Two-Minute Game Reviews: Revived!

[Fudozukushi]

Disgaea

Rating: 7/10

Best feature/element: Eh, dunno.  Most of the good points are about even.
Worst feature/element: Item World.  Thursday.

Best character: Kurtis.
Worst character: Thursday.

Best PC in-game: Laharl for Uniques, Divine Majin fro Generics.
Worst PC in-game: Thursday.

Favorite moment: Beating Baal.
Least favorite moment: Item World bullshit.  Thursday.

[Dhyerwolf]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 3

Best feature/element: There isn't one.
Worst feature/element: Battles? Characters?

Best character: Etna
Worst character: Gordon

Best PC in-game: Mages
Worst PC in-game: Uh...Kurtis, I guess. Plot character who comes late.

Favorite moment: When Etna owned lamers.
Least favorite moment: Pretty much when Gordon was on-screen. I found his idiot persona to be completely unentertaining.

[Shale]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 7/10.

Best feature/element: Writing. Sheer awesome.
Worst feature/element: Monotony of the gameplay.

Best character: I can never pick. Etna, Gordon, Laharl, Mid-Boss...Hatbot says Laharl today.
Worst character: Vulcanus.

Best PC in-game: Never did enough grinding for Majin, so Laharl.
Worst PC in-game: Kurtis. LATEGAME QUASI-UNIQUE PRINNY.

Favorite moment: Mid-Boss steals the party's lynch.
Least favorite moment: Vulcanus says something.

[Meeplelard]

Rating: 6/10.  Really funny, and great cast...but little else.

Best feature/element: The cast.
Worst feature/element: Geopanels.  Go die in fire.
Honorable Mention to Item world.  More offensive than Geo Panels, but forced to work with a lot less, so it evens out to being less annoying, but still horrid.

Best character: I'll go with Midboss.  Every scene with him was just a riot.
Worst character: Maderas.  They build something up for him...then completely drop him in Chap 4 or 5.  At least Hoggmeiser has the excuse of being a randomly tossed in nobody for shits.

Best PC in-game: Laharl, I guess.  Uniques were nice and varied or something, and good weapon levels across the board.
Worst PC in-game: Flonne.  Completely worthless before Holy Arrows, below average after then.

Favorite moment: Prism Rangers works for me.
Least favorite moment: Chap 7 and 8.  Chap 7 was just childish humor that was "oh you've got to be kidding me" level, combined with just being idiotic filler (compared to Chap 11 or whatever the Picnic Basket one was where it was obvious filler, but generally hilarious.)  Chap 8 wasn't total filler, but so freaking boring at the same time, and did in 4 maps what they COULD have done in one.

[Grefter]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 2/10. It is a shining example of everything wrong with the genre today.

Best feature/element: Characters.
Worst feature/element: Gameplay.  Aftergame.

Best character: Etna,funny AND sympathetic?  This is better than the game deserves.
Worst character: Any aftergame character.

Best PC in-game: Generics.
Worst PC in-game: Kurtis

Favorite moment: Prism Rangers
Least favorite moment: Aftergame.

[Dark Holy Elf]

Rating: 2/10.

Best feature/element: Humour. It's not always my style, but it's good at the style it chooses.
Worst feature/element: BATTLE SYSTEM. Geopanels, huge random damage, item world, poor documentation, no damage/hit projection in a 21st century SRPG, idiotic AI, Exp-only-for-kills, it's all insulting.

Best character: Etna. While others are also good, Etna's a sarcastic woman after my own heart.
Worst character: Thursday. Are 50's sci-fi movies notable enough to deserve a character who does nothing more than pay homage to them? No. Lamington also sucks because I can't ever recall him being funny and Disgaea plot is stupid when it is serious.

Best PC in-game: Ronins. Much more smash than the plot PCs, and not fucking aftergame. This isn't even especially close to me.
Worst PC in-game: Since I've never looked closely at the shittier generics, Kurtis. Obviously the worst plot PC.

Favorite moment: Oh hell. One of the mid-chapter breaks.
Least favorite moment: Forced item world! Though C7-8 as a whole blow, too.


Grefter owns you all. But we already knew this.

[Shale]

Updating tomorrow.

[Cmdr_King]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 8/10.

Best feature/element: Next Episode.
Worst feature/element: Geopanels.

Best character: Etna.
Worst character: Jennifer.

Best PC in-game: Hm.  Flonne?  I dunno.
Worst PC in-game: Jennifer.  Kurtis packs more punch for less effort thanks to Jennifer never sticking around long enough to get any damned weapon levels.

