barely fatal

It’s been a while that I played a game demo. Tonight I tried Bayonetta and Dante’s Inferno on the PS3, and what can I say: Thank you, thank you for these demos, as they saved me a lot of money and brain cells.

Bayonetta is everything I hate about Japanese action games. Yes, you may call me conservative, boring and European, but I like stories and characters that make sense, thank you very much. The graphics are technically up-to-date. However I can’t stand the style, or the  walking/running/fighting animations. And the music is unbearable.

Dante’s Inferno is a God Of War clone (and that coming from someone who has never played GOW) with some terribly obnoxious design problems. Timed scripts that you can’t know to be timed the first time you play are always an endless supply of agony, especially when the checkpoint of course lies before the last horde of imps you slew. I won the boss fight in the demo by holding Block 98% of the time. And it’s not even that pretty.

I think I’ll wait for the God Of War 3 trilogy ultimate HD prestige collection edition or whatever they’ll call it.

Oh the demo for Lost Planet 2 was dull at first, but the boss fight really was a giant boss fight – you could get swallowed – and keep fighting inside. Shame I didn’t understand the rest, is that a single player, skirmish, coop, or multiplayer only game?