Juggling the budget

Being that I'm in the process of moving to a new job (my old boss pirated me over to her new employer, long story) and my pay is currently being held, I've decided to limit my game spending for October (which is normally very, very fucking high) to four games max. Since I have 10 games on my DO WANT list, I have to make some tough decisions regarding what I want right now and what I can get later on.


I can count on my loving girlfriend to get me one free game for my birthday (which conveniently enough, comes in October), so naturally being the practical, caring person I am, I'll get her to buy me the most expensive one.

Knowing Datablitz and Mr. Dynamic's predatory, unkind business practices as well as I do, I fully expect that that most expensive game will be Uncharted 2 (those fuckers will charge us as much as they want, and we're all going to pay them anyway, so...)

OK, scratch one. Three to go! Total money spent: Php 3,200... oh wait. Zero!

Next: I played the Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo, and was kind of underwhelmed. It was fun enough, but the camera was just as bad as I remember from the X360 version (although the graphics really improved a lot, I must say.) I still want to get it, but I don't need it right now. (The Mr. Dynamic lady texted me a while ago that they had copies of the R3, but they were selling it for 2,950. Taga, grabe.)

So I'll be getting Brutal Legend instead, on Rocktober 13th.


It will cost me probably 2,195 or so, since it's an EA Singapore game, and will probably net me a free T-Shirt. It will also most probably be better than NGS2, and therefore earns the BUY NOW slot NGS2 previously occupied.

Since I'm not really liking how Brutal Legend's multiplayer looks though (mukhang RTS lite siya, which I'm not good at, at ALL) I need something to feed my multiplayer cravings when the Uncharted 2 servers inevitably jam up.


And for that I will buy Borderlands.

This is easily my most anticipated game of this year, as I'm an absolute sucker for games that let you grind for loot. Combined with Gearbox Software's expertise at creating FPS content in general, I'm fully expecting this to absolutely blow me away. Even if titles published by 2K Games tend to sell for full price over here (probably 2,950) I'm more than willing to get wallet-raped in order to play this.


And lastly, I'll get NBA 2K10 (of course), which is another wallet-molester, but since I'm splitting the bill with my brother again I only expect to pay half of its tag price, which I fully expect to be around 3 kyaw.

Total spent: 2,950 (Borderlands) + 1,500 (NBA 2K10) + 2,195 (Brutal Legend) + Free (Uncharted 2) = Php 6,645.00 total cash out.

That's not so bad! Maybe I can still buy Ratchet and Cla.... OK, John, just shut up, now.

The Last Guardian!

Check this link out, boys and girls.

I absolutely loved ICO on the PS2. It was short, and there wasn't much replay value, but what there was absolutely blew my mind. Which is why I'm really big over these latest screens (and HD video!) from The Magic Box (one of the best sites for getting good screens of upcoming games, BTW). It looks a lot closer to the first game in the ICO "trilogy" - Shadow of the Colossus, while a great game in its own right, just felt so different from the thoughtful, measured nature of ICO.

All this talking about Fumito Ueda's magnum opus makes me want to dig out my old copy and fire up the old PS2. I'll get around to it later, I guess. :-)

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves MP Demo

So I came home from work today. Walang lakad, so I changed clothes, smoked a couple cigarettes to relax, then fired up the PS3 (I tend to use the PlayStation to surf the net when I just wanna do some light surfing, as that way I don't have to turn on the PC/laptop. Yeah, I'm lazy, I know.) Much to my shock, one of the top stories on Destructoid read:

"Uncharted 2 Demo Available For All"

HOLY SHIIIIIIIIT.

I checked my friends list and sure enough, a LOT of people were playing Uncharted 2 Beta. I promptly logged on to the US PSN account and started the DL. Oh yeah! I'll leave the PS3 on overnight if I have to so I can wake up to a faceful of Uncharted 2 goodness! I'll also post some impressions tommorow... that is, if I can tear myself away from the PS3.

Rhugged and Rox_Ira, if you're reading this, RUNDON'TWALK to your PS3's and download the game data ASAP. In the immortal words of Bruce Buffer.... IT'S TIME! :-)

Re: Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days

Just when my brother was ranting about no RPG's being available to play on either PS3 or Nintendo DS, Romulation comes to the rescue with the new Kingdom Hearts!!! Yeah boy!

