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Wednesday, Jul 22, 2009

So, I finished Sonic and the Black Knight, and MAN was it sort! Seriously, the game took me about five hours! There's not a whole lot of replay value in it either. With everything else, though, I stand by what I said before. The Motion Controls aren't always responsive, but everything else about the game is great. Great level design, great concept, and great bosses (except for the two uncreative final bosses). Despite the games supposively game-breaking flaws, I had fun with the game and I ultimately enjoyed it. If you're ok with somewhat unresponsive controls and a really short game, I'd definitly recommend it to you.

(tl;dr: it's a great game, but don't play it if you don't like sort games or Wii games that use waggle a lot)

I also recently picked up Stars Wars: the Force Unleashed for the 360. For those who don't know about it, take your standard straight-up action game, add Star Wars to it, and you have this game. In the SW universe, it takes place between episode III and IV. The game got mixed reviews, some praising it for its use of Star Wars in general, while other giving it lower scores for being somewhat buggy. Because of this, I decided to wait until it dropped in price to play it. Surprisingly, it's actually a solid game. I'm loving the battle system and kind of disliking it at the same time. To start out with, the battle system is just really fun. Getting to wield a Lightsaber in full force in a video game is awesome, and then getting to use the force along with it just doubles the awesomeness. However, it can get repetive and shallow fairly fast. In that sense, the combat gives me a Fable II-ish vibe at times, were it's fun, but it's not very deep. Also, this game feels incredibly Star Wars-ish. The whole story and feel of the game just screams "Star Wars". However, like the Clone Wars series, the story doesn't seem all that important to Star Wars as a franchise in the first place. But I still really like it as a standalone story. The only other problem that I have with the game is that it doesn't always tell you exactly were to go, so you have to look around every once in a while. But the game's pretty linear so it doesn't happen as often as in, say, Condemned 2. Overall, it's a really fun game, and I'm happy I got it.

(tl;dr: It can get somewhat repetitive, but it's ultimately a lot of fun)

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Posted by GamerJM, 9:26pm
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I really enjoyed the daytime levels in that one Sonic game that released just before Black Knight, but the combat at night was literally painful for me. I was afraid to try Black Knight after that.
Posted Jul 22, 2009 9:50 pm PT
lol I've only heared bad things about that game xD
Posted Jul 23, 2009 1:12 am PT
Like I mentioned, I sort of enjoyed Secret Rings but can't bring myself to try Sonic Unleashed or this Black Knight game. And The Force Unleashed was an interesting idea, I guess, but I didn't really enjoy it.
Posted Jul 23, 2009 7:16 am PT
Stars Wars: the Force Unleashed DLC Jedi Temple is 1/2 off this week 400ms points instead of 800.
Posted Jul 23, 2009 8:18 am PT
When I saw the title of your blog I thought it was going be about how both Star War and Sonic started out great, but are now laughing stocks
Posted Jul 23, 2009 10:08 am PT
@GD: Well, as I said in my last blog post, I liked Black Knight more than Unleashed (the game you're refering to), but not as much as Secret Rings (the Sonic game that came out on the Wii near its launch).
@Kingrich: Yeah, I noticed that too. I was tempted to get it, as it seemed like a pretty good deal compared to some other DLC packs, but I don't think I'd ever get around to playing it.
Posted Jul 23, 2009 11:01 am PT
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