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Beat ex-Irem's City Shrouded in Shadow / Kyoei Toshi import. Was like 2/3rds through in my backlog so finished it up pretty quick.
It's a terrible videogame that's worth playing. Like as a videogame it's like a 3/10 jank, but I'd probably give it 7/10 because it's literally the best so bad it's good game I've ever played. This is like Ed Wood's Planet 9 from Outer Space of videogames. Although I think in this case it was intentional and the developers just know they are terrible at making videogames so they decided to make it hilarious af and it works.
Also you can tell they ran out of money because the first stage is like 30-45 mins long and the back half stages are like 5-15 mins long. All the money went into choose your own adventure dialogue choices. There's like 4-8 choices for every situation and every choice gets a fully voiced and animated cutscene reaction to it. So you can play it as a serious straight forward game, or you can be a complete troll the entire time. My character was a total asshole who only cared about saving himself and would barter with people to save them. Like one of the lines was when your girlfriend is stuck and she wants you to pull her out and if you pick well what will you give me as a reward for it, there'll be a choice for like $50 and then another for $150 and then one that says "$500,000 (although I'm pretty sure she doesn't have $500,000)"
And even the random NPCs are hilarious as fuck. I talked to some guy on the street and he goes "There's aliens everywhere, I gotta get out of here. Hey, wanna buy my French Restaurant down the street. I'll sell it for $50,000" and you get dialogue choices 1) Buy restaurant for $50,000, 2) Haggle, 3) Don't buy restaurant. And I picked haggle and he went down to $10,000 and it gave me an option to buy his great french restaurant for $10,000 but the most money you get in the game is like a few hundred bucks so you can't even buy it and the whole dialogue is just for the fuck of it.
Also every save point is a random object and when you go to save it tells you what that object is. For instance:
"A Fire Hydrant. Save?"
"A Japanese Maple Tree. Save?"
"A Well Maintained AC unit. Save?"
The game is short running away from stuff and there is check pointing every 2 mins because there's tons of instakill moves outta nowhere so you're always dying but it's not that painful thanks to the checkpoints. I mean it does make sense that if Godzilla or Ultraman or whatever steps on you it'd be an Instakill. There are some NPC quests but after doing a couple I generally just avoided them because even if they're funny the gameplay sucks too much so I just stuck to the main scenario.
They should bring this to the US and sell it for like $15-20. It'd be the kind of game that would get 2/10 reviews and 7/10 reviews and user reviews would probably be positive if the price was cheap enough. Imo it's worth a play through if you like stupid stuff (aka most Suda51).
Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - Well, the main-story. I haven't gotten around to the DLC yet. I feel Greece is WAY TOO HUGE for it's own good. Like, Egypt in Origins felt huge (but really wasn't once you've started to do all the checkpoints for the achievement about that), but this is like 20x the size of that which is just insane. There's way too much to do, IMO.I finished this last weekend myself, and I completely agree. I never thought I'd ever complain about a game having TOO much content.... But in this case, it was unnecessary to have such girth. Just glad I can move onto other games finally. :lol
Also for 100% this game would be banned now on :reeeee due to sexual innuendos all around and sexualization of females (this is how would they put it when women want to be women).You should try Policenauts. It's even worse. :lol They got some well written English patches for it. It's no Snatcher imo, but still has that Kojima vibe throughout.
Easy, short games :bowMaybe a silly question, but are you basically just scooping these up on PC? On emulators?
Got sick of 100+ hours RPGs.
Grand Theft Auto 4: The Ballad of Gay Tony - Felt shorter than the Lost and Damned (which I finished in 2014 apparently) to me. And really, while the mission variation was nice, I couldn't care about Luis or Tony at all.
Nice to see the "other side" of the diamond heist and all, but ultimately none of that matters since the diamonds go to a hobo. :doge
How can you give into the breach such a low score? Also what did you count as beating it?
