Ok Unicorn you twisted my arm I’ll do a quickie review of soul link LE
The LE items is pretty cool, but for $100+ not for everyone. They have a hadcover artbook with character sketchs and stuff of the game. Not very think but nice nontheless. The talking clock is nice and is sting on my bookself right now. It design is like those old round alarm clocks with 2 bells on the top except the bells don’t really work since it’s a talking clock. The face of the clock consists of the 3 main girls of Soul link (Forgot how to spell the girls names, might edit this post and put the girls name in later). It’s not really a fancy clock but cute and totally work safe There’s a button on the back to test the alarm or to just listen to the girls voice. Ok that’s it for the extras.
Now for the game. Suprisingly enough part of the menus and stuff is in english. The buttons for save, load, q.save, q.load, log ect were all in english(one less thing I had to figure out when I started playing YaY!!) Another good thing is that in the manual the names of all the main characters also is translated in english.
Here’s where I’m going to BS about the premise and story since I have 0 or close to that japanese language comprehension. Basically a group of space cadets are sent to the space station for training or something. But during training/school the station is invaded by rebels/terroristos. And that’s where you begin to make story choices. Oh yeah and what sci-fi story would be complete without some alien or lab monster so obviously there’s a lab here that’s doing work on something…
The game is broken down into chapters. And while I believe there’s 4 chapters(didn’t finish the game yet FFX-2 kinda sidetracked me ) The first chapter or prologue is all dialog so no choices involved. Chapter 2 you take control of the Sempai (I’ll maybe add his name later ) as he tries to gain control back from the terroristos. After you finish chapter 2 you gain control of the Sempai’s little brother (You just know Sempai’s gotta have his little bro and childhood friend with him on the space station). Don’t know who you are going to control in chapter 4 since I’m not there yet.
It’s kinda neat how the game is broken down into chapters and you can start a new game from any of the chapters that you have previously started. So if you wanted to just play Sempai you don’t have to go through the prologue at all or if you wanna play lil bro you don’t need FF through the prologue and Sempai chapters. But this leads me to believe that the game is pretty linear or the previous chapters choices don’t affect the next chapter as how can you transfer you choices from previous chapters if you start a new game and skipped those chapters.
The CG is top notch, I love the character designs. But YMMV as art is totally subjective, I like zyx’s chara designs but know a buncha people that hate it. The music is adequate and fills the mood of the game quite well.
Well that’s it for my quickie review. If I can drag myself off of FFX-2 long enough I’ll edit this a bit with character names and stuff, just don’t count on it though