KYC 777

[Metal Slime King]

Oh man! How did I confuse those two games? Thanks for the clarification @Dr_Mayus! You should check out Type:Rider.

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

@Metal Slime King @Dr_Mayus I never bought Typoman because my backlog was big enough already. I really enjoyed Type:Rider, cool game.

[Dr_Mayus]

1 hour ago, Metal Slime King said:

Oh man! How did I confuse those two games? Thanks for the clarification @Dr_Mayus! You should check out Type:Rider.

all good

 

Actually your description at the beginning kind of sounded like Typoman so I was a little confused for a bit

 

 

[crimsonidol38]

Game 5, Day 1

Muv-Luv Extra / Muv-Luv Unlimited (PS Vita)

 

At first I thought about playing either Marvel Ultimate Alliance, or Owlboy but after having some stressing (yet fun) days with Sundered I wanted to play something more relaxing, so I decided to start the visual novel Muv-Luv.

 

Initially the game's western localization was funded via a Kickstarter-campaign back in 2015. One stretch goal was to bring over the Vita-versions to the west. Before the campaign I only knew that Muv-Luv is a rather famous VN-series, being very popular for it's dystopian story with mechas, aliens (and girls in skin-tight body suits). The sexual aspects aside I was curious what this all was about so I decided to support the campaign. Two and a half years later the devs finally released the Vita-ports. At the beginning of June I received my download codes, whereas my physical versions are dated to arrive next week so I think this also gave me the incentive to start reading the stories.

The game which is listed as Muv-Luv on this site is actually a collection of two stories. One being called Muv-Luv (Extra), the other one being called Muv-Luv Unlimited. There's also a third story called Muv-Luv Alternative, which has it's own trophy list. The situation therefor is rather similar to the Zero Escape-series where Nonary Games contains the first two installments and then Zero Time Dilemma being a separate entry (or Danganronpa for PS4). 

 

Of course I started with the first game in the series and read for about one and half hour. Muv-Luv Extra seems to be typical romantic comedy. The story resolves around a guy called Takeru and his childhood friend and girl from next door Sumika (the red-haired girl from the banner). Both spend most of their days together, living a normal life and having fun while playing games or punching each other due to their stupid behavior. Sumika also has a crush on Takeru but he didn't seem to notice it. The only extraordinary thing seems to be the fact that they both go to a school with quite a bunch of extroverted persons with strange personalities. This normal life ends rather abrupt as one day Takeru wakes up and realizes that an unfamiliar girl called Meiya (the blue-haired one from the banner) lies right beside him in his bed. Starting from that point Takeru has to deal with Meiya and her extraordinary surrounding as she's the daughter of a rich and influential family and also has to find out why she suddenly appeared and why everything around him seems to become a huge mess with all girls around him becoming a harem.

 

Visual Novels seem to be either hit or miss for me. Especially the ones that focus on romance can be quite a letdown for me, even if they seem to quite praised. E.g. Nurse Love Addiction was such a case where I had to force myself to finish it as the writing didn't feel engaging at all and felt like a run-of-the-mill novel without any outstanding features or story segment. Muv-Luv on the other side seems to hit my sweet spot. One example is the art direction.

Muv-Luv has a rather "old" style (being originally from 2003 it's no real surprise) and either you like it or you hate it. Personally I quite like it. Nonetheless Muv-Luv still features more vividness that most modern VNs. Many VNs have rather static scenes with only small changes in facial expressions but here you can also see that characters tilt their head, move to the fore- or background etc. The movement is still rather static but still gives some form of enjoyment as you don't see still images all the time.. And from to time the scenes are spiced up by doing some random shenanigans like displaying the characters in crayon-like look, adding comic-like scribbles or they just break the text box when someone starts a wall of text. Some examples from the first hour:

Spoiler

(no this is not Neptune  )

 

(this thing is 60 metres (/ 65 yards) long  )

 

(yadda yadda yadda)

 

Just don't expect anything extraordinary when it comes to gameplay. When it comes to this department Muv-Luv is a basic as a (non-kinetic) Visual Novel can be. There don't seem to be any random minigames or the likes. Instead you just choose between different options at some given points to trigger one of the different endings.

