Forsaken Lover
07-23-2012, 09:13 AM
So earlier this month I bought a game.
The name of that game is Dirge of Cerberus.
Now I had watched all the cutscenes on YT a couple years ago and I even made a thread on here bitching about it. I was very disappointed after all. However now I actually played the game I wanted to share my new thoughts.
It was actually pretty fun. Not great mind you but I liked the gun combat. Melee was crap but luckily you rarely used that. Invisible Walls are annoying until you realize double jump is just there for style and you never use it.
The environments were also pretty neat. They just had some nice atmosphere I guess. That was helped a lot by the music of course. Hamauzu or whatever did not dazzle me with FFXIII but he provided some excellent pieces for this game. (more on that later)
The story was...passable. At least until you get to the end bits with Hojo. That was just retarded and everything after it was pretty dumb too.
I know the Online mode in Japan gave more character to Deepground but just going off the game I actually played, Weiss never really had a character. That is one of the single greatest failings of the game's story in my opinion. Weiss is hyped to all hell. Every member of Deepground is going "Hail, Weiss!" and the Tsviets wank him off anymore. You're really interested to see the guy that these hundreds of mooks were willing to die for.
Only you don't. It's Hojo in a Weiss suit. You never get to know the Weiss that everyone went on and on about. It's very disappointing.
On the other hand, if I may give this game more credit than it deserves, that's also kinda interesting. It makes all those Deepground soldiers and the Tsviets rather sympathetic. They did all this for someone they revered but they were all just pawns in the end. They died for nothing.
Now the other characters in the game didn't exactly wow me. Vincent was alright but the only really good character was Shelke. She had some nice development.
Sadly Lucrecia was so terrible that she alone almost sunk the game for me. Even if this game was absolutely perfect - which it most definitely is not - her presence would drag it down to barely above average territory. I just don't know how you fail so cosmically in making a character sympathetic. Lucrecia is right up there with all teh villains in terms of despicableness. Maybe that's not a word but she deserves her own word because that's that goddam awful.
Now, for some of the pretty sweet music in the game:
Dirge of Cerberus - Counteroffensive [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKS1OnZbYmE)
Dirge of Cerberus - Silent Edge [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXO_5AsKgg)
Dirge of Cerberus - WRO March [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTbXmt0M0o)
Dirge of Cerberus - The Immaculate [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOouUHi1WtQ)
The English dubbing was decent enough. Loved Kari Wahlgren as Shelke and Blum was nice as Vinny-Mac. Mary-Elizabeth McGlynn gave a horrible accent to Rosso but hey, it was still sexy.
Overall I think DOC had a lot of potential that it squandered. Even still..I enjoyed it. It's probably not a good game though.
So those are my thoughts. What are yours?
The name of that game is Dirge of Cerberus.
Now I had watched all the cutscenes on YT a couple years ago and I even made a thread on here bitching about it. I was very disappointed after all. However now I actually played the game I wanted to share my new thoughts.
It was actually pretty fun. Not great mind you but I liked the gun combat. Melee was crap but luckily you rarely used that. Invisible Walls are annoying until you realize double jump is just there for style and you never use it.
The environments were also pretty neat. They just had some nice atmosphere I guess. That was helped a lot by the music of course. Hamauzu or whatever did not dazzle me with FFXIII but he provided some excellent pieces for this game. (more on that later)
The story was...passable. At least until you get to the end bits with Hojo. That was just retarded and everything after it was pretty dumb too.
I know the Online mode in Japan gave more character to Deepground but just going off the game I actually played, Weiss never really had a character. That is one of the single greatest failings of the game's story in my opinion. Weiss is hyped to all hell. Every member of Deepground is going "Hail, Weiss!" and the Tsviets wank him off anymore. You're really interested to see the guy that these hundreds of mooks were willing to die for.
Only you don't. It's Hojo in a Weiss suit. You never get to know the Weiss that everyone went on and on about. It's very disappointing.
On the other hand, if I may give this game more credit than it deserves, that's also kinda interesting. It makes all those Deepground soldiers and the Tsviets rather sympathetic. They did all this for someone they revered but they were all just pawns in the end. They died for nothing.
Now the other characters in the game didn't exactly wow me. Vincent was alright but the only really good character was Shelke. She had some nice development.
Sadly Lucrecia was so terrible that she alone almost sunk the game for me. Even if this game was absolutely perfect - which it most definitely is not - her presence would drag it down to barely above average territory. I just don't know how you fail so cosmically in making a character sympathetic. Lucrecia is right up there with all teh villains in terms of despicableness. Maybe that's not a word but she deserves her own word because that's that goddam awful.
Now, for some of the pretty sweet music in the game:
Dirge of Cerberus - Counteroffensive [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKS1OnZbYmE)
Dirge of Cerberus - Silent Edge [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rXO_5AsKgg)
Dirge of Cerberus - WRO March [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTbXmt0M0o)
Dirge of Cerberus - The Immaculate [HQ] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOouUHi1WtQ)
The English dubbing was decent enough. Loved Kari Wahlgren as Shelke and Blum was nice as Vinny-Mac. Mary-Elizabeth McGlynn gave a horrible accent to Rosso but hey, it was still sexy.
Overall I think DOC had a lot of potential that it squandered. Even still..I enjoyed it. It's probably not a good game though.
So those are my thoughts. What are yours?