Kill Your Completion v3. 0

[voodoo_eyes]

5 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

 

I held it in, with the Wanted and Puppeteer hate. But this.. FF7 changed my life at the age of 13. Was nothing short of amazing to me, and got me into the series. 

 

I don't have any kind of nostalgia factor with that game, as I barely played it back then. Those that do and enjoyed it at the time, will most likely still enjoy it today. I for one simply don't find it enjoyable at all so far.

[Myu]

14 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

FF7 changed my life at the age of 13. Was nothing short of amazing to me, and got me into the series. 

 

 

Same here! And I didn't even know English back then. Didn't matter, still played the game, still loved it!  

[dizzyshadow]

Game 8 - Doom - Final Review

 

Ok first thing to say is I don't play 1st person shooters, i tend to prefer 3rd person games for some reason, i always prefer the 3rd person perspective, so for years i've never played them, m,y brother-in-law and sister-in-law tried to change this and convinced my to try resistance a few years ago,  I barely lasted an hour before i gave up. some guys at work also constantly nagged me to play Call of Duty (can't remember which one of the hundred different ones it was). Again i gave in a tried it and couldn't last more than a few minutes. So for years i've shied away from the genre.

 

However this hasn't always been the case back when i was a teenager i used to play them a lot, Heretic, Duke Nukem, Descent, Wolfenstein all got lots of play, but one game in particular was probably the game of my teenage years it was Doom 2. I think i first played it when i was 14 ( yes i know naughty naughty me, or maybe poor parenting) I loved the game is spent hours an hours on the game, i remember being afraid of the cyber demon and spider mastermind, and debating the merits of the different weapons and which one was best with friends at school. discussing mods & levels that were available. And then there was multiplayer, i Think Doom 2 was really the first game the got the right, the deathmatch mode was absolutely brilliant but this was in the days before the internet so the only way to play it was to have a LAN which no one did. However my Dad used to play this in his office during his lunch breaks using the office network(hands up who would be allowed to do that now). I was so excited when i got a job there for the summer, not because of the job or money but because i'd get to play multiplayer doom. It didn't disappoint i loved my 6 weeks, however by the time i got to go back next summer it had been banned.

 

So I put this on the list for nostalgic reasons & to see if i really don't like FPS. It didn't start well (you need to clear another 23gb for install) which forced me to sort out my brand new external drive, something i'd usually put off for 6 months. Once that was done i loaded it up, on the loading screen my wife's first comment was "this looks horrible, why are you playing this" I thought here we go i'll get about 10 minutes before i'm not allowed to play it any more. But i pressed on, you start the game you are tried to slab and there is some sort of demonic ritual going on and you are about to be sacrificed, you manage to break free and then discover what is happening. There's a very silly story about the Hell dimension and solving power crisis, i've also concluded the player character is not a very nice guy (the way he treats the poor robots who give you the weapon upgrades in particular doesn't sit well with me).

 

The game plays as a standard FPS, generally run around and shoot everything in sight. while trying to achieve a fairly basic goal (find a key, reach and exit, kill something) The game is broken down into missions ( i think i've finished 5) and each comes with various challenges, secrets etc. There is actually a lot more depth than the older game (probably to be expected given how much games have evolved in that time.

 

All in all its very similar to the game i played 20+ years ago, you could almost call it a remake. Its actually great fun, i've enjoyed it far more than i could ever have imagined myself. The've captured the essence of the original games brilliantly, its smooth, fast, gory and tongue in cheek. Its one I just didn't want to put down.

 

I'd like to have tried out the multiplayer as well, but the 23gb update means i'll have online capability in about June (currently estimating 99+hours to download it). So i've had to limit myself to purely single player.

 

This definitely on the list to go back to asap at the end of the month.

 

So maybe I do like the right kind of FPS games, 

 

Next Up : Reus

 

[wtru9]

8 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

 

Try Civ 2 or Civ 3.  Civ 2 was the heroin of my college days, I just needed a constant fix.  Civ 3 expanded and added some decent ideas and eliminated stupid combat things like your tank being defeated by a catapult.

