What You've Been Playing? - Fate of Two Racists Edition  

 
Instead of writing separate blogs about my impressions, here is a blog about two games that I've been playing. I talked before about playing Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds but didn't write about it. 
  

Marvel vs Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds 

  
  


I have never been much of a fighting game dude but I'm much of an admirer of watching them though I don't watch competitions like EVO and it doesn't help me learn how to play a fighting game. The last fighting game, I remembered playing was Street Fighter 4 and I picked Chun-Li and Honda and had reached the last boss, Seth and remembered dying over and over again. Rather than picking Ryu and Ken like anyone else, both Chun-Li and Honda were easy to control and not so much learn how to throw a fireball which I still don't know how to and just spam thousand-hand/kick slap on those two characters.  
 


 
But what decided me to play Marvel vs Capcom 3 was Giantbomb's TNT and Quick-look and just loving the gameplay and the fast-paced action of doing air-combos to calling assists. Also the fact that I just blindly played it despite thinking that it would be difficult to play like any other fighting games out there. From watching it, the art assets and variety of characters had sold me on playing it, it's weird that I decided to play this game rather than look back on the previous Marvel vs Capcom games but I guess it convinced me to play.   
 

 It's gratifying to do a special move-combo
 It's gratifying to do a special move-combo

 
Instead of going to the tutorials like I'm prone to do, I just started playing the Arcade mode and picked Morrigan, Phoenix and Storm as my all-star female team and to my surprise an achievement for having that team. Like previous Marvel vs Capcom games, you can choose an assist for each fighter and use it during each round anytime and also do special attacks. During each round in the Arcade Mode, I was surprised that it wasn't that hard even though I picked Very Easy, and the fact that I easily knew the controls and how to mash what buttons. Unlike any other fighting game, the special ability/move doesn't require a combination of figuring out what buttons to hit to activate it, rather, just hitting the B button on the 360 and your fighter will do his/her business dealing heavy damage depending on how high your level is charging up by hitting your opponent.   
 


  
Furthermore, the Arcade Mode isn't that long - it's about 10 minutes long and the last boss was easy to defeat. Though having a roster of a huge number of fighters is probably the reason why they decided to shorten the Arcade mode because each fighter that you hit the final blow at the boss gets a individual ending and after "beating the game", you often get unlocks from the gallery ranging from new artwork, character bios to voice samples and points that tally to some scoring feature. I had only gotten the Phoenix, Storm, Morrigan, Akuma, Iron Man, Dante and X-23 endings but I'm slowly liking this game, especially when I charge up to level 5 and then do the super-ultra combo/move of having your team combining their moves and overkilling my opponent. It's just so satisfying to do that everytime and so easy to put that move without the stress of learning annoying combinations like any other fighting game.  And Deadpool is my new favourite character due to the fact that he always had something funny to say, everytime he wins a fight.  
 
 

Pokemon White 

  
  
 Like the controversial PSP ad but in Pokemon form.
 Like the controversial PSP ad but in Pokemon form.

 
 I was fortunate to play Pokemon White for a brief moment on my friend's DSi, and only had gotten far to the first gym badge and currently at the Pokemon Day-Care. Looking back at my history of playing Pokemon games, I don't really care about how much less each game improved, it just like catching more Pokemons and addicted to its RPGs atmosphere and the last Pokemon game I played was Pokemon Ruby on the GBA.   
 

 Cheren, my character and Bianca as well as N.
 Cheren, my character and Bianca as well as N.

 
I start by picking a boy and listening to the same old crap that the professor often talk about but instead of having a rival at the starting, you are introduced to long-time friends of yours, Cheren, a intelligent boy and Bianca, an airhead. You start off in Nuvema Town of the Unova in your room and Professor Jupiter has brought you and your friends a gift of a starting Pokemon of your desire; Snivy, Tepig or Oshawott - I picked Oshawott due to picking the fire type in every Pokemon game that I've played and then Cheren picked Bianca picked Tepig while Cheren chose Snivy and we apparently started fighting which then wrecked my room. The battle feature improved since I lasted played, though since Pokemon Diamond and whatever first on the DS, the battle feature, features an animation of your Pokemon and of a trainer either talking trash/encouraging the Pokemon to make it more immersive and better detail of your attacks. 
  
  
Starting Town?
Starting Town?


