i’m not buying it yet, but it’s definitely made it onto my list
i downloaded and deleted in within fifteen minutes based on the at least initial movement and attack feel, animations, etc.
The whole “gamefeel” of Katana Kami is ripped straight from Way of the Samurai so I immediately fell in love.
Here’s my current best sword.
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god even the use of “on accident” rather than “by accident” just sings
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throat sings perhaps
this is what encouraged me to make a daddy mulk mixtape which is just a bunch of remixes of daddy mulk
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I watched the whole thing, I won’t deny it. This game is even dumber and slower and longer than the first. Swap the charming PSX+ pre-rendered backgrounds and characters for X360- ones, though often still nice enough. Almost humorously prickish protag before, now an ever so fuzzy euro-take on the 90s snide shaggy know it all in boot cut jeans. Every NPC is, like, mean?
- Meet smokin’ hot English girl at summer job. She is pursued by a shadowy interloper. Take suggestive pictures of her at her request. She is suddenly framed for the murder of hero’s abusive boss.
- Discover the interloper’s origins as member of shadowy cult centered in previous game’s English…Scottish? who cares, locale. After murder exoneration, hot new English girlfriend returns to investigate in England, gets into trouble. You must save her in the cursed shadow lands of CASTLE BLACK MIRROR, etc.
- A bunch of bullshit.
- Hot Girlfriend is your twin sister. The previous game’s protag & villain is your daddy. Your mommy was a lie and your real mommy didn’t die. Real mommy lived all of her days in a secret room behind a secret mirror in CASTLE BLACK MIRROR, because of her burns and fear of your daddy. Hot Sister is insane. Hot Sister did all the murders. Hot sister intends to summon the power of your evil primordial ancestor Mordred Gordon, only possible with your powerful male blood.
- Hot Sister is forcing you at gunpoint to read evil incantations, that you still do not fully believe and are making Boston accent quips about, in the evil summoning literal red lava magic portal devil chamber when Burnt Mommy tackles her into the lava pit to save reality from evil and oh no you cut your hand on something in the chaos? and your cursed blood spills upon the ancient evil tome - CGI scene of evil insanity infecting your brain as you scream in remorse and terror - smash cut to credit roll
jeez
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I got my first solo bounty completed in Hunt: Showdown.
It might have been a cooperative thing, but the guy I came upon who was already at the boss took too long to respond to my offer for peace over voice comms, so while we were hopping around trying to dodge each others shots I finally shot and killed him right as I heard him break out saying “huh, what did you say?” too bad…
This does not look like Maine. It looks like Murder She Wrote.
I’m playing Hob which is an isometric (though it occasionally goes for some cinematic fixed camera angles) Zelda-like with some light platforming thrown in. I appreciate that it doesn’t tutorialize too much at all and trusts you to find secrets and such without too much signposting. It is a bit linear but I don’t mind. Also you are very fragile there’s a lot of enemies that will just wreck you in one hit.
There’s abilities you can purchase with the game’s currency that seem pretty useless?
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Hob gets really neat as you go on because the world shifts and moves around to change the landscape. It’s like a giant puzzle thing.
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Yeah the backtracking rarely feels like backtracking because the world keeps reconfiguring itself. The game’s commitment to this is low-key impressive. I also like that there aren’t really any boss fights.
@Mikey it’s been a while since I last played, but I think some of those purchasable skills become important.
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im having a blast with shadow hearts. right now a leuteniant colonel of the japanese army is posing as a smuggler (by ANNOUNCING that shes a smuggler and she can sneak us into shanghai the second my party needs a ship) and her right hand man keeps gambling with me whenever her back is turned. the ship is haunted by the spirit of a lady who got her voice switched with her dads. the lady could have broken the curse by killing her dad but instead he drowned and she carried his body around until no one saw her again. shes screaming at us to die and drown so we drew a pentagram on the ground
i did a good job apparently
yaoi only calls the sea mother sea mama!! and that’s hilarious to me
the lottery ticket minigame is great because you have to talk to lottery members to gamble away your tickets, but lottery members dont reveal themselves unless you have a ticket in your inventory, it gives it this great hush hush secret club feel.
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we are doing the first real challenging dungeon in shadow hearts and this game has some of the most anxiety inducing fucking music i’ve ever heard in a videogame
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i am testing out a UniROM for the first time (plugs into ps1 serial port, allows you to boot backups)
this is the first time i’ve ever watched the attract mode for chrono cross… wow. this game would have consumed my soul had i owned it as a kid.
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So it’s like a PSIO but it doesn’t need you to solder anything on the PS1 board? (edit: wait I realized you probably just mean just CD backups)
yeah, it’s more like a solderless mod chip that plugs into the serial port. there are some compatibility issues if you just boot directly into certain games (chrono cross is one of them), but there’s a simple workaround that gives essentially perfect compatibility if a game won’t work correctly. you just boot into the cheat engine compilation disc (this is a backup itself), which compiles every available cheat disc for the ps1 on a single multi-image disc. pick one, then boot the game from there and it’ll run like a dream. in some rare cases you’ll actually need to activate the “master code” for that game (you do not need to actually turn any cheats on) before it will run, but someone said you needed to do that for chrono cross and i was able to boot it without doing so. so far every game i’ve burned has run flawlessly
here’s one from the same seller i bought from
pretty effective way to unlock an old ps1 you may have lying around for use with backups. not as effortless as a pseudo saturn kai, and not as cheap as a solder-required ps1 modchip (those can be had for under $10 these days), but at least with the workaround compatibility seems extremely high so far. i have only even needed to use it for chrono cross, everything else is booting right from the unirom menu without an additional disc swap
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love the “P.S. Don’t go selling this shit on eBay” notice showing up in the auction pics
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Imagine if SNK were in a place to foster this zaniness again.
My wife and I are replaying Wilmot’s warehouse on expert mode because we liked it so much. The items change in a replay so you don’t get the same ones and fall into the same pattern. It’s great!
Here are the product categories we made up this time. As far as I know every item in a warehouse falls into one of these few categories
- Sports and entertainment (except targets)
- Targets
- Health
- Animals
- Food (breakfast)
- Food (non breakfast)
- Biscuit boxes
- Blue and yellow stuff
- Weather
- Stats and money
- Car stuff
- Hats (hard)
- Hats (soft)
- Other
We got into a heated debate about whether a magic hat is hard or soft
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