okay i checked youtube it is indeed leftenant
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Snake Pass feels like an entirely different genre IMO. It’s a Bennet Foddy-like
Demon Turf was real rough and almost unbearable to the eyes but I loved it
Kunitsu-Gami
Shinsekai from the same team as Kunitsu-Gami was one of the secret best Switch games but I’m not moved by this one
It has some superficial mystique to it, it was sent to die, totally unmarketable name in the west etc, though all in all there’s not that much to it
I don’t get why the aesthetics are seen as unique after all these yokai games recently. It’s more colorful and appealing than say a Nioh, but otherwise really close. The very thin story / context doesn’t help give it an unique identity
I’m not sure the Brutal Legend / Kunitsu-Gami « seemingly pseudo action but actually simple RTS » mini-genre can really be truly engaging and satisfying. The genres don’t mesh well. The day parts are unengaging, and the strategies to face off against enemies during the night phase always seem obvious. I wonder if/when the game will start to put up some real challenge. I once had my walking weak point goddess walk up to the enemy summon door to purify it, but night started right during the purify animation and I had to survive an entire night with the goddess I had to protect right next to the enemy summoning door! The worst possible scenario! I moved all my combat units right there because I had no other choice. It all worked perfectly and the goddess lost like one tenth of her HP max. Great for me, but I should never have been able to survive that. Why would I ever care about chokepoints in this game from this point on? The bosses are somewhat challenging but they’re all action and not RTS. And also not great
There’s too much busywork… the stages alternate between busywork day and combat night, but then after the stages you have to go back to each saved village for way more friction-free busywork!
The game loop is a little bit too neat and proper. Nothing sticks out. Each class has a straight upgrade path with 6 upgrades to buy… if I do all the busywork in one level I get one accessory that very slightly improves max health… I suddenly miss demons randomly dropping sandals if I get lucky in Castlevania.
In conclusion I prefer the other recent slightly actiony doomed console RTS, Square’s Diofield Chronicles
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Power Blade: it is amazing to play what is probably the 120th best NES/Famicom game and for it to still be This Good. It almost feels like a modern 8bit game with how it picks and pulls from other stuff and has not enough visual identity.
It’s nominally a Mega Man but each stage is open ended and has two goals: find a sprite that looks identical to you but is your contact and then find the boss room. You can duck and jump to avoid projectiles. Your main weapon is a boomerang that you can that you can throw in at least 5 directions.
The weird part is you need to metroid style grind for powerups which drop at a pretty healthy pace. I always ended up on a razor’s edge fully powered on my last life grinding for hamburgers. Sometimes taking a hit because it seemed they spawned more below a certain threshhold. I spent a good amount of time wondering if cheating to always be fully powered was “cheating” or “saving time.” Game might be impossible at points at no powerups.
I used my last ration on the last boss and saved the world from a giant Lenin head. There were also giant Lenin Wall heads like the birds in SMB2.
Cool game!
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Mirror’s Edge time trials.
(True answer is the early Tony Hawk games, but people aren’t ready for that truth)
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How long has it been since I posted in this thread? It’s been a while.
The game I’m currently obsessed with is World of Warcraft: The War Within. As much as I prefer how FFXIV handles its storytelling (even in Dawntrail! I’m very happy with the expansion so far, and I can’t wait to see where they go from here!), playing WoW is more fun, especially since they ripped off the Guild Wars 2 flying mount. This new expansion, though: it’s on track to being the best one they’ve ever made, if they can avoid ruining the new systems with badly executed patches or hot fixes. The last expansion laid a strong foundation, but it was rough arround the edges in a boring way rather than in an interesting way. The War Within, though, is interesting in a good way. Lots of voice acting, surprisingly decent character writing, and the way they’ve made progress account-bound undercuts one of FFXIV’s biggest conceptual advantages. I hope they don’t fumble this after such a strong start!
I’m often stuck on computers or phones that can’t run WoW, though, so I’ve finally started playing Vampire Survivors. Jeez, I bet this game was pretty popular, huh?
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I’ve completed the first area in Judero and I really like it. The writing, the voices, and the music are great, as are the (very short) cutscenes. The parts that are a little rough are rough in a way that’s charming and suits the style, I think.