 

Personally I'm quite excited how the story will unfold as I wonder how it will be explained that story will go from a "typical" rom com to a battle for mankind's survival against such things:

Spoiler

 

But I guess I will only find out way after KYC as the stories seem to be rather long. Muv-Luv Extra+Unlimited is listed as being between 30 and 50 hours and Unlimited as 50+ hours (unless you skip to simply gain some trophies  ).

 

Bring it on.  

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

 

Game #2 - MagRunner: Dark Pulse

Final Review

Total playtime: just under six hours

Trophies: 18/25 for an A rank

 

Iä, Iä, Cthulhu fhtagn

PH'NGLUI MGLW'NAFH CTHULHU R'LYEH

WGAH'NAGL FHTAGN! IÄ! IÄ! 

 

 

... yup, that's both chanting and a haiku. I just did that.

Anyway, I got through Act III today.

I probably wouldn't give MagRunner a 10/10 any more, being harsher on its few flaws (mostly the voice acting/writing), but the game holds up very well, better than I hoped for.

Remember that I played through the game on X360 at least twice, so a first time playthrough would probably take you longer than six hours(without a guide). I'm still going to recommend MagRunner to everybody who doesn't hate any part of the basic premise of the game. There's little originality in here but rather a very well done experience with glued together parts from ideas other game devs and writers had, and people who play games like Portal, Talos Principle and Q.U.B.E. should not ignore this gem.

I've got not much to add to the full review I made four years ago and shared in my day one review here. Everything is a bit dated now so the graphics are less impressive, but it still looks and plays very good. I find myself actually appreciating the soundtrack even more, it's so uncomfortably well done...

 

MagRunner: Dark Pulse final score:

A great puzzle game set in the lore of the Cthulhu mythos. If you're still gaming on PS3 and you don't hate either first person puzzling and/or Eldritch horrors, then there's no reason not to pick up this game, even at full price it has a long and fun enough solo story to offer.

 

Next up:

Rayman 3 HD, because I'm just going to sit and game in my mancave for the rest of the weekend. Might even start today.

 

Edited July 14, 2018 by Ezio Auditore da Fir
Site made an inception spoiler

[xFalionx]

Why do I have to spend literally every weekend with computer repairs?  Seems like the old HDD wasn‘t the only thing in there that has given up on life, so until I’ve figured out what on earth is still wrong with that damn piece of scrap metal, I‘ll have to resort to using my iPad for reviews, which is mildly agitating to say the least. And since I get the bulk of my playtime in on weekends Lost Planet 3 might suffer a little as well. Anyways, currently I‘m hoping it‘s just one of my RAM sticks acting up since I‘m still able to manage with half my RAM but if it‘s literally any other part I‘m gonna have one hell of a time figuring out how to replace it... Actually, within the hour or two it took to write this on my iPad, I’ve got it to work again. I guess I still need to do some testing as it looks like the RAM itself isn’t faulty but the slot itself, as my other stick wasn’t even recognised in the first slot...

 

Anyways, enough ranting for today and on to my first thoughts:

 

Game #3: Lost Planet 3 (PS3)

1st day

Total playtime: about 1 hour.

So I’ve got some very mixed feelings about this.

 

You start the game and get welcomed by the main menu along with some very fitting music, setting the mood. The. The first thing you see when starting a new game is some grandfather buried under rubble, telling his granddaughter the story of how this even started before he presumably dies. Obviously I’m missing some story here because I didn’t play the previous games, so I’ve got no clue who that old guy or the woman next to him is and how they got into that situation but since I apparently managed to grab a prequel game, that should be fine. 

 

Anyways, we’re playing a younger version of the dying old dude, who is replacing a deceased team member of an organization in search of alternative energy sources on an alien planet. The game starts off with a crash landing on said planet after which we meet up with a team that was probably looking for us. On the way to the base, there’s an alien attack and you’ve gotta kill them while repairing the vehicle and getting back onto it. After a short introduction to the base, the player finally gets their own rig, a huge mech thingie with a drill attached to it, and has to go looking for the French guy who went missing after saving your ass. That’s as far as I got.

