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#3253

Playing through Soul Reaver in an effort to beat a game that beat me as a child. It’s been rough.

Look, I knew this game had a reputation for repugnant block pushing “puzzles” but the first third of the game is pretty light on such tomfoolery. But whoo boy this abandoned temple sure has quite a few of them. One of them was optional but I didn’t know that until I had already done it and wow that pissed me off.

The combat in this game is also atrocious, especially after you get the Soul Reaver. Since taking even one hit removes your best weapon as an option, usually the best way to approach a situation is to switch back to the spectral realm whenever you take a hit, recharge, and then find a portal back to the material realm.

In fact, my time spent playing Soul Reaver is mostly trying to find the most efficient way to do something boring. The biggest revelation I had about the block pushing puzzles was that I could solve them twice as fast (using this one weird trick).

…I’m actually really enjoying myself though and I’m a little over half-way through the game. I guess the world really carries my interest.

I’ve got the rest of the games in the series on Steam so maybe I’ll actually play through a whole series like I always say I will.

(I played part of Blood Omen but it crashed too often so I gave up on that)

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#3254

blood omen is actually pretty unplayable! worth it for the story imo. blood omen 2 is an interesting game in that it, like soul reaver 2, is a pre DMC action game so it does some things that refine on the weirdo combat in the first soul reaver game

legacy of kain: defiance is just a weird lil game though

#3255

I never got through Blood Omen 1. Kinda wrote 2 off when it was first out, I didn’t care much for Kain as a protag or the alternate timeline…compared to Raziel’s astral escapades. I also heard it was buggy as hell.

Clunky and repetitive as this series could be, I thought Soul Reaver 1, 2 and Defiance were still a great trilogy for anyone to invest the time in.

#3256

I had an alright time with blood omen while it lasted. I probably put about 2 hours in. It was not bad for what it was (an old ass gothic zelda ripoff)

I liked the story, ended up just reading a good summary for it on GameFAQs. The lore in this series is bizarre.

#3257

I said no such thing

#3258

how old were you when you first realized @toups was a false that god that deserved no praise? don’t forget to comment, like and subscribe

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#3259

Many years back I played through Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the GBA on a borrowed cartridge. I remember having an alright time.

Over the past few weeks I’ve been watching a let’s play of some people playing through Kingdom Hearts 1. Honestly seems like a pretty neat game to come out in 2002 but probably not much to go back to today. I think the main takeaway from it is that I probably would have been a completely different person if I had gotten a PS2 instead of a Gamecube back then. I then watched an LP of the first half of CoM because why not? Then I downloaded a save file of GameFAQs and the 3D PS2 remake of CoM to play through the unlockable Riku chapter. The whole card battling system really doesn’t benefit from also having to navigate large 3D arenas at the same time but you can pretty much brute-force the game if you exploit the hell out of some of the new combat mechanics they added.

I then did the only logical thing and bought Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix for the Playstation 3. Been playing it pretty intensly as of late and you know what? This game is alright. Every button send bopping and hopping all over the place, the game clearly wants you to bait enemies’ special QTE triggering action that are only sometimes cool to defeat them all and every world looks like a post-nuclear fallout wasteland but hey, the main bad guy’s computer system is a pirated copy of ENCOM’s and when Donald Duck tries to chase Stitch off its keyboard he gets everyone sucked into Tron-world leaving Squall to try to hack everyone out, so it kind of works out.

Get a pretty good chuckle how amazingly they mange to fuck up every single scene they try to accurately recreate from a Disney movie, usually due to real awkward timing in VA delivery (whole lot of pauses between lines) or just that most cutscenes are in complete dead silence apart from voices.

Kind of bummed that the game’s difficulty seems pretty much gone after I did a bunch of optional stuff and ended up a steady 3 levels above recommended for each world I arrive in. At least there’s the Olympus stadiums and optional Final Mix bosses to spice it up. Those new bosses are real fun actually. One of them would at times turn your command menu into a useless book and you would have to “scroll” though it to find the right word that gave you back your abilities all the while with you dodging his attacks.

