Child Of Light

So, to all of you 'Child of Light' fans, I need you to know that I truly did enjoy the game...right up until the end. I loved the idea they had for the game. The concept, itself, wasn't new (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time being one of the firsts); however, it was amazing how they took that idea and changed it. I also loved the complete and utter TWIST they put on the story of Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) itself. That was a BEAUTIFUL twist. I also loved that it was a side scrolling game, I haven't played a side scrolling game in...well..a very long time.

So...if I am so in love with this game, and praising it..then why am I so torn to write about it? Well, because I am extremely disappointed in it as well. First, let us talk about the ending (SPOILER ALERT: AVOID IF GAME IS NOT PLAYED THROUGH). So the ending to me, where Aurora's WICKED STEP-MOTHER ends up being the final boss that you have to beat, turned into a flop. I'm not sure if it is because I some how accidentally power leveled...but the final boss was EASIER to beat than the second major boss. There are three major bosses in the game, then there are the temple bosses that you have to beat, and then the mini bosses. The first major boss I faced was actually pretty difficult, I actually had a few of my characters die in that round. Second major boss was a BITCH to fight, there was a moment where I thought I was gonna get the “This is the end of your journey” message or “Game Over” or “You Lost” SOMETHING. Surprisingly, this did not occur. But it was pretty nail biting for me. The final boss should have been just has hard, if not harder, in my opinion. Instead, I was able to beat in in less time that it took me to beat the second boss.

SERIOUSLY!? How do you give me a final boss that is EASIER to beat than the SECOND BOSS!!!??? WTF. I can get over that though...the story line has been pretty epic up until this point so I can give them a little leeway on the whole 'final boss flop'. However, after I beat the final boss...the story just...the end game ruined the entire experience for me. NO joke either. The Step-mother's last words were, “I just wanted a place to call home, a place to call my own.” Like...really? All of this fighting and epic game play and battle...just so I can hear your sobby cry about how my mother banished your mother which started a witch fight...and then Aurora's dad died as well! That was just...ya know what, I'm not even getting into that. That is a whole other vent session for later, hey! Don't worry though, her mother is ALIVE! Yeah...for a moment I felt like I was watching another “How to train your Dragon 2” moment. So the game ends, you beat the queen, and save your people by bringing them to the new land, since your old land had been destroyed via a flood (also caused by the queen). Whooray!...so...what happens now?

I just can't help how I feel about this game. I was having so much fun playing it! It was even driving my husband crazy with my addiction to the game! But the ending of it left me so damn angry I was spitting curse words and disappointments for DAYS! It felt as if they had put so much effort into this game, to make it beautiful, and the story line excellent, and the twist was amazing...and either gave up at the end or ran into writers block and so just threw that in there because, lets face it, writers block or not, you have a deadline to meet. I am honestly not sure what else I can say about this game without being to harsh about it. But I can say that the excellent 10 out of 10 that I was going to get it dropped dramatically to a 5 out of  10 after I came to the end. For anybody who reads this, I hope you take it for what it is, a review of a personal play through. For those who have yet to actually play it, I DO recommend it, it is an adorable game and has beautiful water color like graphics that's very pleasing to the eyes, AND like I said, Up until the end, the story like was kick ass. However, if you choose to play it, keep in mind that the ending is weak. I give this warning in hopes to spare SOMEONE the pain I suffered from the weak ending. I love my games like I love my books, strong from start to finish. I cannot stand reading a book or playing a game that gets weaker and weaker throughout the game play/chapter read or the ending just feels like a writer's block moment. I need epic from start to finish, period; and unfortunately, Child of Light did not provide that for me.

Written by Nikki Lewis

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Rise Of Tomb Raider.....Timed Exclusive

