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Just completed shinobi legions on Saturn, was a solid little game, was halfway through it then seen shinobi x supposedly has a better soundtrack. The digitised graphics havent aged well and makes the game look really cheap and drab. The last stage is a pain in the arse with big missile/fuel tank looking things you need to dodge, had to use save states since there is such a little window of opportunity going through the level, decent game though, they could have probably cut the cut scenes out and released onto genesis
 
I just quit Pokemon Legends: Arceus.

Technically I've beaten the main story, but the final mission where you get to catch Arceus is blocked off unless you have a completed Pokedex. I was at 160, which meant I had 80 to go, and after getting to 190 I just decided fuck it and have put it away.

I probably will go back some day and finish the requests and Pokedex just because I did enjoy it while I played it, but I always fucking hate it when games force you to do side missions and shit before they'll let you get back to the story.
 
playing dark souls one for the first time. the game is really fun and not BALL BUSTING HARD as it has been memed as. you just need to take things slow and watch you surroundings.
 
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Got bored with 7 days to die, so I went looking through my Steam library for another zombie game I had yet to play.

I started playing Dying Light and holy shit why didn’t I start this game years ago. It’s fucking amazing.

I’ve just unlocked the grappling hook and am having shitloads of fun grappling and zip lining around the map like a gibbon on meth.

I’m not a big achievement hunter or game completion maven, but I will definitely finish this. It’s probably just a coincidence that the last single-player game that grabbed me like this was ‘Mad Max’, also a Warner Bros game.
 
Just tried Slay the Spire while sick with coofid. Made it up to ascension 10 on the robot before I kinda got sick of it (I find it hard to enjoy RNG heavy games long term).

The music was really well done. I fucking hate that stage 3 snail boss.

 
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Tunic finally came out after like 10 years in development so I've been playing that through gamepass. Game fucking kicks ass so far and has one of the coolest "tutorials" in any game I think I've ever seen. I'm surprised the game was able to pass Certification for consoles since the game quite literally does not spell out things for you as in borderline everything isn't in a real language. Game even has achievements with descriptions like "Understood X note in page 25". If you like the old 2D Zelda games or the Souls series I can't recommend this enough so far.

The "tutorial" is that throughout the game you pick up pages of a strategy guide for the game that is in the style of the old NES Zelda strategy guides which has drawings and maps, and margin notes which explain things but mostly in the fictional language.

Also the soundtrack is amazing so far.
I played through it over the weekend and enjoyed it. It's not a particularly long game, but not every game needs to be 100 hours long so that was fine with me.

The game was extremely charming but I will say that the puzzles to get the 'true' ending are extremely esoteric. I did end up looking up fairy locations and the mountaintop door solution as I did really want to spend hours banging my head against the keyboard.

7/10 would recommend
 
Ive been playing that Triangle Strategy switch game. Im a sucker for "Shakespearean political bullshit" like Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem, when it comes to games like that. I used to be better at them, this one has a lot of nuances with terrain shit and certain mechanics and how they impact strategies, but it does make you think and go out of your way in order to utilize them--I guess to be accessible to people who dont want to get that autistic about it. I could see some mechanics being good for setting up some good combo strategies but it also feels like its a lot of everything having to line up just right. Its hard to describe compared to something like Final Fantasy Tactics where that stuff is there, but it doesnt matter much even if you are trying to use it, and the whole system is still a rock paper scissors simple kind of tactics system. So far I havent seen it as easy to break as Final Fantasy Tactics games either, although some of the fun of those games was building god-tier job combos.

I like the art style and I like the game but I am someone who kind of gets anxious and freezes up at choices sometimes, am I making the right one? Its a game where choosing a path is the main draw, and it does a decent job of when presenting a choice, not doing what some games do by having a clear "good, neutral, bad" response. Instead the values are "morality, liberty, and unity" which arent mutually exclusive so it can become a little more blurry I guess. I guess you could make those analogous to good, neutral and bad, in some of the choices the game has you make though, so maybe its just me.
 
Started playing Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors. Really enjoying it so far, have gotten 2 endings. Only thing I haven't liked is that fucking Sudoku-esque pin puzzle, I hate any kind of puzzle even remotely similar to Sudoku.
 