Favorite moment: I can't pick any one Next Episode, but after that definitely the last battle of C5.
Least favorite moment: Forced Item World.

[Cotigo]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 10

Best feature/element: Characters, writing
Worst feature/element: Being unable to gain EXP through anything other than killing

Best character: MidBoss.  Gordon is second.
Worst character: Vulcanus

Best PC in-game: Marjoly.  What?  Okay, fine.  Majin.  ...What?  Okay, fine.  Gordon.  S in axes, roguelike throw, overall good plot character.
Worst PC in-game: Flonne.  Healer who cannot heal herself, thanks to EXP thing is constantly underlevelled.

Favorite moment: BLUE! YELLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
Least favorite moment: Aftergame.  Too... pointless, honestly.

[Taishyr]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 7

Best feature/element: Characters, writing.
Worst feature/element: Unrefined battle system.

Best character: Uhhhh. Etna.
Worst character: ...Vulcanus.

Best PC in-game: Laharl.
Worst PC in-game: Kurtis.

Favorite moment: Next Chapter.
Least favorite moment: Any time I forgot to mute the TV when Thursday spoke.

[Tonfa]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 7.5/10

Best feature/element: Characters.
Worst feature/element: Item World.

Best character: Midboss.
Worst character: Carter.

Best PC in-game: Laharl.
Worst PC in-game: Flonne. Removing her for the last fight is just the ultimate insult even if you try to make her decent against all odds.

Favorite moment: Anything with Mid-Boss.
Least favorite moment: Chapter 7.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Rating: 5/10

Best feature/element: The funny.
Worst feature/element: The not-funny. Serious DISGAEA PLOT and battle system.

Best character: Flonne. Nin nin nin.
Worst character: Jennifer. Oh my god she has BOOBS.

Best PC in-game: Laharl.
Worst PC in-game: Kurtis

Favorite moment: Picnic.
Least favorite moment: Horse weiner.

[DjinnAndTonic]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 10 - Only game where I enjoyed grinding. The challenge of geo-panels made for some interesting levelling abuse.

Best feature/element: The writing, the cast.
Worst feature/element: EXP-for-kills-only, inability to turn off lengthy battle animations

Best character: Flonne, the best parody of a lead female RPG character out there. Also could be sympathetic in serious moments. Etna/Laharl/Gordon/Vyers are also pretty awesome.
Worst character: Vulcanus? Lamington?

Best PC in-game: Laharl for PCs, Priere for uniques, Ronin for main game generics, and Majin for everything including aftergame
Worst PC in-game: Thursday, or Male Cleric for generics

Favorite moment: Next Episode previews, or "Nin Nin"
Least favorite moment: Vulcanus was a pretty lame villain and didn't even parody lame villains very well. So any of his scenes.

[DomaDragoon]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 10/10 - See Disgaea 2.

Best feature/element: The cast, probably one of the better ones out there.
Worst feature/element: The huge spike inbetween CoO and the other optional maps for level requirement.

Best character: Etna.
Worst character: Hoggmeiser. I'll take wasted potential with one good moment (Madheras) over no potential any day.

Best PC in-game: Laharl, I suppose.
Worst PC in-game: Hoggmeiser.

Favorite moment: Episode 6 as a whole.
Least favorite moment: Hero's Tomb. That map just bugged me so much.

[Shale]

Game: Disgaea

Rating: 6.91.

Best feature/element: Characters, and it's not close.
Worst feature/element: Gameplay issues, with Geopanels getting the most individual attention.

Best character: Etna. Flonne and Mid-Boss are nonclose seconds.
Worst character: Vulcanus in a low-scoring competition.

Best PC in-game: Laharl smash.
Worst PC in-game: Kurtis, with Flonne in second.

Favorite moment: The dramatic appearance of the Prism Rangers, with next-episode previews after that.
Least favorite moment: LOL horse penis, followed by the Item World.

Next up, a ranked SNES game that wasn't covered in the old topic! Possibly the only one.


Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

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[superaielman]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 7/10. The ultimate popcorn SNES game. Short, breezy, and with a lot of variety in your party. Definitely one of the great two player RPG's.

Best feature/element: Combat. It was really fun, and the bosses had variety.
Worst feature/element: FAIRIE. DIE.

Best character: Kevin? Uh. There really wasn't a cast.
Worst character: FAIRIE

Best PC in-game: Kevin. Utter fucking smash. It was easy enough to control day/night as well.
Worst PC in-game: Duran. Whoo boy, did he suck.

Favorite moment: Snowfields. Memorable for the pretty design and class changes.
Least favorite moment: Ending. Shut the fuck up Fairie. I can't believe she got rewarded for an entire lifetime's worth of blundering and hiding.

