Lost In The Night

As whoever follows this blog (most likely only me) knows. I finished Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia some time ago and now they are releasing a new Castlevania called Lords of Shadow to PS3 and Xbox 360 (which I don't own neither, but thinks about getting the PS3 mostly for the blue-ray). So apparently this game is gonna be something different compared to the other games in the series. One of the advisor's is gonna be Hideo Kojima the creator of Metal Gear-series which means there will be a lot of cut scenes and big dramatic speeches from all moral ambiguous character as well as the typical evil ones like Dracula. Also, with this it will also be followed with a great list of voice-actors. And they are good (at least those I've seen on film). The protagonist Gabriel is voiced by Robert Carlyle (The World is Not Enough antagonist Renard), his love interest Maria by Natascha McElhone (never seen any film were she is but there are some listed at the wiki so...), some character called Zobeck by Patrick Stewart (Probably don't need an explanation but Professor Xavier in the X-men movies and Captain Picard in Star Treck) appearing as a narrator in the trailer and finally Jason Issacs (Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films) as an unnamed character. My guess that he is Dracula. Just looking at his appearances in Harry Potter he could even play Dracula in a movie about Castlevania. If Hideo Kojima does his things as he usually do, it probably is more of a movie than a game so good ting they have some decent voices in it.

Also the play-through on Skies of Arcadia went fine...until today when I realized that somewhere in that vast world, I had forgot to open one (1) treasure chest. Doesn't seem so bothersome? Wrong! The GC version of the game gives you a special title if you clear certain conditions where one is to get 100 % treasure chest finding. Well, "why not go back until you find it again?" will probably be a common question, but there is a tiny little problem with that. After certain points in the adventure you lose access to those chests. Four areas in total containing somewhat of four chests each and I missed one. Very annoying especially since the play-through time is 60-70 hours for a 100 % complete game. That's almost three days constant playing and because I've already finished it (almost) I will probably not play it again until next summer and then the question is, what am I doing then? Will I have time to play any game at all when it supposedly is time to enter the unknown (aka the job market)? I may only pray to the deity's of luck and chance that the damned chest exist in one of the dungeons or towns that didn't get destroyed.