Heartache

Just as I was getting completely disgusted with Japanese games, I got a one two punch from two titles from the land of Hattori Hanzo swords. Project Sylpheed, the space combat game I wrote about earlier, was a beautiful and challenging (STUPIDLY DIFFICULT) experience, and I really liked it. What I liked even more:

Earth Defense Force 2017. Compared to most modern games, EDF’17 is a Sci Fi channel original movie, but it captures That Old Feeling. It doesn’t need a moving plot or amazing graphics. Its a budget title and its fun to play – and that’s good enough. As a lone soldier, you fight giant ants, giant red ants, giant spiders, giant robots, flying giant robots, giant robot dinosaurs, giant robot dinosaurs with laser canons for arms, and huge giant space ships. It’s like Starship Troopers (the movie) snuck up on Independence Day and butt raped it, then Independence Day had a miraculous butt baby who it raised with its life partner, Godzilla, then they sold the baby to H.G. Wells, who kept it in a cage for days at a time, starving it, and only released it to kill and devour ninjas.

Earth Defense Force 2017. Its a pretty good game.

My only criticism is that sometimes there’s too much on the screen. The enemies tend to bleed or explode, and its hard to see past all the guts and bombs going off constantly. This also causes a lot of slow down when things are going particularly well, and the game just froze up and died on me on the last stage because of this. I can forgive this occurence because there were about two hundred flying spaceships coming straight for me while my friends were launching rockets at them behind me and an army of about five hundred giant ants were charging towards me like something out of Samurai Jack.

I’ll be in my bunk.

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