Kill Your Completion v3. 0

[voodoo_eyes]

Game #7

 

Day #1

Total Time Played: 6h 30m

Trophies earned: 6/26

 

What is it?

 

I assume everyone knows the WWE, whether you care for it or not. So yeah, this is a wrestling game.

 

You can create your own character, entrance, finishers. The are like 40+ wrestlers to chose from, if I'M not mistaken although some will be locked until you meet certain requirements. There are about 20 different match types, so plenty to chose from. There's also a training mode, that I put over an hour in this morning, trying to complete the checklist (still have like half of them left to do (reason for this on day 3, if I still remember it ). Other than that I spent around 30m in create mode to get those trophies sorted.

Currently I'm playing Road to Wrestlemania, with my created wrestler. That's where the 6+ hours went into so far, and I think I have barely scratched the surface of that. It gives you one of those typical cheesy wrestling storylines with you as the lead character. It's funny and stupid and has a lot of variety to it.

So far I've had regular 1v1 matches, royal rumble (sort of last man standing out of 30), Fatal 4-way, Elimination Chamber(elimination match with 6 participants), Inferno Match (the ring is on fire), Ladder Match (3 participants, the one who climbs the ladder and grabs the suitcase with cash wins). 1 vs 2 with a few variations. Well, you get the idea.

 

The refs don't like me very much it seems, they keep disqualifying me for knocking them out occasionally. Pffft...

[FFHannibal]

So I know I promised to review Resident Evil and Amnesia: Memories, but I still haven't played Resident Evil more than those first 20 minutes. I'm giving myself till the end of the month to play more and write a review (if I don't feel free to come after me with your pitchforks and torches)

 

Started with: 42.45%

Now: 41.27%

Game #6: Amnesia: Memories (Vita)

Trophies: 15/26

Playtime: 7+ hours

 

Amnesia: Memories is another PS+ title. I don't know which month it was exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in 2016. Amnesia is the first visual novel I've ever played (I think ) and let's just say it hasn't exactly convinced me to play more titles like it. Halfway through I also found out there's an anime, but I'm not really sure which one came first I'm just going to guess the game is based on the anime. I'm probably going to go a bit in-depth to explain everything I want about the game, so expect some spoilers (without me using the spoiler tag unless it's actually necessary). Also I've added this bit once I finished writing my piece below and while I might not understand why games like this are made and liked, I'd never judge someone because of what they like. Also if someone wants to explain something to me if it appears I don't really know what I'm talking about (like Myu did with Catherine) feel free, because I enjoyed learning something extra about it .

 

You are an unnamed protagonist (which you can give any name you want), though for the sake of this review and to follow the wiki we'll just refer to her as the Heroine. She wakes up and encounters a weird elf-like child named Orion. Apparently she collided with you, now resides in your brain and consequently pushed out all of your memories. At the end of the prologue you can choose 4 different worlds: Heart World, Spade World, Clover World and Diamond World. I picked the Heart World first without looking at a guide, because naturally there's a whole plethora of endings possible and I wanted my first experience to be 'real'. It took me about 2 hours to complete and since then I've completed all the other endings in the Heart World and all the Good endings of all other stories. All on force-speed, so that should tell you enough already.

 

In the first world the Heroine's boyfriend appears to be Shin, who is a typical "too cool for you, emotionally crippled bad boy". This game though, the opening scene of that world is the Heroine covered in bandages in the hospital, an unknown dude barges in and kisses her and over the course of the next day practically emotionally manipulates her into admitting she has amnesia and then telling her he actually suspected it. That's so romantic and absolutely not disturbing, I'm so in love with this story . He calls the Heroine idiot (really I've heard 'baka' enough in my life now) every other sentence and consistently refuses to answer any question the Heroine has. There's a lot, a lot of text to read but the gist of it is that it appears that someone pushed the Heroine off of a cliff and wham it suddenly turned into a Mystery visual novel. I absolutely love Mystery and I really wanted to find out what happened so this is perhaps the only reason I didn't skip through the Heart World at all.

