10th July 2005, 9:17 PM
Quote:-the bad controls and poor porting job of the PC version (doesn't run as well as it should either...)
And that's why you get Gamecube version!
Quote:Since when you die you start with one full health thing
No, it only give you four full hearts.
Quote:(NOT stealth, but puzzles like Blackthorne or something... stealth is Theif. This is nothing like that. "If you mess up you just run around the corner, hide in the pipe, wait ten seconds, go back, and start the puzzle over" isn't stealth.)
It's usually easier to sneak through, since those guys have shields and can take out two full hearts if they hit you.
Quote:-the setting -- it just isn't believable! I know if you play RPGs you get used to the "the world is small" or "the world is made up of tiny villages" thing, because full-size towns would be impossible to navigate or do anything in, but this goes beyond just scale... I find the concept of this rebellion hard to believe (they have a direct link to the planet governor's office? The rebels, despite their weak security, haven't been infiltrated (they said something about "seperate cells" and all, but if you're tied to the Governor's office... yeah.)? The supposedly oppressive, propagandistic government does nothing to stop protesters when people start to realize how bad their rule is (I know some people said that the increasing numbers of people protesting as you did better was a good feature, but I thought it was yet another symptom of the game being a console game before it was anything approaching realistic, or even believable within its own rules...)? Etc.), and the actions of the government (the evil one run by the aliens) hard to believe, etc...
It's a stylized fantasy sci-fi world, so it's not really supposed to be that believable. Also, after the final revalation you get the sense that quite a lot of people were used in order to set things up a certain way.
Quote:It's just a good one, with significant flaws. So I was fairly dissapointed.
You really need to play to the end. Really.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.