The mediocre to bad games I've been playing as of late.

No intro, I'm tired and have more blogs to write. Probably.

   I went into this game excepting a Persona like experience, and I did . . .  without any of the fun! You start the game as God's Gift, a pimp with high spirit levels who has been chosen to attend an elite academy with other elites who have super powers. You fight evil, and your powers fade before you become an adult. Sound cliched and stupid? You just described this game perfectly! They crammed as many anime cliches as possible into it. Broken lead ? Check. Funy best friend ? Check. Every Harem and slice of Life cliche crammed in whether it makes sense or not ? Definitely. The big thing about this game is class mating, which means you do the hot and sweaty act of holding hands to create star chilren. This might be exciting if all the girls didn't look like dopey K-on rejects with even less in the way of personality. The star children are annoying too, they have low level caps so you have to keep making more, which start at level 1, and equipping them. You are constantly broke when you get up to a full team of 10 people. This sound shitty, but it gets worse. You spend most of your time slogging through multi leveled dungeons full of stupidly strong enemies that never fucking end. Unless you're some sort of masochist, there is no reason to play this. 3/10.

  I grew up on Dragon Ball Z, and to this day enjoy it. The anime and manga that is. Personally I feel the game series peaked at Budokai Tenkaichi 3, and went downhill, with Burst Limit bring the only non shit one since. This game however, is awful. You're given a team of four people, and of those four people exactly one of them is useful, the one you're playing at.The rest of them fly randomly around doing nothing. The problem is the enemy also gets a team of four who know exactly what to do- kick your ass. The game involves flying around trying to charge your special attack, using said special attack, and escaping. The problem is there is one main enemy, and 3 grunts. Often times you have to fight an endless number of grunts while taking out the big bad who often revives for no reason. I thought because this game was Japanese developed it would be a change from the usual dreck, it's actually worst. I quit after fighting endless waves of Freiza's henchmen on Namek. Dropped! 2/10

   There is exactly one game in the Rune Factory series that does not suck, and that is 4. It will not be mentioned until the next paragraph. Rune Factory is a spin off of Harvest Moon, which if you like Harvest Moon, hopefully you would enjoy this series. And you might, if you are retarded. The series take the Harvest Moon farming and adds fighting monsters to it. That's really it for 1-3, you grind on the farm and then grind on monsters. They don't add to the story, and it's just a time waster. You can go on adventures in the limited world, but why would you? There's not much to  see, and gear is pricey. Rune Factory Tides of Destiny is different from this formula, and in a bad way. The farming is gone, all automated by your monsters. You and your friend are merged into a single body and sent to another world. Every just accepts that there is two people in one body as if you were telling them you got a haircut. Then you get a Golem to wander around to other islands to fight monsters. Yeah, awesome. It's no longer a shitty Harvest Moon spin off, it's just a terrible RPG. Overall- 2/10

   I actually bought this game because I knew Rune Factory 4 would be special. And it was! The story begins with your character falling out of an airship and losing his memory. You land on a Dragon who befriends you, and pose as a prince to protect the real prince. as the story continues, you learn you were attacked by your homeland because you were a threat to the big bad. Yes, it actually has a story! The best thing about this game is the characters, they actually have personality! There's town events, which help flesh out the stories. The issues though is that during these events, you can't take any of the characters on adventures. Yes, you can take potential suitors out to fight, and any townsfolk really. There's plenty of skills to learn,and so much fun to be had. Personally though, I mostly used the monsters like they were my slaves. They can water your plants, and make the best battle companions. Near the end I stood in the corner during boss battles and acted as a healer while my monsters tanked that beast. There is a third arc of the story which sounds like a tower of grinding, so I avoided it, but I might return someday to conquer it. My guy did marry Forte after all, they should pop out a young un. 9/10

   I actually paid money for Ragnarok Odyssey Ace, so I feel I am entitled to hate it with a passion. The demo seemed pretty cool, but the game is fucking brutal. You are a create a character in a small town who basically accepts missions and completes them. The missions however are boring, and repeat through the same areas endlessly, with the same villains.The game isn't ahrd until you get to any of the bosses, and the problem begin to burn into your eyes like the blazing sun. The bosses are huge, which already make the fights difficult. You are paired with companions you have to pay to be there, and die extremely quickly in the boss battles. To fight these giants, you have to get behind them, which is hard enough with the camera. The camera only focuses on what you're looking at, so you have to get behind it turn around, and angle the camera. By this point, the enemy is now facing you, and most likely about to kill you with one of his broken moves.
      The guy above is the worst offender in the game. He can fall on you, paralyze you and then fall on you, wildly swing  and fall on you, all of which can one shot your character.  When you're hit in this game, you take knock back damage too, so essentially you have to take double the damage, and are unable to recover until you've taken you knock back damage. By this point the boss in on you ready to rape you anew. Beating a boss isn't a sense of accomplishment either, because they recolor them, bring them back, and make them harder. I fought he same bosses three times and I was only halfway through the game. You spend most of the game collecting junk, which hopefully you can use to upgrade you weapons and armor. Don't worry, even when you have hundreds of pieces of junk, you're always missing the few you need, and they change with every upgrade. -12/10,fuck thsi shit ass game.

    I thought I loved the first Jet Set Radio, having found memories of it on the Dreamcast. The Cel shading was cool, the music was great, and the game had style. The problem is you have to play this game. I bought the HD post of the Sony store, and suffered through the entire game. You character controls like a tank on ice skates. You're slow, clunky, and cannot aim for shit. In a game about moving fast and pulling off slick moves to spray paint this is suffering. Everything in this game was difficult. A hard to reach tag point? I hope you like pulling off the same move 30 times til the game decides to take mercy and angle you the 3 degrees closer you need to be. Trying to chase someone ? Good luck, you'll never be that fast or smooth. You want to grind that rail? Nope, you're going to just miss it, fall off early on, or smack yourself on it. I got to the final boss, and all I had left to do was grind up a rail and tag him. I have 3 minutes and the controls wouldn't let me get anywhere near him. On the off chance I got near that rail, I would have no momentum and fall right off. Why didn't Sega just jack the perfect version of the system from Jet Set Radio Future? No one knows, but despite paying on $10 I feel ripped off. 2/10

   My brother had been telling me to play this game for over a year and was underwhelmed. I enjoyed the XenoSaga games enough, even though you essentially fought bosses and then watched two hours of cutscenes.It had some cool ideas, it just felt like a movie, not a game. This game has the same problem, with the addition of a new one, it's boring. Your characters all have British  accents for whatever reason, and live in a world where Machine men are attacking. No, it's not the Terminator RPG I'd love ever so much, but  another boring JRPG. You get the sword on the cover, the Monado, which allows the bearer to see the future and defeat machine men with faces. Yeah, I was entralled too. You basically wander from place to place and watch cut scenes, and if you aren't using anew game plus (What I did) then this game is a solid 80 hours if not more of boredom.You follow an arorw on the screen, but the arrow disappears if the story advances, so essentially if you need it, the arrow is missing.It gets even worse when you get to the city where you teleport everywhere. It's where the game wen from boring to frustrating, and I quit. I think I was about halfway through. If you're autistic and you enjoy boring things, you'll love this game.