HIGH Replaying classic Final Fantasy moments with the accompanying soundtrack.
LOW Having to play the same tracks over and over to unlock new features.
WTF The nonsensical phrases characters say before a stage begins: "Friends, now we joke eternally in vain…"
HIGH Absolution has the most realistic living world I've experienced in a game.
LOW The checkpoint system is totally broken.
WTF Who casts badass Vivica A. Fox just to give her a tiny bit of dialogue?
HIGH Sneaking around as a scarecrow while killing nuns is so surreal it's sort of fun.
LOW Having a guard 100 yards away see right through my disguise.
WTF Who left all these empty dumpsters around for me to hide in? Why does no one ever look inside them?
HIGH A handful of missions have the genuine "Hitman" feel.
LOW The ill-conceived "Shaving Lenny" level.
WTF What numerically-impaired person numbered these chapters?
HIGH Wei Shen's impeccably rendered muscular torso.
LOW Karaoke.
WTF Lucy Liu and Emma Stone's characters have only minutes of screen time.
HIGH Dominating the street races with my Velocita.
LOW Flipping a mission-critical van when I was two feet away from the destination.
WTF Why did Activision cancel this game again?
HIGH The beautiful metropolis Academia.
LOW "To Be Continued…"
WTF Why is Noel wearing parachute pants?
Keep a tissue at the ready as we bid Tim a fond farewell. But before he takes his final bow, we explore the light and dark sides of BioWare with Star Wars: The Old Republic and the Mass Effect 3 demo. Plus The Horror Geek tackles Final Fantasy XIII-2; surely it can't be worse than its predecessor… or can it? Featuring Tim "Yup, I put my name first" Spaeth, Chi Kong Lui, Brad Gallaway, Mike Bracken, and Richard Naik.
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HIGH Earning the Pacifist and Foxiest of Hounds Achievements in one run.
LOW Constantly dealing with low energy for augmentations.
WTF So I'm a corporate superspy who never… gets… supplied?
HIGH The game is a stealth throwback in the best way possible.
LOW The decidedly dated-looking character models.
WTF I want to punch narrative NPCs!
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