@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy You haven’t been playing this blindfolded with a dance mat? I’m so disappointed. 😜
Yeah, I remember you had tried playing a self-imposed level restriction to ramp up the difficulty, which is the opposite way from my “grind and level up for ages before moving on” strategy that I take when I’ve played Soulslike games before. So I guess it would still be possible in this game for a guy like me to be able to level grind to make things easier? And did you ever have to resort to YouTube or online strategy guides to make it through the tougher parts?
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Haze (This game's version of souls) gets handed to you rather generously @Th3solution through normal enemies.
You can get Haze items from your companions on a pretty regular basis (That ties into the basic relationship system I believe) and enemies drop haze granting items on a regular-ish basis too. There's a passive ability to increase the amount of Haze that's dropped too that you can acquire from one of the codes.
I was buying loads of items, unlocking all the gifts/skills as soon as I got them and I was still swimming in the stuff (Of course for half the game I wasn't levelling up at all mind you). Had over 2 million spare at one point which was towards the end admittedly 😄
Plus with the game giving you the ability to get half your haze back (But losing the other half) if you're really stuck by visiting the hot springs at the back of your home base (Which I never actually used... Plus the game also lets you rewatch all the previous seen cutscenes there too) you should find it much easier to hold onto the stuff!
As for guides... No. But I never do that either.
Had a quick look just to see and there seem to be the typical guides on fextralife for areas and bosses and the likes which should help anyone out!
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Sounds good. Thanks!
I only survived some Bloodborne bosses by being able to watch a YouTube video of how someone else defeated them. I always gave myself a chance to do it on my own, mind, but there were several bosses that I watched a video; Same thing with one of the bosses in Jedi Fallen Order. On the contrary, I never once asked for a companion assist on any of the BB bosses, which I know a lot of people say that helps a lot to get past some of them. But it’s amazing how helpful it can be just to watch someone else best a boss. It’s proof that it can be done, which in some cases I felt like the game was asking the impossible 😅
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Yeah... the end song was rather out of place. They’d cultivated a mostly dark atmosphere throughout the whole game and then gave us a Disney song!
Finished Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance there, all three endings, 200% map completion and all collectibles! All in 6 and a half hours which I’m pretty proud of. I’m missing a few achievements on RetroAchievements but it’s ones for Boss Rush and grinding to Level 50 which I just don’t want to do 😂
Also, that soundtrack is absolutely dreadful. It’s painful to listen to. Which is a shame given Circle of the Moon, the earlier game, had a great soundtrack. Just yucky sounding.
Kinda-sorta beat Super Mario Galaxy. I collected all 120 stars and beat Bowser again and saw the bonus after-credits scene that plays if you complete everything in the game.
The thing is... fully completing the game as Mario unlocks Luigi as a playable character, and to properly 100% it, you have to collect all 120 stars as him as well, which unlocks the final level in the game. And I've pledged to fully complete the games in the 3D All-Stars collection, so...
I kinda beat it, but I still have a ton of content left to engage with before I can set it aside.
So... you kinda-sorta have a long way to go @Ralizah huh?
The fact you're willing to do that can only attest to how much you enjoy Super Mario Galaxy. Better then you remembered? I recall the music tracks you posted from this ages back being utterly delightful
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
Hmm. That's hard to say. The parts I love about it I love as much as I did when I first played it, and I do plan on gushing over those when I write about it. The music, atmosphere, platforming controls, hub area, and level variety are all still wonderful. In terms of visuals, the game always looked good on the Wii, and apparently all it needed to look almost like a modern Switch game was a simple resolution bump. And Nintendo does a (mostly) excellent job adapting the Wii's pointer controls to a system that lacks that functionality. The game also does an excellent job of distributing bosses throughout the game, and it has an interesting suite of power-ups, which were mostly missing from the other 3D Mario games.
On the other hand, months of training myself to see and analyze flaws has made me a bit less forgiving toward certain aspects of the game. They're certainly not game-breaking, but certain types of levels just suck, which seems to a sort of tradition with 3D Mario games, lol. These levels often have you controlling the game via motion controls, and it's Wii-era absurdity at its worst. I shouldn't be almost turning my controller upside down trying to turn my character. There are also times when the constant gravity manipulation confuses the controls, and, once in a great while, the lack of free camera movement in most levels becomes a bit of an issue.
I still need to replay Super Mario 3D World this year on Switch to be fully informed, but it's still head-and-shoulders above every other 3D platformer I've played to date.
@jdv95 Congrats! Persona 5 is a beast of a game. I can only imagine how long my Royal playthrough will end up taking me, considering I only really play it on Saturdays.
Yeah, I have Strikers preordered. Really looking forward to that.
@Ralizah thank you !
and yeah you are gonna have atleast half a year worth of persona 5
been thinking about starting up trails of cold steel 1 but it's also a massive game story wise,meaning i won't have it done before strikers comes out so i think i'll just wait after i'm done with strikers . i don't realy want to mix the 2 since i might leave one for the other if i do that.
Chicken Little PS2 just now.
It was quick, only took 3 days to finish (approximate 3 hours in a day)
But it was also damn hard for Final Boss section and the last act.
The game was very linear, no revisitable places.
I felt regret to purchase Chicken Little PS2 as both movie and game version wasn't really good.
Well... At least the mini games are accessible.
That sounds more similar to Super Mario 3D World. In that game, you have multiple playable characters, and to properly 100% it, you have to beat every level with every character. Which means playing the game 5x over. Levels are short, but that's still a solid chunk of time!
This is probably the only time I'll bother replaying SMG again as Luigi, but the game is fun enough that it's not a big deal. Now that I've fully completed my Mario file, I'll just play a star or two every day until I collect all 120 and unlock the final world.
@Ralizah Eek, the motion controlled levels are something I'm dreading returning to. Am I right in remembering one where Mario"s balanced on top of a ball and the Wii remote had to be held upright? The water-slide-suspended-over-nothingness levels are especially annoying. I'm not sure I'll bother with the Luigi run-through again, but whenever I replay Galaxy 2 (either on the Wii or if Nintendo decide to remaster it for the Switch) I'll get all the green stars. The secret level in that is monstrous!
@RogerRoger
I haven't checked yet as i have spent 4 hours to finish the last part of Chicken Little PS2.
I saw there are 6 Mini games and the Cheat code (i have no idea the codes) but later i will check tonight.
I have a plan to consider Chicken Little Ace in Action PS2 version as from what i watched from Youtube, it seems the game was Mission based on different planets so i guess the places were revisitable after finished current places.
It has been more than a year since I first beat Dragon Quest XI S on Switch and told myself I'd come back soon to complete the post-game content. I still think I will, eventually, but it does seem like when I drop a game, I drop it hard, and almost never go back.
Managed to finish The Talos Principle yesterday. It's no Portal, but it had some great puzzles to solve. Just finished the main game though, I haven’t tried the dlc. My wife was hoping for a hilarious song at the end but alas, it was not to be.
@jdv95
Nice one, yes, I'm very curious about P5 Strikers now. Just assumed it would be a rushed spin off but previews are hinting at something well worth playing.
I finally beat Suikoden after 2 years on and off. It really was brilliant and since I got every single character, it’ll be great to revisit them in the second game eventually. Tagging @Gremio108 as I did manage to get Gremio back!!
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