Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Fight_Teza_Fight: Glad you enjoyed Journey, it really is a great game. I also thought Flower was good but not as good as Journey. Flow on the other hand...I didn't enjoy at all!

I've recently completed Skyrim (platinumed) and also finished COD:IW campaign which really was super fun!

I finished the Jack The Ripper expansion for Assassin's Creed Syndicate yesterday. Pretty weak DLC, with a few nice highlights. Overall I wouldn't recommend buying it separately.

I beat quite a few games I had left lying around these past few weeks and am now considering playing the Heavy Rain remaster.

@mrobinson91: I kept expecting flOw to go somewhere, but it never did. Best part was the end, which I thought was neat.
Flower has been good so far.

Never would've played either of those games had it not been for the collection, but they make for nice additions to Journey.
Think I'll pick up Abzu in the next sale.

I beat Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 for the first time on PS4 and its ok but it gets boring and repetitive towards the end
Overall:B-

Finished Journey and I will say what a terrific game. As one of the most hyped and talked about games last gen, I will say the hype and praise this game got is well deserving.

Finished the Fifa 17 campaign the journey featuring fictional alex hunter. What a load of crap, extremely dull, some pretty basic voice acting, just all round totally odd and half baked.

Yeah, I only got about half way through but found it extremely boring. It's basically just a very limited career mode with a few high-production (but ultimately dull) cutscenes sprinkled in between.

@roe: yes, I'll be getting rid of Fifa and going back to football manager instead. I just don't much enjoy it anymore.
Just finished Inside, pretty good and I enjoyed it plenty even though I hated Limbo. Worth a shot, if you enjoyed 'The Fall' then you should enjoy this.

Just finished Abzu and while it's another beautiful and enjoyable game to play, I tend to agree with the "it's too similar to Journey" line of thought.

Glad I've finally experienced it but it's not as good as I'd hoped.

@KratosMD: FF 1-3 are meant to be the hardest FF games from what I've heard so if you manage to beat them then you'll fly through the rest

A couple.

Lara Croft: GO (Android), which I finally managed to finish after they updated it, fixing the glitch I had encountered.

• In terms of gameplay, it's a turn based puzzle game, and each level consists of 1-4 dioramic screen sized rooms you must work your way through by solving the environmental puzzles along the way. They manage to keep things fresh by constantly introducing new elements, like traps (cracked tiles, saws, boulders, etc.), enemies (snakes, giant spiders, & monitor lizards), and interactive objects (levers, spears, movable platforms, pillars, etc.). While the main game isn't too difficult, the post game tomb will test your knowledge of all the game's elements to the max (I believe it's actually available from the start, just with a difficulty warning). Despite all the surprising depth & variety, it's perfectly built for mobile, with everything just needing a simple swipe or tap. Also, as an optional objective, there are vases hidden in the background environment that contain relics & gems, which you can collect with a tap. In total I think there are around 50 levels? (never actually counted them out)
• Graphically, it features a simple polygonal look that recalls the series' origins, it's quite colorful, and runs smoothly on my 3 year old tablet (in high quality, according to the settings page). Also, there are maybe about a dozen unlockable costumes you can earn by collecting all the relics & gems in an area (these costumes are purely cosmetic).
• In terms of sound, it has an ambient sountrack that fits the theme, and sounds nice (especially with headphones).

Castle of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse (Android), a mobile remake of the 16-bit classic that I played while waiting for SE to update the above game.