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Just tried Slay the Spire while sick with coofid. Made it up to ascension 10 on the robot before I kinda got sick of it (I find it hard to enjoy RNG heavy games long term).

The music was really well done. I fucking hate that stage 3 snail boss.

It's a game where at 10 hours you think you know it all and at 100 you realize you know nothing. Keep going once you get the hang of it RNG is largely taken out by skillful deck building. That said, once you get into A17 and higher most decks only have one or two builds that work. It can be trial and error finding them but personally my A20 run where I finally go it, getting the .8% of players achievement was one of my favorite gaming moments of all time. Very rewarding.

Time eater (snail boss) is def the worst. Especially as almost all high level Silent builds involve shivs. Easiest is the Donuts as hopefully have a corpse explosion, which makes the fight almost too easy. The jaguar boss is also pretty easy, assuming you have enough block cards. Time eater is easily the worst. I am a Silent expert but I am not that good at the other characters, I have heart wins with all of them but only non ascension.

I'm back on EU4, speaking of games with layers, JFC. I've got like 200 hours and I'm just now learning about how to change cultures and how to make the best use of your estates.
 
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I picked up a used copy of UFC Undisputed 3 and dusted off the old Xbox 360 to play just for fun.
"Just for fun" turns into an obsessive 10 hour playthrough of the career mode, retiring undefeated 31-0 and I intend to play again as a different type of fighter.

I genuinely mean it when I say the grappling system is the best I've played in any combat sports game, provided you use pro controls.
 
Playing Sekiro at the moment, I absolutely adore the combat in this game and it feels like the most fair out of the FROM games I have played.
 
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still constantly grinding sky: children of the light because i am addicted to virtual candles. got viridi mobile after having played it back in 2018 a ton
 
Ive been playing that Triangle Strategy switch game. Im a sucker for "Shakespearean political bullshit" like Final Fantasy Tactics or Fire Emblem, when it comes to games like that. I used to be better at them, this one has a lot of nuances with terrain shit and certain mechanics and how they impact strategies, but it does make you think and go out of your way in order to utilize them--I guess to be accessible to people who dont want to get that autistic about it. I could see some mechanics being good for setting up some good combo strategies but it also feels like its a lot of everything having to line up just right. Its hard to describe compared to something like Final Fantasy Tactics where that stuff is there, but it doesnt matter much even if you are trying to use it, and the whole system is still a rock paper scissors simple kind of tactics system. So far I havent seen it as easy to break as Final Fantasy Tactics games either, although some of the fun of those games was building god-tier job combos.

I like the art style and I like the game but I am someone who kind of gets anxious and freezes up at choices sometimes, am I making the right one? Its a game where choosing a path is the main draw, and it does a decent job of when presenting a choice, not doing what some games do by having a clear "good, neutral, bad" response. Instead the values are "morality, liberty, and unity" which arent mutually exclusive so it can become a little more blurry I guess. I guess you could make those analogous to good, neutral and bad, in some of the choices the game has you make though, so maybe its just me.
Totally agree. I'm so used to the Mass Effect style "choose this if you want to be a badass/good guy/asshole" choice system that makes it super obvious what you're choosing, but what Triangle Strategy does so well is present most choices as being relatively reasonable even if you yourself think they're wrong. I even like how it paints House Wolfortt and some of your choices as being unrealistically idealistic with bad consequences that don't measure up to going the more realistic route without just making people like Benedict sound like opportunistic assholes. They're just telling you that following your ideals is gonna be fuckin hard and you'd be better off just choosing a compromise that makes some people unhappy, not playing to some predetermined role that kind of storytelling trope wants them to play.

And maybe I'm just too much of a sucker for Shakespearean bullshit too but I didn't see too much of a problem with the voice direction either. It wasn't dry to me, it was just subdued. Other than Benedict who could have stood to emote just a bit more in situations that reasonably justified it.

The final choice had different heart-breaking consequences too no matter what you did, if you didn't go for the true ending, and I wasn't expecting that at all.
 
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Because the soundtrack is really good to my ears.
 
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