{"id":20,"date":"2014-10-18T09:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-18T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addictedtoheroine.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2015-02-03T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:10:14","slug":"psn-flash-sale-heroines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/addictedtoheroine.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"PSN Flash Sale, October 2014 &#8211; Heroines! (expired)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Sony&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2014\/10\/17\/october-flash-sale-more-than-20-games-30-movies-discounted\/\">got a sale going<\/a> on Playstation games &#8216;n films until Monday. I guess if this site&#8217;s gonna be about heroine addiction, I better come correct on this list. Here&#8217;s a quick breakdown\u00a0of my recommendations\/thoughts. I&#8217;ve owned and played all of the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/portal2\/cid=UP2061-NPUB31077_00-PORTAL2DIGITAL01\">Portal 2<\/a> &#8211; If you haven&#8217;t played through both Portal games,\u00a0barring motion sickness problems, there&#8217;s something wrong with you. They&#8217;re hella short (you can burn through both in a weekend, or even just a lazy Sunday) &#8216;n all kinds of amazing. If you like figuring shit out &#8216;n colorful\u00a0monologues, you seriously owe it to yourself to <strong>take any excuse to play these games<\/strong>. Ummm, like this flash sale!<\/li>\n<li>Hatsune Miku: Project Diva <a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/hatsune-miku-project-diva-f\/cid=UP0177-NPUB31241_00-PJDF393MAJITENSI\">F (PS3)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/hatsune-miku-project-diva-f\/cid=UP0177-PCSE00326_00-PJDF393MAJITENSI\">f (Vita)<\/a> &#8211; If you&#8217;re eyeing these games, you probably have some history with rhythm games in general. DDR, Elite Beat Agents, Samba De Amigo, etc. You&#8217;re probably also familiar with <em>anime nonsense, <\/em>and this game is <em>lousy<\/em> with it. But, if you&#8217;re <em>fiending<\/em>\u00a0for a rhythm game, (and if anime nonsense <strong>is your thing<\/strong>) it&#8217;s a solid enough romp\u00a0in\u00a0the genre. Quick word of warning: On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jVL4st0blGU\">&#8220;Depth vs Complexity&#8221;<\/a> discussion, this game weighs <em>heavily<\/em> on the complexity end. There&#8217;s a ton of it, most of it is <em>unnecessary<\/em>, and the scoring system is a little too&#8230; perfectionist. Also, if you&#8217;re thinking about picking up both versions: there <strong>is<\/strong>\u00a0a tool to sync up your unlocked stuff\u00a0between the Vita &#8216;n PS3 versions, but as of this writing (October 18th, 2014), <strong>it only exists in the Japanese versions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/giana-sisters-twisted-dreams\/cid=UP4402-NPUB31272_00-PS3STGIANASISTER\">Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; This game is about a dozen times better <strong>than it has any right to be<\/strong>, what with its origins as the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Great_Giana_Sisters\">European Super Mario Bros. knock-off<\/a>. It&#8217;s a puzzle-platformer that leans frighteningly heavy on the puzzle side. It gets a little repetitive for its own good, and runs out of character mechanics pretty early on, but there&#8217;s more than enough fun to fulfill your $3.50 investment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/mirror%27s-edge\/cid=UP0006-NPUB30838_00-MIEPSNNA00000001\">Mirror\u2019s Edge<\/a> &#8211; Do you like puzzles? Platforming? Parkour? Throwing your controller and\/or mouse? Well has EA got the game for you! If you prefer\u00a0<em>getting the fuck out of dodge<\/em>\u00a0to armed combat, you&#8217;re in for a treat, because your player character can\u00a0run up walls but isn&#8217;t particularly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1plPyJdXKIY\">handy with the steel<\/a>, if you know what I mean. It&#8217;s got more than a few rough spots, but for $2.25, I&#8217;d recommend playing until you get frustrated, and then just putting it away and hoping its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RTjjYElFeXM\">planned sequel\/reboot<\/a> comes out <del>a little