So I have to rant. First off, I am excited to see that the new Tomb Raider game ''Rise of Tomb Raider'' is coming to Xbox One first. Since I play ''MOST'' of my games on the Xbox, this will make it easier to pick it up, play it and review it before 2 million other people do the same thing on multiple consoles. Here is where my problem begins, at E3 it was announced as an Xbox (Timed) Exclusive, and all the Xbox fans were happy and jumping up and down for joy, but on that blue side of the room, there was nothing but silence. Since then, Playstation and PC fans have been all over Square Enix about when the game was coming to their platforms. And so have all the other Gaming Network sites as well, and I just want to say on record to these site; ''Give them a Dam Break Break Will Ya!'' I am a huge PS4 fan, love the way it looks, feels, plays, and shares. I am also a big PC fan, if I wasn't, I wouldn't have a website, a Nexus Tablet, or my laptops....just saying. But when a game is announced as an ''EXCLUSIVE'', or a ''TIME EXCLUSIVE'', that means that you it will be released on that given console, and eventually for everything else.....and that's all the information you get! You don't go crying to every social media that you can because Square Enix decided to make a deal with Microsoft and not Sony. It happens, deal with it, I am tired of reading all these so called 'Video Game News Articles'' about when the game in being released on PS4 and PC. It's beginning to become very sad, with all the crap on Twitter, and all the sad blogs on Blogger, Tumblr, and any other Blog Forum you are using to rant. Leave Square Enix to produce the game! If they have to spend most of their time defending their decision to make the game on Xbox first and not concentrating on producing the actual game, then the game will suck and be as glitch riddled as Elder Scrolls Online....just saying, it happens. Playstation and PC, you guys are awesome and make some of he best games out there, but leave this alone, you will get Tomb Raider eventually, no need to wet your pants about it. Because if you cry about this, then that gives Microsoft the right to cry about other games being released as a Time Exclusive such as Final Fantasy 7 Remake....yea it works both ways! So chill, sit back, relax, makes some awesome games of your own for now, and when Tomb Raider comes to your platform, you can play, review, and judge the game too! Thats all I got on this, I just had to rant about what was going on since this is one of the only things I see on Video Game News right now, so sorry if you had to hear my ranting, but could be worse.....you could be hearing people cry over Exclusives lol

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Elder Scrolls Online...The Review!

Ok, I just want to start by throwing it out there that in this review, I WILL SPOIL THE ENDING, SO DO NOT READ IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! Ok, so now that that's out of the way, let move on to the review and how I really feel about this game. First off, I know that some of you read my first couple of blogs on this title, but sorry to disappoint, but I finished the game with the Dagger Fall Covenant, not the Ebonheart Pact...sorry. Its not that I didn't like the Pact, I just have 5 characters, and I liked the Covenant better, Pact second, and well the other one just sucks...sorry Dominion fans lol. In the Covenant, most of the areas you will travel with either be nicely designed forest, or vast deserts, no where will you find floating jelly fish, still getting use to that. Pretty much in a nut shell you travel from City to Town, Town to City, helping to rebuilding the kingdom, while defending against invaders, vampires, and Molag Bal. Each city is linked really well, and the story is pretty good too. You get a lot of choices in your travels for the kingdom, and a lot of the times you get to pick whether someone lives or dies...that was a lot of fun. Eventually after many MAIN mission, and tons of endless side missions, the factions come to the realization that the alliances aren't the threat to the world, Molag Bal is. But you have a little meeting with the three kings and that turns out horribly. They all think your ideas are stupid and that each of the other leaders are full of crap and just want them to drop their man power so they can be overcome. That's where the fun kicks in, Molag Bal attacks the island that you are on and tried to kill all three leaders. You save them, they thank you, and agree to have YOU and the fighters guild and mages guild make an assault on Molag Bal in the Cold Harbor. When you get in there, you find out that everyone was separated and have to rescue pretty much everyone and gather your strength for a final assault on Molag Bal. This was the art of the game that I liked the most. Elder Scrolls takes a page out of Saints Row IV and gives you Elder Scrolls in Hell! Literally there is a really cool town in Hell and you get to shop, dress, chat with friends, trade crap, all that good stuff. There is even a fighters guild and mages guild too unlocked eventually down the line. So you eventually save everyone, break all Molag Bal's badnick toys that make his World Conquering possible and in the end you have a Horde Mode with him flinging crap at you(while you are behind an invisible force field), while you kill everything until it ends...tadda! Its over..literally. There ain't much details from the characters after that except that they want to go home and the High Elf King died...sadness lol. It was really weak...big let down. Now that was what I call the MAIN ALLIANCE STORY. The actual MAIN STORY with Varen the old Blind Emperor and all his Power Ranger friends is a lot shorter and less entertaining. Pretty much what you do is one at a time go into Cold Harbor via Blind Man portal, and rescue the Power Rangers one by one. Then you get to go through I think about 1 or 2 dungeons and Horde Mode until you get the Amulet Of Kings. You kills the King Of Worms during the last one, and then gather for one final mission into Cold Harbor to fight Molag Bal. You cannot do the FINAL MAIN MISSION unless you have beat the final mission of the alliance story...as far as I know. Once in Cold Harbor....again, you Horde Mode until you get to the torture chamber where you see the King Of Worms being whipped like a dog, and tortured by other Daedra. You know get to talk to him after killing everything and he tells you he hate you blah blah blah and you one day will join him in being tortured forever. You then get to either free him or let him suffer, I freed him and he told me I would regret it and he teleported away...lame lol, Varen said I would regret it, but he dies anyway...in my story, so screw him! At the end, you get to choose who dies as a sacrifice so you can get God Like powers to fight Molag Bal. You can choose between Snow Lily, Sci Sci, or the Varen the Blind Emperor. I chose the blind man because he is already blind anyway, so the hell with him. So he dies and you get this super groovy armor and super strength. Literally you have to now go up flights of steps and fight endless Daedra while pursuing Molag Bal, but don't worry, because no you are pretty much invisible, and can one shot everything! Yup, that right, you can't die! So eventually you get to Molag Bal and he grabs you with his Darth Vader powers and you!!!! Get to push a button to shrink him down to your size and strength lol. It was a let down. I was thinking the whole time, man this guy is huge, how am I supposed to beat someone who is like 50 stories tall.....with a bottom sequence of course! lol When he shrinks you get to fight him, he has a mace and does some magic, but you still pretty much can't die, so all you have to to is attack him until he dies. After you mortally wound him. you get teleported to the clouds whether Molag Bals ghost soul threatens you and you get your soul back. You eventually go back to the Harbridge where the rest of your allies say they are going to Disney Land!  And you...well you get told by Caldwell, the Soul Shriven guy from the beginning, that if your not done adventuring you can now play in the other factions of the war and see how their story is! Yay! But just to piss you off, you don't get to choose what alliance you are in...its random, so enjoy lol.

