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01) Wolfenstein: The New Order(PC)
Finished it on I Am Death Incarnate. Great selection of weapons with dual-wielding and alternate modes (my favorite being the assault rifle's RPG). Machine Games blows Raven's 2009 attempt away, and Mick Gordon's soundtrack is good as expected.
1. To The Top
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This was a pretty big surprise. It's a time trial VR platformer with elegant movement mechanics: pulling the trigger makes your hands reach waaaay out (like ten feet) and grab specific surface types, and once you grab with both hands and then let go, you'll leap in the direction you're looking. There's a good amount of air control during these leaps, too, and doing repeated leaps quickly allows you to build and maintain speed. In practice this means you spend most of the game flinging yourself through the air towards nearby anchor points, but if you wanna be fast you're always looking one jump ahead and feeling out anchor points around you without directly looking at them. It's a really unique yet intuitive control scheme that couldn't possibly work outside of VR, and once you start getting the hang of it the sensation of near-flight is wonderful. The structure guiding you through the stages is very Trackmania: there are ways to fall or get stranded at every turn so the courses are dotted with checkpoints you can respawn at with a quick button press, and each stage has goal times that'll get you closer to unlocking the next stage. Unlike Trackmania, though, these stages are aesthetically varied (future rooftops, giant-sized toyrooms, deep caves, cyberspace, etc) and I was surprised at how creative they get in the second half (hopping from flying toy rocket to toy rocket and then scaling an incline while dodging missiles was pretty fucking great). They layer on more obstacle types and mechanics as you get deeper into the game, and while they aren't the most consistent (some of the off-on grip sections suuuck) the highs are great (climbing while having to juggle an orb is really fun). Catchy soundtrack, too!
The game's got some plain visuals and occasional rough edges, and it never gets terribly tense, but it's very good overall. I hope they build on this, I almost want this movement in an action game with a broader scope.
Finally polished off Wolfenstein. That one's been at the top of my pile of shame for a couple years now.
1. Asura (PC)
Cleared on the normal difficulty. Pretty fun game! The entire skill tree re-randomizing on each playthrough is a neat touch. That it's wildly imbalanced adds to the charm; the playthroughs in which you have access to the good stuff are especially tense.
What's not so especially tense is virtually every enemy being easily baited into attacks with tons of startup and recovery. Run up to a dude, run back while he whiffs, and hit him twice while he's in his half-hour recovery is the safest way to play, and because this is a fairly long roguelike, the safest way to play is the only way to play. Beats the heck out of watching a health gauge while sopping up and squirting out damage from and to whatever's near you Diablo-style but it ain't exactly Ys-tier ARPG combat.
On top of more varied enemy behavior, it could use more distinctive weapons (the hammers feel just like clubs feel just like swords--the only difference is the amount of expended stamina), more AoE attacks, and Enter the Gungeon-style teleports all over the place; schlepping back to shops and drops in empty levels is no fun. But it was a $5 game with some innovative wrinkles (each enemy can be looted for EXP or potential loot, never both) that I played for five hours the day I bought it and intend to play a lot more.
2017 List:
Volgarr
Shadow of Mordor
Bare Knuckle 3
Dandy Dungeon
Croixleur Sigma
Super Mario Run
Castlevania Bloodlines
Culdcept Revolt
Vice: Project Doom
Final Fight 3
02) Air Buster (AC)
Better still than the already excellent Genesis cart, with more parallax in the first stage, a bit more detail in some places, & stronger bass in the BGM. A solid hori shooter overall. A small nuisance in both versions is how the ship won't stop moving in stage 4 & stage 5 (until the boss) but it's something that can be dealt with. Don't let that turn you off from it after you've gotten that far. It's worth sticking with to try for the 1CC.
#1 Doom (PS4)
I was getting frustrated at the Spider queen boss last night, so I rage quit. I killed her in my first try tonight, sometimes it is better to just walk away. Doom is so damn good, I am itching to start again on much harder difficulty than Hurt Me Plenty. I tried Arcade a few times and beat Cowutopia's score.
Nightmare is how you play, trust me
It forces you to find the secrets, get all the armor
I definitely need all the runes.