[AAA]

Rating: 8/10

Best feature/element: Battle System
Worst feature/element: Fairie

Best character: Lise was kinda cool I guess
Worst character: If you don't know who I'm putting here then you haven't been on the forum very long. _{Fairie you moron}

Best PC in-game: Kevin
Worst PC in-game: Duran

Favorite moment: Those brief, beautiful moments when Fairie was not around.
Least favorite moment: While there are many, many similar moments that could take this place, I would have to say the ending, which made my already simmering hatred of Fairie boil over into a neverending chain reaction of fury.

[Shale]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 2/10. WORSE THAN FF8.

Best feature/element: The class system is, in theory, a good idea.
Worst feature/element: Shitty controls in a gameplay-focused action game. Because who cares about combat when you have SD3's godly characters and atmosphere? Honorable mention to dungeon designs and the retarded amount of grinding you're expected to do for lategame class changes and equipment, in that order.

Best character: Kevin's father? The PCs are all one step up from silent mains so they're sure as hell not getting this, and the only NPCs I remember are him and Fairie.
Worst character: Fairie. SHUT UP AND DIE YOU MORON.

Best PC in-game: Kevin. SMASH.
Worst PC in-game: Lise. Thanks for buffing Kevin, now kindly stop trying to help. (Note: The only PCs I saw were Priestess Carlie, Baskar Kevin and Valkyrie Lise.)

Favorite moment: The credits.
Least favorite moment: "No I said aim up STOP PICKING TARGETS ON YOUR OWN KEVIN GAH I HATE YOU."

[OblivionKnight]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 5.5/10.  Eh...Honestly, I think I prefer SoM to it.  SD3 feels really slow and really boring at points.  The villains are totally bland, and much of the game feels like a chore.  Combat isn't great.  This score might be too high...so let's lower it a bit more....game has not aged well at all, and I really can't see myself replaying it, unless in a group.  Game's not bad, but...definitely not top tier SNES.

Best feature/element: Multiple characters and paths.  Good replayability and some semblence of uniqueness here.
Worst feature/element: Combat.  What a boring chore.

Best character: Hawk.  Everyone else sucked balls.
Worst character: ...a lot.  Honestly, at least Fairie did something.  Let's hype the final bosses here - how much plot did they have, again?  Honestly, a lot of character fall here.

Best PC in-game: Hawk or Lise.  Hawk had great damage and the awesome MT stat-downs in his classes, and some cheap MT damage.  Lise was similar, with the great summons she had.  Most characters are damn good and balanced here, but these two stood out a lot to me.  Teamwork for the win, as these two work great in groups and even better together.
Worst PC in-game: Duran?  Honestly, I can't even call him bad for the game's standards.  Angela's not amazing either, but she theoretically has random killing, so...

Favorite moment: ...none.  I can't remember enjoying a scene or moment in the game.
Least favorite moment: ...same again.  Too much apathy to hate anything, I guess.

Hey, let's do Persona 3 next!

[Dark Holy Elf]

Rating: 4/10? Something like that. I totally see the hate, but eh. Found it all right as a fluff game I guess.

Best feature/element: The choices presented by the party and class system.
Worst feature/element: I dunno. No one thing really jumps out at me, it's just pretty underwhelming at everything that isn't aesthetic (good graphics for SNES, decent music). The plot is pretty insulting with how the supposed split paths are in fact identical retreads of each other, and the main cast is a bunch of cardboard. Something in there is probably the worst.

Best character: Fairie, because her effect on Super/Trips is funny as hell. Seriously, no character on this cast had any real impact on me, though Beast King works as a serious answer from what little I remember in all three of his scenes.
Worst character: Koren?

Best PC in-game: Kevin. Smaaash indeed. The buff characters can be replaced by other buff characters, or by items. Nobody comes close to Kevin's offence, however. And he even has game-best HP and utility.
Worst PC in-game: Duran.

Favorite moment: Finally beating Lugar on the bazillionth try.
Least favorite moment: Learning that he was a stupid trick.

[Meeplelard]

Rating: EDIT: 7/10.  Whoops, forgot to rate it <_<;

Best feature/element: The Different Penultimate Dungeons and Final Bosses were neat.
Worst feature/element: Anything related to plot or writing.

Best character: Beast King; only character with any sort of worth at all in this cast.  Even Deathjester was wasted.
Worst character: Koren. Lame Cliche in a game with bad writing.