Civ 4 really went down hill in my opinion. They "Madden"ed it, meaning they added features not necessary. Haven't played 5. But if your computer is having trouble, try Civ 3. 

 

I'll certainly have a look at Civ 3 at some point. Problem is I've played so many good games during this event that I have to go back to, and Persona 5 is coming just after the event finishes which I have been waiting years for, it's going be a while before I start any new games again!

[Fitzquaid]

18 minutes ago, dizzyshadow said:

Game 8 - Doom - Final Review

 

Nice, someone else playing Doom for the event.  I've just started it today and I'm impressed by how lightning fast it feels compared to most other modern FPS games.  Hopefully I'll enjoy it as much as you!

 

5 hours ago, dmland12 said:

I really loved the Choose Your Own Adventure stuff as a child and probably checked out every such book my middle school library had over time.  I had considered mentioning this in my Lone Wolf review, but there were considerable fewer random deaths in Lone Wolf and I didn't really think of them as gamebooks.  I had never heard of any of the rest of these gamebooks or the term itself before.  

 

You're right, the Choose Your Own Adventure books probably wouldn't fall into the same category as the rest, but they're close enough relations that I thought they were worth mentioning.  I guess there's a sliding scale from 'just make choices and see what happens', through 'also you have stats and have to roll dice for combat', ending up at 'basically here's an entire pen and paper RPG stuffed into a paperback'.

[FFHannibal]

Ugh ffs, I had an entire review written up and then I somehow went to another page by accident. I came back and only the first sentence was saved... Guess I won't be posting it tonight then (or ever).

 

This is why I usually write them in a regular doc

 

Edited March 25, 2017 by FFHannibal

[dmland12]

4 hours ago, NebbyLunala said:

 

Wait, hold on... I think I remember reading one of those books back in my youth, I think it was where you explored a city and tried to find a way through the city but needed four codes for a chant that would open the lock at the other gate. I really enjoyed gamebooks myself before I got into video games.

 

I don't remember much about any plot from these books, but I do remember dying randomly because I chose to investigate someplace instead of some other place, etc.  Maybe there were some clues that were too subtle for me at the time, but the outcomes of my choices seemed very random.

[dmland12]

4 hours ago, voodoo_eyes said:

Game #9

 

Well, it's time to piss a lot of people off I guess. I generally try to leave the opinions on the game for the final day, but fuck me this is one of the most boring RPGs I've ever played. Maybe my expectations for this were too high, or maybe it would have a different impact on me, if I had continued playing it on PS1. What's certain is, that it doesn't hold up at all.

It actually feels like a chore to play this, as it's just feels so damn tedious.

 

I'm one of the few that think that Final Fantasy III/VI is better than VII, so you'll get no hate from me!  Still, I don't think VII is a bad game or anything.

 

59 minutes ago, dizzyshadow said:

Next Up : Reus

 

I'm very interested in hearing what you think, as I'm considering taking a leap and buying this one from the current NA flash sale.

[Jaguargenie]

Game # 7

Final Review

Rochard

Trophies: 6/14 (28%)

My completion: 73.69% (-1.44%)

 

I only was able to force myself to play about 2 hours of this. I just couldnt. I was so bored...

 

Pros: The art style is bright, vibrant and pretty. It's cartoony in a good way. It's a cool idea to build a game around with a grav gun where you can manipulate stuff.

 

The controls are relatively reaponsive. You can't have a platform without good controls. 

 

Yeah... that's about it. 

 

Cons: Boring.

 

They ran out of ideas and every room becomes a task of stack boxes and then turning off gravity for a moon jump. That is until...

 

The deeper you get, the more the rooms turn into bullet hells. You spend as much time sitting and letting your health recharge as you do advancing.

 

It's not a bad game, just not one I'm going to play much after the event if at all. 

 

Overall: (DMC rating scale)

C 

 

Platinum Potential: (DMC scale)

E

 

Up next: AC 4: Black Flag

 

**Stories: Path of Destinies update**

There are about 25 different endings. How many can you go through before it starts to get boring? 