Oxenfree - I found this to be really overrated. I don't expect much gameplay out of walking sims but I expect to be able to explore. This game stops you from leaving your current area in almost every scene. It's full of mediocre dialogue and scenes that are just filler. The load times are surprisingly frequent and long. There's some nice atmosphere but that's the only thing I liked.
Dark Souls 3 - Couldn't beat the Nameless King. 2 tries on Soul of Cinder.
1. Breath of the Wild (Wii U)
Loved the hell out of this game from start to finish! Never found the third fairy spring to continue upgrading armor, only found 80 or so Koroks and about as many shrines but I think I can go back for all that. Really enjoyed how the lionels were reimagined for this game, they gave me so much trouble until I figured out how to deal with them properly. I clocked about 60 hours or so but I'll be going back to complete side quests and hunt down things I missed. Good freakin' stuff!
2. Horizon: Zero Dawn
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Played on Very Hard. This is pretty solid and reminds me of Witcher 3 in a lot of ways. Huge, visually lush fantasy world, lots to do, a pretty engaging plot, tons of rolling, light character customization, etc. The combat is a step up, though: the game asks you to hit an awful lot of tight and often fast-moving targets, and the more complex machines get really cool in how you can break them down and use their weapons against them. It doesn't always hold up (I definitely saw my share of odd and exploitable behavior), but overall it does a good job considering the scope of the game. The human fights are numerous and a clear step down, and the entire inventory and item management layer feels like overkill. You have tight potion carry limitations, for example, and you can do busywork to expand these, but this doesn't really matter because you can pause and prepare potions mid-combat using the junkyard's worth of crafting ingredients Aloy carries on her at all times. Same with ammo. And man does this game need ledge-grabbing.
1. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
the best thing they did since Mario 64, don't @ me
2. Soul Blazer (SNES)
better than Illusion of Gaia (loved the ActRaiser feel of revitalizing towns), but Terranigma still shines as the best of the series
3. Star Fox 2
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A hell of a tech demo with a really cool strategy-action concept, but unfortunately the All Range Mode space battles just aren't fun (they weren't good in SF64, let alone in the choppy SuperFX version we see here). The space cruiser and planetary bits are neat at first, especially the novel feeling of playing a third-person shooter on the SNES, but unfortunately strafing is just too OP for every scenario they could come up with. Every one of these scenes is over in an instant and is utterly trivial. None of the battles in here are as good as the original Star Fox stages. Played on Hard.
#2 Syberia (Switch)
I haven't finished an adventure game in a long time, so I wasn't sure what to expect from this old gem. I like the story a lot, puzzles are fairly straightforward but the control is a little clunky. I don't know if I should play the 2nd one immediately, but I will definitely play through this series.
Elex (PS4)
This is one of the biggest differences of opinion I have had from reviewers. It sits at 58 on metacritic but it ended up being one of my favourite games this gen. I didn't play it pre-patch, though.
It's a game that really rewards exploration. There's no level scaling so every bit of experience you gain feels like it matters. The economy is balanced amazingly well so you won't spend most of the game with an overdose of cash. The world design does a great job at seeming like a real place and not a collection of Ubi towers. The combat's a bit clunky and the character designs are generic but overall this is a deep, addictive game for hardcore RPG fans. I liked it even more than The Witcher III and the 3d Fallouts. I need to give Piranha Bytes' previous games another try.
High praise for Elex, now I need to look into it.
Dark Souls 3 - All DLC.
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Not bad. Took me years to finally 100% it. Thinking about buying the DLC.
Your OneDrive is full.
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Abzu - this was not Journey.
03) The King of Fighters XIV (PS4)
No continues. 2,697,280 pts. on full default settings. Played as Benimaru/Robert/Joe, same order on each stage. Joe stayed on the bench for the entire game.
04) Narc (AC)
1CC with score of 3,398,250. Full default settings (difficulty 3/10, extra life & rocket bomb every 100,000).
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Beat in just over 70 hours. After not playing a J-RPG all the way through in years, I've come back to the genre with Persona 5 and Xenoblade in a single year, and I think these two games really represent the polar opposites of the genre.
Persona 5 has a small world packed with great characters and interactions, and elaborate, wonderfully designed dungeons, a swift streamlined turn-based combat system, and an eye-popping visual style.