Best PC in-game: Hawk.  Yes, Buff PCs can be replaced by items...which means Lise gets covered only.  Getting items for Debuffing is much harder, and Hawk has other tricks paired with good offense at any moment.
Worst PC in-game: Duran. Yeah, don't know why I use to support him as being not bad; he really is just a Kevin Wannabe.

Favorite moment: Hawk's kissing Lise, only cause it made me crack up the first time.
Least favorite moment: I would say Angela's ending in her own path cause of the whole "OMG ANGELAxDURAN IS SUCH A CANON PAIRING ITS SO OBVIOUS!!!" hype...but that scene is kind of funny if you do an all girl team, and that reasoning isn't really fair.
So instead, I'll just say the ending in general. Really needed to be more than just "Fairy lives, 2 scenes for each character you have, credits role!" and the Triangle Story thing is completely wasted for any character not Angela or Kevin since their endings never change.

[Clear Tranquil]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 7/10? - I can't really use a plot sucks excuse since for S03 I mainly completely ignore the plot and give it high marks anyway. Same applies here I guess only SD3's lots of other stuff isn't quite as good as S03

Best feature/element: Going to agree w/th DHE here
*runs* xD
Worst feature/element: Duran.

Best character:  Hawk. Ninja!
Worst character: Angela, Duran, Angela, Duran ... Angela is smexy at least so Dylan gets it.

Best PC in-game: Kevin. My Kevin/Carle duo was generally more awesme than my Hawk/Angela team so yeah.
Worst PC in game: Close call between Duran and Lise =/ Duran gets it I guess since Lise loves that I have a soft spot for support type characters in general. Besides I never really extensively used her fully.



Hell if I remember favourite or least favourite moments.

[Grefter]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 6/10. It isn't great, but it does what it sets out to do really well.  I like it for far more than it really is.  Like most of the Mana games really.

Best feature/element: Replayability.  If you like it, it is super easy to replay.
Worst feature/element: Seed randomisation.

Best character: Beast King, cause he is randomly a complete and total prick.
Worst character: Fairie I guess, meh.

Best PC in-game: Hawk.  Kevin rocks face, Kevin does early game better than Hawk for sure.  This is also overlooking that Hawk is second best at the job they do at that point (Duran without spells and before people are hitting high strength caps isn't anything amazing.  Servicable but nothing amazing).  After that point he is super utility and slots into absolutely any other pairing of characters just fine, he can suffice for your physical brute force if you are running one of those really weird low physical groups, can be your caster if you pick up Duran and Kevin at the same time, compliments Lise in the most brutal fashion you can gather even has a fair bit of synergy with Angela which only Lise can really bring to the table.  THAT is where I would say he dominates.  Yeah you can say Kevin is so brutal you could make the same argument, but the difference is not so overwhelming between having him and not having him that it sticks, Hawk works with the groups rather than just being so strong.
Worst PC in-game: Carlie, sure she trivialises the game, but so do the healing items, she is also nothing but a walking set of items that takes up an offensive party member slot in 2 of the three routes.  In Kevin/Carlie story of course she is a bit stronger due to the dungeon being made for her.  Here is how much I place on that though.  MEH.  Everyone else brings SOMETHING to the table that I ponder while juggling groups.  Carlie never does.

Favorite moment: Your second play through hitting Land of Mana for the first time in the game and seeing how the plots overlap even if the difference is massively minor is a nice thing I found when it happened to me.  I was also like 14 at the time though.
Least favorite moment: I give sword away oh just doomed the world.

[Talaysen]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 0/10 - Shale you damn fanboy

Best feature/element: Nothing.  Okay, maybe class changing was cool?
Worst feature/element:

Shitty controls in a gameplay-focused action game. Because who cares about combat when you have SD3's godly characters and atmosphere? Honorable mention to dungeon designs and the retarded amount of grinding you're expected to do for lategame class changes and equipment, in that order.

  This.  Also the fact that the mechanics are utter shit anyways.

Best character: Don't know.  They all seemed kind of bleh.
Worst character: Fairie, I guess.  She seemed only slightly worse than anyone else but that's because she actually does things.

[DomaDragoon]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 5/10. Standard Seiken gameplay, for good or ill.

Best feature/element: Soundtrack.
Worst feature/element: The randomized seeds work.

Best character: At random, Deathjester.
Worst character: FAIRIE.

Best PC in-game: Kevin. I press attack button and things die! Yay! (And yes, I know I play Seiken wrong. Shut up.)
Worst PC in-game: Duran.

Favorite moment: Having to make that first big plot-kill (you know the one) on my first playthrough as Kevin really hit me.
Least favorite moment: Yeah, the ending works for me.

Let's do XS1 or 2 next (unless we've already done them lately, too lazy to check).