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Feb 23rd, 2007 at 11:55:09 - Super Smash Brothers (N64) |
So after a while of not playing Super Smash Bros, I was questionable about my so called skills in them. Before, I would beat almost everyone that came at me with my trusty Pikachu to do all the work. However, since a lot of people are good in this game, I really don't know if I'm good at all. So I started playing with a group of people in a vs match with eight stock lives. I didn't choose Pikachu because I wanted to get used to the game first. I chose Samus which is one of my better characters and I won, but barely. Something that I noticed was that it's true that it does take skill to be good at this game, but it's really just a whole bunch of nonsense going on at a time.
A beginner could pick it up and press random buttons and win just like any other fighting game, but there are skills that need to be learned such as recovering from a fall, blocking and rolling. I don't really like to roll as much because it never occurred to me that I had to, but I see other people doing it and it seems to help. Nevertheless, I still can hold my own. Many people don't like to use items, but that is my strong point. I am an Item User and proud of it. People see it as cheating, but I see it as more strategy. For instance, a beam sword is usually swung around to do damage, but if the player throws it at someone, it can do a lot of damage which is the same with the fire flower. Anyways, more on that later.
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Feb 9th, 2007 at 19:06:58 - Tekken 5 (PS2) |
So I played the Devil Within mode that features Jin's story after the main story. It made me a little dizzy as the screen didn't rotate a little faster than Jin rotated. The game was different from the main game as it was a platformer where you had to fight enemies that would spawn and at the end of a couple of levels, a boss would appear. Jin's basic moves from the fighting game were brought to this and pressing different buttons would activate the same combos or about the same combos.
The basic goal of the game is to find why things are going on with Jin and if this game is defeated, then the character Devil Jin would be unlocked and a lot of money will be available in the customization mode. Of course, I unlocked Devil Jin in a different way where I had to play 200 battles.
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Feb 7th, 2007 at 13:39:35 - Tekken 5 (PS2) |
I haven't really picked up this game for some time though I really should because I really really liked this game with the graphics and the move-set. I really like the character Xiaoyu due to her randomness and quick movements. I like it also because the player kind of needs strategy to beat the opposing character. I played against a friend who used Bryan and at first I thought he was really skilled (which he is), but I found his pattern of attacking and eventually beat him. Also, I trained with a few characters such as Nina and Anna to improve my skills in them because they are actually very good even though they seemed a bit too simple at first. In Devil Within Mode, it got me a little dizzy, but it turned out to be okay overall. More on that later.
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Jan 30th, 2007 at 18:44:04 - Soul Calibur III (PS2) |
So this time I got a few people to play against me and it turns out I was better than I thought I was, though I wasn't the best obviously. As my title line says, this game can be won by a really good button masher. Many people who have never played before beat others who have played just by button mashing really fast. Even the slow characters seem unstoppable as someone button mashes and wins. However, choosing the right character is a huge decision in this game due to the fact that each character has a different weapon, strength, agility and most of all range.
Usually, a character would give up strength for agility and range for agility as well. However there are some characters who have range and are fast which makes them somewhat cheap such as Raphael and again my favorite Kilik. I don't see any downside to these two characters so they are "noob" friendly. I also showed my friends the Chronicles of the Sword mode where it was like a strategy/fighting game where you would destroy buildings and then attack the people inside. The concept is really good though I could say that it got kind of tedious in the end. Especially since some of the voice acting was below average and the random game characters seemed well, random.
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