Topic: Games you've recently beat

Finished Axiom Verge. Quite liked it. It’s a very very pure Metroid clone, none of your RPG elements which I kinda appreciate. However, there’s so much backtracking which was rather tedious. Took ages to trek from one end of the map to the other. The final area had a heavy dose of BS as well, incredibly irritating normal enemies yet very easy bosses. So it was a mixed bag but I did enjoy it. It suits Vita perfectly.

@Keith_Zissou I guess you should just hand her the controller then. She'll get the job done.

I can't really do it either. After doing more good things in Mass Effect than I probably should have even though I wanted to be a Renegade (technically still ended up as one), I found a happy medium of only treating my crew members well and only choosing the Paragon option if it would really benefit me for Mass Effect 3's endgame. In other words, I punched the reporter in Mass Effect 2 instead of 1.

@colonelkilgore @Thrillho @JohnnyShoulder Thanks, for the reassurance, all Now it's settled I'm pretty sure it was the right thing to do, for me, as it just wasn't fun any more.

I've been quite enjoying going around mopping up, looking for the collectibles I missed before - now that the pressure's off, I'm reminded what a pretty game it is!

@colonelkilgore Have Played Bloodborne & Sekiro. This was the first Soul game otherwise.

@ishaajo840 well luck for you, you still have Demons Souls, Dark Souls 2 and Dark Souls 3 still to play. Enjoy.

NieR:Automata. Very cool game. One of the coolest I’ve played for a long time. At the end it says “You have witnessed the ‘A route’, but there are still many story elements and changes to gameplay systems you have not seen yet.” Pretty interesting approach to replayability…

@Wesker
You haven't beaten the game yet then... Go do a NG+ if you think you'd enjoy it some more... You'll see what it means.

@Sorteddan Mission accepted. I love to 2B and 9S!

@Wesker
You were correct on your first point though. Very cool game.

@Sorteddan Came for the thighs, stayed for the cries

@Wesker The fact you have to “replay” the game multiple times to complete it is something that put me off playing the game for ages but each run is actually completely different and reveals more and more of the story.

Enjoy the craziness!

Have just defeated the final boss and watching credits roll on Children of Morta (PS4). I can't overstate how much I enjoyed this game. If you enjoy action RPG/roguelite, indie games and pixel art graphics you should really have a look the next time it appears in a sale. I still have a few trophies remaining so I haven't entirely finished yet (including one that's really not helped by my defective colour vision!). But loved the gameplay/progression loop and adored the charming narrative and soundtrack. Definitely my GoY thus far.

Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap. It's a fairly decent 2D Zelda adventure. I did quite enjoy the main gimmick, which lets Link shrink down to about the size of a bug. The dungeons and the main town were well designed around this, as navigating them is quite a different experience when Link is small. It was also cool to have a different villain for a change instead of the usual Ganondorf.

@crimsontadpoles That’s a few of us played it pretty recently! I thought it was decent too and I’m not typically a 2D Zelda fan. Just the final dungeon did my head in 😂

I think that’s me actually beaten AC Valhalla. Just have fishing left and then that’s the platinum too. I genuinely cannot believe it pulled it off at the end. 85 bloody hours and I still finished the game feeling something for the world and the characters. The structure of the game finally pulled together at the end and the ‘everyone is here’ ensemble didn’t feel like an afterthought at all. Unfortunately, due to real historical events, a couple of characters didn’t really get a fantastic send off but that’s what happens when you play with history I guess. Somehow they made the modern day stuff work right at the end as well, leaving the series in a truly exciting place. I’ll try to avoid spoilers but I can absolutely see where they’re going with the live service-y Assassin’s Creed Infinity and after that ending, it could work. It can’t be overstated just how much of an accomplishment it is to wrap up such a long game in an actually satisfactory manner!

@nessisonett I'm glad to see you ended up highly enjoying it in the end. Your previous post about it not ending made it seem like you may or may not have been enjoying it that much even though you had played it for 75 hours.

@KilloWertz The nature of the weirdly episodic storylines means it’s an easy game to feel a bit bogged down by. Thankfully it picked up towards the end!

@nessisonett the fact that you’re left feeling positive on finishing Valhalla is great news. As someone who has grown to really like this franchise, all of the negative talk about it since it’s release has left me real cold on it. This has given me a little faith that when I eventually get to it, it’ll be worth the wait.

I Platinumed Horizon Zero Dawn last month (very good game, looking forward to the Forbidden West).
And i finisched both Uncharted games on PS5 this week (Still great games, but nothing new if you played them on PS4).

@Indoorhero you’ve mentioned something there that is the bane of trophy hunters everywhere, namely… should I try and obtain these extra (superfluous to the narrative) very difficult post-game achievements now, while my skills at the game are at a maximum? Or should I avoid burn-out and return to it when I ‘fancy’ it… but my skills will be diminished?

There’s no right answer! I’ve done both on various games and there are pros and cons either way 🤷‍♂️