Xeliot's Hall of Keyblade Mastery Exam

[Xel]

 but it still pains me you did not like Clannad :/

Never been a fan of it honestly I have nothing against it but it's not for me. 

[Xel]

#98 Everybody's Gone To The Rapture   



The view in this game is absolutely fantastic. Peace and quiet. But when you go deeper in the lore, you'll find touchy moments of townspeople's life. If you're looking for sightseeing - that's the right game for you. But it might feel a little bit too slow (you literally crawl through the whole game).

[Xel]

#99 Gravity Rush Remastered   

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

#99 Gravity Rush Remastered   

 

Kat is proud of you! Now the painful waiting for GR2 :/

[Cassiopria]

#98 Everybody's Gone To The Rapture   

The view in this game is absolutely fantastic. Peace and quiet. But when you go deeper in the lore, you'll find touchy moments of townspeople's life. If you're looking for sightseeing - that's the right game for you. But it might feel a little bit too slow (you literally crawl through the whole game).

 

#99 Gravity Rush Remastered   

 

Congrats with your new plats Xeliot ! 2 very beautiful games !

 

[Xel]

#100 FINAL FANTASY XIV: A Realm Reborn


This really is a beautiful game if you stay with it and give it a chance. It seems too complex, dull, and hokey at first. It's absolutely not for the casual gamer, who wants an ordinary campaign or a game they can jump right into. It takes time, but it pays off into an engrossing massive fantasy that relishes in your freedom of gameplay. After 20 hours, you should have a decent understanding of most aspects of the gameplay and be into the main quest. What was complex will become second nature, enabled largely by the intuitive PS4 controller. What was hokey or dull becomes very alive with solid lore that stays very true to the Final Fantasy classics. The game seems most influenced by FF I, II, and III (in the west). If you played these games when you were younger, you'll delight in seeing their evolved return in MMO form. There are so so many things that you can do -and perhaps the greatest achievement of the game- is that most of these things are actually quite fun. Navigating becomes realistic, combat becomes more strategical, and even things like crafting become truly entertaining in their gameplay. Being able to quest with every class on the same character really makes it interesting. Another great achievement is that it does not feel grindy or like you have to farm. Again, there is so much to do- you can just let your character explore or you can plan your objectives with goals in mind. The culture is excellent, join a nice Free Company, and the social element of the game also becomes a pleasure. The graphics on the PS4 are very good and really show the detail of the Final Fantasy artwork, which flows without delay everywhere you travel. The music is great and the lack of voice acting is, in my opinion, mostly a plus. I can't stand when you hear the same voice actors playing different characters in a game. Also, I can read much faster than they speak. Perhaps they could have been improved with some more voice acting in cutscenes, but for the most part, I prefer it as it is. With all that being said, there is nothing particularly mind blowing or ground-breaking in the game. It still has its frustrations and repetitions, particularly in side quests. The plot is your standard Japanese anime about good versus evil, other dualities, and the need for balance. The dialogue is mostly well written and there is a ton of dialogue content. Personally, I hate the ye ole English style of the dialogue. The subscription price is warranted for the content updates. It's just a solid Final Fantasy MMO. You can really choose to do whatever you want in this game. Nothing is forced.It's a great game to enjoy for many hours - ultimately, for the freedom it gives.

 

Edited August 24, 2016 by Xeliot

[Condemned09]

Congrats on you're platinum bro

[Xel]

Congrats on you're platinum bro

Thank you, good sir .

[Hertz]

Nice man, I love that 100th platinum of yours. I might purchase it and play it for fun. I know both game and trophy wise it's going to be a long grind but worth it. 

[Xel]

Nice man, I love that 100th platinum of yours. I might purchase it and play it for fun. I know both game and trophy wise it's going to be a long grind but worth it. 

You're gonna have a blast Just don't let the genre scare you it's very welcoming for all types of gamers.

[Xel]

#101 STREET FIGHTER V 



Street Fighter V is the finest fighting game I've played to date. It's core mechanics are fair, really well polished and have maybe one fault in them. New players can easily pick up this and start to understand how to play compared to most fighting games out there. Assessing this after the updates does give this game greater life and incentive to try out every character and realise there isn't a standalone character which can easily beat everyone: the roster is very balanced. Challenge mode can help teach players damaging combos and training mode is very easy to understand as a tool to help develop a player's fighting game skills. The expenditure on an arcade stick is strongly advised to anyone wanting to play at the competitive level but a regular joypad is fine to use. 

 

Comparing this to Street Fighter 4, everything is cleaner. There is greater visual input as character animation change whether the attack has hit or is blocked, allowing the player to get instant feedback on what they can do next. One frame combos are no longer a thing, which helps new players to execute top level combos but unfortunately means greater ease for international level players to perform bigger combos more consistently; not really leveling off the playing field. The models themselves look sharper but all the long hair clips through the bodies of character, something that still needs to be addressed. 

