Topic: Push Square Game Club Spooktacular: Resident Evil 4

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah I noticed you've been racking up some good scores. The gauntlet has been thrown down.

How do you see the ghost, is it in the settings? Because I can't see yours

I'm a bit late to the party. If it's OK I would like to chip in. I started the game a few years ago on the WiiU, but never finished it. I'm currently in the Olympus Maximus world collecting enough Teensies for the Living Dead Party. I dabbled a bit with the daily challenges, but so far no luck getting a gold medal. I really like the art style of games created with the UbiArt framework, like Valiant Hearts: the Great War and Child of Light. Bit of a shame Ubisoft seems to have dropped it in favor of Snowdrop.

Feel free to add me on PSN. Maybe your ghosts push me to get that elusive gold medal after all

@Mr_B021 Feel free to join in, we’re all pretty much on either Olympus Maximus or the underwater world I’m pretty sure!

Just missed out on 3 Teensies in an invasion by 3 milliseconds

@nessisonett Some of those levels are devilish. That vid I posted before took me so many attempts and even then I only made it by tenths of a second.

Little things like using the spin attack when running can shave milliseconds of your time.

I fell behind quite a bit due to real life stuff, so currently I'm near the end of Fiesta de los Muertos.

While the invaded levels are lengthening my playthrough, I appreciate the challenge since it keeps me on my toes and freshens up the run. I'm almost at the teensy total to unlock Living Dead Party.

I reached the end credits. There's still plenty to do though, such as collecting teensies and lum trophies, Origins levels, and the remaining 8-bit music levels and Dark Rayman invasions.

I do want to collect every teensie and lum trophy. After that, I'll probably be done with this game. Trying to get 1 million lums for the final character and getting awesomeness level 11 will likely be too tedious for me to try.

@crimsontadpoles 1 Million lums kinda comes naturally as part of engaging with the significant amount of endgame content.

Awesomeness Lvl 11 is months of grinding online challenges, though. Not worth it.

I’ve been playing along at a much slower pace. I’m on the mariachi levels. I have mixed feelings about the game. When it hits, it’s great - like in the musical levels. But when it grates on my nerves, it makes me want to turn it off to take a break from it. I frequently find that if I struggle with a level that is hard and I have to do a section over and over, I tell myself I’ve got to at least finish the level, and when I do I get a strange sense of satisfaction, but also of dread for the next one. It’s different from defeating a difficult boss where the elation of victory pulls you to go on, wanting that dopamine rush again. Here, it’s like “ugh - that was really tough and I got through that one section on pure luck finally. I may not make it to the end of the next level, so I think I’ll quit for tonight.”

So, I’ve fallen pretty far behind (not to mention I had a busy week and haven’t squeezed much game time in) and I don’t think I’ll finish. I’m Awesomeness level 5 I think, and opened up all main worlds except the last 1 or 2 maybe. Completed the first two worlds with probably 80% or so of available Teensies, and now halfway through the third world. I’ve rescued 4 or 5 of the heroes. I’ve done daily challenges many times and have managed a silver once only.
The game doesn’t come natural to me and I’m not sure if it will because I keep wanting to turn it off after a few levels. If all the levels were music based, I think I’d do better. The two I’ve done felt so much easier because they are beautifully orchestrated and timed and it just feels like the game flows from my fingertips in concert with the rhythm and visuals. But then the normal levels I feel like I can’t get in sync with.

Anyways, just figured I’d share a little of the other side of things, as I’ve really enjoyed reading the near unanimous praise and fervent jubilations everyone has been posting. I’m amazed at how much of the game everyone has been able to complete.

I’m now onto Olympus Maximus having gotten every cup and Teensie in every other world and completing all the Origins levels as they unlock. I’ve unlocked Living Dead Party too but I think I’ll save that for afterwards!

@Th3solution It's too bad that you're not enjoying it that much. Everyone has different tastes. If it hasn't clicked with you yet, I don't think the later levels are going to change that.

@crimsontadpoles Good luck with those final levels! They're really well done but infuriating at the same time..

I reached the credits today. Still having fun messing around in the Living Dead Party, the invasion levels and Origins. Does anybody know if the Origins levels in Legends are the same as in the original Origins? I really like the music and some of the level are hilarious. The one based on Oceans 12 really made me laugh. When are we going to vote for the next game?

@Mr_B021 We’ve probably got a week left for everyone to at least make it to the credits. I reckon we’ll open up voting on Monday so we can decide on the next game by the weekend?

I've collected all 700 teensies, and got the gold trophies from collecting lums in every level, so that's me done with this game.

The 1 million lums target and awesomeness level 11 are too tedious for me to bother with, so I'm not going to worry about them. I'm only on 630,000 lums, and it would take many weeks of daily challenges to get to awesomeness level 11.

Overall I've had a lot of fun with this game.

I’ve now got every single Teensie in the Legends levels so I’m going to polish off the Origins levels. Living Dead Party was some of the most difficult platforming I’ve done outside kaizo games, truly evil stuff. I’ve enjoyed my time so far though. Not long to go!

@nessisonett Most of those levels weren’t too bad but the one that completely pixelates the screen out is just EVIL. That said, the level is about the rhythm so you just have to trust that.

I found some of the invasion levels to be the hardest (it took me far too long to realise the invader was a copy of your moves).

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We’ve almost wrapped up Rayman Legends now so it’s time to decide our game for March!

The games with the next most votes were Hitman, Doom Eternal and Mafia Definitive Edition. Would people be up for one of those or should I open the voting back up as we’ve had a fresh crop of PS Plus games to choose from?

I've just started Remnant: From the Ashes and Huntdown. The first being on ps+, the latter is currently 45% off on psn.

Here is a trailer for Huntdown, well worth a look. If your heart doesn't scream to you that this looks amazing, then I don't know what to tell you.

@nessisonett I’ll throw a vote in for Hitman.

I’ve already played them but it would be reasonable to include Concrete Genie and Ratchet & Clank which are recent giveaways. Both are great and fairly short.