The Clean Up Continues (Part Two)

It's barely been 10-15 minutes since I posted up the last post with the games that I selected and already one game as gone to the trade in pile. Overture Guilty Gear was my first pick and if I'm to be honest I was not shocked, I was unsure about this game when I first bought it (after Christmas sale so no real money lose). It's meant to be sort like Dynasty Warriors Empires where you go around the map leading a small army and take over parts of the map to win.

So the disc went in and it brought up a opening trailer showing a demonstration and it put me off straight away, from the looks you can bring up a map and you have to summon the troops you want for the battle. I saw what looks like that anyway since they decided to go really fast for the demonstration but what confused me was he kept spawning some kind of robot trooper to help, then despawn him again which then happened four more times before he decided to finally leave the starting area.

After that he ran ahead and got into a battle with the enemy, well I guess it was the leader and started fighting with their troops too but nothing seemed to happen to the progress bar on the top. In the end I turned the video off and booted up the training, let's get the hands on approach and maybe it will be better.

I pick my character spawn on the map with the enemy leader in front of me, the training window appears in the bottom corner telling me to pause the game. So I pause and on the screen I get all the lovely game options like but in the top corner it tells me to resume the game to continue training. Ok no problem so go back into the game and it tells me to pause again, as you can imagine it got a bit confusing. So I try out some buttons and found the attack, jump and reset match all the while the enemy just stands and does nothing while I attack. I run around the map and cannot seem to capture anything, no buttons for the map to summon and still this box tells me to pause even though I have five times.

I'm ten minutes into the game and I just eject the disc and put it in my bag ready to trade it in next time I go to the shopping centre. I'm guess I must be doing something wrong and no doubt there are fans yelling what a newbie I am but oh well it's not for me. So onto my next game and I'm going with the Wii titles next which will be interesting since I think I'm going to have to dig around to find the controllers and reset the sensor bar back up.

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What was I thinking when I picked out those Wii games, the console as not been on in over a year and I had to decide to play it. So far I've had to search high and low for the sensor bar and controller, had to do some major tiding up for that. Of course the battery pack for the controller is fully flat so just put it on the charger (god that needs to be cleaned) and I'm not sure if it's charging or not since the light is flashing. Then I remembered I traded my second set of controllers since my girlfriend bought her own Wii, think I need to find some batteries out to use for now.

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Don't think I've ever swore so much in my entire life, well I found some batteries but then released I have no idea where the original battery cover is for the controller (the recharge battery comes with it's own cover that is glued to the batter). Then when I turned the Wii on and no picture came on so I checked to find it's not plugged into the tv, no problem just follow the wire and plug it in. Hmm what's it caught on, maybe give it a tug, yeah that's the PS3 that's making a banging sound. In my panic to stop tugging on the wire I nearly fall over and take out the TV with me, so five minute break to cool down and stop cursing.

The Wii is now on finally but I do wonder why I got a turtlebeach headset plugged into the composite ports, another problem to sort another day. Oh my god, last play date was 20th May 2010 according to the calendar and I was playing Wii Play which is still in the console. My god it's been over two years since this console as been used, I think my friend Lesley would have a fit.

Well first need to up date it and hook it back up to the Internet, dreading how long it will take to do two years of updates.

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System is up to date and it only took around ten minutes so I was surprised about that but did have a heart attack when I thought for a second that the eject had broken when I tried to get wii play out. It's all good though and now it's finally time to play some games, first up Sakura: So long, My Love!

Another game for the trade in pile since I'm over fifteen minutes into the game and still no game play, a lot of talking and cut scenes so far with just two chat selections. The story is really not my thing either, basically it's anime game which I normal love but this is not me. Basically starting to work for a crime fighting division for the Japanese government that works secretly under a theatre where the forces actually do singing and dance on the side to entertain the crowd to keep them calm. Steam punk setting with some mech fighting which I did not get close to trying, guess that will be the gameplay for later once I've settled into the base.

Bit disappointed so far since that's two for two now but I think the other games will be ok, but then again I never know and on that note it's time for Xenoblade.

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Fourteen minutes into Xenoblade and I'm in love, the games opening was a pretty sweet way to do it which involved you a few mates making a last stand against a mech army. Controls seemed a bit dodgy but I think it would be better played with the classic controller instead of the Wii Remote, anyway the story looks awesome and the gameplay was not bad so this is a keeper. It's that good I've not put it on my list to must play soon and I really want to continue but I must try the other games.

Xenoblade

Speaking of the other games I'm going to stop for now on this post and do the other games on part three, did not realise how long this post was and I'm only three games in with seven more to come. So far only one game to keep and two to trade in, bit disappointed but I'm glad Xenoblade turned out good. Stay tuned for part three which should be up later on since I'm still continuing to test the games.

~Iznic