Overall, what I would rate this game. And take it that I have played PVP, I have beat the Main Story, the Alliance Story, and played through hundreds of quests with glitches all along the way and hours of game maintenance due to servers being down lol. I would have to rate this game a...

7 Out Of 10

With the game being, as glitchy as it is, and the MAIN STORY lacking in lore, length, and excitement I can't bring myself to rate this game any higher then this. And the ending was just awful, on both the Main Story and the Alliance Story. After endless hours of quests, missions, throwing controllers, and glitches, they could of at least gave a better ending to the game! I mean this is the company that brought us Oblivion and Skyrim! So....what happened??? I understand it's their first big MMO game, but come one, you can't blame it on that. I would definitely say that if you have not played the game, get it. If you have friends you can have endless fun with them just exploring the world. But remember in the end, that this game is a work in progress, and that it does need some serious work to live up to its other previous installments before.

R.I.P... ;_; ...Iwata-San, you will surely be missed!

Now that I am a little better off to run of what I have been holding in for the past few days, I just want to put out a couple things about this subject. First off, its hard to blog about something so devastating as this. Since the Wii went out, I have not really even been a Nintendo fan, the Wii U just never really caught my eye, and didn't have any kind of games that I wanted to play with the exception of its usual exclusives such as: Mario, Donkey Kong, Kirby, Zelda...ect. The third party games dropped out, the controller is unattractive to your typical hardcore, or semi-hardcore gamer, and the price for what they offer on the Console Bundles is unreasonable to me....sorry but its true. So Nintendo hasn't really even played an important gaming factor in my life for at least the last 2 years. Yet all of a sudden, President Iwata-San passes at an early age (God rest his soul, and nothing but the deepest sympathies to his family) of 55, and I felt like a part of my gaming life just died...I didn't really even know this man, barely heard about him in all the time I have spent as a gamer/gamer informative, yet the urge to fight back the toughest sadness still hits me whenever I think about it. I feel like someone I knew personally and as close as a family member has just been ripped away from me and can barely stand it. I know that some people are not affected by this, but I know as well that thousands if not millions more people like me, feel the same way. How can you feel this way about a total stranger? About someone you've never met? About someone that is a non-factor in your daily life? Well I'm not the most spiritual person in the world but I can tell you how. I believe in great passions, and behind them passions is a burning soul that I believe lives in everyone one that shares that same passion. Whether your passion may be about Art, Music, Reading, or Video Games, there are people out there, that have the same passion, the same desire to love the same thing that you do. And if that passion is corrupted, broken, hurt, ripped, or changed in anyway, we all feel it. And something as passionate, and as devastating as Mr. Iwata-San passing, has made us all feel a little incomplete. The Video Game World lost one of its best, whether everyone realizes it or acknowledges it or not.  The industry will have less emotion, less guidance, and less passion for some time. I just want to say ''Thank You Iwata-San, for everything that you gave to the Video Game Universe. You gave it everything you had, your mind, your heart, and your soul, and we ''The Gamers'' are eternally grateful! I hope wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, you have a Nintendo Controller in your hand and you are smiling! You will be forever missed, but never forgotten. Whenever I played Nintendo for now on, I will be thinking about you. Rest in piece.