I think I’m around halfway though now? Just got done with Tron world. A bit worried that there may be a lot of backtracking though older worlds coming up after gleaning at the cheevo list.

In short, please only refer to me as my new Nobody name of “Myxer” until this embarrassing phase of my life passes.

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#3260

I think the hardest part about my life right now is I bought a bunch of trash JRPG’s right before I moved and now I can’t play them

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#3261

Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight is a beautiful game. Pardoner Fennel is kicking my ass.

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#3262

Yeah the spritework is fantastic and it doesn’t overstay its welcome, I liked it. It’s basically what I was hoping to see all along from games like Ys or Salt & Sanctuary.

Pardoner Fennel is the only actually good boss but it is indeed solid. The first time I beat it (after an hour or so of attempts) I mindlessly jumped into the mob on the way back to the savepoint and was back to square one, but I wasn’t even mad.

If you aren’t already playing on Hard (I started off on that), try again at that difficulty. I love how punishing that makes the tutorial area.

#3263

I should go back to it, I put it down because I was so underwhelmed by the first boss

#3265

I think I picked normal, but game looks short enough that I may replay it in hard. I left Fennel for now and fooled around the map, which was good because now I have the cat ball and it makes part of the map makes sense.

And yeah, like Salt & Sanctuary this one also take some hints from Dark Souls, there is quite the contrast between this and Momodora III. But unlike Salt & Sanctuary, this game is still its own thing.

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#3266

hey @Rudie what did you think of steal princess on the DS

#3267

it’s kind of bad actually. it’s not complete shit, but i hoped for so much more

#3268

oh i’m sorry @meauxdal i didn’t realise your name was @Rudie!!!

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#3269

I got my Xbone S last Friday and played Gears of W4r over the weekend. Do people here still play Gears? I hadn’t played one since the first one and this new one is pretty gat dang tremendous. It’s a Gears game, basically. It currently has all of the graphics.

I got to Act IV (of V) last night so I’ll probably finish the campaign in the next couple nights. I’ll probably play it again on Insane. It’s a good campaign. I’ll check out Versus and Horde as well but I don’t know how long I’ll last on them.

I also played Master Chief Collection and it’s good to play the Halo games again. I never played Halo 4 so I started with that one and uh, this isn’t very good is it? It feels like a fan game with a budget. I want to give it a chance though. Last night I got to the part where they introduce the new enemies so maybe it’ll get a bit better. Either way the other three games are still really good.

Oh I also got Sunset Overdrive and played the first few missions. I like it. It’s bright and you bounce and grind everywhere shooting everything and the music is great. I need to play it more.

#3270

I played INFAMOUS 2. It’s the first Infamous game I’ve played and while I don’t think it’s a bad game, it’s not doing it for me. I don’t like the southern setting for one thing because the American south seems so weird and scary to me and not in a fun way, and the combat is pretty boring and moving about isn’t as fun as it should be.

#3271

New Orleans is the best part of the American South, though

(Infamous is kind of slow and lame. I’m usually happy with slowing things down and making them more deliberate, but in a superhero game? It suffers a lot from being platform-holder published, like they were happy to satisfy a middle rather than face an existential crisis about making the best game they could.

Sucker Punch has been in pre-production for way too long on their new game and it looks kind of neat but I’m not sure they can counteract their bad habits with it, or come out in any sort of time frame to feel relevant)

#3272

yeah, I’ve wanted to try one of the infamous games on the strength of “throw kamehamehas in seattle” being a personal fantasy of mine (and frankly it’s rare that AAA power fantasy game design aligns with anything I want to do) but none of them quite look like they’re worth the time

I still genuinely want to play sunset overdrive and hope it finally makes its way to PC next year

#3273

the original infamous (insert wacky formatting gimmick) is trash. the second game is absolutely fantastic and I am unable to go back and 100% it because the misogyny and racism in the narrative is head-up-own-ass awful. it blows my mind how the game keeps elbowing the player with a wink and a nod about “those clingy emotional women”