The answer is about 10...

[Melanogaster1987]

Game #8: Dead Space

 

And so we come to Dead Space - my first real foray into the survival horror genre. I probably wouldn't have considered buying this if not for Dead Space 3 being free on Playstation Plus some time ago. It looked very interesting, and I really don't like jumping straight into the third game in a series without trying the first two beforehand - so let's see what this franchise will have in store for me.

 

You play as Isaac Clarke, part of a team that was sent on a rescue mission to the USG Ishimura mining ship. However, you soon find that the ship is overrun with mutants, and your rescue mission quickly descends into a fight to save yourselves. These mutants are truly gruesome looking things that provide ample jump scares. The best way of disposing of them is to blow their limbs off one by one as they continue to attack and creep up on you, with blood squirting out all the time, giving this game a high "squick" factor too. This combined with some tremendous sound effects that will very frequently make you say "Just what the hell was that?" at even the most innocent of noises (such as the sound of vegetables being watered!) means that Dead Space has exactly the kind of gripping atmosphere you want in a survival horror title.

 

Furthermore, the pacing has been perfect - just when you think that you're becoming desensitised to the various kinds of mutants, the game throws a new type at you which will make you go "Argh! Where's the brain bleach!?"

 

You have a varied arsenal of weapons, each with two firing modes, that you can use to keep the mutants at bay, as well as kinesis and stasis powers that allow Isaac to move objects from afar and slow down time respectively. I find that everything has its uses and it feels like there are a thousand different ways to win each battle; you never feel than any one weapon or power is worthless, and conversely, that there's never only one overpowered tool that you absolutely must use in a given situation. The flamethrower will save your bacon against swarms of small enemies but rapidly runs of of fuel, the line gun's mines work well when you need a big explosion but it has a low ammo count, stasis is a very handy thing to have against fast moving mutants but it runs off rarely-found charge packs... I could go on and on. In fact, I'm not even half way through the game and I'm already looking forward to doing a second run using a different playstyle.

 

This game seriously encourages exploring all the little side rooms on the Ishimura - there are items everywhere, as well as text, audio and video logs that fill in the details of the plot. The glut of items combined with the fact that you can only hold so much stuff at once means that there's a ton of inventory management to be done, but it never seems like a chore and only adds to the tension - every choice on what to take and what to leave behind feels like a life or death decision, especially as the game sends more and more mutants your way and you find your supplies of health packs and ammo slowly but surely dwindling.

 

Also, just because there's a lot of room to explore doesn't mean that you're always getting lost. The in-game map may be a bit hard to read, but pressing R3 puts up a line on the floor that shows you the exact route to follow - I wish more games had this feature instead of just an on-screen arrow that can often mislead.

 

Some parts of the game have you journey outside the ship's airlock, and it's so nice to see a game that does physics in the airless and gravity-free environment of outer space right - that is, no sound, the flamethrower becomes unusable (fire can't burn without oxygen), and you really do feel disoriented in zero gravity. Having said that, the parts where you have to jump around in zero G could have been better; which parts of the ship you can jump to and which you can't feels very arbitrary so there's a fair amount of trial and error here.

 

Finally, the story seems a bit one-dimensional in the first few chapters; it's always "The Ishimura has critical problem X, and we need item Y from location Z to fix it. Done that? Good, now we've got problem A, so grab item B from area C. Done that? Now it's problem P that needs item Q from location R..." - but I have now reached chapter 6 and things have just started to get a lot more interesting; can't wait to see how it will all pan out.

 

My rating: There's very little not to like. Dead Space is a game that you simply must play. Platinum - and very likely to be the first game I'm going to come back to after this event is done.

 

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Trophies earned in this game: 10 (10) for 150 points
Total trophies earned in this event: 105 (2, 17, 86) for 1,980 points

 

Current completion rate: 61.34% [Down 5.33% since start of event; Down 0.65% as a result of this game]

[PerryToxteth]

1 hour ago, FFHannibal said:

Ugh ffs, I had an entire review written up and then I somehow went to another page by accident. I came back and only the first sentence was saved... Guess I won't be posting it tonight then (or ever).