• In terms of gameplay, this remake is actually reminiscent of N64/PS1 era platformers rather than the 16-bit original, with a hub castle that you can run around in a 3D space, and it contains 5 worlds & the main boss' lair. Each world consists of 3 levels, the first two of each are sidescrolling in a 2.5D space (though there's usually at least one segment in each that takes place in a 3D space), while the third is that world's boss (two of them take place in sidescrolling arenas, but the rest take place in a 3D arena, including the final boss). In order to unlock the next world, you must not only defeat the previous world's boss, but also collect enough diamonds scattered throughout the world's previous two levels (a bit of a callback to the collectathon era, though I always had more than enough). The only issue, and a pretty big one at that, as why in the heck they made it a mobile exclusive (unless it's on Steam?), as it's clearly the kind of game that would work better with traditional controls, and it shows (while it's usually not too bad, there are a few segments that are infuriating because of the controls, such as a segment that recalls the Crash Bandicoot boulder levels, where a giant apple is rolling down towards you in the same manner). As a bonus, there are also playing cards & chilli peppers hidden in the levels as collectables.
• Graphically, it generally looks pretty fantastic, and it forgoes the generic fire, water, desert level world motifs in favor of much more imaginative designs such as an enchanted forest, toy world, library world, etc. (they work water segments & the like into the levels in an organic manner). In fact, the levels in a world can wildly vary in look (The Library world for example, doesn't just have segments jumping around enormous books, but also junk food world segments, as well as swimming segments where you're working your way through a cup of tea, manoeuvreing around sugar cubes). The collectables I mentioned in the gameplay segment unlock different costumes for Mickey (accessed from a magic mirror in the castle's second floor), as well as concept art (cleverly hung around the castle's walls as paintings), and statues of the game's characters (these also decorate the castle grounds, and act as character bios). In terms of bad, the framerate takes a dip with a lot going on, and there's some graphical glitching (a couple of the bosses looked like they were covered in little holes, and this even happened once to a level's environment). This issue's may have something to do with my tablet's age, but I wanted to bring them up, just in case.

Sound: The soundtrack is peppy, and there's a narrator that makes the preceedings charming. Oh, there's also some spoken lines by Mickey himself, as well as the big bad.

Both titles are currently on sale for $1 I believe (as well as Hitman: GO, which I'm currently playing), so now would be the time to pounce. I'd say Lara Croft: GO is must play for anyone interested in mobile gaming at any price (so it's a steal), and despite it's issues, there's some fun in CoI.

@RR529: Yeah I have been hearing god things about Lara Croft Go. I will probably pick it up next week on the PS4 with some Christmas money.

Just beat TW3 main game; funny how a friend of mine who loved it more than I did got the worst ending while I got the best one. Now I'm into DS2 SOTFS and if I'll ever solo it I'll go back to TW3 to finish the DLCs too...

Finished Rise of the Tomb Raider (again - this time on PS4) with 100% completion on the Story. Also finished the Baba Yaga, Blood Ties and Lara's Nightmare as well...

I've just finished Alien Isolation for the second time, I was trying to get the no deaths and no killing achievements but only managed the no killing as even though I was really careful I must have met a grizzly end at some point. I now need a third play through to 100% it by getting all the collectables and the no deaths run.

@crippyd: Still need to finish A:I myself for the first time. It stopped given me the Achievements for beating the missions so I stopped playing but should return to it. Don't know that I would be going for all those achievements though - seems like too much effort and not fun...

@BAMozzy I would say that it is giving the game credit that I'm looking to play through a 50 hour game a third time when I've got so many others I could play. It is an excellent game and even when you know what's coming it is still so tense and atmospheric.

Cleared out another of my PS+ titles in Lords of the Fallen. Really difficult & cheap game- died 47 times against ONE boss.
Some aspects of the game are very good, but it's bogged down by terrible combat & cheap one hit kills.
Bad Dark Souls wannabe. Might be an interesting challenge to some but I couldn't recommend it over other similar games the PS4 has to offer.

I beat Shantae 1/2 Genie Hero on PS4. Best Shantae game out there IMO. Kinda short though. I might try to get all the trophies on there.

To reiterate from NintendoLife:

I just beat Final Fantasy IX for the first time, after recently finishing VII and VIII for the first time also. Of the three, IX stood out for its spectacular presentation, story-telling and characterisation, however I preferred the general setting (particularly the modern / sci-fi aspects) and gameplay (particularly the "blank slate" party members and overall battle speed) of the previous two instalments. I played the Steam version, which looked beautiful in HD, and partially ironed out a couple of things that frustrated me about the original release. The ending was excellent - one of the most emotional endings to a video game I've ever played - although I found the final battles to be underwhelmingly short for an RPG.