After I figured out how to get it running on an EDGE card, I immediately gave it a spin. It's pretty cool so far, certainly more simple than the PS2 installments but still addictive. (When I managed to pry myself away from the DS, I realized that I'd been playing for three hours. WTF.)

It also made me long for the first two games in the series, super nostalgia trip. (I'm looking for a download link for Utada's "Simple & Clean -Orchestral Version" - you know, the one that plays during the ending.)

Squeenix, if you can't give us goddamn Kingdom Hearts III on the PS3, at least give us a compilation of the first two games on Blu-Ray disc (ala God of War Collection).

The fans will pay! :-)

EDIT: Having played through a lot of KH358/2D, I can definitely say that this doesn't hold a candle to the PS2 installments. The new Panel skills and abilities system is cool and addictive, but the gameplay is so simplistic and one note. It also doesn't help that there aren't very many cool Disney cameos to look out for; when they do pop up, the dialogue is incredibly boring and generic. It may be Aladdin and Jasmine talking in Agrabah, yeah, but their conversation could just as well have been carried out by Generic RPG Villagers # 1 and # 2.

What a crushing disappointment. :-(

Last (Wo)Man Standing

Final Fantasy XIII is finally getting released this Christmas (albeit in Japanese), many, many years after being announced.

Think about that for a second, and reflect on how long it’s been. Flashback time!

Yeah, the PS2 had some truly great JRPG's, including my favorite RPG of all time, Persona 3: FES. Also pictured: Squeenix/Level-5's amazing Dragon Quest VIII.

During the time of its initial reveal, the JRPG genre was a shining bastion of gaming. It was easily one of the most populous genres of the PlayStation 2 era, and the 128-bit generation played host to some of the best examples of the genre ever. Allow me to list but a few: Persona 3 and 4, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Star Ocean: Until The End of Time, Final Fantasy X, Skies of Arcadia, Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Dragon Quest VIII, Dark Cloud 2, this list goes on and on, friends.

D’AWWWWWW. Aren’t those memories warm and fuzzy? Yeah, the mid to late PS2 era was a fantastic time to be an RPG nerd. Amid all this greatness, Square decided to drop the bomb on us all: the FFXIII trailer, more popularly known in gaming circles at the time as HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT DID YOU SEE THAT. Yeah, Final Fantasy XIII dropped the jaws of everybody who saw the quote unquote “in-game footage”, and convinced many Squeenix nerds to plop down their cash for a PS3 right then and there. In the minds of many, Square Enix was definitely going to continue dominating this JRPG shit for many years to come, and the genre that emo bastard Cloud Strife brought to mass-market prominence was as vibrant and alive as ever.

… or so we thought.

Fast forward 5 years. Final Fantasy XIII finally descends from its isolated development chamber in the heavens. It lost its console exclusivity on the way, and its graphics look a little crappier than the target video, but for the most part FFXIII is pretty much intact. However, it will touch down in an environment which has changed drastically since the time it left – the genre basically died on the vine during the next gen era, as for some inexplicable reason JRPG releases came few and far between. I distinctly remember getting my PS3 and looking for an RPG, any RPG, to play – and all I could find was Oblivion (though that actually turned out to be a good decision).

Why did this happen? Were 360 and PS3 install bases too small to justify mammoth JRPG-sized budgets? Are sales really that poor nowadays for our downtrodden plucky heroes and their sad little random encounters? (While Tales of Vesperia on 360 sold well in Japan, medyo linangaw daw yung American version, which in turn explains why we’re not getting Vesperia PS3 this Christmas.) Even on Xbox 360, the JRPG content has been mostly mediocre – The Last Remnant? Infinite Undiscovery? What the fuck? It can be argued that the only truly great JRPG to come out of this generation has been Mistwalker’s Lost Odyssey (directed by former FF honcho Hironobu “The Gooch” Sakaguchi) and even that didn’t sell all that well.

(Yes, I know full well that SEGA's Valkyria Chronicles is really fucking awesome, but that’s not an JRPG in the traditional sense – it’s more of a strategy RPG and not a classical, boy-from-quaint-fishing-village-gets-into-a-couple-thousand-random-encounters-then-saves-the-world sort of thing).

So what’s the point of this long and self-indulgent rant?