 

Everything points in the direction of Shin though and again whenever the Heroine asks him to explain some of the shady things he's doing, he just ignores her and acts like she's a helpless little girl. Some dialogue later and you're back at the scene of the crime with everyone that was there then too. A few other guys, a few girls and one creepy weirdo. The Heroine eventually finds out what exactly happened, though you'll only now for sure in the Good Ending and one of the Bad Endings. Sadly (or maybe not) I got the Normal Ending and my Mystery loving self got left with an ending that didn't satisfy me at all.

 

I sped through the other worlds, so there's not much to say about those stories. The Spade World is about Ikki who's got some weirdly bizarre magical eyes ? The Diamond World is about Toma who has always been kinda like your Big Brother, but the Heroine wants a relationship with him only to find out he actually wanted a relationship with her too. The Clover World is perhaps the most normal, Kent is this spaced out guy not really all that invested in your relationship, but gradually he gets more into it. I think that's the gist of it. Then there's a fifth Joker World with Ukyo, but that was too weird to be able to follow.

 

Spoiler

The Heroine has actually died, Ukyo is her real boyfriend who didn't want her to die, so here's different worlds now and Ukyo has a split personality which always tries to kill her?

 

Anyway, my biggest complaint is that this is a Romance Visual Novel and that is downright terrifying. Some of what the guys say is really creepy, sexist and sometimes plain garbage. If a guy ever said some of those things to me I'd dump him in a heartbeat, though that might also be because I'm gay. Am I just wrong here and is this actually meant as a laugh, as a joke? Or am I meant to take this seriously, as a portrayal of a real relationship? You get the Good Ending when you act like a stupid girl (and what's with the Heroine being in College and looking and acting like a 14 year old?) and act like you can't think for yourself. For example in the Heart World you get the Good Ending if you always believe Shin, even though everything points to him as the culprit. If you're actually sensible you're going to get killed. Seriously Ukyo with that knife, this was almost worse than Resident Evil. It's also not possible to be friends with one of the girls, because they're always in love with the guy you're with, seriously they can have them (or maybe not because it's not healthy at all).

 

The redeeming factor then: the minigames. You can play Air Hockey and Rock, Paper, Scissors with all of the guys. RPS isn't too hard, you just have to react quick enough to hit or guard. Air Hockey makes good use of the touch screen, though the AI could've used some polishing. If the puck gets behind them they sometimes stop moving even though they could've saved the goal.

 

Anyway I hope I wasn't too harsh. I am planning on getting the platinum, maybe even today, but that has more to do with me wanting to delete the game because I need the space on my Vita and I don't want to reinstall it than me wanting to complete the game because it's just that good.

 

Likelihood of me going for the platinum: 100%

 

Edited March 19, 2017 by FFHannibal

[DamagingRob]

3 hours ago, Myu said:

When I played Rebirth 1, I was very confused about the CPU Candidates and several other characters that you can unlock by using Plans towards the end of the game. (Again, that feeling of being totally lost, you know, who are those people??). When I started Rebirth 2 and Nepgear is trying to find the other candidates without knowing who they are, I was, again, confused. Maybe I shouldn't have played PP and Action U before the Rebirth games.  

Yeah, I've only played the first 2 Re;Birth games and Noire, myself. And there are quite a few characters, that I'm not even sure they properly introduce. Whether they first appear in a different game down the line, or they were just added in as more to use, I can't be certain. 

 

3 hours ago, Myu said:

The characters are funny from time to time but once you get used to it, it gets old pretty quick (like Compa's way of talking, or even Red in Rebirth 2.)

I didn't mind Compa so much, but yeah, the "wifey" shtick got a bit old. 

[xFalionx]

1 hour ago, FFHannibal said:

So I know I promised to review Resident Evil and Amnesia: Memories, but I still haven't played Resident Evil more than those first 20 minutes. I'm giving myself till the end of the month to play more and write a review (if I don't feel free to come after me with your pitchforks and torches)

 

Started with: 42.45%

Now: 41.27%

Game #6: Amnesia: Memories (Vita)

Trophies: 15/26

Playtime: 7+ hours

 

Amnesia: Memories is another PS+ title. I don't know which month it was exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was somewhere in 2016. Amnesia is the first visual novel I've ever played (I think ) and let's just say it hasn't exactly convinced me to play more titles like it. Halfway through I also found out there's an anime, but I'm not really sure which one came first I'm just going to guess the game is based on the anime. I'm probably going to go a bit in-depth to explain everything I want about the game, so expect some spoilers (without me using the spoiler tag unless it's actually necessary). Also I've added this bit once I finished writing my piece below and while I might not understand why games like this are made and liked, I'd never judge someone because of what they like. Also if someone wants to explain something to me if it appears I don't really know what I'm talking about (like Myu did with Catherine) feel free, because I enjoyed learning something extra about it .

