Sulphur on 26/9/2008 at 21:29

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oh, it's pointless.



1) Koki's opinion of SoTC would be first that it has superbrite (R) HDR that makes his eyes bleed and drowns detail. Which, while immensely exaggerated, is true to an extent. It's a nit-pick as far as I'm concerned, but you know who we're talking about here.

2) While most people would think that riding around its vast landscape or exploring the broken, haunted ruins is atmospheric, Koki just feels The Great Big Empty instead. I think that the usual term for this is a "general lack of imagination."

3) Koki's Ideology for Game Criticism: pick up the smallest flaws in a game, blow them out of proportion until whatever it did right is completely and totally eclipsed by things that he can't stand, like HDR (har har) or repetitive music. (Also: Okami's music is not annoyingly high-pitched. That's, like, completely imaginary.)

Then, add some snarky and inappropriate remarks (like Okami = platformer because it features jumping).

Finally, coat everything above with a shimmering sheen of superlative rhetoric.

In summary: for Koki it doesn't matter if a game got 99.5% of it right, that last .5% PISSED HIM OFF, so its trajectory from that point is straight onto his Pile of Shite Games Only the Proles Would Play, and the Whole Wide World (read: proles) had better effing know it.

Kokes, please feel free to correct or add stuff in; we'd all benefit from a more rounded viewpoint of you.

Fragony on 27/9/2008 at 06:51

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Okami a typical platformer? Are you sure you actually played the game Koki? It's an action adventure, take a little Zelda, take a little Spirited away, add awesome, shake, voila Okami.

DaBeast on 27/9/2008 at 08:12

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WRONG!

I've bought a load of cheap ps2 games from play.com, gives me something to pass the time in work :P

Resident Evil 4
Colin McRea 2005
Ace Combat Squadron Leader
Conflict: Desert Storm 2
The Getaway: Black Monday, not as good as the first, some dodgy controls/camera but still fun and OMG BIG HEAD!
GTA:SA ofc
ICO
Shadow of the Colossus
Metal Gear Solid 3 (If you can find the subsistence version for less than 100 quid you've done well)

I can't remember more of the really good ones, I sold my entire collection years ago, of which I was quite proud.

Sulphur on 27/9/2008 at 10:00

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True, that. I felt that his views warranted some verbal spew this time, and it came out in my typically verbose fashion.

Koki on 27/9/2008 at 15:27

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Whoa, whoa, I leave for work(eleven hours, yay) and what are you doing.



I don't care how meticulously composed it was, and I admit a track or two caught my ear, but one of the instruments it's performed with(Probably very old and very traditional and who cares) was simply too fucking loud. Either you lowered the volume and couldn't hear the rest, or you could hear the rest... while your ears bled.

As for Okami not being a platformer, I am seriously at a loss of words here. It's 3D - check. You jump a lot - check. You fight enemies a lot - check. You do miniquests for questionable rewards - check. As the game progresses you get special powers/skills which allow you to advance - check. There's multitude of hidden bonuses throurough the levels, some of which are unobtainable till you get another power later in the game - check. So call it a "shimmering of superlative rhetoric" but I'm afraid I have to call Okami a 3D platformer, and a typical one at that.

Of course you could call it an "action-adventure", but you could also call Lemmings, Doom, and even Total Annihilation an "action-adventure" so I don't think it's such a good deal.



Ah, indeed, thanks for reminding me. SoTC's graphics are seriously tiring, not to mention the game slows down pretty much all the time you're not fighting the colossi.



I think I really need more imagination then, because the landscape was about as atmospheric as middle of an ocean. Grass, rocks, and bloom. Anything higher than grass is on a brink of extinction. The point is, it didn't felt wastelandish, just like they had to cut off so much polygons they couldn't do anything but basic terrain.
And I don't remember exploring much ruins. As I said I killed seven colossi, and I remember two ruins you could enter - the place where Yorda whatshername lies, which is pretty much a big featurless hall, and the basilisk's den which was bigger, and the only feature it had was stairs. Wait, I think I've seen metal bars too.
Oh yeah, there was also the place where you fought the bearded dude.
In other words, all the ruins were either pointless features of landscape, or pointless empty interiors serving only one purpose - as a game event point. There was nothing exploratory about them, it's not like you could find something like engravings, ancient writings, items, or even the goddamn barrels.



I hope you enjoy my posts as much I'm enjoying yours.



Either you don't know the definition of trolling, or it's just your Happy Little World mind blockade in action. Probably the latter though.