| Illikas's Last Game Reviews |
inFAMOUS: Second Son
04-26-21 05:49 AM
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What is this!?
inFAMOUS: Second Son... Ugh!
I will start off by saying that the only thing I legitimately enjoyed about whatever this game is was the graphics. It felt like it must have required a whole lot of effort to capture the overall beautiful backdrop.
BUT! My praise ends right there. For starters, the soundtrack overall is SO mind-numbingly repetitive. To me, the work ethic of the sound crew felt like this, pretty much: "Let's put all our effort into the opening scene's background music and perform so mundane after that, the player(s) won't even notice there's a soundtrack anymore for the rest of the game."
I found that the gameplay was... decent, at the absolute best. It was just kind of... there. I've literally only replayed this game once, and that was for the alternate ending. Other than that, I might never pick it up again.
The story overall was likely the [i]least enjoyable thing in the entire franchise[/i] for me. Everything from the characters who were as annoying as they were pointless, to the boring and forgettable main villain (including her master plan), to the fact that the only acknowledgement of the previous two games whatsoever was in the form of a costume and a loading screen tip, were all frustrating beyond belief to me personally.
I don't doubt this game has it's fair share of fans, but when it comes to me, I find myself lacking anything good to say about this game outside the graphics.
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Infamous 2
04-26-21 05:25 AM
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A perfect portrayal of what it means to be human!
[post]"It's not the powers that kill people. Oh no. It's the person behind the powers that kill people."[/post]
I'd say the quote above just about sums the entire story up in a single line. The choices main character Cole McGrath has to make are legitimately difficult for me to watch. Of course, I mean that as a very high compliment. In fact, the story as a whole is wonderful for me personally. Even to this day, whenever I replay the game, I cry knowing what happens at the end... No spoilers, of course. Other than that, however, the new characters introduced in this game were legitimately awesome to watch, and the same applies to the returning characters as well. And that absolutely jaw-dropping plot-twist towards the end of the game? I LOVE it! That being said, the only thing barring me from giving this game a full-on 10/10, and instead giving it a 9.9/10, is that there was only one thing I disliked about this game, that being that it chose to ignore certain characters and their subplots from the previous game altogether (looking at you, Moya, Sasha, and potentially Alden). Overall, however, everything else was absolutely fantastic in my eyes!
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NiGHTS into Dreams...
04-26-21 04:51 AM
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My favorite game of all time!
Today, I will be covering the game NiGHTS into Dreams..., a game made by Sonic Team. Yes, the very same people responsible for the creation of Sonic the Hedgehog himself made all three titles in the series. I must be perfectly clear, however: I have never played any of these games until May of 2019. That's not to say that I didn't want to play them, though. I had heard a bit about the NiGHTS franchise here and there over the years, but I never truly knew what the whole big deal was over it. Like I said, It was only recently I finally got into the games. But let me tell you, from the moment I set the game disc for the first game, NiGHTS Into Dreams, into my absolute favorite console of all time, the Sega Saturn, turned on the system, picked up the controller, and started the game, all the way to beating the game and watching the credits roll, this was my reaction:
*drops controller and gapes in awe*
"Where have you been all my life?"
It is definitely my favorite game series of all time now, triumphing over even the Sonic the Hedgehog Franchise. The entire franchise is just absolutely perfect. The game's story is just flawless in my opinion, much like everything else in the game. It is a truly grand tale of coming of age, facing your demons, and becoming one with yourself. If anybody who reads this hasn't played this game before and is still searching for something with true meaning, they owe it to themselves to play this game. They very likely will never regret it.
P.S. DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THAT AWE-INSPIRING, COMPLETELY, UTTERLY FLAWLESS SOUNDTRACK.
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