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Himuro
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 Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: 1up pre-review in someone's blog |
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1up preview in someone's blog:
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Suikoden V: The Irrelevant Parts
posted at 03/12/2006 10:37 PM ESTI have a review copy of Suikoden V I'm playing for 1UP, and I'm about 20 hours in. Now, the piece of paper in front of me detailing the embargo says "Feel free to preview the game as much as you like, but reviews are embargoed until March 21st." So here's a pair of notes and impressions on the game that are far too trifling to go into an actual review or affect a score, but I want to note down anyway.
The positive one is that Suikoden V is one of those rare RPGs you can play with one hand. It keeps things basic, down mostly to the "confirm/deny" buttons, and so if you choose, you can play the whole game using the left analog, L1 for confirm, L2 for deny, and Select to bring up the menu. Mind you, the motors in the Dual Shock make holding the controller with one hand a little awkward and heavy after a while, but there you go.
The negative one is how damn often Suikoden V rearranges your party -- frequently just for cutscenes. It's scrupulous about making sure who's actually in your party reflects who's supposed to be in your party at every given moment. So if you have three non-royals in your party, say, and you get to a cutscene where only the royals can enter a room, then three of your party members will leave first, one at a time. You'll get the noninteractive cutscene where you will have no chance to bring up a menu or get into a battle. And afterward, the three guys will rejoin, one at a time.
Not only is this tedious, it plays hell with the formation system. Suikoden V allows you six party members at a time again, and this time you garner a whole bunch of ways to arrange them, some of which confer various stat bonuses in return for putting up with the unusual formations. But when you're constantly losing and regaining party members, this throws your carefully arranged formation out of whack, and you'll have to redo it. Over and over.
It sucks, but like I said, it's a minor kind of suck -- it's like if I was a restaurant critic and they put too much ice in my glass. I might shortchange the waiter on the tip in return, but I wouldn't hold it against the establishment in a review. Consider this post the equivalent of short-tipping the Suikoden team, I guess."Sounds encouraging?(http://debaser.1up.com/) |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Wow, it seems like he's enjoying it. Hopefully, 1UP will be giving the game a good review. I'm really looking forward to Tuesday just to see all the reviews!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 2:50 pm Post subject: |
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| This is making me want the game better hopefully the reviews make the game more popular |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, yeah, sounds nice. And they've gone back to the feeling of the original games by allowing it to be played with one hand again too, awesome! (This has nothing to do with Jeane, I swear). And I'll just have to see for myself how annoying that rearranging stuff is, let's just hope they'll fix it if they'll continue making Suikoden's.
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