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[Apr. 14th, 2008|10:02 am] |
I will not get into a snit over minor issues. I have more important things to do with my life.
Instead of being good and cleaning the entire apartment this weekend, I spent too much time replaying Drakengard and since I have nothing else to talk about today, I will babble about that for my own amusement.
Drakengard is a Squeenix game that was released back in 2004, and is a weird mishmash of Dynasty Warriors and Panzer Dragoon. I should say that I do not actually recommend this game--the gameplay is seriously repetitive, the camera controls are wonky and frustrating, the plot (which is full of nonsense about seals and pacts with mythical beasts and a Big Bad Empire) is underdeveloped, and the script was chopped up for the English release and as a result is nearly incomprehensible in places. It's not a great game or even a good one; 'mediocre' is probably the best it can hope for.
However, the reason I have kept this game around for four years, besides the occasional need for something that's pure hacky-slashy, is that it is one of the most depressing and nihilistic video games I have played in my life.
( do you really have to spoiler-cut for a game that's four years old? )
Anyway, it was very good at distracting me until Persona: FES is released next week.
I am trying so, so hard not to write again. I realized this weekend that I miss it, but in the same way I miss swimming or dancing--activities I used to blithely adore long ago and which personal issues now make it almost impossible for me to enjoy on any level. How can other people do that?, I keep thinking. How could I have ever done that?
...maybe I ought to take up knitting or something. |
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