Post #42474
August 10, 2015, 04:54:52 AM
So I long since finished XIII-2 and gave a shot to Lightning Returns...which I thought was abysmal in the gameplay field but exceptional in the story field. I ended up selling the game because the former ended up outweighing the latter, and I'll most likely just watch the story on youtube videos. Personally, I think XIII-2 was the gem of the trio and was by far the most entertaining and had the most replay value. Even after you beat the game, there's other endings that you can obtain including the ending that comes with the Requiem of the Goddess DLC. And really, compared to the other two, it felt much less like an interactive movie (and the third feeling like Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on INTENSE difficulty) and much more like an actual game (reminding me very much of Chrono Trigger).
Lately I've been playing through Sherlock Holmes: Crime and Punishments and a Testament of Sherlock Holmes. The latter I beat (and it surprisingly took a while), and the former I had already beaten once, but played through again since it's a multiple conclusion-per-case game (with a total of 5 cases, 6 if you count the small ending one), with a minimum of 3 conclusions as well as two different ways you can handle them (condemn or absolve), so we're talking a MINIMUM of 6 different conclusions per case. There's a trophy that you can get for watching all of them, and I gave up after the 5th case since it makes it impossible to reach 3 (aka 6) of the 6 (aka 12) different conclusions once you hit a specific spot (because one clue appears that completely contradicts any of the early 3 conclusions and thus you'll never be able to access them once you get that clue)...and there's no way to backtrack without playing the entire game over again.
Now, I've moved onto LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, and am contemplating playing The Last of Us once more, or diving into another game...possibly re-playing Tales of Xillia or the BIoshock series.