Topic: What PS5 Games Are You Currently Playing?

I made a start on Deaths Door and it is exactly the game I needed to be playing at the moment. It's wonderful. Only maybe 3-4 hours in and save game counter says @25% - just beat the Granny and got my first giant soul. I love the exploration, the simplicity of the gameplay/controls and the degree of challenge in the combat. The graphical aesthetic, haunting melodies and dry, dark humour is really ticking a lot of boxes for me right now.
Not gonna have a load of gaming time this week but already looking forward to spending another hour or so on it tomorrow.

@sorteddan it’s a wonderful game but with one of the worst maps of all time.

A great mix of puzzles, platforming, and combat. I hope you know about only using the umbrella if you’re after the platinum too!

It also has a complete lack of tracking collectibles too which makes finding all the seeds a nightmare (a late game item helps a little but much). Some of the post game stuff is also very cryptic/impossible without a guide.

I hope you do enjoy it though!

@Thrillho
Yeah I was aware but leaving the Umbrella for a second playthrough after I have hopefully already done everything else and better know the lay of the land. Also I'm quite happy to use guides/vids to help me with collectables after I beat the main game.

Thanks for the words of advice though.

Started playing Astro's Playroom. My god this game is perfect! Fun platformer that oozes creativity and has tons of throwbacks to PlayStation history. I'm constantly smiling while playing this game, it's just so good and it's free to boot.

@LtSarge
Exactly how I felt with it. Such a joyful little free game to start your PS5 days with.

@RogerRoger not related but did you ever play the PSP version of Tomb Raider Legends on Vita? Is camera control ok? Did you map the right stick?

Never actually played it and thought it could be a good way to do so…

Same for Anniversary, actually, although I have played that one through on PS2.

Started playing Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror, played it a lot on PSP since 2006 so I'm not struggling with the controls but it would've been cool to have the option to use the right analog to move the camera. Still, this is my favorite PSP game and having it to play on the PS5 is great, decided to buy it outright for the $10 since I saw that was an option, think it's the first time I've seen that for a PSP Classic release.

@Kidfried
It feels like it's been a while since I enjoyed playing, and looked forward to playing a game as much as this one so glad I stumbled into it. Another missable trophy on one of the boss fights which I duly missed but yeah I don't really mind the thought of a second run.

How are you getting on with Jedi: Fallen Order? Made much progress?, still enjoying it?

@Kidfried
Yeah I did the same with Jedi and was relieved that at least the planet's tell you which section you fully explored. And easily searchable guides on YT if you don't want to explore every inch on your own.

No I haven't played Tunic, it's another that's on my wishlist but I'm trying to cut down on purchases until my backlog is more manageable so it may remain there for a while.

@RogerRoger cool thanks, sounds like it might be a miss then. Shame as I would like to play Legend one day. I guess I’m wondering if you can map the camera to the right stick on anniversary if you’re playing it on Vita. Button mapping is such a cool feature, for example I put the right hand corner of the touch screen as a secondary X button, so I can tap the screen to move through text if I want.

@Kidfried Kashyyk was the worst for revisiting as it is a very long, straight level which took ages to get through.

I would have completely missed the Venator if it wasn’t for the trophies though and that’s a pretty cool side area.

I'm so loving Resident Evil 4.

Been playing Resident Evil 4 Remake and loving it so far. Not very far into it because I’ve been sick as a dog all weekend. But loving what I’ve played.

@Kidfried most the stuff you don’t remember probably wasn’t in the original to be fair!

GOW 2018. I bought the console bundle with GOW Ragnarok but had to play the previous one first 😊

Resident Evil 4

So far it has not been a 10/10 experience for me yet, but I have enjoyed it for the most part. I forgot about the section early on that was from the demo, as it got me really frustrated to the point where I shut the game off. Then I remembered all the talk about that section and how it was a survival mission. The game could have said that rather than you figuring it out by accident, but oh well. It's been good otherwise and I expect it to only get better (I'm about a third of the way through Chapter 3).

After having wrapped up Miles Morales, I decided to finally start up Returnal. I've played it for about two hours now and I managed to beat the first boss on my first try! Granted, the parasite I had helped me out a lot since it regenerated health for me whenever I was low on it. I also did die during the boss fight, but I was brought back to life by an "astronaut". I wonder if it was the artifact I collected from the house. In that case, that's great because the boss had so little health left so it would've sucked to die so close to the end there.

Anyway, the game is just so good! I'm still unsure how I feel about the rogue-lite aspect of it as I haven't truly died and lost everything yet. From what I've read online, the game does seem fair in that you don't need to fight the same bosses again if you die, so that's good. I'm definitely looking forward to playing more of it soon!

@LtSarge Congrats on getting past the first boss. That’s a really large obstacle for most new players.

I was a little confused about the astronaut at first, but yes, it’s a power up item that you picked up on that house sequence, and it’s just one time automatic respawn consumable. I was under the impression that I’d be able to get a new one on my next run and that’s not always the case. Now that you’ve unlocked it, it may pop up as a option to purchase in the vendor, and rarely also might be a random pickup, but I only recall that happening like once or twice in my 50ish hours with the game. But I do recall I was quite frustrated on subsequent runs that I didn’t see another astronaut item for quite a while. Eventually I started having it randomly show up in the vendor, but there’s no predicting when you might get another one. But whenever there was an option to purchase one I tried to grab it because it can definitely mean the difference between beating a boss or failing.

@Kidfried I’m glad you’re enjoying FF7R. It really is a well crafted game and has some fun areas. The part you just finished is particularly memorable. Hopefully you still end up liking it as you make your way through to the end.

I really liked this version of Aerith. She’s really cute and fun and has great chemistry with Cloud, which I never really felt in the original. I was always more on team Tifa for the original game, but I think I liked Aerith as a ‘ship’ better in the remake.

@Kidfried I adored that Chapter of the game as well (I would hope everybody who liked the remake did). So many good and fun moments in it. The Aerate/Cloud conversation about Zack being one of the good and the whole Cloud dressed up as a woman sequence being one of the fun moments of course.

I loved Final Fantasy 7 Remake as well. I played it on my PS4 Pro and then gladly again via the PS5 version, which is rare for me to do. It ended up being one of my favorite games of both generations so far.

I’m currently playing Marvel Midnight Suns at the moment and quite enjoying it.

I normally avoid deck building games so I don’t know how it compares to others but the combat is good fun but pretty tough going. Most fights have low level grunts who die with one hit but who provide reinforcements seemingly every go, plus the heavier hitting enemies who have health bars. So it makes it tricky to know whether to clear the little guys or focus on the main ones.

I’ve still only got a small roster of heroes but they’re all useful to play with so far which is a nice change from having a small handful that you stick with.

All the stuff outside of combat is such a pain though and there is so much faffing about to build relationships, research gear etc.