Famitsu Reviews Panzer Dragoon Orta

[Jeremy]

Cloud, your avatar, and site in your sig, rule all.

[Omni]

Thanks Jay. Your avatar actually inpsired me to bring back my Mooninites avatar. The site has seen better days though. As you probably saw, you can't DL the episodes, which is kinda crappy. I'll have to look for another one.

[Yoshi]

Originally posted by Ozzie
I wonder if Orta will eventually end up like Saga, selling for 100's on ebay...

No way. The Saturn is a legendary console for he people who would pay $100 for a used game. The Xbox doesn't and never will have that status.

[burgundy]

Originally posted by Yoshi
No way. The Saturn is a legendary console for he people who would pay $100 for a used game. The Xbox doesn't and never will have that status.

It has nothing to do with the console and everything to do with supply and demand.

[Jeremy]

Supply and demand drives the industry, hell, look at the "chip shortages" in the NES days, and the "manufacturing" problems at the PS2 launch. Decrease supply, increase demand, then when demand hits a high, increase the supply to cash in.

[sggg]

I finally got to try the Orta kiosk demo today and I got to play for a good 10-15 minutes... Wow... it took a while to get used to it and I had to unfortunately play with the godawful hamburger controller which made me cramp up in that short time.. but wow.. even on a POS telly the games looked great and it was a lot of fun.

As soon as I get a Box I'll be picking up Orta and JSRF. Sadly, that's all I really want for Xbox so it'll probably be a while.

[Kinopio]

I'm am so ready for this game. All I need is $250.

[Jeremy]

As do I, Kinopio.

[Yamcha]

Forget Famitsu, we all knows ebgames.com has the best reviews.

"Its basically Starfox 64 combined with the missil lock on system from Sonic Adventure flight missions. Take those two give yourself the ability to shoot to the sides and behind you and smack some graphics on it and there you go. Looks beautiful, but the gameplay is kind of repetive. I have the demo for this so your getting it straight from the horses mouth here. "

"1. Your character flies along a pre-determined path. Sure you can go up and down but there is no exploration.
2. Your enemies come in such an abundance that they are very weak. It's like shooting a bunch of weak defenseless bugs. Also they fly so quickly, you can't get a good look at them and go ahhhhhh.
3. The description says that the levels are huge and immersive. I played through the demo level in about 4-5 min. Each level in Halo can take up to 2hr!
4. Not being able to explore bothers me. It makes the game a button tapper pretty much with little strategy involved because you have no say in where and how you attack your enemies.
5. Come on, if the game was free roam, not only could you come up with your own strategy, but also you could get some insane multiplayer going on. Possibly Xbox Live?

Overall I give this game a 7.5/10. Great eye candy, but that doesn't make the game (look at Blood Wake). I mean a pre-determined course and endless enemies makes this game feel like a 3D version of Galaga, except on a Dragon. This game has the same feel as Gun Valkyrie, lot's of hype, lot's of fun, but one of those titles that people describe as "I can't put my finger on what's wrong." "

[MechDeus]

Each level in Halo can take up to 2hr!

Must've been tripping and lost track of time.

"I can't put my finger on what's wrong."

Probably has a lot to do with that I can't really find anything wrong.