Given that this is the time of year that school decides to pick a fight with me (and inevitably win), I thought I’d write one last blog before things get too serious and I’m busy studying or at least guiltily procrastinating.  Since I last decided to relieve myself of game related opinions I haven’t played many new releases.  This is largely down to my disinterest in most of these games (Street Fighter IV being a prime example of this).  However I did play through Resident Evil 5 as well as some slightly older games.

Might as well start with the zombies.  I’m sure anyone who happens to be reading this (for whatever reason) is tired of hearing about RE5 at this point, so I’ll keep it quick.  It’s pretty good.  To be honest, RE is not a series I’m particularly fond of; the control scheme, the story, the very concept, none of it appeals to me.  That being said, I found the game to be fairly enjoyable.  The incredible graphics, intense boss fights and… hilariously bad presentation of local co-op, all fought against my apathy and made the game worth playing.

The next game that immediately comes to mind is Too Human (timely huh…).  For me, Too Human is the most frustrating kind of decent game.  At every turn, something just prevents it from being great.  Be it the slightly clunky controls, the somewhat off animation, or the fucking Valkyries. OK, so the Valkyries are decidedly worse than most other aspects of the game, but they’re still indicative of the problems that drag Too Human down.  Overall, I still enjoyed the game. Although it was largely down to the fact that Too Human is the type of game that I generally enjoy.

Next up, Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction.  I haven’t actually finished this yet, but I think I’m close enough to the end to form an opinion of sorts.  This is actually the first game in the series I’ve played, and it was mainly out of guilt for neglecting my PS3 that I played it.  The gameplay itself is not particularly compelling, but the story, setting, characters and colourful art style that surround it most certainly are.  The game has an all round (to use a technical term) pixar-ish quality about it, from the funny dialogue to the creative character design.  I’ll probably finish it in the next few days.

Besides these I have played quite a few other games that I don’t feel like writing as much about, these include:  Iron Man (…), CoD: WaW (good, but not good enough.  Sorry Treyarch, you just can’t win), Amped 3 (unbridled madness) and Need For Speed: Undercover (…).  On the DS front, I finally finished New Super Mario Bros and have spent shamefully little time playing Chrono Trigger.  I’ll play through it eventually.

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