Glimpses

 My first intention was to play DMC 5 (because I’m a sucker for newer games with good graphics), but my conscience didn’t let me miss out on the history, and I felt obligated to try at least DMC 3 and 4. From what I’ve heard, the 2 nd installment isn’t regarded well so I didn’t feel guilty about giving it a pass. Also, as I discovered later, there are no recurring characters in DMC 4 from the 2 nd game. The first DMC, however, was a groundbreaker, and still holds a good reputation among the fans of the series. I didn’t play it though because, again, I’m a sucker for newer games with good graphics (yeah yeah, sue me, whatever) and I didn’t think I could handle so much DMC. That last bit turned out to be true, since I feel a dire need to take a break from the series, having completed the 4 th game just last night at 2 AM. I did commit a small gamer’s sin and watched all cutscenes of DMC 1 and 2 after I completed the third one, just to catch up on the story. To be frank I was alr...

 Utter, bloody chaos I was recommended Prototype by a friend back when I was still in school and owned a potato PC. He described it as a game in which our character could morph himself into anything or anyone, could change his body to resemble a person or a weapon. At that time, it sounded extremely fascinating to me and perhaps it actually was fascinating because I hadn’t heard of any other game that allowed the player so much power. Transforming your own body into a weapon? So cool! When I began playing Prototype, however, some of that fascination felt missing. Lost, perhaps, along with the innocence and the overactive, gullible imagination of childhood. The selling point was still the same – I could indeed change my character’s hands to blades and claws and take the form of another human being, but compared to the newer games that are crazily innovative with their premises, Prototype didn’t feel as fresh as it did when I heard about it 11-odd years ago. Of course, I didn’t l...