Finished
A Plague Tale: Innocence.
- Best rat physics 2019
- Beautiful game. (I need to start taking screenshots as I play. It even has a photo mode, but I never touched it. :I)
- Varied challenges. Stealth heavy, but forgiving. Was never bored and only rarely annoyed (moving the braziers in the castle got old
fast).
- The rat apocalypse is seriously over the top stupid, but it worked for me.
- Crafting was superfluous. All but the sling upgrades just aren't interesting or useful enough. Resource management for ammo types is not required either, since you will always find the required materials nearby should the game require a certain type for an upcoming challenge. It's just one of those boxes you have to tick, I guess.
- Boss fights were 'eh', but the final boss was comical, in a good way.
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Giant rat pillars crashing down on you as the deranged old man crowns himself the pinnacle of all creation? Yeah, sure!
- Amicia never washes that blood off her nose. Or the scab? Or is it a really strange, scarlet red scar? Either way, it stood out to me after several time-skips.
- I played with French audio, for added flavour. Had a hard time keeping up with the subtitles during incidental dialogue, but it was a great choice overall.
- Hugo is obviously not voiced by a child (in French, anyway), but the woman who plays him did a great job. Luca was played by a woman also. Would never have guessed.
- Finally, chromatic aberration. Fucking stop with that shit.
Thankfully there's a toggle in the options. By default ('normal') it's constant and covers the whole frame. Why make everything look fuzzy just to simluate an undesireable artifact of camera lenses? I don't get it.
I also finished PSP perspective puzzler
CRUSH. Not much to say, besides that it is good. I was captivated enough to go for 100% clears of every level, but not enough to do any of the bonus levels unlocked by that. They're tightly timed and while the controls in this are fit for purpose, they're not smooth enough to play under duress.