Thoughts

So my school had a Super Smash Bros. Melee tourney the other day, which I won with ease. However, it almost wasn't worth it.

It's interesting how people who are really good at something are really chill (for the most part), and the people who are terrible have to be fags and complain and be really obnoxious all the time. But that topic is a tad too emo for the Haven.

Anyway, I won $60 to Best Buy, which I used to buy God of War II (which I would be playing if my PS2 was available to me right now). But before I bought the game, I had a mini-journey around the store.

I played MotorStorm for PS3. While I was waiting in line behind some little kid, I was watching him play and it looked like the most amazing game I've ever seen. The graphics were so incredible that I had trouble taking in everything on the screen at once. There were very few indicators on the screen, but just looking at the backgrounds and the course the kid was driving on forced me to open my eyes as wide as I could just to be able to see everything at once. I'd be staring at one side of the screen, then see a car flip out and explode on the other side and realize that I'd only been seeing half of the game the entire time. And then I played the game and it was boring. The controls, although probably arcadey on purpose, weren't particularly satisfying, and neither was the gameplay. Going around a turn looked amazing for sure, but it had no creativity or artistic value. Even running full speed into a wall wasn't as satisfying as I'd hoped, because the crash was too basic. Burnout had 100x better crashes, even on the original Xbox.

Then I made my way into the PS2 section to look for GoWII, and an Okami demo caught my eye. Now I've been telling myself to buy Okami for quite some time now, starting from about a year before it was released, but I somehow never got around to it. So this was a good opportunity for me. And let me tell you, the game is incredible. Understand that when I like something, I normally dub it "greatest [blank] ever" but this was truly amazing. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but painting the brush, the graphics, the everything was just done in such a smooth way. Everything was extremely professional, while mysteriously giving you the feeling that you were playing a retro game minus the nostalgia (or maybe it actually was there in a subtle manner). Anyway, I considered buying Okami instead of GoW. I considered while standing there, while playing Guitar Hero II on the 360, and while browsing the awfully laid out selections for other platforms. Then I checked to see if GoW was even in stock, and when the employee replied that it was, he immediately offered to go get it for me. And that marked the end of my indecision.

Well, there's not much of a point to this entry, but I figured sharing some of my thoughts would be interesting enough. I will be buying Okami asap.

EDIT: As incredible as God of War II is, it seems like more of the same. I didn't get to spend a lot of time with it though, so keep that in mind.