There are plenty of role-playing games that capitalize on cuteness in order to attract a younger, more feminine crowd, and My World, My Way openly embraces this category. It also attempts to be more than just another pretty face by introducing a unique ability that lets you personalize your adventure; you can tweak nearly every aspect of the game, from monster levels to cash flow, by pouting. Though this level of freedom is a pleasant, convenient twist, the game is still extraordinarily bland and full of tedious filler, resulting in an ultimately unsatisfying journey.
The Good:
* Pout system grants you greater control of your adventure
* Never takes itself too seriously
* It's cute.
The Bad:
* Mundane, tedious quests bog you down in filler
* Bare-bones battle system is outdated
* Low enemy variety, even for bosses
* Flat characters and a boring plot
* Second-rate presentation.
Following the announcement of a PAL release for Access Games’ Survival Horror oddity, Deadly Premonition, Electronic Theatre brings you the updated release schedule for all of Rising Star Games’ currently announced Q3 2010 titles. The publisher is well known for their efforts to deliver more alternative titles to a Europe audience, concentrating on providing for those niches other publishers ignore, and their remaining line-up for Q3 2010 is evidence of just that.
Highlights from February include the mind-meltingly mental Half-Minute Hero on PlayStation Portable (PSP). This brilliantly original title fuses classic gaming mechanics with bite-sized thirty-second gaming to create one of the format's most audacious twists on the Role-Playing Game (RPG) genre. Animal Kororo, a ludicrously cute Puzzle game will also be published on Nintendo DS this month.
GL: "While it's hard to say exactly why bad games are so good, it's easy to give you the answer: My World, My Way. This is a game that makes fun of all the really stupid, tired conventions of JRPGs that people take for granted. From the minute details like all townsfolk looking the same, to the random acts of do-goodery that traditional JRPG heroes partake in. You know what I mean, right?"