Couple Quick Reviews
Naamah's Curse
I still like Carey's stories and writing, and the alternate/fantasy history touch, but the Naamah series just doesn't measure up to the original for me. I don't find Bao remotely as interesting a character as Joscelin. Similarly, Moirin's broader skill base and occasional naivete just doesn't have the draw that Phedre's enduring ember of hope and will does.
inFAMOUS
Downloaded courtesy of the PSN outage compensation, I barely gave this game a second glance when it was new. But it plays well - feeling similarly smooth to Sucker Punch's previous Sly Cooper games, even if the tone and look is completely different. Admittedly, some of the missions get repetitive and the moral choices are predictably binary. But the pacing is generally good, spacing out new powers. The story is pieced together well, without any glaring plot holes that I saw. While I haven't seen the entire evil path, it seems to me that either moral direction would still actually work as far as the story goes. It's a pretty solid "superhero" origin story and provides a conclusion to an arc while setting things up for the sequel. That's all good.
I still like Carey's stories and writing, and the alternate/fantasy history touch, but the Naamah series just doesn't measure up to the original for me. I don't find Bao remotely as interesting a character as Joscelin. Similarly, Moirin's broader skill base and occasional naivete just doesn't have the draw that Phedre's enduring ember of hope and will does.
inFAMOUS
Downloaded courtesy of the PSN outage compensation, I barely gave this game a second glance when it was new. But it plays well - feeling similarly smooth to Sucker Punch's previous Sly Cooper games, even if the tone and look is completely different. Admittedly, some of the missions get repetitive and the moral choices are predictably binary. But the pacing is generally good, spacing out new powers. The story is pieced together well, without any glaring plot holes that I saw. While I haven't seen the entire evil path, it seems to me that either moral direction would still actually work as far as the story goes. It's a pretty solid "superhero" origin story and provides a conclusion to an arc while setting things up for the sequel. That's all good.
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