Send in the Clones

Tonight I finished 2 things that I wanted to get my feelings out for. The first was that I watched the new Star Wars movie: The Clone Wars. This is the computer animated film based off the tv show...I think. I have to say, it didn't click with me very well. First is the whole art direction they did which I hated. Having everyone made of block doesn't really help anything or add anything. The voice acting was also pretty bad sometimes, but at other times quite good. I guess my biggest gripe in that respect is how the voice actors didn't sound like the original actors at all. The plot was simple, but effective. It never was amazing, but I was never surprised either. I didn't care for the constant banter between Anakin and his new padawon. It really just reminded me of a brother and sister. Overall, pretty average fare, especially since I wasn't expecting a whole lot.

Tonight I also finished up Heavenly Sword. The only gripe I can find with the game is that it is pretty short. Everything else was simply amazing. The graphics were awesome and having vistas while fighting was pretty cool. At one point there you have to fight an entire army. There are probably close to 1000 discrete enemies on the screen and there was no slowdown what so ever. This was impressive. The voice acting was also really well done. I think this may have been the best voice acting I've seen for a video game. The actual game play was cool, but it did feel like a God of War clone, even having some quick time events. The game was super linear. I couldn't even explore or backtrack in order to keep the story moving along. The entire game felt like a giant, epic blockbuster of a summer movie, and it had the quality to match. I was thoroughly impressed by this game. Such a good job on the game, even if hack and slash isn't usually my type.


I'm not quite sure what I'll be playing next. Right now I'm leaning towards picking up something off of my PS1 backlog, possibly Vagrant Story. I guess I'll see.