Hope everyone had a restful weekend. I have been playing lots of Minecraft, as I am currently what laymen call "unemploymed" so I need to pass the time somehow. I have also been playing a little Grim Fandango remastered. Hope everyone has a good week
Afterimage, cool Chinese metroidvania.
The game lacks some QoL like the map showing the closed doors/paths but besides that the game is really good.
Acquired some Assassins Creed games at 90+10% discount so reliving some old memories on the switch
Imagine if there was a katamari rolling past you,
but then the prince said:
Nah, I'm not turning around to roll you up.
Satisfactory 1.0 I just unlocked oil extraction. I really appreciate how many subtle ways this game has of not being a pain in the ass on purpose like so many other build games are, like your built structures being indestructible except by deliberate deconstruction which gives all the resources back. It really feels like a lot of thought went toward making the actual playtime smooth and satisfying.
Satisfactory for me too. The devs have said about stuff that some users have requested like building decay/maintenance and base defense: "why are you asking us to introduce new types of tedium to this game? Just so you have something else to automate away? We can just not have that tedium in the first place"
Metaphor demo, was fun. Minotaur almost kicked my ass but bought some limited stock damage items from the previous dungeon merchant that it was weak to.
Difficulty felt pretty good on normal, might bump it up on release. Feel like this is the best iteration of persona esque combat. Formations are a cool layer and love the way you have to manage your turns with dual attacks or getting a half turn free with weakness or crit
One thing I really liked, money is freaking scarce. You got to make some tough decisions on what you want to upgrade or buy at any given moment. Hate it in games where the economy is non existent because you get too much money too quickly or there nothing good to buy
Side kick character is not teddy annoying and feels more like a real person rather than a video game meta character which they oft are relegated to which is nice
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is fun and charming. You can link yourself to a wall-climbing spider and get basically anywhere on the map way too early! You can run around on the treetops! You can sic crows on your enemies to steal their rupees!
The environmental and dungeon puzzles are great for playing with family as everyone gets to suggest various combinations combination of tables/beds/boulders/trampolines/decorative shrubs to get you where you need to go.
i beat star war: jedi survivor. i miss the glorbos and glup shittos already and i cannot wait for the next chapter in the saga. the last two fights were so fun
I got MGSV on sale and have been playing that between my several hour Rimworld seshes
MechWarrior 5 Mercenaries. I think I'm about to finish the campaign and am pumped to switch from vanilla to getting deep into mods. Giant stompy robot gang
I pirated the space marine game, turns out they didn’t use denovo because they made the AI squad mates useless to the point that coop is necessary on the harder difficulties.
Going back to tainted grail. The one in early access shows a lot of potential as an inheritor to the Bethesda mantle. It’s basically a grimdark Arthurian myth elderscrolls-like. The IP is near morrowind levels of weird, but combine that with dark delusion meets Skyrim gameplay (even down to stealth archer being optimal, for better or worse). The roguelite card game is also very good and even weirder.
I think the only thing I have attention-span for right now is Hinterland. Digimon Cybersleuth and Survive are on the docket, but too busy swapping from cleaning to spacing out.
The demo of Warside, an Advance Wars clone that takes some cues from Wargroove. Gorgeous pixel art, gameplay is decent, though with some rough spots I'm hoping will get ironed out by release.
Bro it's Monday, I'm studying.
Ok yesterday I was playing Voices of the Void. It's a free indie atmospheric horror/shitpost that's still in alpha
I bought the re-release of Broken Sword: Shadow Of The Templars. I probably would have enjoyed the hell out of it as a kid, and I'm having fun with it now, despite how incredibly dated it is.