 

The gameplay is that of a frantic 3rd person shooter with enemies that jump at you as well as evasion mechanics. There is a certain horror atmosphere, even though it’s not really a horror game. Most of the game so far has been spent in dark alien infested caverns and even the base which is on the surface of the planet is an arctic desert. I’m more into those colourful landscapes that games like The Witcher 3 or No Mans Sky (yes I said that, fight me) have to offer, so not really my thing.

 

The aliens themselves are weird looking creatures. For example, one of them looks like they took the bulb of Bulbasaur and made it grow 4 large insect legs. There are also armoured aliens that can only be killed by hitting their very obvious red, glowing weak spot multiple times. They drop T-ENG, which is used to purchase new weapons and is also the energy source the aforementioned organization is looking to harness.

 

My main gripe with the game is the battle system, though it might be my own fault for starting the game on the highest difficulty. The enemies are bullet sponges and I basically have to reload after every other kill. They hit like trucks and their movements are not that predictable as they have a very delayed attack after the initial attack animation. This alone is not that bad and I’ve found fight with up to four enemies fairly doable, especially now that I have a shotgun and a combat knife besides my pistol. The problem I have is very similar to the problem @Crimson Idol had with Sundered, as the game overwhelms you with so many of these enemies (I’ve seen 8-12 at once at times) that it just feels cheap whenever you die. What makes this worse is that you cannot skip cutscenes and that you have to rewatch the previous cutscene whenever you die because of the nature of the checkpoints. This makes every one of the plentiful deaths I’ve had so far feel so much worse.

 

I’ve found that the best method to deal with these large groups of enemies is to put on the Benny Hill theme in the background, spam  to roll through the hordes of enemies, hoping you don’t get stuck in their humongous collision boxes and herd them into a corner. Then do the same thing again to get back to the other side of the area and pick them off one by one as they  one running towards you, as they only start jumping at you after they get within a certain distance of you. This has the added benefit that your health regenerates while you roll around like a mad man.

 

Overall I think I like this game and I’m curious to see what that old dude so desperately wanted his granddaughter to know about.

 

17 hours ago, Crimson Idol said:

Both games are only available on PS4 (and PC, Switch, X1). And honestly I don't think that the Vita could handle of both. Especially Sundered would be a nightmare as the bosses are quite large. I only played against the first real boss but just check this video:

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This on the Vita's screen would be quite troublesome.

Yeah, that’s clearly made for large screens. It’s a shame though as I think the gameplay would fit the Vita pretty well and the 2D animation wouldn’t be as taxing as modern 3D graphics. But looking at this, resizing different elements or zooming in also wouldn’t work or would take away from the feel and playability of the game. I guess that’s more games I might play whenever I get a PS4, then.

 

17 hours ago, Crimson Idol said:

Good to see that you were able to afford a replacement. And doing a fresh Windows installation sounds so 90s-style. Only had to do this when running Windows 98 or Windows ME.

With all the trouble my PC has given me in the last year, performing a clean install has become second nature to me but I guess nowadays you just get a new PC and Windows comes preinstalled, then it usually works long enough for the next upgrade to happen. But then again, the Windows install is usually the least troublesome part of troubleshooting a problem that’s significant enough to require such a measure.

 

17 hours ago, Crimson Idol said:

Compared to your situation it's surely only a typical #FirstWorldProblem for me. It's just a bit annoying as I actually prefered to use the Slim for disc-based games as it less noisy than the Super Slim.

Interesting, now I’m wondering if my fat PS3 would have been louder or quieter. Though the console itself is pretty loud, so the disc noise is pretty trivial. But it’s always annoying when electronics break, no matter the situation.

 

 

 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

Game #3: Rayman 3 HD

First day
Total playtime: about two hours

 

 

I probably would have enjoyed this game much more if I had played it when it was new.

 

Rayman 3 is a fairly decent 3D platformer which suffers from many of the awkward goofs of all the other early 3D platformers. It's not bad, but it's definitely not aging that well.

 

Not much to say at this point except going back to 2D for Origins/Legends was probably a great idea, as it manages to give Origins/Legends much more speed and fun than this game has.

