KINGDOM HEARTS 3 AND FINAL FANTASY XV FOR PLAYSTATION 4?!!!

When I first found out about this last week, I couldn’t tell whether I was laughing or crying.

These two Square Enix video games—Kingdom Hearts 3 and Final Fantasy Versus XIII (which I found out is now titled Final Fantasy XV)—are going to be released for the SONY Playstation 4.  The friggin’ PLAYSTATION 4?!!!  WHUT THE AKSKJFHSGLDK@#*!

 Kingdom Hearts 3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQKhr6s_TXM

 Final Fantasy XV   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3xKbPooKAo

Okay…okay…I am calm.  I must admit, I was hoping that Final Fantasy Versus XIII would still be released for the PS3.  I mean, that is the friggin’ reason why I wanted the PS3 in the first place.  I only have three video games for the PS3: Sonic Generations, Devil May Cry 4, and …uh… used Prince of Persia (2008) that I just bought this past March.  That's all the PS3 games I personally have.  I can play Blu-Ray DVDs on it too (which allows me to watch my #1 favorite movie Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete) and Casshern Sins on Blu-Ray.  My parents also enjoy the Blu-Ray DVDs on occasion, and my dad has his PS3 games.  Maybe some day I’d like to try out DmC: Devil May Cry on the PS3.

So, I am glad that Kingdom Hearts is returning with a real sequel, not to mention that Sora is returning!!!  And I am also happy that the now-titled Final Fantasy XV is continuing development.  I just wish that I foresaw that it wouldn’t make it to what is a “current-gen” console right now, the PS3.

$400 for the PS4 is not so bad; in fact, it’s reasonable.  But the video games for this gaming system are going to be $100 a pop.  Sorta balances out the surprisingly reasonable release price for the console. What I mean to say is, buying the console would cost $500 anyway if you were to also buy a video game along with it.

Well, I am not going to worry about buying the PS4 or Kingdom Hearts 3 or Final Fantasy XV any time too soon.  They won’t be out in a while, and then when they are out, the games should be $20 less and then maybe I’d consider purchasing them.  In the meantime, I‘ve got some other video games I have to finish.  I’ll just name some right off my head:

• Sonic Generations (PS3)
• Sonic Unleashed (Wii)
• Prince of Persia 2008 (PS3)
• Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy (PSP)
• Mega Man X8  (PS2)
• Shadow the Hedgehog (don’t hate me  >X ) (PS2)
• NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams (Wii)

 

They will keep me busy in between my new workdays, I suppose.  Next-gen can definitely wait.

 

Am I Playing Sonic Generations Too Much?

Sigh.  I haven’t touched Dissidia Duodecim: Final Fantasy for maybe a month and a half.  The video games I am playing currently (returning to the most) are Sonic Generations and Sonic Rivals 2.  I should have finished Sonic Generations last year but other things got in the way (my cat’s surgery was a big part of it, but I was also doing some volunteering for work experience).    I lost interest in playing video games for several months.  I actually, lost interest in a log of other things at that time.  Now that life is looking up, some of that “life” in my interests has returned.

When in late March I visited one of my favorite websites, the fan-art galore that is DeviantArt, I came across some interesting Sonic the Hedgehog fan-art, along with fan-art of my other two favorite hedgehogs Shadow and Silver.  Some of the fan-art sparked story ideas in my head that I wanted to write as fan-fiction.  But then soon, I thought, Well I haven’t played Sonic Rivals 2 for a while, and Sonic Rivals 2 is the only Sonic game I have where I could play as Silver. (I don’t have SONIC ’06 and I probably won’t get it or play it ever.  Sad, huh?).  I tried it again and I forgot how much fun it was; I liked the music (it’s not bad, not spectacular like in Sonic Generations), and it can get frustrating but then I laugh when I lose a race or battle.  It’s good light fun.  I can play it in my bedroom or in the living room because it’s on the PSP.  I really enjoy the Acts for the Haunted Mystic Zone, especially the music for Act 2, the battle against Shadow and Silver (that was the story I was playing when I first got to it).

For Sonic Generations, I didn’t touch it since March last year and then once more in November.  Now I’m trying to play it maybe twice a week, when I ‘m not training for my new job and the TV in the den is available.

AT this point I visited both Acts of all the Stages in the game and still need to finish many Challenge games for Act 1 and Act 2.  I defeated Metal Sonic, Shadow, and last week was Silver in their respective Rival Battles.  I beat Silver Rival Battle in Hard Mode on my first try, because by that time I went through so many trial-and-error runs with Normal Mode and got to know Silver’s attack pattern.  So many trial-and-error runs.  So many.

