DS Gaming Part I- Terrible Games

By fripplebubby March 3, 2010 3 Comments

Games I've been playing

I've been console-less for around 2 months, and while this may seem like a dire situation to most, I made the best of it. I pulled out the ol' DS Lite and "purchased" a few new games, and an old game or two. This will be a two-part blog, so first I will run over the bad games:  
 

Ragnarök

 
 So, this was a RPG released earlier in Japan, and only recently came to the states (or EU, I can't remember). In any case, the first half-hour or so is all cutscenes. But not good, pre-rendered ds screen orgasm cutscenes, no, these cutscenes sucked bad. It was all in-engine and the engine can't run anything worth looking at. The custcenes were basically all you looking at two sprites having a lame-ass conversation. The plot was really terrible, too. An adventurer rises up to avenge his dead mother, and encounters a girl who (guess what) has fucking amnesia.  
 
The combat is somewhat entertaining, but oh so simple. I do like how it isn't a random encounter (Random encounters piss me off), so props there. The combat is also quick and somewhat entertaining. That being said, there's not a whole lot to do, and there are tons of enemies that spawn every few seconds. It kind of feels like a terrible MMO in ds-form. In fact, I would be down with it if it was an MMO, seeing as the graphics are so bad that they could probably fit 10 or more characters on screen at once. But it isn't an MMO, so too bad.  
 
These are by no means my most collected thoughts, and I haven't played through a ton of this game so it may be to early to pass judgement. I don't think it is, but I still won't treat this as a review and more as my thoughts on a game.  
 
Anyway, Terrible game pt. II coming soon.

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