You've beaten 20 games in 2.5 months?
Are you on retirement or something? Sorry, but I thought you had a 8:00-20:00 lawyer job that leaves no time for gaming.
Focus on story in a Midway game, brehs…
Focus on story in a Midway game, brehs…
Gameplay was worse.
Plenty of good midway games. Sounds like you got a chip on your shoulder, you should get it looked at
End of Eternity/Resonance of Fate - Cool Combat system. Japan doesn't know how guns work: the game. Meh story that is bits and pieces until like chapter 7 (of like 16) and even then it's BARELY explained. You get more information from the Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resonance_of_Fate) for fucks sake. :lol
Pretty skippable JRPG, IMO.
I am done with 9) Guacamelee! 2 (28.04.2019)
10) Oxenfree (01.05.2019)
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Well... it's an indie game alright. Bad graphics but good writing, dialogues and what's surprising voice overs. Very cliched approach to the "horror island" theme, though. Glad it was free on Epic because it is not worth much to be honest. A 3 hour title with all photos, anomalies and letters found. Super short and not fullfilling at all.
Kentucky Route Zero is miles better and advanced even though it feels simplified with limited/ removed controls.
10) Oxenfree (01.05.2019)
11) Axiom Verge (10.05.2019)
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Not bad for a FAQ-less run without blind shooting at walls for secrets. Now I can use the guide and get the secret ending as there are none other optional or secret bosses just drilling walls.
Not a bad game after all but very unfocused. Lower tier Metroidvania IMO when compared to Ori, Guacamelee!, Hollow Knight etc. Why do I need 20 weapons when only 3 are useful (green ball of lightning, green lightning, enemy pass through beam) and weapons are not a part of the locked door/ need a colored beam mechanic.?
To say I *miss* JRPGs with 2D Backgrounds is an understatement... they look & feel so great still. Never thought I'd get the same nostalgia I have for Baldur's Gate type of RPGs for PSX era JRPGs but here I am, lol.
Dying Light - Oh boy, if you want a slightly "improved" Dead Island, boy do I have the game for you. :doge
Final Fantasy Type-0/Agito XIII: HD - PC port is pretty bad. Like it's "better" than the FF13/13-2 port, but that's not a glowing praise thing.
Story starts off good then kinda crashes in the middle. Then it comes back pretty strong near the end. It's an anime "kids in an academy go to war" story, but it at least has some grit to it compared to other animu stories like it.
Dying Light - Oh boy, if you want a slightly "improved" Dead Island, boy do I have the game for you. :doge
I liked it a lot more than Dead Island. :idont
Final Fantasy Type-0/Agito XIII: HD - PC port is pretty bad. Like it's "better" than the FF13/13-2 port, but that's not a glowing praise thing.
Story starts off good then kinda crashes in the middle. Then it comes back pretty strong near the end. It's an anime "kids in an academy go to war" story, but it at least has some grit to it compared to other animu stories like it.
I thought it had a cool conceit (on how when a person dies, others forget that they really existed) but the game didn't really explore this too much, instead it just went in a million different directions with a totally ridiculous ending. I liked how each character controlled fairly different, and combat (although simplistic and janky) was more enjoyable to me than FFXV's. The repetitive environments really hurt the game's appeal though.
Raw Danger (PS2)That game is absolute magic.
Why do I do this to myself
Operation Darkness (NA/Atlus) - Assassinate Hitler and his Vampire Cohorts while being a Werewolf: The SRPG. Pretty jank SRPG that cranks up the difficulty continuously to where enemies are getting like 3 turns before yours.
I enjoyed it... for the most part... despite the camera and said difficulty. I liked the idea of procuring weapons and items WAY before they're sold in the supply depot off enemies and liked the idea of keeping your "weight low" to get more turns. But I hated the last few missions (24-26 is done in one go, no resupplies unlike 80% of the game) because of dragons and other bullshit killing two of my party members consistently to where I had to mop up before reviving them.
