Kima Rental Rundown

I rented a batch of games from Blockbuster today, testing said games out to see whether or not I want to put them on my birthday wishlist. How do they hold up on early impressions? Let's find out...

Sacred 2 - I can play as a hot elf girl, who not only is scantly clad, but can wield shuriken, cast all manner of elemental magic, AND has a mount that is both cute and badass. ...THIS GAME IS AWESOME!

Burnout Paradise - So after AT LEAST an hour of mandatory updates, I finally start out this member of my favourite racing series. Now, typically, you'd expect the acceleration button to be something like, oh, say, the X button. Nope! It's the FUCKING R2 BUTTON! You need to play a muthafuckin' RACING GAME with R2 as the hold-down-to-move accelerator! AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE CONTROLS! ...fuck that shit, man. Fuck it.

Street Fighter 4 - Well, Sora, I finally tried this game out and... I suck hairy, wrinkled balls at it. Just as I thought I would.

Dynasty Warriors 6 - I've never played a DW game outside of the Gundam demo from PSN, so I thought I'd give it a proper try. As with the demo, I get really far... and then get my ass handed to me by an end-of-battle boss warrior (namely, Lu Bu). The game was really fun until that point, but if I always get my ass chewed up at the boss fights, then the appeal starts to wear off. I'll try it a few more times, but I'm doubting if I'll permanently add it to my library...

Overlord - I loved the demo and plan on getting Overlord 2 anyway... this is less of a "scout out a game" rental so much as "I want to play more than the first two objectives" rental.

So the score is 2 "Hell Yes", 2 "Hell No", and 1 "Don't Know". Which will the wild card side with? YOU MAKE THE CALL!

So how was Street Fighter 4?

I didn't enjoy it and wasn't good at it.

You're hardly ever good at fighting games from what you've said.

I'm not too bad at more basic fighters, like Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur. I'm also fairly good at "specialized" fighters, like the Tenkaichi series and Ultimate Ninja Storm.

Mash buttons. It's just that simple.