sorry, but kiwami 1 suuuucks
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oh thatās fair itās the only one of those I havenāt played so I assumed
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Oh? What do you specifically not like about it (outside of the extreme whiplash of 2 Majimas)
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I thought Kiwami 1 suffered from bloat. I probably posted about it before but I swear it took me like 18 hours to beat Yakuza 1 and close to 30 on Kiwami 1 and none of the shit they added was worth that extra play time
The final boss was a fuckin chore for me too cuz I skipped most of the side stuff
I think itās better than 2 though, I really, really do not understand what anyone sees in 2 aside from the bit with the tigers
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Yeah mostly the Two Majimas. Alao like Bachelor said, it felt bloated.
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even if you max out everything first the last bosses are all horrible chores
outside frustrating shit like that, everything about kiwami is either kinda boring or just kinda acceptable which is a very low bar coming off 0. it doesnāt help for me that all the new sidestuff is nostalgic about the better game.
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the problem with kiwami 1 & 2 for me are the substories are at their worst quality wise because I assume theyāre just the ps2 ones ported to the new engines. if you actually started with 1 instead of 0 it might not be so bad. otherwise it felt like you could get through them pretty quickly compared to 0 or 5 so I didnāt mind them. if 2 had beads of good fortune that worked thatād probably be the one Iād take the time to 100% and wander around and learn how to play mahjong and koi koi.
2 also has this fight theme
and I remember the music on the bridge when you get stabbed being worth the hassle of the licensed music restoration patch
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Kiwami 1 has this weird quality of being like a Yakuza 1 themed expansion pack of 0 and not really standing on its own as a distinct thing but Majima was funny for a while.
I unreasonably love 5 but yeah, it is a mixed bag and drags especially in the prison sequenceā¦but immediately redeems itself for me as the D2 snow survival minigame is great
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sometimes i see the truck driving, baseball cap wearing bro dude that lives across the street and wonder if heās played assassins creed 4 too
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i been playing yakuza for the first time and, against the advice of literally everyone i asked, have so far played kiwami > kiwami 2 > 3. i have loved all of them very much, extremely enamored atm. 3 is my favorite right now tbh. i will probably start 4 this weekend!
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getting months/possibly years ahead of myself here but looking forward to hearing how you feel about 7 one day, i reckon youāll fuckinā love that one
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oh it aināt gonna be years
but yes i am extremely hype for it
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ethan winters is a doofus and I have no sympathy for this fools troubles. itās clear there was a reason he lost his wife in a swamp across the country to begin with, and now his baby in the dracula castle down the road from his house. resident evil 8 is the gone baby gone of videogames, you can watch and then debate with your friends or significant others whether the kid is better off with itās parents or kidnappers
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in the final leg of 7 rn and the only parts i donāt like are the parts where he talks
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It might be time for me to put down Layton vs Phoenix Wright. Through no fault of the gameās own! I was really enjoying it. I just kinda lost momentum? And every time I think about picking up my 3DS to play I justā¦ pick up my phone and look at Twitter instead, or something. Might just go look up a plot synopsis to see how it all comes together.
Edit: Alright I think I would have been a little buttmad about that M. Night Shyamalan-ass ending, so maybe Iām better off having stopped at the point Iām at.
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even just playing in mame using a controller, prop cycle is a fun game
and of course it looks incredible
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Interesting how it wants to look like Laputa but the tech limitations put it in the same mood as Pilotwings 64 and other mid-90s CG suburbatopias. Those clusters of sharp angled little houses and rolling fields really characterizes it.
what credits, with little bodyscanned employees waving at you!
And a āMood Makerā!
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Todayās Google Doodle is a pretty cute little game. Nothing remarkable but itās been a decent enough distraction
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Talking to my friends who played the game weāve all decided that Ethan is a bumbling dunce who stumbled into a dysfunctional but happy family of monsters and decided to murder everyone because he was confused.
Games like these are neat because I like looking at what the devs thought were necessary to convey a certain location. Like finding a small fishing village on the edge of an island in Pilotwings 64. Thatās two huts, a walkway to a dock, and then a fountain in the middle. Done. Captured the essence of a small fishing town.
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Hell Let Loose.
Over the last few years my favourite guilty pleasure genre, the WW2 fps has made a comeback of sorts.
This is probably the best of the bunch provided you approach it as a light mil-sim rather than a DoD style deathmatch shooter.
Visibility over 100m is terrible. Everything becomes this washed out grey silhouette which really keeps you on your toes.
Bullets are lethal. One shot will usually kill you or leave you screaming for a medic.
In my last game, my squad was covering a field on the outskirts of St Marie Du Mont. I spotted incoming armor concealed behind some hedgerows from around 500m away purely by the exhaust fumes and dust it was kicking up.
I gave the bearing to our squad leader who passed this on to the allied commander. Word eventually gets to the anti-tank squad concealed in the town. Aiming down my M1 I can just about make out the puff of smoke as the Tiger rolls over our anti-tank mines. An absolutely deafening explosion follows.
I didnāt fire my rifle for the entire game but instead acted as an impromptu spotter overlooking my tiny piece of Normandy.
Gonna try medic next and tell everyone theyāve got a million dollar wound and weāll get them back to their sweathearts.
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