After that, your mom will heal up your Pokemon for you after defeating Cheren and Bianca and I ventured off to see Bianca where she is being scolded at her overprotective father because of her leaving to become a Pokemon trainer. I then get to Professor Jupiter's lab and received a Pokedex and a tutorial of how to catch Pokemons on Route 1 as well as receiving Pokeballs to catch wild Pokemons. And so I did and caught both a level 3 Patrat and level 4 Lillipup and leveled them up to the same level as my Oshawott as I intend to level all my Pokemon rather than catching it and dumping it in my PC.  As I set sail to become the Pokemon master, my mom gave me some kind of cellphone and a map and gave it to Bianca and Cheren as well.  
 

 All the 3D buildings looks weird.
 All the 3D buildings looks weird.

 
Also the new feature in this game is the improved graphics, instead of it being 2D all the time in towns, buildings are more 3D which I'm not comfortable with. Anyways, I ventured off to Accumula Town after beating my two friends again, trying to compare how much Pokemons we have and then encounter Team Plasma who wanted to "liberate all Pokemons" and encountered N, a mysterious trainer that I defeated. I also encountered an awesome beat when I talked to a pianist and drummer and they remixed the original score and it sounded awesome - practically stalled for about a half an hour listening to it.   
 


The Battle  system looks be colourful.        
The Battle  system looks be colourful.        

 
As I go to the next Route, my mom called me and then out of nowhere she gave me Running shoes so I don't have to dread the fact that the movement in the game is fucking slow. And also introduced hooping over small cliffs instead of walking on the tall grass if I wanted to go back to the Pokemon Centre. The Pokemon Centres now feature a shop inside rather than finding a individual shop in the earlier Pokemon games which I liked. Leveling up my Pokemons to level 11 and encountering Pokemon trainers for the first time, I ventured off to Striaton City to get my first gym badge. Like any town, I often go every building and check every object and NPC to see if I get free stuff and I got a Great and Dusk Balls and also won a Full Heal from a quiz in the Pokemon school where I also fight Cheren. I also went to Dreamyard and received a free Pansear which I used advantage of when I faced the gym leader which I find it interesting that, the gym leader, Cilan detects of my starting Pokemon and it's weakness but the fact that I have Pansear, a fire type battling a green-type is a easy battle. But I don't understand that grass can beat water - in other Pokemon games usually the "electricity-type" is strong against water-types and I find it weird that water is weak to grass and the fact that grass-attacks like Vine Wip isn't "super-effective' to my Oshawott and only does equal amount of damage.   
 

Pokemon Center Store
Pokemon Center Store

  
Though the first gym like any design of other gyms looks different to contrast the Pokemon that you will be battling and this one is themed like some sort of restaurant and there's a puzzle that you have to complete by stepping on the appropriate button to correspond to the curtain's icon weakness to (like fire is weak to water) and each tier of the puzzle, you have to face a trainer/waiter. After beating the Gym Leader, Cilan, receiving my first gym badge as well as receiving TM - Work up which is a buff that increases your Pokemon Attack and Special Attack. Also TMs like HMs no longer is a one-time usage, you can repeatedly teach your Pokemon the same ability over and over again.   
 

She's the cute one.
She's the cute one.

 
As I left the gym, the old colleague of Jupiter, Fennel wanted me to go to Dreamyard to retrieve "Dream Mist" from Musharna but was stopped by Team Plasma and was intervened by Musharna's Dream Mist effect. Before that, I caught level 8 Masharna and level 10 Purrloin and level them up to level 11. Fennel thens comes to retrieve the Dream Mist and gives me HM01 - Cut and C-Gear as a reward. C-Gear ables you to go online and interact with other players by abling Shining Powers to battling them at the Pokemon Centre which I won't be able to do. Completing everything in that city, I went off to Route 3 where I encountered my first duel-battle and a Pokemon Day-Care where I can leave off a Pokemon that I didn't want and so I left Masharna and had stopped playing since then. 
 
Like Marvel vs Capcom 3, I'm slowly getting addicted to Pokemon White despite being controversial over the title, I had a blast playing it and wanted to play some more. Maybe it's time to get a DSi and NOT get a 3DS due to not liking 3D because I often get dry eyes and it's irritating to play it in 3D like watching a movie in 3D.