I dunno if I'll do the "Eagle's Nest"/EX Missions since those are in doors which makes the bombing run attack I abused from the British secret intel bloke useless. :lol
Operation Darkness (NA/Atlus) - Assassinate Hitler and his Vampire Cohorts while being a Werewolf: The SRPG. Pretty jank SRPG that cranks up the difficulty continuously to where enemies are getting like 3 turns before yours.
I enjoyed it... for the most part... despite the camera and said difficulty. I liked the idea of procuring weapons and items WAY before they're sold in the supply depot off enemies and liked the idea of keeping your "weight low" to get more turns. But I hated the last few missions (24-26 is done in one go, no resupplies unlike 80% of the game) because of dragons and other bullshit killing two of my party members consistently to where I had to mop up before reviving them.
I dunno if I'll do the "Eagle's Nest"/EX Missions since those are in doors which makes the bombing run attack I abused from the British secret intel bloke useless. :lol
What motivated you to play this? I remember playing it way back in the day. Cool concept but was super janky even back then.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night An actual latter day version of SotN and on modern day hardware instead of fucking handhelds(with the exception of the Switch sort of :teehee ), hallelujah. It's still not really finished finished cause they have to make and release all the stretch goal content as free DLC, and they've recently put out a survey asking what sort of paid cosmetic stuff people would like in order to help finance the other stuff, but I think I'm 'done' for now.Exactly how I feel about it. Glad I got to play it.
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night An actual latter day version of SotN and on modern day hardware instead of fucking handhelds(with the exception of the Switch sort of :teehee ), hallelujah. It's still not really finished finished cause they have to make and release all the stretch goal content as free DLC, and they've recently put out a survey asking what sort of paid cosmetic stuff people would like in order to help finance the other stuff, but I think I'm 'done' for now.Exactly how I feel about it. Glad I got to play it.
Dark Souls 3 - I see why the Soulsborne games are held in such high praise. Flaws and frustrations aside, the game was fantastic. I'm just glad I pushed myself to beat one of these games finally. Downloaded BB and will probably give it a try shortly.
For now though, I need some short, chill games to goon out on for a bit. Got some PSVR backlog to hit up.
Dishonored - I'm torn on it. On one hand it's a Steampunk Assassin's Creed, minus the tailing missions. On the other, the story is BARELY explained if you don't scavenge for the audio/text-logs (the Outsider? What's that supposed to mean? Why is the big-bad assassin hidey-holing around instead of trying to kill me repeatedly? Etc.), and the gameplay's alternate routes don't feel as solid as Splinter Cell: Blacklist (or Chaos Theories) in a way. There's times where I can see a higher ledge, but can't warp to it because of Warp's limited range.
Plus the game practically BEGS you to not kill anyone for the good end, right in the starting tutorial messages, which seems... :doge
I can kinda see why Dishonored 2 was a bit of a sales slump. I don't know if I'd want to play a sequel. It's not bad but it's not worth the Beth hype-train it got.
I dunno about clipping (did you play it on launch?), but I totally get what you mean about patrols. There was times where you could think the floor was empty, only to run into a guard around a corner that didn't start their canned lines until you were in the room. Was really fucking annoying trying to "ghost" levels because of that.
Dragon Quest XI (Platinumed)
Kingdom Hearts 1.5 HD (beat all of the secret bosses, got the Deeper Dive ending)
Cosmic Star Heroine (Platinumed)
Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom (100%ed)
Final Fantasy XV (new Royal Edition Content - Episode Gladio/Prompto/Ignis/Ardyn, Chapter 13 verse 2, new Chapter 14, Terra Wars crossover mission, FFXIV crossover mission)
Xenoblade 2: Torna: The Golden Country (did everything except beat the 4 super bosses)
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Christ this year sucked.
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Christ this year sucked.
You have a Switch yet you didn't play Astral Chain? :curious