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Devil May Cry 3 - Well to start my introduction to the series was actually DMC 2, I had played a demo at Gamestop and I thought it was really cool all the moves you could do and stuff. Well that same year for Christmas a distance relative sent me DMC and I played it a few times but I didn't get into it. Later I picked it up again and I started to really love it. I remembered the demo I played so I asked for the 2nd one for my birthday. I ended up getting it and since I didn't expect it to be good based on all the bad word of mouth surrounding it I wasn't disappointed by it.
So after retiring from DMC I started seeing some articles for 3 pop up all around the internet. Reading about the combat system I was totally excited to play it. It sounded like they took the first game and added a bunch of new moves, plus the on the fly weapon changes were a great addition. Sadly when I got my hands on the game I was less then impressed. Most of the enemies only had one attack, so you wait for them to attack, dodge, and then combo them. It was so scripted I hated it. And you could have two weapons on you at a time. So I had to go to the statues to switch my set, that's a downgrade from the first game if you ask me. I understand it's done so you can switch in mid-combo but it's still annoying. I should still be able to switch which two I have in my item menu.
All the enemies lacked personality as well, and the bosses. That's one thing I loved about the first one. The areas all felt like half assed re-hashes of the castle in the frist game as well. The music was horrid, I actually thought 2 had the best music, and it repeated itself constantly. The voice acting was pretty bad as well, toss that in with lame cut scenes of Dante riding missiles and unbearable dialog you got something pretty terrible. I admit the first game didn't have the best dialog either and the voice acting wasn't all that great but it was way better then this.
I only hope 4 can bring the series back for me, and since I don't expect much out of it that might just happen.
Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes - Me not liking this game that much is all my fault honestly. I was excited as hell to play it but I didn't take into account that as a kid I beat the holy hell out of this game up and down. And since all the cut scenes had the same dialog for the most part watching them was really hard. And we all know how many cut scenes MGS games have. I felt like I was playing a game I had beaten a thousand times over with a few new options, and you know that's what I was doing. Had I never played it before it would have been great but buying it was a really stupid idea I realized after playing though it once.
I had another one in mind but I forgot it while typing these two out. I've been sick lately and my thought process isn't working like usual.
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