I am the one saying the review is bad, not zinger. The mere lack of commentary on the money issue makes it so. And what's the point of "customization" if it doesn't affect your mech's performance (i.e. power)? What are you "customizing" then, the colors?
The other reason I am saying the review is bad (after having fully read it this time) is that you give the game 9/10, and yet I get no sense of what's so special about it (because that's what a 9/10 rating means: that the game is special). So it's a mecha-themed multiplayer Battlefield with inertia and whathaveyou, and so what? There's no indication in your review that the game is an exhilarating experience of some kind: you are mostly listing its features, and offering tepid approval or disapproval; on top of which you say NOT A WORD about the aesthetics, and even the comments on the technical side of the graphics are vague. I am not even going to get into the quality of the writing ("a thoughtfully crafted affirmation of why mecha games exist" lol), because at this point it'd be cruel. (Having said that, you really need to look up how to use the semicolon.)
I mean look at this crap:
Cacophanus wrote:Not that long ago, Banpresto funded the development of a rather insane Gundam arcade game called Senjo no Kizuna. The player would literally sit inside a panoramic cockpit and pilot a mobile suit. In addition, each of the hugely expensive cabinets would be connected via an online network to other such machines across Japan. Upon its release, Banpresto soon realised they’d cornered a new part of the arcade gaming market. As queues lengthened to play the game, the main draw wasn’t just the amazing cockpit but also its online capability.
I played the damn game: it was the last game I played before I left Japan -- literally the night before my flight. It is a crappy, ugly, slow-assed, barebones deathmatch game. The entire draw is the cabin, "online capability" my ass. What difference does it make to me if the opponents are sitting next to me or in another town? It's not like I can
see them in either case! And that's just the first paragraph. You are taking the game's popularity and
inferring from that that it was good. Next stop Metacritic!
I mean look at this shit:
http://www.mechadamashii.com/category/reviews/Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 PS2 9/10
Super Robot Wars Z 2 Saisei Hen PSP 9/10
Gundam Unicorn PS3 7/10
Armored Core V PS3 9/10
Gundam Extreme Versus PS3 9/10
Armored Core Master of Arena PSone 10/10
Virtual On Oratorio Tangram Dreamcast 9/10
Gundam Memories PSP 3/10
Armored Core Project Phantasma PSone 7/10
Super Robot Wars Z 2 Hakai Hen PSP 9/10
Macross Triangle Frontier PSP 8/10
Another Century's Episode Portable PSP 7/10
Virtual On Force 360 7/10
Armored Core PSone 9/10
Virtual On Arcade 10/10
Front Mission Evolved PS3 6/10
Explosionade 360 8/10
Another Century's Episode R PS3 5/10
Transformers War for Cybertron 360 7/10
Senko no Ronde DUO 360 8/10
Lost Planet 2 360 8/10
Armored Core Last Raven Portable PSP 4/10
Gundam Assault Survive PSP 4/10
Metal Wolf Chaos Xbox 9/10
Armored Core 3 Portable PSP 3/10
Border Break Arcade 9/10
Gundam vs Gundam Next Plus PSP 8/10
Armored Core Last Raven PS2 9/10
Macross Ultimate Frontier PSP 8/10
Armored Core Ninebreaker PS2 8/10
Thexder Neo PSP 8/10
Super Robot Wars Z PS2 9/10
Gundam Senki 0081 PS3 8/10
Armored Core For Answer PS3 8/10
Armored Core 4 PS3 7/10
Armored Core Nexus PS2 9/10
Macross PS2 8/10
Tetsujin 28-go PS2 8/10
Virtual On Marz PS2 6/10
Anubis PS2 5/10
Armored Core 3 Silent Line PS2 10/10
Armored Core 3 PS2 9/10
Gundam Lost War Chronicles PS2 7/10
Zeonic Front PS2 9/10
Another Century's Episode PS2 8/10
Armored Core 2 Another Age PS2 5/10
Armored Core 2 PS2 4/10
Gundam Rise from the Ashes Dreamcast 7/10
Soukou Kihei VOTOMS PS2 8/10
Why not just give every game a 10/10 and be done with it?
I realize all this will sound very cruel and improbable to you, but you can always go back to your fawning comments section and forget about it, so I am not worried about you and can just giving it to you as I see it.