 

This is why I usually write them in a regular doc

 

 

I feel your pain, I've had it happen to me twice in this event.  I figured it was the computer gods frowning on my use of an iPad instead of just using a PC. The convenience of the couch or the reliability of the desktop? Oh, the life decisions. 

[DamagingRob]

6 hours ago, voodoo_eyes said:

 

I don't have any kind of nostalgia factor with that game, as I barely played it back then. Those that do and enjoyed it at the time, will most likely still enjoy it today. I for one simply don't find it enjoyable at all so far.

I would say all the PS1 Final Fantasy games can still be enjoyed today. But maybe I'm blinded by nostalgia..

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

3 hours ago, dizzyshadow said:

you start the game you are tried to slab and there is some sort of demonic ritual going on and you are about to be sacrificed, you manage to break free and then discover what is happening. There's a very silly story about the Hell dimension and solving power crisis, i've also concluded the player character is not a very nice guy (the way he treats the poor robots who give you the weapon upgrades in particular doesn't sit well with me).

 

He's the Doom Slayer, he's going to kill demons so our dimension stays safe. Being nice is not part of the job description.

 

I usually don't like FPS at all, I loved the new DOOM though. It's so gleefully testosterone-filled...

 

I want to go into the points you make about the beginning of the story but you'll find out the truth yourself at some point, no need for me spoiling it. You should've noticed though that you were not exactly on a slab... but IN one. That's a big story clue right there.

[Alpsmile05]

Game 9, Day 1: Manual Samuel

 

 

Time played: 3-4 hours?

 

So what is it? It's a game where you have to control Sam who dies and is given a chance by death to revive, but to do so he needs to survive a whole day doing everything manually. And if we say everything we mean everything. You have a button to make him inhale, an other one to make him exhale, 1 to make him blink, 1 to move the right leg, 1 for the left leg, and so on...

 

Initial impressions: This game is just hilarious. You just have to laugh when playing this game, not only is it fun doing everything manually but the story is very funny too. Death is a skaterboy grim reaper for instance, his main goal is to do a kickflip! You get the picture, it's just absurd but very funny.

 

My progress then: I started off playing solo and made it up to chapter 6 (the game is really short and it doesn't take long to finish chapters). But then I thought by myself: this is a game that my girlfriend will really like also, so I proposed to her to play together in coop. (In coop you asign buttons to each player as you wish). To make it extra funny we each took control of 1 leg, 1 arm, ... which made it even funnier, the number off times we fell because one of us moved faster than the other... Together we made it all the way up to the final boss fight at the end of chapter 8, we haven't beaten the boss yet but we certainly will.

 

So far I've unlocked 13 out off the 28 trophies, which is good for 31%.

 

I would advice this game to anyone who wants a good laugh, it's worth it!

[NebbyLunala]

While I did enjoy FF7, I don't really think I can play it now because the graphics are too primitive IMHO to what I play nowadays. Back then, when I was in college, I took what I got. Yuffie is my favorite character as she's so snarky and I felt sad when Aeris was murdered but wasn't rabid about finding a way to resurrect her. Why give her the ultimate staff if she is going to come back?

 

Anyways, I hope they don't have a trophy in the remake which forces you to manipulate stuff so you have to do the Barret outing at Gold Saucer again. I never did that path - don't get me wrong, Barret and Cloud do bond but I prefer not to piss of any of the female characters.

[DamagingRob]

2 hours ago, NebbyLunala said:

While I did enjoy FF7, I don't really think I can play it now because the graphics are too primitive IMHO to what I play nowadays. Back then, when I was in college, I took what I got. Yuffie is my favorite character as she's so snarky and I felt sad when Aeris was murdered but wasn't rabid about finding a way to resurrect her. Why give her the ultimate staff if she is going to come back?

 

Anyways, I hope they don't have a trophy in the remake which forces you to manipulate stuff so you have to do the Barret outing at Gold Saucer again. I never did that path - don't get me wrong, Barret and Cloud do bond but I prefer not to piss of any of the female characters.

