I don’t mind that there isn’t a lot of game just that the game bits that were there were kinda lame and didn’t add. I did like that one puzzle was faster if you recalled details from an earlier area.
I need substance, challenge or choices to actually like pressing buttons but I’ve no issue wandering through a comic book. I loved looking at furniture and …logs in Magic Knight Rayearth.
I think “New French Extremity” is a stretch. I would not call the game graphic.
Apparently the game development began with RPG maker! So thats neat.
Batman: Arkham City (360): Really shouldn’t be having as much trouble with this as I am. Just reached the big setpiece boss fight with Cajun Frankenstein and am feeling as though I’ve had Enough for the time being. Can’t decide whether to press onward regardless or heed my misgivings and give it a miss.
If VTMB2 was not billed as a sequel to Bloodlines, it would have been regarded with as much warmth and positivity as Werewolf the Apocalypse Earthblood. Ironically, the game’s nature as a disappointing followup to a cult classic makes people defensive about it in a way they wouldn’t be if it had a generic subtitle
i say “fix” but i’m at the end of the game where the battles are like the most unfair bullshit. like if someone who sucked at games described the matador fight in nocturne.
All eight gym badges at 15:38. Still haven’t lost a match yet, but this was the hardest. I used all my max revives, which is bad. Literally all of my pokemon had a critical weakness that allowed them to be one-shot and I got through by a combination of stupid AI, spamming heal items, priority moves, and a handful of my own critical hit moves. Having two dark type pokemon and a normal type pokemon is objectively the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in a game but I refuse to quit now, I want to go all the way with team trashfire.
Edit: Ok, I may have lied. I immediately caught a level 60 Gyarados and Kommo-O. Those are pokemon I actually want. Hmmm.
EditEdit: WYNDON INNIT
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18 hours in. At the CHAMPIONSHIPS. Pokemon are fully doped up on nutritional supplements and… feathers. My shit looks like this:
Playing this little game no one’s ever heard of called “Dragon Quest” because I don’t have a debit card to sign up for the translation services for DQX and they’re LLM bullshit anyway. So I’m going back to the caves. I’m seeking the archaic knowledge of rpgs past. It’s fine if X doesn’t exist to me. I will become a different woman through struggle and really good sprites for the nintendo
I’m sure this tears bib apart but having had the privilege of seeing them all played at the various sbcons I actually have no desire to play them myself. I would have finished 7 but… my ps3…
Finished the main game of New Super Lucky’s Tale. It’s…fine? If anything it sates that thing I want in a 3D platformer game, where you’re rewarded for spinning the camera around and poking around everywhere.
I’ll never be able to divorce the idea of “Lucky’s Tale” originally exclusively coming out for a platform founded by noted shithead Palmer Luckey. If I stop I see that fucking Time magazine cover in my head. Awful.
Anyway there are some post games challenges and a few achievements that don’t seem that bad to pull off. I may just knock 'em all out, 100% it, banish that barefoot asshole floating on the beach from my mind once and for all.
Double-posting to say I’ve also been playing Once Upon a Katamari (only a little so far), and while it feels good to roll the ol’ ball around again, it definitely still lacks a certain artistry the Keita Takahashi games had. Like, you’d see little item setups and pairings and stuff in those games that were laugh-out-loud funny. The occasional vignettes were really good! And this game…doesn’t really have that, at least a few levels in.
I guess the powerups are fun and stuff, but without that thoughtful set dressing and contextualization that was all over the place in the first two games, I dunno. There’s maybe a Sisyphus metaphor that’d be too on the nose for coming back to the post We Love Katamari games…
Because I hate myself and am, as always, fighting depression, I spent a chunk of today playing the translated Maten no Soumetsu on my Mister, and let me tell you, that game is a piece of shit. Like I kinda like it, but it’s a grindy as fuck mess. It’s clearly someone’s attempt at a Dragon Quest for the Megadrive, and it would maybe work if the level curve wasn’t insane, and the punishment for going even a square in the wrong direction wasn’t just fighting an enemy that can probably one or two shot you.
This is minorly mitigated by the game being snappy as fuck, and that includes loading from the title screen when you die. And when you die again. And one more time. And again. It’s really funny in an absolute kusoge way, and I will probably stick with it for a while.
The story is simplistic early JRPG trash. A dude is walking in the field and sees a demon die who was holding a baby (the player). Warp like 15 years into the future, and said dude gets his shit rocked walking home, and the PC vows to take up his mantle. So you eventually get to a king to tell him you will murder all the monsters, and he says ‘cool but can you get some mysterious herb to cure my dying wife?’. So of course you agree, but on the way to get the herb, you get mugged and wake up in bed with jack shit, but in the king’s castle. When you go to apologize for fucking up, the king tells you the queen dies, but it’s alright, no worries, go kill more monsters. There’s a town nearby where your childhood best/girl friend lives, but when you get there, bandits have taken all the women to ??? and fuck only knows where that is. Better get ready to grind some more, sure.
It’s absolute shit, but I’m feeling like absolute shit, so it will work until DQ1+2 shows up. Depression is nothing to fuck with, kids. It makes you play objectively bad Megadrive games with no one watching.
The levels get more interesting a little further in. While it’s still fundamentally the same basic game, there are fun set pieces, levels that evolve in stages, levels with branching paths, etc.
I just reached Greece and I’ve been impressed and amused with every level there so far.
