Ar Tonelico Qoga: Finished, Dante's Inferno Finished...*spoilers*

By Catolf May 22, 2011 5 Comments

This has been a rather interesting turn of even's with my playing games nearly every day now, i'm blowing my own mind. But needless to say it's not all good in 'da hood' with me getting things done. It's been a little.. frustrating with my lack of luck.

With Ar Tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel it was a very interesting ride. While the English VA can be down right horrid it has it's moment's of pure gold, though rare these nuggets are more than enough to excuse other things about this game that makes you wanna smack your head into a way for a few hours. The good about this game is the simple fact that the character's interactions and how the view their world is great. You get lots of laughs to break up the monotony. The art is gorgeous (at least the BACKGROUND ART) and character deigns while questionable they are pleasing to the eye with the vibrant colors and wondering how the FUCK that stays on.

Or another good question is wtf is going on XD

Really it's not as dirty as you think but you be the judge.

  

  

Strangely a few side character's can become main to the point of one of the 'bad' guys becoming good finding love, getting married and PREGNANT through the course of the game. Yes, I nearly choked on my own spit when i saw that little nugget cause well... it's MUTE, MUTE!? This pumped lady manages to find love finding a soon to be husband and get knocked up and YES he is aware and can't wait (he loves him some big girls!) after I stopped laughing and finally breathed, it was cute.It's nice to see stuff like that happen. And Mute is not the only lady whom get's engaged during the game either...  but anyway.

The music is SUPURB and I'm glad I have the soundtrack, it's rather lovely, my favorite song became EXEC_FLIP_ARPHAGE/. considering it's a precursor to you getting one of the many endings I have to listen to it alot but it was hard to get mad at a song so pretty. Another would be during the Richa boss battle called EXEC_Z/ yes the song names are bizarre but the are good enough for me not to complain and just enjoy the music.

  
  

  

The leveling in this game is really easy, which brings me to the trophies, NONE of which are actually hard they just take a long time to get, my end time with the game was 135 hours and like 18 minutes with getting everything... oh wait.. no I missed two, one glitched which would be the legendary Saki Cosmosphere 100% and the other is Finnel's Cosmosphere 100% which i refused to try after Saki's fucked up on me. Needless to say I wanted to plat this game and got REALLY close but no cigar. Though I will say it was a fun experience in the end cause I've never played a game like this one.

Out of all the girls my favorite would be a tie between Tyria (tilia) and Finnel and Mute right after them (cause she turns out to be a great character XD) While i'm sore about not getting my plat my experiance OVERALL with this gave is positive. FOR ME... I give it..

8.5/10

NEXT!!!!

I finished Dante's Inferno! I've been through hell and back and I gotta say I really liked this game. (yes I had the divine edition, i got it cheap from walmart not long ago) I managed to beat it twice in four days, it's rather short but I liked it.

The atmosphere and the overall look of the game is awesome... I've never been more disturbed and intrigued in a game in a while. Considering I stopped playing the GoW games it kinda makes me wanna pick it up and play again, then not cause Kratos is just a rage-a-holic with issues anymore. Might as well paint him green and make him say "KRATOS SMASH!" cause yeah..XP

Anyway.

The combat is fun and quick. I did not play it on anything more than Casual and I don't care if anyone thinks I'm a wimp or whatever, i wanted a fun experience and to enjoy the story and I did and it was still a bit of a challenge (cause I tend to not block a lot..XD) so much nakedness in this game, penis and boobies everywhere as god intended! XD Dante is.. well an asshole, he in the end really deserved to stay in hell as far as I am concerned, he really fucks everyone over. Good lord.

This game's trophies are also very easy so I spent my time just collecting things and playing. The only 'hard' one was getting 666 combo which I did today by bumping up the difficulty and spamming my cross attacks during the trials. I think it took me a total of 4 sessions.. each 4 hours each to play through this game twice. so 16 hours total and I..somehow...

I got a plat! XD

This is not the game I was planning to be my first..but..yay.. XD at least I got one out of three attempts.

Overall a good game, while people say it's a GoW clone, in combat yes, no doubt but in story, Dante's inferno is VASTLY superior. So, those are my thoughts on those two games.

Cat out.

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