Brief Review of Dissidia Duodecim/Introduction

Hello, if you have stumbled upon this site, my partner and I have started something like a game review blog. It's kinda inspired by AVGN, and 'Sequelitis' by egoraptor. I really liked hearing their opinions on things, which inspired me to want to do this.

So, for a brief review, I just REALLY started playing the new Dissidia game, the 2011 sequel to the 2009 game.

First off, the graphics seem the same, the controls and menus are *fairly* similar. That being said, there have been some upgrades as well.

Pros:
Naturally it's going to be compared to the previous...It's a sequel, right?! For the Pro's I'd say...

-Familiar Battle style and control, if you played the first it's easy to adapt

- Ditched the "Destiny Points" system, where you had like 5 moves, and you didn't get any bonuses, and instead have the "Kupo Points" system, where winning, chaining/winning or fufilling certain requirements gives you more, where you can access better equipment

- Made it easy to carry shit over. I really like that alls it took was "Do you want to load your info from the previous game to this file?" then, "All of this will be moved. Ok?" And THATS IT.

- New CHARACTERS! Of course if you aren't a Final Fantasy nerd and played them all, some will be unfamiliar.

CONS
- Something that really bothered me is how you have to play through with the characters it chooses for you, as opposed to the first where you can choose who to play as, then play through their story.

- Kain's armor is purple?!

- Seriously, in the DS remake, it was green. GREEN WAS GOOD.

- Purple... REALLY

-Disliked how they emphasized tutorial on REALLY basic stuff, like to dash, do this, or to fight do this. But when it came to the newer features it doesn't explain until fairly later. If you're importing my data from the first, it's likely to assume I know the basics of the first.

-It's kind of a double edged sword, but I didn't like how you have to move freely about in the world, then go into gates, where it takes you to the board you fight on. I do, but I don't. lol

I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but hopefully this will provide me enough enjoyment until I get my 3DS. Anyway if you're reading this, welcome to the page, keep an eye out, as me and my partner will probably review just not games, but other shit, like me upgrading the jailbreak on my phone, or me running Mac OS X and Windows 7 on my iMac.

Alright peeps, stay cool.

M