It's Like Playing The Same Game

Tell me if you know what game this is:

-The male protagonist goes on a mission that seems simple
-The protagonist is a hero
-The shooting style is over the shoulder aimed with a laser on gun
-Until his comrades die
-The enemies are like superfied zombies that attack using weapons like knives
-He rescues a woman who he has to protect with his life
-The woman companion is useless when it comes to fighting
-The protagonist realizes that the humans are being controlled by parasites
-If you shoot the parasite host in the head, their head explores and the parasite is released from their head ready to attack the protagonist
-There is quick time events and buttons that can be pressed to attack the enemy a certain way
-While unconscious the protagonist becomes infected by a parasite, and has a parasite in his body
-Hardly anyone speaks English
-At the end the place blows up

If you answered Resident Evil 4, you are wrong.

This is actually Cold Fear, a game that has a lot of style of Resident Evil 4. Everything from the camera angles of shooting to quick time events. But unlike other quick time events, these will actually drain your Resistance. Resistance is your stamina that makes you run and fight back, once that is drain Hanson will run slow and wont be able to fight back if he gets attacked.

The story is about Tom Hanson a washed up hero who sets out to look for clues of what happened on a Russian boat. While there he meets creatures that have been turned into monsters thanks to parasites in their bodies. Hanson meets Anna who is the father of the murderous creatures running around, after fighting some Russians, Super Zombie guys, and bosses. You fight Anna's father, who also turned into a monster. Anna sets explosives to blow up Papa, Tom and Anna escape with a helicopter. While Anna mourns over the lost of her father, Tom can't help but be cocky and mock the fact that her father is dead. What an asshole.

I finally defeated this game, I had it sine it first came out but I was still shaky with Third-Person shooters back then. It was an okay game, really short though.

Threads Of Fate

Threads Of Fate has to be my favorite RPG, it's a shame a lot of people don't agree with me. Threads Of Fate is for the PS1 and is about two characters Rue and Mint, though their stories are different their goals are the same. The story bases around a small island in the middle of nowhere with ruins and treasures to await the two heroes. The main goal for both of the heroes is to find a [Relic], a [Relic] is an item that has special powers that is given to it's holder. The island has rumored to have the most powerful [Relic] in the world The Dewprism.

Rue is the main male protagonist who seeks the Dewprism to save his beloved adopted sister Claire who dies saving him. He has the ability to take on forms of monsters and has a dark and mysterious past that unravels more and more into the story.
Mint is the main female protagonist who seeks the Dewprism for world domination. Mint is a princess who was going to be ruler of East Heaven Kingdom. But got dethroned by her younger sister Maya who believes that Mint was too immature to take on the responsibilities of the throne.
If there is one thing I love about this game is Mint. She is everything that made this game awesome and she isn't like every other cliched female characters personalities. She is very energetic that sticks to her own selfish goals and but is willing to help people if they need it. She uses magic using her two hoops to cast spells or use the hoops to fight physically. She seems invincible with no fears for anyone or for anything. But under all that toughness the one thing she fears most is pumpkins. Ordinary pumpkins that are carved at Halloween. With that one fear her sister Maya uses the Book of the Cosmos [Relic] to create demon pumpkins to chase Mint.
There is a lot of colourful people in this game the highly fashioned in the arts of cute Fancy Mel, she is a witch who lives in the clouds. She has everything around her small house filled with cute clouds, stars, and grossly cute creatures she created. Then there is Mints rival in the [Relic] hunting Belle and Duke who have to be the weirdest couple.

Not to mention a lot of the bosses that you face were pretty good challenge. My favorite is Trap Master he can create any sort of trap that makes him a really hard at first to defeat. But the final boss was the hardest, I can't tell you how many times I died.

The sad thing is there is no bright future for this series it was a once in a life time thing that will never get a repeat again. The only thing that remotely comes close to the game is "Duo Princess" for PC, an unofficial fanmade game.

Despite what everyone says I think Threads Of Fate is a really fun and charming game. Mint is my hero and I made a banner of Mint for my blog and made this post of the reasons why I love Threads of Fate.

