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Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones (2005)
Prince of Persia 3 --- The Two Thrones
The Story: I love the storyline of this game. It picks up from the predecessor in the Prince Of Persia: Sands of Time series (Warrior Within), this being the third game. I'll stick to the basics of the plot. The Prince returns to his homeland on a ship with Kaileena, the Empress of Time, whose fate he managed to change by messing with the sands time or likewise. Upon arriving at shore, expecting peace and harmony, he rather sees that his homeland has been ravaged by war and chaos. Flaming arrows are flying everywhere, the ship gets torn up and burned. Cut to our hero floating on a piece of board a la Titanic, and the girl gets washed ashore, kicked by a brute checking if she's alive, and taken away. And so begins our journey.
Graphics: The graphics in this game are just grand. Very crisp, detailed. The colours work great, the settings look pretty cool. The characters all look defined and the enemies are sweet. Though, occasionally, some areas will have a bit too much blend in a situation where this becomes an impairment. But only a few times.
Audio: The audio is excellent, I like the narration and the personal comments from the Prince. The interactions with the Dark Prince are class. The music has a dramatic, old-school feel to it, fits the game nicely. Voice acting is spot-on.
Gameplay: Takes a little while to get the hang of. This game plays out fairly smoothly, the environments are very interactive which is a quality I demand in a good action-adventure style game. The agility of the Prince is great fun when moving through the game and for incorporating into battles (more later), the combos kick ass. When you're playing as the Dark Prince (Prince has been 'infected' so to speak), you have totally different combos and weaponry, as the Dark Prince has a dagger-chain weapon embedded in his arm that you can manipulate, including to drag and drill enemies with (reminiscent of Scorpion from the Mortal Kombat series). Having detailed basic interactive abilities like switching sides on ladders, ledge-shimmying, a take on 'tight-rope' scenarios, stealing weaponry, wall-running & wall-jumping complete with transitions and jumps, and being able to use the environment in battle is sweet. On the other side, I find using the right analog constantly to adjust your line of vision to be annoying and a bit dizzying personally, and there are a few areas where you may be at a total loss as to what to do/where to go next and how. That's to be expected, it's an adventure game with puzzle elements. In any case, thank goodness for save points (though they're not incredibly frequent), unlimited retries/continues, and good old' GameFAQs.com.
Positives: Basically everything I discussed. Good storyline, great graphics, very smooth and fun game-play, audio is ace. Bosses are fair, tricky. I also get a good kick out of the attacks I manage to do without having figured them out, my favorite being taking any size normal enemy and head-tossing them at a wall or off a cliff. As for the Dark Prince, the Daggertail is quite entertaining.
Negatives: The only negatives I can figure from this game are constantly having to use the right analog stick, the mild feeling of motion sickness that constantly switching views gives me after a while, and the fact that when you start out playing it's very easy to make a mistake and jump to your doom. Did that a lot. Even later in the game, just from mixing up what I should do next (as I said, yay for GameFAQs, though I try not to spoil myself). Turning back time is quite a neat ability. I try not to be overly picky about video-games, so that's really the only note-worthy minus points I could gather.
Overall: 9 out of 10.
George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances (2001)
Very good
This is sort of a re-hash, but it still has a lot of stuff that hasn't been heard before. Fast-paced ranting that makes you laugh like crazy & think as well. The opening few lines cracked me up alone. He does repeat a few old jokes, & one set, but emphasizes much more greatly (traffic accidents). His list of people who need to be killed is absolutely riotous. It's kind of sad too because you know it's going to be one of his last shows. The song his band plays at the end is quite sad in its own right as well, but it's perfect for a late Carlin show.
I admire George Carlin & I consider him my favorite comedian & my favorite celebrity to hear discussing the evils of society & presenting knowledgeable corners in the world of humor. This isn't his best, but is quite enjoyable just the same.
9 / 10
The Grudge (2004)
Not good at all... *contains spoilers*
Basically put, this movie is all about shock value & no real plot.
Sarah Michelle Gellar's character wasn't even focused on very much in this movie, & hers was the main character.
Horror movie or not, it's just impractical stuff.
A prime example is the Japanese woman that climbed up her LAUNDRY SHUTE. That's the dumbest thing I ever saw & I laughed so hard at this.
The worse part of this movie is when Sarah Gellar's character is found traumatized on the floor of the traditional Japanese style house but she'd only been in the American-style house. She was attacked there & wound up in hospital. Random? You bet.
Avoid this movie unless you want something to laugh at while stoned. Otherwise you'll be laughing but your brain will be in pain. It truly is that bad.