Thursday, March 11, 2004  

Now Playing: Magic Knight Rayearth - Hikari to Kage Dakishimeta

I beat MGS: Twin Snakes last night. (Why'd it take so long? I started playing Dunegon Keeper 2 again.) I got Meryl's ending.

Pardon me while I giggle in ecstatic, fan-girlish delight.

*ecstatic fangirl giggle*

Meryl's cool. Super cool. I think I'll make Meryl my official role-model... minus that whole getting shot thing.

The only major beef I had with Twin Snakes was that everybody seemed to suffer from the "Xianghua Bounce Syndrome (XBS)." You know, how Xianghua's chest would um... bounce... at wierd, inappropriate times, and even when she was standing still? Well, so does everybody's hair in Twin Snakes - especially Meryl and Sniper Wolf. They'd be on screen, they'd be fine. Cut away to someone else, still fine. Cut back to them, and bounce! goes their hair. And considering the number of scenes Meryl's in... it got really old, really fast.

That, and those wierd darker patches under Snake's eyes caused by the light hitting his face. Liquid didn't have those, so I guess Snake's more tired than he let on.

And I agree with Electronic Gaming Magazine about the over-use of bullet-time.

And Jennifer Hale as Doctor Naomi... that was definitly not one of Miss Hale's better roles. (Unless Naomi is supposed to sound brain-dead throughout the game.) And what the heck happened to Naomi's accent?

And that brings up another point: Yes, I am okay with Debi Mae West playing Meryl. In fact, Debi Mae may actually be Mae Zadler, they sound so much alike. Hm... I'll have to check up on that.

Overall, Twin Snakes seems like a very well-done, worthwhile remake... Despite the fact that I kept thinking this game could've been on the Dreamcast, but that's just the XBS talking.

Kudos, Silicon Knights. Kudos to you.

   [ posted by Kristin @ 12:04 PM ] [ ]