What are you playing?

[Trent Dole]

DP is the best worst game ever.

[Rahxephon91]

I guess the whole Duty Roulette thing works for FFXIV. I don't have to wait that long to get into a dungeon. Which is both a good and bad thing. Good, because I can just do dungeons and only have to do job and story quests. Bad because it highlights that everything else is just meh content that now feels even more pointless. You get far more exp doing dungeons and they're more fun. Why would you even do the actual quests?

[Barraco Barner]

Finally opened my 3DS XL and beat A Link Between Worlds. These games were never brainbusters, but a more appropriate title for this one is babby's first zelda. Nice music though.

And the 3DS hardware is shite.

[StealthFan]

The driving segments in Deadly Premonition are brain poison.

[Yulwei]

Currently playing RE: Revelations

it is not a very good game, but it seems like it'll be a short ride so i'm just going to finish it.

[Positive Touch]

The driving segments in Deadly Premonition are brain poison.

wait til you unlock more cars so you can get some terrible buttrock to go with the awesome monologues


ps visit the sheriffs house in the evening and complete the quest he gives you to get a walkie talkie thatll let you warp around town

[Raban]

here's one reason: it's not on PC.

[StealthFan]

Borys

I got Dark Arisen for 20 bucks this flash sale. I got to the post-game of vanilla DD off two rentals and got through some of Bitterblack. Gonna finish the endgame content though, because Bitterblack is kicking my ass. It's that cunty floating eye boss Gonna get that sucka after some leveling.

[demi]

http://abload.de/img/img_3758kzsg8.jpg

Dragon's Dogma is the most underrated RPG of previous gen. It has perfect features: awesome class & skills system, inventory upgrade system, crafting system, combat system, open worldness, challenge during the whole game, superb graphics with real-time lighting system - every single thing casts sun shadow, great boss and boss-like battles etc.

It should be a 10/10 reviewed game and I cannot find any single reason why it was not.

Dragon's Dogma > Dark Souls

Told you so.

[bork]

Currently playing RE: Revelations

it is not a very good game, but it seems like it'll be a short ride so i'm just going to finish it.

Raid Mode is better.  It's unfortunate that you are forced to play through the story mode just get all the levels unlocked. 

[Bebpo]

Persona Q

An hour in and still in the intro.  Yep, this is Persona.

[demi]

The battle music is so swag

[Rufus]

Replayed No One Lives Forever recently. Still a good game, but it hasn't aged well entirely, specifically the stealth mechanics. It wants you to stealth as much as possible, but it's extremely difficult to do successfully. It even rewards you with funny conversations the enemies are having if you manage to not altert them, but you can't even lean. The audio cues are pretty good, but it's just not enough. I tried to be as patient as possible to hear all of them, but eventually it just became too frustrating, even as I was abusing quicksaves. Thankfully it doesn't force you to stealth most of the time. There are missions and sub-sections where you have to stay un-detected, but you can run and gun your way through most of the game just fine. I'd love to see a re-make with some updated mechanics and graphics.

[Himu]

The battle music is so swag

Rocking.

[chronovore]

Finally finished Scott Pilgrim vs. The World; I still had an hour to play something else until I have to pick up my kids, but unskippable credits WITH A SAVE AT THE END OF THEM means I now have half an hour to play something else. Jesus, I think they just listed EVERYONE who works at Ubisoft Montreal, Chengdu, and Romania. Possibly everyone who lives in those countries.

[Himu]

You beat Scott Pilgrim? Jesus, you must have the patience of a saint to get that fucking broke ass game.

[chronovore]

YAY!

I'm a sucker for Kunio-kun style beat 'em ups, and this is almost like one of those. The enemy behavior is not too bad, but they are fond of very cheap attacks. Less forgivably, the hit detection for depth (Y-axis) is really, really spotty! The end-game new enemies are really cheap, too. Anyway, I cleared it without the "world's worst-kept secret" cheat for The Power of Love Sword.

