Kameo: Elements of Power Thoughts

So, I ended up buying Kameo. It was only £9.99 brand new from the magic of eBay, so I can't complain about that. After seeing the 79 rating it has on metacritic, I wasn't too hopeful for it, pretty much only buying it to complete my Rare games collection.

But after playing it for a few hours now, I kinda like it a lot. It's very Zelda-y and soooooo RARE. I dunno what it is about those guys, but since playing Bajo-Kazooie on my old N64, they have just had me hooked. It's something about the level/art/character design that is just so distinctly Rare and great. For example, the talking characters in Kameo all have funny regional English accents, which is just a typical Rare touch. The graphics are really familiar after having played Viva Pinata for so long now, but that's no bad thing. The gameplay is a little formulaic and repetetive but I could imagine worse ways to spend my game time. Looks pretty good so far!

Perfect Dark Zero Impressions

It's not as great as Perfect Dark N64 in any way. This makes me sad.

Played most of the way through the single player now. Meh. Story is lame to the point of not caring and skipping it sometimes. There's just no draw to play it and I'm only completing it for the sake of "I've bought the game so I might as well", not because I am dying to do so. Yeah, the graphics are quite nice and have a nice style to them but as ever they are too shiny, and being an old game they do look a bit dated next to BioShock and whatever. Music is lame, which is poor from Rare as I think they have some of the best soundtracks ever...

The multiplayer has only recently came to my attention and again, I feel it's not as good as the N64 classic. The game moves too slowly and compared to the likes of Halo 3 these days, it's just too simple. PD for the N64 was innovative, and this feels like a remake rather than a BAM next -gen effort. Disappointed so far. Will be testing Live to see if things get any better over the weekend.

And P.S. What have you done to Jo Dark!?!? She looks like some kind of raver. I preferred her N64 days look, now that was cool.