I’ve noticed that too, but luckily I’ve started with 7-9, then 1-3 and saved the best, 4-6 til the end. I’ve just arrived on Dagobah and I can’t wait to get to Jabbas Palace.
It’s my favorite Place in the Star Wars Universe and Jabba the Hutt is my favorite Character. I’m weird.
The game crashed once for me so far and I had my character getting stuck in an animation twice, I’m playing on PS5.
Covetous demon looking a bit more friendly nowadays
Finished Resident Evil 7 for the first time a couple weeks ago and I loved it! It was a nice balance of tension and action and it told a concise story with pretty good pacing. I was a bit of a doofus sometimes (like watching a tape after completing its area or being too scared and defenseless in an area to find the obvious key to progression) so it would likely have had better pacing if not for stuff like that.
I also enjoyed the characters and could sense the actors’ enjoyment portraying them. It’s not something I used to notice or care about but lately it’s become something that can really impact how much I enjoy games/movies/shows. Anyway, I particularly enjoyed how the story came together and was revealed after I thought I had beaten it.
Bringing those two thoughts together, the character work was great, especially Grandma Eveline, as I call her, delivering that, “Why does everyone hate me?” That was oddly heartbreaking. That’s probably the best part of the whole game: empathizing with the “villains”. I’m not sure it was intentional with her but she seems to be as much a victim of her powers as anyone around her and the scientists masquerading as family don’t care about her (as usual). With the Baker family, on the other hand, most of them (except Lucas) are clearly meant to be seen as victims like Ethan, foreshadowed by Zoe’s plight mirroring aspects of nearly every other arc at various points.
Overall, it was a great experience and one I’ll be happy to go back to (for trophies, to explore more now that I know what I’m doing, for the DLC, etc).
Some final thoughts:
It wouldn’t be Resident Evil without Deus Ex Final Boss Killing Gun or ending back up in areas you thought you were long done with or playing a section as another character
I liked how the game kind of did these in sort of its own way and put a little twist on each of them (although the final fight, though cinematic and emotional, felt a bit quick)
With 7, 2 remake and 3 remake, modern Resident Evil has been insane! I can’t wait to start Village soon!
Be prepared: Village takes the franchise as far outside its usual context as it is willing to go. It still holds to the series’s rules and mythology, but it’ll feel a little different, and it’s pretty much a love it or hate it thing. That being said, if you enjoyed the scary parts of 7, Village will scare the daylights out of you.
It’s also a good way to see with what kind of shit Romanians living in villages have to deal on a day to day basis.
I’m usually ok with change/experimentation as long as it’s not too crazy. If it still follows it’s own rules, as you say, I think I’ll enjoy myself.
I always like to see for myself anyway, especially when there’s some degree of fan uproar like with Last of Us 2, which I also can’t wait to play (when I have time and finish the first one) so I can see how much I agree with it.
Pretty realistic in that regard?
A lot of vampires over there as well?
Oh yeah though vampires is outdated, corrupted politicians / clergyman are more modern terms.
We have those in the United States too! Seems to be a pretty widespread problem.
i can vouch for the uk in that regard too.
I just finished World At War on Regular, wasn’t that bad
I nearly uninstalled it 7 times.
Disco Elysium again.
Finished Zelda Breath of the Wild and Luigi’s Mansion 3 tonight.
BOTW, overall, is a great evolution of the Zelda franchise. It’s best draw being its extreme open-endedness, and ability to let you run wild with a sense of adventure and discovery.
Unfortunately, the ending is quite short, simple, and IMO underwhelming if you’ve done a good job completing your main quests beforehand.
Spoilers for 5-year old game:
the Calamity Ganon fight is pretty cool, and I assume is cooler and more challenging if you didn’t free the Divine Beasts beforehand. I finally “learned” (sorta) how to reflect with a shield at the end, but that’s basically how you’re supposed to beat him.
The Beast Ganon fight is large and cinematic in scope, but doesn’t do enough to wow me. He stands in an empty field and shoots lazers at nothing until you hit his scripted weak spots with a special bow.
It reminded me a lot of the final Spirit Tracks boss, which I love, but which I thought did it much better in terms of mechanics and challenge (on lesser hardware)
Finally, there’s barely any resolution. Not even showing Hyrule at large celebrating or being free from the Calamity. Just a one-line “do you remember me?” from Zelda, which Link obviously doesn’t answer, and then a bonus cutscene where they stand around and Zelda says they’regoingnto fix Hyrule. Kinda expected more, at least an appearance of Impa or another side-character.
For Luigi’s Mansion 3, overall, it was a great entry in the LM series. Basically takes the multi-themed-mansions concept from Dark Moon and shoves it into a hotel. Really.
There’s floors you’d expect, like a lobby, sleeping suites, shopping/food court, swimming pool… but this is a hotel thst also has a Movie Studio floor. A prehistoric dinosaur museum floor. A full ancient Egyptian pyramid buried under a mountain of sand. Like… what??
A “Mansion” game, this is not. But it was still fun. And pretty lengthy.
Next Level Games made this one, and I loved their work. The lighting and texture quality is really great, especially when they crank it up during the close-up cutscenes. The characters (especially Luigi) were all very expressive and makes me interested to see if that Illumination animated movie can do the same. (Though it’s Illumination so I’m already skeptical of the end-product.)
