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Apr 21 2005
Darkstalkers Chronicle: The Chaos Tower Review
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| Summary: Perfect example of the hardware's lineage
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The entire Playstation hardware lineage seems to share a common flaw: 2D fighters take FOREVER to load, for reasons I still cannot fathom.
And because of this wierd quirk, Darkstalkers is kept from being the uber-2D fighter that it should have been. Basically all three Darkstalkers games in one (only one of which I KNOW was released in the States), the quirky fighters and goofy moves are more kin to the Guilty Gear fighting series than Capcom's own Street Fighter or SNK's King of Figters (ie - comical moves and goofy characters). If you played SNK's Gal's Fighters on the Neo Geo Pocket Color or Sammy's Guilty Gear series (on the PS2, GBA, Xbox, and SwanCrystal) and enjoyed them, then you'd probably know and like this game from the get go.
Or you would, had it not been for the two killers of the game. Despite the great graphics, great characters, unlockable movies and images, the tower mode, and potential multiplayer, the game is awful for two reasons:
Controls and load times.
In the time it takes to load the first fight, I could have already had a round of Lumines's single player going, and for all the loading needed for a best of three fight, I speed through the fight and have to sit through yet another load time that seems to take longer than the fight. I know it doesn't, but the load times take away the exitement of the combat.
Controls are probably the same blunder that Rengoku faced (read my reviews on GameFAQs to see my views), but to sum it up, any game that requires quick-reflexes and rotations of the control stick needs to be able to perform a given move without problems. Unfortunately, simply TRYING to do the traditional Capcom Fireball rotation (if you are reading this, you better know what that is) is near impossible, never mind the complex moves needed to do some of the super moves. This game (as well as Rengoku) seem to indicate that the PSP's D-stick is unable to handle these types of controls as well as a more traditional D-pad (ie - the GBA/DS).
A great game, but when the core of the game (controls) becomes a task of impossibility, might as well give up. Spend your cash on something fun. Darkstalkers is great in concept, but in exectution, it just isn't fun.
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