[MMDE]

3 minutes ago, Ezio Auditore da Fir said:

Game #3: Rayman 3 HD

First day
Total playtime: about two hours

 

 

I probably would have enjoyed this game much more if I had played it when it was new.

 

Rayman 3 is a fairly decent 3D platformer which suffers from many of the awkward goofs of all the other early 3D platformers. It's not bad, but it's definitely not aging that well.

 

Not much to say at this point except going back to 2D for Origins/Legends was probably a great idea, as it manages to give Origins/Legends much more speed and fun than this game has.

 

3D Rayman games are just not that great. First Rayman game had way more speed too, even before you learn running. Only thing they nailed with the new games was the speed of the first game, even if the first game was both slow and speed. Bigger levels to explore,more to discover and really way more varied level design, in the first game that is.

 

Never been a fan of Rayman 3, but it had some nice cutscenes you could unlock, that I thought was funny when I first played the game.

 

 

One of my most favorite platformer games ever!  

[DamagingRob]

Day 1- The Talos Principle

 

Puzzles, puzzles, and more puzzles. Game has a huge Portal feel to it. The puzzle part of it, at least. Don't really find the story that similar. 

 

You wake up in a serene environment, with a voice claiming to be Elohim, saying he created you and this world. You also appear to be a robot. Elohim wants you to explore the world and solve its puzzles, picking up the sigils at the ends of them. But warns you not to climb the tower at the center of these worlds. 

 

As you progress, you can read various emails on computers for more information/backstory, and occasionally exchange messages with someone who tries to get you to defy Elohim. The whole thing seems very reminiscent of the book of Genesis from the Bible. 

 

Puzzles are pretty challenging, and I've had to look up solutions to a few already. :/ There are jammers you can pick up, which can be used to jam cameras (that will shoot if they see you), stop these little robot balls (that are suicidal and will blow you up if you get to close), or to open barriers.

 

Then there are lasers you have to direct to open barriers, with another kind of robot that won't kill you, but interrupt the laser. So you have to find a way to get the laser to its destination with them not getting in the way (blocking their path with a crate, or using fans to elevate the laser beam). Or, if there's no way to remove them from the equation, sometimes you just need to be quick and get through the barrier before they interrupt the laser. 

 

Then there's the recorder ability. This records what you do, so you can essentially create a double of yourself to solve puzzles. 

 

For such a small file size, the game looks quite nice. The first world was a green area with trees and grass. And the second one, which I'm on now, is an Egyptian desert.

 

So yeah, I'm enjoying trying to solve as many of these as I can, to the best of my abilities. Don't really have any complaints yet. 

 

And one last thing, I may need to be on the lookout for an assassin in my game...

Spoiler

@Ezio Auditore da Fir 

 

Time played: 7 hours? 

Trophy progress: 13/40 for 20% and a D rank. 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

@MMDE the first Rayman was cool, but I think Rayman Legends is where the series really gets amazing and able to tower over other games. I've played through that one on PS4 twice already, I'm going for the 100% at this point and I've also started playing it on the Switch.

 

@DamagingRob that's funny ? I remember putting those up, I've put a few in funny places and with weird lines, like that one. You unlock more lines as you progress. I remember playing it and regretting that I didn't have more PSN friends who had played it already, only one person on my feed had it so I only saw the one or two tags he had done.

 

P.S. scan those QR codes with your phone, and you'll see they actually contain that text.

[MMDE]

7 minutes ago, Ezio Auditore da Fir said:

@MMDE the first Rayman was cool, but I think Rayman Legends is where the series really gets amazing and able to tower over other games. I've played through that one on PS4 twice already, I'm going for the 100% at this point and I've also started playing it on the Switch.

 

 

Yeah, already did Rayman Origins on PS3, and Rayman Legends 100% on PS3 and PS4.  They're a bit too easy, a bit too focused on just rushing through the levels, the levels are too alike, the level design is kinda awful for anything other than speedrun, the secrets are not secret at all, the collectibles is a chore (too boring), the music is not as good, surprisingly just as polished. Really, all good I can say about Rayman Legends compared to Rayman 1 is that Rayman Legends is that I liked to speedrun the levels, but that's about it. So eh, nah, they don't tower over the first game whatsoever. Not sure why you even say that. Rayman Origins and Legends is a rehash, which IMO failed at living up to the original, not capturing anything of what made the first so great, but they were a fun play regardless. They are definitely better than the 3D games, that's for sure. My favorite 3D Rayman would be "M/Rush/Arena".

