Game Review: Crisis Core

So, after playing this game for 2-3 odd weeks , let me just do a short review on it.




The gameplay is entirely different from the normal Final Fantasy gameplay, in case you didn't already know. Rather, it's more of an RPG style format.. if you can even call it RPG.
OK let me touch on the good points first.

The graphics are , well, up to expectations. Detailed and impressive cinematics are part and parcel of the game.
Ok, good points over.

Gameplay is ridiculously simple, with much of it being quite possible to just play with one hand and pressing 'X'. The game creators try to throw in some variety with several minigames along the way.. but they're just too few and rare.
Storyline is a little draggy, and the animation by each character is extremely fixed. For instance, Zack has a folding arm animation which he does in every other cinematics.

The interaction with the environment is absolutely terrible. For instance.. there are invisible boundaries set.. so if you just press forward towards a seemingly open grass area, if that area has a boundary, you'll just move sideways when you hit the boundary.
There is not much you can do besides run in a more or less straight path. (i.e. you can't get lost) You can't jump, you can't walk off a cliff.

Monster spawn points can be highly irritating. There are some points on the map which are fixed monster points.. meaning when you walk into it you will enter combat mode and fight them. But if you just step slightly out and step back into the monster spawn point, they'll spawn again and you have to fight them again even though you just fought them.
This makes it highly irritating where sometimes you move out to open a chest and when you carry on you have to fight again.

The missions in the game are totally unrelated from the storyline and have a paradoxical effect - they're probably there to break the monotony of the game, but they are SO DAMN boring that they make it extremely monotonous to complete all the missions.
Well the 'aim' of each mission is different with a different story(or reason) for each mission.. but they ALL involve just running through a level(mini area) and killing all the monsters. Once you do that.. mission accomplished. -_-
furthermore, the level is extremely small, hence making it very easy to complete. The difficulty level only varies in the difficulty of the monsters present.

All in all, i would say.. it's not a very good game to play, unless you're into FF storylines and just want to watch the cinematics. Poor and boring gameplay, draggy storyline, low environmental interaction = 3/10

goodbye money

335.75.
Ok i don't know the exact amount and i don't wanna know. but that's around how much i spent at some Ear nose and throat specialist today.

Went for a checkup by the private specialist at Mount E. The firsttime consultation fee is 100bucks :/ and i took an endoscopy (which is basically them putting some tube down ur nose to look at your nasal passages. pretty weird feeling. ) which cost 200 bucks. then medicine 17 bucks.. im quite sure it's more than 317 so i dunno what's the other costs. tax?

The tube thing is pretty cool. he slides the thing slowly into my nose. i dunno how it goes down my nasal passage without poking the roof of my nose when he is just sliding it in. it just.. went in.. with some slight discomfort only.
Then halfway through he suddenly says 'i'm going to take a look at your throat k?'
Then it slides down my throat. ugh. -controls swallowing reflex-. very weird unique feeling.

and poof 10 minutes later he is 300 dollars richer. dammit! specialists are rich.
and i'm going back next week for some skin test to find out if im allergic to dust/grass dunno wat else. 150 bucks for that -_-

let's hope the results are positive for allergy yea. otherwise.. infantry spec gg pwndzor.

1,2 buckle my shoe.

Wow i have so many things to talk about i dunno where to start. i originally planned to just talk abt one thing, but more things happened

k firstly, have you ever made a bad investment? like, you know that the probability of getting any returns at all is really low, but you still 'throw your money away' for that investment.

Or another way to put it will be.. let's say Manchester United (i dunno why i'm using them as an example, i dont like them and i prefer Arsenal, but i guess they're more wellknown and they're the generic example when it comes to soccer) plays Singapore.
If you bet on singapore and win, u get $198273, if u bet on man u and win, u get $1000.

So i give you $100 to bet. what will you bet on? Let's say i further say that it's Man U's first team vs Singapore's woman's team.

What i'm currently doing is about the same as you betting on Singapore. throwing away the $100 on an investment that most likely wont reap benefits. i'll elaborate more on this when the investment fails/succeeds.


haha ok that aside. i had a bad experience today at Bata @ Vivocity. i went there just to walk around and buy shoes.. so i went to bata as i passed it while looking for the ATM.
Ok firstly, ALL the salespeople dont speak fluent English. They are mainly filipino, with one chinese (who doesnt speak english properly either)
I'm not saying that their English is not accurate or broken English or what, it's that they CAN'T SPEAK A COMPLETE SENTENCE AT ALL. so they just mutter /murmur in singular words or short phrases.
e.g. the salesgirl who helped me just echoed out what i said 'Can i have a size 9'
"nine... nine... " -walks off to find-

anyway. besides the language barrier thing, i purchased these pair of shoes which i thought was quite nice.. and i wore it straight away and walked out after paying to walk around somemore.

luckily i did that, because after awhile i realised the shoes were quite tight and i was thinking maybe i should change to 9.5. But my right foot especially was hurting alot. As i got closer to the shop it became PAINFUL. like outright pain on the outside of my right foot. So i took off the shoe and walked half-barefoot. Then i saw the size printed on the inside : "8"
!?? I took off the other pair.. and it was size 9.

WTH!?! The salesgirl gave me mismatched-size shoes!!! that explains my discomfort -_-
And to top it off the filipino salesgirl didn't even seem the least bit apologetic.. she was just sheepishly smiling as she went to find proper sized shoes.

As i was leaving the store, i was tempted to just make a big fuss out of it. like 'oh wow how can you all give me mismatched shoes like this and cause me pain. are you going to compensate me my feet hurt alot now. what is this etc etc.'
But the manager had magically surfaced from nowhere (speaks English like a normal singaporean) and was already scolding the filipino. "you blind issit?? -"
that was all i caught as i walked out.

oh well, at least the shoes are nice. i still plan to get a pair of Converse after some months. And this store is marked for one of the ones i'm gonna hit for the 'irritate sales assistant' task in The Journey :p