I’m saying that there’s a LOT riding on the success of Final Fantasy XIII. We’ve seen a lot of pretty video and stills, but we haven’t seen any substantial gameplay featurettes. Will it be a big mainstream success like Final Fantasy X? Or will it be a divisive, love-it-or-hate-it game like its predecessor Final Fantasy XII? The onus is on FFXIII to prove that the genre is not dead, that with the right gameplay innovations and some flashy graphics and sound you can still make money off what is essentially the same old formula. In short, Lightning needs to knock that shit out of the park this winter (and next spring) to keep the dream alive (as I’m sure the dev costs on that game were astronomical, and a lot of copies need to be sold just for them to break even). After all, if Square can’t win, paano pa kaya yung mga mas maliit na developer?

But let me play devil’s advocate for a moment. To the all the PS2 era RPG nerds out there: when you really think about it, aren’t you still having fun with your PS3 or 360 right now? Didn’t you keep on playing console games even after the flow of JRPG’s died to a trickle? I know I did. I took my Certified RPG Nerd Card, stuffed it carefully in my wallet for safekeeping, and played stuff like Uncharted and Call of Duty. I'm still a gamer, after all, and I can scratch that gaming itch by playing other genres.

Wow, ang puti ng legs. :-D

Still, although my breathless anticipation for FFXIII has decreased quite a bit, I’m still going to buy a copy of Final Fantasy XIII when it comes out in English, for old time's sake. I still have plenty of love and sentimentality for the old veteran, and I’m sure a lot of you will, too.

What I’m really asking you is this: if FFXIII fails to revive the JRPG market, how many of us will even care? Will we just shrug our collective shoulders and log on to Modern Warfare 2? I certainly hope not... if it does though, I'll always have my memories.

....and Persona 5 for PS3 (hope, hope)! :-)

2D Mode!

Since I’m too lazy to do full-blown reviews of the lower-profile games I recently acquired (especially with the reviews I have lined up for several prominent members of my 2009 Empty Pockets list) I’m going to do a quick run through for a couple of each in paragraph form, not following the established pinoyps.com review format. Hope they help you out!

For today’s post I’ll cover a couple of fighters, doing (semi)quick hits of KOFXII (R1) and Blazblue (R1).

The King of Fighters XII (R1)

I’m sad to admit that this is just as bad as advertised, and possibly worse – no wonder stores everywhere are slashing the price on this. The graphics are pretty solid, as the animation is excellent despite things looking a little grainy here and there. But while SNK deserves applause for sticking to traditional 2D dot animation, developing KOF12’s graphics old school style seems to have taken a heavy toll: this game just feels totally unfinished in every other way. I’ll break it down for you:

There’s no story to speak of, just a vague dream match setup with no explanations whatsoever. The character list is quite small by KOF standards, and if you don’t force yourself to play as characters you don’t like, you’ll be getting really bored real quick as you’ll find yourself using the same guys. In addition, the traditional mega-hard SNK last boss is curiously absent, likely due to time constraints for doing his unique animations. You fight five teams, the game calculates your time, that’s a wrap. Kind of dry, don’t you think? Now, those flaws might still be sort of forgivable, but SNK forgot to mention that they absolutely gutted the movelists! Some characters have, I kid you not, ONE offensive move. I mean, what the hell am I supposed to do with one fucking move? A lot of charas also only have one super now, and the pyrotechnics for connecting with a super are much less flashy and “solid” feeling than before. Lastly, as per usual with KOF, there’s nothing much to unlock except a sad little art gallery with very little new content – there’s almost no incentive to play solo.

Offline: Absolutely terrible.

The online was totally unplayable before the patch (which, by the way, is close to a full gig in size) and is STILL semi-unplayable after the patch. The game moves at a molasses like pace when quick matching with people; post patch I was able to get one semi-decent fight out of five against random opponents. I haven’t tried playing versus a fellow PPSXer because I can never seem to catch anybody playing it online (the only one who has it seems to be AngryOnion, and he’s always playing Street Fighter IV); some people have said it’s much faster, but I haven’t been able to verify this.

Online: 2 Steps Below Absolutely Terrible. (What do you call something like that? Abysmal? Execrable?)

Overall: Mind-bendingly bad. I give this a 0.5 out of 5. This game is absolutely embarrassing, and the only way you could make it worse is if it also gave you AIDS. (BTW, take note of this. I didn’t pay much to get this game, as I got it in a trade in which I added cash… and yet I still thought it was a huuuge waste of money. Paano pa kaya kung binili mo to brand new? Ang sakit nun.)

