Yeah, I noticed. The early looter quest appeared impossible to beat by fighting, so I needed to send my ranger to sneak through instead. Then I had a bit of trouble finding who to talk to for some of the other quests and walked over to the first dungeon, and the difficulty level on the outdoor fights made me wonder if I was here way early. I went back and did two more non-combat quests for one more level, bought the 5000$ mace, and then I was able to squeak through.
you can get up to a full party of like ~10 the first time you visit neketaka so youâll have plenty of opportunity to fill out your party with tanks if you felt like you missed out on doing so (I wound up with a lot of in-betweeners like rogue/monk and priest/monk and chanter/barbarian but it makes sense that youâd need more straight heavies to balance the wizard), and the later recruits are generally more interesting than the early ones anyway imo
also You Have To Use Your Items which is a great design philosophy in general
and characters outside of your party still gain levels (though you might have to toggle something in options if you do or donât want them to pick skills automatically, itâs honestly down to preference as leveling up in this game can take forever)
ninja spirit is so good! itâs such a fucking videogame!
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Below is the sort of game where I find myself with my mouth hanging open because Iâm spending so much energy looking and hearing. Itâs on the still & empty plane of Shadow of the Colossus and the vibe is perfect at home in a dark room. It absolutely demands crisp headphones.
As a game, it lives in the âmechanically obscured Zelda 1â genre. Itâs hard to say how their templates will feel running through them later but itâs absolutely composed and assured so far.
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Ninja Spirit is really good! And then you get to That Part.
oh whoa
I ⌠wow
that is a genuinely neat approach to a remaster
are they actually running the real game in an emulator and like parsing the map and the health data out of ram to update the wrapper or something
that rules
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this post made me think of shin megami tensei 1, a game you can break over your knee with sub machineguns and charm bullets
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Yeah more or less. M2 are insane masters.
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I mean itâs not even that technically complicated itâs just the kind of thing that no one [who has the license and motivation] has the expertise or wherewithal to do, thatâs whatâs so neat about it
I managed to get this for free thanks to all the Gold points I earned on Letâs Go and Smash
I like that you can turn off the FM sound because it feels a little too subdued to me. I wish you didnât need to reset the game to switch between them though.
Speedy walking option is a godsend in this type of game too
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Seriously, that Phantasy Star port is so good and M2 are heroes.
as much of a pill as I am about ground-up engine rebuilds I am extremely positively disposed to people creatively augmenting faithful emulation
and like this is a lot cooler than 2xSaI
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something something you can fuck with the end user experience as much as you want as long as the ground truth is there
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Battle Gareggaâs modern console port has âM2 Gadgetsâ which illustrate rank (crucial for that game) and various other hidden systems, dynamically.
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Iâve noticed people doing this for a while to make letsplays or streams â custom frames just like this updating the game stats. I assume itâs descended from people making custom UIs for MMOs.
having said this, playing this reminds me exactly of playing death of the outsider, when I was so pleased that they finally took the opportunity to revise the parts of their design theyâd failed to improve in the previous bigger and prettier sequel, save for being kind of miffed at the time Iâd already spent on the last one. If you played uncharted 2 and/or last of us and ignored 4, this is actually well worth it. if you played 4, well, it took me a couple years to be willing to give this a shot for a reason.
Turns out Gorogoa is really good
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no way
I keep eyeballing the PSVR like a damned fool. That Borderlands 2/Beat Saber bundle isnât quite the game combo Iâm lookinâ for, but it does come with those wands thatâll let me (presumably) go wild sculpting in Dreams.
Maybe I just really want Dreams!
In other damned fool exercises - played some Just Cause 4. ItâsâŚgod I always say âitâs another one of those,â but it is?
Itâs also pretty rough looking. Runs like a champ, which you couldnât really say of 3, but it takes a visual hit for sure.
Messing around with the new types of tethers is pretty fun, though only a few seem to be practical. Then again, practicality probably isnât the point!
Because Iâm sure this is a concern to most - the wingsuit feels weird in this one. I donât know what changed. Just doesnât quite have that same feel as it did in 3.