Two-Minute Game Reviews: Revived!

[Luther Lansfeld]

Rating: 0.5/10

Best feature/element: Kevin smash.
Worst feature/element: The gameplay.

Best character: Hahaha. Uhh... ... hahaha.
Worst character: Carlie. Whiny twat.

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

Favorite moment: Beating Zable Fahr pretty handily.
Least favorite moment: Not beating Jagan so handily.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Rating: 9/10. SD3 is a fun game to play through.

Best feature/element: Holy shit what PCs play different, and classes make them different? NO COATRACK SYNDROME AT ALL?
Worst feature/element: Eh, probably killing the other mana beasts before the last one (which is generally a BA dungeon).

Best character: Eh, it's not really a big character game. I prefer Hawkeye because of his superficial resemblance to the World's Premier Adventurer. Or Angela, because she's a whore.
Worst character: Jesus... Riesz, maybe Charlotte. I can't recall caring much for either of them, but I generally avoid using either of them.

Best PC in-game: Kevin during the night (uh, duh) or Hawkeye during the day (has the best overall stats, lots of useful skills)
Worst PC in-game: Riesz. Riesz brings stat up OR down spells (but not both) and unlike Hawkeye, hits once and has the worst overall stats.

Favorite moment: The Mana Beast of Darkness and associated dungeon.
Least favorite moment: FUCK YOU FAIRY!

[Nephrite]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 9/10, I know and completely understand why people don't like it, but I do for some reason.

Best feature/element: The different class combinations you could end up with.
Worst feature/element: The relatively boring first and last parts, I'd say.

Best character: Uhh... oh, Booskaboo. Definitely.
Worst character: QUEEN OF MAGIC KINGDOM LOLOLOLOL also fairie

Best PC in-game: Probably Kevin at first... any of them are good in their own right, though.
Worst PC in-game: I guess Lise.

Favorite moment: First class change.
Least favorite moment: A lot of the 'har har we're screwing you and you can't do anything' moments come to mind.

[Shale]

Updating tomorrow. Get your hate in now!

[Tonfa]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 3/10? I dunno, it may not deserve this high.

Best feature/element: Music.
Worst feature/element: Hay let's make magic and techs utterly impractical due to anything of value countering them.

Best character: Um. Ha...wk? I guess he had that moderately amusing jailbreak.
Worst character: Carlie.

Best PC in-game: Hawk.
Worst PC in-game: Angela. LOLOL COMPLETELY DEPENDANT ON COUNTERABLE MAGIC

Favorite moment: And your boss of the dungeon is THE OVEN OF DOOM
Least favorite moment: Why is there a boss at the end of glass desert with zero savepoints asfhdiosgjo

[VySaika]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 1/10 . God awful

Best feature/element: Uh, some of it's concepts were neat? Class changing and such. The execution, on the other hand...
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.

Basically, the controls as a whole. Battles felt a loooot more clunky and generally obnoxious then they did in SoM or SoE.

Best character: Beast...king? Maybe? Sure, him.
Worst character: Koren, Carlie, Farie...pick one.

Best PC in-game: Hawk.
Worst PC in-game: Carlie, sure.

Favorite moment: None spring to mind.
Least favorite moment: Anytime I was in a fight.

[Shale]

Game: Seiken Densetsu 3

Rating: 4.93 Fanboys, the lot of you.

Best feature/element: Class system.
Worst feature/element: Combat and general crappy gameplay.

Best character: Beast King ties with Hawk. Nobody else got multiple votes.
Worst character: Fairie. Act surprised!

Best PC in-game: Kevin. Act surprised again!
Worst PC in-game: Duran. I didn't even bother to count this.

Favorite moment: No consensus at all here - no two people picked the same thing.
Least favorite moment: The ending. I don't see what the problem is - the game was over, that's an awesome moment!

Next up....

Game: Persona 3

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[AAA]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 9/10. Nearly perfect, dragged down by a few flaws.

Best feature/element: Battle system is nearly perfect.
Worst feature/element: Game tends to drag during the latter parts.

Best character: Junpei. He starts out as a generic goofball, but the game shits on him so much in pretty much every way and he reacts to it like a normal human and he winds up being a pretty likable character.
Worst character: Fuuka, I guess. Meh.

