Guilty of potioning! Thanks to that collection of PS4 games that comes with the PS5, I’ve been dipping into random hit AAA games I normally wouldn’t touch. I did some of the God of War tutorial yesterday. Boy, that dour Knausgård meets Game of Thrones theming sure is dull! The axe has good crunch though.
It gets funnier if you’re determined to read into it
I am playing a very weird visual novel! The House in Fata Morgana. Kind of tragic gothic horror novel, with several archs. I have played the first two chapters, on the Vita. It’s also out on the PS4, PC and it is coming out on the Switch. I recommend it, if you can adapt to the specific graphic style (which goes closely with the tone and music, also). I will write down more impressions later on. Has anybody else played it?
@Tuxedo you made me interested in Gnosia
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I think I enjoy Kingdom Battle more than XCOM. The DKLC has more thought and effort put into it than I expected.
ice cold take, sekiro let you experiment from the get go, it used the intersection of level geometry and enemy placement to create fascinating play-spaces that haven’t been seen since Tenchu
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the insanely vertical level design in Sekiro and the push toward optimizing stealth runs is definitely a high point
maybe more than Tenchu it reminded me of PS2 Shinobi
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whatever their version of creativity amounts to is lost on me
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Everyone’s sayin’ it!! Everyone everywhere is loving this guy!!
Gnosia is my goty 2021.
Also I think it’s the only new game I’ve played. Aside from Loop Hero? I bought that and got a refund cuz the pixel font was hard to read and the other fonts were ugly. Gnosia is the superior loop game, I got to bully a bunch of space animes into saying I’m right all the time, and all my enemies were punished, and also everyone kept saying they want to kiss me, great game, great time, I’m making it sound way scuzzier than it is, don’t worry it’s not a pervert game, I recommend Gnosia, even though it is too long.
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In Sonic Adventure 2 Dr Eggman BLEW UP THE MOON. And then the gang has to go into a jpeg of the Giza Pyramid to steal Eggman’s spare spaceship. Also Rouge The Bat is a secret agent for The President.
Inside the pyramid is the drowned corpse of Big The Cat. Everything I just said is true.
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Also the game is absolute trash and I am really worried about anyone that built their identity around it.
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paging @doolittle for no reason
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sobbing around at the speed of sound
no places to go never seen any rainbows
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Look, you only get to be 14-16 once and when you play City Escape and the Final Boss fight with some Rock band out of california sing about nothing but makes it feel like profound statements you just keep chasing that high.
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I guess
When there is one way ahead
You gotta keep moving on
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See, the real victims are kids born too young to Dreamcast who got SA2 Battle with their GameCube and formed their entire conception of Sonic, cool, music, and video games on it
I played it when I was a kid and thought SEGA games sucked with the sole exception of Super Monkey Ball until I got into other AM2 stuff.
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I grew up with sonic on the genesis but didn’t get the saturn or dreamcast so I went a long time without sonic until SA2B. It was a mostly happy reunion seeing sonic doing cool things to music that was broad and generic enough to engage me when mainstream music was getting entrenched into specific scenes that I never gelled with.
But I was on the tail end of following internet groups and fandoms so I missed the whole sonic-sona business. I burned that out on megaman forums a few years earlier.
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I probably should have refunded Loop Hero, I’ve almost certainly gone past the absolute time limit/time played limit to do so. Whoever it was who mentioned it when it was released (Mara?) pretty much got it exactly right. My particular gripe about the game is that the readability of the field is awful. Finding your character/the campsite on the little map is shockingly hard once things start filling up and since you also have to be constantly flicking your eyes to the cards/equipment sections, which are off to the sides, you get eye strain pretty quickly. The base building is also a fun example of spending a ton of time to grind out resources for little appreciable gain, except you know that gain will probably be necessary in order to squeeze through whatever tiny mathematical hole that you know the developers defined in order to succeed at the game.
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that’s really the most alienating part of Sonic Adventure 2 love, I hate the music and it gives me anti-vibes
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yeah it’s the difference between the mid-late 90s and the early aughts cranked up in the worst ways