Soul Calibur 2:
After playing so much of Tekken, Soul Calibur can almost feel like playing the former on easy mode, there is a dedicated guard command, attacks have far greater reach since the game is melee weapons based instead of fists, and it's much easier to read attack telegraphs by comparison. Side steeping feels noticeably easier in SC by comparison to Tekken. This isn't a bad thing since SC's easier to approach gameplay I find very appealing and fun, I remember SC2 being the best and I had a blast playing Kilik and Nightmare through their arcade mode routes, I always like easy to pick up and play games and SC2 delivers on just that.
Super Star Wars:
I was expecting to go into the game expecting it to be terrible and garbage but instead while it I wouldn't call the game great, it's a competent enough 2D side scroller shooter in the vein of Contra and Metal Slug. I thought I was going to abuse the cheat system or try to use the level skip cheats of some kind or eventually just start cheating in general but instead I managed to beat Super SW without doing that.
The easy mode did help with that, enemies give much more health drops on that difficulty and the game was much more forgiving with health in general.
Biggest hurdles you need to get past are the controls which are really awkward, the basic jump arc is fine and manageable but in order to moves like the slide you need to press down, right diagonally and x to do. To do a a higher "double jump" of sorts you need to press x and then up on the d pad, sometimes you will need to manage the descent of the high jump to reach higher platforms or hope that your character can grab the ledge when high jumping.
To top it all off, there is no dedicated buttons to aim up or down diagonally you need to do all this while using the d pad and you can only shoot up diagonally when holding down square.
However, in spite of all this, I slowly but eventually got used to these controls and thanks to the easy mode and save state within the game, I was able to beat Super Star Wars.
The bosses can be a little on the cheap side but you can eventually win by hiding in certain parts of the boss room and holding the fire button.
Final Death Star level can be out of place since it's the final level and doesn't use the base game's mechanics and this level can be really rough especially during the pseudo 3D trench run when using d pad aiming, there is analog stick aiming in the PS4 version during this part of the game and the game would be impossible without it.
Overall, Super Star Wars is a decent game, I wasn't expecting a masterpiece and had a solid time with it. I only played it at all because it was on sale for $5 on the Playstation Store.
The easy mode did help with that, enemies give much more health drops on that difficulty and the game was much more forgiving with health in general.
Biggest hurdles you need to get past are the controls which are really awkward, the basic jump arc is fine and manageable but in order to moves like the slide you need to press down, right diagonally and x to do. To do a a higher "double jump" of sorts you need to press x and then up on the d pad, sometimes you will need to manage the descent of the high jump to reach higher platforms or hope that your character can grab the ledge when high jumping.
To top it all off, there is no dedicated buttons to aim up or down diagonally you need to do all this while using the d pad and you can only shoot up diagonally when holding down square.
However, in spite of all this, I slowly but eventually got used to these controls and thanks to the easy mode and save state within the game, I was able to beat Super Star Wars.
The bosses can be a little on the cheap side but you can eventually win by hiding in certain parts of the boss room and holding the fire button.
Final Death Star level can be out of place since it's the final level and doesn't use the base game's mechanics and this level can be really rough especially during the pseudo 3D trench run when using d pad aiming, there is analog stick aiming in the PS4 version during this part of the game and the game would be impossible without it.
Overall, Super Star Wars is a decent game, I wasn't expecting a masterpiece and had a solid time with it. I only played it at all because it was on sale for $5 on the Playstation Store.
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