Best PC in-game: Minato. This isn't really debatable unless you ignore him.
Worst PC in-game: Junpei. Starts out weak, most the early bosses hit his weakness, so he's quite easy to keep underleveled for most of the game. He does get better later on, but by then there's no real point since Koromaru can do everything he does and has ID and no elemental weaknesses.

Favorite moment: Summoning Orpheus for the first time. Pretty powerful scene.
Least favorite moment: That scene with Yukari at the train. Just sort of out of nowhere lol upskirt nonsense, just a rare example of the game doing humor and failing.

[Talaysen]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 3/10

Best feature/element: Characters?  I actually liked them.  Everything else had potential but failed at it.
Worst feature/element: LOL MAIN DIES = GAEM OVAR in a game where crits are semi-common and deal effectively at least 3x damage.

Best character: Uh... Mitsuru, I guess?  I liked all of the PCs, really.
Worst character: Minato.  Doesn't exist.  While this isn't bad, it's worse than people who are actually good.

Best PC in-game: Minato.  Only weakness is the fact he has to be alive at all times, but he's still the most useful, easily.  Second would be Yukari (healing) or Mitsuru (healing AND damage).  The game's fairly balanced outside of Minato though.
Worst PC in-game: Junpei.  Too much emphasis on physical stuff.

[Tide]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 8/10. Very good. It has definite flaws in the system, but awesome otherwise.

Best feature/element: Characters. A game that features all PCs being likable to semi likable. Challenge was also good although some stuff wasn't as well documented as I had hoped.
Worst feature/element: Secondning Tal on the Main dies = Game over in game where Critical hits are common and effectively robs you of a turn. That dragged the game play a bit. It was challenging at points even without this "feature" kicking in. Honerable mention to the pacing mid game which was a little slow.

Best character: Akihiko, Junpei, Mitsuru. All three are very cool. If I could choose only one, probably Akihiko. Does the entire job of what the designers wanted (" a cool senior") without being arrogant or coming off the wrong way.
Worst character: Its either Jin or Takaya. Takaya is at least Jesus with a gun. Jin has nothing but emo.

Best PC in-game: Minato. This is a no contest.
Worst PC in-game: Aigis I think? Granted, I didn't use her long enough to get her good skills. Pierce resistance just didn't seem as useful as the other various resists characters had to offer. Also blowing HP to do 15 more points of damage = argh.

Favorite moment: The initiation into SEES was very good. Entire first two months up to when Fuuka joins up is really well done in general.
Least favorite moment: Takaya/Jin's entire schpeel about wanting to see the world to end. God damn it. Stop being Sync fanboys.

[Lady Ashe]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 9

Best feature/element: Social Links.  I enjoy seeing each character's little arc, and it gives you an idea of who you're fighting for, which is something missing in a lot of RPGs.
Worst feature/element: Main character being vulnerable to charm. This would be fine if Yukari could actually use her charm healing spell, but she can't, so it's pretty much mandatory to grind a person for the charm blocking accessory.

Best character: Shinjiro.
Worst character: Do the Velvet room characters count? No? Jin, I guess.

Best PC in-game: Main. Easily.
Worst PC in-game: Junpei, yeah. Pretty much just an inferior version of Koromaru.

Favorite moment: Final Battle. Woo music.
Least favorite moment: Anything involving Junpei's obsession with Chidori.

[Lord Ephraim]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 9/10

Best feature/element: Pacing.  You can move at the Tartutus at your own rate.  School offers some neat gimmicks and doesn't really drag on.  Characters...you know, act like teenagers except for the random lets slay demons part.  Lots of little things add a lot to the game.
Worst feature/element: Main character dies = gameover.  Also, baised ID spells that ALWAYS hit you.

Best character: Koromaru. Doglike that is an awesome doglike. Now if he only shot himself in the head...
Worst character: Ken. Fuuka is only annoying for her voice but a whiny emo kid didn't fit in with the other emo kids.

Best PC in-game: Minato, duh
Worst PC in-game: Aigis.  Junpei can at least hit a common weakness with Fire.  Aigis has nothing but HP and defense and in a game with selectivly bad AI, healing is sort of a gamble.

