Xenoblade Chronicles X

So....somehow this game managed to take 90 hours of my life over christmas and I'm unsure where it fit in...it certainly did not seem like 90 hours! And I'm far from completing 100%. This is one of the issues with this game....As a completionist after 90 hours I hope to be somewhere near to completing. I mean I don't mind having to abandon hope on some top level bosses  (weapons anyone) just because but this was just no. I had other games to play and a life to live. And I like my games finished. I'm not the type to dip into it when I have so many other things to do, I like to play and finish! (Not counting specials to my heart like monster hunter/pokemon/Wow/ Realm Reborn). Also for me personally there was just not enough story to go with the endless supply of optional missions. What was I doing it for if I didn't care so much about the characters. This may have been due to an important plot point being revealed to me before I'd sat down to play, taking away one of the few story moments anyway. The game was enjoyable for what is what though....adventuring and exploring this new planet. My other problem was the difficulty curve with the last boss. As I had spent so much more time doing the extra quests I felt ENTITLED (yep) to certain privileges. Like not having to grind for the last boss...I was thinking that I've played this so long that I must be ready...right? Turns out my Hubby put in half the time but instead of side quests he worked on getting a good weapon and beat the boss no problem whereas I had issues....NOT FAIR in my book! The final scenes were lackluster in my opinion (bar one plot twist) and the after credit scene perfectly suited the lack of story the game had managed to achieve...no answers...your getting nothing! Anticlimactic if you ask me. Yet I still enjoyed this game! Just don't go in with the opinion that its going to be like original Xenoblade chronicles. No Reyn Time here!

Rise of the Tomb Raider

Bit of a gap since my last games played so time to update! Well, back on form for the games I like best! The ones that allow me to be a  completionist without too much effort, just the right amount :D! This game was stunning! And being the first Xbox one game I've played on our giant projector I'm even more impressed. Stunning scenery from the get go and that classic 'MUST FIND EVERYTHING!' feeling made this probably my game of the year for 2015. I liked the plot twists that occurred and a very likeable immortal man to boot. I found the deaths of Lara a bit less graphically shocking then the first Tomb raider. I'm keeping it short and sweet because its been a while since I played this and as this blog is just for me to remember what I've played I have a lot of catching up to do!

Layton saga! - A village, a box, a future, a spectre and a mask

So in the past few months my completion record has gone wayyyy down but I'm completely blaming that on exams and also the amount of new hobbies I've picked up...if I could fit anymore in! But recently I started about a billion different games so the completions will start to filter in gradually! After exams I felt like my brain could do with some more stimulation so I picked up the first five layton games. To date I've only completed the first three but I thought they deserved a write up separate, as picking up spectres call feels like a different tale to tell. So I had completed curious village when it first came out as well as this run through so there weren't many surprises there for me. I had however forgot how hard some of these puzzles would be. Upon startng Pandoras box I was wary and cautious of even the simplest puzzle at the start, so much that I was tricking myself out of obvious answers that were 'entry level'. I guess thats the negative of running through the games one after the other, you have to realise the new game cartridge means back to basics. I hadn't felt like these games were more then just some puzzles to complete until the end of Lost future when I had to deal with THIS FACE! Oh god the feels! Now I love Layton more then any other gentleman and think all future games are worthy of more of my time!

