Saturnalian wrote:
1. The Evil Within (PS4).
2. Rogue Legacy (PS Vita & PS4).
3. Far Cry 4 (PS4)
4. Transistor (PS4)
I'm going to have a crack at the story since I thought it was supposed to be sorta confusing. Red is a singer. The bad guys wanted to assassinate her. They try but instead of killing her they stab her lover with the transistor sword. Apparently this sword can control this thing called The Process which builds stuff for the occupants of the city who all, presumably, live somewhere a bit like in the matrix and The Matrix, I mean, The Process changes stuff like the colour of the sky, buildings, blah blah. It's God, init.
So after attempting to stab Red and missing completely, the bad guys happen to just leave this magic sword stuck in her lovers gut. This is a massive oversight for these genius bad guys cause without the sword The Matrix goes nuts and starts deleting the city.
The sword is so awesome that it can absorb people's spirits. The sword starts taking to you and within, oh, all of 3 seconds I clocked that the voice coming out the sword was the voice of the dead lover. IT WAS STUCK IN HIS GUT AND RECOGNISES YOU, who the fuck else is it going to be?
You then battle through some very pretty but pretty dull environments fighting robots. The fighting is pretty ok until about 2/3rds of the way through you absorb the soul of some rugby player and snaffle this move that throws the robots into the air. It's a game breaking move since no fight beyond this point is very hard because this move - combined with the sword move - basically fucks everyone up. To be fair, it was pretty good mixing up the combinations of moves from the different souls and creating new moves and variants on old moves but after this you basically stop trying cause you've got the killer move.
Then you steam through to the end through a linear passage of dull but pretty looking areas fighting the robots. You won't be too bored but you'll be about bored.
You reach the bad guys and it turns out that the bad guys can't stop The Matrix cause, well, the sword, which you're bringing with you.
Then you go back to battle The Matrix. It's kinda like The Library level of Halo as you bore through a procession of boring looking identical areas until you finally reach The Matrix. You have a pretty fun boss fight and then it ends with a silly but ok ending.
THEN ITS TIME FOR THE BIG REVEAL! The voice in the sword was your lover's voice! OMG OH NOES! Hang on, absolutely everyone with a brain cell has instantly figured that out at the beginning. FIN.
Good parts:
Dull but pretty graphics.
Nice animation on the main character. She has a jump move. YOU NEVER HAVE TO USE IT EVER. But it's there.
The lover's voice is absolutely brilliant throughout. He's never irritating; he's sincere; he's heart warming to listen to and, if I had a voice like his, I would start a phone sex chat line and make a million dollars. Honestly, I love that guy's voice.
It's short and relatively inoffensive.
I sorta enjoyed the fighting.
Just bits:
When the lover talks on screen the sword glows with his speech. It's a nice effect. You can, AND THIS IS THE REALLY COOL THING, shove his voice in the PS4 controller and the sword light talky effect is reproduced on the PS4 controller light thingy! It's AMAZING! Seriously cool. Thing is, you lose the soft tones of his voice so you turn it off and have his dreamy voice oozing out of your TV speakers instead.
Bad bits:
The story isn't confoosing; it's just a bit crap. Seriously, if this sword is so awesome don't leave it sticking out of your victim unless you've got a great excuse for leaving it at the scene of the crime. It doesn't.
The rugby player's move is too over powered.
It's a bit boring. Confusingly it's also short so how come you ain't got enough excitement in there to keep me on the edge of my seat?
5/10 'cause I still love numbers. Numbers rulez.