Yeah, Amnesia is probably a poor choice for a first VN, it's pretty mediocre all around. Code Realize: ~Guardian of Rebirth~, which was on PS+ the month after Amnesia I believe, is a lot better. It's the same dating guys thing but that one has a focus on the story which is actually really interesting before branching out into the different routes near the end of the game. I'd really advise you to check that one out before you give up on VNs. Other examples of great VNs (even if some of them aren't on PS consoles) are Saya no Uta if you're into some great cosmic horror (pretty grotesque but a true gem), Umineko no Naku Koro ni which should fit your mystery criteria nicely, Clannad if you're into sad romance stuff, Katawa Shoujo if you're into romance with a unique setting (it's about disabled people), or if you're into gore there'd be something like Corpse Party. All of these are great examples of what VNs are capable of. A bit different than your usual VNs would be the Danganronpa franchise which has you trapped in a school with other students trying to kill each other to get out, and you have to find the culprit as well as the mastermind behind it all. I've heard that the Zero Escape franchise is also really great and shares some similarities with Danganronpa, but I haven't played that one yet.

 

I guess the story of Code Realize could also fit into the mystery genre as you're trying to find out what happened your father and why you're poisonous to everyone around you. Anyways, all I'm saying is that Amnesia is a bad apple in the pile which shouldn't deter you from the genre as a whole. 

[DamagingRob]

5 minutes ago, xFalionx said:

Yeah, Amnesia is probably a poor choice for a first VN, it's pretty mediocre all around. Code Realize: ~Guardian of Rebirth~, which was on PS+ the month after Amnesia I believe, is a lot better.

@TigressLion 

 

These guys be talking smack about Amnesia, bruh. Time for fisticuffs! 

[xFalionx]

3 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

These guys be talking smack about Amnesia, bruh. Time for fisticuffs! 

I had my fun with the game but I played a lot of VNs that were better than this one, and I feel like it would give the wrong impression to someone who were to play it as their first experience with a VN. I really liked Kent though, he's basically me.  

[DamagingRob]

Just now, xFalionx said:

I had my fun with the game but I played a lot of VNs that were better than this one, and I feel like it would give the wrong impression to someone who were to play it as their first experience with a VN. I really liked Kent though, he's basically me.  

Well, otome is pretty niche to begin with. I would recommend Danganronpa, the Zero Escape games, most likely Stein's Gate, and more, myself, before those. But both Lion and I felt Amnesia was better than Code: Realize(although, we seem to be in the minority...). 

[xFalionx]

7 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

Well, otome is pretty niche to begin with. I would recommend Danganronpa, the Zero Escape games, most likely Stein's Gate, and more, myself, before those. But both Lion and I felt Amnesia was better than Code: Realize(although, we seem to be in the minority...). 

Huh, really? I guess it's mostly because I'n not that much of a romance guy and I'm more into the games' stories. I'm also a huge sucker for steampunk, so that's a given with Code Realize.  

I feel like Amnesia went pretty much all out with romance, while CR was mainly focused on the storyline with the romance only really starting towards the end of the game.

Overall I did think that the Code Realize characters were better written but that may also be because they're basically fantasy characters, which is a setting that I usually tend to prefer above realistic settings. Then again, I also think that Amnesia made me choose things for the good endings, which I would have never chosen if I was the protagonist.

Edited March 19, 2017 by xFalionx

[Myu]

@FFHannibal Just like @xFalionx said, Amnesia is really not a good example of what a VN should be (that route with the cage...). I also recommend Code:Realize in the otome genre or Steins;Gate, which is more gender neutral. Danganronpa too. I've read a lot of VNs and this one is at the very bottom of the list, along with Norn9. I didn't like it because it's not realistic enough for me to believe in the story and most routes are way too far-fetched. Also, as a girl, I wanted to slap some faces regurlarly while playing it (main character included). 

