Final Fantasy XIII
Platform: PS3
Started: 2010
Status: Ongoing
With PSN back up Saturday I decide to see if I could get further into Final Fantasy XIII and earn a few more trophies to sync up with. The stage I’m at is relatively easy but annoying if your in the wrong setup like I found myself in. Avoiding enemies in this area is difficult and I couldn’t beat the boss due to the damn Doom timer that showed up towards the end of the battle. I almost had him but Fang just couldn’t dish out enough damage. I may have to break open the strategy guide one more time to figure out how to beat him. I’ve been using it as weapon references and such but avoided looking at the boss tactics until after I’ve banged my head against the wall. Still… that strategy guide is a bit big compared to the other games. It’s about as big as oh… say the Exalted RPG book by White Wolf!
X-Men
Platform: Xbox 360 Live Arcade
Started: May 14th 2011
Status: Completed
This was out of no where. While over at a friend’s place we decided to run through the old X-Men arcade game. OMG… I suck at it! I knew I was bad at it even in the arcades but I seem to have gotten worse! I died more times then i wanted to count in that game. We played the Japanese rom which was even more embarrassingly bad then the US arcade rom. This is also the first time I’ve seen the later half of the game. In the arcades when i use to play it, we couldn’t get through stage 2 without spending a bucket load of quarters. The game is coin eater, and that hasn’t changed even in the XBLA version.
Soul Calibur IV
Platform: Xbox 360
Started: ??
Status: I think I finished my copy…
Rusty? Good grief, I forgot a lot of the moves. I couldn’t get Ivy to do her usual crazy attacks and couldn’t remember Kilik’s moves or Seong Mi-na’s attacks. Also it was the first time playing on the controller. I had always played on the 360 joystick I have. Talk about embarrassing when i couldn’t remember the block button. I had it programmed for my thumb on my joystick but on here, I couldn’t remember which one it was. I may break it out and practice a bit…