Persona 3

After more then a year and many obstacles I have finally completed this awesome game. I initially started it as FES on PS3 but then after that funeral bestie lent me her PSP copy and I had to start again. It was a slow burner as the dungeons are quite repetitive and it doesn't have the same feel good characters as P4. Don't get me wrong I loved this game but I was constantly comparing it with persona4 and so its flaws were quite apparent. Had I played this initially before P4 I'm sure I would have been raving. The story was decent yet there were no big turn around moments that I felt shocked at until the very end, and even then I was left slightly dumbstruck like 'oh, so that's it?'
So my dear Master Jeremey did not leave as much of a impression on me as Mr Jeremey and his strange moments during romancing of robot girl Aigis was a little bit uncomfortable...Please touch my heart so I can absorb your oils?....yeah...weird. Although Aigis' little peglegs were highly amusing to me and bestie.
Now I don't usually go in for the annoying kid character but I fould Junpei, with his ooo I'm in love with a crazy woman,  much more irritating then Ken, that kid had seen some shit! Thats why him and adorable Koromaru were in my ultimate team. Yukari was a bit generic and Mitsuru was the 'responsible one'. Akihiko was brilliant, keeping up that silver haired Lothario act and Fuuka had started off weak but she turned out to be pretty cool. The cast however seemed weak compared with P4 and I had a hard time sympathising with some of them.
The story was a bit predictable as I knew that Ikutski was a little bit odd from the start, the addition of STREGA and essentially Jesus should have arrived earlier and with a little more back story.
Awesome intro to FES though

Bioshock art

Finally finished!

Shingeki No Pingu

Wondertrade....

I kind of get why Damian did it now:

Curtain Call (Hopefully not)

My absolute go to game for filling a few minutes of spare time or when I'm unsure what to play was the original Theatrhythm and so having another one with even more songs (including 14 tracks) was amazing to me! As this game is likely an ongoing title for quite a few years I thought I would review it now. My favorite chibi characters were back with the addition of Y'shtola, Zack, Vivi and advent children Tifa as well as many others. All the best tracks were included...infact so many tracks were included I can't think of a single one that isn't....oh....except King Moggle Mogs tune....but I probably just haven't unlocked it :P

Best time filling game ever and I LOVE IT!

It's a bit quiet on the gaming front but I finished a classic, Hey, Listen!

After purchasing our very own den of geek we are finally getting settled and I may have some free time to actually get some games played! As my commute to work is now ridiculous I needed something to fill my train journey and lunch hours with and so I turned to Ocarina of time for the 3DS. I finally finished a Zelda game! The reason this hasn't happened sooner is due to a Sony childhood, Zelda kind of went passed my radar till a few years ago. And now I'm picking it up in full force! Windwaker here I come! Anyway, Ocarina of time was the first game I got for my 3DS console and after rave reviews from Hubby seemed a good place to start. However I am now worried that I may have peeked too early.....and it might only get worse :/ because Ocarina of Time was frickin sweet!
Collecting heart pieces, hours exploring dungeonss for every chest and trying to figure out some of those tricksy ways to get things. Just brilliant. The dungeons were all so varied it never got tired and even though I had some complicated battles (purely through the lack of common sense) I battled my way through and had some VERY strong words to say to Ganon at the end.
Didn't manage to get my hands on that Bigoron sword though and don't think I will be playing through Master quest. Leave that one to the hubby :D
I did get a little sad that I had to make Link wear blue and red at points in this game...not a good look 
But seriously, whats with that fairy laugh from those pantyless whores?

Stefan and the Meteor!

Ok still playing this awesomeness! May have replaced WoW, BUT I think I just had the biggest fangirl moment of my life....the final boss in Syrcus tower....just EPIC! METEOR! love love love and earned my charming Goobue Stefan:

Mario Kart 8

So I still haven't quite found my perfect fit for a character (sorry weegi) but this is an extremely good game for hanging out with friends. All the tracks are fun and the playback at the end of the race can result in hilarious arguments (who shelled me!) Just good fun in short bursts :D From luigi death stare to daisys sexy leg, not much to say about this awesome classic. Some VERY close races between shy guy and myself though...very....

Also still mourning the loss of a race when my controller battery died a meter from the finish line...Hubby shouting 'WHY ARE YOU STOPPING!'