Xenoblade, on the other had has a big, fantastic world to explore that is probably its best asset, as well as an incredibly complex (occasionally arcade) combat system for long, drawn-out battles. The focus is on exploration and combat, and there's really no puzzles, or much going on in terms of level-design. The side-quests are flat and boring, and the visual style is an incoherent mess of 90 different art styles to the point where it feels like some kind of Project X Zone crossover thing.
While I enjoyed Persona 5 more, I did like Xenoblade, mostly on the merits of its world and some of its characters. It was kind of like Skies of Arcadia in that way.
#3 Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes
Pretty short and sweet intro to 5. I was into sneaking around for the first 45 minutes, then I found the sniper rifle and sneaking went out the window.
4. Celeste
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Celeste fits into the same subgenre as Super Meat Boy. It's a ton of really tough micro platforming challenges, so it doesn't really start building tension until the challenges get a little longer late in the game. I'm still not a fan of that, just like I wasn't with Super Meat Boy, but unlike in that game everything else in Celeste helps elevate it into something really, really good. You get a bit more complexity in the core mechanics thanks to wall-climbing with stamina and a single 8-way air dash per jump. The camera is a little bit more zoomed in compared to Meat Boy, with less sloppy acceleration time and slightly more claustrophobic stage design to match. The visuals are the usual unrealistically low-res pixel art (with some modern lighting effects thrown in), but the animation is nice, the environments are well-composed, and there's a lot of visual variety. Every new area introduces and thoroughly explores new mechanics, and you'll see notably more dynamic elements to the stages than those in Super Meat Boy. Tying the brutal stages together is a surprisingly well-written narrative that fits the rest of the experience perfectly and in a novel way.
Looking forward to the post-game stuff.
A couple short action-adventures, Rime and Inside. Both were amazing visually. Inside had some decent puzzles while Rime was quite easy but worth playing if you want a more relaxed Ico-ish experience. The end section in Inside where to become that blob thing was unexpected and wild.
05) Trails of Cold Steel (PC)
AP: 376/440 Clear time: 115:51:11 Hard difficulty
Like this even better than the Sky series. Some good things are the fast traveling in towns, the Link system (characters can follow up link attacks with finishing blows, give cover, heal their Link partners, etc), & the new gridless movement system in battles. Cold Steel's soundtrack is amazing, as expected from JDK. "Tie A Link Of ARCUS!" is one of the best battle themes, and I was glad to see it used several times. There was quite a lot of talking with other Class VII members & NPCs, but it didn't drag the game down IMO. The town designs are great.
Overall the story is good, with quite the cliffhanger ending. Just wait until you find out who C really is. Later on, he won't even bother to disguise his voice anymore. Then Claire shoots off the mask and... OMG.
I tried K&M control for a bit, but went back to using a gamepad. Cold Steel II is coming out on 2/14. Ready for it.
From the makers of Towerfall! I didn't know this was out yet; time to check it out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
Shantae: Half Genie Hero
I wasn't sure I would like the change away from pixel art but the HD art and animation still look damn nice. There's some amazing music as well that reminds me of Saturn era Sega. Like the previous games, I definitely recommend it to Monster World fans. The difficulty isn't balanced as well as Pirate's Curse. You end up being way overpowered in the second half. I will check out hardcore mode next time I play it.
The first stage of HGH, with the vocalized music, made me smile. It really gave me a Saturn vibe.
1). I beat Batman: Arkham Asylum on the Xbone. I'd beaten this one before, but it's my favorite in the series and imo the best superhero game of all time. I got the Return to Arkham set at Walmart for $18 and really wanted to play it again. The game still holds up quite well.
1.) Endless Ocean Blue World
I've played this game probably a dozen times, but I never "beat" it. I'd collect a bunch of shit, get a bunch of maps filled out, and then lose interest and move on. Then because I'm weird I'd have to start from the beginning instead of just picking up where I left off.
Anyway, this time I did not so much exploring and collecting, and just did what I had to in order to roll the credits. I may go back to it again someday, hopefully with this game save so I can do all the extra stuff at my own leisure.
