I’ve actually never heard of Omikron, just took a look at it’s steam page and don’t think I could bring myself to try it now. Clunky PS1 era games are not my bag.

I definitely agree that David Cage games can be clunky. I think I really like them because of how they tell their stories and how they play with camera angles and other presentation aspects that other games don’t have the budgets to try.

These are some of my favorites, on the level of John Williams/Star Wars. Meaning, the music in these games is part of their DNA and without them they would be a completely different experience:

– Everything Jesper Kid did for the Hitman series, especially Hitman 2 and Hitman: Blood Money.
– The electronic soundscape of Mirror’s Edge. The perfect marriage of sound and visual.
– The zany music of Rayman Origins, where every level gets it’s own distinct theme. Stunning.

I’ll stop here.

I have Phantasy Stay IV on my phone, but never got very far. I think I just don’t like playing this kind of game on the phone. The first game was one of my first exposures to the RPG genre and possibly the only Sega game I rented twice in a row from the local store (that was 1989). Hearing Andrew’s endorsement I’m inclined to pick part IV on Steam for peanuts, I also see they have parts 2&3. Hmm…

I also set the setting to skip the interactive cut-scenes… or more accurately, the AI just does them for you. There’s a setting to automatically do all the puzzles as well, but I didn’t use that.

And I’m 100% with you on the stealth missions. They are sooooo tedious and boring. Every time one would start up, I caught myself audibly groaing and rolling my eyes. They’re slow and uninteresting. Or any of the bits where Peter has to wander around the FEAST building and chat with people. Terrible. The dumb storyline with MJ and Aunt Mae are bad enough. It took me about halfway through the game to realize that you can skip the cinematics (you have to it the options button and actually choose “Skip Cinematic”).

It’s fun for a while and I actually really like the combat and the swinging, but I find myself rushing through a lot of it just to platinum the thing – I understand that Spider-Man has the highest user completion for Platinum than any other game?

Or metroid-esque