:0/2/3 TOTAL:14/23/11 KEEP WINS! -These votes were shared across my Gamespot, IGN, Giantbomb and 1UP blogs along with votes from social networks and the site I contribute to PlusXP.- Now there were ALOT [...]
