Golden Sun: Dark Dawn

Alright time for a review of Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for the Nintendo DS. Down below is the review broken  down into section like the previous reviews. It will be separated into "Gameplay", "Graphics", and "Audio". Enjoy!


Gameplay:
So it's been quite a while for this game to come out. The first 2 golden suns were originally on the GBA. Several years later the long waited third one comes out for the DS. I am glad it did. Now this game take place 30 years after the golden sun event in the second game. Before I go on, no you cannot transfer your saved games from the first or second golden sun. Anyway you play as the "Warriors of Vales" children. Along the way you will run into many familiar faces from the previous games. The game is about 25 hours long in gameplay if you take your time and do not rush through it like a maniac. There are alot more Djinni in this one than the previous games. There are about 70 Djinni's in Dark Dawn. There are new summons as well, and many summoning tablets to be found. Now the game is very simple. A lot of people were complaining about how easy this game was to the previous games. Yes it is very easy, but very enjoyable. The story makes up for the difficulty. What I like about this game is if you have not played the previous golden suns and are completely lost, you are able to buy sun sagas from item artifact vendors. When you use these items it tells you the story of what happened in the previous two games. There are alot of psynergy abilities to use, you get all new characters, many new puzzles, lots of dungeons, and lots of variety. You are even able to make your own weapons when you see the old lady in Champa.

Overall: 9/10

Graphics:
The graphics in Dark Dawn got a huge revamp as well from the previous two. Well king of obvious when Dark Dawn is released 7 years after The Lost Age and put onto the DS. The art and animations of the summonings are very impressive and very detailed. The weapons are also very cool looking when you discover the power houses. Character detail is very impressive, and as well as the environment.

Overall: 9.5/10

Audio:
Lets start with the soundtrack. The music in this game is very catchy and is very pleasant to listen to while you are playing. There are a lot of familiar soundtracks in Dark Dawn that were in the previous games, including the intro when you first boot up the game. Even the sounds of the psynergy, and attacks were really detailed and have great quality. Overall very impressive and very nice to listen to.

Overall: 10/10

Overall Rating: 9.5/10

Fable III

Alright time for Fable 3!

First of all fable is one of my most favorite series of all time. But I will still give my honest review.

Gameplay:
- The gameplay in Fable III is solid. The mechanics are totally different then from Fable I and II. What I mean by that is experience. You know longer gain experience in the game. The only type of experience currency you get is for guild seals. You spend these guild seals to upgrade your weapons and magic. It is also used for buying new spells and expression and abilities to marry, buy, sell, rent, etc.... Now your goal in Fable III is to become king of Albion and save all your people from an even greater threat than your brother. There are a lot of things I like about this game. The Co-op is much better, your can go into partnerships with people over live to get more gold, you can marry one another, have a family, do quests, and the best part is that you don't have to use a preset character, you bring your own character into your friends world. In Fable II and I you had an inventory where you can use items and change clothes. That is gone, well not totally they just made it better. When you press start you get teleported to your Sanctuary where you are able to view your xbox live friends, status, change clothes, make-up, tattoo's, color's, you can view your trophies and achievements, any gifts sent you to from an xbox live person gets put on the gift shelf, and you can also travel and change your weaponry and spells. Fable III's world is much bigger than Fable II. My only complaint is the slow loading times and graphical jitters.

9/10


Graphics:
- The graphics in-game are very well done. Some of the character models look to cheesy but the environment details are phenomenal. The cinematic graphics are even better, almost looks like your watching a movie. The enchantments and detail on the weapons and armor are also very well done. There are some graphical errors though just like in any other game, but they aren't that noticeable and will not change the gameplay what so ever.

9/10


Audio:
- The audio is also excellent in this game. The sound track is excellent, the voice acting is great, and the background sounds are very well done as well. The only issue I have with the audio is something you have to turn your TV up loud to hear what they are saying then when the talking is over it's loud from the music or combat.

9/10


Overall Score:
9/10

Darksiders

Well lets start off with my first review shall we? Since this is my first review posting I will explain quickly and shortly how I will be doing this. First I will divide each review in 3 sections; gameplay, audio, and graphics. Then at the end of each section it will be an overall score then at the end of the whole review will be the overall game score. So lets get on with it!

Gameplay:
- The game play in Darksiders if very much like God of War. In Darksiders your roll is to basically avenge what happened to you. Basically you are one of the four horsemen and you were betrayed into bringing the earth into an apocalyptic ending. Anyway there are some really good fighting mechanics and combos you unlock and purchase. To purchase these skills, combos and weapons you use an in game currency known as souls. You earn these currencies from killing enemies or giving the vendor artifacts in exchange for souls. Some of the missions that need to be done kind of get repetitive and the puzzles get annoying and unnecessary. There are some really neat monsters in the game that take skill to take them down. The boss fights on the other hand are a bit to simple. Some bosses are huge and require you to think of a strategy to take them down will some you run in there like a maniac and hit them till they go down. The last boss is a let down. The boss is massive in size and is a 2 boss fight (same guy) and is extremely easy. The game is pretty long, but that is because of the repetiveness. Overall the game play is pretty decent.

8/10


Graphics:
- The graphics in this game are pretty good. What I like most about this game is the art work. I am a fan of demons and fantasy artwork so if you like those then you will love this. The artwork is gorgeous as well as the graphics. When you enchant your sword the glows make it look that much better. The combo styles and skills you unlock as well as weapons have pretty neat effects as well. Overall the graphics are great.

8.5/10


Audio:
- The audio in this game is also well done. It has a God of war style music in the menu and during the game play. The voice acting is well done as well. The main character which your playing has a great voice. Anyone know illidan from World of Warcraft? Yeah that's right!

9/10


Overall Game Score:


8.5/10


Cheers!

New Blog!!

Hey everyone!

Just thought I would start a new blog here and try and keep it going. So I decided to do something that really interests me and a lot of other people. I won't be doing up to date new reviews all the time but I will be reviewing older game as well. It will be basically random and I will be trying to focus on the new releases as well but you know that costs money lol. So stay tuned!
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