God I’ve been meaning to play those Sherlock Holmes games for ages, back when Justin McElroy would talk about them on Giant Bomb’s E3 podcasts.
The first case of Apollo Justice is overwhelming, holy shit. Not just the logic, there’s just…dang they throw a lot at you right from the get-go! I’m sure it’ll all make sense by the end (they hammer the point home in the ending dialogue), but damn that’s a lot to take in.
Also, uh, I may have to rescind my “the Switch is bad and uncomfortable, the New 3DS is more comfortable to use” statements I’ve made in the past.
The Switch does suck to hold for a long time (Binbok controllers help, but only so much), but damn I forgot just how tiny this little dude is. Just full on squinting, hands cramping. Still feels solid, but I guess I’m just getting old 😮💨
theres an idiot proof automatically does everything you need FREE 18xx player online now that ive been playing around with, im trying to get veronica to be a puffing billy with me
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you dont have to suffer through a board game club with JC telling you all your goddamn moves are wrong even thoiugh you’re WINNING. thats a universal problem everyone has with this game right??
the site is correct 1889 is a great starting game and like all online board games its a great way to learn because you cant make illegal moves
you can also go through finished games and read the chat
I think this game would be a lot better without any cutscenes. It really doesn’t matter why you’re throwing the rabbits around. It’s a good game, though. I’m at the point where it starts to resemble Bomberman. I don’t know how many worlds there are, but there are a lot of levels per world.
And the music is by one of my favorites, Yerzmyey. I recognized Arcane Zone immediately on the title screen.
my first successful run (which lasts 30 minutes before the game automatically kills you) happened with mostly default weapons, I think, but I did have some permanent upgrades active
i’ve been playing vampire survivors too. really hits the spot of free hobbyist grinding games on android that were really popular in the early 10s, sustained off ad revenue, stolen sprites, and simple but varied design. buriedbornes is very similar in that respect.
the autochess-like structure of weapon upgrading, and mutating that weapon into its final form, is pretty satisfying. there’s a lot of variety in your weapon picks! very cool. can’t wait until there’s more weapons and characters. and the way enemies are big slow circle colliders that push each other around is really funny. when a horde of bats pushes enemies you can’t kill into you and you get ripped to shreds, you can’t help but laugh
Playing through this Quake remaster when I lose steam in Arx Fatalis (cannot find this troll king named Pog (or else I’ve accidentally dropped the document I need to show them to trigger progression lol)) and I’m reminded that low res mode + no frame interpolation = maybe the sickest looking video game ever.
I’m on the final dungeon of Minish Cap and the one game that it reminds me of the most is Aria of Sorrow. They’re both compact gba action adventure games (is there a name for these?) that don’t stray from their predecessors in any meaningful way. They’re both games where you bump against the borders of their worlds very early on and thus the allure of a vast unexplored space is exchanged for learning the place that you already know. And I really enjoy Minish Cap for the same reasons that I enjoy Aria, its just a really cosy ‘hangout’ game. There’s nothing really dangerous about the overworld, I think every area has npcs you can hang out with and Hyrule town takes up such a disproportionate amount of space in the center that you are never far from it. I love how lived in it all feels, there was a lot of thought put into considering where npcs live and their dialogue updates at a similar pace to dragon quest games, even ezlo functions similarly to party chat!. I really enjoyed teasing out the connections between npcs and thus kinstones mostly worked for me and I think the deliberately ‘quaint’ theme of shrinking makes this sort of meandering thematically appropriate. It’s the one zelda where Hyrule actually feels like a home that Link lives in and I appreciate that over another epic zelda.
After playing some more Vampire Survivors yesterday and getting two 30 min runs after which you die instantly unlessyou have the freeze ray, which lets you kite Death around until another Death gets spawned each subsequent minute I feel less cynical about the upgrade stuff since most of them (except the additional projectile one) are kinda just Okay and mostly for rounding out bad early game luck. Everything that gives you additional projectiles feels really strong but even that stuff won’t save you if you don’t know about upgraded weapons.
Still having the issue I was where playing this game for an hour starts making me feel physically ill though, which is weird. I don’t really get motion sick or dizzy with any other videogame/screen thing, so I’m curious what it is about 500 bats converging onto a single point that does it.
‘Hobbyist grinding game’ is definitely the vibe. Playing it for the first time I felt like it was the Buriedbornes of Ginormo Sword.
Also I finished Hitman 2’s free campaign. The castle level fucking owns. It was also my smoothest operation out of all the missions, meaning the game did a really good job of gradually upscaling the size and intricacy of each map to hone my skills for the final test
That level has some fun kill opportunities. It fucking sucks to find all the initiate coins, but the kill that opens up is a hoot.
Making the executive decision to stop playing Far Cry 6. I’m closer to dying than I’m not. My time to game, much less live in this world, is finite. I don’t need to play a boring 150 hour open world shooter.
“Hey didn’t you say this like two years ago about the Far Cry 5 DLC and how you wouldn’t be tricked into playing one of those again?”
Look…sometimes you gotta put your hand on the stove again, just to be sure that one time it was hot was maybe a fluke.
Amusingly a ton of my game dev friends are playing Vampire Survivors right now… steam says nine of them are?? My husband spent all weekend playing it. I guess I gotta check it out.
I saw someone randomly playing it on twitch a week or so ago and had never heard of it before and now it’s like one of the most popular games on steam… it’s great though I used to play mobile games like this all the time, and it has on screen joysticks so I think it’s a mobile port
