Quote from: Nyerp on October 03, 2019, 10:22:23 AMtales of xillia 2 is an astonishingly lazy sequel so far

GOD don't even get me started on that game lmao

xillia is one of the better games in the franchise and then its sequel just drags it through the mud. it's not awful per se, just really lazy and has some really stupid mechanics added that pad out the game and make it grindy. and the new characters aren't anywhere near as likable as the old ones.

at least it's not symphonia 2.

Quote from: Samus Aran on October 07, 2019, 11:23:18 AM

Quote from: Nyerp on October 03, 2019, 10:22:23 AMtales of xillia 2 is an astonishingly lazy sequel so far

GOD don't even get me started on that game lmao

xillia is one of the better games in the franchise and then its sequel just drags it through the mud. it's not awful per se, just really lazy and has some really stupid mechanics added that pad out the game and make it grindy. and the new characters aren't anywhere near as likable as the old ones.

at least it's not symphonia 2.

. i can't believe that even though the game already recycles all the areas from xillia 1, the plot is centered on an alternate realities gimmick that's all just an excuse to recycle them AGAIN. and then there's the debt system which requires you to go back to those areas to grind for sidequests AGAIN. what the fuck.

There's some really cool moments in xillia 2 at least 

i think im on the final stretch of blasphemous lol. game is okay but the second half has really gotten on my nerves. a lot of really weird design decisions, and bugs lol. i've gotten stuck in the fucking wall like 4 times and had to reset the game. cheap feeling deaths galore to the point that i cant help but laugh when i get knocked back off a timny platform into a spike pit for the 5th time.

its not a bad game, but man it could have been so much better. i hope they make a second one and dont try to dance around using standard metroidvania tropes and design ideas as much as it felt like they did for this game. almost none of the items in the entire game feel meaningful, its very weird.

finished Kirby & The Amazing Mirror last night

i've actually had this game since around the time it came out. as a teenager i found it off-putting because i didn't really like the idea of Kirby being a Metroidvania all of the sudden. not that it is technically a Metroidvania, but it's as close as Kirby's ever gotten, having a big, inter-connected web of levels and all. i got about halfway through before forgetting about it for a long time.

having actually finished it this time, i think it's pretty darn good, but it is a bit of a slog. the level design is not really all that special and a lot of rooms just sort of blend together and there's few landmarks, so when you're having to backtrack and such it just gets kind of tiresome. the new abilities are also pretty lame, except maybe for missile. the final boss is also pretty poor, and handled in a way unique to this game that i'm not really a fan of.

while the game is otherwise solid, i can say that about any Kirby platformer. for my money, Nightmare in Dreamland is easily the better game out of the two GBA entries. if i were to rank all of the platformers in the series (that i've played), Amazing Mirror would probably be in the bottom third. but i do like it more than Squeak Squad or Mass Attack.

Just downloaded the pay to win version of Destiny 2 lol

I got Dragon Quest 11 S on Switch, along with the ports of the original three Dragon Quest games.

I'm making good progress on 11 S. I beat DQ1, and started DQ2 and am at the part where you finally have all your partners.

got my backer copy of Indivisible today. dunno when i'll start it tho.

started Dead Space 2

Quote from: Samus Aran on October 09, 2019, 07:16:52 PMstarted Dead Space 2

hell yeah

Finished Dead Space 2

It's a great game but it's more action-y and less spooky than the first game. Sometimes it just throws ridiculous amounts of enemies at you. And speaking of ridiculous amounts of enemies, I kind of hate the very end part where you basically have no choice but to just run past tons of enemies so as to not stop and get killed by the invincible motherfucker chasing you. The game makes up for the shitty last chapter tho with an ending that I thought was hilarious (at least, as long as you remember how the first game ended).

Uh, not a ton else to say. It's more Dead Space. It's great. It's better than the first game in a couple ways, namely enemy variety, hiding nodes all over the place and not just in boxes on walls (making areas more fun to explore), some audio improvements, a perhaps slightly better story...but it's still mostly the same overall. Chapter 12 (I think) is especially cool because of its setting.

One thing though: I'm not sure I like that Isaac is more of an actual character in 2. On one hand, it lends itself to better writing...on the other hand, I kind of liked him being a silent,f faceless protagonist in the first game. And did they really have to make him look as generic as possible? Military-type buzzcut tough white guy?

hey uh that resident evil 2 remake is v. good

just beat leon A + claire B

damn i also just finished that game the other day, only Leon A so far tho

game fuckin rules

god i REALLY hope they make one like it for 3 as well

(would be incredible if it was 3 + Code Veronica but i'm not holding my breath that CV will ever get a remake)

so i'm tryna finally get around to getting some snes games from my childhood that either i never actually owned myself, or were destroyed (in the case of my old mario all-stars cartridge)

starting off by getting yoshi's cookie, a game i rented a lot as a little kid, which just happens to come with yoshi's safari in this particular ebay listing. i have no particular use for safari right now as i do not own a super scope, but let's consider it an investment for the future.

also picked up a mario all stars + super mario world cartridge, to effectively replace my old mario all-stars which was unfortunately destroyed by my sisters like 16 years ago. i was initially just going to get the original mario all-stars, but figured it'd be more worth it to get the + world version just for the hell of it, despite already owning world separately

other childhood games that i'd like to actually own include rampart and roadrunner's death valley rally, two more games i rented constantly when i didn't know better. neither game is actually all that good and rampart costs more than it's worth on ebay unfortunately, but i'll get them eventually. i still dream of someday owning every game i could possibly want on snes.

Bought Luigi's Mansion 3, will start soon.