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Platinum #170 - Sonic Forces

I had pretty high expectations for this game before I played it. Unfortunately it's pretty bad.. Not Sonic 06 level of bad, it's playable but still quite bad :/ I think the best way I can describe it is that it's practically a 3D Sonic game on autopilot, a lot of the levels just play themselves and you'll find yourself just holding square and effortlessly finishing stages in under 2 minutes, even on hard mode.

My main issue was that the controls felt really weird, you won't really notice it if you haven't played Sonic Generations or Colours but the control felt either too slippery or too stiff, there was no in-between and this took me a while to get used to. I found tight platforming in this game ended up resulting in about 5-6 deaths before I finally got it right. 

The list of challenges the game gives you which you need to complete for the platinum trophy was pretty bullshit too. The game itself was very short, you could beat every stage in just under 4 hours so to pad the game out they add 3 sets of collectables, medals for each type of character which you have to max out, speedruns for nearly every level and 14 secret stages which unlock toward the end which was all really frustrating, I usually don't mind collectables and challenges but having to play the same stage 4-5 times to do everything becomes an absolute chore very quickly. This is easily the laziest attempt at padding out a game i've seen in a while.

Everything else was fine, the story was okay apart from a few cringey moments, the graphics were stunning at times, I had fun with the avatar creation for a while but overall this is just another average Sonic game to throw on the pile.

I beat zone 3 with Coda on Crypt Of The Necrodancer yesterday! It was a very short run but a very hectic one at the same time. Overall this took me around a week and a half of solid practice to do, i'll just need to practice the hell out of zone 4 now then I think i'll be ready to do all zones mode runs to try and get the trophy  
 

Platinum #169 - The Swords Of Ditto

I'm a huge Legend Of Zelda fan so I figured that I would enjoy this game because the gameplay is very similar to A Link To The Past with a few elements from Majora's Mask thrown into the mix. It's a very charming game but it didn't quite deliver for me in terms of keeping me entertained, I felt like it was missing something :/ I can appreciate it for what it is, it's a good game and a lot of effort was put into it, it's just not what I was expecting.

I really wouldn't recommend getting this game at the moment also, it's extremely broken at the moment.. I had so many issues with my game crashing and really bad amounts of slowdown when too many enemies were on screen and that's only a few examples :/ I also had a glitched trophy which required me to do an extra 2 playthrough to finally unlock which was also really frustrating.. I'd say either wait for bug fixes and patches or wait until this game is on sale if you're interested

Crypt Of The Necrodancer: Completed Zone 2 with Coda yesterday, gotten really far with practice despite only having about 35-40 hours of it so far. I'm still using a controller and I plan on beating it with one, I definitely think it's possible. 

So, how's your day going? I mean Llama ignored me so that's why you're my favourite  @Lawless_Llama