Galleon: The game is finally finished!

[Ajinryu]

Give me the game!
The game may not look kick ass but from what I've seen and heard the game is more than worthy of my £40.

[sleeve]

Those who wish to discuss the folly of EB employees shall take their business here.

This thread is for Galleon discussion. Got it?

[JefmcC]

Those who wish to discuss the folly of EB employees shall take their business here.

This thread is for Galleon discussion. Got it?

Just to be spiteful, I'm going to EB tonight and buying Galleon.
I'll answer all my own questions about it that way.

[elfneedsfood]

I really like this game. If you're a fan of adventure games, I would suggest picking it up. The graphics aren't great, but they're not as bad as I was expecting. The animation is good. The levels are huge. The game is just fun to play.

[Green]

I take it this won't run in progressive scan?
I just started, and was running on top of the town walls when I fell off. I started swimming around to find some place to get back on land when I spotted a waterfall, and actually swam up it. It wasn't completely vertical, but it was cool anyways.

[Xero_Kaiser]

and top-notch voice acting (Cam Clarke!).

is there anything he doesn't provide a voice for? how many paychecks is that guy getting?

[Master]

I fucking hate Cam Clarke. What a no talent butt-hat. He should go back to shoddy dubbed anime and stay the hell away from Videogame voiceover work.

His work on Sword of the Berzerk: Gut's Rage was particularly shitty.

Whose voice does he do in Galleon?

I looked it up on IMDB and he does the voice of the Sultan and goes uncredited.

Roger L Jackson, on the other hand is perfect as Rhama. Just pompous enough to be slick and cool with a little ego, but not so much we don't like him. Like the James Bond of swashbucking. A fantastic voice actor this one.

[Clash!]

This game is sweet! I was not really sure on what to expect exactly from all the praise heavy preivews, they described a awesome game to me, but they did not reall explain what it plays like exactly. It totally feels old school, like a classic style adventure game. Just the way everything is worded and they way the characters talk, is just very classic feel to it. Everything in the game is hard to explain to another person. None the less I love it.

I played it for about two hours by my self and was enjoying everything. And then brought it over to a buddies to show him but I did not have a save file so I was starting over. And I guess I was progressing the story too fast when I was playing it by myself and not exploring at all. So I started to explore the island, and holy crap there is stuff all over the place. I was running around climbing walls fighting dudes, fun stuff. Now I need to restart my saved game so I can dink around and make everything count.

This game is going to be extremely overlooked. Not only because of the graphics, or lack of big names on the box, but also because its so hard to find a copy! I had preordered it back in like April and had pretty much paid for the entire game in advance, and my GameStop did not even get it in until today (7/11) and it came out on the 4th.

If you want this game just order it offline, save yourself the trouble of searching your area for it.

[Roufuss]

I fucking hate Cam Clarke. What a no talent butt-hat. He should go back to shoddy dubbed anime and stay the hell away from Videogame voiceover work.

His work on Sword of the Berzerk: Gut's Rage was particularly shitty.

For once I agree with you. He sounds the same in every game, some non emotion, "must belt out every word and sound the same" loser. It's espically noticeable in La Pucelle, you got a ton of great VA's and all of a sudden this loser starts voicing someone.

[MechDeus]

Hello there, Elder God and Raziel. Couldn't Kain make it to the party?

Anywho, I've spent a couple hours on the game and have so far come to the conclusion that it's a series of wonderful ideas that don't work nearly as well as they should. There's this constant feeling of clunky imprecision like I'm haunting a body that I really don't know how to control. The ability to run up walls and make huge jumps and all that jazz is awesome, but sometimes I've got to wiggle the stick around or he'll just stop in the middle of the wall and sit there and going around corners tends to involve a lot of fiddling around.

The combat is flawed all over the place, with block only consistantly working against punches while blocking against other swords (and armed with one myself) only works once out of every four hits or so. At least two mini-bosses and certain groups of enemies can create infinite or 100% combos and the huge amount of priority that the grapplers have is to the point of absurdity. At least the enemies are dumb enough to walk into death traps over and over to kill themselves for me, a couple groups I haven't had to do anything besides place something dangerous between me and them and they'll all commit suicide.

And then glitches, how I've missed having those lately in other games. From standing on top of a rock that's supposed to be a safe platform from the boiling water ten feet below but dying anyway because the searing pain mystically travelled through the rock once (and only once, didn't happen before or since) to when I finally decided to stop playing for the night because all the sound mysteriously turned off. Yep, I was playing, having a grand ol' time, and then the signal just stopped dead. According to my reciever there was nothing at all coming through (video and controller rumble were working just fine) and I had to restart the system for it. Also, did I mention the time I got into a fight with an axe-wielding thug that was stuck inside a wall?

I'll keep playing anyway because I think Rhama himself is awesome, he's a great piratey badass and I enjoy that. I do wish he had more acrobatic moves that involved leaping off walls and/or having more walls that can be run along, but maybe that'll increase as the game goes on. Unfortunately, all Galleon has really done so far is make me want to play PoP2, since it pretty much feels like a poor man's version of PoP with more areas to explore. But it sure has some great ideas.