Enchanted Arms (PS3)

Avoid this game! Yes, it's darn cheap for a ps3 game, but the quick price drop this game took *is* actually a heavy hint at the quality of the game. It's horrible. The plot is thick and cliched -- our hero is a loser among excellent students at a school for the magically inclined, but wait! He has a spesual powerz that makes him exempt from normal rules. But we've all played games like this, and usually you power through the plot because the gameplay itself might actually be good. Well, don't get your hopes up with this game. Usually grid-based gameplay means a strat rpg, but in this case it means that your character can move forwards and backwards within a ...

the basic story is that the world is run using enchanting, a form of magic that is most commonly used to create a kind of magic robots... which are kinda cool. you can aquire over hundred of these and add them to your team to use them to fight. the lead character however has a dodgy arm that has been infused with one of these "golems" and has a mind of its own. it ends up awakening some legendary evil golem who will most likely end the world. said golem attacks your school and slaughters practically everyone while kidnapping your best friend and brainwashing him into becomming her minion. sounds kinds good so far right? instead its just ...

Wow how camp can a game actually be before it gets into its own mens special intrests section. spend the first hour of play learning how to fight on the battle field in a simulation played in you lesson at school. Heaps and Heaps of dialog, mainly arguments between people that apear to have no relevance to the game at all. It should be noted that while playing this hour on the battlefield, the same tune is repeated over and over and over and gets really anoying. Ok so you can bare the tutorial because the game will probably be pretty good right? But wait more dialog. This time its between you, your best freind and your best ...