Wizardry- Labyrinth of Lost Souls

This is a decent game if you are looking for a basic turn based RPG.  no real strenuous graphics... feels like a classic super nintendo RPG in a lot of ways.  You basically get a real advantage with your party if you know what you are doing.  It is rare that you don't get to dominate a battle, BUT with the add-ons, you can easily get owned.  I have a party that is mostly level 50, and the bottom floor of the add-on STILL owns me.  The trophies also are not all that difficult to achieve if you are looking to get the platinum.

The only issue is, killing 50,000 monsters and playing the game for 200ish hours, can get old. especially if you realize you can create your entire party from the "main" characters and level them up all at the same time instead of having 50+ characters.  I have played the game 110 hours and beaten it with most characters.  I have figured out the game so well, i can beat the game in 30 minutes.  so playing for another 90 hours... seems pretty tedious especially just to get a trophy.  I almost feel like i should start the game, turn my fan on to keep my ps3 cool, and watch cable.  The only real issue is killing 50000 monsters, which honestly you could just fight the monsters on the first floor.

Virtua Fighter 5

I have been playing Virtua Fighter off and on for years, including the arcade games.  Virtua Fighter 4 was not all that difficult of a game, and once you learned how the A.I worked, it never really got more challenging.  It is the one REAL downside to this game.  If you master a character, the computer basically cannot beat you.  My actual record on Virtua fighter 5 story mode is like 500 wins, and 10ish losses.  No quitting in the middle of a battle either.  that is my actual record.  Kind of a disappointment in my opinion.  If you are looking for a challenge, and you played VF4 a lot... you are not in for one. I think 4 was actually harder.

Yakuza 3

This is a fun game, and with the multiple assortment of mini-games, it is definitely a challenge.  The only real issue I had with this game, is the number of hoodlums you face seems to be never ending.  As I once said to my best friend "There sure are alot of hoods in Japan."  This game is basically a more 3 dimensional version of virtua fighter with some of the most violent take downs and moves i have ever seen in a game.  Slamming men into safety railings.  Picking up environmental objects and bludgeoning them half-to-death.  Just a lot of violence, and a decent story-line to boot.

Dante's Inferno

This is another God of War rip off, but instead of legendary mythical beasts from Greek Mythos, you are fighting Demon's in hell.  Really kind of an easy game in my opinion, and because of that I never felt like buying the add-on content was worth it.

Batman: Arkham Asylum

I like this game.  Sometimes the play control can be choppy and disappointing.  But the storyline, was great.  It was definitely accurate of how the comics would go.  It made me feel like i was playing a modernized version of the early to mid 90s Knightfall series, but with modern graphics and the Voice of the 90s Batman, who as we of the 90s generation get to play the man who voiced batman in a decent story.  This game deserved Game of the Year, and it is a must have game for any true batman fan.

The Cave

This game is not the greatest game in the world.  and honestly, the fact it is trying to teach you a moral in a video game can get pretty lame.  To top it off, the game's puzzles can be rather annoying.  To top it off, the voice of The Cave, gets REALLY old.  This is not a game I would have actually purchased, and am grateful it was free on ps plus.  And the fact that you have to play and beat the game at least 5ish times to get all of the endings is annoying and repetitive.  not really a game i would recommend to people.

Final Fantasy X HD

I liked the storyline of FFX, I never actually played X-2 but it got mixed reviews.  I personally thought if you took it on it's own merit it was one of the better FF Games, originality.my all-time favorite still being FF7, due to its originality  I am sorry that they never actually finished the HD remake of 7. especially since it was the greatest selling game for all of squaresoft's library.  I think remaking X in HD is a good choice for square, but not the best choice that they could have made for HD remakes.

Metal Gear Saga HD

I am glad they are re-releasing all of the Metal Gear Saga in HD.  I played each of these games for hours, and the were great each time i played them.  The replayability of them was probably their greatest feature.  And playing the games through a second time revealed so much more of the motivation of the characters.  Which is why they were so great.  I even like Metal Gear Solid 2, which most people did not.  They did not feel that Raiden was a good enough substitue... but the point was that you could recreate what Solid Snake did in Shadow Moses, with someone else.  As the story line progressed I felt that it got more and more interesting, like the fact that Ocelot was brainwashed by the nano-machines inside of his body.  Overall, I loved this game series.

Castlevania (PS3)

This is probably the most visually stunning game i have EVER PLAYED to date.  I still am amazed at the detail in this game when i play it.  I love this game, and Kojima did an amazing job on the reboot.  I actually think that the explanation this game gives of why the Belmont Clan is hunting dracula is a very interesting one.  It also is very true to Kojima's style (even if others do not like it all the time) of the classic long cut scenes.  It is still a great game in my opinion and the abilities are also interesting as well.  I enjoyed playing this game, and getting it for under $20 i feel like was a steal.

Kane and Lynch 1 and 2

Not many people are a fan of this game series.  I personally loved it.  The first game was basically a 2 player remake of the game Freedom Fighters for PS2.  I never played that game much, but i saw it played enough by my former roommate, that I knew what it was about, and understood the play controls... and In Dead Men, you controlled your party members the exact same way.

Kane and Lynch 2 you switched from playing Kane as first player to Lynch.  Lynch is pretty hardcore, and they even made him look like the Undertaker on the cover of the first game.  You run through Hong Kong trying to kill countless dirty cops owned by a head of state, in order to escape the city.  The two of you get completely screwed over, and are forced to run.  I liked these games, the sad part is Kane and Lynch have been forced into the role of add-on characters for the Lara croft game, because they did not sell well.

Facebreaker

This game was basically impossible... i mean there is even a literally impossible difficulty setting.  I never beat this game in the 5 years i owned it. I eventually just got sick of trying to beat it anyway possible, and am now selling it on amazon.  overall this is a terrible game with bad play control.  good luck beating it with one character let alone all of them.

Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage

This is a dynasty warriors alternative, made by Tecmo.  This is the Fist of the North Star game that we always wanted.  NOT the crappy NES game that came out in 87ish... which by the way if you look it up on youtube, there are people able to beat it in under 10min.  THE WHOLE GAME!  yes, this game was stupid, (the NES version). Touting itself as Fist of the North Star... i have no clue what that game was.  Ken's Rage is the REAL Fist of the North Star game.  I love this game, the punching of people and making their heads explode with Hokuto Shinken, eviscerating their bodies with Nanto Seiken.  Overall this was a great game, even if it got repetitive at times.  Hoards of stupid baddies to slay easily and quickly is what makes this game a very good anime to console port.

Darksiders I and II

These games are fun...  I think the first game has a lot more going for it in someways than II.  I like the combos better in I, the fact you can pick up cars, and the fact the abyssal chain is much more useful in grabbing chaos growth than the death grip.  Honestly, in a lot of ways the Death Grip move is not all that useful.  I thought it would be much more useful, and you would be able to grab onto chaos growth with it... and you cannot. you just fall to your death pitifully might i add.... lol.  I did like going to earth and the more vast array of guns.  I also liked see parts of the different worlds.  I am hoping as the story more unfolds it will become a much better game series overall and they will perfect more of what you can do.  I think Darksiders V (which they already have plans for) will be the best one of them all, being as you will pick up right at the end of the first Darksiders riding to right the wrongs of the apocalypse, in a multi-player online game.

Tron Legacy

This is a VERY hard game, and the difficulty curve JUMPS tremendously.  i got stuck on the second level, because of this difficulty jump, just on normal.  this is still a pretty fun game, and the multiplayer battle-royale online is also pretty fun.  The light cycles and tanks are interesting to drive as well.  The only issue i have with this game, is the wall running.  The wall running at times can be choppy in a way where when you want to run sideways along a wall you run up it, or vice versa.

Alice Madness Returns

I had a lot of fun playing this game, even if it wasn't very difficult.  I put it on Nightmare setting, and still felt like it was BARELY a challenge.  I could even get some of the "do not get hit" trophies on the hardest difficulty.  This game is very much like the original Lewis Carroll books which were EXTREMELY  dark, if you didn't know.  This to me was true to the Alice series, and was a great way to update it for the modern era, and make it much more for adults, than the Disney movie.

Naughty Bear Gold and Panic in paradise

To be honest, I like different aspects of each game.  The graphics in the original are actually much better than panic in paradise. (1080p vs 720p), and the fact that you get guns in the first game and can shoot them is pretty fun.  There is also much more variety of traps in the original naughty bear.  In Panic in Paradise, you can perform grabs.  which you could not do in the original.  In panic in paradise, if a bear is trapped in a trap, and another comes to free him... you cannot scare that bear away.  that was something i found i liked in the original.  The level up/weapons system in panic in paradise, also can get old.  because if you max out ALL the pants (like i have) you no longer gain experience from that piece of equipment.  You are actually being robbed of experience points with the way the level up system was created.

Both games are difficult, but can be fun if you figure out what to do pretty quickly.

Alpha Protocol

For those of you who had NEVER heard of this game (don't feel bad i hadn't either)  this is an obsidian game, that was released by Sega.  Obsidian are the chief programmers who made fallout 1 and 2 before selling the rights to bethesda for 3 and creating new vegas.  This game is basically a cross between metal gear solid, and fallout.  It is a tactical espionage game with the same perk system as fallout where they can be achieved by talking or performing certain actions.  To top it off you can purchase skills per level with an ability point exchange system.  This is a VERY hard game.  It is hard to sneak up on people, it is hard to pick locks, and hard to hack.

I have gotten pretty proficient at this game, and I STILL think it is difficult.  I literally got to a point where i could not kill a boss and had to start the game over, so i am writing this review pre-completion. And i think this game will be a challenge for me for a while to come.  The lock picking is done with the L2 pressure sensitive trigger moving the weights up and down via a laser.  the hacking is like looking at the matrix trying to find the code that isn't moving.  MUCH HARDER THAN FALLOUT! fallout is basic compared to this.  none the less, because it is more challenging it is a shorter game, and still fun.  I cannot imagine this game taking more than 30 hours to complete.

Dark Sector

This game was advertised as a Resident Evil story-line, by some.  I never heard that, but basically it is the movie/anime "the guyver" the video game.  you run around with a glaive (a bladed boomerang basically) and not the polearm, and a gun.  You are fighting alien infected creatures that are in an alternate time line post-cold war Russia, where the cold war is still raging on in modern day.  Your main character is an American spy trying to get information about the infection.  This game has some of the most realistic blood/brain matter splatter i have ever seen in a video game.  Fun to play, and some of the powers you get are pretty cool too, like invisibility and a force shield, even if you don't get to use them for long.  The weapons are customizable as well which is useful.

Conan

This game is an older PS3 game with no trophies, but still fun.  It is basically a God of War rip off voiced by Ron Perlman as Conan.  There are somethings that i liked about this game, like for example different weapons styles and the ability to throw rocks and/or weapons at your opponents.  It is a pretty easy game overall, and still fun.

Eternal Sonata

There were some cool parts to this game, but over all i just found it way too repetitive.  for me, i need a game that is going to have more variety than just light/shadow attacks.  and the fact that almost 50% of the things that need to be achieved cannot be done until after you have beaten the game once, is just frustrating.  overall the graphics are good, and the combat system is a little forced in my opinion, getting to a point where you just have to run at the monsters and attack them as much as possible with no strategy involved.