I'm going insane and I LIKE it.

The game I have waited month upon months is FINALLY here.

Cthulhu Saves the World by Zeboyd games is the follow-up to arguably my favorite RPG I have played on the Xbox 360.

And much like Breath of Death VII: The Beginning, everything feels right with the world. The humor is actually bonafide good. I love all the inside jokes (heros respawning in a church LMFAO), the visuals are better, the music is glorious (need to get that OST) and the game plays like a dream. Like BoD VII, the difficulty in CStW feels just right. There is so much done right in this game. I enjoy set limits on random encounters, I love the branching level up system, I love getting new USEFUL party members and I'm only half way threw the game.

This game made me put aside Operation Darkness in a heartbeat after playing the first 5 mins. I love Op: Darkness no doubt but this is the game I was waiting for and to be playing it and enjoying it. Well it's a late Christmas present but it's a great Christmas present. Plus to top it off, it cost me 3 bucks!! Insanity! (Cthulhu pun intended).

I'm going back in!!

Oh btw game update.

Operation Darkness: yep
Left 4 Dead: yep
Battle Fantasia: nope, wasn't available.
F.E.A.R: Nice replacement.
Ninja Gaiden II outfits: yep
Limbo: no. I might skip it even through it'll be dirt cheap today. I'll wait for another special I guess. In it's place
Epic Dungeon: enjoyed the demo. Part of the Indie Game Uprising and it's a rpg-ish. Sold.
Decay: Indie game, 80 points, horror theme... got the trial... maybe?
Got some more other indie games to check out too.
and

Cthulhu Saves the World: Hell yeah!

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Op: Darkness Day 3

So today I moved a lot further into my new obsession.

I finally meet two of the main villains of the game and both are designed pretty well. Ahh werewolves and vampires, never the two shall get along LOL.

One thing I called from day one was that mysterious Cordelia (aka your love interest) was a German or in this case, half-German. It was still however a nice reveal moment and I felt the characters are truly getting closer.

Jude still drives me insane with his super slow movement AND he doesn’t learn no magic spells or talents or anything. I guess that’s because he was not ‘touched’ (no pun intended) by ‘The Wolf Pack’.



Carmilla (interesting the three main girls name start with C. Cordelia, Cynthia and now Carmilla) is an awesome design, super sexy and evil and owned the Hell out of me multiple times before I finally got the jump on her. I hope she is a reoccurring character.

Speaking of, the difficulty went up considerable after Level 6 for sure. Level 6 was the demo level and I was destroyed a couple times before I finally got my strategy down. Ironically up to Level 6, I was doing awesome with rarely having to restart battles at all. Well this time, I got to Level 6 with my demo strat and I smashed it.

Then along came Level 7 and boy, I was not ready. I must have continued at least 8-9 times. However once again, once you figure out your game plan, it’s on.

I am really enjoying myself however the game is not without some big flaws which are beginning to stick out.

First is the very annoying inability to skip talk scenes. Especially after you have seen said talk scenes 8-9 times because you keep losing. Second is the inability to save mid battle. There is no save feature mid battle which is not cool at all (Shining Force had it right). I can’t understand why they don’t allow the above two. I really don’t look forward to the day when I’m in the middle of a long battle, close to beating the stage and I get called away on an urgent matter. It’s basically putting a lot of hours to waste.

Other then these flaws, I’m really enjoying myself and I hope it continues to challenge me and keep me coming back for more (which it has).

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P.S. Hah there is a character called Leona! Too bad she doesn’t have blue hair like my favorite KOF character.

RAVE: SRPG's and Operation Darkness

What?! The blog is resurrected! Much like Nazi zombies... but more on that later.

So I was originally going to blog about this on 'Apocryphic Videos' but I realized that this blog would be much more suitable on my original blog.

On to the game itself. I am a massive fan of Strategy Role Playing Games (SRPG's). One of my favorite games of all time is 'Shining Force II' by Climax/ Team Sonic/ Sega. I am a role playing gamer but SRPG's have always had a soft place in my heart
thanks to said game. So it's to my dismay that the SRPG is being faded out to the point where even the originators Climax stopped making 'Shining' Strategy games. Now don't get me wrong, I like these new wave RPG's like Mass Effect and what not BUT I really want my games of old back. I'm old school like that. So when I found out I had the monies to pick up a game with a hardcore strat RPG base I jumped.

I picked up the demo and played it continuously, even through I was getting owned every twenty minutes (SRPG are time consuming affairs believe me) I still kept coming back for more. This made me know for sure I'll had to buy it.

So Operation Darkness is pretty sweet. Sure the graphics and sound ain't nothing to write home about the core is the SRPG and it does what it does well. We have a story which follows the nameable hero and his team. Like all good SRPG's I have played, I find myself getting invested with the characters. Right now my faves have to be Cynthia the sniper, mysterious Cordelia and the leader of the crew, James Gallant. Whilst I am not a big fan of the main setting (World War II, that's more up my step-dad Val's alley) the fact it's an alternative history with werewolves, zombies and vampires included makes it much more in my vein of games. I remember I liked Bloodrayne for the same reason, the alternative take on history, oh and hot vampires LOL.

So I'm moving through the campaign right now and doing good on and off. I really like how this game allows you to customize your squad and crazy stuff which never occurred to me before like carrying too many items can slow your character down is definitely a plus in my book. It's filled to the brim with stats which goes hand in hand with strats.

Another thing I dig is how the game is played, since we are using guns, rockets and tanks, it's completely different then a fantasy SRPG which I am learning first hand. Guns have sweet range and rockets wipe out whole squads. I also know later on, magic powers are unlocked for all characters so that'll be something to see as well.

I'll report back in again after I get further into the game but so far I am liking this trip into darkness.

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P.S now how to make Jude move faster... damnit boy, move!!