See, graphics aren't really an issue with me. I have bought tons of PS1 games since buying my Vita. Some were awesome(Dino Crisis 1 &2, Parasite Eve, Crono Trigger/Cross, etc.), and others I couldn't really get into(Syphon Filter, Parasite Eve 2, and the old Tomb Raider games). This was always due to not enjoying the gameplay, though. Not because of how they looked.

[PerryToxteth]

39 minutes ago, DamagingRob said:

See, graphics aren't really an issue with me. I have bought tons of PS1 games since buying my Vita. Some were awesome(Dino Crisis 1 &2, Parasite Eve, Crono Trigger/Cross, etc.), and others I couldn't really get into(Syphon Filter, Parasite Eve 2, and the old Tomb Raider games). This was always due to not enjoying the gameplay, though. Not because of how they looked.

 

As i get older and start showing the symptoms of arthritis, I will squarely blame Syphon Filter for all the damn finger contorting that was required for the controls in that game.  

[voodoo_eyes]

6 hours ago, dmland12 said:

 

I'm one of the few that think that Final Fantasy III/VI is better than VII, so you'll get no hate from me!  Still, I don't think VII is a bad game or anything.

 

 

I'm very interested in hearing what you think, as I'm considering taking a leap and buying this one from the current NA flash sale.

 

To be fair, I don't think it's bad. It's just incredibly bland from what I've played so far.

 

4 hours ago, DamagingRob said:

I would say all the PS1 Final Fantasy games can still be enjoyed today. But maybe I'm blinded by nostalgia..

 

My first contact with FF was XIII. I used to play mainly on PC until like 2008, and there I mostly played FPS, Western RPGs, RTS and MMOs..I actually think nostalgia has often a lot to do with how someone views a game. Like Grim Fandango for instance, I played the original when it was released and loved it, then I played the remaster and still enjoyed the hell out of it. Even though I can objectively say that the graphics are shit, controls are jank as fuck and most of the moon logic is absolutely mental. All that doesn't matter to me as I still have loads of fun with it.

 

2 hours ago, NebbyLunala said:

While I did enjoy FF7, I don't really think I can play it now because the graphics are too primitive IMHO to what I play nowadays. Back then, when I was in college, I took what I got. Yuffie is my favorite character as she's so snarky and I felt sad when Aeris was murdered but wasn't rabid about finding a way to resurrect her. Why give her the ultimate staff if she is going to come back?

 

Anyways, I hope they don't have a trophy in the remake which forces you to manipulate stuff so you have to do the Barret outing at Gold Saucer again. I never did that path - don't get me wrong, Barret and Cloud do bond but I prefer not to piss of any of the female characters.

 

I still take graphics into consideration, it's part of the game and therefore has to be evaluated. It tends to be of minor importance when I rate games though. My main focus tends to go to mechanics and gameplay and if those don't feel right then I'll rip the game apart.

[Metal Slime King]

FFVII is pretty bland until you get out of Midgar. It's kind of like how FFXIII is way too linear until you get to the grass lands but fortunately it shouldn't take 20 ingame hours to get out of Midgar.

[Myu]

Day 24 Final Review : The Guided Fate Paradox

 

 

Trophies : 4/45 (5%)

Time played : 4 hours

Completion : 85.54% (3.44% since the beginning of the event)

 

This game is the prequel to The Awakened Fate Ultimatum which I reviewed a few days ago, so this is a dungeon-crawler, again.

 

This time, you are a high-schooler convinced of being the most unlocky person on the planet. You see, the guy has never even won the shopping mall lottery yet... until one day, a nice girl in a maid outfit convinces him to try his luck. And guess what ? He wins the grand prize : he is now God ! The girl is actually an angel and they both teleport to Celestia, the angel's city with only 6 inhabitants.