Blazblue (R1)

I don’t know what I was thinking, buying Blazblue. (R1 pa!) I’m not good at Arc System Works fighting games, as I’ve always been a Street Fighter man. Siguro kinati lang ako because the DataBlitz lady (Ate Cris) told me that it was the last copy they had in stock.

OK, hmmm, so how do I say this?

On the one hand, I can appreciate its excellence, as anybody who spends even a little time with this game will readily see... pinaghirapan tong larong to. The gameplay is sound, to be sure: the fighting is extremely fast, the animation is superb, the movelists are long and take a lot of learning, and the character designs are appealing and fresh. And take note: the online fighting is the FASTEST I have ever experienced, as BB exhibited next to no lag whatsoever during my entire playtime – and I was playing against Americans! NO LAG, against people on the other side of the world! Amazing and very impressive. Extras are also very robust: there’s a story mode for each of the major characters to play through, complete with voice. There’s also cool, distinctly Japanese sidestories (presented in “chibi”, super-deformed mode, no less) you can unlock that serve to flesh out the world and the characters even more.

So why then did I trade my copy away, just a week later, for an R3 copy of Red Faction Guerilla and a half kyaw?

I guess I just don’t have the time and patience to totally relearn a fighting game anymore. And when I say relearn I mean master the movelists (how to use and how to defend against) for a bunch of unknown characters from the ground up. As I’ve stated, I don’t really play Guilty Gear so the “feel” of this game is pretty alien to me, and with the list of playable characters being very small (less than KOF XII, even) I got bored with the fighting pretty fast… I just didn’t have the patience to get the most out each character. I know BB is an excellent game (the number and activity level of the hardcore types crowding the PPSX Blazblue thread is testament to that) but it’s just not my type of game, not any more.

Overall: I won’t be giving this a score, as it would be unfair to grade it low just because I bought a game that I wasn’t even sure I really wanted. If you really like the Guilty Gear style and find the act of “studying” a new fighting game fun, buy this without fail as it’s technically one of the best fighting games your money can currently buy. If you’re like me though and prefer being able to just jump in and kick ass without thinking too much, I’d suggest borrowing muna to see if it’s your thing.

Empty Pockets 2009

I hope this doesn't come off as a little trite for a first post (message boards the world over have discussed this topic, or some variant thereof, ad nauseaum) but I just really wanted to share my thoughts on this year's crop of classics. As you can see, the Christmas Rush has already begun, and while this time of year is really hard on my wallet (last year I blew almost 20 large on freaking videogames, no joke. 20 FUCKING LARGE! That's just stupid, I know.), it also makes me really happy knowing that almost every time I go to Datablitz there's going to be something cool on the shelf to check out. (Thankfully DB seems to be caving to the increased competition from Mr. Dynamic and is pricing their games lower, as well as buying more cheap R3 stock instead of flooding the market with R1.) This year looks to be more manageable though, as a lot of AAA games seem to have retreated into 2010, wanting to avoid the unstoppable sales juggernaut that is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Which means my list is a lot easier to write! Joy for me.

Anyway, I'm getting off track here. Without further ado, I bring you the PS3-only version of...

Empty Pockets 2009(tm).





Number 10: Band Hero

Don't throw rocks at meee. Please?

Yeah, I know it's popular to sneer at Band Hero because it's full of pop as opposed to the riff-heavy selections that Guitar Hero and Rock Band have thus far offered up. But after playing through RB1 again recently, I came to the realization that that familiarity is exactly what I'm looking for. Whether playing solo or (especially) when friends are over to hang out, it's a lot more fun for everybody when the audience can sing along with the song you're playing. Beatles Rock Band might have already accomplished that, to a certain extent, but I want to play through an "instrument" game where me and all of my guests can just jam and sing along with whoever's playing, having a couple beers and enjoying the day.


Number 9: Tekken 6

I swore to myself I would avoid Tekken 6 like the plague. After all, I already have Tekken 5 Dark Resurrection Online, and it's not like part 6 is going to play much different. I've played it at the arcade, and it's just... um, Tekken. It's fun, and familiar, but I definitely wasn't sure I want to spend Php 2,400.00 on it.