I wish to god someone with Activision's or Ubisoft's dollars would make a modern underwater exploration game, but I know it'll not happen or if it does it will be more combat oriented and thus no fun to me.
Endless Ocean sounds kinda boring on paper but I am always intrigued by it (probably because you talk about it every now and then). I should pick them up one of these days.
I'd love a David Attenborough Presents: XXXX line of games.
I would buy David Attenborough narrated games.
That would be amazing. He's over 90 so it needs to done quickly.
Rayman Legends. Needed something to hold me over on Switch until Owlboy and Bayonetta come out, and this was on sale. I played a bit of Origins and a lot of the mobile games, so I had a pretty good idea of what to expect, but this was still a pleasant surprise at some points. The music levels at the end of each world are fantastic, and some of the bosses are really cool.
Outcast: Second Contact (PS4)
For a remake of a 1999 game that mostly keeps the original structure the same but ups the graphics, its design still manages to feel ambitious today. Clunky controls and mediocre voice acting aside, I'm impressed with the amount of freedom this game gives in terms of letting you choose the order and methods you do tasks.
1.) South Park Stick of Truth
I noticed the voucher that came with FBW was due to expire 1/31, so I redeemed it on the 30th. I had no intention of actually playing it since it wasn't that long ago that I beat it. But I started playing a little bit the other day, and then beat it yesterday. I'm kinda shocked how quickly it went by this time. I still missed the same chinpokomon that I missed the last time, so it must be pretty well hidden.
While it didn't pack the same punch as the first time I played it, I didn't expect it to. You can't be surprised/grossed out by shit you know is coming. However, I still found myself chuckling at a bunch of the one liners/ inside jokes.
I played as a Jew this time, and became fairly overpowered half way through. The plague magic makes quick work of just about everything.
Now I'm watching the recommended episodes so I can begin FBW. Woo~
Doom (2016) rules.
I know it got a ton of praise on release but I didn't think I'd like it as much as I did. That combat loop of sprinting around blasting everything that moves, switching weapons for different enemies as they pop up and diving in for Glory kills is a complete blast.
It's got everything. Awesome graphics and sound design. Perfect control and speed (even jumping around to navigate around is great). Perfect power up placement to keep them from getting old. A lot of enemy types. Neat level design (I think the first level is the worst which isn't good to start the game with) with tons of secrets. Only big complaint there is a hidden door switch that's along a bridge that took me forever to find. That brought me to a grinding hault for awhile. I liked the level of challenge on Hurt Me Plenty as whenever I died, I never felt cheated. I made mistakes and the game made me pay for it.
And the weapons! One of my favorite things about Bioshock was the weapon variety and how upgrades made the gun visually different and behave much differently. It's not just a damage boost. Discovering the best use for each weapon and switching things up as combat changes around you is so much fun.
Good man! It was a fun 25-30 hours to collect everything and despite the (very) familiar setting it felt fresh for a good chunk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
I really enjoyed Stick of Truth, and I felt like it matched the visuals, writing and pretty much everything about the show perfectly. I really need to start FBW soon.
06) Street Fighter II CE (AC)
1CC, 668400 pts. using Ken. CPU Guile is easy if you bait him with a Jab Shoryuken at the right distance. He should try a flash kick & miss, which leaves him open to a standing roundhouse.
2. Mutant Football League (PC)
Took the Blitzburg Steelheads to the Mayhem Bowl and crushed the Nuked London Hatriots. This game is pretty much NFL Blitz with gore and traps on the field. I enjoyed winning a few games by forfeit as I killed too many people on the opposing team for them to continue. The game's randomness can be infuriating at times. There was one drive where I scored a TD, had it called back by a ridiculous planned penalty, scored on the next play, similar planned penalty, and this happened 4 times in a row in total until I bribed the refs to stop fucking with me. There are a few achievements left for killing 1000 guys and unlocking teams by winning X amounts of games so I'll be going back for those, but it's still a lot of fun to play. Have not tried the MP yet, but a buddy picked it up and I hope to try that out sometime. Definitely a fine $20 game.
5. Life is Strange
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Pretty good aside from some questionable dialog here and there. Kinda like some other... VNs(?) that I've liked, it really leans into the whole quicksave quickload thing.