 

You have to learn to be God by granting wishes to different beings (and that includes characters from fairy tales, zombies, …). In order to do that, you have to progress through the floors of each dungeon, defeat enemies, power-up and watch cutscenes after cutscenes after cutscenes. The floors are very small right now, maybe they'll expend as I progress but for now, it seems like the game lets you play for two minutes before switching to a cutscene.

 

So far, the story behind the first wish was interesting, the one behind the second wish not so much but still better than the Awakened Fate Ultimatum. The angels assisting you are not that angelic and they are not wishing for your happiness, except for the little maid who accompanies you in battle.

 

In the dungeons, traps are everywhere and they deal a lot of damage.

The weapon system is still a little difficult to grasp. Basically, the items you equip gain EXP when you defeat monsters and when you get them to 100%, you can pay the blacksmith to boost them. The items get a +1 next to their name and you get a stat bonus depending on their category.

So far, I've obtained so many weapons, I don't know if the best solution is to level them all and boost them at the blacksmith to get easy stat boosts or if I should stick to a weapon and boost it again and again to get it to +3, +4, +5, etc. The blacksmith is not cheap and it gets more and more expensive as the item levels up.

 

Overall, I have the feeling that this game will not be easy to plat and it will probably get 100-200 hours to get everything done, depending on the RNG Gods.

[DamagingRob]

7 hours ago, voodoo_eyes said:

My first contact with FF was XIII. I used to play mainly on PC until like 2008, and there I mostly played FPS, Western RPGs, RTS and MMOs..I actually think nostalgia has often a lot to do with how someone views a game. Like Grim Fandango for instance, I played the original when it was released and loved it, then I played the remaster and still enjoyed the hell out of it. Even though I can objectively say that the graphics are shit, controls are jank as fuck and most of the moon logic is absolutely mental. All that doesn't matter to me as I still have loads of fun with it.

I liked the Grim Fandango remaster, and I had never played that before. Tank controls were kinda annoying, but I was used to it from Dino Crisis, Resident Evil, etc. I'm really not that hard to please. Just don't be Munch's Oddysee and we're good.  

 

 

Day 1

 

When can I expect to get a trophy in this game? I'd better pick up the pace today, if I want this to actually lower my completion. But played for almost 2 hours yesterday, and completed the first chapter. If that seems long, it's due to locating collectibles. :/ But it seems fun.

 

I started out on the lowest difficulty, which is actually really easy. Haven't even needed to heal, yet. Combat is a mix of melee and shooting. After performing a melee combo, you can press  to execute a vehicle finishing move.  activates a special attack, that takes awhile to recharge. And pressing  &  together, executes an ultimate attack.  is also used to dodge enemy attacks, and transform from car to autobot form and vice versa. Some enemies have shields, which require gaining speed in car form and smashing them with . 

 

Every chapter has numerous missions, and the faster you kill the enemies, the less damage you take, and possibly other factors, the better the grade you'll get. Better grades yield better rewards. Rewards come in the form of new weapons. And the higher the grade of weapons you have, the better off you'll be. 

 

You need to enter vehicle mode to get through some areas, where the wind is too strong for your autobot form. And there are boosts to drive through in the driving sections, that give you bursts of speed. And that's about all there is to say, so far. 

 

Time played: ~2 hours. 

Trophy progress: 0/31

[NebbyLunala]

11 hours ago, PerryToxteth said:

As i get older and start showing the symptoms of arthritis, I will squarely blame Syphon Filter for all the damn finger contorting that was required for the controls in that game.  

 

Once I hit middle age and start having arthritis, I'll put all the blame on Kingdom Hearts games for their insane button mashing you have to do to avoid getting sniped.

3 hours ago, Myu said:

Day 24 Final Review : The Guided Fate Paradox

 

 

Trophies : 4/45 (5%)

Time played : 4 hours

Completion : 85.54% (3.44% since the beginning of the event)

 

This game is the prequel to The Awakened Fate Ultimatum which I reviewed a few days ago, so this is a dungeon-crawler, again.

 

I had played the first dungeon of this game many years ago, the one involving Cinderella, and I got really bored really fast. I should have been used to the insane complications of gameplay considering it's a NI game, but nope, this is really bad.

