That's gone now, though, replaced by a bog-standard automatically accelerated day/night cycle. Everything relied on your access to natural light play in the dark and you were pretty much stuffed. When playing the game in sunlight, it absorbed the sun's rays and translated its strength in-game into the energy that powered your weapons. The solar sensor was an innovative gaming peripheral built into Boktai's cart. And if the impressive technical gimmick of the last paragraph has been successfully integrated into the latest in the series, another has been taken away. Knights is its less heavy-handed (no meta-narrative here, folks) side-project, sequel to the GBA's first two vampire-hunting Boktai games. Of course, that extra mile is probably what we would expect of a game hailing from the studio responsible for the epic Metal Gear Solid series. The top-screen gives info on the weather and time of day as well as telling you which mascot is following you.
Alright, they may be about fifteen seconds long, and a bit grainy, to be sure, but, man, those production values are high. I've seen full-motion video and I've heard speech on a handheld, and I've experienced both countless times on its plug-bearing console brethren, but somehow I regress into an easily-pleased simpleton when I view the handful of cut-scenes with their full-colour animation and corresponding vocals that pepper the game. Here were visuals which barely merited a gasp, even back in the pre-graphics card era of the '90s - blocky, angular, low-res - and here's me being wowed purely because they've managed to work this feat of computational power onto a screen the size of a teabag. It's exactly this kind of caveman in the future thinking that found me noticeably impressed when playing the average 3D racing game that came installed with my new mobile phone the other day. You're telling me it's been sent through the air like that? Get away! And eggs - don't even get me started. Or how a television can effortlessly pulls together a signal in order to create a perfect representation of a human being. Like the way it's possible to stand up inside a train and walk safely forwards while the outside moves at a high velocity. Not by anything special, you understand, but by those normal things in life that can easily be explained away by anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of science.
0 kommentar(er)