I thought it didn't get really good until episode 4. That's when real puzzle solving and investigation started and the story takes off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
I adore Super Meat Boy, so I'm quite looking forward to this. Thanks!Quote:
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last weekend, i finished Dragon Force and KanyeQuest 3030, the latter apparently being an unused AR cult recruitment tool. neat!
1.) Star Fox Adventures
Tedium:
noun
1.
the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness.
That's my one word review. Here's the many word one.
1. You gather a few doohickeys. These doohickeys have abilities that require you to collect thingmahjigs in order to power them. However, wherever you'd need to use an ability, there are plenty of thingmahjigs right next to it. So you use your doohickey and run out of thingmahjigs. You walk over to the thingmahjigs, pick them up, then walk back over to continue doohicking. What's the point of requiring you to refuel if fuel is strewn all over the place? Nothing is added to the game play except tedium.
2. You're mostly in an open world with sections of it closed off until you earn the right ability. Traversal from the hub to new areas is accomplished by mild platforming and puzzle solving because even the the entrance to the new area is 10 feet away, you have to go round about to get to the other side. In most games, once this is accomplished a straight forward path will open up once you've reached the other side. Not in this game, oh no. Every time you go back to an area (and you're constantly going back to areas) you need to take the long way around. Even better, areas are on the other side of areas. In most games, once you've reached a distant area some sort of fast travel option opens up. Not in this game, oh no. Every time you go back to an area (and you're constantly going back to areas) you need to run the entire distance. 4-5 minutes spent running through the same scenery, solving the same basic environmental puzzles, just to get to where you've already been. So you're there,and you've accomplished whatever task you had to do. Now what? In most games, once you've cleared the temple or whatever you're beamed back to your starting hub. Not in this game, oh no. You get to hoof it all the way back. This is a game that features space ships and teleportation, but no fast travel. What is the point of requiring you to do all this constant running through the same areas? Nothing is added to the game play except tedium.
3. Time based puzzles that if failed don't just make you lose a life or whatever and start the puzzle over. No, you're sent back to the beginning of area you just platformed/puzzle solved your way through. You get to do it all over again, just to reach the puzzle that maybe you understand a bit better, but will take you at least another try in order to fully understand and solve. But hey, at least you didn't lose a life right? You've only reached the max amount of 10 extra lives and have left plenty of icons laying around the planet because you're capped at carrying 10 and next to nothing kills you in this game. What is the point of kicking you back to the beginning of the puzzle's are? Nothing is added to the game play except tedium.
4. The controls really suck. Let's make a platformer with auto jumping except sometimes when you reach the edge instead of auto jumping like it should you'll just fall off the edge. Let's make the A button context sensitive except sometimes when the icon says "pick up" you'll swing your staff instead, thus setting off that explosive barrel you're trying to pick up and giving you damage. Let's have a camera you can only position by making it snap directly behind you except sometimes it gets stuck at a weird down angle so you can't see shit in front of you. Let's make controlling your aiming reticle a complete pain in the ass because it's jittery as fuck and so much as blinking your eye will create enough momentum in your body to nudge the analog enough to fuck up your aim. Let's make your analog turning ability work in angles greater than one, so that when you're trying to line up with a thin platform and you snap the camera behind you, you're facing a little to the left or a little to the right, but not dead on because that would be too easy. Nothing is added to the game play except tedium.
This game was about 51% fun 49% frustrating. While there were quite a few puzzles that made me feel like a champ when I solved them, there were plenty that had me wanting to chuck my wave bird through the screen. I had to fight Andross a half dozen times because my thumb got tired of jamming the fire button during the boss battle.
I really don't know why I bothered finishing it. But something made me keep on. It wasn't as awful as shoving a red hot fire poker up your pee hole, but it sure was tedious.
Did it present the promise of getting better? Did it lie about something?
Why'd you keep going?
We've all soldiered through some stinkers, but we don't soldier through every stinker. Why this stinker? You said you don't know, but you do know.
Mzo soldiers through every stinker.
I felt that if I stopped playing the game, it'd mistakenly think it had bested me with its formidable puzzle oriented game play and not because it's a pile of shit that no one should feel bad about quitting. I'm not going to let anyone think they beat me under false pretense.
