i think i'm dropping Eastern Exorcist for now, mayhaps for good. really nice art but not a lot of music variety. having to beat bosses multiple times to unlock abilities felt a bit tedious. also, just a lot more linear than what i'm looking for at the moment. combat is fine but platforming is very clunky. Awaken - Astral Blade is pretty enjoyable so far. only a few hours in and already the traversal feels a lot like Ori. the combat isn't too heavily reliant on parry (at least, not on story mode). cute character designs, pretty environments, interesting boss fights, intriguing mysterious story. so yeah, i'm more or less enjoying these 2d action platformers from chinese studios, to varying degrees. (switching to chinese dub probably helps) Eastern Exorcist: historical fantasy, linear Awaken - Astral Blade: futuristic sci-fi, metroidvania Afterimage: historical fantasy, metroidvania
metroidvanias i've played standalone 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure 9 Years of Shadows Afterimage Awaken - Astral Blade (in progress) Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night Cookie Cutter Death's Door Death's Gambit: Afterlife Ghost Song Indivisible The Knight Witch Sundered Unsighted series Blasphemous (haven't played sequel) Ender Lillies (haven't played Ender Magnolias) Guacamelee 1&2 Hollow Knight/Silksong Ori and the Blind Forest/Ori and the Will of the Wisps Shantae 2-5 3d Control Darksiders 3 Prey honorable mentions Dead Cells (roguelike) Foregone (linear; repeatable levels) none of these are metroid or castlevania lolol
it's an awful game with incredible production values. It's just stupid clicking numbers going up. Glorified hamster wheel. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say the new D4 expansion is probably some sort of crossover. I'm thinking Elder Scrolls. "just" a new D4 expansion wouldn't warrant this much hype I think.
Been wanting to do this for a long time, but finally yesterday said FUCK YOU to Microsoft and traded in my xbox to switch over to PS5
Schreier is saying that the desert statue isn’t for Diablo 4 on Resetera “No idea where Jez is getting that, but this statue is not teasing the Diablo 4 expansion. (I don't currently plan on reporting what it is, sorry, but it's a good one.)” Jez sucks lol
He’d know better than anyone else but that’s kinda crazy. Some of the monsters in the statue are IDENTICAL to Diablo enemies
Got PS Plus and saw Ghost of Tsushima (a game I’ve always wanted to play) was on there for free. 20 minutes in. Oh yeah. This is going to be amazing.
PS Plus has like 10 straight bangers from Sony on there it’s so good right now if you are starting out
Yep I almost just went right to Yotei but my buddy said play GOT first just because it’s so good It’s partly why I wanted to switch back to PlayStation. Their exclusives are supposed to be great and I don’t think Xbox has anymore exclusives lol
the only thing I ever want to touch my Xbox for now is the older exclusives that I can’t even play on ps
Here's looking at you Lost Odyssey and other obscure JRPGs that MS decided to randomly make in the 360 days. Crazy how that and Blue Dragon never made it to PS.
Some games I have played recently: Super Mario Party Jamboree + Jamboree TV: The original game is still good and fun, but the new minigames added in the Switch 2 edition really do not add much. Most of what the fake mouse adds could have been replicated with a controller. Some people might have a setup where it is convenient to do the fake mouse controller method, but this is supposed to be a casual game for friends sitting around a TV. Rez Infinite: It is very visually stunning and the mechanics surrounding the gameplay are fine, but does the music have to be so bad? The Stanley Parable: The rare game that makes me want to see out everything there is to see in the game. Obviously it is easier to do that in a game like this compared to an RPG, but it is so cleverly written and clearly made by people who are students of the history of video games, the way people play them, and the various limitations and absurdities of video games as an artistic medium. However, what comes after video games become postmodern? The postmodernism of Seinfeld and Family Guy led to a new sincerity, so are video games due for that same leap in dramatic storytelling? I would argue that games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or The Last of Us or Mass Effect are as good or maybe better than most longform television shows (as long as you are willing to accept the ludonarrative dissonance and bigger leaps of logic than those shows expect you to). There is so much fertile ground left to explore. Bionic Commando: A typical, punishingly hard old game. Influential to others but a chore to play nowadays, even with its short length. Emulation and save states save these games from themselves and their cruel win conditions.
I'm playing some Cold Steel 3 and dare I say this is my favorite game so far. I said this with CS1 and then CS2 but these games are fucking stellar.