[luvcraft]

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Hi guys!

I bought this for $25 on the strength of consolevania's review, and I refuse to play it until Sony sort their fucking PS2 emulation out!

The title screen made my TV bleed, so Im not playing until they correct it...

Can anyone help?

Or can anyone lend me a PS2?
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[SuperWes]

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I think godhand is better looking than most people give it credit for. technically it's very dated and cheap but the environments are put together pretty well and never come off as ugly. nothing in the game has blown me away but I'm impressed with how convincing and "solid" the environment design is.
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The level design works well enough. God Hand seems to love you as much as you love it.

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[luvcraft]

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[luvcraft]

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It wasnt too bad either...

Still a little too 'hardcore' for me, in that I wished they would look at some of the more 'popular' games...but whatever!
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Is it wrong that im hard?
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[shrugtheironteacup]

If those screenshots had been in the reverse order then I would have totally gotten a gay God Hand erection only to have it crushed into flaccidity by Bloodrayne.
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I'm playing this game now, and I've spent probably over 80 hours with it. I've gotten as far as level 1 on Hard; I'm almost through with the No-Godhand/No-Roulette challenge to unlock extra music; and I'm close to completing the Arena challenges.

The gameplay is excellent. It combines planning, gameplay skill, and luck in a way that feels like old-school gaming in my memories. (Old-school games were pretty short on the "planning" part, and half the time short on the "gameplay skill" part, too, sometimes coming down to just luck. That's why I wrote that God Hand is how I remember old-school games: it pretties up the bruises.

The only single part of the gameplay that I thought could use work: enemy targeting. Many times, I've tried to escape an enemy and jump-kick a jar next to another enemy, only to find that Gene decided to jump-kick the nearby enemy. Likewise, I've often tried to attack the enemy directly in front of Gene, and Gene attacks the enemy 90-degrees to his right. The auto-target system is good for an auto-target system, but it should have been left as much in the player's control as the rest of the gameplay.

The main question for that is "Which button would change targets?" That's tricky, because the controller is already pretty tightly mapped. Perhaps the God Hand trigger could have been assigned the first spot on the Roulette wheel.

On the downside, this game reminds me of all those titles that I, while playing Segagaga, pushed onto the market before they had polished. To compare media, God Hand is like the second draft of a meticulously plotted novel. The intended experience is solid, but certain areas really, really need revision.

The backgrounds make the game feel very half-assed. It's like someone took an cosmic exacto-knife and carved out out tons of masonry where the camera needs to swivel. This is functional, yes, but that's all.

The dispersal of the save points was laughably bad. I'm not talking about areas where you get a save point after defeating one room full of enemies. I'm talking about areas where you run fifteen feet, enter a door, and are suddenly given ANOTHER save point. If they beta tested this game, they either need to listen to their testers or get better testers.

I thought the worst part was the attempted humor. If this game had been executed by a few fifteen year old boys all scared shitless that they might be gay, I might understand why the jokes reek of stale pornography. Much of the "light-hearted" content brings out the worst of this weird otaku/moe sense of masculinity in Japanese gaming, from the voyeuristic drawings of Olivia to the fetishized dominatrices to the Playboy bunnies. If otaku ever wonder why they have such a hard time getting laid, God Hand should furnish a fine example of what most women don't like.

I also found the implied rape-killing of Shannon (after her demon-form boss fight) in incredibly poor taste.

I have my doubts about the way they chose to localize this, too. It seems that the localization staff decided to convey the original jokes via analogues in American pop culture, and I don't trust that this is a good way to localize games. The referential jokes work if you're plugged into the subculture that they stem from, like the names of the Chihuahuas. (Mikami's Head, Fission Mailed, etc.) Unless you're in a certain subculture, the jokes alienate and confuse more then they entertain.

Not to say that audience-specific humor is bad! I just don't think it succeeds in this case. Even when I got it (it took some research to understand what was up with the "Alexander the Great" birdsong), the bare reference to the meme wasn't enough. You got to get that shit to go somewhere.

Anyway, my beef with the localization ties to my beef with the localization for Super Paper Mario. In SPM, the Office Space character's affectations were grating and bland, leaving me to question why they didn't attempt an original comic voice. I have the same questions for God Hand.

The answer to this question is pretty clear, though, and here's Ron Gilbert's answer:

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[Mr. Apol]

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The problem I had with Godhand was that it was too easy to abuse the crazy freakout R2 mode. You could do cool dodges and stuff but the later fights (Tiger Joe) just felt like races to get that meter filled up and go into invincible mode. And purposely not using a game tactic has never really been my style. Forward dodges make it all a little more tolerable.

Also, still can't find this in brick and mortars in my area. Sad.

[kthorjensen]

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[kthorjensen]

what
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[luvcraft]

uh, I got the distinct impression that they just beat the crap out of her. I saw NO implications of rape.
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[shrugtheironteacup]

Adilegian my post was the perfect cap to this thread and you ruined it with your actual content. :(
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[Aaron]

Like Gene I was sad when Elvis died. Shannon is just Paris Hilton with horns. It's hard to feel anything about her.

[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[another god]

Sex : Rape :: Dude punching woman : Dude stomping on a woman

Uh...

George Carlin made a joke about rape once. It was pretty good. It wasn't really about the content as much as it was about the reception of it. Pretty post modern, really. Some still thought it was tasteless. Some people thought it was hilarious. But there was a third group of people who chuckled about something they once thought was sacred.

He was just glad some people enjoyed it.
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