 

 

On another note, I should be playing Brothers : A Tale of Two Sons right now but I just realized that I had the trial version on my PS3. I've bought the game right away on the PS4 store but there is more than 8Gb to download and it will probably take all night (or even more). I don't know if I'll be able to play it before the 3rd day of the event. 

 

 

[TigressLion]

1 hour ago, DamagingRob said:

@TigressLion 

 

These guys be talking smack about Amnesia, bruh. Time for fisticuffs! 

You shall have my blade

[Edunstar84]

@FFHannibal, It's a bit of a shame that Amnesia: Memories was your first VN. I'm with everybody, except @DamagingRob of course.  Dude's on an island by himself.

Edited March 19, 2017 by Edunstar84

[FFHannibal]

1 hour ago, xFalionx said:

I had my fun with the game but I played a lot of VNs that were better than this one, and I feel like it would give the wrong impression to someone who were to play it as their first experience with a VN. I really liked Kent though, he's basically me.  

You're lucky, compared to the other ones Kent is a saint and the most normal out of all of them. Thanks for the suggestions too ( @Myu you too), I'll look into them sometime and I won't write off all VNs for now .

 

33 minutes ago, Myu said:

...

On another note, I should be playing Brothers : A Tale of Two Sons right now but I just realized that I had the trial version on my PS3. I've bought the game right away on the PS4 store but there is more than 8Gb to download and it will probably take all night (or even more). I don't know if I'll be able to play it before the 3rd day of the event. 

 

 

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is amazing. I've played it on PC and while it's short it's pretty great.

 

Prepare for tears though...

[MarkusT1992]

I just want to recommend Root Letter.

I don't play much VNs but this one was very interesting for me.

Besids that one I played Higurashi When They Cry, which was good as well. Although I only played a part of the first chapter.

[xFalionx]

11 minutes ago, MarkusT1992 said:

I just want to recommend Root Letter.

I don't play much VNs but this one was very interesting for me.

Besids that one I played Higurashi When They Cry, which was good as well. Although I only played a part of the first chapter.

 

Watched the Higurashi anime which was pretty damn great. It's a spiritual prequel to Umineko, which I mentioned in an earlier post, by the way.  

[Hemiak]

Game 6 (I think) 2 hrs played, 3/12 trophies. 

 

I got Nova 111 past year on plus and immediately filed it away. After someone else played it in a previous KYC I thought it sounded pretty interesting. 

 

What it is: a 2D semi turn based exploration game, with light puzzle elements. You control a little box like shop and have to explore your environment, gradually opening up the screen and map as you go. The main goal is simply to reach the end of each level, but there are additional objectives to go for as well. Each level has a few stranded scientists you need to rescue, by driving over them. There are also several secret areas in each level to discover. 

 

Your movement is calculated in turns, and most enemies respect this mechanic. However, falling stelactites and certain enemies/attacks are on a timer. Enemies and stelactites can be attacked by bumping into them, which deals one point of damage. Enemies always take at least one turn to attack, so you can decide whether to attack again immediately and risk being hit yourself, or move away to evade the attack. Obviously different enemies necessitate different strategies. 

 

As you go you find powerups. I now have two full extra life points, which you increase by finding 4 life powerups. I also have a beam attack which shoots up two squares in front of me. This is useful for breaking armored enemies, and removing blue rocks that can't be broken regularly. I also have Bombs, of which I can store 3 at a time, and are refilled by finding 16 little yellow orbs. The Bombs hit every square directly adjacent or diagonal to your ship, will break rocks, and stun enemies for several turns. Finally I have a phase engine now. This allows me to skip ahead two squares, and phase through enemies or vine barriers. 

 

So far the game is pretty good, but not overly difficult. The only real difficulty so far comes from trying to find all the scientists and secrets in each level. I haven't resorted to a guide yet but I could see me doing it if the game starts to get tedious, or once I finish my first full run and begin backtracking to clean up. 

 

So far : good but not amazing. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

3 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

@TigressLion 

 

These guys be talking smack about Amnesia, bruh. Time for fisticuffs! 

 

1 hour ago, TigressLion said:

You shall have my blade

 

 

And my axe!

 

11 minutes ago, Hemiak said:

Game 6 (I think) 2 hrs played, 3/12 trophies. 