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Core Crisis Final Fantasy VII Good Bye Zack

I just defeated Core Crisis Final Fantasy VII, it has the ending that I knew was going to happen, but despite that I found it a little depressing. The final boss was actually easier then I had expected him to be, I am actually regretting not putting the game on Hard. The combat system is another thing, it has Zack running, dodging, and blocking in the middle of battle. I am guessing they are doing something similar with Final Fantasy XIII. The one thing I never got the hang of is the DMC I really don't understand how it works or how to get it to work but when it happens I usually get all three faces.

I also love the voice acting in it, mostly they replaced that horrible voice of Aerith from Advent Children and gave her a better voice actress. That really made the experience better for me alone. The game itself can actually be pretty short if you stick to story without doing any side quests. I wanted to do all the side quests only to find out there is over 300. I like side quest I think they are a good way to waste time, some of them were even fun. But I am not doing over 300 same quests over and over again. It's mostly either fight a boss at the beginning or go around to whole bunch of areas to find a boss. Fight boss and either get a cut scene or don't that's pretty much it.



There are some familiar faces you see in the game of coarse there is the Turks Tseng, Reno and Rude. Sadly Reno and Rude only make two appearances in the game. As well as one of the newer Turks Cissnei, I am still trying to figure out what happened to her so she doesn't appear in Final Fantasy VII. Then there is Sephiroth with his nicer side before he turns evil. Dr. Hojo who is still an ass. Aerith of coarse plays a large part in the game, it also explains where she gets her ribbon from and how her flower buisness got started. At the beginning you meet Yuffie and she sends you emails to do quests for her. There is also Tifa. Don't have much to say there. As well as Zacks good friend Cloud, the game shows how Zack and Cloud first met. Even how Cloud got his SOLDIER uniform despite not being a SOLDIER. The only thing I didn't see is how Aerith finds her Holy Materia. In the game she didn't have it tied up in her hair, I was hoping for some kind of explination.

It is a game I actually enjoyed playing I loved the music, voice acting, cut scenes and some of the humour that was in the game, not something I probably will play again they were misssing things I wished they put in the game such as puzzles and maybe a decent boss fight.

Monster Hunters Freedom 2

I picked up my PSP, it was collecting a mild layer of dust on my night stand. Too busy to play any good games for a while. The only game I was playing on occasion was Harvest Moon Boy and Girl. Which was a big disappointment, it felt like playing Friends of Mineral Town all over again.

Just a different story for how you got there with additional events and holidays. But still pretty much the same game.

It wasn't until EB Games was having a sale on a lot of their games, I went into the store to get PaRappa the Rapper (PSP), but left with Monster Hunters Freedom 2. I played it on the bus ride home and even to work. I started to do the basics but got to bored with the tutorial learning and jumped straight into a monster hunt instead. I imported my character from Monster Hunters 2 gave her new clothes to fit the environment but kept everything else pretty much the same.



Just like the first Monster Hunter you get your very own pig that you win over with your charm. He follows you around the village and your house and with a new addition you can dress him up in clothes. The one thing so far I noticed is that they take out the intro movie sequences of monsters that you need to hunt.

The story starts off a little different from the original, it shows your character walking through a snow side of a mountain just to find dead carcasses of wild beasts. A monstrous wyvern then approaches you and attacks you unable to do anything you fly off the mountain side. You then find yourself in bed as a man stands beside you telling you he found you lying in the snow and you got some minor injuries. You then learn that you were sent to this village to replace a monster hunter who got severely injured in battle and is unable to perform quests.



Can't really say more then that at the moment, there are a lot of new monsters even though I don't know how they can survive in the winter. If these monsters which look like dinosaurs or reptiles they should have cold blood and would die under these conditions but I guess Capcom decided that they are immune to the cold climate unlike my character who shivers a lot.

Trapt Bad Ending

I defeated Trapt before going to work today, I got the bad ending I couldn't defeat the final boss. A Fiend was really strong and I didn't know at the time (till I looked it up) how to defeat him. I would have restarted and do it over again but I got a cool looking trap for unlocking this ending. So when I feel like it, I will once again indulge myself in the massacres and slaying of humans.