Edited July 14, 2018 by MMDE

[MarkusT1992]

Game #4: This is the Police

 

 

This is the Police is a police simulation (obviously). You are Jack Boyd, a police chief, set to retire in 180 days. Your goal is to make 500.000$ in your remaining six months. How you do this is up to you.

You can gain money through normal means like your weekly paycheck or use the help of the local Mafia. They might ask to look away during a crime.

During the story your partner asks you if you would help him. He's a corrupt cop involved with the Mafia. He want's to leave the country but needs another trushworthy insider for the Mafia. Otherwise he and his familly might be in danger. It's your choice whether to help him or not. I chose to help. I don't know what will change if you decline.

The story is presented through comic like panels with spoken text.

 

Gameplay wise it is a combination of a simulation and strategy game. Each day starts with you looking at the city model on your desk. Whil you look at it the whole day calls come in. They can be all kinds of crimes like assault, robbery or murder. Then you have to decide how many of your police officers you want to send. The case determins the maximum amount of cops you can send.

For some crimes you can use the Swat as assistance.

Not all calls are emergencies. I had one from a little girl saying she is held captive. After letting the timer reach zero I learned she was grounded and just wanted to go to the playground.

Beneath the normal emergency you get calls from friend? asking for a little help. One wanted help in his club because his doorman was missing and the line was long. I sent my worst cop to assist. Later I got an message the she quits the police job because she earned more money that day than the whole month at the police.

Then you have the bigger cases which require some investigating. Therefor you send your detectives. After a while you get some info about what happend and a few photos. With each day you get more photos and need to pick the right ones to complete the sequence with the help of the witnesses.

Sometimes your cops ask what to do. If that's the case you get more information on the case. Then you have to decide what to do from some options.

For each succesfull crime saved your involved cops earn a better rating and loose if the culprit escapes. 150 is a solid cop. Everyone below is more or less bad.

 

You have two shifts who rotate every day. After a shift you can ask cops to come to work tomorrow if you need help in the next shift. Too much work isn't good though. At the beginning of the day your cops might ask to get the day off which you can grant or decline. During the shift you can fire cops either legal or illegal. Legal reasons are too old, came drunk to work, didn't come to work at all or bad working (3 failed cases in a row) Firing somebody illegal can have consequences like when I was asked to fir all my afro american cops because of a gang of racists threatening to kill all black cops. Now the prosecution is investigating.

You also can hire new cops, ask the mayor for some things like more money or ask the Mafia for favours which cost money. You want to get rid of some cops? Ask the Mafia to set up afake call to kill the cops you sent to deal witn the case. There are three more options I haven't unlocked yet.

 

So far I played the first seven or eight days and like what I played. I had one shif with only six not that good cops which was a bit tricky. Appart from that it mostly went smooth. Except the one case I lost two cops in a hostage taking, one of them being the black guy I fired that day. That was a very bad day for him. First he loses his job then his live. RIP.

 

Time played: 3-4 hours

Trophies: 1/10

Rating:

 

[Oobedoob S Benubi]

1 hour ago, MMDE said:

 

Yeah, already did Rayman Origins on PS3, and Rayman Legends 100% on PS3 and PS4.  They're a bit too easy, a bit too focused on just rushing through the levels, the levels are too alike, the level design is kinda awful for anything other than speedrun, the secrets are not secret at all, the collectibles is a chore (too boring), the music is not as good, surprisingly just as polished. Really, all good I can say about Rayman Legends compared to Rayman 1 is that Rayman Legends is that I liked to speedrun the levels, but that's about it. So eh, nah, they don't tower over the first game whatsoever. Not sure why you even say that. Rayman Origins and Legends is a rehash, which IMO failed at living up to the original, not capturing anything of what made the first so great, but they were a fun play regardless. They are definitely better than the 3D games, that's for sure. My favorite 3D Rayman would be "M/Rush/Arena".