I like the visuals, the chip tune music, and humor. The stores have items to buy which ameliorate much of the cheapness, and even allow Scott to become ragingly cheap through BIONIC FREAKIN' ARMS. (+50 Strength, no limit to how many you can have). The store interface is really sloppy though; it's hard to know when the game is showing what you can buy, what you bought, what the effect will be, and when you can again move the cursor. It's player-stress-inducing.

It's a good game, not a great one, and I can't imagine Ubi made ANY money from it. The license was likely cheap-ish, but they apparently employed Montreal in addition to "nearly free" studios in Romania and Chengdu. I'm guessing it was a difficult production.

[a slime appears]

They probably would have had better luck with it if they'd had online multiplayer in there from the get-go, or even remotely close to launch.

Yep, that's the entire reason why I didn't buy the game. By the time the online patch had come out I had already lost interest.

Really well made game though. C'est la vie~

[Himu]

I like the visuals, humor, and level design too but the hit detection is really, really bad at times. I found that frustrating. It also seems like you to grind at times. I liked the premise more than the game, which sucks because I'm a huge Scott Pilgrim fan. I liked it but it felt half baked. I will say that local co op is really fun.

I am also a fan of kunio beat em ups. It's still the only thing similar. River City Ransom 2 still isn't out.

[Rahxephon91]

The FATE system(mass spam events) in FF14 are kind of shitty. I know everyone hates Guild Wars 2 here, but it's no nonsense "you hit it, you get it" approach is what works.

On my first climb through FFXIV I played a pug/monk and an arc/SUM/whatever the other one is. Classes and jobs with little aoe attacks. The way FATES and in general encounters work in 14 is that whoever tags the enemy first gets 100% exp while johnny come laters have to do a significant amount of damage to get the exp. So in fates where it's just a bunch of enemies this can be difficult if you're a character with little spamming aoe abilities and mostly focus on one target. You'll miss the first tag and then in between attacks you're target could easily be killed by all the other characters spamming crap. In Guild Wars 2 if you got a hit in you get the exp.

These things are already thoughtless endeavors as they are. So it makes little since to make them more tedious.

Now the thing is, the game must have changed and new grindy things have been discovered or whatever. I played the game at launch and there's been several patches. I'm not one who gets deep into mmos so I don't know all the nuances. Regardless, you see high level people running low level fates. Back when I was playing FATE trains in low levels where for people leveling thier side jobs basically. You're level scales to the fate's level, but you still obviously have you're equipment. If you're an uber level 50 thanks to your gear you're going to be an uber level 5 that the FATE makes you. So the problem is that in these low level FATES, these awesomely geared people are one shooting the monsters. Meaning it is hard for me to get in hits and/or do significant damage. meaning I don't get the exp for killing the monster and my FATE reward is effected. Getting a gold, silver, or bronze FATE reward already seems random and now it's even more frustrating.

FF14 is a really fun game in dungeons, but I am really surprised at how positively it's been received. To me the game does a lot of things wrong. The actual quests even the story quests are so cookie cutter. It's lacking in spots. The world feels small thanks to closed design choices. Yet, I feel like the game is seen as a home run. Just because it's the sequel/re-boot of a failure and it's not a absolute failure dosen't mean it's great.

I have fun when I'm doing dungeons, but I'm not sure thats enough. Then again, this is basically my 2nd time doing all this stuff.

[Rahxephon91]

I finished Ys Memories of Celeceta.

It was ok. The fast paced and simple combat really makes these games perfect for the handheld. The game is really pick up and play. There may be some nuances in the combat that makes it worse then the others, but I didn't pick up on them. Felt mostly like 7, but this time I actually enjoyed the other characters. They did feel different in how they attacked. I actually used the pink haired little girl more then Adol I think. Either way the combat was still pretty awesome.

