even the climbing when it goes into third person is funny… it doesn’t look like videogame platforming, it looks like Harrison Ford is annoyed that uncharted set an unrealistic standard and he’s in pain
I love that one of the first “press F to pay respects” prompts is to throw out a note from a woman who is mad at you lmao
I think each Nine Sols boss roughly took me ~5 more tries than the last so far. Right now we’re in the 50 retries per boss zone. A lot of those fights are all-timers though, so I haven’t felt demotivated banging my head against a boss for 2 hours…… yet
I like the guy hanging around in the hub area who’s a complete caricature of The Nastiest Dude You Know. He’s generally rude and unpleasant and you can collect all these varied kinds of collectible poisons around the word and feed them to him and you’ll get a gross description of what eating a poisonous snail or whatever is like. Then if you give him enough poison he’ll get drunk with you (raising max HP)
I legit made a horrible face when the big secret about getting drunk with him to raise your hp is revealed That his body is processing the poison to produce anti-toxins, and you’ve been drinking his urine for most of the game Don’t click that unless you are READY because it is a major Nine Sols spoiler
I played the steam prologue demo for Metaphor, which was basically the first 7 hours and loved what I tried so far, I really enjoyed Persona 5 and this is scratching that itch but with some fun fantasy and sadly contemporary politics goin on, and it plays very nicely on the steam deck. but when I bought the full game, despite it saying the data will carry over, it did not, despite several attempts, including copying over local files on the desktop side. so i’m gonna just do it again, and thankfully you can skip the hell out of everything quickly, and i like the game enough to deal with it
yeah the Indiana Jones game actually rules and somehow it’s entirely because of the first-person perspective, I never should have doubted machinegames
people are constantly talking to you and being like “what do you think, indy??? what do we do???” and meanwhile you’re just like grunting around pixel hunting being like “grrrahh… romantic commitment… is… bad… must eat citrus… fascist detected! CTE mode engaged!”
it’s almost facade-level
it’s the kind of game design that only works at this level of verisimilitude which I think accounts for the weird reviews… like at the end of the first level you emerge onto a very long bridge and there’s an extra large and extra nasty looking italian just waiting for you at the end of it like adobo and you’re walking slowly toward him being like “does he see me? am I gonna have to fight that guy?” and the game gives you a guard breaking tutorial as you approach him and you’re like lol but I just happened to be holding a garden shovel at that point anyway so I bonked him and that was the end of it. hilarious
Everyone sleeps on the combat in Indiana Jones but it has just enough verbs to be interesting. You can grab dudes with both your fists and your whip. You can shove people off rooftops or just in general. You can grab a guy and punch him while holding him or grab him and then shove him.
I used an enemies rifle on him after making him drop it and when I ran out of bullets Indy started swinging it like a baseball bat until it broke.
And there’s a counter button so you can stop a punch before it lands and return it with one of your own.
I’m thinking I might crank the difficulty up.
Raiders of the Lost Ark is the movie I’m most likely to get a little stupid about when someone tells me they haven’t seen it. Then they’ll say “OK, I’ll stream it on my phone,” probably out of spite. You know there are kids out there today who have never seen Back to the Future?
the takedowns in indiana jones are fucking awesome you’ll like hit a nazi in the balls so hard with a shovel the chair he’s sitting on will fucking explode it rocks so hard
also the entire Vatican section of the game is hilarious and perfect, especially the confessional
disco elysium it is then
am i supposed to be putting my levelups into my shittiest stats for balance here or just overclocking my peaks? help me help my sad detective
I bought Vampire Survivors to kill time on a flight and now I need to stop playing it.
do anything you want you can course correct later with drugs and funny clothes if you really want to do something you shouldn’t
hooray!
play impulsively, there’s no real point in ‘optimizing’ your detective. You can manage most skill checks by just swapping out your outfits
And, also, failing is usually at least as funny as succeeding. You can’t go wrong really.
I did end up kinda optimizing my guy because that’s the way my brain works but I did it post hoc after playing a while and figuring it out on the fly with no prior knowledge and did fine.
the full voiceover is pretty bad, i’ve muted the lot
Will agree that some of the objectives can be a bit too much, even when factoring in that you can eventually choose your starting route through the run
I think I determined early on that the Miner Mummies and Tent Defend missions are stupidly difficult (or so poorly tuned for randomness) to the point where I always avoided them as guaranteed Game Overs
Come to think of it some of the initial boss layout patterns can be extremely mean, or at least force the use of assets to make the starting turns less unfair
Definitely a game where you have to scrape the jank from your boots every now and then
voice acting really is the part of disco elysium that has aged the worst
and this is final cut one, not the original with fucking dasha nekrasova in it who as far as i can tell is literal catholic twitter nazi now?
the danger of hiring professional podcasters is that they turn into nazis at the drop of a hat
the people they hired to do the initial voice acting were always reactionaries. I bet it was cheaper or something lol, but who knows, that entire crowd was busy jerking each other off at the time