PSP Review - Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core

Crisis Core is the prequel to Final Fantasy VII on the Playstaion and PC. Crisis Core tells the story of Zack the solider member 1st class. The game is wonderfully done and the graphics are A+. The summing spells in the game are very graphical and full of sound and color. The movie clips are a treat to watch for any gamer and including the Final Fantasy fans. Within the game I found the fire spells to be the most powerful and the most I used. Blizzard spells are strong but slow and hard to hit moving targets unlike the fire spells that have like a homing ability to find there target. Limit breakers are also wonderfully done and also gives you a chance to learn more of the story of all the characters in the game. Cissnei has the best limit breaker "Lucky Stars" that gives you a higher chance of hitting other limit breakers.

Overall I really enjoyed this game and had alot of fun playing it. The game at time can be easy but at others can be a bit difficult. I recommend this game to anybody that loves rpgs or high fast paced action games. The graphics and sound in this game are perfect. I also really enjoyed the fact that this game played almost flawless with no known glitches that I came across. Below is my final rating on the game as will as a few stats.

Overall Grade: 4.90 out of 5

Time spent tell game finished: 37 hours, 38 minutes and 10 seconds
Final level of Zack at games end: 47
Replay Value: Very high.

Final Thoughts: I recommend this game to everybody especially Final Fantasy fans. The graphics are of the chart for the PSP and the music is awesome from start to finish. This is one of the best games on the PSP as of now and anybody who has a PSP must get and play this game. I enjoyed seeing the story of Zack and Cloud and the ending is very powerful and leads right up to Final Fantasy VII. Great game!

Review: The Simpsons Game - Nintendo DS

The Simpsons game at times is fun and at others you just want to swear up a storm at it! The game play is very smooth and very few flaws or glitches are found within gameplay. The Simpsons clips are fun to watch but being on the DS the animation is not the best being a little blocky and slow. Within the game you get a chance to be all the Simpsons... Bart, Homer, Lisa and Marge. The game starts of with Homer dreaming in Chocolate Land. Out of all the Characters the best and strongest is Bart this is because of the many things Bart can do compared to all the other characters. The weakest character is Marge who only powers is the ability to form mobs by shouting through a Megaphone and using Maggie to crawl into small spaces to unlock doors and gates. Prepared to use the stylus stick to play the game as Lisa's special power known as the Buddha Hand is used through out the game making you use the touch screen to move object and lift Lisa to higher places in the game.

The game is filled with stages that are both easy and hard. The toughest stage I found was using homer to out run the Giant Donut Lad... I played this stage over and over trying to learn how to get through to the other end. Another fun thing within the game was that during a certain stage you had to battle it out with certain characters from Futurama including Bender. The sayings and quotes of both the Simpsons and other characters of Springfield can both be funny and annoying. Overall this game was very fun when I was not swearing at the DS. Below is my stats and final score of the game.

Total Play Time Tell Finished: 6 Hours, 46 minutes and 31 seconds. With 97% complete.

Replay Value: Fairly high since after you finsh the game you can play all levels, watch all movie clips, play with Pet Homer and play all the mini arcade games.

Overall Score: 4.25 out of 5

Final Thoughts: I recommend this game to anybody including Simpson's fan. I really don't recommend this game to really young or non hardcore gamers for reason that the game can get really Difficult. Fun game, great colors and great replay value makes this a great game to own on the DS.

Review by: Grimpuppy from Grimpuppy.com

Movie Review - 'The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'

Review From Get The Big Picture

In fairness to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the book upon which it is based is far from being the best, most compelling reading in C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. The series gets much better in the middle, so the fact that the first Narnia movie was kind of ho-hum isn't that surprising.
The second film in the franchise, Prince Caspian, is darker, more violent, and more entertaining and Wardrobe. Gone is the novelty of Mr. Tumnus and the disarming childish wonder of Lucy Pevensie (Georgie Henley) and in its place are bloodthirsty oppressors who have savaged the woods of Narnia so thoroughly over the centuries that it is now believed all who inhabited the magical land are dead.
Of course, we know that's not true, but when the Pevensie children are summoned back to Narnia as the kings and queens of old, but when they arrive Narnia is not the place they left it nor is it the when they left it.
Their call to action comes from Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes) 1,000 years after the first Narnia journey. Caspian has narrowly escaped an onslaught by his uncle, the stop-at-nothing leader in waiting Miraz (Sergio Castellitto), who will use his power as Telmarine king to, I don't know, grab even more power.
Peter, Edmund, Susan and Lucy (William Moseley, Skandar Keynes, Anna Popplewell and Henley) vow to fight the good fight, which of course, they do in every book in the series; it's kind of their gig.
For about 90 of Prince Caspian's 144 minutes, it's a terrific fantasy epic. It clearly has more maturity and better characters than the first film, and Castellitto's Miraz is at least on par with Tilda Swinton's White Witch from Wardrobe. He's sensational in each scene.
But there are still problems here: Caspian could easily condense a fair part of the re-introduction to Narnia, the talking animals - Eddie Izzard as a swashbuckling mouse who is entirely too reminiscent of Puss in Boots from Shrek - are really irritating, and the big finale just kind of sits there.
The prelude to the big finale, a mano e mano swordfight, is the standout scene in the film, but after the first five minutes or so of the action that follows it, you wish the story had just ended with the swordfight.
It also takes entirely too long to wrap up the few loose ends at the conclusion of the story, and you'd figure someone would've watched the ending to The Return of the King to figure out we really hate that kind of thing.
These trouble spots are worth mentioning because a two-hour film that's very strong for 90 minutes, particularly one with this much story and action, is a rare thing. And they're wonderful to find. A two-and-a-half-hour movie that's very strong for 90 minutes is also not very strong 60. How does that math not add up? A shorter, stronger film is better than a longer, less efficient film every time.