 

I got Nova 111 past year on plus and immediately filed it away. After someone else played it in a previous KYC I thought it sounded pretty interesting. 

 

Yeah it was my #10 for KYC1, though I think others have played it as well in KYC2 (I'm not sure about that one).

 

Cool game for as long as it lasts, pretty forgettable.

[Myu]

My first VN was Fate/Stay Night and it left a very strong impression on me. The choices you make actually matter and I was scared as hell most of the times while playing it. I was so afraid of making the wrong choice and dying in an horrible way (again). I still remember that moment when Shirou, the main character, was peacefully strolling down the street and the screen goes suddenly black and "die, die, die, die" fills the screen more and more as you keep clicking. 

I also loved how Taiga would come and scold you right after your death "What were you thinking? Why didn't you run you idiot???" 

That game has a special place in my heart  

 

[Kevvik]

3 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

Well, otome is pretty niche to begin with. I would recommend Danganronpa, the Zero Escape games, most likely Stein's Gate, and more, myself, before those. But both Lion and I felt Amnesia was better than Code: Realize(although, we seem to be in the minority...). 

 

I haven't gone through a lot of otome but there were aspects of each that I liked.  The steampunk atmosphere worked well for Code Realize but I found the stories for all but the Count felt pretty similar to me. Amnesia was interesting with some of the underlying backstory but I thought the cage story was just distasteful and dumb (IMO).  The side characters in Amnesia were generally more interesting than the main ones though.

 

I found Hakuoki far more interesting than either of these titles, personally. Both the feudal Japan setting for a neat storyline and the characters themselves.

[DamagingRob]

21 minutes ago, Kevvik said:

 

I haven't gone through a lot of otome but there were aspects of each that I liked.  The steampunk atmosphere worked well for Code Realize but I found the stories for all but the Count felt pretty similar to me. Amnesia was interesting with some of the underlying backstory but I thought the cage story was just distasteful and dumb (IMO).  The side characters in Amnesia were generally more interesting than the main ones though.

 

I found Hakuoki far more interesting than either of these titles, personally. Both the feudal Japan setting for a neat storyline and the characters themselves.

I think everyone hated that cage story. Lol. The "Good" ending for that route was really dumb, too.. 

 

I haven't played Hakuoki.

[Myu]

2 hours ago, FFHannibal said:

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is amazing. I've played it on PC and while it's short it's pretty great.

 

Prepare for tears though...

 

I hope I'll like it  

 

17 minutes ago, Kevvik said:

 

I haven't gone through a lot of otome but there were aspects of each that I liked.  The steampunk atmosphere worked well for Code Realize but I found the stories for all but the Count felt pretty similar to me. Amnesia was interesting with some of the underlying backstory but I thought the cage story was just distasteful and dumb (IMO).  The side characters in Amnesia were generally more interesting than the main ones though.

 

I found Hakuoki far more interesting than either of these titles, personally. Both the feudal Japan setting for a neat storyline and the characters themselves.

 

Hakuoki! Yes! I forgot about this one! I got so obsessed with this game that I actually did some research on the characters, I read history books on this era and I even watched the musicals !

I would love to have a sequel but the only thing they do is try to release it on every available platform. 

[Melanogaster1987]

Game #6: Mad Max

 

Mad Max is an open-world game that reminds me of Far Cry crossed with Fuel (I love that game! 110+ hours into it, and I'm still far from finished). You play as the title character as he seeks to settle a score with some gangsters who made off with his beloved car and left him to die in a desolate, post-apocalyptic wasteland. To do this, he's going to need to find a new set of wheels. Max soon stumbles across Chumbucket, a complete goofball but a skilled mechanic who has spent years working on the "Magnum Opus", which is just the vehicle we need... or at least the bare bones of the vehicle we need.

 

The gameplay involves driving around the open world to strongholds held by various gangs, clearing out the thugs that lurk inside (similar to taking outposts in Far Cry), and collecting scrap metal, which can be used as currency to beef up the "Magnum Opus" and get us closer to getting Max out of this hellhole. You're going to need to get out of your car to take on enemy camps, and combat on foot feels a little simplistic, but it's not bad. There are melee weapons to pick up, but I haven't been able to find much use for them yet - it's easier to just punch your foes to death; but I'm expecting tougher enemies to show up later on. You also have a shotgun at your disposal, but ammo is very scarce (I don't think I've yet had more than 3 bullets at any given time). I like the rarity of ammo drops... for now. It encourages exploration (always a plus in my book),and it really does hammer home the fact that you're struggling to eke out an existence in this environment. However, I can envisage this becoming a big frustration later on if and when tougher enemies are encountered.

