@RogerRoger I never finished Yakuza Zero (it just sorta fell by the wayside), but I loved Majima's introductory scene so much. It's amazing.
The game itself was absurd and entertaining, especially in terms of the side-quest writing. One moment, I was helping a kid recover his stolen video game. The next, I was helping a young lady to find the confidence to excel at her job... as a dominatrix. Meanwhile, the main plot was like a sort of well-written 80s crime drama, complete with unrealistic battle sequences where I used my sick martial arts skills to utterly destroy giant groups of goons.
Currently Playing: Resident Evil Village: Gold Edition
@RogerRoger He is probably the most over the top character in the series and that says a lot in the Yakuza games! He is batshit crazy but still an in depth character and an important part of the main Tojo clan as a patriarch of his own family.
His role changes game to game. In Kiwami 1 he is a polarising figure because of the "Majima Everywhere" system where he spends the entire game trying to fight you which involves jumping from buildings, appearing from manholes, dressing up as a zombie, and this abomination..
The "Mad Dog" is a fan favourite though and definitely one of the best characters in the game. I started with Yakuza 0 so the change to the rest of the games is a bit jarring but it must have been even weirder for people who'd played the older games first!
I finished Guacamelee 2 last night with everything other than the trophy for replaying in hard.
A good fun game with a (purposefully) silly story but Hollow Knight has massively upped the bar for these sorts of games now, even if it isn’t quite trying to be the same thing.
Finished off the story in Spider-Man last night. What a great ending which are sometimes difficult to land. On a technical level I thought it was really impressive, I don't recall any frame rate dips or anything like that during any of the action.
I did have few issues with some of the side activities, but this did not effect my overall enjoyment of the game too much.
I will continue playing the game and mop the rest of the stuff on the map. I won't be trying to get gold medals on the challenges, as I when I tried I found myself getting frustrated with the game. I may even get the dlc at some point the next time it on sale.
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@JohnnyShoulder Good to hear the story finally resonated with you. It is much more compelling toward the end.
Regarding the technical performance, I agree that the game ran really well and despite the speed of the action and the multiple effects that there was nary a hiccup ... but I did have a really bad section of frame rate drop that nearly made the game unplayable at one point. There is a side activity (I believe it’s one of the lab stations) where you have to swing from tower to tower to reboot some kind of system, I forget the details, but the catch is that there are electrical fields that ascend and descend randomly while your swinging around and if you’re caught in the field you lose health quickly and lose power too I think. Anyways, there a lot of lightning type electrical effects during the mission and it became so stuttering for me that I was almost watching a slide show and I kept dying. I finally had to search a YouTube video on how exactly to jump and where to go because I was moving around blindly due to the technical performance not keeping up. It was really weird how the whole game was fine except this one mission. I wonder if anyone else encounter that or if it’s just my system or something. I’m using a vanilla PS4 so maybe the Pro handled that section better.
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@Th3solution I remember that side activity and didn't have any performance issues when playing that section. I'm using a bog standard ps4 too. I have upgraded the internal hdd to a combi ssd/sata drive, which does improve load times and stuff so that could be why.
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Yes! Nail on the head there@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy, was gonna mention that but ran out of time at work earlier. Thought the arc between those two was spot on.
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@Kidfried Thomas Was Alone made me care about a bunch of featureless colored shapes and see them as unique characters with interesting personalities. So I count that as a narrative success.
Subtract the wonderful narration, though, and you're left with an incredibly basic and generic platformer.
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@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah I see your point in regards to MJ, she does seem to have a bit of a death wish. She complains about being a damsel in distress, well stop sneaking into bases full of armed private soldiers.
Did not know anything about Mr Negative either and I only found about Miles Morales from watching Into the Spider-Verse. I would love to see a game in that kind of art style and different Spider heroes. Any game with Spider-Ham would be better. I assume they wanted this to be Peter Parker's story so maybe that is why Miles wasn't really given much to do.
If the post credit scenes are anything to go by he will probably have a bigger part to play in the sequel, along with Green Goblin (and the mask that MJ found in Osborne's penthouse).
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After dealing with a week of sickness, I've managed to power through and finish Horizon Zero Dawn, and my replay of Persona 4.
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I don't know if this counts as beating a game, but I finally got through the Painted World of Ariandel DLC for Dark Souls III. After days of being stuck on that fight with Sister Friede her ass is finally grass. It feels good to be past that boss. She's been haunting my every waking moment. That's why I've not posted much on here for the last few days, to be honest. I've been stuck on that boss. I've been seeing her everywhere I went. Pretty sure she was on the checkout in Tesco the other day. Anyway, she's dead now. DEAD I TELL YOU
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy@Gremio108 Nothing could be as bad as The Nameless King... well maybe The Orphan of Kos with all the screeching and trying to kill you with a placenta.
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As for my thoughts on both games, I'm currently working on reviews for the dedicated thread. I will say that both games were definitely good, and I enjoyed them. The hows and whys you'll have to wait.
"We don't get to choose how we start in this life. Real 'greatness' is what you do with the hand you're dealt." -Victor Sullivan "Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing." -Solid Snake
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I've got to the last bosses of the DLC for DS3 and BB. The only boss I can remember struggling with in the DS2 dlc is the poison dragon. Not to say there none of them were not difficult though.
The last boss in DS1 dlc, Manus is very tough and also links to DS2. Atorias is very cool fight but also a toughy!
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