exploring the sky
I went to the local arcade today, which is basically an entire Japanese arcade lifted up and plopped down onto the city. I can make it to stage 4 in 19XX now in one CCâprogress! I also went upstairs where they have a bunch of consoles set upâgreat for unemulatable stuff. I played Otogi 1 & Gunvalkyrie today. Iâm just not cut out for pre-demonâs souls fromsoftware forensic science like a lot of people are these days. But Gunvalkyrie was kind of awesome, and also a little bit bad. I liked it.
Someday Iâll buy an all-day wristband, bring some headphones and finally play Demonâs Souls.
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played some mushihimesama futari (thanks @botagel !) and that novice mode sure succeeds in making you feel good about yourself hahaha. no miss clear on my first time! I havent beaten anything else yet but I think I can manage arrange. I got close, anyway.
also please edf2025 with my lil brother. man, i love this game.
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Two addendums (addenda?) to my Mighty Gunvolt Burst (MGB?) post:
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One of the rewards you can choose for clearing the opening stage is an armor upgrade chip. Take it (or replay the stage) unless you want to go through the rest of the game with everything hitting you like a truck (like I foolishly/unknowingly did).
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By pressing Y on the stage select menu, you can get a complete list of loot for each particular stage, along with a description of their various functions.
I mention these things because they substantially improved my opinion of the game.
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I feel like tumbleseed went some seriously strange and unintended places during its design and I donât think it has much of an audience but I like it a lot. itâs more in line with downwell than necrodancer or nuclear throne (i.e., itâs more of a mobile-scope roguelike) but itâs up there.
Committing the worldâs greatest crime: playing BRIGADOR with a PS4 controller. D:
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I tried playing Brigador (thanks @CourierRice) with a controller and itâs a flippin nightmare. But itâs hard to play mouse/keyboard games while Iâm in conference calls because theyâre so loud
Also, donât tell anyone I play Brigador during conference calls please thanks
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Iâm finding it⌠obviously sub-optimal but workable? Itâs most intuitive controlling a hovercar, but the extra sludge of moving your aim arc around with a stick isnât ideal with crafts that canât soak up many hits. ÂŻ_(ă)_/ÂŻ
Playstation keeps IP banning my apartment. It sucks!
So I decided to play and offline game and remembered Final Fight double impact has idiotic always online DRM for whatever reason.
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Dragonâs Crown? I know itâs bad. But itâs also really, really good.
Itâs a perfectly fine local coop game. I had a lot of fun when I could convince one of my friends to show up for it.
He went sorceress, though. :S
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Just played the demo of Stories Untold. It was a cool twist on the horror text adventure. The text game is framed by a first person view of the computer youâre playing it on and the room youâre in. Stuff that happens in the text game affects the room youâre in. It does some nifty meta stuff. It didnât blow my mind, but I enjoyed it enough to drop 5 bucks on the full game.
I just played 90 minutes of Darksiders. This is a video game ass video game that drops you in the middle and says try to keep up with our idiotic story. Every hit is like taking a chainsaw to a head of lettuce for the 20th time. Then I got a double jump. Then to get to the first dungeon that are supposedly zelda-esque I had to do 4 arena fights. After the second I felt that I had seen the game. Playing anymore would be saying to the world I have nothing better to do.
Darksiders is Zelda if it were made by Image Comics instead of Nintendo.
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If I was The Objective Gamer I would give it a tenoutaten for being exactly what it wants to be.
Breath of the Wild would be an 8/10 because I believe no one wanted to tell that story.
The missus has been playing tons of stardew valley and loving it. She is clearly better at being social in a videogame (and irl) than myself. My hermit fisherwoman wasnât doing so great so I gave up for the time being.
Also, I re-re-re-bought Resi 4 on sale for reasons I canât honestly fathom and played it for a while. Weirdly, the camera is making me more motion sick than it ever had before.
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This Dead Cells game is some pretty hot shit. Still early access, so I never wouldâve gotten it but my idiot friend gifted it to me. Killer pixel art. It obviously draws inspiration from Souls, and strikes the same balance of every time I die, I can see itâs my fault.
Unlike Souls however instead of being ponderous itâs a fast paced 2D thing and it turns out I have no reflexes for that sort of thing in my senescence so Iâm finding it really hard.
Its most direct inspiration is Rogue Legacy. I like it a lot better than that because: it looks better; the permanent upgrades are more satisfying yet less necessary; you never get cursed with a âhilariousâ bad loadout for a run; and perhaps its most innovative feature, the levels are only semi-randomized, such that the individual tiny details of enemy encounters are always different, but overall level layouts are always roughly similar.
It is Very Good. If you buy stuff in early access, highly recommended.
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I think the enemy density could be cranked down a little.
But Iâm also very bad at videogames.
glad to hear itâs actually good, I was holding off because basic action games generally need a hook other than âitâs really hard!â for me to care nowadays, but I was tempted
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The worst thing about Dead Cells is that once you unlock the thing that allows you to do the functional thing with the slimepiles you can no longer tickle the slimepiles.
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