The Nerd's Soup

I’ve been playing Tales of Vesperia.  A lot.  Predicting the review for this is like watching the news on presidential election night: I can call the winner with only a fraction of the votes in.  It won’t come without nitpickings, but if the production values beat out Tales of Symphonia by too wide a margin, I think my head would explode.

Anyway, I write to you today because I’ve noticed a trend in anime-drawn games (and by trend I mean a correlation in two different games).  Check out the opening for Vesperia.  Am I playing an RPG or watching an anime season?

Jon came over last Friday and we gave BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger its initial run.  If you didn’t tell me I was going to play a fighting game…

…then I wouldn’t know.  And… I’m not calling the gameplay bad, but does sporadically voice-acted text strike anyone else as lazy storytelling?  I mean, if you’re going to make it anime, make it anime.

Is it weird that I like to watch Vesperia’s opening almost all the way through every time I turn on the game?  It’s so darn catchy…