I recently played through the US version of the game Catherine for PS3 (European release is later this year) and thought I’d share my impressions of the game.

The biggest thing Catherine has going for it is the presentation. The game has an anime style, which looks awesome. Part of the story is told via anime cutscenes, which add to the personality of the characters. Even the menus look good. Everything is voice acted except the SMS messages Vincent, the main character, sends and receives. The voice of Vincent sounds suspiciously like the voice of Snow in Final Fantasy XIII though .

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Raven was released on Do As Infinity’s single Yesterday & Today back in the year 2000 and was later included on their first album. The song was used in the closing credits of the movie Uzumaki. I bought that movie on DVD years ago, but I still haven’t watched it . It seems creepy.

I should probably warn sensitive viewers that the music video contains many clips from Uzumaki, which is a horror movie.

Do As Infinity ~ Raven

26MB 4:02 H.264/AVC 480×272 PSP Ready

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It’s not so much the video I want to share as the song itself (although Van-chan looks great in the video). It’s one of my favourite DAI songs.

• Raven 9MB MP3

The reason I’m posting this “all of a sudden” is that this song came up in a random playlist I was singing along to a while back. I really like it, especially chorus and the contrast between the verse and chorus. Singing along to this song works great as a tension releaser (for me at least).

At first I was thinking about skipping Super Street Fighter IV, since I already have the regular Street Fighter IV from last year. But after watching this trailer I have changed my mind.

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I’ve been looking forward to Final Fantasy XIII for such a long time. I got it on the release day and I’ve been playing it as soon as I’ve come home from work.

I’m currently about 12 hours in and just started chapter 6. I probably did something wrong, but it took me 16 minutes to beat the Aster Protoflorian at the end of chapter 5. Normally the battles are a couple of minutes long, maximum.

You’ve probably read some mixed reviews of this game online (I probably read too much about this game before I started playing it) where people are complaining about this and that. I only have one major gripe with this game: […] there’s more! »

I got my copy of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (PS3) today (on the 10th I mean). At first I was so tired that I didn’t think I would be able to play it tonight after work, but I couldn’t not play a game I’ve been looking forward to this much

I decided to try playing the single player campaign on the “hardened” difficulty.

The game is very intense! The tempo and amount of action is incredible. It switches back and forth between different parts of the story much like the first game did.

Once I had started I couldn’t put the controller down (except for taking bites of my already cold dinner), so I ended up finishing the campaign in one sitting . Took a bit over seven hours (and I usually take a long time to finish games). I died many times, but it wasn’t overly difficult.

Now it’s time for bed. I’ll try the “Special Ops” mode and multiplayer tomorrow night.

The game is very violent and definitely deserves its 18+ rating.

To sum up: this game is awesome!

I got Crystal Defenders for the PS3 the other night and I just have to complain a bit about the game’s description […] there’s more! »

I went by a local game shop that’s near where I work yesterday and when I left I saw a handwritten note on the door that said that some dudes from Starbreeze Studios would be there the day after (today) to talk about and sign The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena games.

I decided to go there after work today to check it out and buy the game (it’s pay day). I had played the demo and the game seemed pretty decent.

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Today I was prompted to update my PS3 firmware to version 2.70. Every time I upgrade I try some video files I have on my harddrive that haven’t worked on the previous firmware. Many of these videos are seemingly correctly encoded DivX videos that the PS3 has refused to play. After this update it can play almost all DivX videos

There were some other new features too, but I don’t really care about them

Today I picked up my long awaited Mad Catz Street Fighter IV FightStick for my PS3. I’ve never played with an arcade stick before, only regular hand controllers, so it was a bit weird getting used to how to push the buttons.

As soon as I started using the stick I started to suck (or suck slightly more perhaps) because I couldn’t […] there’s more! »

According to IGN, Final Fantasy XIII will be delayed another year!

[…]Wada also announced that Final Fantasy XIII would be released later in 2009 in Japan, while North American and European launches of the game would come in April 2010 or later.[…]

Nooooooo……