better<\/del>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/resident-evil-3-nemesis-%28ps3-psp-ps-vita%29\/cid=UP9000-NPUJ00923_00-0000000000000001\">Resident Evil 3: Nemesis<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s a Playstation game. No, there&#8217;s no number after &#8220;Playstation&#8221; there. Yes, it&#8217;s probably older than you are. You move around\u00a0like a surprisingly nimble World War 2 tank (you&#8217;re a 5&#8242; 8&#8243; special forces member) and solve puzzles that your mom and\/or dad probably thought were a little clever. They weren&#8217;t, but your parents were also in high school, so there&#8217;s that. If you can put aside\u00a0the game&#8217;s (slightly) antiquated setup, it&#8217;s\u00a0worth the buck fifty\u00a0on\u00a0the gimmick alone: You&#8217;re being chased by a scarier version of the first\u00a0game&#8217;s <strong>last boss<\/strong>, and he can <strong>randomly appear in any room you enter<\/strong>.\u00a0ProTip: There&#8217;s a button combination to instantly turn yourself around. You should learn it. It&#8217;s cool, you&#8217;ll probably have it memorized an hour in.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/resident-evil-code-veronica-x\/cid=UP0102-NPUB30467_00-CONTENT0000DLPKG\">Resident Evil Code: Veronica X<\/a> &#8211; If you picked up Nemesis, you probably like Resident Evil. If you also <em>really like<\/em>\u00a0Leonardo DiCaprio (not Inception\/Shutter Island Leo, but more say, Titanic\/Growing Pains Leo), you should probably grab this Dreamcast remake. See, Dreamcast is a console made by Sega. Yes, that Sega. Yes, they used to make game consoles&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/sanctum-2\/cid=UP2059-NPUB31209_00-SANCTUMFULL12345\">Sanctum 2<\/a> &#8211; This is my one cheat; I haven&#8217;t played Sanctum 2. But I have played <strong>the ever loving shit<\/strong>\u00a0out of Sanctum 1. It&#8217;s tower defense with shooter. So yeah, it&#8217;s in <strong>the first person<\/strong> and it&#8217;s <strong>heavily puzzle\/strategy-oriented<\/strong>. I&#8217;d assume by now you&#8217;d recognize the pattern in my Miku-less selection. Above all the rest of the games in this list not featuring portals, I will tell you, first and foremost, <strong>take this game home<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a steal at twenty bucks, so you&#8217;d be dumb not\u00a0to buy at at <strong>whatever<\/strong>\u00a0price it&#8217;s at right now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/store.sonyentertainmentnetwork.com\/#!\/en-us\/games\/skullgirls-encore\/cid=UP2032-NPUB31445_00-SKULLGIRLSKEY000\">Skullgirls Encore<\/a> &#8211; Okay, so here we&#8217;ll combine <em>anime nonsense\u00a0<\/em>with those <em>really violent drawings<\/em> that one kid made in your 5th grade class. Remember how cool that kid was? Well, this game&#8217;s <strong>actually<\/strong>\u00a0that cool. Remember Mortal Kombat? (humor me and look it up on Youtube) Now imagine all the fatalities, only instead of ending the round, <em>they&#8217;re normal moves for like a third of the cast<\/em>. Oh, and did I mention the old-timey film aesthetic? If you have <strong>any idea<\/strong>\u00a0who <em>Tex Avery<\/em> is (and if you don&#8217;t, again, Youtube), <em>download this game<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d recommend trying any of those games out, especially if the screenshot glance on their store page tickles your fancy, but if you miss out on the sale, look for them on <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\">Steam<\/a>, too. Most are controller-friendly,\u00a0though many are\u00a0<strong>substantially\u00a0easier<\/strong>\u00a0with a keyboard &#8216;n mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Sony&#8217;s got a sale going on Playstation games &#8216;n films until Monday. I guess if this site&#8217;s gonna be about heroine addiction, I better come correct on this list. Here&#8217;s a quick breakdown\u00a0of my recommendations\/thoughts. I&#8217;ve owned and played all of the following: Portal 2 &#8211; If you haven&#8217;t played through both Portal games,\u00a0barring &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/addictedtoheroine.com\/?p=20\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PSN Flash Sale, October 2014 &#8211; Heroines! 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