Favorite moment:  Beach scene with the tranny. Runner up is the MMO social link.
Least favorite moment:  Mini-bosses in Tartutus.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 3/10. This game hits several of the things that really piss me off in video games: silent main character, grinding levels (seriously, I don't even do that in WoW) and RANDOM FUCKING BULLSHIT.

Best feature/element: Social Links. I wish they had been better implemented, because I basically just max out one and then forget about them forever.
Worst feature/element: Silent Main Character. Random Dungeons. Enemies with full-party accurate instant death. Not being able to control your party members. Losing if the main character dies. Every time you step in to a new area, having to check a FAQ because you might get raped. Take any of these.

Best character: Akihiko. He's probably the least-emo character, for one. Second, he's competent. Third, he gets to put it in Mitsuru, and that is worth points. And he keeps his feelings to himself, which is nice. Runner-up to Kenji, whose quest to put it in his hot teacher makes me salute him (he lost due to lack of screen time).
Worst character: The main character. The fact that I, the player, am somehow supposed to identify with this emo cocksucker makes me want to strangle whatever Japanese shit-eater decided that would be fun.

Best PC in-game: Jesus christ, I wonder if it's the ONE you can control?
Worst PC in-game: Uh, the kid. The one with the shorts.

Favorite moment: Kenji getting dumped by his hot teacher but realizing the importance of Bros Before Hos, making it a lesson well-learned.
Least favorite moment: Creepy little boy appears in your bedroom. Jesus christ fuck the main character is a fag.

Lalalala.  Ok, please, do tone down the language here.  It's a wwwwwwwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee bit insulting and flagrant.

Your friendly, neighborhood mod, OK

[Clear Tranquil]

Wow ... Rob convinced me not to get Persona 3 <_<

[Yakumo]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 6? 7?  Somewhere in there.

Best feature/element: Social Links were pretty cool, yeah, but Homunculi definately get an honorable mention at the least. <_<
Worst feature/element: The main dies thing really wasn't as bad in this one, with the Homunculi to take ID for you and the ability to block pretty much whatever the hell you wanted to, but it still is a retarded feature that needs to be removed from multi-PC games forever, especially ones where your party members have revival skills.

Best character: Hmm.  Tough one, but I think I'll go with Mitsuru?  This could go to a lot of people, really.
Worst character: Ken.  Just didn't fit in with the group at all, really.

Best PC in-game: Minato, obviously.
Worst PC in-game: Junpei.  Everything he can do, Aigis can do better, except for hit things with woefully pathetic fire spells that are only good for knocking things down when they hit weakness.  And the dog does that better than him if that's what you need.

Favorite moment:  I'll think about these two and get back to this later, gotta run to work. <_<
Least favorite moment:

[VySaika]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 10/10

Best feature/element: Hmm, characters, social links, persona fusing, combat system? Hard to pick one. I just like everything the game does. I think I'll give another nod to the pacing, though. Wonderfully done. The ally AI being actually intelligent is also a nice surprise, as well as the Tactics commands.
Worst feature/element: Hmm...can't...really think of one. It has a few flaws here and there, but they're nothing to really gripe about. I suppose Game Over when the Main dies is the biggest one, but with the homoncui you can pick up as well as the fact that the main is always going first and swiftly becomes overleveled, that really shouldn't be a problem often.

Best character: hmm, Akihiko or Shinjiro, definately. I'll say Akihiko.
Worst character: Jin, I think? Ken...wasn't really good, but at least pulled off the "mature kid" trope well. For all that he requires alot more willing suspension of disbelief then the rest of the PC cast. Jin is just annoying.

Best PC in-game: Main, no question. He can hang with Ryus and Harmonixers for sheer level of domination.
Worst PC in-game: Hmm, Koromaru? He's probably the least useful for me, as he doesn't hit as hard as Junpei pysically, and anything fire weak gets roasted by the main spamming Surt's magic before any allies get to go at all.

Favorite moment: Hmm, SPOILAR PC leaving the party. Really powerful scene and the fallout from that was handled well.
Least favorite moment: Hot springs minigame. Annoying.