 

Guess I need to call in @MosesRockefeller, who I know is right now loving Legends as much as I am.

 

Personally I think Origins was a good return to form but Legends is amazing. I think the level design is great, the music is excellent en there's loads of variation in the game. I especially like it when the music synchs up with the movements (or the other way around) in the final level of each world.

 

 

Dis it if you want, but in my opinion Rayman Legends is one of the best platformers in the past decade. That it's not super tough is not a big downside for me, I git my challenge elsewhere. Rayman Legends is clean good fun, and its speed and level design help in keeping it fun for me.

[Kevvik]

Game #5: Spellspire

 

Initial Impressions

 

Time played: ~3 hrs

 

Spellspire is a puzzle game with RPG elements. You play a wee wizard slowly climbing a tower and killing monsters as you go. Can't put it much plainer than that. You have a wand, a robe and a magic hat. You create words from 10 tiles issued to you at the start of each floor. The words damage your enemies which fall through most fantasy tropes so far. Longer words cause more damage it you can use each tile only once in any given word. The monsters can attack you and work off a timer that you can see so you know when you are going to be attacked. If you can kill it before it attacks your day causes damage, all the better. You also pick up items which you can use to fight/heal yourself as well. You can only hold 1 at the start but more once you buy upgrades for your bag.

 

As you finish each floor, you get some gold which you can use to upgrade your gear or buy new stuff if you have unlocked it. You unlock extra gear by clearing floors or redoing them for star rewards. The redo's buff the monsters a bit in health, damage and speed of attack. If you finish the floor with full health, you get the star. Get enough stars and you unlock gear.  Higher wands have attributes like fire, poison and the like to use against monsters with the appropriate weaknesses, found in your monster encyclopedia once you have fought them once. Robes and hats increase defence, damage and health as well as sometimes having special abilities (extra damage for words starting in vowels as an example).

 

Keep working your way up the 100-floor tower, a boss resides every 10th floor that you basically need to kill before it one-hits you. No big loss for dying, you keep gold for creatures you killed on that floor and essentially try again or redo earlier levels to get more gold and buy better equipment. Rinse and repeat.

 

This is enjoyable but repetitive. There is also a dungeon but it doesn't unlock until you conquer the tower. This is where the real grind begins as I understand, though I have yet to experience it. We'll see how it goes.  I had played Letter Quest previous to this and enjoyed it a lot. This doesn't quite have that game's charm but it tries. I'm in the 40s floors and having to work fast and redo some floors but still slowly making progress.  Keep on spelling!

 

Trophies earned: 8/23, 23% for D rank

Score so far: 6.5/10

 

Also finished my all surviving run through Until Dawn and really liked how the story flowed.  Popped a bunch of gold trophies so my CR won't drop as much tomorrow. Next up there, kill everyone. Especially Emily! She's really got to go, I can't think of any really redeeming factors in her personality.  I hope it's a good death (read brutal).

[Metal Slime King]

@Kevvik You playing Spellspire on the Vita or PS4? It makes a pretty big difference. I found the touchscreen controls on the vita worked a lot better than using the controller on PS4 but to offset that the Vita requires you to do 100 levels of the dungeon whereas the PS4 was patched to give you the Chrome Dragon after only 50 dungeon floors. Either way, have fun.

Edited July 14, 2018 by Metal Slime King

[dmland12]

2 hours ago, Ezio Auditore da Fir said:

Dis it if you want, but in my opinion Rayman Legends is one of the best platformers in the past decade. That it's not super tough is not a big downside for me, I git my challenge elsewhere. Rayman Legends is clean good fun, and its speed and level design help in keeping it fun for me.

 

I liked Rayman Legends a lot.  I replayed the musical levels quite a bit and I thought there was plenty of challenge in the daily/weekly challenges.  It's true you don't really need to push yourself on them to get the platinum (at least on PS4), but the challenge of placing in the top 1% is still there if you want it.

 

I never played the original Rayman, so I can't really comment on how it compares, but Legends was a very solid game in my opinion.