This is the title screen:
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yes, this is the answer
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these two flashbacks follow each other so closely and you better believe i’m laughing
just that direct correlation to being half-assedly taught about greek mythology
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The Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown DLC came out today (for $5!), finally answering the question of “what the hell happened to the incredibly scary lady who just suddenly disappears and is given an ignoble Poochie send off in the end.”
I haven’t played the game in months, figured it would take that into account for most players and kinda ease you back in. Nope! It takes away almost all of your upgrades and abilities, along with your health, and throws you into a pretty grueling Phanto-esque chase directly into a very tough boss fight.
I’m super rusty at the game but damn does it still play like a dream.
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I finally played The Last Guardian for Xbox 360! I’ve been making that joke for years, you know, The Last Guardian for Xbox 360. Remember when our Titanfall 2 thread was called The Last Guardian and our Last Guardian thread was called Titan Fall? That was really funny.
Anyways Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom sucks shit. It’s by Game Republic who have a record of making bad games.
It starts with a whole bunch of backstory that doesn’t matter. The environments look about the same as The Last Guardian functionless square rooms. The difference is the Majin (as the game puts it) talks, and has a name! That isn’t the Majin. It started with a T and the main character’s name starts with a T. They are both nonsense names.
The first worst part of the game is Majin is a disgusting character design. Like a 3rd rate Muppet with Human Teeth, Human Tongue and Human Fingernails and hands. He looks so gross. He talks like a big idiot but also says, “I KILL!” during your first encounter with the shadow warriors. You know what makes me like a beast when it yellls I Kill.
Anyways after that the thief you are actually playing as says “we’re partners” and has to explain partners and if you heard a distant FUCK YOU 24 hours ago that was me.
They then do the absolutely most exciting thing I’ve ever done in a video game slowly moving a trebuchet (HI GEN Z) to get on the second floor of a courtyard so I can throw rocks down to the ground so I can load them on the trebuchet so I can break walls so i can mild platform around the 2nd floor (which I have to trebuchet up to at least 6 times (which involves slowly rotating then ordering the last guardian to use trebuchet.) this eventually let’s me pull a lever which…lets me order The Last Guardian to open the door.
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i played the first level of shadows of the damned again 2 weeks ago. i beat the whole game in middle school i think. i liked how much it talked to me funny while i played and i liked how i got to say dumb things like “the hunter s. thompson of writing about video games worked on it” to a roommate
i started playing control last week. i like how insane the first 20 minutes made me feel. it felt like a game that allows you to inhabit the mind of a QAnon freak accidentally stumbling into a very real OSS/CIA demon building in nyc. i feel i am losing interest in it cause it seems like it’s gonna get less confusing as time goes on and I want it to be more confusing and intensely shooty
xbox live indie games i played:
ovary overload
avatar boogie (to eusexua)
nurses with balloons
don’t be nervous talking to girls
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actually i played “maids with balloons”, i got the title mixed up with this, which I haven’t played yet
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Playing Deadeye Deefake Simulacram, a distilled 2D immersive sim. Happily, it tends to digest its genre influences rather than raiding them wholesale like a costume chest - in this aspect I’d group it with Mosa Lina, Cruelty Squad, and Golden Light.
It has a neat hacking system a little like Invisible Inc’s but is its own thing. You type commands to to ‘hop’ along nearby devices - including cyborg enemies - which you can snap the camera to, potentially chaining a long way out of sight and finding ways to mess with things, as long as you don’t anger the defenses. Turn enemies to your side, blow up a toilet, remotely repair yourself, etc.
Lots of little (and a few big) surprises in the game so far. Flexible & powerful character build which is fun from the get go (currenty I’m mixing Empath and Necromancer hehe). Gently witty writing. Only a couple of small updates left before 1.0 according to the dev.
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wtf
(I just beat Galaxy 4.)
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Picked up Eschatos. Worth the price for Cardinal Sins alone, though the main attraction is great as it is. It’s good spectacle and great action.
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a speedy eggbert fan played speedy eggbert for the first time tonight (that’s me)
for about 5 minutes
dunno what i was expecting
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I was premature in my assumptions
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Sorted the UFO 50 list by “random” and fired away. It’s Mini & Max
Strong DOS game energy in this platformer. But it also reminds me a bit of Mario Land 2
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