I still need the 3^rd Key to unlock the third Boss, but also in the meantime I will complete the other challenges in order to gain some new Skills for both Sonics.  I gotta say something: I love the music for Planet Wisp Act 2.  It’s been stuck in my head for the last several days.  Now Act 2 (and yes, Act 1 also) are very frustrating, but its music helps me to deal with it.  I also really like the song for Crisis City Act 2 from SONIC '06; I fell in love with that one almost a month ago.  I went to iTunes and had to get the original version from the SONIC ‘06 soundtrack.

How awesome would it be if Sonic could race against either Shadow or Silver in what would be the “Doppelganger” races?  Well, Shadow, yes…but Silver can fly, and that might be cheating :3 so maybe it wouldn’t make sense, but at least with Shadow it would be neat!  Oh well, I guess that is only possible in Sonic Rivals or Sonic Rivals 2.  At least on their feet, unlike in Sonic and SEGA All-Stars Racing/Transformed their they drive vehicles.  That is...what it is.

 

Below is a link to the YouTube video of the music track "Planet Wisp Act 1" from the original Sonic Colors.  I love the version in Sonic Gererations as well, but the guitar bass for this original version is boss.  (I tried to embed the video here but the HTML can't be accepted for some reason).

 

http://youtu.be/eODArFqHbf0     (Sonic Colors "Planet Wisp Act 1" Music)

It's been in constant repeat in my head for the past week!!  I whistle the melody on occasion.  O3O

 

Metal Gear Rising: Revengance is coming!!!!!

Okay, I don’t have a Playstation Move video game controller, but IF I had to buy one eventually, it would be for this very game.  I don’t care if I didn’t play the other video games from the Metal Gear Solid series; I still want to play this game!!

But like DmC: Devil May Cry, I believe I should rent it first.  I want to have that feeling where I can’t wait another day to get back to the game and play some more of it, before I spend money on this thing.  And besides, I don’t think I will be buying any more games for a long while.  Pretty much the games I return to often are Dissidia 012, and uh…Sonic Generations?  And what about Mega Man X8?  I really gotta beat the Normal Mode for MMX 8 because there is supposedly an extended ending for the game if I do.  I don’t know how I’ll do in Hard Mode for that; I don’t got the PATIENCE, man.

I ramble again.  The main reason why I am interested in Metal Gear Rising: Revengance is the fact that Raiden is a bad-ass cyborg, and I just love those kinds of characters, especially when they are the good guys; cyborg or robots.  He is just—awesome!  But man, I don’t know too much about him and his past.  So…oops about that.

I Want to Play Journey…

This video game is just something I don’t think I should miss out on.  Unfortunately it is a PlayStation Network game, not a console game, and I DON’T HAVE A PLAYSTATION NETWORK ACCOUNT.

I’ve known about Journey for a while, and when I first saw videos of it (E3 or some other program like that), I was mesmerized by the desert terrain and the music.  The video game is about a light-weight, cloth-garbed character (which you control) whose story is to go on a journey to reach the mountain with light behind it.  But it is far away.  You can choose how you can get him there; as straight-forward as you want, or stop from time to time to enjoy the sights, explore the terrain or remnants of a village.  You can go alone or if you find another traveler, you may make a companion out of him and journey together.  On PSN, it would be possible to find others playing at the same time, even several players at once.

What is interesting about this game is that there is no spoken dialogue… which is fine, because I think the game doesn’t require a scripted dialogue anyway.  I think it is still possible to communicate with the other travelers.  According to a comment about the video game’s soundtrack on iTunes, you may communicate with Morse Code if you are familiar with it.  This makes me want to learn Morse Code, just to be able to do this… or just because I’m curious.   It is another language to learn.  I mean another alphabet to learn.  Better not make that mistake.

There is hope yet.  I found out that there is a Journey soundtrack available in iTunes, and I put it in my wish-list already so I don’t have to find it later.  I listened to a few music tracks from this album and oh my goodness, the music is so beautiful, I just want to imagine myself travelling around a desert as the background music plays.  I decided to look up this game on Amazon.com and I discovered that there is going to be a video game collection for the PS3, called the Journey Collector’s Edition.  The description on the page says that it includes three full games from thatgamecompany : Journey, Flower, and flOw.  I hope this means that I can play this game without needing to have an account for Playstation Network.

