Sunday, July 31, 2011

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST: PART 12




THIS WEEK HULK CHATS WITH THE FINE FINE FOLKS OF MINECRAFT MIDDLE EARTH AND THEIR RIDONCULOUS PROJECT!

THIS WEEK WE DISCUSS

NINTENDO FAILS!

CAPCOM BLAMES FANS FOR FRANCHISE FAILURES!?!

NINTENDO MEGA FAILS!

KINECT SUED !

SEGA FAILS!

SQUARE ENIX FAILS AND SAVES?! WHAT THE WHA?

FLUFFY BEARS THAT WOULD IN REAL LIFE KILL YOU!!

HATS!

MINECRAFT HATS!

BURNING DOWN BREE! ( AN IN DEPTH EDITORIAL BY MEGAWATT :p)







THIS WEEKS MUSIC IS FROM THE TWO TOWERS!

HULK DEMANDS YOU JOIN THEIR SITE! DONATE FOR THE CAUSE!
MAKE HULKS DREAM OF HUNTING ORCS IN FANGORN A REALITY!

AND FINALLY..... THIS IS NOT HOW YOU DO PR.....EVER






Friday, July 22, 2011

PART 11 OF THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST!

THE RAP GAMER JOINS HULK FOR THE PODCAST!

WE DISCUSS....


SONY FAILS!

SQUARE ENIX FAILS!

CAPCOM FAILS!

THE DEATH OF MEGA MAN!

VOLTRON.....HULK CANT BELIEVE VOLTRON MADE THE PODCAST!

RAPPERS STRANGE FEAR OF VIRTUAL REALITY!

HULK'S LOVE OF THE CONCEPT OF DOTHACK!


AND MANY MORE VERY STRANGE STORIES!





THIS WEEKS MUSIC IS FROM DOT HACK! AND FRACTALE!


IF YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME WITH CLAYTON... SEARCH FOR EXILEDSKIES ON PSN !

STEAM FINALLY FIXED ITSELF..... HULK THINKS



FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T GET THE BALL JOKE.... LOOK HERE

Monday, July 18, 2011

FIX IT FIX IT FIX IT

HULK IS EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES!





ALSO! HERE'S SOME PICTURES FROM ARTSCAPE!
















Saturday, July 16, 2011

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST: PART 10

10 EPISODES ALREADY?

DEAR HULK GOD YOUR'RE ALL INSANE!

THIS IS THE INTERNATIONAL EDITION!

IN THIS WEEKS PODCAST WE TALK TO ZIGGY_D AND THE REAL MODSQUAD ABOUT!

INTERNET COMPANIES!

MORE GAMING NEWS!

HOW OTHER COUNTRIES ARE VERY DANGEROUS!

IGLOO SAFETY TIPS!

WHAT EVERYONE IS PLAYING!

SNAKE? SNAKE?? SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

WHY WINDOWS 7 SUCKS!

ZIGGY'S FUTURE!

AND MANY OTHER THINGS!










THIS WEEKS MUSIC IS FROM DARK CLOUD!

AND ♫I'M STILL IN A DREAM! SNAKE EATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!♫

Friday, July 15, 2011

HARRY POTTER.......

THE FIRST 1 HOUR AND 10 MINUTES OF HARRY POTTER WERE SOME OF THE GREATEST IMAGERY HULK HAS LIKELY EVER SEEN!


THE REST WAS RATHER EXPERIMENTAL!

FORCED TO COVER UP FOR PREVIOUS DIRECTORS AND SCREEN WRITERS MISTAKES!

AND MOST IMPORTANTLY!.......WAS SUPPOSED TO SEAMLESSLY BRING EVERYTHING TO AN END!


HULK NORMALLY REFUSES TO REVIEW ANYTHING UNLESS IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE GAME INDUSTRY! PLEASE FORGIVE HULK FOR BREAKING THIS RULE! BUT MANY PRINCIPLES THAT THIS MOVIE FOLLOWED ARE THINGS THE GAME INDUSTRY FOLLOWS! AND HULK PERSONALLY FEELS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT!

