I did play maybe the first couple hours of '13. The idea of seeing Lara become survival and adventure hardened was good, I just wasn’t really feeling the motions. Couldn’t even tell you what stood out aside from the frequently torturous situations she was put through which was obviously a thing of contention, well particularly for that one key scene.
It’s a kind of game I might go back to eventually if like, a few dozen others weren’t always going to be ahead in line.
Played some Valkyria Chronicles. Noticed that as an artifact of the art style melding realistic machines and military gear with anime character designs, Alicia’s binoculars have eyepieces smaller than the visible portion of her retina.
I don’t know if that’s enough to really save the game from itself, design-wise. I played them almost purely for the graphics. The second had bigger hub levels and more involved puzzling/tomb raiding. The latest seems to be going further in that direction which is alright by me.
the redbana version of “audition online” has azealia banks, crystal castles, schoolboy q, yung lean, and lana del ray on its soundtrack. also brokencyde
its like self aware of the legacy mid-00’s korean mmo games had on 2013 tumblr kids. when flyff 2 comes out i want it to have araabmuzik and nightcore edits of tiesto in it
honestly it makes me like the game even more that the Italians were possibly the worst of all the new characters (they add them in pairs every 3 months and I can’t think of the last time there were two duds at once).
I also enjoy even describing a long term support model like that which isn’t exploitative and is attached to a game I like
Burned through Yakuza Kiwami 2 a hell of a lot faster than I thought I would. For all my misgivings with the Dragon Engine (I dunno, it’s nice looking but also just kinda clunky?), it does lend to a brisker pace overall.
Glad my goldfish memory forgot everything from watching those digest videos in Yakuza 3 because goddamn, what a plot. Too bad the awful replacement theme song kinda shits all over the moments it pops up in.
Started up Strange Brigade. It’s everything I could have hoped (as far as being cheesy as hell) and feared (you really probably shouldn’t play it solo). Ah well!