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#90: Need For Speed Payback (PS4 - digital)

Finally bought this one pretty recently (around when Heat was announced) for cheap while it was on a special week sale through PS Store. As I finally cleared Most Wanted, I thought it was the best moment to give a go to this latest NFS.

Overall it's a good game, maybe not the best of the series but the story mode was entertaining (~32 hours).

The most interesting thing here is that you have different types of cars: racing, offroad, drift and drag(ster) with every category having a different type of steering.

Then, you have to beat everything to grab the . The highest hurdle will obviously be the for clearing every activity with 3 ⭐, the highest score (30 drift zones, 45 speed traps, 40 speed runs and 30 jumps), total: 435 ⭐.

You also have some collectibles to get around the map of Fortune Valley, 100 gambler chips and smash 30 billboards.

You can easily track everything on the map, it's obviously not the same pain it was with Most Wanted.

For those wondering about the lootboxes, in this final version of the game it isn't a problem for sure as you don't have to grind a lot to upgrade your cars (either you win cards when winning an event, or purchase them from the tuning workshop, it's up to you).

I still need to do the Speedcross extension (some kind of gymkana events) but I was ~68 hours.

Here's my personal rating difficulty as I played nearly every game for a few years now from easiest to hardest: Rivals, Most Wanted, Payback, Hot Pursuit, The Run. I own the 2015 reboot, but not played this one yet.

And as usual with the series, the sound selection is awesome. My fave track is obviously this one from Tom Morello (former Rage Against the Machine member)

After Speedcross extension, I'll finally play WreckFest to its fullest!

#89: Double Dragon IV (PS4 - digital)

This one was pretty insane, I'll remember it as one of my most challenging .

I wanted it to be my #88 initially, but somewhat gave up on it at some point because of the cursed challenging tower.

The game itself is pretty difficult, I mean the story mode with 12 stages, the only way to beat this game (I mean for normal people) is to use some dirty tricks (exploits) to not lose health too fast.

Then, you unlock the infamous insane tower as well as other characters when you manage to progress through this survival mode.

Did most of the game from July 15 to 27, the only missing was the one you earn when you manage to clear 100 floors on tower mode.

Even when using the dirty tricks, it's not easy at all because you only have one life to deal with that!

The best way to do this is obviously by picking the best character (the Mysterious Warrior, you encounter him on floor 40) and playing with 2 controllers. Die and retry a lot as well as learning the patterns of some enemies.

I did it @Icebrand1270! 😄

Still working on NFS Payback (then WreckFest), but I'm struggling with the drift activities, I need to master them all (3 ⭐ score).