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Sunshine was a chore.

Secret is to take your time. if I remember correctly, none of the timed challenges are really that tight, your mind just makes you think you have little time and then you make mistakes. Just try to take it easy. Even the Toy Galaxy purple coin challenge (probably the hardest in the game together with the Juggernaut one) gives you plenty of time to complete it without rushing it.

For me the hardest dare devil runs were the mole in Gusty Garden and the Melty Molten one. Curiously, on my Luigi run of the game, I had more trouble on the Bouldergeist dare devil run, though.

Does Disaster count? Maybe Metroid Prime Trilogy too, now that it has been discontinued?

Well, NGamer aren't ones to go around spreading rumours just for the sake of it. If they say it, there's a reason for it.

On a game like Fallout 3 you should have multiple save files anyway, cause it's such a buggy game (like Oblivion before it). That way, when you finally read the guide, you'd have a save somewhere before that Enclave final part and not have to begin from scratch. Always keep multiple save files. And I don't mean 2 or 3 files, I kept something like 16-17 save files while I was playing Fallout 3. A friend of mine kept all saves he ever did, he completed the game with something like 160 saves. That's overkill, IMO, but always keep at least 15-20 files. That way you can even try branching the game, like do all the available choices in a given quest and get the most out of the game.

They already have that one, check out no. 14

You'd be surprised. BDs are downloaded, at least when it comes to movies. With hard drives of 1 TB already at decent prices (there are already HDDs of 2 TB, but those are still too expensive) and internet connections growing ever faster, it's not that complicated to download files of 15, 20 GB. The GB is the new MB.

Yeah, that's what I meant, I know she's not his real mom. Still is wrong, Saria wasn't his foster mom, she was his friend. They probably felt Link needed a mom in the film, but it didn't have to be Saria, IMO. As for the lighting, it's better than in professional soap operas. Impa begs to differ. A strong point of the film is also the music, it's amazing. Some of it is Kondo's music, but it's been arranged by someone else. And other is original, I think. It sounds great.

A pub landlord with an axe? He's a knight in the Crusades! He goes to Hell and back for his wife. Yes, the Death boss character appears before his wife's taken to Hell but it's a hack and slash video game, give it a break. Ah, well, let's all just enjoy videogames, shall we? You guys are just nitpicking at this one because it's unoriginal. I'll get it, I'll play it, I think I'll enjoy it. Conan is a lot worse than this is and it also used the coloured orbs system and worse yet, it featured Conan using lots of magic.

You have to judge it for what it is, an amateur fan film. Given that, I think it's pretty good. The "actors" are all shitty if you compare them to professionals, but it's good for a fan effort. I think the lighting is particularly good for an amateur film. But why was Saria his mom...?? That puzzled me.

No, it doesn't. Because you're not answering your own question. Again, the basic thing we're talking about is your question "why Dante and not someone else". You can ask that about any other character in any other story. Why is Link the embodiment of the player and not someone else? You're just saying he is the embodiment of the player, not why, as if that explains anything. It doesn't. You can also say, but you haven't, that Link is the hero because he was chosen by the gods to be the keeper of the Triforce of courage. But then we can ask again why did the gods choose him and not someone else? What makes Link so special? You are not willing to accept that there isn't an answer to this. He just is. Just like Dante. Why wasn't Frodo corrupted by the Ring, like most everyone else seems to be in the story? What the hell made that little hobbit so special that he had stronger willpower than Saruman, the White, the wisest wizard in all of Middle Earth, the leader of Wizards? The answer is "because if he had been corrupted by the Ring, then there wouldn't have been a story, he wouldn't have destroyed the Ring and everything would just have continued the way it had been for centuries". Nothing really transcendental about it. Oh, I hear you say, but Saruman and Galadriel were very powerful already and the Ring appealed to that power, giving them the possiblility of being even more powerful, and Frodo was just a simple humble hobbit. But then again, so were Sméagol and Déagol. Yet, they were corrupted/tempted, and Frodo wasn't.

You know you haven't answered any of the questions, don't you? You were just hoping I was convinced you had. Actually, no. When he leaves, he doesn't know anything about his father's research, he just leaves to search for him. But no one ever left the Vault, apart from his father, who knows it's safe out there. No one else knows it's safe outside the Vault, and neither does the Lone Wanderer. He just leaves, when no one else would. Alec Trevellian is 006, not 008, and he doesn't really count as he was introduced specifically for one purpose in GoldenEye. My point still stands. So Bond is a womanizer and a risk taker? That's not an answer, those are character traits. Also, saying Samus, Link and Freeman are supposed to "embody the player" isn't an answer. Samus being a link to the player makes her not become evil when all the others do? Why? What makes the player so special? My point is it's just a plot device, and has nothing to do with motivations, as you imply later. You're distorting a bit what I said. I wasn't refering to motivations or context. You asked what made Dante so special that he defeated Death and no one else did. That's not the same as asking what was his motivation. None of the questions I raised were about motivations either, so implying I said motivations don't matter isn't correct...

Why is Link the only one to save Zelda? Why is our character, a jailed criminal, the one who saves Cyrodiil in Oblivion? Because the Emperor saw him in a vision? That explanation suffices? Why is the Lone Wanderer the first to leave Vault 101 in Fallout 3 and go on to save the Wasteland? Why is Samus the only bounty hunter that doesn't become evil in MP3? What makes Gordon Freeman, a cientist, so remarkable that he's a military leader and hero in Half Life? Why is James Bond the only 00 agent we know of and what makes him so special that he's always the one to resolve world crisis? Are any of these questions answered? Do they really matter?