Though there were some strange things that i thought were pointless. Towards the end they add a mechanic where Adol can only do this finishing death move to certain enemies. It's stupid because it slows the combat's momentum and forces you to use Adol. It's just a really stupid thing and it also looks like crap as the animation feels like it was done in an hour. Adol dosen't even look like he interacts with the monster.

I liked the open world aspect in this game. Honestly, Falcom really did good here. There may be a lack of inventiveness as a lot of is generic fantasy and forest, but the world never feels copied and pasted. Each environment looks different and feels personally crafted. Jrpgs have goten really shitty recently at making environments and Ys does not have that problem.

They didn't do well with the story though. Just a really boring story with really un-engaging characters. There's nothing offensive, it's just the very definition of boring.   Just nothing to latch unto.

I don't know, it was a good game. I'm glad I bought a Vita for it.

Now that I'm done with Ys I think I want to tackle another jrpg for the summer. I lost interested in Bravely Default because it was so boring and shitty. Maybe I'll go back after the summer. I could play Fire Emblem or SMT4, but I'll just wait until school starts and I'm on the train where I have a reason to play the 2ds.

I got Persona 4 Golden, Muramassa, Suikoden 5, The Shadow Hearts games, Symphonia HD, Black Rock Shooter(I'm probably going to play this) and a lot more. I'm looking for something not too challenging and won't take 90 hours or so.

[Rufus]

Sniper Elite V2
It's pretty good. Surprisingly not entirely about shooting people in the plums from very far away. Not entirely, anyway. You also sneak around just to get into position, to retrieve intel or place explosives. Which you then sometimes shoot yourself, because you're a badass sniper of course. "The Sniper" in fact, because you're never named and the enemies seemed to have all heard of this one super-sniper and they're sure it can only be this one guy picking them off.
Anyway, it looks pretty good, environments are very nice for being bombed out ruins and it runs really well.

You have to play on a higher difficulty (called Sniper Elite - hmmm...) to get full bullet physics. Understandable decision, but still considering what this game is about.

Only issues I had were some shitty checkpoints where you essentially have to act immediately or get shot. There's also a spot where an enemy sniper was trying to shoot me through a wall, so he never moved into a position from where I could get him, forcing me to throw a grenade through his window. Which was surprisingly difficult and ruinied the flow of that mission. Not very graceful. Lot's of retries. Bleh. It was the final mission, too. Point landing, huh?
The AI can be a little daft in general, but I think the weird behaviour I was seeing was due to them not being able to mantle up ledges, causing them to run around like headless chickens at the foot of whatever structure I was in. It's possible that they just couldn't find the ledges.
The AI barks are extremely frequent, too. It's like the devs tried to give you sonar. A single guy sometimes sounds like two people, it's that frequent. I also had to turn off the music, because it got that blaringly obnoxious with its pomp.

[tiesto]

I finished Ys Memories of Celeceta.

It was ok. The fast paced and simple combat really makes these games perfect for the handheld. The game is really pick up and play. There may be some nuances in the combat that makes it worse then the others, but I didn't pick up on them. Felt mostly like 7, but this time I actually enjoyed the other characters. They did feel different in how they attacked. I actually used the pink haired little girl more then Adol I think. Either way the combat was still pretty awesome.

Though there were some strange things that i thought were pointless. Towards the end they add a mechanic where Adol can only do this finishing death move to certain enemies. It's stupid because it slows the combat's momentum and forces you to use Adol. It's just a really stupid thing and it also looks like crap as the animation feels like it was done in an hour. Adol dosen't even look like he interacts with the monster.

I liked the open world aspect in this game. Honestly, Falcom really did good here. There may be a lack of inventiveness as a lot of is generic fantasy and forest, but the world never feels copied and pasted. Each environment looks different and feels personally crafted. Jrpgs have goten really shitty recently at making environments and Ys does not have that problem.

They didn't do well with the story though. Just a really boring story with really un-engaging characters. There's nothing offensive, it's just the very definition of boring.   Just nothing to latch unto.