 

There are also enemy cars driving around the wasteland, and this is where vehicle combat comes into play. It has been good fun so far - feels like I'm playing an oversized version of Robot Wars or Battlebots. I can't see using a harpoon to rip your foe clean out of their car ever getting old, and I also can't wait to progress just a little further in order to make other tools such as flamethrowers and weaponised wheel rims available.

 

One of the problems that I have with this game so far is that there doesn't seem to be much variety in the story missions; they've almost all followed the formula of travel to camp X to kill the enemies and bring back scrap to location Y so that Chumbucket can add upgrade Z to the Magnum Opus. There are other things to do, such as pulling down scarecrow-like monuments and clearing minefields to reduce the threat posed by the enemy factions, but you need to progress far enough in the story to get the required upgrades before you can take those on.

 

As you would expect from a game that revolves around cars, there are also races to do. I was really looking forward to these, given that racing is one of my favourite genres and my aforementioned love for the open world of Fuel, but unfortunately they have been a big letdown so far. You are simply given no idea as to where to go; there is a small marker on the map showing the location of the finish line, but there aren't any markers to show where the checkpoints are (and you do need to hit all of the checkpoints or you're disqualified). As a result, the only way of learning the route is to follow behind the AI racers; move into the lead and you just get lost, but if you don't win, it's all for nothing. No checkpoint markers is simply not acceptable in a sprawling open world - were these races even play tested, or am I just missing something? Also, my pet peeve in racing games is opponents who concentrate so hard on getting in your way that they actually end up sabotaging their own chances of winning, and sadly this is in full effect.

 

Finally, there are the controls - I find them responsive but unintuitive (to give one example, L2 is a strange choice for a jump button). As a result, I found myself constantly having to pause the game and go through the menus in order to bring up the controller layout screen, which broke the flow in places. Why oh why have instruction manuals you could keep by your side for quick reference disappeared with the last 2 generations of consoles?

 

My rating: It's a Silver for now, but maybe my opinion will change, either for better or for worse, as I get further into the game and more quests become available.

 

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Trophies earned in this game: 5 (5) for 75 points
Total trophies earned in this event: 81 (2, 13, 66) for 1,560 points

 

Current completion rate: 62.53% [Down 4.14% since start of event; Down 0.83% as a result of this game]

[Kevvik]

Game #7: Tales from the Borderlands

 

Initial impressions

 

This is a Telltale game. If you have played anything by them you should have an idea of how the gameplay goes. You make dialogue decisions as the storyline progresses some of which will have consequences/impact on character behaviour later in the story.  There are also quick time events (QTEs) during the "action" sequences but Telltale games are about the story.

 

Taking place in the universe of the Borderlands games (after Borderlands 2 if I am not mistaken), following a brief introduction, you start out on an orbiting moonbase as Rhys (Reese), a corporate ladder climber expecting a big promotion which your friends hope will rub off on them as well. Finding that your main nemesis has effected a hostile takeover and demoted you to janitor, you see the opportunity to shaft him and hopefully pay off big benefits for you by obtaining a Vault Key. This takes you to the surface of the planet Pandora, the desolate locale for the Borderlands games, giving the game the feel of a post-apocalyptic Spaghetti western.

 

You are later introduced to Fiona, a con artist who becomes the other primary character in the storyline. She and her family have more than a bit to do with the Vault Key Rhys is seeking.  As things go riotously awry for all involved, the story progresses with you making decisions for Rhys and Fiona on how you wish to interact with others, friends and not friends alike.

 

The Borderlands universe has rarely looked better. The cel-shading graphics look sharp and Pandora finally feels really alive. The Borderlands games are all about guns and insane violence, both of which are present here but Pandora finally feels lived in with an assortment of supporting characters always around rather than the desolation you normally run and gun through in the shooters.