I had to make sure it knew I could make it my bitch in spite of itself.
But mostly because this was like the only widescreen enabled non-racing gamecube exclusive that sort of interested me and I had it on hand. It's too much work to switch the widescreen CRT with something else so I'm kind of limited as far as what I can play in between customers. It's too bad just about every Wii game looks like ass regardless of display I hook it up to. Maybe I'll try Mario Galaxy next. That's another game I started to play then drifted away from.
p.s. The next game I'm about ready to post in here has me feeling about the same as SFA did, but for different reasons. Hint: it's a sequel to a fairly well received game and Pineapple loved it.
Not enjoying tFBW? I guess I have to stop recommending games, my ability to help has diminished since I stopped working with ya :(
the Fink Between Worlds? tgi Friday's Buffalo Wontons? I still don't know what it is.
The Fabulous Baker Women.
The Family Berenstain Workout.
Team Fortress Balkan Wars.
Trans Formers Beast Wars.
True Flight Basketball Wingtips.
Dandara (PSN) - This was ok! It gets barren towards the end of the game, activities wise. The first hour of play has some neat one-off events that you never see again, which is too bad. It felt like they came up with some cool stuff halfway thorough development and forgot to pepper the game with it.
The wall to wall movement style is a lot less tedious than walking and jumping, and the combat has some good tension to it.
It's super easy to get stuck looking for the next thing, the low detail map system doesn't do a very good job of being a map when the playfield rotates every time you go through a door and the map remains locked. It also has a tendency of forgetting to indicate the room you're in, which is a problem in a Metroid game.
I "finished" R-Type Dimensions by using infinite lives on both R-Type and R-Type 2. I turned off the new redone graphics, they look horrible compared to the original art. I have always loved R-Type but could never get past stage 4, and having infinite lives allow me to see the rest of the game. I hate to say it, but I will probably never play the original arcade R-Types ever again. The game is so cheap, at the later stages everything is faster than your ship, and every enemy takes multiple hits and coming at you at every direction. I don't know how people can actually finish this on 1cc, they must have god like reflex. The boss is so cheap with unavoidable things that sticks to you and kill you. I still love the look of the original arcade games though.
The SMS port is a bit easier and has a hidden stage. The music sounds really nice too.
The SMS version is actually the very first time I played R-Type. Fantastic port.
I thought the same thing when I read that post.Quote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
I LOVE the original R-Type arcade release but I fully agree with you that it gets RIDICULOUSLY difficult. Stage 3 or 4 is probably the furthest I've ever made in it as well. I may have to give the infinite lives thing a go. Is this the more recent PS3 release or the original PS1 release?Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
It is the reskinned R-Type Dimensions on PS3. They do this weird thing where you can play it on original 2D graphics but will morphed into the new 3D (ugly) look.
You can do a weird perspective shift thing with the new graphics, which is cool for a minute or two.
R-Type is more about memorization than reflexes. I can get to about stage 5 of the original before it tears me apart.
It gets so ridiculous though at the later stages, you can't even see sh*t.
I played through Super R-Type last night. The last stage of that is also ridiculous, but I had the shotgun powerup and between that and all the shit on the screen I could basically call upon slowdown on command and it saved my ass. Thanks slow SNES processor!
No blast processing for sure.
6. Toaru Majutsu no Virtual On
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PS4 version. Turns out all it took to bring back Virtual On was some anime crossover. Here's a brand-new 1v1 and 2v2 VO game that plays at a much faster pace than Force and with less virtuaroid unlock nonsense. The control mechanics are weird: there are no twin sticks out there (yet), but I suspect the game is still mapping to two digital sticks under the hood. A few wrinkles that make pad play a bit easier now include a "Lock" button that allows you to immediately face the enemy without jumping, jump and jump-cancel are now the same button, and pressing Lock during a dash gives you a new movement mechanic called "transition" where you start moving in a curved trajectory and get crouch-like attacks. You can cancel into this state from air dashes and cancel out of it back into a dash, so you'll see a lot of this. All in all it's probably the most pad-friendly VO game. Oh, and there are now comeback-y Ultra attacks that are cool-looking, but I'm not sure how well they fit overall.
