Eternal Sonata and Soul Calibur

Hey blog! How's it going! Man, I haven't posted anything in a while, but don't feel lonely, I haven't forgotten you!

To be honest, I haven't had many good ideas. but, I have been playing Eternal Sonata, perhaps a review of that shall be forthcoming. It's pretty much the greatest game ever, in fact I dunno how I managed to avoid hearing about it. Mainly because I play Call of Duty I suppose, in that razor sharp murderous world of fast knives and faster bullets there's not much room to think about games where you play a small girl on a quest to find the worlds prettiest flower.

I like it a lot though, I mean I love Call of Duty and I've been playing Battlefield recently but, it's nice to have a game with a chilled out relaxed atmosphere, with plinky plonky lullaby music and missions to find the twinkliest star in all the sky (and now that I mention it how much do you think that music helped Final Fantasy 7 become so beloved?). But then you realise how great the combat is in Eternal Sonata. I've played through enough JRPGs to have gotten a bit jaded with MAGIC/ATTACK/ITEM. WAIT. REPEAT TILL YOUR EYES BLEED and wasn't really looking forward to another game of it, the fighting is a lot better in Eternal Sonata with timing, combos, etc... It gets more complex as you go on which is cool so far as well (I'm not too far into the game yet). Way to go for trying something new, Japanese game developers. Those twenty years flew by.

Oh yeah, and isn't it weird how Chopin is played by Anime Johnny Depp? This game must be like porn for Tim Burton. Well, hentai I guess.

I've also been playing Dwarf Fortress, I've been interested in this game for ages but my old laptop was so old, playing it was a chore. It runs fine now though, and also all the time. I'm on my third or fourth fortress, it's working pretty well but now I want to try to build an unusual one, if I have anything cool you'll be amongst the first to know blog!

The other game I've been playing is Soul Calibur 4 which is also fantastic. I've made a guy who's basically a samurai, but incased in steel, he looks kind of like Iron Man but he's also a kind of travelling Ronin, walking, perfectly balanced on the thin line between light and dark. It's much better then Dead or Alive 4 and more fun then Virtua Fighter 5. It's no Rumble Roses though, I found that to be a vast improvement over the other Rumble Roses games, in fact in my opinion it's the best game on the Xbox360.

And also on any console ever.