I still think Crisis Core is a good game. Gameplay wise it was fun, the music was great, presentation was excellent but its an SE title so, And while the story has its flaws when you're not looking at it in a completely negative light, its good overall.
The Zack and Angeal scene was really emotional with context. And I do feel like they did Zack justice. He felt like a real person, we got to see him at his best and his worst, and how he dealt with all the bullshit going on around him. I like the focus they put into Sephiroth too, dude just wanted to be with his friends but they're all off doing weird shit while he's stuck feeling alone, and then he went apeshit on Niblehiem.
edited 5th May '14 8:30:31 PM by Azure
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850I know the context. But the goofy writing kinda... dulled the impact. A lot.
But Genesis. Genesis singlehandledly killed that game. And the retcons, but Genesis caused most of the retcons, so Genesis. Yeah, their take on Sephiroth was interesting (to where I actually don't mind either version of them), and Zack was fleshed out pretty well considering he had two minutes of screentime in the original game, and Angeal could have been interesting too if they had just put more effort into him, and I can excuse a lot of gameplay flaws if I'm invested enough in the story (case in point, Mass Effect), but... dear god, that writing. And the retcons. And GENESIS.
Crisis Core could have been so good, but.. guhhhhhh.
Also, the materia fusion was bullshit, and I found a lot of the inventory fiddling and whatnot rendered moot by just running behind stuff and getting criticals. That, and Costly Punch.
Dirge had nothing going for it. At all.
edited 5th May '14 8:35:20 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon AlchemistFeh. Just beef up his health a bunch with the thingy.
Either way... I'm almost sort of more mad at CC than Dirge, because CC had all the potential to be good and still wound up bad. Which hurts a lot more than Dirge. Dirge had a nine year-old love interest. There was no way anything good was going to come of that game, and it lived up to my nonexistent expectations spectacularly.
@Duffy: It is not Gackt's fault that Tetsuya Nomura needs to keep his fanboy shit the fuck away from the games he makes, no.
@Trip: I can't find your post.
edited 5th May '14 8:43:15 PM by GameSpazzer
MY SOUL IS DARK BUT MY HAIR IS COLORFUL — Brahian Pokémon Alchemistinb4 john green jokes
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i read part of the start, then skipped to the end because it was boring a while back
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