They also introduced this new points system to deal with the timer scamming the series is kinda known for (?), and it seems sound to me so far. There's still health and you can still just kill your opponent, but when time runs out the game now turns to a point system based on knockdowns. Some knockdowns are more rewarding than others (slamming someone with Temjin Turbo RW and seeing "WASTED" pop up is very satisfying) and you'll gradually lose points for playing too defensively.
The wrapping is pretty standard stuff these days? There's a big visual novel story mode, a mission mode with some goofy stuff in it (and seemingly this is where arcade mode is buried), a training mode, and the online stuff (which is surprisingly playable from the States). No splitscreen on PS4, sadly, but I'm sure the Vita version has local wireless play.
it's real-deal Virtual On, it's extremely back, and I'm really happy about it
Beat Celeste! Haven't touched the b-sides yet, 82/175 strawberries, 1738 deaths.
I'm impressed they made millennial narcissism into a power up.
Though the two games have a lot in common, I prefer Super Meat Boy. Beating the harder levels felt a lot more precise there where as this feels a lot more like brute forcing through levels in an inexact fashion at times. Certain screens I couldn't even say how I cleared them, something spammy just eventually worked.
1.) South Park: The Fractured But Whole
What a HUGE disappointment. What a boring, unfunny, pile of shit. It tried saving me from myself by crashing 3 times, but I was too stubborn. Surely there’d eventually have to be something about this game that approached the brilliance of Stick of Truth right?
No.
No hysterical levels modelled after some outlandish theme? No, in fact aside from a few 5 or 6 screen long set pieces, there’s no levels at all! You just keep wandering from one boring edge of town to the other boring edge of town, fighting the same boring character models repeating the same boring lines. The battle system is a tedious joke. The “artifact” system is a joke. “Here’s 200 pieces of stat enhancing objects you can use to build your custom character- HA! Fooled your ass. You’re going to use the ones with the highest number in the corner because that matters more than the effect of the item.
I also don’t understand why the reasoning for the gimped character class system.
When you begin the game, you choose to be one class of three, and you have 3 moves + 1 special. Eventually you can dual class. But you’re still limited to 3 moves and 1 special. Eventually you unlock 9 (or something like that) classes and eventually you can be them all at once. But who cares? Because you’re still limited to 3 moves and 1 special.
This frickin’ game gets to join the likes of everything after Heroes Season 1, everything after The Matrix, and everything after Lost season 5.
I’m going to wipe it from my mind with a bullet if I have to so I can go through life unaware that something as funny and subversive as Stick of Truth ever had such an awful, unfulfilling cash in of a sequel.
Oh, and because the battles in SoT were such a breeze, I played at the second highest difficulty. Did this result in amazing tactics serving my ass over and over until I got good? No, it resulted in my dudes hitting for 100 damage while the enemies had several thousand hit points while they hit me for several hundred damage while most of my dudes had 700ish hit points. If the computer had any sense at all, I’d have been destroyed in seconds. But no, it would ignore characters a breath away from dying to focis on a full health dude, giving me enough time to heal three characters so one could attack, and slowly whittle the number of enemies down to nil.
So lame. So boring.
They spent yeaaaaars making Stick of Truth, it sounded like Buttwhole was just kicked out the door as fast as they could get it out.
What a shame, Stick was amazing.
It really was. I was really surprised with it. I stayed away from FBW because I don't like the Coon and friends stuff. Glad I did too.
Stick, from a reference standpoint, was great because because even for someone like me that until season 19 hadnt watched the show since the movie came out, there were a ton of things I “got.”
For FBW, if you didnt watch the dozen or so episodes it pulled material from, you’d be like, “what?”
I downloaded the demo of butthole a few days ago and stopped after 20 minutes. It was atrocious.
Super C (NES): 429160
1cc it, got to Stage 8 on 2nd loop but died on that stupid one difficult jump. I need to buy Contra and finish that next.
Finished Secret of Mana PS4. I enjoyed it! Still has some janky shit like the original but the improvements are nice. Using shortcuts to spam the hell outta magic made the bosses pretty damn easy and quick to beat. I’ve always been a fan of the original and I don’t think this was the train wreck the Internet is making it out to be.
