tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25614437.post3537358779518884772..comments2014-08-04T18:12:12.424-04:00Comments on Hawthorn Thistleberry: Loot #6: PS3 GamesHawthorn Thistleberryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00358395505794303985noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25614437.post-57839695301257716402009-01-11T17:27:00.000-05:002009-01-11T17:27:00.000-05:00I played it more later and there were some interes...I played it more later and there were some interesting bits, but it's also true, as many of the reviews say, that there's far too much redundant play of the same fights over and over. There just aren't many new elements to add to the fights; most of them are just more of the same, and the extra techniques available, like throwing daggers, are ineffective enough you'd almost never use them.<BR/><BR/>In later fights, you control more than one character at once. Which is crazy. You have to flip the camera back and forth, and while you're controlling one of them, the other works on autopilot. Sometimes they actually fight better that way -- presumably because their opponents don't do as much -- but they're also maddeningly stupid. I spent the longest time trying to get both Jack and Will to one spot because each time I moved the camera to one, the other would double back to join the first.<BR/><BR/>In a later scene you're controlling Jack, Will, <I>and</I> Mr. Gibbs, but this is a red herring. The camera starts on Will, but if you don't switch immediately to Jack and move him out of the fight he's in, everyone will die in minutes. In fact, there's no point at all in ever leaving the camera on Will or Mr. Gibbs; only Jack can end the fight, and only by leaving the one he starts in and taking over Will's fight.<BR/><BR/>The soundalike actors are really remarkable accurate to the ones in the movie, enough that in most cases you wouldn't even suspect it wasn't them. (Will is a notable exception, which seems odd: Will's voice seems easier to hit than most of the others in the movie. The Davy Jones voice is so remarkably spot-on I had to triple-check it wasn't the same actor.)Hawthorn Thistleberryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00358395505794303985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25614437.post-58407067653372727062009-01-01T13:40:00.000-05:002009-01-01T13:40:00.000-05:00I actually thought you were patient beyond the cal...I actually thought you were patient beyond the call of duty with all the backseat gaming folks were trying to do. I was initially impressed with the movement of Jack Sparrow's character, but it began to look odd as time went on. Those were well-scripted, but they're still scripted--there are only a limited number and the repetition becomes quickly noticeablelitlfroghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18234742365994968340noreply@blogger.com