Gway "Becky" Radiation ([info]fwugradiation) wrote,
@ 2008-12-16 01:27:00
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HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
OH MY GOD

OH MY FUCKING GOD

NEW BRANDISH GAME

it's a remake of the first one as far as I can tell from the screenshots/music, but judging from the movies the maps/puzzles/bosses have new patterns to them!!! I'll have to read some reviews and buy someone's PSP for cheap BEFORE I buy this because

because

because oh my god I never thought this would happen

here I am being a nerd about a series whose latest entry was HORRIBLE and from 1998, and all of the sudden THIS pops up

Jesus Christ, it's good to be alive, hope I can import this or some crap like that. The remixed ending song from Brandish 1 sounds a-mazing! If nothing else I can always look forward to illegally downloading the soundtrack from somewhere.

so, plusses:

+ awesome, awesome remixed music
+ gameplay not nauseous and alienating at all, turning looks GOOD
+ maybe new areas and stuff? I know you can play as the girl

and minuses:

- character designs look like generic anime crap now, which is disappointing to say the least. brandish's character designs were always anime-y but these have these plastic-coated lame PSP feel to them, which is boring
- game is too dark making all the areas look too similar, I hope you can raise the brightness or something because it looks lame
- 3D makes many things look retarded

but brandish has never looked that great anyway, now it just looks dumb in its stylistic choices. if I close my eyes I guess it's the best game ever

[edit: lol forgive me for being overexcited, it's just that for the longest time I've been the fan of an obsolete, dead videogame series and now a new entry's coming out for the first time in 10 years, it's kind of like if Mother 3 was coming out and I was the only Mother fan in the entire world. it's so weird! I don't think I could have ever seen this coming.]



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[info]eviljimchristo
2008-12-16 04:18 am UTC (link)
But you know something, Brandish's strafe-based fighting was really innovative. The fact that they squeezed so many puzzles and strategies out of a mechanic we take for granted now is amazing. I don't have the patience for the original game, but just the idea of taking advantage of an enemy's weaknesses Tactics-style, what with attacking them at different angles, but with the frenetic pace of an action-RPG, is something we need to revisit.

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[info]simonbob
2008-12-16 03:05 pm UTC (link)
rofl oh my good gods

This must be like christmas times hanukkah times mother 3 times how I would feel if Alan Moyle announced he was directing a sequel to Empire Records times a million for you. I can't even begin to imagine.

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