Crisis Core

Got to love good guy Sephiroth! <3 I think so highly of this FF7 prequel as it fits in so well with the story of its sequel. At no point am I thinking 'well wut?' The numerous character cameos fit in perfectly and I saw a mention to the majority of characters from the franchise. Also Zack Fair is one of my favorite final fantasy character ever and is certainly in the top 5. Zack and Aerith belong together so I'm kind of glad they end up that way (and also increasingly saddened!) The end of this game gets me every time even though I know whats going to happen! Genesis is probably the weak point in this game, as the main antagonist his constant verbal diarrhea of the play Loveless makes me want to skip text (not a good thing in a game). I guess he has to be comparable to my silver haired Lothario though and that is not a fight you're gonna win. The vast amount of optional extra missions means I STILL haven't finished this game 100% (after about 4 completions) but the repetitiveness of these missions makes it quite a tedious task after a while. Still this game wins the award for SADDEST DEATH EVER! Like seriously sadder then Mufasa, and Bambi's mum.....I hate you squenix....Wow squenix you really aren't in my good books at the moment are you...

Mirrors Edge

Due to my undisputed satisfaction of gliding down ziplines in Farcry 3 and Tomb Raider I thought this game would be right up my ally. Unfortunately due to its confusion of whether it wanted to be a shooter or a free running game it didn't quite hit home. In fact I could feel the torrents of geek rage trying to be unleashed as I fell to my death...a lot. The tutorial gives you a brief combat run through in case you need it and then spends a long time showing you all the moves of free running, but towards the end of the game combat is a necessity and with the little practice I had, found it quite difficult. There was also one bastard move where you run on a wall and jump to a platform opposite that appeared about 500 times throughout the story. Without being able to do this you can't progress and most the time it required some haste in doing so. Still a good game for my free running feeling but the story felt a bit weak and I didn't really feel any connection with any of the characters. Faiths character design is pretty awesome but I don't remember anyone else except some guy named Hope...but I think that kind of stuck there from the last game I completed....meh.

Lightning Returns

I don't know why I have named this post Lightning returns as clearly the only game involving Lightning is Final Fantasy XIII. And a game I really enjoyed. Brilliant story, nice ending, everything makes sense and I have a bad ass half cape that can't be ruined with the addition of giant neon butterfly wings. But more about this awesome stand alone game when I complete it again. In fact this post is irrelevant as I am not quite sure what game I did finish...It certainly wasn't a conclusive ending to Lightning and her companions as that ALREADY HAPPENED! But it was a nice battle system and many quests....involving light, hope, god and massive neon pink swords carved from the corpses of extinct species. But where did my awesome sunglasses go!!???

Laughed for hours....

So me and hubby had a competition when we were drunk to see who could send each other the 'best internet' in the time it took 'Do you want to build a snowman' from frozen to end...it was a weird night....he won...

Bravely Default - UNACCEPTABLE! -but actually really awesome

So first I just have to mention how much the female protagonist reminds me of the earl of lemongrab! Seriously not everything in the world is unacceptable you whiny woman :D
OK so best ever 3DS RPG. Totally amazing and graphically one of the best 3D games so far, amazing soundtrack and interesting characters.
Ringabel, apart from having a stupid name is one of my faves, the typical womanizing young man. Edea is the feisty attention of his affections who always knocks him back. In fact I kind of wish these two were the main characters because Tiz has the personality of a plank and Agnes is naive and brain washed and doesn't really care about anyone but crystals and her fairy(big mistake love). Even with the nonexistant personality of these characters I still LOVED this game and story.
The job roles were diverse and interesting and made it hellishly complicated for me to decide what role everyone suited. In the end I finally had Edea as a ninja duel wielding magic swords. Ringabell went through an attractive thief outfit to finishing as my dragoon style dark knight (story made sense to go there). Agnes was magicsy and Tiz went from paladin to healer.
The only issue is towards the end of the game was a very repetitive scenario that was good for grinding but it kind of got a bit annoying. I prefer this kinds of situations to be optional and not thrust upon me in my story. This way I know when I can finish and carry on but because I didn't know how long it would take to get through I rushed through it.

Absolutely loved the little play on words with the title at the end and still works with the original title of Flying Fairy as well as where the fairy flies.

GO EKANS!

