Played a bit more Arkham Origins and it really is great. The detective sections are honestly a big step up from City and the Most Wanted villains have been interesting so far. While this does come at the slight detriment of the main story not exactly being that compelling yet, there’s still time and the overall open world trappings are a tighter experience to make up for it.
Started playing Undertale on Switch. It's been in my backlog for so long and people constantly talk about this game that I felt like today is the day I'll start it up. So far I'm really liking it and you can clearly tell what kind of game it will be, i.e. one that doesn't take itself too seriously and will trick you a lot. The gameplay reminds me a lot of Earthbound, but with its own thing where you move around a cursor in order to avoid enemy attacks, which is really cool. I decided to play the game normally just like any other RPG but I'm already aware of the whole "pacifist run" you can do where you don't kill anything. That's just not for me, sadly. But it's cool that it's there if you want that option.
@LtSarge Yeah… you’re gonna miss out on half the game that way. Maybe even more than half. The true pacifist route is honestly the real game. If you’re killing everything and going down the genocide route then just be aware that the game will never forget your murders, even if you delete save files.
@nessisonett To clarify, I'm not planning on killing everything, which is apparently how you get the genocide ending. I've spared e.g. that ghost boss in the beginning. I think I'll mostly spare bosses or strong enemies in general, but otherwise I'll just kill most of the random encounters. That's supposed to count towards the neutral ending if I've understood it correctly.
I also looked up that apparently you need to do a neutral route first before being able to take on the true pacifist route, which is fair. I just want to play the game normally before doing a pacifist run because otherwise it would feel rather boring to not experience everything the game has to offer. Not to mention that you won't be able to level up if you don't defeat enemies, so I want to at least makes things easier on my first run.
So I got the biggest craving to play something on my Vita and I decided to not only resume my playthrough of Steins;Gate 0 via PS4 Remote Play but also start up a game that's been in my backlog for a long time now, which is Hotline Miami 2. I don't know why it took me so long to play this game because I loved the first one, which I think I played through over 5 years ago. It was one of the many titles that defined the Vita indie scene, so it feels rather nostalgic to be playing another entry from this great series.
Playing through Luigi’s Mansion 3 on Switch. I dunno how Nintendo manages to make games that look as good or better than some PS4 games on a console with inferior specs. It looks like a CGI movie.
I'm really enjoying anvil: vault breakers. To me, it's like an isometric risk of rain. Start with a character, get items/weapons to improve your run, etc. Really fun. Also, even though it's on the ps4, dying light for the switch. Runs really well in handheld, added with the hori split pad, and it's fun times all day.
Started playing Lake on Game Pass. I've had it on my watchlist for a while now but for some reason, I really was in a mood to play it today after having read its description. It's a mail delivery game, kind of like Death Stranding. You drive around in a rural American town set in the late 1980s and the gameplay loop is basically to deliver mail to different houses and places. It's a very chill game, you can listen to the radio while driving and sometimes you get to talk to the townsfolk while you do it. It sounds boring on paper, but man if there's one job that makes for a very fun video game, it's mail delivery. Question is how long the gameplay loop will remain fun, but at least so far it's been a great time.
I am currently giving Super Kirby Clash on Switch a try. It seems pretty good so far. I like the look of the game. I think it says something about Nintendo that all their games look visually appealing.
After just playing on PlayStation consoles for the last few years, it’s nice to play so many colourful games.
@Bentleyma- I think one of the most appealing aspects of the Switch is that you'll see so many games that you won't find elsewhere. Not only Nintendo's own exclusives but also a lot of third-party exclusives because it's a popular machine in Japan. So you'll see tons of JRPGs, visual novels and other Japanese titles on there that are different and fun. Not to mention so many great indie titles. I've said this before, but Switch is truly the "spiritual successor" of PlayStation Vita. Tons of great games that you're able to play both on the TV and on the go. It's a phenomenal system.
@Bentleyma- If you have any love for XCOM-like tactical RPGs, I HIGHLY recommend getting Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle when it goes on another digital sale (it goes for insanely low prices now; like, less than $20 for the game + Donkey Kong expansion). It's one of the best (and best-looking) games on the system.
@LtSarge Yeah, there are a few third party games that have my interest. I’ll be picking up Deadly Premonition 2 and No More Heroes 3 at some point in the near future. As for visual novels, those Famicon Detective Club games look good.
@Ralizah I’ll be getting that at some point. There are sooo many Switch exclusives I want to buy that it’s hard to decide what to get first!
@Ralizah I’ve tried to love that Mario and Rabbids game but I just can’t. It’s so slow but easy that it physically pains me to play. Probably the ADHD but it feels like my brain’s itchy whenever I go back to it. There are loads of great ideas in there so a sequel could definitely improve but yeah, I hope it doesn’t feel as stilted and limiting. Even just the act of moving the roomba around the overworld felt weird.
@nessisonett Interesting. Coming off XCOM: Enemy Unknown (haven't played the sequel yet, or the older PC games), I felt exactly the opposite: M+R takes the slow crawl of XCOM's basic tactical gameplay and livens it up immensely with really dynamic movement options that force the player to take the entire battlefield into account when planning out moves on any turn. It streamlines the numbers aspect of XCOM, but that never felt like it removed any genuine challenge from the game. I really dug how it replaced the boring base building element with fantastic overworld puzzles and exploration. And there are some truly solid post-game challenges that kept me coming back after the story itself was finished.
It's one of the few third-party games that feels like it has an almost first-party Nintendo polish to me, even putting aside the use of Mario characters.
Not entirely sold on the direction the sequel is going, given some of the changes we've seen so far, but I definitely won't judge it before we know more. I'm just glad it's getting a sequel, but as one of the best-selling third party games on the platform (I think Monster Hunter Rise robbed it of its long-standing throne in this regard), that was probably inevitable.
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