Top 5 Games I'm Currently Playing.

Top 5 Currently Playing Games

5 Lost Odyssey

I know, looking at it at a glance it is very easy to point at Lost Odyssey and call it out as a standard JRPG which breaks none of the conventions and plays things very traditional, and very safe. But that is IMO definitely not a bad thing at all. In my humble Opinion Final Fantasy XII was a disaster in RPG terms, it had a flat and uninteresting story with dull characters and washed out visuals to match. The actual fighting system as well was trying to emulate an MMO. Now, I have no problems with MMO combat... within MMO's but when your trying to micro manage an entire party or just to play alone it soon becomes tiresome and dull, especially when you quickly realise that moving away from the enemy doesn't effect if they will hit you or not. But enough of hating on FFXII, the game that ruined a child hood favourite of mine. Lost Odyssey corrects all those problems; it goes back to the basics with highly engaging and original story, interesting and unique characters and some fantastic music and graphics. Sure the load times are a bit awkward sometimes, but nothing is perfect!

8/10

4 The World Ends With You

While Square-Enix go about murdering there older and more established franchises as mentioned above, they are showing a knack for creating some great new ones. Sure the lead character is a walking cliché and Tetsuya Nomura's art designs are looking as versatile as a stick figure (I'm sorry, I must admit as amazingly good as his pieces look, there really isn't much variety to them lol) but the game is great to look at for a DS game with a fun story and lively characters, I've been finding it hard to put down which can lead to some rushed exits from buses and tubes when I get very into the game. The combat system is a little tricky to get used to but still a great laugh. This game is great.

8/10

3 Beautiful Katamari / We love katamari / Me and My katamari

... Katamari rocks, nuff said.

No really though, I've been playing this game since it first came out in the UK in early 2006 and still to this day I play all 3 of the games that are available in my region regularly and still enjoy them. Sure the DLC was a rip off, but I still bought it lol.

9/10

2 GTA IV

This game is astounding, everybody knows it, it's been said a million times but screw it I'll say it once more. In all fairness I was a little sceptical about this game before it came out, I'd been a massive fan of the series up until Vice city, which in my mind was the last truely great game in the series, don't get me wrong, I had plenty of fun with San Andreas but I just felt it was lacking the care and attention that made the previous games so detailed and magical. This was all rectified in GTA4, a game so good I pretty much played it non stop until I reached 100% and managed to get myself every single achievement within the game (without a gold account anyway lol) And in all fairness, thats really the only reason it's currently second... I'm on a total burn out from that game. I'm sure I'll come back to it though in the future.

10/10

1 Persona 3

Persona 3 higher rated than GTA IV you say!? Well... yeah, only because this game has some how managed to encapsulate and drill it's way into my brain until it's pretty much the only thing I think about.

I bought it when it originally came out in the UK, fearing, as it was not a crap sports game or other generic piece of crap that it would disappear quickly, but never got round to touching it. When I came home from university I really layed into this game and now I'm in love with it, completely obsessed. It's keeping me very sane during my new and rather dull job (which I'm sure I will reveal soon enough lol) From the awesome graphical ****and purely emo method of persona activation it's unique from head to toe, and when you find yourself having to make a tough decision between catching up with a friend who wants to tell you a shocking secret, going to the cinema with a girl who could very well end up going out with you, revising for an exam that is looming or getting some well earned rest before taking on the randomly generated dungeon that makes up the main portion of the game you find you would rather play this than live your actual life lol.

10/10

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