World Of Warcraft: Tomb Rage!

So, I will admit I have been playing world of warcraft on and off ever since “The Burning Crusade”. However, my ability to ‘maximize’ my toons skill, talents, abilities, weaponry, and armor…is…well, appalling. So much so, that I had actually had a total stranger come up to me and freak out on me. Mind you, if I am running an elemental shaman I am good to go! However, I decided to branch out and try all other classes, and was met with failure. I created a Draenei Death Knight for the Alliance (go a head Horde and have your hoots and hollers about that). However, I did not do ANY research into this and just jumped right in. So every time I gained a new talent, I would simply pick one that sounded like it could help me. Now, playing as long as I have played, you would have THOUGHT I would have KNOWN better…but I wasn't thinking. So here I am, sitting in Hellfire Peninsula on Overlook waiting for the damn flag to move up so that I could claim overlook for the alliance and complete this stupid pvp quest…and another Alliance death knight walked up to me and started freaking out on me! First words out of his mouth (well..out of the chat) were “DUDE! YOUR SET UP IS HORRIBLE! YOUR TALENTS SUCK! THEY ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE!”. Now…most people would have taken offense to that. Okay, let us be honest, almost EVERYONE would have taken offense to that. I, however, busted out laughing about the whole thing because, unfortunately, it was true, and I knew it. What made me laugh even harder, and had my husband who was raiding in Destiny looking at me funny, was his guild mate was whispering me and apologizing saying that he means well, and just gets over excited and cannot control himself. So I told the guild mate, “I'm not offended, I think it's funny because I know it is true, any other tips and pointers you can give me?” so he sends his guild mate back after me! The amount of information that came pouring out of him for a death knight was AMAZING to say the least. Now remember, I said I played on and off since “The Burning Crusade”. What I really mean to say, is that I have three kids and they come first so if I'm tight on money, my games are the first to get cut off. So much had changed with World of Warcraft since I had last hardcore played. He gave me tips on the glyphs that would work best for me, which talents would maximize my survival rate with the particular specialty I had chosen to go with. Some of the tips he had given me, I would have NEVER picked on my own just because it didn't sound very useful. Boy! Was I EVER wrong! Remember, I did NO research into this prior, and I have never really played Dungeons ‘n’ Dragons so I am not very strong with character stats. So after he explained everything to me, I went and changed up my talents…and lo and behold! I was dying OH SO MUCH LESS! Who knew! So Before you go into a TOON RAGE because someone said your setup sucked, give'em a chance to explain WHY the setup is bad, and decide for yourself if you choose to listen or not…because, honestly, chances are, you're probably not as much of a noob as I am when it comes to creating your toons. Even, still, any and all advise that could improve or maximize your toon, could always help turn the tide for your choice of either Alliance or HORDE!

Written by,
Nikki Lewis

Call Of Duty: World at War II...What Happened?

#@*^%@!!! Thats about what I have to say right now. At least that is what I want to say after being let down...yet again, by Call Of Duty and Treyarch. I mean, there was so many hints that #WAW2 was going to happen between last year and this year, and they had such an incredible fan base behind the need to want this game to happen, and then out of no where....Black Ops 3. #@%^*@#!!! Again that is what I have to say trying to stay PG and viewer friendly. I'm sorry to all the gamers that I know love the Black OPs title itself, because overall it is usually a good title, especially if you compare it to Infinity Ward and Sledge Hammer Games recent titles. But why all the hints towards a sequel to a game if that is not what was going to happen? I just want a straight answer from Treyarch and Activision. Why did you decide on another Black OPs instead of World at War? We even got this great image online!!!

