Lazy Sunday
August 5th, 2007
Ahh… what a way to spend an afternoon. Relaxing on the couch, eating grilled ham and cheese sandwiches, waiting for the cheesecake to bake. Life is good. :)
We picked up Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s for the PS2 and the HP:OotP for the Wii yesterday. GH is about as awesome as you’d expect. The Harry Potter game is, visually, amazing. The controls are… spotty, but not overly horrible. What gets me is the plot, and I mean this in two ways: First, it glances over large bits of it… you go from saving Dudley in the beginning straight to Grimmauld Place. Then you’re there for 2 minutes and off to Hogwarts. Second, there isn’t any. Karen played for hours yesterday just trying to get all the students to get to the DA meeting… each one had some minigame or task you needed to accomplish, which is fine, but there were 28 students! There was no sense of urgency or danger like in a normal game. It seemed as though it were a ridiculously long tutorial level, really. I wonder how the rest of the game will be.