Ye Olde Pub (The English Pub)

[Slimda]

American all the way because they use more dumbass english like...

 

Brittish: Pavement

American: Sidewalk

 

British: petrol

American: gass

So basically, you like the bastardized version of the language. Sigh. Endret 11. januar 2010 av Slimda

[ole_marius]

Indeed, easier to hear, understand and remember

[Mikkel™]

Gppd morning chaps! What a jolly good day this is going to be!

[Getingar]

Gppd morning chaps! What a jolly good day this is going to be!

Is that just a gut feeling; and does it apply to only you, or all of us?

[Mikkel™]

I think that applies to all of us

[tameg]

What do you guys prefer speaking? American og british english?

 

Kiiiwi english ftw!!

Endret 13. januar 2010 av tameg

[Gjest Slettet+13412342564]

Nailed my English presentation today, and most of it was improvised

 

Edit: typo...

Endret 14. januar 2010 av Slettet+13412342564

[henbruas]

I failed mine.

 

Not literary, but I was pretty bad.

[kris98]

What do you guys prefer speaking? American og british english?

I prefer the American-English. It's more relaxing and has much more room for uhm's and uhrr's to fill the gaps between the words. Still, British-English is very nice as well, it's just that it doesn't feel natural to me. Contrary to American-English, I have to actually give an effort into trying and speak that accent.

 

edit: Typo. Kinda.

Endret 14. januar 2010 av Mr.Graves

[Henrik C]

I agree with Mr. Graves, I prefer American English. Mostly because I find it more casual, and most of the TV shows and movies I watch produced and filmed in America.

British English sounds great though, I love the accent.

[2ball_]

I notice I'm having some sligth "problems". I have a british accsent for the most part ("can't"/"cen't") but I never to seldom ( ) use words like pavement and petrol. Although I doubt that poses much of a problem anyway..

[ole_marius]

Or the brittish: colour vs american: color

[saladin waits for alice]

I have written a review on the game Bayonetta.

Feel free to give tips!

 

 

 

Mentally Blown Review

Bayonetta Xbox 360

 

By

Amir Hayek

 

 

 

Introduction:

Bayonetta is a newly released action game from Team Little Angels at Platinum Games and is considered to be the spiritual successor to Devil May Cry.

The whole concept for Bayonetta was to create a game that delivers an advanced combat system, coated around over the top craziness that makes Dante look like a lazy Japanese dude and Ruy a guy on drugs with no control at all. It is obvious that Hideki Kamiya, the director of Bayonetta has used his experience from his famous projects such as Devil May Cry, Okami, Viewful Joe and even some games from Capcom (RE4).

 

Is this Japanese "style" game an action masterpiece, or is it simply a game that delivers a not so tasteful style as chocolate on salami?

 

 

Technical stuff (sound and graphic)

What does one expect to a Japanese action game such as this when it comes to the technical part? For one, stability, stability and stability. With all the craziness going on the screen, a screen tearing now and then could ruin a game like this. Luckily thou, that is not the case with Bayonetta, well at least the 360 version of the game. (Based upon other reviews from famous sites such as Giantbomb, it is clear that the PS3 version is a bad port, but Mentally Blown has not been able to confirm this).

What amazed me the most was how good the game looked, my usual experience with games that is able to maintain 60 fps capped usually don't have good visuals. And also the other way around. But this looks great! It isn't mind blowing, but the details on Bayonetta, the huge bosses and the renaissance style on the environment is pure eye candy for me.

The animations works great as well.

 

The music style in Bayonetta consists most of Japanese pop, which is a step back in my opinion from the DMC games, it is very catchy, but a bit off in my opinion.

The voice acting is for the most part quite good, it can however sometimes be a bit off sync with the lip moving.

 

But now that I think of it, the weird soundtrack shouldn't appeal to me, but it does, at least after listening to it a couple of times!

 

 

Story

You play as the Umbra Witch called Bayonetta, she is a tall, British accent speaking, Goth looking woman with one goal in mind: spill as much angel blood as possible, and still look sexy! Ohm, did I mention that her outfit is entirely made of her hair?

 

As everything else in this game, the story is crazy, and wrapped in mind-blowing paper and it also comes with a soufflé mixed with puppy blood. There isn't much to say really, because even after finishing the game twice, I am still dazzled and confused. Just prepare yourself for vengeful angels, more angels, and at last, but not least, big ass angels.

 

The story telling mostly consists of mind blowing cinematic scenes and Gary's mod humor film strips that just shows how Japanese this game really is. As mentioned before, the story isn't amazing, but it does have an impact on you as a gamer, you might end up liking Bayonetta, or you just might end up with a weird look on your face.

 

 

 

Gameplay

What is an action game really?

Well what defines an action the most is the "beat em up" style gameplay which has been around for years in action games. This game doesn't take the beat em up style to a new level in any sort, but it does the job very well, so well that you might need to change some looser pants.

Bayonetta is equipped with tons of weapons, claws, whip, sword, fists and not mention her hair! It is however very important to mention that you have to find, buy and even achieve some of the weapons to be able to use them. And there are also Guns, friggin guns in this game!!!!

 

 

In Bayonetta you have a shoot button, a weapon button, a kick button and a jump button, one would think that two attack buttons would not offer any much variety, but it does!

Combine that with 10 different weapons, then you have a huge list of combos to do, on the ground, in the air and also naked. Wut?

 

 

And did I mention you can become a bird, bat and a panther?

Torture attacks is something that makes this game interesting, after dodging and hitting enemies for a certain amount of times you will be able to do torture attacks, which basically means instant kills (for the most) enemies by throwing them into Iron Maidens, or kicking them inside a guillotine. This creates a nice pace to the game, and can even save you from tought situations.