Plus, I've always been kind of mediocre at Tekken, my Namco fighting game specialty being the Soul Calibur series. My fellow PPS members rhugged (my cousin) and rox (my former officemate) would likely beat me into the ground if we ever played a serious game. The trophy list will definitely have some kind of "Win XXX Games" achievement on it that I will never, ever be able to get, so I won't even get a Platinum out of my purchase.

So why is it on my Top 10 list?

I like Namco's fighting games because there's always a lot of crap to do offline, and they generally give you significant value for money. You don't need to train hard and become a total bad-ass at the game to have fun with their shit, because you can just enjoy the various offline modes Namco rarely fails to offer. Play through the story mode to unlock movies? Collect costume bodyparts to finally create a borderline psychopathic S&M nymphomaniac version of Lili? Invite some non-hardcore friends over to relive that venerable college dorm-room sport, Drunk Tekken(tm)?




Number 8: Brutal Legend

I definitely had to include this game on my list for several reasons.

1. It's a Tim Schafer game. This man is a legend, making some of my favorite games of all time.

Psychonauts! Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis! Full Throttle! Day of the Tentacle! Grim Fandango!
(Yeah, I used to be a big PC nerd, especially when it comes to adventure games.)

Yet recently the games he releases have been criminally underappreciated by the buying public, despite getting great reviews. Therefore I felt I needed to do my part to big his latest game up.

2. It actually looks really good. You can read Destructoid's preview here.

3. It's an EA game, so mura lang dito sa Pinas. Brutal Legend will probably sell for Php 2,195 to 2,150, like every other EA Singapore release at Datablitz (due to their being the official EA distributor locally). Easier on my wallet, which is always a good thing.

(Author's note: I'm not employed by Datablitz, nor am I shilling for them in any way.)



Number 7:
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2

Jesus Christ, that image probably set the record for the most exploitative picture I've ever used in a blog post.

I'ma get the obligatory boob joke out of the way right out front para matapos na -

"That's the breast NGS2 screenshot I've ever seen!"

Nyeeeee. Corny.

Anyway, besides the massive gazongas, the first Ninja Gaiden Sigma was one of the most legitimately challenging games I've ever played. I may not be the most proficient gamer in some genres (cough *racing* double cough *puzzle*) but I pride myself on my ability to finish even the most difficult action games, and the call of NGS2 and its sure-to-be ridiculous level of difficulty is a siren call I can't resist. Plus they (reportedly) fixed the incredibly broken camera from the 360 version! Sounds like something I want.

Also, boobs.



Number 6: NBA 2K10

I pretty much have no choice but to include 2K on this list.

I mean, since I got my PS3, it's the only game series our family buys year in and year out. Me and my brother split the bill on the latest edition of NBA 2K every year, and it's never let us down yet - the total playtime we accumulate over the year it spins in our disc drive puts to shame even massive RPG epics like Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition.

Being their tenth anniversary game, I was fully expecting this year's edition to be a substantial upgrade over the last, and it seems that 2K Sports has come through in that respect (here's the link to the Operation Sports preview that you should totally read, if you haven't already). I've heard rumblings that NBA Live 10 is going to be significantly improved over last year's model (having pirated one of the main guys from the 2K franchise to work on the EA game) but EA Sports has promised that before and let me down pretty badly. So until proven otherwise, I'm endorsing the proven winner and old reliable, NBA 2K10.

Remember Ric Flair's words, EA: "To be the man, ya gotta beat the man."


Number 5:
Uncharted 2 - Among Thieves

Nathan Drake's first adventure is still one of my favorite games on the system, and the first recommendation out of my mouth whenever one of my friends picks up a new PS3. It brought cinematic flair, a happy summer action movie vibe, great dialogue, fun gameplay, and an amazingly colorful, bright world that, to this day, makes it stand out so much when compared to Gears of War, Killzone 2 and their other gray compatriots.

Needless to say, I would've bought this game even if all it offered was more of the same. Hell, after I first watched the E3 trailer, very large "SOLD!" signs were already running through my head. But what's that you say, Sony? You're going to let us ALL play the multiplayer portion of Uncharted 2 for free?

Bald-faced lies, indeed, Joystiq. Bald-faced lies. Hahahahaha!


