I played about 30 minutes of this before I unsubscribed from Apple Arcade. It seemed okay. Music was very Uematsu trying to do FF7 again.
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He said itās the best soundtrack heās ever done
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How explicit is the sex? Is it a minigame?
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Severed Steel sits in a fun spot between FEAR and Mirrorās Edge even if iām finding it so sensorially overwhelming that my progress is pretty slow going
itās kind of hard to parse from videos but you have a ridiculous amount of speed and mobility and are impervious to damage while youāre cartwheeling around. you can do wall runs, dive though a window to vault off a guyās face, FEAR slide kicks, etc. on top of that you have a few seconds of bullet time, this can be extended indefinitely while stunting around. you also only have a single hand (the protag loses her left arm at the elbow in the intro and later gains an arm cannon useful for blowing walls open) so you canāt reload: guns are discarded as soon as theyāre empty and you can seamlessly strip enemy sidearms in close range
your walk speed is uncontrollably fast and itās clear youāre supposed to spend as much time airborne and slowed down as possible. this transforms the empty office and industrial environments full of aggro screaming radio voice Troop Guys (the FEAR influence again) into these bouncy castles of blood full of unexplained word salad (āUNSEAL THE SPACE CUBESā) objectives.
the visuals and audio are completely overwhelming and this makes the game more challenging to play well than it could be but iām having fun? no idea how anyone could actually look past it all to speedrun it like the āgo go goā design encourages but iām just an old raver with bad fingers so iām just here for the vibes
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HURRY UP AND TELL ME MORE ABOUT THE OFK SEX
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It happens offscreen but you see the āaftermathā (characters in bed in a state of undress). No nudity or toplessness itās all covered up. You see kissing and physical intimacy. Some sex talk, mostly innuendo. I think I was just surprised as the game initially struck me as somewhat sexless.
But who knows, later MV sections might make you wiggle your cursor over erogenous zones or awkwardly grab genitalia Warioware-style.
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If I made a game like that Iād have a leprechaun who insists on using a dental dam
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If these devs had made it, the Leprechaun would probably be a still image that slides into frame.
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Iāve been working on another white whale, Dark Cloud. It is an incredibly tedious game, but the Quintet-like townbuilding loop was enough of a hook to keep me from dropping it completely.
I think what kept me from beating it as a kid was the degradable weapon system. Weapons are fragile and can break forever if I donāt continually refresh them with powder. Weapons can be fused together can made incredibly powerful but honestly, weapons from shops are good enough.
I have just made it to the final boss. The final dungeon is miserable. There is no town, just 18 floors or so of semi-random enemy spawns. Instead of finding parts of a village, I found fragments of memories. These are the very same memories that that the character told me about in detail before I started looking for them. There is almost no new information on these fragments.
I tried once against the boss and it is just as heinously designed as the rest of the gameās bosses. It has three forms, unavoidable attacks, and one-hit kills that can be avoided. He has a big life bar so itās just toil. Iām going to try one more time before watching the ending on YouTube. Then itās over.
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I love the music in Dark Cloud.
I gave up after the second dungeon when I relaised there were 3(?) more to go and nothing was going to change.
Kudos on getting to the end!
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The music is the standout part of the game
I always liked the theme of the third town
Oh wow I just made the connection that this is the same composer that worked on the Professor Layton series. It all makes sense now
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Last night all I had for dinner were Doritos and about 17 hours of Fortnite
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I am becoming so concerned for my friends
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Zero build mode legit rocks, thereās not a drip of irony here, it is fucked up how fun this dumb game is, I am sorry I ever doubted all my friends who said āplay it, itās good,ā Iām sorry I thought āwow I bet they must be in a bad place if they playinā fortniteā cuz they were clearly in a great place, like Shifty Shafts or Logjam Lounge or Coney Corral
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Hey they sound like me
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yeah itās actually a perfect chillout gun carnage sandbox like old halo and the BR format really emphasizes it. all the downtime is good for laughs then someone yells āshit we got gokusā and you all holler the silliest shit at each other & defend your rustic country cabin (partially bulldozed by one of you mid-capture) from the flaxen haired hordes until your plans go comically wrong but then one of you slips away and revives the whole team andā
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The buzzsaw is my best friend. It does not kill well, but lord does it cause chaos.
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How do they mispronounce kamehameha when your character says it super loudly in game?
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every fornite match: we start with me always asking, regardless of the genders of anyone on the team, āwhere we dropping, boys?ā i always proclaim my desire for a peter griffin skin, and then admit that i will settle for brian (thatās the dog (what the dog doinā)). we then end up passing or holing up at coney crossing and then bachelor will say āmanā¦we gotta fuckinā stop konyā¦ā and i always think itās funny. then we all get terrified at the sight of goku with a gun.
this game rules.
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