I an an adult Blasphemous and I do not have time to backtrack because I went the right way.
Which is to say this game really took the Dark Souls formula of 3 bosses unlocking the door to the rest of the game. And in The Rest Of The Game I have been making the path forward decision incredibly well and have filled out the map but haven’t found a boss or a save point or any items.
I have a lot of things to say about (Untitled First Person Shooter Whose Title I Cannot Disclose Due to NDA) from the playtest period I may or may not have participated in this morning/afternoon
about 99% of them are me being angry that I cannot (action) while (other discrete action)
don’t get me wrong, I liked (Title) in my time with it and will probably throw money at it because I know all the technical foibles will get ironed out
but I’m begging you, let me (action) while I’m (action)-ing
Watched a streamer play all of Detroit: Become Human while she muttered “David Cage…” every time the writing went off the rails. Truly the most contemptible, venal ethos in a game. Near the end you’re running around filling up a Violence/Pacifist meter by doing the right kind of protest demonstration QTE. Binfinite dethroned.
If you’ve never played Heavy Rain you really owe it to yourself
I tried Axiom Verge 2 last night (on PS4). When I was about to quit and maybe go to bed I noticed a friend was also playing and so I started it up again, intending to play just a little more. And then I played until about 4 a.m. And then I went to work in the morning. The friend I had seen playing beat the game about three hours later, not long before I went to work.
Anyway, I think it’s a good game. I like the art style and the music. It’s not stingy with new abilities and you’re given a lot of freedom to explore. The writing is a little sloppy in places (typos that I assume they will fix with a patch) and I encountered a few bugs, but nothing major.
I will probably play the rest of the game tonight.
…to continue not playing it?
jigoku meguri is really good
best way to experience a David Cage game is the same way to experience a Neil Breen film, just watch a supercut of the ‘best’ bits on youtube
I treasure everytime my copy of Beyond Two Souls is trotted out and it freezes exactly 2 hours in.
Except for when I played it lol
THERE WAS SABOTAGE AND WE KNOW IT.
It kinda happened but I stand by all the criticisms I made in the Death Stranding thread 2 years ago. It’s more tolerable with the higher difficulty. Just slightly busier so I can zone out. And the game is very alt+tab friendly so the cutscenes are slightly tolerable background noise. And now I’m deeper in than I was the first time and a lot of the early game’s dumb bullshit seems to have settled down – last night I felt like I was getting into BT fights every 5 minutes but that’s eased up now. And personally I’m feeling like I’m flatlining while 2 years ago I was def craving more out of life and art and everything. This is probably as good as it’s gonna get right now. So it works, it’s just enough busywork, if I played something new and exciting it’d probably inspire too many emotions in me. I’d start longing for shit. And that’s no good. Proud to have become the grandparent who passes out on the couch after watching Law & Order reruns for 7 hours straight. Hope this lasts forever.
The Chiral Artist mission gave me some real bad vibes though, really not cool with whatever the fuck was going on there, really trying not to think too much about how that ended up in the game.
Maybe the ziplines will really kick it up a notch.
I’m somewhat grateful no one’s gifted me a David Cage game, thank you folks for not inflicting that on me, cuz I’d definitely play it, which would probably lead to me doing hard time in a French prison.
Video game thing I think about a lot: that fucking live chicken at the supermarket in Heavy Rain.
playing Yomawari and enjoying it a lot so far, there’s a good balance between “horror game enemies” (that chase you, etc) and just mysterious manifestation things that you stumble across while roaming around - a stone monk slowly walking past and ignoring you, a purse that sometimes starts absently floating around and making bwoop sounds while you’re nearby. and then occasionally having new things appear and not knowing what category to put them in. i got a kick out of the big grinning mouth that appears on the ground in one area, not moving or disguising itself at all, but that kills you instantly if you decide to step on it anyway. what was i expecting to happen? the checkpoint warp system / keeping items when you die is more generous than you’d think which also takes the edge off poking at things in this way.
rich lem once handed me heavy rain and quietly stated ‘please stream this, i cannot say mean things about david cage’ but i never played it. its just really fucked up to think people who david cage thinks are his peers just hand idiots like me his games and are like ‘make fun of this bullshit because i am not allowed’
Heavy Rain is the most “simulacrum of America by someone who’s only vaguely seen some movies that might take place there” bullshit and it never stops being funny seeing how Cage et al. fill in those gaps in their knowledge. The only scene that rivaled it in the Rudie Edition of Beyond was the house party on a house that never could exist in Unburbia, USA.
These games are such shit.
maybe the key is to get cage to make a game entirely about airports and conference centres
i’m saying
