rionaleonhart | There's A Guy Above You! There's A Guy Below You!

Uncharted is a very short game! It only took me about ten hours of gameplay to complete, and I'm sure you can shave two or three hours off that time if you're better at aiming than I am, which is no large feat.

Still, I'm not complaining too much about the length, because:

a) it means it takes less time to reach the incredibly gorgeous final gunfight (on a ship! in the rain! at sunset!), and
b) I can now play Uncharted 2.

Here are my thoughts so far on Uncharted 2:

UNCHARTED 2 OPENS WITH NATHAN DRAKE ALL SEXILY COVERED IN HIS OWN BLOOD AND THEN FLASHES BACK TO NATHAN DRAKE ALL SEXILY BEING A CAT BURGLAR

THIS IS AN AMAZING GAME.

I am rather an inept sexy cat burglar, though. There was one part of the museum heist where I persisted in going the wrong way and getting caught about six times, despite the fact that Flynn clearly told me which way to go every time the checkpoint reloaded.

Also, I felt a bit bad about dragging Nathan out of his way through thick snow to grab some treasure when he was clearly seriously injured. Sorry, Nathan. Sparkly things override your wellbeing, particularly when your lack of wellbeing is sort of hot.

(I mentioned in my last entry that Nathan didn't particularly interest me as a character, but I have to confess that he became quite a bit more interesting to me the moment he started dragging himself painfully through a snowy train graveyard whilst covered in his own blood. I'm so shallow. And also possessed of slightly worrying tastes, it seems.

Elena is still my favourite Uncharted character so far, though. I cheered aloud at her magnificent kick in the helicopter scene. I'm hoping to see more of her. Bit wary of Chloe, because so far her characterisation seems to be 'SEXY!!!' (sexiness is fine (see above unsettling enthusing about Nathan's injuries), but it's not an adequate substitute for a personality; I doubt I'd have appreciated Nathan's injuries so much had his role consisted solely of writhing around and going 'LOOK AT HOW SEXILY INJURED I AM'), but I've only just met her, so who knows?

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I mentioned in my last entry that Nathan didn't particularly interest me as a character, but I have to confess that he became quite a bit more interesting to me the moment he started dragging himself painfully through a snowy train graveyard whilst covered in his own blood. I'm so shallow. And also possessed of slightly worrying tastes, it seems.

I have noticed rather a theme to things you find hot. Possibly, one day you will meet someone who is extremely clumsy, or owns a large supply of fake blood? Or just one who is into bondage, bloodplay, breathplay, and constantly reassuring their girlfriend that it no, this doesn't make her a terrible person?

ALL MY TASTES ARE JUST WRONG. Maybe I shouldn't have made the 'finding inappropriate people hot' tag; it may as well say 'click here for instant deeply uncomfortable glimpse into Riona's psyche!'

I wouldn't worry about it. You're obviously a sweet and considerate person who genuinely cares for the well-being of others and isn't about to start randomly stabbing people because you think they look sexy injured and bloody or anything. It's okay if you're also a bit (okay, a lot) kinky.

Also, I felt a bit bad about dragging Nathan out of his way through thick snow to grab some treasure when he was clearly seriously injured. Sorry, Nathan. Sparkly things override your wellbeing, particularly when your lack of wellbeing is sort of hot.

There's this game I play, Fate. It's a standard fantasy RPG setting, I only got it because I love those and I could get that one cheap. Anyway, in the game you have a pet that follows you around and fights with you, and you can also summon other things to fight for you as well. There are also rooms that seem to comprise entirely of ten or twelve monsters and piles upon piles of gold and other shiny things. I have been known to enter these rooms, summon a bunch of monsters, and then let them do all the fighting while I run around grabbing everything I can get my pixellated hands on.

Urrrrgh, do not remind me about that stupid cat burglar bit at the beginning. WAS THE BIT WHERE YOU KEPT ON GETTING CAUGHT THE BIT WITH THE SODDING FOUNTAIN, BY ANY CHANCE?! I lost count of how many times I got caught on that bit. Even on a second playthrough! ARGH!!

I love the opening to Uncharted 2. It's so... dizzying! And also the blood... and injury... YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN LIKING THIS A BIT TOO MUCH, JSYK. I also have a major boner for Flynn and I'm not even sure why.

