I beat Evil West and Heartless & Dreadful this week. Fun games I will revisit for sure, especially Evil West. What a blast. Most fun I’ve ever had bashing through hordes of vampires/monsters.
That said, both had moments I’d take out if I could. Evil West had these mundane puzzle segments that just filled time in between enemy encounters, and, similarly, Heartless & Dreadful had tedious platforming segments I didn’t enjoy.
Combat is king though, and combat was good in Heartless & Dreadful and awesome in Evil West.
I hope we get Evil West 2 at some point.
Currently playing through El Shaddai and it’s pretty fun. I love the no HUD commitment. Your health bar is basically your armor: the more you get hit, the more pieces you lose. Same as your enemies.
You also could knock enemies down and steal their weapons, which weakens them greatly and forces you to cycle through weapons during combat encounters, which I like a lot.
I’m hoping to finish it on the weekend and start Lost Judgment afterwards, which I’m worried I may not fully enjoy.
I bought it because of the combat footage and praise for the combat system I’ve been seeing everywhere, but I have no interest in stealth missions, open world quests, dialogue trees or anything RPG, so IDK if combat will be enough for me to beat it and I may refund if I feel I know for sure I won’t like it within the refund window.
Recettear: An Item Shop’s Tale
I never managed to complete the third week payment and abandoned the game frustrated.
Now, years later I checked the internet and it seems that the best route to pay the debt is to ignore the dungeons and focus on buying and selling, which made it too easy.
I finished Silent Hill f:
Overall I give it a 7, nice atmosphere and graphics, the story isn’t bad but I didn’t have trouble identifying the underlying themes and therefore more or less predicting where it was going. This game is very… Japanese.
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They love their teenage protagonists and their coming of age stories, I liked their criticism of Japanese society, especially in terms of women’s issues. The folklore part flew over my head for the most part, but I knew not to trust the fox mask beforehand.
I hated the combat, I’m not a fan of souls-like games in general, I only finished Dark Souls 1 once many years ago and that’s it. I think it’s not hardcore souls-like but it goes that route which I didn’t enjoy.
After a fellow Lemmy user asked me about it, I checked out Routine and ended up playing it (and haven’t finished yet). I immediately liked the retro futurist setting, and the game doesn’t seem to be very long.
The gameplay is like a spooky hide and seek, it gets somewhat tense at some points, but I wouldn’t say it’s scary.
Except
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the very moment a robot catches you, that’s made me jump a couple of times.
The story is interesting and the puzzles aren’t hard to figure out in general, although some have given me a bit more trouble trying to solve them than others.
I’m also playing Quantum Void, another (mostly) walking simulator set in space with retro futurist aesthetics. Interesting story and nice visuals, it’s obvious that the game’s made by a small team but I don’t mind it, I’m enjoying it.
And I think I managed to advance in Arctic Awakening, so I might be able to finish it after all!
How to Fish. Love being able to quickscope trout.
After finishing Hogwarts Legacy (bit of a bummer in the story ending, to be honest), I’ve started Kingdom Come: Deliverance and boy this is hard.
Is The Talos Principle old enough to end up here? If it is, then I’m recommending it with great ease. Feels like such a great puzzler with little to no action or reflexes required, a lovely magnitudes of secrets to hunt, both apparently tied to progression and just Easter eggs, and a lot of optional reading if you’re into lore-diving.
It’s from Croteam, the people behind Serious Sam, although I can’t say how much of the original crew worked on The Talos Principle. Still, their own engine offers itself very well to puzzle-solving and exploration through walking (or sprinting).
Such a gem.
I would say yes, it is from 2014, playing it now is being more than patient.
Loved the game despite me being bad at puzzles.
I’m finding the progression to be very smart - earlier levels felt more difficult actually because I wasn’t accustomed to the way the developers set things up. I can’t describe it too well, but as you keep solving stuff, you kind of know what to expect and have the idea of the what the solution might look like sooner, and you sort of work backwards from there.
If you want more puzzles, The Witness is also a great title. Although I found it to be downright maddening at times despite being able to beat it. I really like the variety of puzzles there, realy unique in that regard and its design. Hunting for secrets and extra stuff there takes lot, tol, though, but it’s all so beautiful and rewarding.
Got a new wheel and pedals, so back in to Gran Turismo!
Continuing my first ever Portal 2 playthrough. Currently I’m stuck, but I’m motivated to try again. There has to be a way to get through this level. And I want to do it without searching for solutions online.
There was one (1) spot that got me seriously stuck in Portal 2, I think about halfway thru? Here’s hoping you can work through it better than I did (I had to look up the solution).
You can do it!
I’m jealous. I’ve played it so much I have all the puzzles memorized. I wish I could be challenged by it again. I miss those days.
Enjoy it. It’s a great game. A triumph, even.
Rogue Trader
Playing that as well atm. It sits at a weird spot, because it’s not good enough somehow to start playing, but if I start, I cannot stop for hours 😅.
Cyberpunk 2077
Iron HarvestStill on Caves of Qud. I must’ve pissed off the wrong person at some point because now everyone at Six Day Stilt attacks me and I can’t turn in the books I found anymore.
Still playing Vintage Story, the hardcore survival minecraft for adults. I just finished my cementation furnace to make steel, so I’m prepping a lot of charcoal and iron ingots.
Also, a game I wasn’t patient for: Iron Nest. A pretty good dieselpunk tank game where the focus is on mapping, reconnaissance and calculating firing solutions. The sound of the massive cannons is just epic. Most satisfying BOOM ever.
finally got my steam machine (yaaaaaaay) and am revisiting arkham asylum.
and I plan giving the Ys series a try! foes someone have a recommendation which one to start with?
The first two games (sold as Ys I & II Chronicles+ these days) are simple but still hold up pretty well, especially graphically. I haven’t played later ones so I can’t say anything about the rest of the series unfortunately.
Fantastic game, I need to replay it soon.
Bruh wut‽ My deck says it’s not functional. Wonder what the difference is.
arkham asylum you mean? it also said unsupported (forgot the term, the gray icon I think) and when I tried it I struggled with the little lau hner that did not react on input.
I switched to proton 11 manually (was set to proton 10 for that game) and it worked fine. You night just give it a try? 🤔
BeamNG.drive
I put on a podcast, load the Italy map in free roam mode, pick an interesting road and drive it back and forth, trying to go fast.
I’ve been delving back through my backlog and checking out some roguelites that I wasn’t done with — or that weren’t done with me…
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- Children of Morta
- Inscryption
- Soulstone Survivors
- Atomicrops
- Nuclear Throne
- Pathogenic
- The Land Beneath Us
- Ember Knights
I had to make a conscious choice to stop playing Nuclear Throne years ago. You can never be done with this game, haha.