THE FIRST FEW MOVIES MADE MANY CHANGES TO THE HARRY POTTER LORE IN THE HOPES OF MAKING A FAR MORE COMPELLING MOVIE! HULK DID ENJOY THOSE MOVIES AND THEY SOLD INCREDIBLY WELL! BUT IT LEFT A SENSE OF LONGING THAT MANY REVIEWERS AND HARDCORE FANS OF THE SERIES WERE HAVING DIFFICULTY ADJUSTING TO!

THESE PARTS THAT WERE LEFT OUT WERE IN NO WAY DIFFICULT TO PRODUCE! ON MANY OCCASIONS THE DIRECTORS AND SCRIPTWRITERS ADMITTED THEY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ELSE! AS IF THOSE SCENES DID NOT DESERVE THEIR DUE!

THESE MOVIES WERE BASED ON BOOKS! AND NOT JUST ANY BOOKS! BUT ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING, MOST PROFITABLE SERIES THAT HAS EVER EXISTED! THROW YOUR SO CALLED PRIDE / EGO INTO THE CLOSET AND MAKE A MOVIE THAT THE FANS WILL WANT TO SEE!

HULK WILL NOT SPOIL THE MOVIE! HULK WILL ABSOLUTELY REFUSE TO DO SO! AND HULK WILL ALSO STATE HULK ENJOYED PART2! AND COMMEND YATES FOR FINDING WAYS TO FIX THOSE MISTAKES!

HULK WILL ALSO WARN HIM ABOUT CHANGING LOCALES IN THE MIDDLE OF MOVIES! HULK WILL ALWAYS FIND WATER VERY SHINY IN THE MOONLIGHT BUT THAT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STORY! >:(


ONE OF HULK'S SILLY TEACHERS MENTIONED OUT OF CLASS THAT " The ending of book 7 made absolutely no sense, harry should have died, ect , ect, ect,( HULK CANT REMEMBER! SO SUE HULK) and that prologue was an even worse offender"

HULK GIGGLED IN THE CORNER AT THIS STATEMENT! HOWEVER CLAYTON SAID " but it was following the rules, there were a ton of things foreshadowed and a great many rules set up for the harry potter universe that always had to be followed.... to me it made sense"

HULK COULD UNDERSTAND BOTH POINTS BEING MADE! BUT SINCE HULK IS A LOVER OF GAMES.... THE IDEA OF RULES BEING FOLLOWED AND WEAVED INTO STORY-LINE HAD A STRONGER RESONANCE WITHIN HULK!


THE WAY DEATHLY HOLLOWS HANDLED THE ENDING AND THE PROLOGUE WAS A GIGANTIC DISAPPOINTMENT! LOCALES WERE CHANGED, LINES WERE CHANGED, MAGIC WAS CHANGED, MANY LINES OF THE STORY NEVER F******** HAPPENED WHEN THEY WERE NECESSARY FOR THE PLOT, DEATHS HAPPENED OFF SCREEN, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.... TO HULK, THE LAST 40 MINUTES OF THE MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLY JARRING.


HULK NORMALLY WOULD JUST SAY ANASTASIA WAS CORRECT AND JUST LEAVE IT ALONE! BUT YATES CHANGED A LOT OF THINGS IN THIS BLOODY MOVIE( BRITISH SWEARS) AND CLAYTON'S THEORY WAS NEVER GIVEN THE CHANCE TO SHOW IT'S MERIT!
( JUST LIKE HIS EMPLOYMENT SITUATION...HULK JUST MADE HIMSELF SAD)





OK.... NOW BACK TO THE GAME DESIGN SIDE





GAME DESIGNERS SHOULD NEVER EVER BEND A STORY LINE TO FIT THEIR GAME! IT HAS NEVER WORKED FOR MODERN WARFARE AND A GREAT MANY STORY WRITERS HAVE STATED THAT GREAT STORY LINE CAN NEVER HAPPEN 4 MONTHS BEFORE THE GAME IS TO BE RELEASED.