Edited March 26, 2017 by NebbyLunala

[Kevvik]

Game #9: The Book of Unwritten Tales 2

 

Early impressions

Time played - 7.5 hrs

 

So this is another point-and-click, I chose a lot more of these than I had planned I guess, not thinking about genre when I did my list.  

 

You play as multiple characters at different parts of the story. There's Ivo, an elvish princess with a relatively crazy father and over-protective mother. Wilbur, a gnome working at the mages school as a teacher even though gnomes apparently aren't able to do magic. Nate, a relatively useless pirate and his sidekick, the slightly amorphous blob creature, Critter, who seems more intelligent than Nate.  

 

The he storyline has a few paths which I assume will converge. I'm not sure if it is a lengthy story or just a lot of filler puzzles along the way. Ivo needs to escape the eleven castle to go see the Archmage. Wilbur is trying to protect the Archmage from an evil plot and to not lose a local election to the greedy head of the merchants. Nate and Critter just seem to be trying to keep Nate alive. A fluctuating timeline has these events heading for a meeting down the road.

 

The puzzles are straightforward for the most part, often getting you to interact with things to figure out what puzzle to work out next. Some are intuitive, others less so. The controls are serviceable. Use item A with item B or at location C, you know the drill.

 

The dialogue is fairly humorous but the good writing still seems to fall flat at times despite good voice-acting. I feel at times like I should be enjoying this more than I am and not really sure why. There's a lot of backtracking and while the areas aren't that numerous it still feels tedious at times. I've got a magic postcard that lets me hop from area to area in town now but it still feels like it drags.

 

There are a few clever bits I really liked. There is a time travel puzzle where as you go back in time, the graphics change to 16-bit then 8-bit with no audio followed by the game becoming a text adventure.  The game is also somewhat self-aware which adds to the humor at times. 

 

I'm referring to a guide but only for missable trophies not puzzle-solving. Knowing where the trophies are is often enough to be able to sort them out on your own.

Overall, I'm enjoying this but as I said, not as much as I thought I would be.

 

Trophies so far - 21/51

Rating so far: 6/10

 

[Myu]

34 minutes ago, NebbyLunala said:

 

Once I hit middle age and start having arthritis, I'll put all the blame on Kingdom Hearts games for their insane button mashing you have to do to avoid getting sniped.

 

I had played the first dungeon of this game many years ago, the one involving Cinderella, and I got really bored really fast. I should have been used to the insane complications of gameplay considering it's a NI game, but nope, this is really bad.

 

Trust me, the second one is worse. It's about a zombie who wants to stop being bullied by his peers. I went up to Floor 5 in this chapter and the creature is still moping and whining about his weak body and personality. At least, Cinderella wanting to get out of her repetitive story was interesting compared to that.  

You know, sometimes you play a game and you think "how is that game not more popular? it's pretty good", like Sorcery Saga for example, and then you stumble upon games such as the Guided Fate Paradox or the Awakened Fate Ultimatum and the only thing you think is "oh, now I see why." I'll still have to plat the game though  

[NebbyLunala]

2 minutes ago, Myu said:

You know, sometimes you play a game and you think "how is that game not more popular? it's pretty good", like Sorcery Saga for example, and then you stumble upon games such as the Guided Fate Paradox or the Awakened Fate Ultimatum and the only thing you think is "oh, now I see why." I'll still have to plat the game though  

 

Yeah, I see what you mean. Some of NISA's games are cult hits(Disgaea, Neptunia and Alteier) and then... there are these.

 

Anyway, I did a unoffical Kill Your Completion on my own account with these games, if anyone is interested:

1. Bastion (22%)
2. Buff Knight Advanced (45%)
3. Dark Cloud 2 (11%)
4. Disgaea 5 (12%)
5. Ginger: Beyond the Crystal (17%)
6. Rogue Galaxy (8%)
7. Shantae: Half-Genie Hero (84%) - my most complete game
8. The Deadly Tower of Monsters (4%)
9. Unravel (1%)