I don't know, it was a good game. I'm glad I bought a Vita for it.

Now that I'm done with Ys I think I want to tackle another jrpg for the summer. I lost interested in Bravely Default because it was so boring and shitty. Maybe I'll go back after the summer. I could play Fire Emblem or SMT4, but I'll just wait until school starts and I'm on the train where I have a reason to play the 2ds.

I got Persona 4 Golden, Muramassa, Suikoden 5, The Shadow Hearts games, Symphonia HD, Black Rock Shooter(I'm probably going to play this) and a lot more. I'm looking for something not too challenging and won't take 90 hours or so.

Play the Shadow Hearts series. The first game takes 20-25 hours to do most everything in, while 2 and 3 take around 35-40 to do everything. Not excessively long but definitely fulfilling. The 3rd game isn't nearly as good as the first 2, though still very playable.

[chronovore]

Played several hours of Rayman Raving Rabbids last night and the night before, trying to finish it so that it can be deleted from my hard drive. I finished the story mode, and saw the credits. Unsurprisingly it turns out that this is a production of UBIsoft Shanghai. It's based on Michel Ancel's world, and that's it.

There is a producer credit at the beginning for a Chinese guy, and then there is some French guy's name credited as "project closer" – that had to be some kind of messed up development process. The "project closer" gets top billing alongside the producer. It was probably even a struggle to see who got the producer credit.

The game supports Xbox live vision camera, but has just about the worst camera implementation I have ever seen. I plugged it into get the 50 point achievement. Yes. 50 point achievement for plugging in the Xbox live camera. Late game cut scenes drop to 10 frames per second. Cut scenes. 10 frames per second. If there is ever a place where you should be expected to manage your shit, it is a fucking cut scene.

This game seems like it was a bad idea start to finish. Good visuals, good music, it has that Rayman feel. Then you try and play the game, and everything becomes glaringly obvious. This is just another poorly tuned party game with a strap on single player experience, outsourced to be lowest possible bidder, or in this case a studio that they didn't know what to do with.

Sniper Elite V2

Is this the same sniper series for which Namco published the PlayStation 2 version, a few years back?

[Rahxephon91]

Yep Namco published the first one here on the PS2. I'll also ring in that 2 is surprisingly decent. 3 also looks pretty good. They are B games, but they aren't crap.

[demi]

Rayman Raving Rabbids is impossible to 1000, as well.

[benjipwns]

Wii version of Rabbids was slightly better, a couple of the minigames were decent, I guess it originally started as a platformer and then became Wii "exclusive" or something so they changed it?

The one sequel is supposed to be a lot better and pretty okay. The one where they build to the moon or something.

[Rahxephon91]

Why the hell does Radaint Historia not use the top screen for the dialogue? The top screen is black for most conversations. Seems like an odd choice.  Every other DS/3DS rpg I've played has used the top for dialogue. Going to need reading glassess for this game.

[chronovore]

Yep Namco published the first one here on the PS2. I'll also ring in that 2 is surprisingly decent. 3 also looks pretty good. They are B games, but they aren't crap.

I played that; I had friends who worked on it and gave me a copy. Does it still use momentum-based movement? That was a weird thing for me. Felt like I was skating to a halt.

Wii version of Rabbids was slightly better, a couple of the minigames were decent, I guess it originally started as a platformer and then became Wii "exclusive" or something so they changed it?

The one sequel is supposed to be a lot better and pretty okay. The one where they build to the moon or something.

Huh. I had NO IDEA there'd been a sequel:

"Ubisoft released a sequel to the game, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2, in November 2007, and released the third game in the series, Rayman Raving Rabbids: TV Party, in November 2008. The fourth game in the series, Rabbids Go Home, was released in 2009, though only on the Wii and DS systems. A fifth game, Raving Rabbids: Travel in Time, was released in 2010. A sixth game, Raving Rabbids: Alive & Kicking, was released in 2011 only for Xbox 360 (which requires Kinect). As of April 2014, the series had sold over 14 million units worldwide.[1]"

SIX sequels. The last one was developed by Ubisoft Milan, Kinect exclusive. Well, I'll just go back to playing my HD-update of the original Rayman, and call it a day.