YOU EITHER BEND THE GAME PLAY TO FIT THE STORY OR DO THE JOB TOGETHER FROM THE START! STORY IS A SET PATH AND AS SUCH SHOULD BE UNYIELDING WHEN MAKING IT INTO A GAME! YOU TAKE THE STORY THEN DESIGN THE SETS, LEVELS, CHARACTERS, ECT! NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

THIS IS SOMETHING HARRY POTTER NEVER SEEMED TO PROPERLY LEARN! AND HAS MOST LIKELY DAMAGED HOW THESE TYPES OF MOVIES/ GAMES GET MADE! WHEN SOME BRAVE HULK FOLLOWER SAYS " THAT NEVER HAPPENED IN THE BOOK SO WE SHOULD NOT DO THAT!"

THEIR CEO WILL TURN AROUND AND SAY" HARRY POTTER DID IT, AND THEIR FANS STILL LOVED THEM AFTERWARDS!.... NOW DO AS I SAY OR YOUR FIRED!"

HULK GIVES HARRY POTTER PART 2 4 OUT OF 5 FISTS! ( THE GAME IS GETTING A 2)




ALSO! WHEN THE PROLOGUE BEGAN EVERYONE STARTED TO LAUGH HYSTERICALLY !




ONE EVEN SAID " oh wtf is with that makeup? why is Hermoine the same but Ronald has a f******* comb over? It doesn't make any f********* sense!"












Wednesday, July 13, 2011

VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY AND TWITTER!

AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS.... HULK STARTED SOME RESEARCH BACK WHEN HULK FIRST JOINED TWITTER ABOUT THE INTERACTION BETWEEN EACH GAME COMPANY AND THE MONSTER KNOWN AS TWITTER!


TO PROTECT PEOPLE AND THEIR JOBS HULK WILL NOT MENTION NAMES! JUST CONVERSE ON WHAT THEY THOUGHT!

HULK FIRST ASKED INDEPENDENT DEVELOPERS!

HULK FELT INDY WILL LIKELY BE THE GAME INDUSTRIES FUTURE!

INDEPENDENT DEVELOPERS ( AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL) NEED TWITTER TO EXIST!

THE AAA PUBLISHERS CANNOT SUPPORT THEM!


LET ALONE AFFORD TO GIVE THEM APPROPRIATE PR! AND WHILE JOYSTIQ DOES A DECENT JOB MENTIONING THEM WHENEVER THEY CAN.... TWITTER IS OFFICIALLY THEIR TETHER TO THE COMMUNITY!

IRONICALLY MANY OF THE INDIE DEVELOPERS HULK INTERVIEWED DID NOT EXACTLY KNOW WHAT TO THINK OF TWITTER!




" From a P.R. prospective it does things only facebook and forums could ever dream of doing.... yet when it comes to profitability for our product....we haven't been able to figure out a proper way of testing. So just like the games we're working ...... we're taking a risk and hoping it pans out" - one silly developer

"With no way of seeing ROI with tweets we're never entirely sure if what we do with twitter will in anyway bolster sales. we do however see rises in our community" - an adorable hulk follower <3
SIDE NOTE: R.O.I.= RETURN ON INVESTMENT!



IRONICALLY HULK HAD A FEW MORE INDIE GAME DEVELOPERS SAY THE EXACT SAME THING!

HULK WONDERS IF GOOGLE ANALYTICS TRAFFIC SOURCING ALONG WITH SALE RECORDS OF THE GAMES WEBSITE COULD ASSIST WITH THIS.... IT MIGHT NOT BE A PERFECT SYSTEM, BUT AS LONG AS NO OTHER HUGE EVENTS ARE TAKING PLACE IT COULD GIVE THE USER A SOLID READING OF THAT TWEETS POWAH!

(HULK DOES SOMETHING SIMILAR WHEN GAUGING HULK'S BLOG)



THE NEXT GROUP ARE A MIXED BAG!

BIGGER THEN INDIE BUT NOT AAA!

I GUESS WE COULD CALL THEM THIRD PARTY BUT A LOT OF THEM DON'T FEEL LIKE IT OR STATE IT!

EITHER WAY!....... THEIR MESSAGE IS TIMELESS!


