Wich game i should buy? Okami or FF:IV

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celine said:

MontanaHatchet said:

twesterm said:

makingmusic476 said:

Smeags said:
I just bought Okami a couple of days ago, and all I can say is wow! It's such a great game, and I'm only at the beginning. With fantastic gameplay and gorgeous stylized graphics, you can't go wrong with Okami.

Plus, Okami needs all the sales it can get.

 

This.

Plus, any Zelda fan should own Okami. :P

 

Actually, I like Zelda games but I wasn't a fan of Okami.  I think the thing that turned me off was the 20 minute cut scene at the beginning.

Okay, let me get this straight.

The long ass, boring tutorial at the start of Twilight Princess (and pretty much every Zelda game) is fine, but the cutscenes at the beginning of Okami aren't? Gee, if you can't even wait through a 20 minute cutscene to play a fabulous game than you might as well sell all of your games and buy Big Beach Sports.

 

Put it simply I play games because I want to play them not because I want to watch them.

The difference between press quickly the A button for 20 straight minutes and play the start of a game is quite astounishing

 

 

I think that's a little unfair. First off, the "20 minute cutscene" at the beginning is embellishment for effect. Secondly, the game is Zelda based, so it needs to spend a bit of time setting up the premise. The game actually has what I feel is a sparse story going forward, focused more on gameplay. My problems with the game are a bit more real than "I had to wait for 20 minutes to start playing."

If you can't stand that, then don't get a PS3. You have to do 20 minute installs at the start of a lot of your games.

Again, the pacing is really at fault here, though. The long cutscene followed very closely by a text heavy tutorial and "starting village" are a testament to the overly slow pace and excessive length of the game.

I feel if the game managed to pack everything it has now into a lean 20-25 hour package, it would be remembed as one of the greatest games of all time, rather than simply a AAA Wii and PS2 game.