Pray_4_the_End

Been on PS hiatus for the last handful of days to catch up on some Steam games while I decide what to play next. Little late to the party but Valheim is fuck'n aweome. Wish there was more survival games like this on consoles, I'd love to be earning trophies while spending 3 hours trying to design a dope longhouse just to have a giant troll come and take my foundation out in like 2 swipes of his club. Valheim 10/10 😂

Platinum #118 Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

This was a pretty short and semi-fun game that I wanted to like more but ultimately it was just meh for me. I really enjoyed the combat and I wish there was more of it and less of the annoying puzzle solving. I felt like I was on mushrooms for the majority of the game with all the crazy hallucinations and what not. Even after completing the game I still don't really know what the hell was happening. After finishing this game off I'm not really that worried about Microsoft acquiring Ninja Theory if this is the best they have to offer, they can keep Hellblade 2 lol. 😪

Platinum #115  Scarlet Nexus

I'll start off by saying I'm not a big fan of jrpg's in general (especially turn based jrps), but if the combat is in real time and the story is good, I'm about it. 10 years ago I would've gave up on this game after about 5 hours and moved on lol. Luckily that was not the case with present time me, it's basically 50% visual novel and 50% combat. I really dug the story, granted I basically didn't know what the hell was happening for the first like 30 hours or so lol, but once everything started coming together it was dope. There's a lot to take in with this game in terms combat/skills/abilities and the game keeps adding mechanics well into the story. I wont lie though, once I got into a rhythm of using a handful of skills I really liked it was kind of hard to incorporate other party members skills later into my playthroughs unless there was a certain enemy that requires you to use some of those skills to take it down. The overall combat handles really nicely though, it's like a mixture of Bayonetta/Devil May Cry with really flashy finishers and psychokinetic abilities that let you launch all kinds of shit at enemies. The enemies in this game are fuck'n WEIRD as hell too, it's like the people designing this game just looked around where they happen to be standing and were like, "that water spigot over there would make a cool enemy if you add some random light bulbs to it stomach and trees to it's back" lmao. I played this game for like 70ish hours before I got the plat and if you were to show me a picture of any random enemy in this game there's 0% chance I could tell the name of that enemy lol, I've never had to refer to a compendium this much ever in any game. You have 2 protagonist that you chose from and the story unravels from their respective point of view while running into the opposite character along the way. I preferred Kasane overall personally, her ranged attacks keep you at a safe distance while still being able to do some serious damage. I preferred her stoic bluntness over Yuito being overly happy and awkward most of the time. My buddy who is also playing this game atm said that I would probably like "Code Vein" a bunch since I was really into Scarlet Nexus. I'll probably end up buying that game and adding it to the backlog soon.