"We here at *leave this part out* f*cking love Twitter.

I personally wish twitter had existed ten years ago, so I didn't have to scroll through Neogaf hearing nothing but cesspools of hatred for me and my games. The endless raging did nothing for my self-esteem and changed how our company did games later.


On twitter I can chat with friends, answer questions for gamers, chat with young Hulks ( <3), and even occasionally mention that we have a new item in the shop or a new shirt size for those that have been desperately wishing for it.

These are all things standard websites and our publisher can't handle.

The average day to day activities that may have very little to do the product but everything to do with us here at *REDACTED BECAUSE HULK DOES NOT WANT TO LOSE FRIENDSHIPS <3*" - AWESOME 3RD PARTY ( I THINK) DEVELOPER!



IRONICALLY A LOT OF THE DEVELOPERS IN THIS CATEGORY HAD TRAUMATIZING
EXAMPLES OF PAST P.R., OF DEALING WITH FORUMS, AND
THE INCESSANT HATRED THAT SPAWNS THERE!

SEEMS TWITTER TO THIS GROUP GIVES A BETTER PICTURE!

PERHAPS FILLS IN BUBBLE THAT 10 YEARS AGO WOULD HAVE POPPED, MADE A MESS, AND RUINED SALES!





NOW FOR THE AAA INDUSTRY!

THE MOST COMPELLING!

MOST DYNAMIC!

MOST JAW DROPPING RESPONSE IN GAME DESIGN HISTORY!

" WE AT THIS TIME HAVE NO COMMENT"


THIS HAPPENED OVER AND OVER AGAIN ! -_-










Monday, July 11, 2011

THE CHAPTER ENDS

EVERY PERSON IN THIS WORLD GREW UP WITH SOMETHING..... HULK HOWEVER GREW UP WITH A FEW THINGS!

NINTENDO, SONY, GBA, DS, THEN A LOT MORE SONY! ( EVENTUALLY PC :P)

BUT THAT WAS ALL VIDEO GAMES!

HULK ( AS MANY CAN TELL) ALSO GREW UP WITH COOKING, GOOD MOVIES, AND LOTS OF LOTS OF BOOKS!

HARRY POTTER COMES OUT ON FRIDAY AND HULK FOR THE SECOND TIME IN THE MOVIE FRANCHISES HISTORY IS INTRIGUED / EXCITED!


THE FIRST PART OF THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS MOVIES DID THINGS RIGHT!

THROUGH LESS WORDS THEY CONVEYED FEELINGS AND ARGUMENTS THAT WE SAW INSIDE THE BOOK WITH WHAT HULK CONSIDERS A BRILLIANT 1 TO 1 BOOK TO MOVIE TRANSLATION RATIO!

IT SET THE STAGE!

HULK FELT AS IF THINGS WERE WINDING DOWN! AS IF WE KNOW ALL THE CHARACTERS, THEIR FUNCTIONS AND FORMS HAVE BEEN FULLY ESTABLISHED, AND NOW IT FINALLY TIME TO SIT BACK AND BASK IN THE ENDING!

HULK KNOWS MANY OF YOU THOUGHT A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE BOOKS ENDING DID NOT MAKE SENSE! ( ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING THAT PROLOGUE).


HULK FORGAVE ROWLING ON THIS BECAUSE SHE DID SOMETHING MOST GAME DEVS HAVE SERIOUS ISSUES WITH!

SHE FOLLOWED EVERY LAW SHE HAD ESTABLISHED FOR THE HARRY POTTER UNIVERSE AND STUCK TO HER BELIEFS THAT EVERY CHILD NEEDS A STRONG POSITIVE OVERLAYING MESSAGE IN ORDER TO GROW!

THE SECOND PART OF BOOK 7 HAD A LOT TO DO WITH NOSTALGIA! RETURNING TO PLACES ONCE VISITED EARLIER IN THE SERIES, AND MAKING EVERYTHING LEAD DIRECTLY TO THE END!
IF THIS MOVIE CARRIES OVER AS WELL AS PART 1 DID THEN HULK'S CHILDHOOD WILL END WITH A GIGANTIC BANG!