 

The characters also bring their own personalities to the fore. Whether you play as Rhys as a self serving dick or a true friend is up to you. Likewise hard-nosed Fiona. I've only played through the first of the five episodes so far but I am looking forward to their adventure even more than when I went through the Walking Dead the first time, possibly because I now know Telltale makes the little decisions pay off so well.

 

For trophies, there are really no missable ones, just play through the whole story but that is what a Telltale game is all about, right? It won't hurt my completion in the long run but we'll see how much time I have the next few days.

 

Time played: ~2 hrs

Trophies : 7/36 for 28%, D rank

Rating so far: 8/10

[Alpsmile05]

Game 7, Day 1: Lords of the Fallen

 

 

Time played: about 1 hour

 

So I went into this game completely blind, having no clue what to expect, many people say it's like Darksouls, but since I never played that either that doesn't help me much. I started the game and got some cinematics, immediately I saw this isn't a game for me. After the cinematics you run around in a room and they teach you how to attack a monster. Ok, so far still good but then. It took me about 10 minutes to find the key to that door, in which I took 3 trophies: 1 for finding your first collectable, 1 for dying a first time and 1 for retrieving your ghost (you go back to the place you died). Once I've opened the door I ran in to a bigger monster, a first boss actually. The rest of the time (50 minutes) I tried to beat that boss without succes. On my best try I managed to get him down to 1/4th of his lifebar. but most of the time I don't even reach half. Games like this are just not my cup of tea and I regret starting it but seeing I did and it's a game for this event I will not abandon it yet. I've got 2 days left and I will try to make some progress. If anyone has tips and wants to help me out I could really use some advice here!

[xFalionx]

Game #7: Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath HD (on PSVita)

First day
Total playtime: about 3 hours

 

Well, this surely is an odd game. It's a bit of a mixture between the FPS and Adventure genre, and has you go from town to town to collect bounties. 

 

The gameplay so far has been pretty fun, you move pretty quickly, have many different types of ammunition with different effects which can be used to tactically beat your enemies, and the fights are separated with small platforming sections to get from each area to the next. The game gives you the choice of killing your enemies or capturing them alive, the latter of which will reward you with more Moolah which is this worlds term for money. 

 

By now I've completed my second (third if you count the tutorial) bounty and I'm stuck at the next one which is pretty hard on hard difficulty (who would have guessed?). 

 

I really love the unique feel of this game. While the terrain is less colorful than I'd like, probably because it's all desert terrain, the inhabitants of this world all feel unique compared to other games. The guy you play as, the Stranger, looks different from everyone else. Then there's the chicken people who inhabit the towns of this world and another weird race which all of the baddies belong to. You have a double barrel crossbow and use critters as ammo. You have to catch these yourself and they have effects ranging from distractions to incapacitating enemies for a short while or just plain old damage in both single target and multi target variants.

 

Since all of the things have their own unique names, the game world feels pretty immersive and at no point does it feel like these creatures have anything to do with the humans of our world.

 

The only negative thing I've noticed for now is that the frame rate is quite choppy. This may be the case of a bad Vita port since I've read that the game runs fine on the PS3, but it's still decently playable for the most part.

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Just now, Fredoline05 said:

Game 7, Day 1: Lords of the Fallen

 

 

Time played: about 1 hour

 

So I went into this game completely blind, having no clue what to expect, many people say it's like Darksouls, but since I never played that either that doesn't help me much. I started the game and got some cinematics, immediately I saw this isn't a game for me. After the cinematics you run around in a room and they teach you how to attack a monster. Ok, so far still good but then. It took me about 10 minutes to find the key to that door, in which I took 3 trophies: 1 for finding your first collectable, 1 for dying a first time and 1 for retrieving your ghost (you go back to the place you died). Once I've opened the door I ran in to a bigger monster, a first boss actually. The rest of the time (50 minutes) I tried to beat that boss without succes. On my best try I managed to get him down to 1/4th of his lifebar. but most of the time I don't even reach half. Games like this are just not my cup of tea and I regret starting it but seeing I did and it's a game for this event I will not abandon it yet. I've got 2 days left and I will try to make some progress. If anyone has tips and wants to help me out I could really use some advice here!

U can do it mate, my motto is never give up u sould make it yours to. It's a tough game but games are ment to be beaten. It's also a good plat for your collection, stick with it.