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I know this game has been out for well... forever, but I finally got around to finishing it (Not exactly, stuck on the last boss fight). Wow this game is bad. There is so much wrong with it, but the vital suits and giant fucking bugs just appeal to me.
The story is weak. So very, very weak. Your father is killed by a giant bug, you're pissed and you want to avenge him (it ends up evolving into something bigger, but still just as lame). Fair enough, it makes sense. But all the cutscenes leading up to it (and following it) are just cliche after cliche after cliche. There's about 15 missions (I think, wasn't really counting) or levels so to speak, and about after mission 5 I just skipped every cutscene, because it just plain wasn't interesting and it made me not want to play. I just wanted to rampage around in a robot suit pwning bugs.
The graphics are meh. Sure, they don't look bad, but take for example the machine gun. It looks like a cardboard cut-out. When you shoot one bullet, it looks like three shoot out. You'd think they'd put just a little bit more effort into making the weapons a little more believable.
The characters are cliche too. There's a semi good looking girl, a wiz-kid 10 year old boy, two traitors (one betrays you, one betrays the bad dudes), and the big bad guy is a skinny Asian with an afro (seriously, wtf?). The game just slowly screams JRPG as the game goes on with some of the hairstyles you see.
So the game isn't that great. I still enjoyed playing it and I'm actually really looking forward to Lost Planet 2 (4 player co-op against big fucking bugs? yes please), and I've already played the demo which was very impressive. I definitely wouldn't pay for Lost Planet 1.
PS: I wouldn't call this a serious review, just some musings after I finished the game.
The story is weak. So very, very weak. Your father is killed by a giant bug, you're pissed and you want to avenge him (it ends up evolving into something bigger, but still just as lame). Fair enough, it makes sense. But all the cutscenes leading up to it (and following it) are just cliche after cliche after cliche. There's about 15 missions (I think, wasn't really counting) or levels so to speak, and about after mission 5 I just skipped every cutscene, because it just plain wasn't interesting and it made me not want to play. I just wanted to rampage around in a robot suit pwning bugs.
The graphics are meh. Sure, they don't look bad, but take for example the machine gun. It looks like a cardboard cut-out. When you shoot one bullet, it looks like three shoot out. You'd think they'd put just a little bit more effort into making the weapons a little more believable.
The characters are cliche too. There's a semi good looking girl, a wiz-kid 10 year old boy, two traitors (one betrays you, one betrays the bad dudes), and the big bad guy is a skinny Asian with an afro (seriously, wtf?). The game just slowly screams JRPG as the game goes on with some of the hairstyles you see.
So the game isn't that great. I still enjoyed playing it and I'm actually really looking forward to Lost Planet 2 (4 player co-op against big fucking bugs? yes please), and I've already played the demo which was very impressive. I definitely wouldn't pay for Lost Planet 1.
PS: I wouldn't call this a serious review, just some musings after I finished the game.