Ugh. Avatar, The Last Airbender VG
Jan. 6th, 2007 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsLast night, after the girls had gone to bed, I wandered downstairs and spotted the video game they have assiduously been playing with their alloted hour of raster burn every day. It's the PS2 version of Avatar: The Last Airbender, and American-made anime with bad pseudo-Chinese themes. There are some cute moments: When you walk past bad guys you hear them say thing like, "What do you think of the Feng Shui in here?" "I dunno. I don't like seafood."
But it is a very boring, very limited game with an enourmous bulk of tasks clearly intended so that the player spends a lot of time walking, wasting time, going over the same ground many times, and all within a very constrained if beautifully rendered world. On the other hand, the facial animation is awful. And I don't get it: they got the cast from the anime to do the voices for the cut scenes, so why is all of the dialogue done in text? It's not exactly a free-form, AI-driven game. Grand Theft Auto this ain't.
I just wish I had figured this out before wasting four hours of my life on it. It wasn't until almost 2 that I put it down. I could have spent those hours working on a story, or polishing something.
That said, I had Omaha read a small snippet from Sodomy in September and she agreed: I got the voices just about right.
But it is a very boring, very limited game with an enourmous bulk of tasks clearly intended so that the player spends a lot of time walking, wasting time, going over the same ground many times, and all within a very constrained if beautifully rendered world. On the other hand, the facial animation is awful. And I don't get it: they got the cast from the anime to do the voices for the cut scenes, so why is all of the dialogue done in text? It's not exactly a free-form, AI-driven game. Grand Theft Auto this ain't.
I just wish I had figured this out before wasting four hours of my life on it. It wasn't until almost 2 that I put it down. I could have spent those hours working on a story, or polishing something.
That said, I had Omaha read a small snippet from Sodomy in September and she agreed: I got the voices just about right.
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Date: 2007-01-07 03:32 am (UTC)Please note that the tv show is worlds better than the game (Better than most shonen anime, actually, and at least one step better than the excellent Oban Star Racers) and rather exceptional for a kid's show. Sadly, Mako has passed away so the future of wonderful Uncle Iroh is rather uncertain.
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Date: 2007-01-07 06:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-09 05:48 am (UTC)He burned through the game in a week. Said he liked it, but seemed sorta eh.