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Games That I’ll Never Complete : Part 1
This started off as a way for me to put down my thoughts about games I’ve completed, but as time goes on, I’ve found myself wanting to talk a little more about games in general, or games I’ve not completed. This post is going to be the first of a few I plan to write about games which’ll never otherwise get mentioned - games I’ll never complete.
There are pretty much two reasons why I’ll never complete a game, firstly that I just don’t like it enough to put the time in, and secondly because it’s the kind of game that you don’t complete (party type games fall heavily into this category). I don’t mind stretching the definition of ‘complete’ a little for games like Street Fighter IV, but even so, there’s plenty of games that never get completed.
For this first ‘Games I’ll Never Complete’ post, I thought I’d pick on some games that just don’t do it for me, so here are:
Five Current Gen Games That Are Rubbish [In No Particular Order]
Enchanted Folk and the School of Wizardry : DS
I don’t get this game. I tried, I really did. I wanted to like the idea of a game where you play a wizard and run around learning wizardy things, but I couldn’t. I read a review which compared it to Animal Crossing (which I’ve never played) and the Harry Potter rip-off-ness seems obvious, but this game is neither a huge experience (which I hear Animal Crossing is) nor interesting (which Harry Potter is). You start off as a child in a school and have a strange lesson about waving your wand and then you fall asleep as you wander around doing something stupid in a garden with your wand that doesn’t work. Then you close your DS and promise yourself you’ll be back later. Being a good games player, you come back later, realise that you have a hundred games that are more fun than running around a garden trying to divine with a magic wand (or something) and power it down. Seriously, I got nowhere and wasn’t grabbed in any way. Ah well. So if you have had a good experience with this game, let me know and maybe I’ll give it another go, but I doubt it.
The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess : Wii
Now this is controversial. If you live in Nintendoland, saying a Zelda game is boring is asking to be beaten up, but this game is… well… kinda dull. Maybe I made a mistake with it, because I did play twenty or so hours in and then go away for such a long time that I forgot everything about it, and then I started again, got about ten hours in and went away for such a long time I forgot all about it and then I started again and you get the idea. Twilight Princess has horrible graphics in my opinion, a storyline which drags rather than pulls you along and some puzzles which, while interesting, are just not as good as the options for games I have. This was my first foray into Zelda games and it wasn’t a good intro. Since then, I’ve had a go at an emulated copy of the SNES game ‘A Link to the Past’ and that was a million times better (even though I haven’t got far in that either). There’s a new Zelda game coming up on the Wii soon and I promise that I’ll give it a go with an open mind, but I don’t see myself ever going back to Twilight Princess. Sorry Nintendo-lovers.
Dragon Quest Monsters - Joker : DS
Dragon Quest IX is good. Very very very good. So good that I went out and paid a few quid for this and stuck it into my DS with a level of excitement. That excitement lasted about thirty seconds, after which the poor graphics and awful movement in this game made me cringe. Add to that the fact it is an awful Pokémon rip-off and you get a dusty game on the shelf. Shame, because I wanted to become a big ol’ Dragon Quest fan, just like I am with everything Final Fantasy. Wasn’t to happen. I played for an hour. No more. What’s strange though is that apparently DQM 2 came out in Japan and made all the people playing Dragon Quest IX pull out that cartridge and replace it with the new DQM game. I must be missing something.
Beautiful Katamari : XBox 360
Jen promised me this game was great. She came back having played it somewhere, and rushed out to get it and you know what? It wasn’t great. Beautiful Katamari is a strange Japanese oddball where you play a ball which rolls about getting bigger as it crushes things in its path until you reach the desired size and complete the level. It’d almost be fun if it didn’t look so awful, but the graphics remind me of Micro Machines for the original PlayStation. I’m all for retro-gaming, so normally graphics don’t dictate the game but this just looks hideous, and it’s called ‘Beautiful Katamari’. I’d probably forgive it if it was Ugly Katamari instead. No, I’m lying, I’d still not play it.
Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 : PS3
Jen used to work supporting this game and as a consequence we have it for every platform. I decided one day that I’d try it out and picked the PS3 one purely because I like the console more than the XBox 360. I tried with the game, I really did. I love complex games with loads of variables and statistics and this definitely has all that, but I just couldn’t get the hang of the game at all. I couldn’t score a goal. Ever. A fact which has to impact your enjoyment of a football game. I remember playing Kick Off and Sensible Soccer on the Amiga and I liked those games, unfortunately this was just an exercise in feeling crap. Plus, the horrific way you have to sort out multiplayer play with accounts and passwords and all that shiz was just too much. No wonder these games end up secondhand for 49p in the shops - no one wants them!
So that’s it - a little list of games I don’t play to show that it’s not all ‘buy a game and love it’ with me. Thankfully I will admit it’s more hit than miss, but these five are not alone. Some day it’ll come time to do this again, and unfortunately I won’t struggle to find another five. Until then, I’ll go back to raving about games I actually enjoyed.
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