If there is one thing I love is the main characters outfits they are all unique and different. The ones I like the most are Allura's and her maid Rachelle's. To me their outfits are the ying and yang of the game. Even though as Dark as Rachelle, is Allura is the one going around doing the bidding of the Evil Fiend.

Seeing how Allura wears very little clothing and nothing to protect her from physical attacks she can take damage quite easily and can get killed off with the right close range attacks compared to far range.

But less armor means more durability for faster movement and awkward positions through traps of the castle and you own.

The part that turns this story dark is Allura's personality at the beginning deaths and murders she committed she would be scared and would try to refuse the deeds. But more and more into the game she just watches over the corpses before her almost having no feeling for them left. This game is one dark game, something that you can either enjoy for the art, battle system, and techniques for death. Or just enjoy the idea of death and destruction in this crazy mansion, either way this is a great game, I only wish it could be a little longer.

Trapt

Out of a whim I decided to play Trapt last night and all I can say it WOW. You are the pretty princess Allura (In the trailer they call her Princess Alicia but changed it... Hidden pun?) and she was offered by an unkown force to become the evil fiends servant of darkness by killing many people as she can with the gift he grants her. The whole game is about death and the best ways of punishment amongst those who threaten you. When my friend first told me about this game he gave very vague details abvagueout how the battle system works. From what I first understood I figure you just walk around putting traps as you go along and once someone steps on the trap.. Boom! But this game actually takes more strategy then that, you not only need to set the traps but you have to run around inside the walls of the manor luring the people towards your traps.


You get to choose 3 types of traps that can be triggered on the playing field but you can pause the screen and choose a different variety if needed. The manor is your entire playing field, but some rooms are locked and need to be unlocked after certain amount of points are needed to buy the key. My favorite room would have to be the Torture Room and in the castle The War Room. Both have a lot of "Toys" to your disposal.
There is three types of traps you can equipped for battle floor, wall, and ceiling traps. Once you get so many points from killing people you get to create different types of traps for different situations. Some traps can even help activate hidden traps that are hidden in the area such as the cannon (Which I activate accidentally) in the War Room.
Once a soldier appears they will come through a door and introduce themselves with a war cry. Each of them is random as they come. Then once again when you defeat the soldier they will give out their last words. The first soldier you kill at the beginning has to be the saddest.
I have to admit on one thing I love the outfits in it all of them are different and unique, another thing that I like but can be fusterating at times is the Japanese dialog. They don't dub this game only put subtitles at the bottom. Just like a lot of games these days Trapt has multiple endings which I noticed when you are given choices throughout.

I believe I am almost done the game but I am not that sure. Hopefully I am close to being done I really want to know what happens.

Give Up On The Don

I've been playing The Godfather game for a couple of days now. It's a really good game that circles around a character you character given name Aldo who joins the family. You go behind the scenes of everything to help out the family in its dirty work.

To earn money to buy new clothes, weapons and houses to rent you need to get small businesses and some crooked businesses to join in partnership with the family. That will give the protection for their buisness from rival families. You can also sweet talk hookers and women who work in brothels to get on their good sides. There is no sex scenes in it so I wonder what those women are there for, they always seem to promise you getting a little something something later but never do.

My favorite mission was when I had to sneak into a mansion of Woltz with Rocco after sneaking around past guards Rocco will go into a stables and cut the head off a horse. I would think was "What the Hell?!" as I heard the horses noises coming from inside. Getting into the mansion was somewhat hard without killing anyone. Once inside the Rocco leaves the horse he killed in Woltz's bed for a cut scene to happen where he wakes up to it in the morning.



There was lots of car driving and sometimes even chases they were fun but can get annoying because cars can easily go into smoke and explore causing a game over. But at times it's still really fun to do even though they do put too many of them in there.

I finished all the main missions just to find out that I had to do all the side missions in order to get the ending. I was mad and put the game away. I don't mind side missions but I don't want it to be the main thing I have to do in order to get an ending.

Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed

A while ago I defeated Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed it was a really fun game for the Wii and the first game I defeated for the system. At first I found the controlling really hard to do, mostly because I am not use to Wii remote and this adjustment took a while before I got the hang of it.

The game is about the 1970's where Pox started a fast food restaurant called Big Willy's using the dead human bodies that Krypto killed throughout the generations for DNA. Now the Colonel Kluckin the fast food rival to Pox discovered the secret behind it all and is trying to bring ruins to Pox's Big Willy.



Throughout the whole game they keep making puns about the "Big Willy" robot or restaurant. It was funny but a lot of the time disturbing. I was hoping for more humor around the Wii system and how this game wasn't on the Playstation. They also had a lot of missions one of them explains what happened to Kryptos love interest in Destroy All Humans! 2, Natalya.

Krypto now seems to be a lot more happier being on Earth then before in the first and second game all he did was call the humans stupid monkeys. As well as hated everything about them and wanted to destroy everything that they treasure most. Now Krypto seems to be warming up to the planet and wants nothing more then to get laid by a hot Earth girl.



Unlike Destroy All Humans! 2 all the places aren't real country's but resemble certain places like Vietnam.

There is an Island called Fantasy-Atoll which is a rip off of Fantasy Island and you see everything in there from Pirates to survivors from plane crashes.



There is a lot of new weapons as well as old ones my favorite is the Zombie gun which turns everyone you use it on into zombies and sometimes the people they bite as well. It's like play Resident Evil. As well as Big Willy the mascot of Pox's fast food restaurants which you can go inside and use attacks such as laser eyes and bad breath.



The bosses in it were awesome, my favorite as the stereotyped Asian who rode a bike throwing bomb strapped chickens at you.

It was quite entertaining chasing him around trying to blow him up while he makes cracks about Chinese food and Chickens.



The only things that I didn't like about the game was that it was too short and there wasn't enough talking amongst the people when they saw Krypto. In the other two games there was nothing but yelling, screaming and puns about Krypto or themselves.



The game itself is before Destroy All Humans! 3 Path of the Furon but at the end of the game they do lead up the it. Which I think is a good way to end the game, hopefully I will have a next gen system when Destroy All Humans! 3 comes out so I can play it.

Monster Hunter Freedom

I love Dragons and this game has a lot of them, with different types and locations of each Dragon. As well as a lot of monsters resembling dinosaurs and mammals we have today such as cats. Unlike regular house cats these cats known as "Felynes" can do a lot more then laze around. Such as mine, garden, fish, steal from you, take you back to camp when you pass out, and best of all cook for you in your kitchen. You get your first Felyne from a Cat Lady that has them hanging out of her big bag that she carries on her back. She reminds me of the cat lady from the Simpsons that throws cats at you and mumbling while doing so.

This portable game has a lot of things you can do besides hunt dragons, you can also fish, Barbecue, mine, hunt monsters. You missions from the Village Chef who assigns to do task for the village under contract. You start off learning the basics before heading for the hunts.

While hunting you can use different methods to hunt your prey, the way I usually do it is by luring out the monster by luring raw meat I slain from near by monsters. It wont take too long for them to come, then I make my move with a Flash Bomb stunning them as I move in to strike. My weapon of choice is the hammer. I find using a sword slow and hard to use compared to the hammer.

I haven't gotten very far in the game I am just finishing level 2 with hunting down the Legendary Liver quest.

Destroy All Humans!

Destroy All Humans! Has to be one of my favorite games mostly for it's comedy that replies to corny jokes and ass kicking of the humans. One of the old jokes is that Crypto (The main character and alien of Destroy All Humans!) is that he is green. Even though it clearly shows hes a very light gray colour but everyone keeps point him out as green. I guess for the reason as Little Green Men.

There seems to be two games coming out Destroy All Humans! Big Willy Unleashed not much is known about this seeing how an IGN trailer was just realease yesterday about it. And Destroy All Humans! Path Of The Furon from what I heard is set in the 70's. I wonder what will happen to the Destroy All Humans! When they reach 1990's? Will they go all the way to 2000? Or will it just end there?

Either way I am looking forward to both games.