I have been playing this puzzle game on my phone all week called Kami 2. It’s one of those where you have a bunch of patterns of different colors and you’ve got so many moves to make it all just one color.
It has completely sucked me in. I blew through all the “story” stages and am now sustaining myself on the challenge stages and the daily stages. It’s to the point where I’m starting to see some stages repeat.
Fortunately there’s an editor included so I might fiddle with that and start making my own stages before too long.
The first Kami is on the store for $3 I’ll probably get it.
I had no clue there was a sequel to Kami. This is the week of random games I played some time ago getting sequels I knew nothing about (Dungeons of Dreadrock was the other one).
Finishing a Kojima used to be such a treat. You’d get a big chunk of narrative and exposition that ties up the rest of the game nicely. The first Metal Gear Solid was a great example.
But by MGS 4 he must have been like oh these pigs really like all these cutscenes as much I do let’s see if they like them 90 minutes at a time and it turned out there were enough real sickos out there who really couldn’t get enough.
Its great when you’re 15 and don’t have anything else to do but fall into a video game for hours and hours at a time but somewhere along the way you get older and it just becomes one more commitment you don’t want to have to deal with. At least you can pause at any time these days.
i should have uninstalled the game, but that would mean I wouldn’t have me crossing the mountains in a truck to “Eastbound and Down”. Everytime the truck struggled to get up a hill I would slap the boost button and mutter “giddy up” past basically hours of traversal. I made the decision to just load up on grenades and rocket launchers anytime I stopped, which was good since the game threw a bunch of those fucking boss fights at me, again. Somewhere in the middle youtube chose Lynard Skynard’s “Freebird” and, like the meme, it made everything that much faster. I jumped the truck down a fucking waterfall and then swam until I got to Mountain Knot City, then I got a bike, then another BT battle where I just unloaded grenades and rockets into them. This is the funnest the game has actually been in the last 40 hours. Then the bike got stuck so I loaded a previous save to go back to a depot to get a bike. I have fully stopped caring about Hideo Kojima’s “Death Stranding” and i’m now playing Hellojed’s bullshit machine. Gone is the meticulous and graceful traversal of the game world, taking in the sights and sounds. Now it’s “how fast can I ride this motherfucker across the map”. Everytime Deadman calls to tell me something important I blast past the dialog as fast as possible without reading any of it, I no longer care about any of the lore because I had a 30 minute punching boss fight with Higgs after a 40 hour “delivery” game.
Well, then we go to Vietnam and wouldn’t you know it i’m stuffed to the gills with rocket launchers and grenades so I light up Clifford’s Big Red Bullshit Brigade over and over again with explosions. “Putting on CCR’s Fortunate Son right about now would be really tasteless” I thought as I loaded up CCR’s Fortunate Son on youtube. “Where are you, you nasty bitch” I mutter as I fill the entire jungle with blood grenades. Now we’re in the eastern part of the game, and I remember 40 hours ago being really proud I brought a bike all the way through the mountain pass past all the BTs because it’s in the garage and there’s no fucking way I’m walking the rest of the way. Thats where I last Alt+F4’d the game. maybe i’ll go back, maybe i’ll finish it on youtube
My new graphics card came with a code for the new indiana jones game, and ooo it’s the deluxe version so I get to play “early” which means today and yep this sure is a game that comes with a graphics card it is very graphics
It’s actually okay so far, when you’re punching people you control your fists individually which I appreciate. You start out doing a Raiders flashback and then go to the Vatican where you’re not allowed to drop unconscious fascists off high ledges so it loses some points there
Trying to replay MGS3 for the 20th anniversary made me think this. If I had played these games as an adult, would I have any tolerance for them whatsoever?
i made it past the bullshit whale. I had one run where I just shot at the last of the mules for some catharsis. any sense of triumph and accomplishment has been drained. time for 2 more hours of cutscenes.
finding out that there was a ps2 inuyahsa rpg and ohhhhhh man look at that little guy!! i’m going to have to play more to see if this is actually any good.