Number 4:
Ratchet and Clank Future - A Crack In Time

Just look at that picture, man. It's fucking priceless! :-D

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

The Ratchet and Clank series is like an old pillow that's comfortable and familiar - you change the pillow case every so often to keep things fresh, but the underlying soft pillowiness of it stays the same, day after day. As has been made quite obvious in recent screenshots, this game looks a whoooole lot better than R&CF: Tools of Destruction, and they seem to have made some constructive (but still relatively minor) changes to the gameplay we all know and love.

They'd better be minor, Insomniac. You just don't fuck with Ratchet and Clank.


Number 3:
Dragon Age Origins

Bioware is a truly amazing RPG company. They are, for my money, the best Western role-playing developer in the world, (followed closely by Bethesda Softworks, developer of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion) having been responsible for classics like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (XB/PC), Planescape: Torment (PC) and Baldur's Gate II (PC); they are also one of the few developers in the world that I would buy a game from, without knowing if it was any good, based on their track record alone. So why is it that now, while they're in the process of releasing the spiritual sequel to Baldur's Gate on current generation consoles, that nobody seems to give a shit?

I certainly hope that the role playing gamer contingent on consoles hasn't greatly reduced in number since the Square Enix heyday, but is merely hibernating. Ever since the death of the JRPG (or rather, its general migration to the Nintendo DS), I've noticed that a lot of Final Fantasy nerds decided to just stop playing RPG's altogether instead of trying out their Western counterparts (due to their more free-form, less hand-holding style).

My fellow RPG dorks, if you can suffer through crap like the Last Remnant and Infinite Undiscovery just because they're JRPG's, you can spend a couple of hours to play through what will most probably be a shining Western example of the genre. (Authors note: There are rumblings that the PS3 version could be technically inferior. Watch this space for updates on that.)




Number 2:
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Number of hours I spent playing Modern Warfare 1's story mode: Approximately 12 action-packed hours.

Number of hours I spent playing Modern Warfare 1 online: I don't even want to think about it.

Infinity Ward's much-awaited return isn't going to be missed by too many people, you know? I mean, it's only the direct sequel to the best FPS ever made. (Yeah, I said it.) Other games like Killzone 2 may have bettered IW's legendary shooter in terms of visuals, but none have managed to best it in terms of gameplay.

This is the ultimate no-brainer purchase. I'll be playing it, and a whole crapload of other jerks on your friends list are going to be playing it. Join the club, buddy.

Unless, of course, you're playing...





Number 1: Borderlands

If you don't know what this game is, and why it's my most awaited game of this year, you're forgiven. 2K Games hasn't exactly done the best job of publicizing this baby.

That said, watch this, please.

Are we clear now? Good.

Role-Playing Shooter - Gearbox Software's excellent FPS pedigree mixed with Diablo style loot whoring and statistics?

Awesome graphics - It's not "cel shaded" in the traditional sense. It looks fucking hand painted, but in 3D!

Four-player co-op - Enough said.

Just give it a try, boys and girls. If they're smart enough to release a demo, maybe they can help old hardcore types like myself change a couple more minds.

Press Start

Alright.... here goes nothing.

My first shot at a blog! (Credits to yazmat from pinoyps for giving me this idea in the first place. Writing is fun!) I'm jnlxandr, huge gamer and sometime pinoyps.com review guy. Forgive me if my work comes off as a little rough at first as I'm new at this blogging stuff.

First off, I'd like to declare that while this blog will mostly be talking about Sony stuff (in particular the PS3 as that's my current-gen console of choice), and I realize that a lot of my traffic will probably come from PPS, I'll sometimes talk about other gaming-related stuff I find interesting that's not necessarily Sony-related. This is a gaming blog, after all. :-)

Cheers! On with the show, then.

EDIT: I also decided to put links to all of my earlier reviews on PinoyPS.com here on this maiden blog post, just so that people who want to read my older stuff can check it all out from a single location.

Batman: Arkham Asylum
InFamous
Soul Calibur IV
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Street Fighter IV
Valkyria Chronicles
Resistance 2
Prince of Persia
Dead Space
Mirror's Edge
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battlecars
Saints Row 2
Fallout 3
Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
Disgaea 3
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction
Dynasty Warriors 6 (Shin Sangoku Musou 5)
LittleBigPlanet (Non-GotY Edition)


Peace out!

- John