Ghost Trick – I quit

This is probably the fastest I’ve quit a game in a while, but it’s just not fun any more. I’m really interested in the Ghost Trick story, but to get at every bit of story I have to jump through 50 different hoops. Sometimes it’s obvious what to do, and sometimes it’s not. What I really hated what having like 5 seconds to make a certain move. If you missed that time window you’d have to rewind and start again. I really don’t have that much time to spend on a puzzle game. Even a FAQ didn’t help much. Trying to memorize the steps was exhausting, and looking up and down just made my neck tired.

Redoing puzzles was hard on me mentally as well. In the beginning it was like “I’ve gotta save Kamila!” but then after the 4th or 5th time it’s more like “Do I have to?” And that dog Missile was cute at first, but after the 20th time he barked, I wanted to muzzle him and drop him in the fish tank. That made me realize that if I kept playing, I would rapidly end up detesting the characters I was trying to save, and would probably end up hating the game in the end. So I thought it wise to quit early while I still had some love for it.

Luckily the magic of Youtube came to the rescue. What did I ever do without it? Thanks to Youtube, I can sit back and watch some other sucker kind, gentle soul playing the rest of the chapters for me. Of course, what I was really hoping for was a detailed summary of the story, so I wouldn’t have to watch the whole thing, but beggars can’t be choosers. I’m really grateful to the people who put this stuff online. Their suffering means I don’t have to.

Speaking of suffering, I watched someone play the first 16 minutes or so of FFXIII on Youtube the other day. Since I don’t own or plan to buy a 360 or a PS3 it’s not a game I was planning to play, and watching it in action did nothing to change my mind. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but the ‘fantasy’ part has always been a strong selling point of Final Fantasy for me. The other games to date have had middling to high amounts of fantasy but I don’t know what to do with FFXIII‘s Star-Wars-meets-Blade-Runner futuristic setting. Sure I like sci-fi and all, but in my FFs they have to be toned way down. Just as well I wasn’t going to play it anyway, huh? Especially since practically nothing happened in those first 16 minutes. Oh, and the characters were annoying (snap judgments strike again!).

Enough about that, I haven’t been up to much else lately. I gave up trying to get Gold Stars in The Kayou Generation, and I finished all the puzzles in Color Cross except one. I’m also a few hours into Saga 3, which is a decent enough game. I’ve been playing so many time travel games these days, it’s been messing with my enjoyment of other media. I watched a drama a little while ago and when a character died, I didn’t miss a beat: “No problem, they can just go back in time and make it so— Oh @#$%…”

In other news, I’m almost done with my second playthrough of Tactical Guild. I just need a final push of motivation to go wipe the floor with the final boss. Since I don’t have much else going on, I’m thinking of starting a new game as well. I put Dramatic Dungeon: Sakura Taisen on my R4 the other day, but then I spent 20 minutes listening to the stupidly catchy opening theme instead of actually playing it. I always loved that song, even though I’ve never actually watched the anime. All right, I’m clearly starting to ramble now. Back to work.

2 thoughts on “Ghost Trick – I quit

  1. Relie says:

    Hehe i agree i had a hard time with that game, haven’t even finished it, and there was this whole hoopla about it before it came out. I gave up around the big turkey in the restaurant. Tried so much i lost interest in the plot and was like “meh you guys can do it without me” lol too bad.

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