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This Month in Pixels: I’m actually happy to own a PSP

Posted by television On March - 4 - 2008
Miles Baker, Previews, This Week in Pixels

By Miles Baker

Don’t get me wrong: I have strong, warm feelings for that little black box with its LCD screen and funny little disks. I love its mini-multimedia-ness with that DVD-quality video, MP3s, and pictures. The problem is that I’m not often called to play it. I’ve owned one for as long as we’ve been running this site and I think I’ve only reviewed two games for it, because I don’t buy for or play with it a lot. But when I do, I remember just how good Sony can be to me.

Sony is going to be so nice in March. I haven’t bought three games for the PSP all year, but I’ll buy three in March alone – that’s a huge move for me and the PSP.

At first I will ignore friend and family obligations by playing Patapon.

I feel if I need to explain how awesome Patapon is, you should leave this website and never return. I downloaded the demo the other day and it’s actually cuter than you could possibly imagine, and the gameplay is both absurd and addictive. Essentially, it’s a rhythm/RTS (real-time strategy) game. You command your troops with your rhythmic button tapping (drumming) to attack, dodge or defend.

It’s charming, cute, innovative and only 20 bucks! I can’t afford not to buy this game.

And while my wallet still feels fat I’ll pick up God of War: Chain of Olympus.

Believe it or not, tiny Kratos is just as murderous as his bigger screen counterpart and therefore just as fun. Again, I recently downloaded a demo of this game and was suitably impressed how they were able to capture the carnage, the pretty, and the boobies of the PS2 games in this smaller format. I’ve read that Chain of Olympus is a prequel, which I’m not too crazy about. I haven’t played a prequel that has ever lived up to the first one. But then again, I don’t play God of War for a gripping story – I play it to fuck mythological Greek figures up. From what I’ve played, I suspect I’ll be satiated.

Finally, when I’m pale and fat from lack of sun or sitting up fully, I’ll hobble and huff to my videogame store to collect Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7.

At this point I’d like to remind everyone that this game is played on a PSP. Feel free to let your bowls go limp – I know mine did when I saw footage of this game.

I have to admit, I’m not the biggest FF7 fan, so I’m sorry everyone. I played it when it came out. I loved it for the first disc and a half, pretty much up until that sequence in Cloud’s whiney-ass head, but I don’t have the love for it that other nerds like myself do. The story makes little to no sense: basically, Cloud has usurped the identity of a guy named Zack when actually he is the top-secret clone of a human-alien hybrid bred to be the perfect soldier. Or something like that.

Crisis Core follows the previously-mentioned Zack and this is where the prequel-ness becomes a bit of a problem for, because I play Final Fantasy for the story and I wasn’t keen on FF7’s story. I imagine this game will actually complicate the world of Final Fantasy 7 even more than Advent Children did-if that’s even possible-but I don’t care: look at those pretty graphics!

I’ll let you know how they all turn out.

One Comment

  1. Ray says:
    March 4, 2008 at 8:18 am

    Very nice…check out this one out also.. they got updated games for download.. all clean downloads..

    http://psp-free-games.blogspot.com

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