Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Jimmer-jammer out of interest, as a way of setting my expectations in advance… if you had one sentence to put your feelings about the sequel into words, what would you say?

@Jimmer-jammer Perfect… I knew I could count on my push square laureate 🍻 😉

Finished Robocop last night. Fun game with a deep respect for the series. Graphically it is a bit of a mixed bag, with the enviroments looking good but the human characters looking like a Bethesda game two gens ago. And there is a weird graphical glitch when the screen pixalates for a micro-second during cutscenes when transitioning between different characters during dialogue. And on one section the frame rate tanked and I had to reload a save.

Overall though I really enjoyed it, enough to get the platiunum which was straight forward enough.

Just finished Call of Duty: Black Ops III on PS5. Another great CoD campaign, although it wasn't as memorable as other campaigns. It also lacked the high-octane moments that the campaigns are known for.

I like the Black Ops games though compared to the other CoD titles. The stories are always so thought-provoking, surrealistic and interesting as opposed to the more grounded entries. The third Black Ops is no different, it paints a grim picture of the future, which is completely plausible.

So, like a current gen Bethesda game? 🤔

@Ravix Well, yes. 🤣

I just beat Suikoden 1 for the first time. It’s an absolute classic JRPG, and has become one of my all time favorites. I’m now in a pickle - I want to start Suikoden 2, but I know I won’t have the game beaten by the time Xenoblade Chronicles X releases, so I’m debating whether I go ahead and play it or play a game that’s much smaller in scope.

@Jimmer-jammer That’s a great question! Sorry for the late reply, by the way. If I had to give one piece of advice it would be to not avoid combat because it comes into play significantly around the last 10 hours of the game. And I’d also recommend to have quite a bit of food with you.

Tl;dr - be prepared for the endgame.

Rolled credits on Jedi Survivor and man, it’s really really good. Very much Empire Strikes Back to the first game’s New Hope at least story wise. Cal gets pretty OP pretty quickly but it makes narrative sense that he’s a complete monster shredding Stormtroopers for fun. Having Battle Droids back was great too, their little witticisms never got old and yet another reminder that the prequels did not lack creativity if nothing else. Plot wise this is easily the best traditional Star Wars content since at least The Clone Wars’ final season. Andor’s probably all that beats it. It’s also very nice to see romantic beats be part of a main story in a game and it feeling entirely organic and natural, it’s a major part of life and video games just don’t treat it well with the harem crap and player choice making it feel like the work of sociopaths who view people as objects. Yes, the game is an absolute disaster technically but there’s enough heart and soul to make up for that. Even if a girl’s head was vibrating at the speed of sound 5 feet from her body in the cantina.

Plus the game has Turgle. Enough said.

Finished the main mission campaign on Generation Zero yesterday and while I get that it’s not for everyone, it was definitely for me. A great big open-world full of locations to loot, a deep and ominous atmosphere and while the gunplay felt a bit rigid and restricted at first I actually grew to really enjoy the combat.

Particular praise for the various enemy types, they all look great and each have their own specific characteristics and weak spots etc. If you’re anything like me, ie someone who really enjoys the Far Cry series and are missing that open world fps gameplay-loop, you could do a lot worse than to give this a go.

@graymamba
Pleased you enjoyed it and yes it starts out making a poor impression with the player at a significant disadvantage, fortunately I’m too stubborn to let a game beat me and managed to improve my character and the weapons to be able to take the fight to the enemy.
The only thing I didn’t like about the game was that awful bicycle, where is my quad Bike?
In fact there is a trophy in the dlc which requires you to race down a ski slope on the bike, thankfully the time requirements were quite lenient.

@CaptD well I might well be playing through the dlc missions after all tbh as that Fashionista trophy still hasn’t popped, so hopefully a new island full of locations to loot might get me over the line 🤞

@graymamba
I think that trophy is a bit glitchy, not that it doesn’t pop but it needs a bit more than stated. I’m sure I had a few more than specified as it was starting to concern me.
Keep at it, it will pop.

I just beat Castlevania II Belmont's Revenge

And with it all Classicvanias from the Classics collection!

It feels good!

I got ill for a while and then had to catch up with work so that's why I haven't been here for the past... 3 weeks?

But I recently bought Astro-Bot and spent a few hours each day chipping away at it til I beat it earlier this evening.

Absolutely delightful little game! I enjoyed every second of it despite it being a rather easy title (Though the grandmaster challenge was no joke! I spent over an hour getting that final bot).

I even got the platinum trophy for it which I so rarely do!

@HallowMoonshadow Astro Bot is great but I was a little underwhelmed as some of the abilities felt a bit similar and it was the least interesting ones that got used multiple times.

But a wonderful game all the same and a delight to play something that didn’t feel like it had to stretch itself to a 60+ hour experience.

I mean if you liked the PS5 pack in title Astro's Playroom then I'm sure you'll love Astrobot too @Herculean!

Yeah I really wish the mouse powerup was used a lot more @Thrillho, that level was SO good! The Elephant power up woulda been nice to have been sprinkled in a bit more too. I actually really liked the water level too myself.

But yeah totally agree it was a special little game. Like the platty trophy description says I'll see Astro in the next game!

@HallowMoonshadow The time slowing mechanic one wasn’t the most unique but was really well done as well. Some great creativity for the powers and the levels are really well designed around them too.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Finished it up last night from a story perspective. I'll probably still play it from time to time for any side quests that may still appear and the DLC when it drops.

What an epic

Just finished Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.

Phenomenal game. I keep going on about this, but I find there to be so much potential in the Warriors/Musou formula. The core gameplay is solid and addictive, and there's so many things you could add to that core to make each game unique. With Age of Calamity's integration of BotW's lore and characters, as well as some of its gameplay mechanics, I struggled to put this one down. It sits firmly between Persona 5 Strikers (#1) and Three Hopes (now #3) as my second favourite Warriors spin-off.

And let's talk visuals / presentation for a second. This game got a lot of flak in 2020 for its performance and...I just don't get it. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing, or the game's received an update or something, but this ran fine for me with the exception of especially demanding moments (and I think a 30 seconds of slow-down in a 30 hours playthrough isn't bad at all really). I was actually blown away by how the Switch could handle so much going on, and with the visual direction of this game - it genuinely had me impressed with the Switch on a technical level in 2025, which is saying something. Plus the cutscenes were fantastic - probably the best in any Nintendo game I've ever played.

Really just a great game with excellent gameplay, presentation and fanservice. Really reminded me why I love BotW/TotK, the broader Zelda series, and Warriors spin-offs. A safe 9/10.