I got a 2:2 which i’m happy with, apparantly my dissertation sucked but I havent got it back to find why. But i’m not bothered, the main this was too pass and now I have, three years untold essays, exams and all of that noise finally finished. So I can um do it all again for another three years… or maybe 2 so I can do nursing in Cardiff Uni, but hey at least there’s no debt attached to that.
A while ago I made this post on the subject of George Carlin, who died last night. I didn’t imagine making a follow up post so quickly and on this topic, but here we are. I still stand by what I wrote then but if anything would follow it, it would be this.
He was a great fighter for free speech, his seven dirty words pay tribute to that. He also spoke out against stupidity of prostitution laws, abortion and other points of view I share. He was also a fine actor I really enjoyed, and believed I would see more of in films like Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike back etc.
So although my original post still has merits in my mind. There was certainly a lot of great to this man and he will certainly be missed
EDIT: How could I forget that he was Rufus in Bill and Ted!
So I beat it, in about 10 hours gameplay, and i’ve tried to keep a mental log of the whole event but to be honest it hasn’t been easy because of my stop start style of play. I’m twenty-one life no longer allows me to play games without interruption so I have to grab what I can. That and the stop-start also pro-longs the gaming experience which is always better for a game you’re anticipating.
First let’s make it clear that I loved the first one, it is truly amazing and I’m going to say right off the bat so there are no illusions, I preferred the first one. It was longer, more engrossing, had better voice actors I think some, though not all of the weapons, were better used and one in particular (the True Dragon Sword) was far more devastating. It’s also aged very well which is the true legacy of a game.
But enough of that, the game is fearsome. a combat fighter of which there is no comparison, if it was stand alone and hadn’t had it’s prequel we’d be talking about one of the best ever made. The game received a lot of bad press for it’s tedious difficulty towards the end of the game. But i really thought after that this was a good thing, the game doesn’t get repetitive because of this, at a time when you could get battle fatigue (which did happen in the first one) it draws attention away from this. Also in the first the end of the game was very easy, more so when the hardest boss comes about a quarter of the way through. Here the game gives you it’s strongest punch right at the end.
There were times during the three consecutive boss fights that I begged for a ‘buy guy’ or a save point or some health but the game doesn’t give you anything. But when I got through it and I destroyed the Archfiend I felt far more satisfaction than I did had I been given those aids.
As for the story well, it’s laid out in front of you early and doesn’t really change, Id complain about the setting but i’ve ranted about that. But it’s not as good as the previous but its a pretty decent story, there are a few levels where you go to ‘The Land of the Dead’ a place where Greater fiends still live. Unfortunately they don’t bring back Doku or Marbus from the first which may have been cool.
There is a level in which the Hayabusa village has been decimated, torched as you run through most of the first level of the first Ninja Gaiden in reverse. I don’t think I took any damage on that level purely because, I love that village and was in a serious (serious) tiff that any Black Ninja mother fuckers had fucked with it so I sliced the head off every last one of them. But that was just a personal thing.
Overall I don’t think it could have been any better, the combat is unparalleled , the game is neverdull it’s got a lot of improvements from the first, but a few detractions from the first. Truly a stand out game.
One final note: I often complained that there was a moment you should have simply fought tons of enemies a top a temple. Clearly someone heard as in this you fight at the bottom of a temple against an army of ninjas and also fight a mass of oncoming lycanthropes in a stadium and those are two of the bset moments of the game, my ideas rule.
I have had blogs to blog, why do you laugh and get laughter but clap and get applause? I think Clapter or more likley Clappter should be a real word. There we go, that’s blogging I could just stick <Insert whitty comment here> any then let the lulz ensue.
Should Vegetarians be pro-choice? that’s a good one. The only non-parallel I can see is that omnivores eat meat, whereas pro-choicer’s don’t eat fetus’ (or do they?) but you’d imagine pro-choicers are for stem cell research so there’s a similarity there. It’s ok to kill a potential-human but not a chicken? hmm not exactly a sound philosiphy. But maybe i’m finding two separate issues and forcing them together but maybe it shows a unsaid hypocricy that is ignored due to some feeling of ‘higher ethics’
That’s another thing, ‘higher ethics’ as though ethics are on some sort of percieved scale. This isn’t a vegetarian thing, this is an ethics thing, people always believe that their point of view (more so if its the current PC ‘thing’) when ethics are a circle of views. Wawawa i’m tired I love Gaiden 2 its hard.
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