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07) Heavy Barrel (AC)
Default settings, 1,466,400. Took the last boss down in a fair fight, with no Heavy Barrel.
Dragon Quest VIII (3DS) I should have finished this years ago on the PS2, but I gave up or moved on to another game. JRPGs really should be exclusive to handheld, that's the only way I can finish them. DQ8 is great, super charming and not too difficult except in a couple of spots. I had to power level for a bit toward the end to fight the final boss, but at least the devs give you Metal Slimes to quicken the process.
I am going to miss this game... perhaps I should pick up DQ7 on 3DS?
I’ve recently played 3,4,5, and 7.
7 is bad in comparison to the other three. I stalled out nearish the end and have no desire to pick it up again.
DQ7 seems daunting, at least the original PS1 release. I don't have 3, maybe I will just go back to 4 or 5 on DS.
I'm sure you own something that will allow you to play the translated rom of the Superfami.com version of 3.
And you should.
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Christ, if he can't play it on that $7,623 blender of his I don't know why he even bothered buying it in the first place. ;p
Blender pi mod!
I was planning of buying DQ3 on GBC as I prefer the portability, is the translated SNES that much better?
7. Downwell
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What a tight, clever game. The theme of falling, bouncing, and shooting downwards rules. The aesthetics are super simple, but there are tons of visual touches all over to make every one of your actions satisfying. The difficulty curve is excellent, with each of the game's areas introducing mechanical wrinkles that push you to think faster and faster all the way up to the end and a combo system that ties into the difficulty curve instead of serving as an extra thing to learn solely for scoring's sake. The items and styles are well thought out and fun to explore. And the last battle is sooo good! There's even a Hard mode that adds new enemy types.
Also, it's funny that so many people were calling this a roguelike. It's a straight-up arcade game.
I heard it’s the Demon’s Souls of rogue-like arcade falling games.
the worst
Not to mention, bespoke and core.
Finished my replay of Bayonetta 1 on Switch. I had played this for work when it was new, but this was my first time playing it in 9 years and, in truth, my first time playing it for fun.
The action is a ton of fun, but it's interesting to see how dated it is in some ways. The camera is absolute garbage. The visual design is very brown too. Technologically it doesn't feel out of place on Switch, but it's just dated in some ways. I still enjoyed it, but I'm looking forward to playing 2 for the first time and seeing if they've modernized these things. I can already tell it's a lot more colorful.
Seeing Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap of all games being compared to Dark Souls takes the cake for me. I can't even get mad, though. I'm happy people are playing the game in 2017/2018.Quote:
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They play pretty much the same, and the GBC one is excellent. But you know how nice Chrono Trigger looks on SFC? DQ3 looks better. It was made super late into the SFC's lifespan and is gorgeous. It doesn't have any special chips or anything so it plays fine in an Everdrive or whatever.Quote:
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Thanks, operation hacked rom will commence.
I love 7, but SFC 3 really is best imo.
Speaking of 7, what happened to the gecko in the 3ds version?
Sine Mora EX (Switch), story mode. This game isn't very particular fun, like most Eurotrash shmups. The hit detection feels off, and you have to constantly spam your matrix-ish slow-down ability to get through the incredibly tough stages. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to conserve that power and you will die a shit ton when your run out of Neo juice.
The last boss is also dumb af, it is just a big metal ball. The game is very pretty though with some stupid story grafted in between stages. The VA is so dull, you can tell the actors don't really want to do it.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Worth playing through once for the atmosphere. The object-finding puzzles, simple combat, and monologues got a bit repetitive. It's not a long game but being an hour or two shorter would have paced it better.
I never finished this but this is exactly how I felt about it, wish I had read this review years ago. I remember REALLY wanting to like the game, but it didn't pan out.Quote:
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3. Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)
Had a lot of fun with this game. I like that you can switch between characters at the start of each stage, and for the most part they feel a little different (Mario and Toad feel essentially the same). The cat suit was fun and the few times when the cherry power up came into play were well done. Also big kudos to this game for introducing Captain Toad (which I'm still going through proper). No desire to go back for all the stars and stamps I missed first time around, but it really was fun. Now I just need to find a way to get me a Switch and play Odyssey before it's half a decade old.