AND HOPEFULLY SOME GOOD PR FOR POTTERMORE!

HULK CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THIS MOVIE! <3

Sunday, July 10, 2011

HULK SMASH TUBES!

FOR MR. MOO EAR! THE MOST MANLY GAME DESIGNER ON THE ******* PLANET!


DOUBLE FINE DID A GOOD JOB TOO >_>

GO BUY THEIR STUFF!

THE HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST: PART 9

THIS WEEK WE TALK TO SAKIMOTO FANBOY ABOUT

FANCY MUSIC!
NINTENDO FAILS!
SQUARE ENIX FAILS!
SONY FAILS!
BIOSHOCK INFINITE! <3
DEUS EX! <3
3DS FAILS!








MUSIC IS FROM CRYSIS 2 AND CHRONO CROSS!

Saturday, July 9, 2011

HULKGAMECRIT PODCAST PART 8

THIS WEEK CLAYTON TALKS WITH HIS DEAR FRIEND NICK ABOUT HOW NINTENDO SUCKS!

WE ALSO DISCUSS LET'S PLAY!





YOU CAN FIND HIS AWESOME VIDEOS HERE!

Friday, July 8, 2011

HULK IS COMPELLED!

HULK APOLOGIZES FOR NOT WRITING HULK ARTICLE LAST WEEK... OR DOING HULK PODCAST!

HULK WENT THROUGH BRIEF MOMENT OF DEPRESSION DUE TO ARTICLE BEING REDACTED AS A FAILURE! ..... THEN WENT ON HULK VACATION TO MOUNT HULKMORE AND HAD LOTS OF SMASHANADE!


( HULK THANKS EVERYONE THAT SAID WEBSITE ( REDACTED FOR BEING A FAILURE)

WERE BEING IDIOTS AND NOT WORTH HULK'S TIME! EVEN THOUGH HULK PERSONALLY LOVES THEM!.... FOLLOWERS ARE CERTAINLY SMASH HAPPY THIS WEEK)


HULK HAS A FEW RATHER LARGE PIECES OF NEWS !


AS SOME HULK FOLLOWERS KNOW....

HULK HAS BEEN DOING SOME DEEP HULK THINKING ON WHAT HULK SHOULD TACKLE NEXT!


HULK VIDEO REVIEWS?

POSSIBLY!

HULK ARTICLES AT SEVERAL WEBSITES?

IN THE WORKS!


AN INTERNATIONAL ALL ON LINE HULKGAMECRIT STUDIO?

YES


IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE HULKGAMECRIT STUDIO THEN SEND HULK AN EMAIL! YOU CAN FIND IT HERE!


WHY IS HULK DOING THIS?


BECAUSE HULK'S FOLLOWERS HAVE HAD AN IMPACT ON HULK!

HULK WENT FROM BEING A SMASH HAPPY GREEN DUDE ON TWITTER TO SOMEONE PEOPLE ACTUALLY LISTEN TO, TALK TO, AND FOR SOME UNHOLY REASON RESPECT! <3


HULK WILL DESIGN A STUDIO THAT ANYONE IN THE GAME INDUSTRY CAN JOIN.

THAT MEANS ANY TEACHER, ANY STUDENT, ANY JOURNALIST, ANY DEVELOPER, ANY ARTIST, ANY SOUND ARTIST/ MUSICIAN/COMPOSER/ ALIEN CYBORG FROM SWEDEN CAN JOIN!


HULK BELIEVES THE GAME INDUSTRY IS BUILT ON COMMUNICATION!


SO WHY DON'T WE ALL GET TOGETHER, COMMUNICATE, AND MAKE SOME F******ING FREE GAMES ALREADY?!?

AT THE VERY LEAST WE CAN GIVE THE GAME INDUSTRY A GENERAL IDEA OF WHAT WE STAND FOR!



Friday, July 1, 2011

SUCH A FAILURE

H: HULK WAS RECENTLY ASKED TO REVIEW A GAME FOR redacted due to it being a failure!

