Raving Roller Coaster Ride: PSP

I've been busy playing the newly released PSP game~Dissidia: Final Fantasy. It's an action RPG/fighting game

following the story of other related Final Fantasy games. I was hooked with its arcade demo version with five playable characters (all characters are playable on full game arcade). The game is a bit different from the past FF titles and it took a break from the cute chubby characters. They are now on full 3D, just like those on the movies. Most parts of the game are on one-on-one fighting style and less RPG style. Character can also undergo customizations on skills, equipments, summons, etc.

Other information: Wikipedia, Square Enix

The game is also full of movie clips and cut scenes which made playing it like following a story on a movie. Dissidia seems to be a reunion of FF characters from episodes I-XI with its set of protagonists and antagonists. At first the player takes the role of the Warrior of Light, then plays the other protagonists' stories. The story of the game revolves on the conflict between Cosmos and Chaos.

My reviews~

Storyline: As I said, accomplishing some parts of the game will give movie-like scenes about the story which is a bit exciting specially for those FF

fanatics.

Game-play: Playing this FF version is like having Tekken with a hint of RPG style, strategies, and easy-to-follow fighting styles. Though moves are somehow limited.

Sounds: The set background musics fits the game. Sound effects are also remarkable except the repetitive dialogues of the characters during fight scenes.

Graphics: The graphics on cut scenes are more like those of the FF movies

which seem to be realistic 3D animations, while graphics on other parts of the game are just similar from other 3D PSP games.

Overall: This is a great PSP game for FF's 20th anniversary. Though a little different from its predecessors, fans will more likely to be hooked on this game. And since it has a hint of being a strategy game, this game requires patience specially as the story goes farther.

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I've noticed that there is a dramatic increase on the number of sidewalk vendors offering some illegal copies of the newest blockbuster movies. There are also internet cafes which offer some

additional

services like installing games of different consoles (e.g. PSP, DS, etc. etc.) which were grabbed from the world wide web, or selling copies of computer software installers and games provided with their corresponding key gens and cracks. So why do people patronize these stuffs???

Price. Yes, that's the very first reason. People, specially due to global financial crisis, always wanted to be enjoyed and entertained for lower costs. Why would they go to the theaters and buy the originals if they can have these things with some 50-80% offs???
Internet. With a lot of ways to share files on the web, one can have a DVD-ripped movie, or an ISO (or CSO) game for their PSP, or the sofware installers with cracks; all for just clicking one single word~DOWNLOAD.
Quality. Pirated ones can have qualities just a bit lower than originals. Take movies for example. You may see shadows of some people passing between the images of the movie and the video device used for recording; but still want to continue watching the flick because you're still able to understand the storyline. On the other hand (the DVD-ripped ones), the quality is the same as the originals.
Laws Against Illegal Downloads. Most of the countries around the globe don't have some laws against downloading files with copyright infringement. So why be afraid of getting to jail or paying damages if there is no law against what you're doing???
Additional Income. So this one is for the part of the vendors. As the demand for pirated stuffs continue to rise, more and more people are into selling these kinds of stuffs. Aside from the high demand, pirated things require low production costs (or sometimes, nothing at all), so why miss the opportunity to earn revenue? Though this can be bring additional money, it is still WRONG. So to those people reading this post, like the ones being flash to your TV screens before airing a dangerous stunt: BEWARE: Don't try this blah*blah*blah*. Or you could be in a total mess...