 

 

During the game you will encounter shiny golden circles which will teleport you to Alfreheim challenges. These challenges might remind some of the test of valor from Ninja Gaiden 2, but just harder in my opinion. These challenges usually are either kill a certain amount of enemies with either Torture attacks, in a certain amount of time, or in witch time, the thing that makes these challenges very hard is that you usually can only be hit 3 times and the time limit. You will sometimes have to stay in the air for a certain amount of time, which usually don't take a lot of skill, just knowledge!

 

What really makes Bayonetta stand out from these type of games is how dodging enemy attacks plays a key role in the game. If you don't you will die, many many many times, unless you are playing on easy or very easy which disables the good rewards you get from Alfheim portals and also gives you a "danger" indicator when someone tries to hit you.

My advice too you readers is to start the game on normal, anything less makes Bayonetta too easy.

 

 

By dogning an enemy at the very last moment makes Bayonetta go into bullet time, I mean I witch time! Which basically makes everyone go slow except you of course, this way you are able to do a good amount of damage to tough enemies, and if you are lucky/fast enough you will be able to kill weaker enemies.

 

 

Last but not least to Bayonets' gameplay are the bosses, prepare yourself for huge ridicules looking (in a good way) angelic creatures who only wants to crush you to oblivion and then return you to Pardiso (heaven). Some can be killed quite easily, and some will make you cry, but one thing I can say for sure is that it never gets ridicules hard with the bosses or in the game in general, unlike Ninja Hard-Gaiden.

 

 

Achievements

Now here is where this game stands out from its "inspirations", it isn't as hard as Ninja Gaiden 2 and not nearly as grinding as Devil May Cry 4.

The game offers a good mix of both, an average gamer should be able to get around 400-500 points, but don't take this game for an easy 1000 points earned type of game.

 

 

The achievements consists of story progressions, some of them can be achieved several times depending on the difficulty you are playing on. However you must finish the game on normal to unlock hard difficulty and same applies for No Climax difficulty.

Some achievements are about killing a certain amount of enemies through taunting, with different weapons, skills and the use of torture attacks.

 

 

The hardest one is in my opinion either finish the game on "No Climax" difficulty or get all the LPs, as the last one requires you to finish 100 chapters to get.

The easiest one is the "A Primer In The Magical Arts", which you achieve by finished the prologue of the game.

 

[Getingar]

Please comma...what ever it's called in english.

 

Use the comam sign.

 

For example here:

 

Bayonetta is a newly released action game from Team Little Angels at Platinum Games,

[saladin waits for alice]

Please comma...what ever it's called in english.

 

Use the comam sign.

 

For example here:

 

Bayonetta is a newly released action game from Team Little Angels at Platinum Games,

 

but other then that it is a good review?

Why doesn't a simple "and" suffice in that sentence?

[Bear^]

I vent to a screening of the film "Avatar" here the other day (yes, I'm living so deep in the wilderness that it took the courier this long to get through the thickets of monsters to deliver the reel to us) and it actually made me think a bit closer, yeah, a film that isn't meant to do so but dose anyway.

 

We have always taken the world for granted, harvested its resources and done what we wanted to do, regardless of who stood in our way. If there were things we wanted from the jungles (like wood) we just took it. And if any of the tribes stood in our way, so what?

 

As well when we disagree with other countries we might even go as far as waging war upon them.

 

But all this, for what reason and purpose? Why are we trying to civilize the natives of the Amazon jungle, who are we to tell them that they are savages?

 

If truth be told, I feel like the savage in this situation here. Why should we tell others what to do, how to think and how to act?

 

*spoiler alert, if you haven't seen the film and plan to, there are spoilers ahead from this point on*

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the tree of the Na'Vi was bombed down and broken, I actually felt sick, and I actually felt the sorrow and pain that they had to feel when it fell. To have their homes destroyed simply because they happen to live on top of something the humans want. And it's not far from the truth here, if we want something we take it without thinking, without considering the consequences of our actions. We burn, plunder and kill to get what we want.

 

When Jake said "We killed our mother" I felt that he wasn't too far from the truth, we are on the brink of killing our own mother. Our world. Our homes. How can we have gone so far without considering that in the end we do not decide?

 

In the end the earth can turn against us and smother us down like we squeeze the life out of a bug. We do not rule the earth, we are barley borrowing from it. And as our greed grows and we lust for more, we only rush forth the inevitable, our own demise.

 

And back again to the tribes of the Amazon, or the rest of the world for that matter, who are we to tell them what's righ, and wrong, when we can't see that? In the end they just borrow from nature and take what nature can spare and nothing more. We harvest more than nature can bear to lose, bear to give us. But we take, and we help ourselves to every meal provided to us, but never do we stop and think or consider.

 

Perhaps this film was good to get because I at least stopped up and started thinking what we're actually doing. We're destroying ourselves, our home. Our world.

Endret 17. januar 2010 av Bear^

[Gjest Slettet+13412342564]

(A tad late, but whatever)

 

I prefer American English because it suits me better. I'm not a stuck-up, stiff upper lip guy when I speak Norwegian, so I don't see why I should be when I speak English. On the other hand, I love the sound of British English.

 

 

 

 

*Tries not to read the spoiler above me*

[Lidskjalv]

@ Bear^ :

 

A quick reminder: The Name Battle is in its final half. And the difference between the two alternatives are closing in. If you haven't placed your vote yet, please do so at the top of this page. The leading alternative by the first of February, will be the final name for this thread.

 

Regards

Lidskjalv

Endret 17. januar 2010 av Lidskjalv

[Mikkel™]

Good morning chaps!

[Getingar]

Good morning, fox