[Dunefar]

Least favorite moment: Creepy little boy appears in your bedroom. Jesus christ fuck the main character is a fag.

Please don't bring that into here. This isn't the place.

[OblivionKnight]

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 10/10.  Required playing for everyone.  I was so surprised going into the game, that this was fantastic.  I thought it would be...well, odd.  Just goes to show there are some things not to listen to Niu about!

Best feature/element: Oh.  What?  Everything flows so well, I can't think of one great thing.  The uniqueness of the entire package is just simply amazing.  Great pacing, too. 
Worst feature/element: Main dying=game over.  It's not a large issue in-game (initiative!  hit weakness!  victory!), really, if you know what you're doing, but it is stupid.  Especially when 3 characters have revival, and the reasoning for it is nowhere near good enough ("You're the leader!" yeah, Mitsuru and Akihiko and Shinjiro lead the group way before you came here - why can't people go with you down and then revive you?).  It made sense in Nocturne!  Not here.

Best character: Junpei.  He's Xander in an RPG.  Best way to describe that, I think.
Worst character: Ken.  The villains work for what they are.  Ken...isn't even bad, but he feels so, so, so out of place.  His perspective was why they wanted him, but he does feel a bit forced.  Granted, this is a bit corrected in Fes, from what I understand, but still.  He's also kind of bland and "just there" too

Best PC in-game: Minato, duh >_>  Outside of him...they're all very balance.  All have good use. 
Worst PC in-game: Honestly, this is kind of hard.  Koromaru, Junpei, and Aigis are all the closest to worst, but...I still can't call them bad.  The AI options can turn Aigis and her MP pool into a heal/support whore, and criticals are awesome.  God's Hand is the best physical skill in the game, overall, and she has it.  Junpei's skills are damn expensive, but he comes with a -kaja, at least, and the regen helps a bit.  Fire magic is ok, though sucktastic.  His durability and damage are still always good.  Koro's probably the worst overall - fire magic is all he has, and while he has ID, and he does have MT ID, Ken's is overall better (more dark resistance than light resistance).  Granted, Koro's still great, especially as a Jeigan, and he has evasion, so...Koro's probably the worst in-game (since if you want fire, max MAGICIAN, get Surt, blow things up), since he's not much outside of Fire Amp and Agi skills.

Favorite moment: Mmm...Orpheus Awakens.  That is pretty damn cool.  I also really like the ending sequence (the credits screen that shows the characters in art form, and cutscenes from the game).
Least favorite moment: Mmm...honestly, none, really.  The game is damn awesome at balancing all the good and bad, and everything was pretty damn good. 

[Shale]

Updating tomorrow!

[Shale]

Game: Persona 3

Rating: 7.5. Not much middle ground here, and more people loved it than hated it.

Best feature/element: Social links, with characters and pacing close behind.
Worst feature/element: Game over if Minato dies. Not having played the game, I can still pretty much agree with that on general principle.

Best character: Tie between Mitsuru and Junpei.
Worst character: Tie between Jin and Ken, with Silent Main close behind.

Best PC in-game: In the first unanimous verdict of the topic, Minato.
Worst PC in-game: Junpei.

Favorite moment: Orpheus awakens, with two votes.
Least favorite moment: As near as I can tell, no single moment got two votes.

Now for something a bit more widely played.

Game: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

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[AAA]

Rating: 8/10.

Best feature/element: It's pretty quick and breezy
Worst feature/element: RNG

Best character: Lute...I guess
Worst character: Riev or whatever that old guy was called

Best PC in-game: Ephraim
Worst PC in-game: Knoll

Favorite moment: I dunno, it all blends together for me.
Least favorite moment: [insert RNG fucking me over here]

[Shale]

Game: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Rating: 7/10. Better than FE7, but not by enough to raise it by a full point.

Best feature/element: Mutliple-choice promotions. Characters can can develop differently in different runs for reasons other than random chance? Be still my heart. Runners-up are hard mode being available from the start and random battles making EXP no longer a finite resource.
Worst feature/element: Endgame enemies being slightly less threatening than your average squirrel.

Best character: Pass. FE, characters, what?
Worst character: L'Arachel. Not only is she retarded, she doesn't even shut up when she permadies.