[Kevvik]

1 hour ago, Metal Slime King said:

@Kevvik You playing Spellspire on the Vita or PS4? It makes a pretty big difference. I found the touchscreen controls on the vita worked a lot better than using the controller on PS4 but to offset that the Vita requires you to do 100 levels of the dungeon whereas the PS4 was patched to give you the Chrome Dragon after only 50 dungeon floors. Either way, have fun.

 

Playing on Vita so it looks like I'll have the big slog for the platinum. Eventually...

[eigen-space]

First Impressions

Alice: Madness Returns

Current Time Played: ~4 Hours
Current Game Completion: 2% for E Rank (2/51)

 

I'm so bad at this game, there really isn't anything I can do but laugh. I think it's just because I'm not used to platformers, but shit.... I'm not doing well.

 

Started with the DLC as @PooPooBlast recommended to do that first... and as the only requirement for the DLC trophies are to just complete the levels, I picked the "Easy" difficulty. And it's still really hard for me. Might be because the controls suck (which is why it was recommended to do first), but I'm just going to own up to the fact that I suck at this game 

 

I actually really can't say much good about this game either. The controls are janky, the cameras are weird, sometimes I can jump 3x as high as I should be able to, sometimes sound effects get stuck on loop.... and the trophies take FOREVER to pop.... long enough that I've thought it glitched. I'm really displeased at the moment.

The only good thing is Alice's voice. Note that I didn't say voice acting (there isn't much to "act" so far), but the voice is pleasant.

 

Here's hoping that I can get through this DLC to see if the base game is actually any good....

 

Starting Completion: 92.16%
Last Reported Completion: 91.97%
Current Completion: 91.79% (-0.37 / -0.18)

 

Edited July 15, 2018 by eigen-space

[Metal Slime King]

@Kevvik Well it looks like you already got the best trophy in the game.

 

[vin_rob]

On 14-7-2018 at 5:21 AM, Metal Slime King said:

Game #3 - Type:Rider ()

I swapped out Claire because I'm getting really close 100 platinums and I was hoping to save that for Destiny

which desiny are you trying te plat? 

 

Rime

 

 

So Rime is an adventure puzzle game.
At the start of the game you are lying on a beach, after that you have to look around for the way you have to go to continue the story (look for the next puzzle) you could also look start to look for your collectibles.

 

There are 5 chapters in total, where there are only 4 chapters where you really can find collectibles and you need to do puzzle’s chapter 5 is more of a closing chapter.

Controls are pretty basic you can walk, run jump interact with items. And you can sing on that way you have to use that to finish puzzle’s but you can also break pots that way?

In the end I thought the game was pretty cool but at the start it was kind of weird story wise etc.

I got enough time to do an initial run without a guide and a trophy run to get the platina for this game

63,44% completion after the game

[crimsonidol38]

9 hours ago, eigen-space said:

And it's still really hard for me. Might be because the controls suck (which is why it was recommended to do first), but I'm just going to own up to the fact that I suck at this game 

 

Doesn't really surprise me. I also decided to play the DLC first back in 2014 but really disliked the controls as you could clearly see that they only did some simple button-mapping instead of adjusting the controls to be properly played with a gamepad in mind. Madness Returns is a bit more fun. At least what the small parts I played of it as I didn't finish that either. 

23 hours ago, xFalionx said:

Yeah, that’s clearly made for large screens. It’s a shame though as I think the gameplay would fit the Vita pretty well and the 2D animation wouldn’t be as taxing as modern 3D graphics. But looking at this, resizing different elements or zooming in also wouldn’t work or would take away from the feel and playability of the game. I guess that’s more games I might play whenever I get a PS4, then.

 

From what I learned it's not as easy to say "This is a 2D-game, it should run fine on the Vita". As the Vita has far less resources than any other current system (especially the RAM with only 512MB, from which a part still is reserved by the OS) it's harder for devs to develop/port a game to the system if they have far more resources on other system. Especially when they use some of the common game engines like Unreal, Unity, or GameMaker, which tend to make the initial developement way easier than doing everything on your own but if you don't know all possible tweaks it's hard to reduce the bloat those engines come with.

