Glimpses

 Shouldn’t have skipped the first game. Finally, I have played and completed this game. I remember seeing its screenshots on a YouTube channel and thinking how great the graphics looked. So realistic. I wanted to jump to DMC5 straightaway, but at the same time felt guilty for skipping all the lore. Of course, I could watch cutscene compilations of all the previous games, but it just isn’t the same as playing the game and experiencing the story for yourself. Although admittedly, I did skip on the first 2 games because of the outdated graphics, and regretted skipping the first game whenever a reference to it was made in DMC5. I could still get it, though, thanks to its cutscene compilation, but still, playing the game would have been better. Oh well.   Major Overhaul DMC5 introduces a lot of new stuff in the series while leaving its soul intact. Other than Dante and Nero whom we’ve already met in DMC4, this game introduces V, a new playable character with a completely di...

 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...

  The Woman in Red  [Originally written on 9th Nov 2019] *contains mild spoilers* This zombie survival horror game and I go a long way back. I first played it on my PC…I guess 7 years ago. Back then my PC had only a gigabyte of RAM and I didn’t expect that it would be able to run RE4, but it did. I had heard very highly of this game and had had a fleeting glimpse of it being played on a Playstation 2 at a game parlor I used to frequent. I was really impressed by the graphics and that’s why I didn’t think that it would run on my legacy system. Much to my delight, however, it did run and very smoothly at that. My very first disappointment with it came soon enough. Like every other point-and-shoot game, I expected Leon’s aim to follow the movements of my mouse but as it turned out, the mouse was only used to get Leon to merely point his gun and shoot. The aim was moved with the arrow keys. Getting over this hurdle was not very difficult though; I quickly got used to it. The...