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lklavens's Zone of the Enders: the Second Runner (PS2)
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| [February 13, 2007 12:35:17 AM]
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Going back to ZOE:2, again, I think some of the level design is not very good. I spent a good amount of time running around in circles in one level just because everything looked the same and i could not get out. Additionally, alot of the game features extremely linear challenges of the format "defeat x enemies to progress"
Which works for the game, but is nothing extremely new or interesting. The game also has massive sometimes crippling camera problems. The way the autotargeting defaults to selecting an enemy, even when they are in the far distance and nowhere near where you are facing often makes simply navigating extremely hard. Also, only be able to sort through your targets unilaterally makes it very awkward to select enemies that are causing you to die, which often gets you killed. For all that, the aformentioned sense of speed and shooter like aspects make for a very entertaining experience when technical issues aren't getting in the way.
Finally, there is a fight near the very end that manages to communicate a sense of epic Warfare so extremely effectively I think it is likely one of my top ten moments in gaming.
So, this game, while extremely flawed, still provides a very satisfying experience, at least for me.
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| [February 13, 2007 12:29:26 AM]
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The first thing that stands out about this game is that it looks absolutely amazing for a ps2 game. additionally, it manages to pull off a sense of speed that gives the game a very cool feel.I played this game in the past, and bought it because of some fond memories of truly awesome moments had in this game.
In alot of ways, I feel like this game has alot of the feel of a vertically scrolling shooter except in 3D; the mass numbers of small enemies that come in waves, the boss fights, and the configuration of some of the weapons all add to this.
also, on a neat sidenote, one of the characters pilots a robot called "vic viper" which transforms into a plane (vic viper is the name of the pilot in gradius, and the ship's weapons are modeled after gradius's)
Given all that, some of the scripted events in this game are extremely frusterating in their difficulty and occasional lack of interesting action.
One aspect of the game i had forgotten about that is less endearing then the rest is the ridiculously poor voice acting. The story is not very compelling, simply because the dialogue is badly written and terribly delivered.
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lklavens's Zone of the Enders: the Second Runner (PS2)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Tuesday 13 February, 2007
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