Alice and Sucker Punch

[milleniumgypsy]

I haven't sculpted the last couple of days, mostly because I haven't really felt up to it. Yesterday I didn't have nearly enough sleep so I was practically delirious at work, when I got home sculpting was just not in the cards. Tonight unfortunately I felt rather sick (I hope I didn't catch what my coworker has), so while I wanted to sculpt I like what I'm making too much to risk it lol.

I decided to play some games instead. I've been playing Alice: Madness Returns recently. Scottie got it for my birthday because I was so excited to play it, but at the time I was playing Star Ocean which has basically the opposite camera (and neither of them can be changed, which is annoying). So I didn't play it then, and after that I usually wanted to play something a bit less dark.

I'm actually pretty far into the game... and I like it well enough (I think?), there are certainly things about it that I like. But I have never ragequit a game so many times in my life. -_-' The battles are just obnoxious and they make me angry. I like the other aspects of the game though, so I keep shoving myself through the battles. But again I have quit the game because I think "I hate this game, why am I playing this again?" while in an especially irritating battle. :S

Part of my rationalization for continuing to play is "I was excited about this game and I bought it and I'm going to play it and enjoy it damnit!". xD

The enemies often have moves that are infuriating, the camera in battle isn't done terribly well, switching between ranged weapons is clunky, while in lock-on mode I often move in ways I don't intend, etc etc.

I should probably change the difficulty since I hate the game so much in battles, but I've already gone this far into the game on normal and there are trophies for each difficulty. I realise this makes little sense as I'm not sure I would ever play the game again, let alone on Nightmare (it's already a nightmare, just not the kind they intend!), but still. Sigh.

Scottie was playing the game earlier in the day and while I've gotten strong Sucker Punch vibes from the game before, it was way stronger when we got to see scenes from the asylum. I bet the person who thought up Sucker Punch was inspired by this game series!

Comments

[invsagoth.livejournal.com]

You could maybe give the game a shot? You can probably pick it up relatively cheaply (I know that you can download the PS3 version off of the playstation store for $20 for example, you might find a used copy somewhere even cheaper). You might want to get the DLC for it if you're not good at video games (that was only $2 for me) though, since I'm good at them and the battles were so frustrating to me. lol

I do like darker Alice stories! I'll have to check those out, thanks! :D