There were interesting puzzles that added new mechanics. Though some Boss battles were frustrating, due to how hard I found to figure out which battle phase/what makes the boss vulnerable to vacuum suckage.
Final boss was pretty cool too, and briefly had Mario foolishly charge into battle (only to get captured again) which I found funny. (Though I was hoping for a unique Luigi+Mario team-up, that would be unique for the series.)
And weirdly, at one point in the game, there was one mechanic that was a “super suction” function on the vacuum (you could tear off the walls of a room), but was only used once, and I didn’t find any other areas with it. Really strange.
Trying to be good and not buy any games for the time being. Although really the only things on the horizon for me right now are Hitman 3’s DLC and Soul Hackers 2.
Doing bits of Gran Turismo 7. Really terrible at the rally events. With the new update giving us 4 weeks to buy all of the invitiation cars, I think I’ll need to try and do some grinding, not to mention I want to tackle the 8 endurance races, tyre wear and fuel management really does add so much to the game. Endurance racing was my favourite part of GT3. Number of past tracks I hope make it back into GT7 but I have so many good memories of Tokyo Route 246, that would be my biggest wish.
Done a little progress in Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I want to get into older games, and considering how much I love Persona 4 and 5, and think 3 is overall great despite its flaws, I’ll probably be at least trying all the other Persona games and spin-offs. Especially since I do keep hearing P2 is meant to have a great story. I just have that problem where I find the game very slow, and (so far at least), things are more complicated but in a way that is more cumbersome than anything else, and makes me understand why future games streamlined it, like conversing with demons. I’ll try and stick with it. I’m actually annoyed at myself really because there are alot of older games I do want to give a shot in the future, I just question whether I have the skill and patience to really tolerate them.
It’s also part of the reason why I’ve decided to finally start Persona 5 Strikers. A bit of a mixed time with this at the start. The first part of the game is actually surprising tough, mainly due to how limited you are with items and money etc. Had to grind a bit for 2 bosses so I could actually beat them. Once you get past the first part though, the game becomes so much more easy and managable, you can start building up an item stockpile so that you can brute force any tough boss you fight if you have too. The plot is good, although ofcourse due to the genre shift, it isn’t as well detailed or immersive as regular Persona games are. I know this basically is a thing for all Persona spin-offs, but it does sting a bit not having the confidants/social links characters turn up in them. Especially [P5Royal Spoilers] Mishima and Yoshizawa. Mishima ran the Phan-site, so I mean, does he still do that? You’d think he’d give Joker a call. And I know Yoshizawa never officially joined the Phantom Thieves, but I dunno, I do feel disappointed that she doesn’t appear here. Kindof funny how Sophie is also a redhead too actually. Still though, it is just nice and fun to be with these characters again. First time playing one of these Dynasty Warrior-type of games. Kindof liking it, not something I’d actively seek out, but a good time. Wouldn’t mind Persona doing more of these types, perhaps one that utilisies the P3 or P4 cast perhaps?
Nice to hear you still doing well on GT7, Silver! Ah, those invitations. Really, someone at Polyphony Digital must screwed up big time to allow early expiries of the invitations in the previous version of game, hence now giving all invitations to the players!
But hey, if you ever become exhausted grinding the rally events, and happen to have a million lying around, how about buying a Dodge Tomahawk X and downgrade it so you can use it in the Tokyo Expressway WTC600 event? I heard it’s a relatively easy and faster one to grind. Though it can be a matter of time until PD chooses to patch the PP glitch for the overpowered Dodge.
Oh yeah, I only just won the MX-5 Tsukuba event earlier today. It felt so satisfying when I managed to block the opponents from overtaking me for the final few laps. They were pretty strong when I couldn’t even beat their best lap time with racing soft tires and fuel map 1. I did use a video guide on YT to learn pit strats first, so if you have trouble with these events, consider watching it.
Don’t we all, Silver, don’t we all. I miss all of the fictional city circuits like R246 and New York from GT4. The latter one was my nostalgia of winning an 5 hour endurance race in a souped-up BMW M5. PD promised more tracks and cars will be added, so let’s hope city tracks are within their consideration.
Was looking for a fun platformer ever since Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze and think I found one in the Marsipulami Hoobadventure game. Very similar vibe and mechanics so far, maybe slightly less polished and “full of life”, but enjoyable nonetheless.
I’m a fan of the shmup series Touhou Project.
I’ve recently set out on trying to beat the games on the highest difficulty (Lunatic).
I actually did manage to get a Lunatic 1CC (Beating the game without using continues) in the seventh game (Perfect Cherry Blossom).
So now I’ve been trying to get a Lunatic 1CC in the most recent game (Unconnected Marketeers).
I beat the game on Lunatic WITH continues so far, actually did managed to get up to the final boss several times before receiving a game over, I need just a little bit more repetition to figure it out.
It takes a lot of pattern memorization but I find it to be really fun.
One of my replays, I’m actually amazed that I was able to perfectly dodge this.
In the last few weeks I’ve mainly just played Phasmophobia, a spooky ghost hunting game. Some of my friends play it and I found another group to play it with as well. Even after learning almost everything there is to it, it keeps on delivering. The recent updates that have limited cheesing have made it even better. Nightmare mode is the true way to play the game for me, but you have to really know the game before jumping into that.
I’ve been planning my own 2D ghost hunting game as well, just have to get the core gameplay elements to work lol.
