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Good ol' TW Shogun 2.
This game has a honor system. In order i suppose for all factions to act as honorably as possible. (cause...Japan? I don't know)
Which is pretty interesting cause the AI couldn't possibly give less of a fck about it. Now, that's a bit weird, the developers worked on a system to reward a certain type of behavior and in the same time programmed the AI to act in the complete opposite way.
Anyway, the game is great fun and aged pretty well i must say. Just forget diplomacy and act if you were at war with everyone, which will be the case anyway soon enough.
Total war they say, they weren't kidding.
I put on the KH3 demo for my cousins. I'm earning my cool uncle and my responsibile uncle badges.
Finished Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut and First Playthrough of Blue Reflection: Second Light. Now playing a smaller metroidvania title, the recent Record of Lodoss War game Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth.
So I just finished it last night, and overall I'd say its a pretty solid 8/10 adventure game for a budget title. Its graphics and gameplay really recreates the fan favorite Symphony of the Night feeling which was the intention, there is a good variety of enemies, bosses are very fun, the Wind/Fire element system was actually used for some clever mechanics in some enemy fights and obstacles. Map design is just Ok, its not Metroid Dread master class or anything but its functional. Its also on the short side, about 6 hours or so, but again its a budget title.
That said, its success is definitely in the context of it being a Symphony of the Night type game, i.e. a Metroidvania. If you're not into something like Symphony or Aria of Sorrow then this is going to feel just like that. Getting to see Lodoss stuff on the screen is fun but there isn't much story to it; it takes place long after the original 7 novels that the Anime adapted and it meant to slightly lead into the new series of novels the author just started last year, so those references are going to be a little lost on most western audiences without access to those novels and there having not been any adaptations of those yet. That's mostly for the ending though. In the game itself you're kind of it a dreamscape lotus eater machine labyrinth and you're encountering all kinds of visions of familiar past stuff like Ashram and Beld and the Chromatic Dragons.
Have you played the GOT expansion? Really sheds some light on Jin's past, includes a new map and enemy type, and also some FAR CRY style hallucigenic sequences.
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I might check out the Deedlit game. It being short is a plus for me. RPGs are the only genre that I enjoy being long.
I just beat GotG, Phoenix Point, and Dungeon Encounters. Now I am playing Othercide, LeGrand Legacy, and the SpiderMan portion on the Avengers.
Yes, the Director's Cut comes with the expansion so by finishing GOT I mean completing the Iki island side quests and defeating the Eagle.
Yeah, well I think a long 2D metroidvania is usually only about 12 - 15 hours with decent exploration covered and can be speed runned in like 2 hours by people who know where to go and optimal paths. An average one is probably like 8-10 hours like Ori and the Will of the Wisps. So Deedlit is just a bit shorter than that.I might check out the Deedlit game. It being short is a plus for me. RPGs are the only genre that I enjoy being long.
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Dark Souls 3, PS4.
Bought that game back in April 2020 during a discount and pretty much haven't played it till recently. I tried it back then and i remember that i had trouble passing the first boss and i just wasn't in the mood for that kind of try hard experience.
Now that i'm in a better disposition towards that type of gameplay, i went back to it. I soundly kicked that insolent first boss's ass and progressed quite a fair bit, thank you very much.
Interesting experience sure enough, the ambiance and visual are very good. Makes you wanna know more about the world and that is truly the sign of a concept well executed.
So far i would say that i still prefer Bloodborne though.
I got my PS4 in from my friend today. I have ten games on it and started out with Blood Bowl 2. I loved the table top game and I love the Video game
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