Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Lavalera nice, yeah I did a couple of auto battles when it was first introduced but I ended up going with the Press A a lot method for most battles lol especially the harder ones. I suppose if you know what you want to do in a battle and can intersperse some ups and downs with bashing A repeatedly then it's kind of like an auto battle but it does more of what you want. Couldn't read the news while I was doing it though 😅

@crimsontadpoles I played Papers please a while back. I just did the one play through though with the intent of returning to it (I bought it for Vita in the bruef time that my PS Plus sub lapsed and allowed me to purchase it. I thought what little I played was really good and effective though!

I actually wrote a mini review of it over in the PS3 thread back when I played it. I think our thoughts on it are largely similar. How many endings did you play through to in the end? I need to give it another go at some point!

@ralphdibny That's a well thought out write-up. Interesting that you got ending 3 of 20 when you played. I made the same mistake by showing the official the secret documents, getting that bad ending the first time around.

I ended up doing all 20 endings. That's a lot easier to do than it sounds, as most of them can be obtained very quickly by warping to a specific day and doing something specific.

@crimsontadpoles ah cheers! Maybe that ending is common for first timers? Some combination of wanting to see where the mystery goes contradicting the desire to get further in the game resulting in a half and half solution that gets the player in front of the firing squad.

That's cool there are warp points, I also never got to or noticed the decoration wall either. Sounds like there is a lot more to the game that I didn't realise. Certainly the warp points may entice me to return sooner rather than later!

Just finished ys 8 :Lacrimosa of Dana. Absolutely loved it. The music is awesome and the combat feels very good. The story starts out slow but picks up after a bit. Not going for the platinum since a difficulty is attached to it, but it was 70 hours well spend. Think im going to get it again when the ps5 version comes.

@Lavalera Backlog and the occasional new release has kept my temptation to play Ys VIII before the PS5 version comes out. Not sure how much better the PS5 version will be, but I'm looking forward to finally playing the game whenever I get to it. I need to play more JRPGs.

Fallen order, It had a lot of problems sure, but I actually really loved it, and it was a star wars game I was looking forward too, I totally didn't play it because its a souls like......ok I did.

@KilloWertz I get the backlog problem. Even though Im still fairly new to playstation I bought a ton of games in sales the last few months to build up a decent library. Ys was one of the game and around the time I decided to play it as next game the news broke of the ps5 version. Glad I decided to go through with it and for me it wouldn't be a punishment to play the ps5 version again in the future, I'm just not getting it at launch.

I decided to differentiate the games I play a bit more basically trying to rotate between jrpg and non jrpg. Before this I played Horizon fw, Ghost of Tsushima DC and Ghostwire Tokyo. And even I love open world games I had to play something else after that. This way I hope I won't get burnt out by certain type of games so fast.

Hope you'll like ys as much as I did when you get around to play it

@Lavalera Nothing wrong with that, especially since there's always at least one sale going on with a lot of games in it. Now there's 3 sales going on at once.

Even if I loved a game, I rarely played a game multiple times before this generation except a few times if I played it on Xbox and then PlayStation, but catalog titles getting PS5 versions is giving me an excuse to break that trend. I fully expect Ys VIII to be a game I end up loving, so I can understand being willing to play it all over again.

What is your PSN name, if you don't mind me asking?

@KilloWertz Yeah i barely replay a game either. If i do it, it is mostly when i didnt complete it the first time or if i want to replay it again because it was that good. The witcher 3 is one of the games i will play again for sure when the current gen upgrade comes. Still deciding on which platform im going to replay it, but still have time for that to decide, so will be fine.

My PSN name i just changed to Lavalera, it was some random stuff before, but wanted to put in this name. I think i have it set up as public profile, i can see myself on psnprofile so i guess thats correct.

@Lavalera I found you, but it won't let me add you because of your privacy settings. Could you add me instead?

