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New Console Game Jamboroo

This week, full of the holiday spirit, I made the move and decided I would buy myself a PS Vita (it’s cool, technically I bought my brother a Vita, and he bought me a Vita, we just…bought them for ourselves. This is the sort of shit you do to rationalize purchases when you have a twin brother). So this week, I obtained a Vita, and with the Vita I picked up three games immediately, which are going to more or less be how I roll for a while. Here’s a quick rundown of the three games I bought, and my impressions of each. Bear in mind that I’ve played one of these more than the others, but basically I have spent at least three hours with each of these.

Olli Olli

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I picked this up because I needed to pick up at least one game that was released this year. Devolver Digital is quickly getting to the point with me where they can do no wrong when it comes to what they publish, and as a kid who fucking adored Tony Hawk 2 (although it might be more accurate to say that I adored the soundtrack to TH2. I never owned a copy of TH2, but two of my friends did, so there you go) I’ve been desperate for a skateboarding game with good music ever since. Olli Olli satisfies that desire in a way that nothing has even approached since then.

The controls are super-simple, and without adding the complexity of the shoulder buttons (which let you do flips and spins) you can do very well. You can grind basically forever, and that’s the most important thing for me. I do have a habit of hitting the grind button when I need to hit the landing button, which can get a little frustrating, but when you get in the zone on this game it is basically the most wonderful thing you can do with your time. I’ve found the levels to be really good for killing a quick five minutes here and there (I’ve pulled it up waiting for Destiny to contact the server sometimes, or waiting for Steam to update), assuming of course that you’ve got it running—there’s a stunningly long load time otherwise (I say “stunningly long” but it’s probably just under a minute).

I’m also quite partial to the soundtrack—the sort of chillout tunes a fellow requires if he wants to relax while busting out some sickass grinds that are just unreal. I’m a huge fan of this game, it definitely did what I hoped it would do—i.e. gave me the sort of skateboard game I can just play forever.

Persona 3 Portable

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So this one is the game I’ve spent the most time playing, by far. Those who are even vaguely aware of my doings on these forums and such are completely unsurprised, because I have gotten intensely fascinated with the Persona series (thanks, Endurance Run!) and Persona 3 seemed like a good idea. I was also attracted to the concept of being able to have a lady protagonist, because I like having options to be a lady protagonist whenever I can.

Again, the music is crazy-good—I keep bobbing my head along to the beat and it is probably the number one reason I’ve been wearing headphones. It plays a lot like Persona 4, obviously, but with enough little changes that I don’t feel weird having a P4 game going on in parallel. Not being able to register persona is kind of weird! Also, I’m on my second day in Tartarus and I can’t seem to get any cool Personas to drop. I like the dungeon grind of it—I guess eventually people get exhausted and refuse to continue on, but so far I haven’t run into that. Supposedly there’s a barrier in there so I won’t be able to continue past a certain point, but right now I’m fucking killing it on like level six or something. The fighting is that good ol’ Persona (or really Shin Megami Tensei) combat that I’ve been a fan of for basically a decade at this point, and the social linking I’ve done (which isn’t a lot, because I went into the dungeon as soon as I got the ability to do so and haven’t come out yet) has been pretty entertaining. I’m curious about the story, which is the important thing for me, anyway. Currently it’s my go-to game on the Vita, which is weird when you consider the third game I bought which is….

Persona 4 Golden

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Hey, another Persona game! Are we surprised? No, not really. The hilarious thing is that now I have two Persona 4 games going on, because obviously I’m gonna continue playing through my console P4 game as well.

This is pretty great so far—I’m barely past the introduction (Saki just disappeared but her body’s not been discovered yet), and the updated graphics look real good. The sound is also real great, except the change in Chie’s voice (you probably already know this, but they didn’t get the same voice actress) which is taking some real getting used to (and is also why I’ll keep playing my console version of P4 as well, obviously. The lack of her iconic delivery of AHA! IS THIS OUR CHANCE may prove to be too great an obstacle to overcome for me. Still, it means I can play Persona 4 on the go, so that’s worth my time.

Bouncing between Persona games has actually been kind of fun—I like checking out the older systems in 3 and how they fixed (or failed to fix) them in 4. Plus, I mean, the music in P4 is fucking stellar. You and I both know that.

Anyway, having a Vita means I’ll probably wind up slowly working through the million odd titles (Danganrompa is on the top of my list as “thing I need to check out as soon as possible” because it just seems batshit insane and I need to know all about it). I’m happy with my decision to snap up a Vita, and I guess now the clock is ticking down to the moment where something really interesting shows up on the 3DS and I have to pick that up (although Persona Q is really tempting me e’en now).

I might have something short next week (gotta get on that GOTY hype train, I suppose) but I’ll be traveling back to the land of my birth and probably just sitting on my ass playing Persona games so I’m not sure when I’ll get around to it. Sometime next week, I guess!

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