HULK WAS ALSO RECENTLY ASKED BY A YOUNG VERY ADORABLE 9 YEAR OLD GAMER WHICH GAME (IF ANY EXISTS) WOULD HULK REFUSE TO SMASH!

HULK'S ANSWER TO THE OVERLORDS AT redacted due to it being a failure, AND HULK'S NEWEST FAN IS " VALKYRIA CHRONICLES"!

C: Hulk..... This game was released 3 years ago to "universal acclaim", but poor sales.. Normally when this happens you go on a "Smash-capade" that ends with yet another studio hating us for the rest of our lives (<3).

H: HULK ADMITS HULK IS QUICK TO WRATH! AND QUICK TO RUIN!

HULK HOWEVER WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT TITLES THAT WERE CONSISTENTLY ON MESSAGE!

HULK ALSO SEARCHES FOR GAMES THAT REFLECT "WORLD MAKER" PHILOSOPHY!

AND THE RED DAWN!

C: Stop it Hulk...

H: VALKYRIA CHRONICLES DID BOTH OF THESE THINGS SEAMLESSLY!

SEGA COULD HAVE TAKEN THE LOW ROAD, AND MADE A BORING BLAND 3RD PERSON SHOOTER!

INSTEAD THEY MADE AN INCREDIBLY SOLID GAME, WRAPPED AROUND AN AMAZING STORY!

AND THIS STORY WAS PLACED INSIDE A FANCY PICTURE BOOK!

HULK LOVES FANCY PICTURE BOOKS!

C: Hulk , while I know you have a soft spot for unconventional interfaces.... that book was a nightmare. You were forced to interact with the "book" each time you wanted save, check on some stats, learn about a character, or improve the team. You spend way more time in the book, then the actual game itself.

H: CLAYTON IS REFUSING TO SEE WHAT SEGA WAS DOING!

SEGA WAS TRYING TO TELL US A STORY!

THAT BOOK WAS A METAPHOR!

IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE SEEN AS A MENU SYSTEM!

ALTHOUGH HULK WILL ADMIT THAT WAS ONE OF IT'S CORE FUNCTIONS!

C: Regardless of hidden meanings, Hulk, it was still a bloody menu system!

Maybe if the in-game menu system had more functionality I'd feel differently. Jumping through chapter after chapter in search of saving, improving my troops, and claiming rewards I had already won is not my idea of a great time.

H: HULK IS SO DISAPPOINTED IN CLAYTON!

C: I can see why you liked it Hulk.... how about I go half way on this one?

If the in-game menu system had more functionality , it auto saved after each mission, and just jumped to the next episode with no prompts.... I'd call it the greatest menu system ever.

H: HULK COULD LIVE WITH THAT!

C: Glad to see you're willing to drop to my level Hulk..... let's discuss the storyline

H: VALKYRIA CHRONICLES TAKES PLACE IN WARTIME EUROPE!

ONE PUNY COUNTRY HAS A PRECIOUS RESOURCE CALLED "RAGNITE", AND EVERYONE WANTS IT!

RAGNITE IS USED TO POWER EVERYTHING IN THIS WORLD WITH A MIGHTY BLUE GLOW!

HULK WOULD HAVE PREFERRED A DIFFERENT COLOR!

NEEDED MORE SMASH!

C: How very shocking....I'll take over Hulk

The "puny " country of Gallia decides to stay neutral. They have no love for either side in this war, and would prefer keeping closed borders. The "Empire" sees this as highly problematic, and invades for the ragnite.

H: NOW ENTERS WELKIN GUNTHER! <3

C: Welkin is a science loving, nature witnessing dude that owns his own tank. When the first chapter
is finished, you're officially drafted into the army and even given the rank of lieutenant, due to your crazy, dead, war hero father.

Right off the bat, they prove Welkin is not a normal kind of guy. He sees situations a little differently
from his superiors and will use his knowledge of nature to find interesting ways to outflank the enemy.
Unfortunately, a lot of this great science never makes it into the game. They've mostly used it to define
his character and help fuel the odd situations they get into during the storyline

H: TANKS WIN WARS!

