No More Heroes

No More Heroes was one of those games that I just wanted to randomly buy before but never did. It had a cool looking cover and I had a new Wii and was looking for games, but I just stopped getting games for my Wii before I had the chance to get this game. Although now that I think about it, it would have been a good idea to have looked into the game before buying, so I figured I could do that now.

The game has a free roam world, which is already surprising to me because I had no idea any Wii game had a free roam world. The story is you're Travis Touchdown who spends the last of his money on an internet auction for a beam sword. After realizing he can't buy any more video games, Travis takes a job to kill a person named Helter Skelter. After killing Helter, Travis is told by the person who gave him the job that he is now ranked number eleven in the United Assassins Association, which is a governing body of assassins. Realizing he can get to the top by killing the other ten, Travis tries to become the number one assassin.

From all the positive reviews, I'm dissappointed that I didn't buy this game now. It looks great and the fact that it's one of the few M rated games on the Wii makes me want it more. Sometimes I look at my Wii and sigh because of the mostly kiddie games I would have to get for it so No More Heroes would be a good addition to my Wii game library.

Knights in the Nightmare

This game I saw while browsing gamespot and I got drawn in by the cover art and name. The cover looks sort of like a Final Fantasy cover might, and the name sounds kind of dark. I figured I could learn more about this game and see if I would like it or if it's just a pretty cover.

It seems that this game has a intricate story as well as battle system, which will either be confusing or extremely good. I've read that the cast of characters is so big that you'll have trouble remembering everyone, and the learning curve is to steep. The battle seems like an interesting, yet confusing concept. You're a wisp, controlled by your stylus, that is in battle trying to dodge enemy fire while commanding your units. So it's somewhat of a real-time strategy shooter RPG, which is really hard to believe. I would never expect all three of those to go together at once.

This game got overall good reviews, and the only complaint was the steep learning curve. I actually kind of want to get this game just to see how they could possibly combine all three of those genres together.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy

Dissidia is a PSP exclusive game that pits Final Fantasy characters against each other in a fighting game. I've heard a lot of people say it's good, but suprisingly no details as to why it's good. I plan to find out those details so I can know if those people that say it's good are just Final Fantasy fanboys or if it actually is a good game.

From what I read it seems that the fighting system is good. You have Brave points (BRV) and you try to take them from your opponent by hitting them. Once you get enough BRV points, you can use skills that deal damage to your opponents HP. So basically you fight until you can get enough BRV points and then hurt them, then repeat until their HP runs out. There's also an "EX mode" that let's characters collet EX cores to fill a bar until they can use their limit breaks (special moves) that they have in their actual games. And it's Final Fantasy, so you know it's going to have a good story for a fighting game.

All the game sites have given this game a good rating and describe it as "fast paced fun". Seeing as how I don't have a fighting game and this is a fighting game with a lot of characters I love, I would like to get this game soon.

Trauma Center: Under the Knife

Trauma Center is a game that I have seen around, but have pretty much forgotten existed since I got a DS. It looked interesting when I first saw it and has an interesting concept of surgery as a game, although I've just never thought to buy it. I figured I could look into it now since I never actually learned about it before.

I started to read about the plot and realized it was much different than what I expected. I was just expecting a hospital setting with some doctors, but it's actually about a man who had trouble with a surgery. After a patient almost dies because of him, he has to operate on a car crash victim with bad heart injuries. During the operation, the main character unlocks a power within him. This power is the power of a healing touch, also known as Asclepius. This power also takes from his strength to the point of if he uses it to much he will black out. He then has to decide whether to use this power or not use it so he doesn't put a toll on his body. He eventually decides to use it to help out people with a new sickness known as GUILT.

I will say that is a more intricate story than I ever imagined for an operation game. The reception from game reviewers was overall good. I plan on learning more about the gameplay before buying this game, but so far the story looks really good compared to what I thought it would be.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney

This was another game that I never thought I would buy and put it out of my mind until one of my friend's said it wasn't that bad of a game. I decided I might as well look into it just in case it ends up like Professor Layton and the Curious Village where it looks like something I wouldn't want on the outside, but actually looks like a good game.

The gameplay is split into two separate parts which are trial and investigation. In the investigation part, you try to gather as much evidence as possible. While investigating you can do things such as look for blood, dust for fingerprints, or ask people for information or evidence. In the trial part, you try to defend your client with the evidence you gathered. Whether you actually have to know the proper law terms and laws is unclear, but when you make a big enough mistake the judge punishes you and you can only be punished five times before you lose.

This game got overall good ratings. It is criticized for being to linear, although everything else was pulled off well. While this game doesn't seem horrible, I would want to play it before actually commiting to buying it.

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

This game I actually thought was a joke when I first saw it. I instantly dismissed it as a child's game that I need not waste my time looking into. Or at least that's what I thought until my friend told me it actually was a pretty good game. I laughed because I thought it was a joke, but he was serious. So I have decided to look into this game to see if he was right or just thinking of the wrong game.

The first thing that I found out was that this is actually a japanese series and the curious village is actually the fifth one. That kind of surprised me because this game didn't strike me as a japanese game, much less the fifth one in a series of them. The next thing I saw was that the game has 120 puzzles, and you can download new ones if you wanted. That is rather impressive to me. Also there's a reward system for puzzles, which I think I would like. I'm not sure what it is about reward systems, but I just like to get stuff when doing tasks.

Most game sites gave this game a fantastic rating and after looking at a few the only thing I saw that they said was bad about the game was annoying music. So with that many puzzles and the only thing seeming to be bad about this game is the music (which I can turn down my volume no problem), I don't really see a reason not to get this game and I suppose I should stop judging games by their covers.

Puzzle Quest: Galactrix

Another game I found while buying Puzzle Quest was the second one, Puzzle Quest: Galactrix. I wanted to see if this one was just the same game with a different theme or better so I decided to look up info on it.

This game has a space theme instead of a medieval theme, which I find odd since each of those themes are kind of complete opposites. But in this game there are more differences than I thought there would be. For starters it has a hexagonal shape instead of the standard square. It also brings gravity into play, so when you make a move and there's gravity, the new gems fall straight down into play, but if there isn't gravity, then they fall from the way you made your last move. The RPG elements don't necessarily seem better, but they are just as good. You still have the skill system, but now you also get to mine for materials in which you can use to craft things like ships. Along with this there's also many different races you can interact with.

For some reason there's not as much information on this game, but it seems the game sites are having trouble rating it. One gave it a 5 out of 5, while another gave it a 6.5 out of 10. The one that rated it poorly said that you have to "rely on luck as much as skill and the controls are a bit iffy". I don't really know how the controls to a puzzle game can be very "iffy", but that doesn't seem likely. Although I can understand how you would need to rely on luck. Sometimes you just can't get the right gems. Even though the ratings are split, I'm confident in saying I think that this will be a good game.