[Xel]

Time to revive this dead checklist.

#102 Odin Sphere Leifthraiser  

 

 

Perfect game. It's exceedingly rare how a video game nowadays can keep the player guessing and playing for hours just to see how the story unfolds bit by bit until the very last moment, not to mention a story that appeared to be quite mainstream at the first sight. The feeling of seeing everything gradually fit together until the finale is incredible. The author certainly knows his stuff. He seems to have mastered all the European mythologies and legends by heart to be able to mix and match them at ease without any jarring feeling while keeping an unmistakably Japanese core at the heart of the story. Also, apart from certain chapters, which felt a bit artificial and prolonged so that each protagonist/individual drama gets the same number of acts, the story is almost flawless: You keep thinking about it even after you finish, and everything just clicks naturally, unlike so many ridiculous money grabs which simply leave gaping holes here and there or make you cringe. Actually, a lot of plot treatments make much more sense than the abrupt turns of events in the original The Ring of the Nibelung by Wagner, which a part of the story loosely adapted. The convincing voice acting (the Japanese version at least) and atmospheric arts also played a big part in it, as well as all the typically Japanese attention to details. In fact, if you take out all the gaming components, this in itself is a top notch hours-long stage drama to be enjoyed on its own. I'd recommend anybody to buy it just for the drama alone. 

The gaming aspect is quite good, enough to keep you playing and feeling satisfied between acts of the drama. Each character's style is distinctive and enjoyable enough. It's definitely not perfect, though, with difficulty being the major issue. The "normal" difficulty felt a bit too easy and sometimes I didn't sweat at all during a full chapter, with some bosses being extremely easy to deal with, and only felt totally geared up for less than 10 boss battles in the whole game. However, once you get used to "normal", which is the default, it will be really difficult to switch to "hard", which guarantees you to die a few times even battling a middle boss. There should be a reasonable middle ground between them. On repetition, I'd say it's just a minor issue, since although each character revisits the same place, in theory, the actual map and battlefield each time is different enough to keep you intrigued. And even the same type of boss has variations in details when battling different characters. 

9/10. I definitely recommend it to anybody, no matter you're interested in JRPG or European mythology, or just simply enjoys a good story with soul (which is really rare nowadays), you'll find this game amazing.

[Carttagos]

Cool list! I am going for all the KH's plats too. I recently started with the KH Final Mix.

[Xel]

Cool list! I am going for all the KH's plats too. I recently started with the KH Final Mix.

Thanks! They're incredible games. Good luck with them.

[Hertz]

Nice, congrats on getting the plat for Odin Sphere. I love the story and characters there. But I would say my fave was probably Oswald. What about you?

Oh and that FIN though

[Kent10201]

I love the trophy list name. As you can see by my icon I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fan and I'm going for all of the plats now. Kingdom Hearts 2 down three more to go.

[Xel]

Nice, congrats on getting the plat for Odin Sphere. I love the story and characters there. But I would say my fave was probably Oswald. What about you?

Oh and that FIN though

Gwendolyn was my favorite gameplay-wise, but story-wise, definitely Velvet.

[Condemned09]

Congrats on your platinum I would love to get this game one day

Edited August 24, 2016 by Condemned09

[Xel]

I love the trophy list name. As you can see by my icon I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts fan and I'm going for all of the plats now. Kingdom Hearts 2 down three more to go.

Good luck! Long live KH fandom

Congrats on your platinum I would love to get this game one day

You're gonna love it. I'm usually critical when it comes to games, but Odin Sphere is one of those games that you will remember for decades. 

[Hertz]

Gwendolyn was my favorite gameplay-wise, but story-wise, definitely Velvet.

Oh wow great choices. Gwendolyn's moves a good. Though I I probably sucked at using her in the beginning haha.

Velvet is just pure

If I choose a story wise char, I would say Mercedes but you know......

[Xel]

Wake up checklist I got another platinum for you.

#103 Bully 

 

 

An endlessly enjoyable game that put a unique spin on the open world format. Great characters, memorable soundtrack and brilliant representations of school stereotypes.

[30 Year Old Boomer]

Don't know if I ever commented in here my friend, but I like your checklist. I've been meaning to make one, yet I get lazy and procrastinate a lot.

[Xel]

I've been meaning to make one, yet I get lazy and procrastinate a lot.

I was like that when I was planning to make one 

[CediFonei]

Congrats on the Bully plat! It's a very interesting choice of a game. I consider giving it a go every now and then... something about a very schoolkid-centric twist on the GTA formula just seems like a silly enough idea to work for me

 

And Kat, it's hard to blame ya when you have as extensive a trophy log as yours! But that's all the more reason to make your checklist ASAP; before you have even MORE work ahead of ya. My advice is to start writing it up in Google Docs or something, so you don't have to write the entire thread in one go.

[Condemned09]

Congrats on the plat keep up the good work