a real “i want 3 ninjas but you keep sending me 3 ninjas part 3” situation
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Suppose you’ve found yourself in a sort of modern Rumpelstiltskin crisis: you have to create text files containing at least 200 unique meal courses before sunrise or you get turned into a pumpkin, or however the story goes. The tricky part of this is that you’re stuck using a guest account on a Windows RT machine, which is notorious for not letting you download anything larger than an “under construction” gif if you don’t have administrator privileges. It’s trivial to devise an algorithm to make these meal courses for you, but how do you go about creating these files in such a restricted environment?
The dirtiest of data duct tape, excel
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Quick question: I am starting Danganronpa V3.
I played the first two about 5 years ago, so I don’t remember much. Is there a good summary somewhere so I can recap?
Thanks!!
You could try browsing the Dangan wikis but look out for danger spoilers. You can also play along with me in my thread that is spoiler marked for each step I took.
Have a weird one way conversation with me.
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Not a bad idea. I will look for the thread
what’s the deal with Pathologic games? should i play the first game first? is the version on steam good, i don’t trust things branded as HD remaster classic.
i grabbed the second game on ps4 on sale, but my laptop can probably handle the first one too.
The second Pathologic is just as good as the first and a good entry point. It’s really a redo of the same themes and settings.
The remaster is more than anything a re-translation; somehow Pathologic survived as a classic despite the very wordy script getting an extremely rough translation. The new script is much more legible.
The games are brutal and exhausting, intentionally so, so don’t plan on playing both in a row.
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Everything busted said, but I want to add that you absolutely can play Pathologic 2 without playing the first because Patho 2 is more like a remake/reimagining than a typical sequel. I know how it feels to be excited by a shiny new appealing entry in a game series (Yakuza hello) and I believe that enthusiasm is sometimes a more powerful influence in becoming a fan than whatever invested feelings you could get out of deferring that shiny excitement to play the games in chronological/release order. Which is not to say don’t play the first one but hopefully don’t let it spoil your excitement either.
thanks. that’s what i needed to hear!
i’d seen some talk about the sequel being more of a remake, but also seen some people i trust push back against that a bit - in that it doesn’t count as a replacement for the first. i wasn’t sure if those people actually liked the second one or not.
It’s no replacement, at least for the simple fact that only 1/3 of the campaigns in the original have so far been recreated in Pathologic 2. But there are more reasons for saying it’s not a replacement, but it isn’t a bad start either I think.
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oh whoa i didn’t know there was more pathologic 2 happening that rules
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Having an odd hankering for another search action game on Switch. (I’ve played Hollow Knight, both Blaster Masters, and Elliot Quest.)
Any recommendations? Feeling somewhat drawn to Axon Vorges or Touhou Luna Nights, but I’m open to other suggestions
(Not in the mood for Rain World right now. Maybe in a couple months I’ll be in the mood for another sad bug game.)
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rain world is maybe the best video game, but definitely not what you are looking for there.
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Yeah, I’m looking more for an aesthetic palate cleanser after HK.
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Info on that is scattered and hasn’t come through any glossy trailer so I’ll just repeat what I’ve seen mentioned by the devs in various places. Patho 2 did not sell well and making it was very expensive, so to create campaigns for Bachelor and Changeling is a big expensive and exhausting risk. Despite this, the devs had said they will get them done… it’s just a matter of time, but also a matter of rescoping what those campaigns are like. There is the potential that these two campaigns will play differently than Haruspex, which could mean something kind of alluded to in the Marble Nest DLC where you can see on the map that districts are labeled “Dead” instead of how they are reputation based for Haruspex and say things like “You are hated here.” Or it could mean the two campaigns will be almost in a different genre entirely, or possibly just really truncated? There’s a lot we don’t know except that big changes are being considered and maybe even required for them to get these made. But Icepick Lodge keeps saying Bachelor is being worked on and they will all eventually get finished.
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Steamworld Dig 2 is really satisfying to play but other people have told me it’s very ugly, so ymmv
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Have you tried the SteamWorld Dig games? Looks like they are on Switch.
Edit: What VastleCania said.
Edit 2: Criticisms of Axiom Verge are valid, but I liked it and would recommend trying it. I’m looking forward to the sequel.
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I’ve enjoyed Blasphemous, Shinsekai, Gato Roboto. (And La Mulanas if they count)
Spooky ghosts dot com is good for a quick fiw as a sort of cheap very short search action game, get it on a sale if you want I guess
Timespinner and the Messenger are just ok and Axiom Verge and Bloodstained are not great IMO
Touhou Nights looks pretty cool!
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I’d take Timespinner over Axiom Verge, but both left me…wanting. That said Timespinner felt like it got closer to what I wanted than Verge did.
Verge is interesting though, and I don’t regret playing it. In some ways it’s one of the best games of this sort, it just…feels like it’s missing something?
Touhou Luna Nights is light on the search, heavy on the action, but is really good. The writing is just completely incomprehensible to me, a gal with no touhou knowledge. If you don’t really care about that and just want really well designed action in a contiguous environment with limited backtracking, it’s pretty rad.
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