Friday, January 14, 2011

3rd Birthday (PSP) Impressions

By Square Enix
Time Played: 40 Minutes
Format: Strategic Shooting Action

Woah!  I wasn't expecting this to be this good!  I wasn't expecting it to be bad, but my hopes were pretty low set by Square of the past 5-10 years.  This is a tight little action game!  Here's how it goes, it's basically the same set up as the also Square-Enix out this month in US Mindjack.

Aya is in some machine that sends her back in time to New York City a year ago as it is promptly getting fucked up by tentacles tree trunks (TTTs).  She's sent back in time to random bodies.  Your weapons carry over between bodies, which are instantly switched with a tap of the triangle.  If your body dies you have about a half second to hit the triangle button and zoom to the next dude.  The cannon fodder enemies so far are a bandersnatch (RE:CV) and a Primeval Demon (Demon's Souls).  Neither are very interesting to fight.  The boss fights have been pretty entertaining.  One was a teleporting slug that I had to use my Super Attack (that refills noticably everytime you shoot something) to be able to damage, and a big monster that first time around required shooting it in the head with "crossfire". 

Crossfire is holding triangle down while a bar fills up and then hitting fire (square) to have you and the other human vessels in the area to attack at the same time for massive damage.   While you have limited ammo, most of the human vessels are National Guard and have unlimited machine guns.  So you need to position the vessels so that they don't die, can shoot.

So you need to keep jacking acrossing the field shooting the big thing, waiting for your super bar to get filled to GET EXCELLENT. If you hit the big thing at the right time with enough fire power a Triangle appears over it.  Hitting triangle I think you mind attack the beast-monster for massive damage.

It's a little bit Monster Hunter, It's a little bit Demon's Souls, It's a little bit Japan does cover shooters.  I'm excited to see where it goes.  If it starts demanding I bring it I will be impressed.  As it is you have a somewhat infinite supply of vessels coming in if your vessels die.  I haven't run out of vessels, but I haven't lost all of them in short order.

Debating now between buying the Japan version, or waiting until it comes out here.  Does it come out here?

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