the extended period of absence

 
Playng God of War 3 now and just finished the most annoying boss sequence ever... stupid Hermes.

Give me a 2D platform and I'll do all the fancy jumping and dangling you want, but I think I died at least 20 times on this boss, not because I needed to hit him (he's really just a quick wuss, killable by dinky arrows), because when Kratos got his wings he didn't learn how to FLAP it, and he's probably two times as heavy as the previous owner.

Stupid wings just glide... and fail.

Anyhow, they should have made Hermes at least respectable looking, why is it such an ugly little bastard with a really gay voice? He's supposed to be good looking and all, according to the mythologies. Helios, Zeus and Poseidon were all pretty spot on, I just thought Hermes should look nicer... instead he gave me the Elijah Wood in Sin City vibe.

 Interesting enough, I'm now considering keeping this game instead of Final Fantasy 13 (shh fanboys, shhhh) which, after letting the hype cool down for 3 days, felt like a little bit of a let down. They should just stop trying to revolutionize the battles and cut scenes. What's with the rose petals, fireworks, and all... as for characters, we have an annoying dumbass that's also a pedophile, a whiny little wuss, a token black dude that is the merger of all black stereotypes (and also a wuss), an airhead, a dyke and the main character. What gives?!

There's a reason why we all loved the old ones - I hope they make another medieval themed FF with modern graphics, and make the men look like men again (and not like pedo-douchebags).

On this note... let me go rip off some more heeeads....