A visit to GameStop
Aug. 3rd, 2010 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amethyst73So, Huz is out of town at a conference (which is full of people he doesn't know mostly doing work that doesn't have all that much to do with his stuff). I'm at home, a little lonely, generally exhausted from work which is including driving to Berkeley the next few days to process the last clones from the Ig project. I got my first ever professional massage last night (it was wonderful, must do again sometime), but then failed to sleep well. So I'm tired and cranky. Failed to nap when I got home. Decided to cheer myself up by going to GameStop and seeing what they had in their Used bin.
My first purchase was Hotel Dusk for the DS. Used at $10 (and less than that with membership), this is not money. I have 'only' one more case left in the Miles Edgeworth game, and I vaguely remembered this getting pretty decent reviews - it's an old-school point-and-click (sigh) mystery murder adventure. (Really, folks, you can do adventure-style games in other story genres!) However, after seeing the intro movie and playing a tiny bit of the game, I'm utterly charmed by its art style, and the writing is fun and good. So it should make a decent semi-casual thing to play when I want a 'just before bed' turn on the DS.
My second purchase... well. I'd really been looking forward to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles before it was released back in December to some unfortunate reviews. I've now seen/played about 45 minutes of the thing. I only have one crystal power, so there isn't a lot of chance for misreading of Wii gestures so far. But, jeez, Squaresoft! Four years in development and you couldn't add a real auto-camera, instead forcing people to use the D-pad to move the camera, even while the protagonist is moving? You couldn't add a map??? And the player is still at least partially limited by save points????!!??? Come on, get with the current console generation!
I will continue playing it for at least a bit, but it may be destined for the return bin.
My first purchase was Hotel Dusk for the DS. Used at $10 (and less than that with membership), this is not money. I have 'only' one more case left in the Miles Edgeworth game, and I vaguely remembered this getting pretty decent reviews - it's an old-school point-and-click (sigh) mystery murder adventure. (Really, folks, you can do adventure-style games in other story genres!) However, after seeing the intro movie and playing a tiny bit of the game, I'm utterly charmed by its art style, and the writing is fun and good. So it should make a decent semi-casual thing to play when I want a 'just before bed' turn on the DS.
My second purchase... well. I'd really been looking forward to Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles before it was released back in December to some unfortunate reviews. I've now seen/played about 45 minutes of the thing. I only have one crystal power, so there isn't a lot of chance for misreading of Wii gestures so far. But, jeez, Squaresoft! Four years in development and you couldn't add a real auto-camera, instead forcing people to use the D-pad to move the camera, even while the protagonist is moving? You couldn't add a map??? And the player is still at least partially limited by save points????!!??? Come on, get with the current console generation!
I will continue playing it for at least a bit, but it may be destined for the return bin.