I don't remember if you've played Dragon Age: Origins? But the VA for Chloe is also Morrigan. MIND-BLOWING. (Also, Flynn is Alistair, THIS AMUSES ME TO NO END).

My experience is only watching Uncharted 2 as played by

eva_kasumi but I was delighted by the whole thing. It's just so much shameless fun! It's magnificently difficult for an observer to tell what's a cut scene and what's the environment reacting to you. Also, climbing up that train in the beginning? I am almost cried. AMAZING. Cinematic gaming, I never saw it coming to this degree.

I am also quite fond of both Elena and Chloe. Take heart! Chloe was one of my favorite things by the end.

IT WAS INDEED THE BIT WITH THE SODDING FOUNTAIN. It took me an incredibly long time to notice that perhaps the fact that Flynn was crouching on the side with the sodding fountain was a sign that I should go in that direction, and it was only after that that I realised he was advising me to head for the sodding fountain every time the sequence started.

I have not played Dragon Age: Origins! Perhaps I should?

The opening sequence is absolutely gorgeous. The camera angles! And I'm glad to hear Chloe is presumably more interesting than she may at first appear.

Nathan Drake is just... the worst ninja. That cat burglar bit at the beginning was so hard! But then we got to see Nate's home-made shadow puppet play at the end, so it was all worth it I guess.

Uncharted 2 is perhaps the prettiest game in the series, I think. All that snow and blue light!

I had forgotten about the shadow puppets! That was wonderful. And what I've seen of the snowy landscape has been beautiful, but right now I'm in a flashback to the Borneo jungle, being repeatedly shot to pieces.

To be honest, we could probably both stand to learn a bit more about the magic of friendship.

Your use of Rarity in a conversation about our mutual love for shiny things in video games is highly appropriate, by the way.

To be fair, my character can die, and has to pay the Reaper a small fee to be alive again, whereas if my pet loses health it just runs around in circles, and if my summons lose health, they just poof back to wherever they came from. So really, it's totally justified and I'm not being a greedy bastard.

No really.

Urgh, that sodding fountain! *kicks it* Even once I realised it was there I had to go, it still took me TONS of attempts to get up that little balcony without being seen D: I get a bit overenthusiastic with my wall-climbing, so I kept hurling myself over the balcony and the guys at the top'd see me ><

I cannot recommend Dragon Age enough XD It's a brilliant game. Thoroughly engaging. Also, there's a whole host of kinda shitty faux-British accents to mock! Which is always nice.

You get lots more snow later! And my condolences on being in the middle of a shooty bit. They are the absolute worst.

And now you know why I chose this icon! It's a different game, and that's Greenland, not the Himalayas, but it gets the point across. Nate being all cold and covered in his own blood made my maternal instincts go into overdrive, so I tried to make sure I walked him slowly and didn't roll and get snow all over him and when he comes out of flashbacks lying on his face and you have to press a button to make him move, for a while I just let him sit there because the poor man needed a rest. (However, I did make him chase sparkly things, because I'm a gamer and he's Nate and sparklies are vital to us both.)

Of course, playing what led up to him getting covered in snow and blood hanging out of a crashed train and lost in the Himalayas in the middle of a freaking blizzard only made it worse. POOR NATE. LET ME CUDDLE YOU AND PET YOU STUPID FUZZY DUCK-BUM HAIR. Or let Elena do it, which I'm sure both you and she would prefer. ...I'm the worst shipper, but these games made me ship Nate and Elena so hard I started screeching when they weren't getting enough kissing time. It was alarming.

Chloe gets more interesting - in a way she's a bit like Nate, and maybe too much like Nate, which is why they both get along so, ahem, well and why them getting along doesn't really last.

...yes. Maternal instincts! That was obviously what I meant to say. I don't know how the word 'sexy' and derivations thereof found their way into that entry so many times. (Also, you are adorable.) I'm curious to find out how he ended up in the Himalayas when he was so entirely not dressed for it.

I am totally 'shipping Nate and Elena. I was very frustrated by Sully's interruption at the ending of Drake's Fortune. SULLY.

There's A Guy Above You! There's A Guy Below You!

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