Rayman Raving Rabbids is impossible to 1000, as well.

Yeah, I'm ambivalent about 100% these days. It's a recent improvement to my psychological well-being.

[Rahxephon91]

You'll probably have to ask someone else, but as far as I remember Sniper Elite 2 plays like a simple stealth game in movement. Don't remember anything strange about it's movement.

[benjipwns]

I think it's Rabbids Go Home that is the one that's considered decent. Though maybe that's just the Wii exclusivity hype. The Quick Look looked okay.

The first three Rabbids games sold like crazy IIRC.

Speaking of IIRC, the first Sniper Elite had a lot more "sim" aspects to it than V2 especially in terms of properly moving and making yourself hidden. (Though I played the PC version.)

[tiesto]

Wild Arms XF, was in the mood for a strategy RPG and so far this is one of the better ones around. Each mission is more like a puzzle with differing and varied objectives than a "kill all the enemies" mission like most SRPGs. This creates a bit of trial and error, but so far it's been interesting.

[Rufus]

No One Lives Forever 2
+ You can lean
- Pointless RPG elements (someone played Deus Ex), with meaningless percentages indicating how much better you'll be able to do things from shooting your guns or sneaking around
- Kit Harris doesn't reprise her role as Cate. She was perfect. T_T
- Cate looks younger...
+ ...but her hair bobs when she turns her head abruptly.
- Respawning soldiers. I get that clearing out a base is somewhat immersion breaking, but so is an infinite supply of reinforcements.
- Guard dialogue isn't as funny this time around.
+/- Much, much sillier tone. Very on the nose about the evil organizations stuff, with silly guard uniforms and documents about PR plans for operations, evil organizations monthly magazines rating them, etc.
- They turned the villain into a silly coctail sipping who has a strained relationship with his mother.
+ Much bigger and more elaborate levels with varied objectives...
- ...which can be infuriating and you can get lost, making you walk back and forth until you spot what you've missed before, sometimes running into re-spawned guards.

[chronovore]

You'll probably have to ask someone else, but as far as I remember Sniper Elite 2 plays like a simple stealth game in movement. Don't remember anything strange about it's movement.

Pretty sure that was it. The developer had actually adapted their engine from something involving vehicles, and kept it in because they enjoyed it. It made Namco external development staff perturbed though.

I think it's Rabbids Go Home that is the one that's considered decent. Though maybe that's just the Wii exclusivity hype. The Quick Look looked okay.

The first three Rabbids games sold like crazy IIRC.

Speaking of IIRC, the first Sniper Elite had a lot more "sim" aspects to it than V2 especially in terms of properly moving and making yourself hidden. (Though I played the PC version.)

Raving Rabbids is getting deleted today; I realized that I'm not enjoying it and I'm not going to chase any more 'cheevos from it. There's only TWO Achievements left to me which are attainable, the rest are actually bugged.

Might swap to Rayman HD just to clear my palate of Rabbids' bad aftertaste.

More likely I'll go to stealthy action instead; either Mark of the Ninja or my 360 re-play of Batman Arkham Asylum.

[Rufus]

You'll probably have to ask someone else, but as far as I remember Sniper Elite 2 plays like a simple stealth game in movement. Don't remember anything strange about it's movement.

Pretty sure that was it. The developer had actually adapted their engine from something involving vehicles, and kept it in because they enjoyed it. It made Namco external development staff perturbed though.

I didn't notice any sliding or momentum in the movement. Instant start/stop, like most games. Sprinting was a little weird, couldn't tell wether holding the button down did anything or if tapping it was enough, but otherwise very standard. Never played the first game though.

