Caltrops - Reviews - Re: First impression that matter (mine)

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by Mischief Maker 03/07/2005, 7:49am PST

FABIO wrote:

What the hell is up with all the enemies having sand for blood? I feel like I'm playing Prince of Persia. I actually liked the DMC puppets, because it felt like you were smashing the living fuck out of them as parts of them broke off and flew across the room. In DMC3 I'm hitting phantoms that dissapear into a swirl of robes and sand.

Agreed that sand gooshing out is a bit of a letdown. If you want blood, just get a little further and take on the enemies from the later stages.

I just played a little DMC1 before trading it for this one and I think you're looking at it with rose colored glasses. The puppets didn't lose any pieces until you killed them and their death animation was only slightly more interesting. Plus they were really boring to fight.

FABIO wrote:

The combo system is much more straightforwards than DMC1's comparatively obscure one.

MEH

The bar fills up as long as you're hitting something (except if you try to keep doing the same move over and over). That's how they did it in DMC2. You can now taunt enemies to raise the bar (positive).

You liked DMC1's combo system better? Four-slash sword combo over and over again so you don't throw the enemies out of reach, launch the last one up into the air and gun him until he dies, no matter how long that takes, if you stop hitting anything for more than a split second or dare to shoot your guns at a ground target you lose the combo, and doing anything in a devil trigger state will fill it.

The new combo system will let any move fill the trigger for a time and the fillingg bar lets you know just when the novelty's worn off. To fill it past a C level you have to be constantly switching moves and weapons. Instead of doing the same move set over and over again, this system leaves room for improvisation, which is a HUGE improvement to me.

Then again, I never played DMC2, so I'm not prejudiced against it.

FABIO wrote:

Question: Is it worth it to level up your guns? Or are they going to made useless by better guns down the road? So far the pistols seem extremely powerful (first boss defeated entirely with them)...

Cripes, how long did that take? Are you playing on easy? Also: pussy.

FABIO wrote:

...and the shotgun totally useless (doesn't hold enemies back like pistols, get raped while reloading). Which style is the best to stick with? I was thinking getting a bunch of freaking jumpy trickster moves then going for the john woo gunslinging with swordmaster as a distant third.

Well there are no more than one of every weapon type, so level up the ones you want to use. As far as getting raped while reloadeing the shotgun (???) you do realize you can switch weapons on the fly, right?

I think trickster is best the first time through because you're invincible for a split second during that short little dash. Useful for learning moves from new bosses.