Chaos Code (PSN)

I can make a total ass of myself sometimes. I really can. Last night just so happened to be one of those moments in my life. Before closing for the night last night I got into a somewhat heated conversation with Tenryo, the English community manager for "Chaos Code" through twitter. I complained about how poorly designed the characters were in comparison to some other fighters as well as certain indie games I had played in the past. While the game definitely appeared to be that way to me last night I found that when I continued with my playthrough today the game didn't look all that bad. Sure there were some slight imperfections with character designs, and some stages looked better than others, but for the most part the game wasn't all nearly as bad as I had had made it out to be, especially for a 2002 Japanese arcade release. Seeing the error of my ways I'd like to take the time to apologize to 'Tenryo', and 'Arc System Works' for my accusations earlier. I'm truly sorry, and hope the following review makes up for my mistaken claims.

Xbox 360 Impressions: "Catherine Demo"

I've been following Catherine since it was first released in Japan. To be 100% honest I had thought it was going to be an RPG type of game since it's developer is ATLUS. They are known for their release of many popular Japanese RPGs. I found out later, and a bit closer to the scheduled release for Catherine that it was going to be more of a puzzle type of game. The story was to be based on marital morals. When I saw the demo was available on the Xbox 360 today I was extremely excited. I wanted to try the demo out ever since I heard it was available on the Japanese PSN store. I downloaded the demo, and got started right away. I wanted to see if it was as good as I had hoped ...