Soul Calibur V

Huhuhuhu.... Guess what we bought last friday?

Tadah! SOUL motherfuckin' CALIBUR V bitches!! I've been waiting for this game like forever and right now I couldn't be happier! WOHOO! Eventhough my first impression of the game was a bit disappointing, but after getting used to the new changes I absolutely love it!!

Ok, long story short.. Soul Calibur is a 3D fighting game where you fight with characters who wield different kind of weapons insted of just using bare fists like in Tekken or Dead or Alive. SC has some crappy storyline which usually includes the corrupted evil sword Soul Edge that needs to be destroyed with the "good sword" Soul Calibur. SC V's story takes place 17 years after the events of Soul Calibur IV so many of the games original characters have been replaced with new fighters. It's nice to have some new blood on the game but I still think some of them are just too cheap-ass clones from the previous characters. Thankfully there's few brand new fighters with really unique fighting styles that are really great addition to the series!

I've always considered Soul Calibur as one of my favourite fighting games and it's mostly because of the weapons and character creation. Usually fighting games tend to have only those utterly boring fistfights with nothing special in them so Soul Calibur definetly is a nice change to that bunch! But character creation is the thing that makes SC so great! With it you can make your own characters into the game. You can customize characters body, hair, armor, tatoos, voice etc. etc. You can customize in-game characters too! I usually spend more time to create characters other than playing the actual game! Custom characters really makes the game much more fun to play. XD Soul Calibur V is also beginner-friendly (imo), so don't worry if you haven't played fighting games before. You can still kick some ass!

There's also guest characters in Soul Calibur-games. In SC IV there was Darth Vader, the Apprentice (from Star Wars Forces Unleashed-game) and Yoda. Now the game have only one guest character, Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed-series. There's also "Soul of Devil Jin" (from Tekken) which is extra fighting style that you can use on custom characters.

But then the bad part (for me that is)... The BIGGEST UNFORGIVING MINUS in the Soul Calibur V is that Tira's (my ultimate favourite char) voice actor has changed!! My heart was broken when I heard Tira speak for the first time in the game. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) How dare they replace Jennifer Hale (for example Mass Effects fem. Shepard's voice) with some random dudette?!? Grrraaahh!! Oh well... I got over it pretty soon since I found myself another favourite character besides Tira, and she is...

Pyrrha Ω (*0*)

Isn't she pretty? ( ^3^) ~ ♥

I've seriously kicked ass with my new fighter-lady!! Our friends are coming over on Friday so then we'll see if I can walk the walk. Haha!

That's all for now, sorry for the games-only updates but you know me...
Gotta love those games. ♥

Final Fantasy XIII

Yahhoooo ~ !! I'm so happy right now because I finally got a new job! No more crappy, assboring office work! And the best part is that I'll go to work for the same company as Pat, yay!! (/ ^3^)/ ~♥The job starts March 5th and I'm already excited! Woop woop!

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The other day I managed to finish the Final Fantasy XIII. Sure was a great timing since the FFXII-2 is out now! :D It took me about 1,5 years to finish the game because at first when I played it about half way through I started to lost the interest in it. I had a loooong break from the game and now year later I decided to finally finish it. For the principle.

Ok, so honestly I don't know what to say about the game... It was absolutely horrible from the start to the end. The only good thing was Lightning and Fang 'cos those two are just so badasses! And later on against all odds I started to like Hope too.. But everything else... It's just full of crap! The summons (or eidolons in this game) were nice but I didn't use any other than Odin since Lighting was always my party leader. So after few summonings it got really boring to use it but I didn't want to change my party (and organize battle styles all over again) just for one summon. 

Shiva sisters summon - two sisters who turn into a motorcycle...

Vanille & Fang

Then the story... oh god, the story was so lame! Even I would've done better!! There wasn't any plot twists, the story wasn't even interesting and running straight from point A to point B was starting to get on my nerves after 10 hours of gameplay. When playing some game I want to explore and do miniquests etc. but nooo... Oh, and not to forget the battles where you don't have to do anything! Just keep pressing X and the fight will handle itself. Only thing you need to do is to switch between different fighting styles for example if your health is low you switch your fighting style from fighter to medic and so on. Also if the party leader dies, it's game over. Just like that. Even though the two other party members are in full health and feeling all fine and dandy. But thankfully there's a retry option!



FFXIII's main characters

Music was ok, not great but I've heard worse. I didn't like the songs with singing in them, but otherwise the music was listenable.Voice acting was good but it would've been great to have the dual-audio (damn you xbox!! >n<)9 ) 'cos, naturally, I prefer japanese voice acting over the english one. The graphics were beautiful and the CG-animations were incredible but thats about it. In conclusion I must say that this is one game I'll never ever touch again, that's fo sho.. XD

Anyway, I'm happy that the game is finally over and I can consentrate on the FFXII-2 which looks much more promising. Especially I'm waiting for Light and Hope's reunion 'cos I'm a big fan of that pairing. Kekeke...



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Look at them cuties!! >w< (from e-shuushuu)