C: Welkin begins going through his roster to choose whom he wants in Squad 7. Everyone on the team has their own back story, beliefs, and personality traits that can either empower your team, or make them worse. There are even hints of racism...

H: HULK FOUND ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM WITH THIS!

VALKYRIA WAS EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE WORLD WARS!

THE DEVELOPERS COULDN'T JUST IGNORE IT!

C: Stop interrupting Hulk..

Yes, I liked how every character had a story, and how it was intricately weaved into the gameplay. If I'm completely honest, this might be the only time I have ever seen this mechanic. As you progress through the missions, you're granted better equipment, acknowledgement from the kingdom, given a rare look into military politics (both the good and the bad), and begin to feel like Squad 7 is not just Welkin's team, but his family.

Furthermore, your team's abilities drastically increase. With the XP gained from missions each class of soldier can go through special training back at camp ( via the "picture book"). This training unlocks more abilities and personality traits. Each mission also nets you money to upgrade your different classes including the tank.

Seemingly overnight, Squad 7 goes from being a bunch of wimpy campers to a brutal hit squad that loves playing with fire.

H: HULK'S SQUAD 7 WERE MORE INTO GRENADES , AND SNIPER RIFLES .....DON'T JUDGE HULK!

WHY IS CLAYTON HAVING TROUBLE WITH VALKYRIA CHRONICLES?

C: When I play games, Hulk.... It's to escape reality for just a little while. Though I will give them credit for going into such intricate "holistic" detail (as some would describe it).....it went from being a fun little squad shooter to being serious business rather quickly, and I really wasn't ready for it.

It's cool that they were willing to look into world history and even explain some of the crazy bullsh*t things humans have done to each other. I think the art style here might have been the problem. At first glance its rich cell shading techniques make you think childish, and happy thoughts. However, the storyline covered things like genocide, young vs. old mentalities, orphans, and had absolutely no problem with explaining death.

H: THAT KIND OF DETAIL IS WHAT THE INDUSTRY NEEDS!

HULK THINKS GAMES CAN MAKE PEOPLE THINK!

MAKE THEM FACE WHAT THEY ONCE FEARED!

IN HULK'S EYES VALKYRIA WAS BOLD! AND AS SUCH SHOULD BE CELEBRATED!

C: Did you find anything problematic about your experience Hulk?

H: HULK FOUND THE A.I. FUNNY AT TIMES!

IF THE MAP HAD AN UPCOMING EVENT, AND HULK DID NOT TRIGGER...

THE A.I. WOULD START RUNNING IN CIRCLES!

HULK REALIZED THIS WAS A SMALL OVERSIGHT IN THE A.I. DESIGN!

HULK WOULD OCCASIONALLY USE THIS TO HULK'S ADVANTAGE IN COMBAT!

C: For those that don't know, the final missions can be a bit.....challenging.

You have to plan every move with great precision, and at times your team will be continuously surrounded. It's not in any way like the final scene of Halo: Reach, but it certainly kept me on my toes.

H: HULK WAS DEEPLY SADDENED BY THE LACK OF A PROPER SEQUEL ON THE PS3!

HULK IS ALSO CURIOUS WHAT MUTIPLAYER FOR VALKYRIA WOULD HAVE LOOKED LIKE!

HULK THINKS SOME HOT MULTIPLAYER ACTION WOULD HAVE BEEN A SMASHING SELLING POINT!

C: I too would have liked to see a proper sequel.

Alright, before Hulk comes up with anymore silly jokes..... let's give a verdict!

H: VALKRYIA CHRONICLES IS AN EXCELLENT GAME THAT WAS ROBBED OF A SPECTACULAR DESTINY!

HULK GIVES VALKYRIA CHRONICLES 5 OUT OF 5 FISTS!

FOR BEING A SYMBOL OF WHAT EVERY GAME DESIGNER SHOULD STRIVE FOR!

SIDENOTE: THE MUSIC WAS REALLY GOOD TOO!




NO LOVE FOR HULK IT SEEMS.....LET HULK KNOW WHAT HULK DID WRONG : (