[StealthFan]

Why did I waste 15 bucks on more Siren: Blood Curse episodes. My heart can't take this shit and bedtime is in two hours

[Positive Touch]

so is the remake as good as the original? never played the new one cuz it was so expensive, but the original is one of my favorite games

[fistfulofmetal]

I started playing Earthbound.

I beat a boss, I think. Frank? Behind the Arcade?

Game is pretty funny.

[StealthFan]

so is the remake as good as the original? never played the new one cuz it was so expensive, but the original is one of my favorite games

There are differing opinions. The remake is still good tho. It does need a price drop...

[Rufus]

Zeno Clash 2
Art is king in this game. Otherwise it's not all that special. I mashed out one combo and used weapons whenever I could get my hands on any. So much for fist fighting. I think the first game devolved into that as well. KB+M was, surprisingly, the better control method. I had done the tutorial with a controller and couldn't pull off some combos because left and right punch are bound to the triggers. Switched to KBM and everything worked a lot better, simply because tapping mouse buttons in time is much easier. Strict timings and triggers just don't mix. They also put sprint on LB. Nobody rests both their middle and pointer finger on top of the controller, devs.

Story wise they revealed the origins of the world and its inhabitants:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

The Freaks/Zenos are chimeras of unknown origins. Humans around that time were distressed when they started to talk. It was decided to exile them all and the best place was Zenozoic, also known as Chile. Why? Because there's a desert to the north, the pacific to the west, the Andes to the east and to the south is more ocean and Antarctica. To monitor and ensure that nobody would get out despite the geography four Golems were created, each presiding over the four corners of Zenozoic. The first Golem gets awakened in the original game, the rest are unveiled and play some sort of role in the sequel. Dunno why they bothered to 'uncover' all this, surprising though it was, it makes it more mundane for no reason.

[close]

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Sniper Elite V2

I sniped a Nazi's nuts from 120m away and it showed me an x-ray view of his testicles exploding.

10/10

[Bebpo]

Volgar the Viking & Oniken

Not a fan.  The die and learn with pretty lengthy sections and stiff controls is just not for me.  Prefer stuff like Hotline Miami, Super Meat Boy or vvvvv where it's about trying 100 times with smooth controls to get 5-10 second challenge done.  These...I just find them a chore honestly.  Well made, but they grate on me and not gonna bother with them even though they're both highly praised.

[Rusty Shackleford]

I started playing Earthbound.

I beat a boss, I think. Frank? Behind the Arcade?

Game is pretty funny.

Awesome game! Still got the box and strategy guide from Christmas '95

According to eBay, that box is worth more than its weight in gold. That starmen.net has some...um...dedicated fans.

[StealthFan]

The Wolf Among Us Gonna start episode 4 tomorrow.

[magus]

Volgar the Viking & Oniken

Not a fan.  The die and learn with pretty lengthy sections and stiff controls is just not for me.  Prefer stuff like Hotline Miami, Super Meat Boy or vvvvv where it's about trying 100 times with smooth controls to get 5-10 second challenge done.  These...I just find them a chore honestly.  Well made, but they grate on me and not gonna bother with them even though they're both highly praised.

when i came here complaining about what bullshit volgarr the viking was, everybody here was like "hurr durr magus is not THE HARDCOREZ,LRN 2 PLAY!" so i'm glad someone is finaly frustated by the same bullshit because it's pretty clear the dev drinked too much hardcorade

and i say this as someone who actualy finished the game

if you want to stick with the game i'd suggest watching some video on youtube, the game become a lot more easier once there is a video warning you of potential bullshit or how to deal with bosses

[magus]

[Rufus]

Sniper Elite V2

I sniped a Nazi's nuts from 120m away and it showed me an x-ray view of his testicles exploding.

10/10

Did you manage to do it intentionally? It happened two times for me, both accidentally. :'(

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Totally accidental. I wish I were good enough to consistently do it.