Another thing, the demo doesn't feel like it begins at the very begining of the game... At least, I don't think it does. It feels like they made some time jumps here and there (in fact, I hope they did, because I agree that the begining goes way too fast and begins out of nowhere). Maybe someone did and just didn't succeed? Dante succeeds and that's why he's the hero and not some other guy. And why can't he be the first to try it, anyway? Even if someone had tried it before, there had to be a first time, so why not him?

Well, no I wasn't joking, just being a bit ignorant, I admit. I never read the Divine Comedy, I don't fancy poetry although I respect it. Anyway, I don't think the alterations they made are ridiculous. The concept of a character defeating Death and taking his scythe is great for a video game, in my opinion. And each level of Hell will be well portrayed in the game. Well, ok, I see this is going nowhere, I'm not gonna try to convince anyone. I just like the game and will get it at budget price. I see people getting games a lot worse than this every day.

Yeah, I noticed the cut-scenes thing, using engine or FMV, but most games do that anyway, except maybe not as obviously. Fable 2 also uses FMV in the begining (don't know if it keeps using it, as I haven't played it past the prologue). Assassin's Creed also uses FMV in the begining. And all game trailers released are FMV. You gotta be kidding... I'm not sure if you're saying that what you said was a joke or if you're refering to the story of the game, which is the story of Dante's The Divine Comedy. That's like bashing Homer's The Odyssey or Virgil's Aeneid!

You all probably already seen this, but here's a 4 minute HD video of the game. Looks like it has a lot of potential to be a great game.

Poor in what respect? I never finished a God of War game, but I played both of them at a friend's house a couple years ago, and frankly I don't really see a difference. People are saying wielding Dante's scythe isn't as satisfying as wielding Krato's whip, but there really isn't a difference, as far as I can tell. It's just psychological, because of the fact that the game is a rip off. I enjoyed the demo very much and I was just watching all the available videos, where the devs talk about each circle of Hell and the game looks awesome to me.

I for one thank the God of War ripoff. I don't own a Playstation and I don't want one, I'm not really too fond of it. So I can't play God of War, which is one of the few great exclusive titles the PS3 has. So, Dante's Inferno fills that spot for me. Also, later down the line will come Castlevania Lords of Shadow, another similar game, we'll see how that one comes off. Anyway, I just beat the Dante's Inferno demo and I liked it a lot. So it rips off God of War shamelessly, yeah, no one can deny that. But it's great anyway. It's not a poor rip off. The story will be engaging, hopefully, it's based on great source material and the levels have the chance to be great too, based on the 9 Circles of Hell. And I liked the upgrade and level up system. But honestly, I wish this wasn't a hack & slash game... If it were a slower paced game based on exploration and discovery (like Bioshock or Metroid Prime, for example) based on The Divine Comedy, I think it would have the potential to be a lot better and more involving, as you'd be more up close and personal with the environments of Hell, as opposed to always being engaged in fast paced combat filmed from a bird's eye view.

Downloading now, thanks for the tip!

I started playing through this 2 days ago. I've done the first 3 missions, and I'm into the Doll Factory now. I'm a huge fan of the first, played that one exactly one year ago and replayed it last week just before starting the sequel. Visually, it's a lot better, but I agree that there are far too many guns in this... even only having played 3 missions, I already noticed that they added a lot of guns and almost turned this into just another FPS. The Condemned franchise is NOT FPS, and it shouldn't be. Many people who didn't "get" the first game complained about its lack of guns and the devs stupidly catered to them fools in the sequel. Fuck that. I want to roam mazey dark corridors with a small pipe in my hand, not a riot gun. Game is still good, though. And the forensics aspect is much improved, now you really are investigating crime scenes and making judgments on the spot about what you see. That part is greatly improved. I want Condemned 3, but sadly there's no talk of it anywhere... But if they do make it, please go back to 99% melee combat, that what Condemned should be about. Great horror games, I recommend them to anyone who fancies a good horror experience, atmospheric horror. The Condemned games also feature some of the best sound design I've ever heard in videogames. This is the direction Resident Evil should have gone in. RE4 was great, but RE5 totally missed the mark, IMO. Capcom should learn something from Monolith. Imagine a Resident Evil game in 1st person (not an FPS, though. And not the Wii rails either) back to its horror roots and puzzle elements, a slow deliberate pace. It would work a hell of a lot better than what RE turned into with RE5. RE4 still had horror and good pacing in some sections, but RE5 totally blew the formula into shit. I'd like an RE6 that would take a page from Condemned.

I've had it on 1080p before, things just looked smaller. And since I found out the games weren't really 1080p, I changed it. But I remembered now, the REAL reason I changed the console settings to 720p was to eliminate the awful screen tearing of RE5. It's impossible to play RE5 in 1080p, unless you have the console connected by DVI, which eliminates all screen tearing. However, if you put the game running at 720p, screen tearing disapears. Then, since most games are 720p or below anyway, I never bothered to change the settings back to 1080p.

I have a 1080p LCD and have my 360 set on 720p because that's the native resolution of most games. Some games are even below that, like the Modern Warfare games, they both run at 640p or something like that, not even 720p. There should be a database online about which games are in what resolution. A few can be found, but they're rare and not complete.

Hmm, I'd argue they are. This game has moves from SMW, it's more comparable to that than to the NES Marios. The spin jump is a SMW move, in NSMW it's a wiimote shake.... Not a great option, using a SNES style controller would have been preferable. Only thing the wiimote adds is the tilt function for platforms and lifts.