Even if it did turn out to be fan made, or company made, or discarded because this was not the final decision...whatever. Just want Treyarch to know that they let down a lot of people that wanted another WAW title, that is all. And I want to run my mouth about the crappy recent titles that Activision has put out recently lol. MW3, pure trash, glitch riddled, and nothing new, made everyone wonder how it could carry the Modern Warfare title at all. Ghosts, another great, shiny, beaming light of a piece of garbage that fans could not stand. I don't even want to get into the whole alien thing. All I am going to say is, people thought Aliens: Colonial Marines was bad......welcome to COD meets ACM...G.A.R.B.A.G.E. SEGA you made a Masterpiece compared to this piece of crap. And finally we come to the recent work that Sledge Hammer Games released from its vile, corrupted cage, COD Advanced Warfare. First off, Infinity Ward killed off the Warfare series with MW3, so please refrain from using that sub title lol. And secondly, COD is not Titanfall or Halo, so please no running on the walls or I will have to get the hall monitor of video games to suspend you. This game doesn't even feel like a COD game. Of course COD loyalist will say it is the best thing in the world...just like they said Ghosts was, but under that filthy lie, is the cold hard fact that this game took advantage of surrounding BETTER titles and made a clone game and slapped a COD title on it and said....''This is Advanced Warfare''...what a load of crap. I understand that Titanfall is not the best title in the world either, but it was different, so it was at least a nice breath of fresh air to the usual shooters. And Halo has its ups and downs throughout the series, but at least it stays true to the series, it doesn't do a 180 and jump ship. So COD Advanced Warfare......there is a reason I don't own this title anymore.....maybe I just don't want to be shot by a samurai...just saying lol. So with all the complaining and dislike of the recent COD franchise titles, you have to excuse me for not being excited about the Beta launch next month of Black Ops 3. So far from what I have seen. you have Megaman on your team, good job on taking that from Capcom, they weren't using him anyway lol. You can still run on walls like in ''Titanfall'' why not keep stealing from that title, worked on the last title. And while you are running on the wall, why not come smashing down on the enemies in PVP with an all new, STOLEN FROM DESTINY, ''Titan Noob Smash''. Fist of Havok...really Treyarch, really? Do you have to be like Infinity Wad and Sledge Hammer Games? I thought you were the better of the bunch and didn't do crap like this? Surprise! They ran out of ideas, didn't think WAW2 would be successful, so they said lets make ''Call of Titanfall III Guardians Edition''!?! LMFAO!!! I guess this will be another year of Call of Duty that I will not be picking up the title. Thank God there are plenty of other ''Original Shooter'' Games coming out this fall and Winter to get me through! 

Once again, sorry to the fans of Call of Duty, I understand that every game they make is the best to you, but to the rest of us that are not loyal to only one game. We would like the Call Of Duty Franchise to return to its roots and make ''Real'' Video Games, that don't steal bits and pieces from other games because they know their game is lacking in the ''Creative'' department. Ok....I'm done....really I am, I can't rattle on anymore about what this franchise has become anymore because it sets my brain on fire and makes me melt lol, 

WWE 2K16 ..... A Pre Release Review

I've been a wrestling fan probably since I was in diapers. The first match I remember as a kid was The Undertaker vs Giant Gonzalez at WrestleMania 9. Giant Gonzalez walking to the ring in his tight ass Wolverine get up and The Undertaker walking out like a bad ass with Paul Bearer and his vulture in tow... Wrestling was FN awesome! The games sucked at the time but once the mid 90's came along with N64 and the PS1 wrestling games were just as sweet as wrestling was. WCW World Tour WCW vs NWO Revenge WWF No Mercy WWF Smackdown 1 & 2 WWF Smackdown Shut Your Mouth WWF Here Comes The Pain. Wrestling games were FN awesome. Eventually the best company went away eventually the best wrestlers went away eventually wrestling became repetitive and boring and so did the video games. Eventually WWE got smart and figured out wrestling fans missed the glory days of wrestling WWE fans missed The WWF Attitude Era. WWE made most of WWE 13 about The Attitude Era and its biggest stars from the late 90's unsurprisingly the game sold extremely well and was very fun! Then came 2K14 which had a great 30 Years of WrestleMania Mode but was seriously lacking the greats and the fun of the last game. Then came the trailer for next gen WWE 2K15 which looked incredibly real! Sadly that was just about the only good thing about 2K15... With Stone Cold Steve Austin on the cover of WWE 2K16 I have high hopes this time around will be more like The Attitude Era again. I have high hopes to see the best of WWF like Stone Cold Steve Austin The Rock Ministry of Darkness Undertaker Retro Kane The Big Boss Man Ken Shamrock 2 Cool APA The Dudley's Team Xtreme Matt Hardy Jeff Hardy n Lita I would also like to see some WCW greats like Hollywood Hogan Macho Man Randy Savage Scott Hall Kevin Nash Sting Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner DDP Goldberg and so many more greats I'm sure I'm missing. I want to see a story mode more like that of WWE Day of Reckoning 1 & 2 heck I would settle for Smackdown Shut Your Mouth or WWE Raw 2 Ruthless Aggression style. I want backstage areas that are interactive like in WWE Here Comes The Pain and WWF No Mercy. I want I quit matches I want casket matches I want falls count anywhere matches with backstage area support I want alot of cool bad ass stuff from previous versions which I'm sure sadly isn't likely to make the cut... Hopefully we will at least get a good WWF and WCW roster though... Here's hoping for the best when the game gets released... Can't get much worse than WWE 2K15 at least...

Written By MikeyV813