[etiolate]

Finally playing Gone Home. I am surprised at how much the game/story has engrossed me. From the outside, the premise sounded like something that could quickly turn boring or trite, but perhaps the setting really makes it all work. It also helps that it's set during my teen years, so it reminds me of many things.

[archie4208]

I've been trying to play Shadow of the Colossus.  I cannot stand the controls.  They are legit awful.

[magus]

you know, i came into this game expecting another game that was just kind of a dick to the player

I WAS FUCKING WRONG, THIS GAME IS AMAZING

i mean at the end of the day, it's just a sidescroller, all you have to do is grab the key and get to the exit (there is also a skull hidden in the level for extra bragging rights) but it's just so well done! the music is catchy, the pixel graphic is so detailed, and the way the level are designed make this fun fun fun fun fun... there are hidden spikes everywhere but somehow instead of making the game frustating, it puts you on the edge, the spike are all placed in point you wouldn't expect them to be on the first place but the instant you stop and think "how would i fuck the player if i were the one making the game?" YOU. ALWAYS. GET. IT. RIGHT. but the spikes are just one of the traps, there are statue that shoot arrow at you, boulder that you have to dodge, falling platform and the most incredible thing is that most of the level are designed in such a way that if one trap doesn't get you THE NEXT ONE WILL!

even after you are done there is a shitload of bonus content, there is a mode that turns the game into a vertical sidescroller (who also sort of pokes fun at tower of druaga) a multiplayer mode,there are hidden character from other indie game who have their own special moves, music and even story mode... there is even a shop where you can buy item which i have no idea what purpouse it serves!

[Positive Touch]

magoose knows what's up when it comes to old-school non-rpgs, so this gets added to the wishlist

[demi]

i was gonna pick it up for ONE sometime.

[Rufus]

Giant Bomb did a Quick Look on it and it seemed really well put together. One interesting detail is that it has two jump buttons. One jump is one block high, the other two. And it looks like it would be necessary and a big help, once you get used to that.

I've been trying to play Shadow of the Colossus.  I cannot stand the controls.  They are legit awful.

What exactly? (I haven't played it in years, so...) How far have you got?

[archie4208]

At the 4th colossus.

The controls are laggy, unresponsive and the horse controls like poop.

[Rufus]

Yeah, the animations have a wind up. Nothing to be done about that. The only tips I have for Agro: don't try to micro-manage him, it won't do anything. He won't run off a cliff and he will follow a path on his own.
 
So, I looked up the 4th colossus and it's the horse. http://teamico.wikia.com/wiki/Phaedra some tips for the fight, fwiw. :V
The next colossus is one of the highlights, the bird. Hold out for that one at least.

[etiolate]

The bird is epic, but also very frustrating.

[archnemesis]

The horse is easy to control. Stop pressing the up button. Let the horse do its own thing and then gently nudge it to the sides when you need it to turn.

[Bebpo]

Finished Broken Sword 5 2nd half.  Game was a slow, but good Indiana Jones adventure until the very very end where it concludes really weakly.  Story was not all that satisfying unfortunately even if the adventure was fun.  Guess when you're going to do a story about GOD and the DEVIL and Gnostic ancient artifacts you either gotta go big Lost Ark melting faces or you're gonna end on a whimper.

But man, the art.  The backgrounds were beautiful and the characters looked great.  Very nice looking game.  French games always have damn good art.  The French are really really skilled artists.  They make very pleasing on the eye 2d art in games.

Puzzles ranged from ok to stretching out a single screen area by making some ridiculous puzzle that defies logic.


Was ok overall.  Don't hate it, don't love it.  A better ending could've gone a long way towards making it a memorable worthwhile game that I'd be positive on.  But I got the feeling they got to the end and kind of trapped themselves in a corner writing-wise by setting up some grand epic finale and then having $15 to do a 5 min scene with a couple of puzzles to conclude it on.

[archie4208]

I got frustrated and dropped the game.

I'll come back to it after I clean up my backlog a bit more.

I like the game conceptually, but I could not get used to the controls.