Best PC in-game: Ephraim. Ross and Amelia get honorable mentions for the sheer amount of broken ten extra levels and good speed growth can create in the FE system, but Eph is just ridiculous.
Worst PC in-game: Hard to say. Seth's the default answer, but I really hate healers joining underleveled, so there's a special place in this for Vanessa and L'Arachel. I'll decide which of these to count later.

Favorite moment: Ross OHKOing a Dragon Zombie at the end of the Ruins.
Least favorite moment: L'Arachel talks.

[superaielman]

Game: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Rating: 7/10 I think. Will doublecheck my ratings to be sure.

Best feature/element: Good PC spread- most everyone was usuable to good.
Worst feature/element: Felt repetitive.

Best character: I donno, Seth?
Worst character: Pass.

Best PC in-game: Ephraim
Worst PC in-game: Syrene? Rennac? Dozla? Any of the prepromos that join late.

Favorite moment: Final battle with Lyon. I like the contrast between the dialog/character depending on which path you take.
Least favorite moment: Rennac speaking.

[Meeplelard]

Game: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Rating: 6/10.  Think this is roughly where I put it? Definitely the worst of the modern FEs to me, even if its more polished than FE6.

Best feature/element: Branch Promotions was kind of neat.
Worst feature/element: Its plot and characters. Yes, its inoffensive, but egads are the apathy levels high.

Best character: Hmm...L'Arachel.  She's amusing and funny.  Stands out in a cast as dull as this.
Worst character: Myrrh. Annoying mystical girl of ancient, near extinct race stereotype who serves little to purpose in the game.

Best PC in-game: Tana. Eph with flight, and the potential of Pierce (or alternatively, a second weapon option).  Honorable Mention to Eph due to killer stats and Reginlief.
Worst PC in-game: Ewan and Amelia.  Trainees gotten that late are just nowhere near the fuss of building up, even with random encounters.  Such liabilities its not even funny, and they're payoffs are nowhere near high enough.

Favorite moment: I guess that Eph/L'Arachel support? Forget which it is, maybe its the C Support? The one where Eph takes off his shirt to show a wound he needs healing and L'Arachel takes it as a perverted move and goes psycho.  Silly.
Least favorite moment: Eirika giving the stone to Lyon.  I don't CARE if that's in character, its one of the most head desking cliches ever.  Especially since she was CONSTANTLY WARNED THAT LYON WOULD PULL A STUNT LIKE THIS.  This isn't even like Ramza w/ the Scriptures, where he had little choice (and frankly, he held onto them for quite some time before giving it up), she just out and out ignored all warnings and gave it to Lyon, falling for the exact trick he was going to pull.  I'll grant Eph's version of the scene is pretty stupid too ("Give me the stone!" "No!" "Ok, I'LL TAKE IT! *paralyzes Ephraim and takes it*"), but at least it doesn't make Eph look like a total moron.

[OblivionKnight]

Game: Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones

Rating: 6.5/10.  Like the Meeple said, probably the worst of the modern series (and probably on the lower tier overall), but still decent enough.

Best feature/element: Classes and extra stuff!  Yay optional dungeon and other things to make it a bit less repetitive!
Worst feature/element: Apathy.  Nothing stood out enough to really go here.

Best character: Rennac.  Honestly, the problem with this game is the same as other FE games, with no characterization or plot that is worth shit.  But Rennac is funny as hell, so yay and such.  L'Arachel/Dozla/Rennac for the win, here.
Worst character: Eirika.  Ugly and stupid.  Winning combination in women, there.

Best PC in-game: Anyone with good RNG-blessing!  For me, this was Amelia, Tana, Ephraim, KNNNNNOOOLLLLL, Rennac, Lute, L'Arachel, Syrene, Myrrh and Marisa, Tethys and Gerik. 
Worst PC in-game: Anyone with bad RNG-blessing!  For me, this was Ross most particularly, followed by Eirika and Ewan.

Favorite moment: Uh...nothing spectacular. 
Least favorite moment: Watching Eirika die, but not being able to continue the game with her dead.  What the fuck, game?  Perma-deaths and I can't purposely kill off who I want?  Asses.