Virtues Last Reward...Virtue is a dick

After seeing Cass playing the prequel to this game I was quite intrigued to give it a go myself, I somehow managed to completley forget that I wanted to play it until this sequel came out however so thought I would give it a go.
During the first few hours of gameplay I was thinking that I was heading into some crazy horror 'Saw' kind of scenario, this facade kept up for quite a while until you realize there is some timey wimey kind of stuff happening and it turns out what you thought was an insane rabbit set on murder is actually an elaborate scheme to save the world.
So there's a crazy pink hippy rabbit trapping nine people in an abandoned facility and they have to escape rooms and be badass at game theory and basically get nine points to escape. Once the escape hatch opens though everyone else is trapped indefinatley. This rabbit loves the number nine...like weird....
You have the basic protagonist male, Sigma...student...bit of alright....lets be friends and save everyone..and also the main female protagonist, Phi...bit of alright and moody (because that 'I'm gonna kick you in the balls if you speak to me' kind of look is what all the guys want nowadays apparently. There's Alice the bitch dressed as an egyptian prostitute, Clover the ditsy sidekick, Dio the 'circus ringleader' who I must admit is an absolute knobhead, Tetsu...someone...grumpy oldman, Quark the annoying brat, Luna the charming nurse and K the mystery armor man, who is actually pretty awesome in this line up. Surprisingly the game was actually pretty good, even with this mass of utterly balls characters, I guess they worked in a team dynamic.
Overall nice escape the room game that got me thinking and took up a surprising amount of time. If I have to see any more electronic doors open and me travelling as a little dot on a map again, I think I might throw my DS in the canal though...

Will Mr. Jeremey ever find love?

6 months after the initial lend date and 65hours of playtime and I have finally completed Persona. Got to say I am feeling the Squenix love at the moment. I am now eager to get playing Persona 3! Considering I usually get a bit bored of the standard dungeon crawler I have to day this was awesome. Repetitive dungeon crawling was broken up with part time jobs, social links, education etc. And after some false endings I think I finally managed to get the ending I deserved after all that grinding :D
Awesome soundtrack and very replayable I recommend to anyone who loves a good story based RPG. This is one of those games with a lot of fan fiction going around about the suitable love interests for each character. In my opinion I have gone for a Rise-Teddie approach, classic Yosuke-Chie, Yukiko gets no-one(I don't like her), Mr Jeremey and hopefully a character from P3 and Kanji-Naoto. Favourite characters have to be Naoto and Kanji as the nice quirky comic relief, but also got a soft spot for Teddie. Dojima is a boss and the magical healing fox in an apron is super cute! The story concept for this game is so out there (yet awesome) I am seriously wondering how the hell someone came up with it.
BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER!

Pokemon X!

This new pokemon game is the best yet, no doubt about it! I'm even impressed with all the new pokemon models(although I still kind find it in my heart to allow klefki into my party) and it's been a nice refresh to see all the classics in 3D as well.
So I set out from my moms house again for another adventure, when someone decides 'hey, you look like a a Pokemon trainer, I'm giving one away so you can choose which one you want.' And after careful consideration and a sneaky peaky at the final evolution(not having another Oshawott incident here) I decide on Froakie! I also make the decision that although old generation Pokemon are available from the start I'm only having noobs in my team, this shortly goes out the window when I get a free bulbasaur and lapras.....still no tangela :(. I haven't learnt any new pokemons names as I constantly rename them (feel the power of bruce!)...Bruce rules.
I love the new EV training system and amie screen, as well as berry growing and easier grinding. This makes my dream of having ALL pokemon at lv100 a little more realistic, yet still improbable.
My so called friends in this game are huge douches that literally come up to me at the start and not knowing me at all, say that we are besties now...:/ I really would like Bruce to flamethrower them in the face. Damn you Sharn....whatever your name is!
Like mentioned before EV training is fast and easy in this game and I can even get all my old Pokemon up to scratch with reset bags. My tangrowth will win a fight one day!
I'm still waiting on my dratini and tangela to appear but as I'm already at the elite four my hopes are simply dashed. I have caught my legendary X pokemon, the easiest catch of a legendary in history, and am now just exploring all the optional parts as I kind of sped through the story. I've got my perfect outfit, although apparently not classy enough for the snobs in lumoise city and I am going to wonder trade and friend safari it up to see what goodies I can get :D