[PooPooBlast]

9 hours ago, eigen-space said:

I actually really can't say much good about this game either. The controls are janky

And that's why I recommended to start with the first

 

It has tank-like controls and you'll die many many times because of it. You can also count the number of polygons that make up Alice but trust me, this'll make you appreciate madness returns 1000x more! That game was insanely good with a really decent plot. Ending had my jaw-dropped! 

 

The only good thing I remember about the original is the atmospheric creepy music. 

 

Good luck! You're not far off in finishing it. I believe the first game is just shy of 10 hrs. 

[Lars]

Game 2: Life is Strange

I like this game so far, i wasn't really sure in the beginning because i didn't really get the story in the beginning but as it started to unfold it became a bit more clear. Although the time rewinding mechanic is a bit weird and for now not explained why she has it.

You play as Max, a normal school girl who has a passion for photography and suddenly discovers that she has the ability to rewind time which gives her all kind of advantages. 

in the first minutes you prevent a murder this way. The game gives you the ability to free roam in small selected area's. But you are still hold by the hand and it is clearly told what you should do. You can interact with many items and have to solve some small puzzles with the time mechanic. 

 

The story so far is interesting but i just played the first act and this is more of an introduction for what is going to happen. The characters are introduced and especially Chloe, an old girlfriend of Max that already had a special role in the beginning of the game but at that moment you as a player didn't know that that was Chloe. I don't know anything story related so far but i have the feeling that she is the most important character of all the characters that are introduced.

Tonight i will play Act 2. I hope the story gets a bit more interesting, other aspects like length are perfect so far.

 

 

[crimsonidol38]

3 minutes ago, Lars said:

Tonight i will play Act 2. I hope the story gets a bit more interesting, other aspects like length are perfect so far.

 

From what I remember I enjoyed Act 2 the most. Act 3 and 4 were also very enjoyable. Act 1 was like you said more like an introduction to everyone. The only disappointment for me was Act 5. Hope you have a good time with the story, as it seems to be either hit or miss for most people. 

[Beyondthegrave07]

Game #3 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole

 

Time spent: 8.5 hours

14/36 trophies - D rank

Current Completion %: 67.80 ? 0.55% since the beginning

 

My expectations were not very high going into this since I had mixed feelings about South Park: The Stick of Truth, but I must say that this game exceeded my expectations in every way possible. The game keeps the wit and laughter of the first one and gets rid of all the technical issues to go along with it. For those who have not played it, the game takes place directly after the first one, where instead of the new kid playing dragons and dungeons, he's playing superhero. You get to pick between various super powers, and no matter what super power you pick, your tragic backstory is always the same... (read it, unless you are just super against spoilers in the first 20 minutes of a game)

Spoiler

Your dad f***ed your mom.

 

I love how they bring up that the tragic backstory makes no sense and got a kick out of it. It feels like a typical South Park episode where they say stupid, nonsensical things because you still have to remember in the end that they are still elementary school kids. 

 

At first, I wasn't sure if I liked the new combat system better than the old one, but after I put in more hours into it, I can definitely say that I like it much more than the first one. This one makes you put in a little more thought into how you tackle each battle. Instead of having it strictly turn-based like the first one, this one adds the element of movement and being able to manipulate your characters and the AI into the perfect spot to accumulate the most damage without setting yourself up to get decimated by your enemies attacks. It turns into a game of cat and mouse at times, but overall I am quite enjoying it. You are also able to customize the abilities you use from various classes (once unlocked) and allows you to create a character with the 4 best moves that fit your strategy. You also are able to equip your players with "artifacts" that will increase your characters power prowess and base stats.

 

All of these elements mixed together makes for a fun, creative game where you essentially can make a character that feels right for you, and honestly, any combination of classes can work together so if you wanted, you could just pick the ones that sound coolest to you. I personally ended up picking the Speedster and Cyborg and then dressed my character up like a ninja to make him a ninja cyborg (an subtle reference to MGS). Luckily, the two classes seem to work well together for me, so I intend on keeping them. The gameplay just seems to expand as it goes; I can definitely tell there is more depth that I haven't quite reached yet. I just want to see what more this game has to offer, and I am honestly having troubles putting this game down atm.  With that said, I will give the game a...

5/5

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Excellent!