@KilloWertz Sure no problem, just added you. Was playing around with privacy settings a while back to see what does what exactly, at least I know I didn't have it set up properly yet.

Just finished Judgment on PS4 after 48 hours of playtime. It's honestly one of the best "Yakuza" games I've played. Yakuza 0 and 6 are at the top of my list, and I find Judgment to be at that level of greatness. The story was so engrossing and well-crafted, the gameplay was more varied compared to the Yakuza series due to the detective/Ace Attorney elements, there were so many memorable and likeable characters, and it was overall a great Yakuza package. I managed to complete 48 side cases and befriend 47 people out of 50 respectively and felt pretty content with ending it there.

Despite having played almost 10 Yakuza games now, I was pleasantly surprised to find this game to be a refreshing spinoff to the series. It did enough to distinguish itself from the Yakuza series and managed to tell a more compelling story with varied gameplay than most of the main series titles. Absolutely phenomenal game which I highly recommend, especially to those who haven't touched the Yakuza series and are looking for a good starting point without feeling intimidated by the amount of titles in the series.

@LtSarge I’m glad you enjoyed it in the end! And I agree with much of what you said. There is a cool side mission if you get all of the friends but I wouldn’t go chasing it if you’ve had your fill of the game.

I’m looking forward to getting around to the sequel as I’ve heard it’s even better

I recently got the platinum for planet coaster ps5, currently grinding out the sport mode races on GT7

@Thrillho Oh that's cool, but yeah I've pretty much moved on from the game now. Still, it's nice that there's a reward at the end of that.

My expectations for the sequel is really high actually since the developer pretty much nailed the first entry, which isn't surprising because they've been making these games for so long now. So I'm hoping the sequel adds lots of new stuff that will make it even better than the first game.

On a side note, I really can't get enough of the Yakuza games. As I mentioned before, I've played almost 10 games and I still want more. There's just something about this series that keeps you coming back for more. So I'm glad that I have Like a Dragon, Lost Judgment and First of the North Star to look forward to, and hopefully more games are on the way. I would even love to see those samurai Yakuza games getting localised here in the West. Getting to meet characters like Kiryu and Majima again would be so lovely.

@LtSarge so good to see other people as enthousiastic about Yakuza as I am. I started the series only when Lad went live and that was my first one. After that I went through 0 to 6 and bitje judgements and I wonder why I never played them before. Didn't expect to love them so much in advance but it turned out to become my favorite game series. Only have fist of the north star to go.
Lost Judgment for me was even better than the first one, especially with the dlc. There was so much more to do in that one.
Have fun playing those last few hope you'll enjoy them.

@LtSarge The only criticism I’d have for Judgment is those horrible tailing missions.. But yeah, the “Yakuza” games are great fun and, like yourself, I’ve also got LaD to play as well.

What are the other games you’ve played to make it “almost ten”? It’s the seven main games and Judgment for me.

@Lavalera Thanks mate, I'm sure I will. These games are just an absolute treat! Would love to hear your thoughts on Fist of the North Star as I don't know many who've played that game yet.

@Thrillho I'm honestly used to tailing missions after having played so many Assassin's Creed games now lol. So I wasn't bothered by them in Judgment at all.

Same here with Yakuza 0-6, Judgment but also Yakuza Dead Souls on PS3 for me. Dead Souls is easily the worst Yakuza game but it's still a good game since all Yakuza games are good. Worth playing just to play as Majima again and kill some zombies.

@LtSarge fist of the north star will be next in line to play after I finished Lego star wars. When I'll get around paying it I'll post my opinion on here.
I hope the older ones will get a port or remake as well. The older side ones I didn't play since I only have acces to a ps5 so let's hope RGG will bring them to modern systems one day.

@RogerRoger So, we'll likely be even on the series soon enough. I still have yet to play Life is Strange 2, but once I'm done with Cyberpunk 2077, True Colors is my next game. I imagine I will play it before you, so then Life is Strange 2 will be the only game in the series I've yet to play.