Unless…that just means that whatever parts of the game that had to be downloaded are all included in the game, except—and this kinda breaks my heart—it still might be a one-player game after all if I don’t have the internet on the PS3.  If I wanted to experience other Journey characters, I would have needed to sign up for a PSN account and WiFi this and Internet that, and I just don’t want to deal with that mess.  That’s me, anyway.  So, it turns out that I might make this journey alone.  Hmmm.

I like journey stories.  I have a couple of novels that are journey stories, in which the main character or characters are on a journey to a certain destination, and events and emotions happen along the way that make them grow as a person, and be enlightened and even at peace.  I am drawn to that kind of stuff.  Even Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy was a journey, in a way.  It was certainly an adventure.  So the video game Journey is—what can I say—the very journey game I’ve been waiting for?

You can find a trailer of Journey Collector’s Edition on this Amazom.com webpage.  It is located under the image for the product.   Here's the link: Journey Collector's Edition

The PlayStation 3 has ARRIVED!!! Plus+: Female Protagonists

Neat! We don’t have to worry about switching memory cards anymore because the software will save the game data to the PS3’s hard-drive. It’s the 120 GB Slim version that came in a bundle with a Blu-Ray Player Remote Control and—what I didn’t expect—a Greatest Hits copy of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. Hmmm… My dad started playing it, but I might give it a try sooner or later for myself.  After setting the PS3 up to the new TV set, he wanted to try out the Resident Evil 5 that he already bought some time ago. Wow, so this is what a PS3 can do: show every stubble hair on Chris Redfield’s chin.

I’m still debating within myself whether I should first buy Bayonetta or Devil May Cry 4. Final Fantasy XIII will have to wait (I don’t have the patience for another JRPG now). But I’ve never played a video game where the main protagonist was female, not even Lara Croft Tomb Raider.  And no I did not playgames in the Metroid series either.  Nope.  But…there was that Aliens arcade game, the one with the face-huggers.  And that was a first-person-shooter. Hmmm, think back, think back… But nope, females were side characters; there’s Arcia from Chaos Legion, which I got to play in only one stage while Sieg Warheit had to rest.  In Final Fantasy XII  I control Vaan in the cities, but during travelling and battles I can have Fran, Ashe, or Penelo as temporary leaders of the party.  For a female leader I almost aways choose Fran... for, um, certain reasons.  Otherwise it's Balthier or Vaan.

I’ve thought about Heavenly Sword, but…maybe I’ll rent that one. In terms of an action title with a female protagonist, Bayonetta is first on my list.  So…Bayonetta or DMC 4?  Meanwhile, I have a demo of FF XIII in the Final Fantasy VII: ACC Blu-Ray DVD that I can try out if I want to get a feel for it.  Within the next month, anyway.

Still waiting…

Sigh. I’m still waiting for that PS3. My parents are waiting too—they want it for the built-in Blu-Ray player. My guess is that stores will start selling them in the summer. Perhaps selling them with that new “Sony PS3 Move” motion controller, whatchimacallit. It should be coming up in the E3 shows in June. I’ll let my parents know to DON’T GIVE UP, Sony will probably re-release the PS3 as they release the new Wii-mote-like controller. Hahh, I don’t like the idea. But I’m patient. The Mega Man X Collection and  Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X will keep me busy.

Second Upgrade…to PlayStation 3!!!

Me?  On HD?  But my face is dirty, and my pores

are gonna show!  Do you really wanna see that?

I just...

I wanted a PlayStation 3. My parents want Blu-Ray. So we compromised. The PS3 plays Blu-Ray already, since it was first released in Winter 2006.

     So now we have the right TV set for it, but for a while there seems to be a major shortage of PS3s in my neighborhood.  Sold out.   I even went to Amazon.com and bought Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete [Blu-Ray] already (OKAY, Tetsuya Nomura, you win, you’ve got my money, now don’t do another director’s cut of my favorite movie of all time or I will be vewwwy angwwy).

     I already know that the first game I am going to buy for the PS3 is Devil May Cry 4. I really enjoyed DMC3, and here I get to play newcomer Nero. As much as I wanna get Bayonetta and Final Fantasy XIII, I will wait until they cost less, cuz they were just released earlier this year (Bayonetta in early January and FFXIII in early March). DMC4 is going to be the second rated-M game I ever played, the first one being DMC3.  Now that I have the Mega Man X Collection and MMX8 and MMX: Command Mission, I am gonna have to wait a long time to get a second PS3 game.

     High Definition Cloud Strife....mmmmmmm......