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Rika_Furude posted...

how would you rate the story so far compared to the first?

Well it's been 15 years since I played the TWEWY so I don't remember specific details; just the general theme, message, and some high points which I love.

But that being said I am absolutely loving Neo's story so far. This is how you do a sequel, by introducing new characters that you actually like (Fret and Rindo are definitely a likable pair) and slowly revealing more and more of the story, more references to the original, old and new characters alike, and having them all tie into the story.

I just about freaked when I saw Sho Minamimoto, ton of nostalgia floodgates flowing in.

I definitely feel like I've gotten into a much better groove in week 2, playing on Hard pretty much the whole time.

Loving this game, take note Tales of Symphonia 2 this is how you start a sequel! At first I thought that was Neku, but it turned out to be Beat! Love that bait-and-switch, I was like no way that could be Neku and he lose against some random girl and I was right.

I'm really loving the story so far, and have got some good pins so I finally have a good groove going in combat. On week 2 already and some great spoilers so far.

TheGoldenEel posted...

it really sucks how shitty Nintendo is as a company because when they truly try (which is happening farther and farther between lately) they make the best games in the industry

That's the thing, if you look at their history they seem to only ever try when they're struggling in the market. RE 4 on gamecube, Bayonetta 2 on Wii u then later bundled with Bayo 1, they only ever bother when they're out of options. It makes you not want to support them because if you do, they just get more greedy rather than supportive.

Proto_Spark posted...

Yeah it's a shame the game didn't receive well, because it clearly a love letter to the classic Crash games. The problem is it goes way too far in that direction, hiding things in frustrating parts and every level being like 4 times as long as any of the PS1 ones. Not to mention the levels themselves just being more difficult.

The levels being so long makes doing stuff like making it through the level without dying or never missing a box so much more annoying, when in the PS1 games those were fun targets to go after because they were generally harder, but not much harder than just playing through the level, which made going after the extra rewards more encouraging (the exception to this are the 2nd/3rd time trial rewards, but the first time trials weren't too hard).

Its just being too over-indulgent into what people love about Crash, that it sort of goes too deep and ends up missing the mark.

Also a shame, because it means we'll also probably never get a similar game with Spyro.

Agreed, and that last bit in particular is what's sad because we definitely won't get another Spyro game. I played the remake trilogy and overall they were not bad, I'd say I enjoyed them.

But actually I would much rather have Sly 5, which is the real shame because it's a fun platformer and yet seems to be the most forgotten out of the Sony platformer properties despite having my favorite aesthetic and feel (heists, saturday morning cartoon style adventures, cel-shaded graphics, it checks all boxes)

viewmaster_pi posted...

the problem with "just don't do it" means you miss out on like... 70% of the game's content and replayability. people should go off and mald as the kids say so maybe next time the devs will try something that isn't tedious and almost spiteful to the player at times

not that the series isn't face down in the ditch now anyway

Good point. What do you think about "punishing" the devs by forcing them to complete their own game? I don't know how extensive their playtesting is but it feels doubtful they could actually complete their own game.

Damn there are some days where I feel like I've finally gotten into the groove and switch to Hard Mode, and other days where I can't seem to kick ass as much as I want.

Hard pressing the shoulder buttons is gonna destroy my controller isn't it... I'm glad I have one more controller and just a couple ps4 games left anyway so it's no big deal, but yeah. I just remembered, the original game actually caused me to end up scratching my DS touch screen, after putting in like 500 hours into the game.

Thoughts on the Blue Beetle AI having their own personality, Khaji-Da? Felt like they were doing quips a little too quickly for what it was, maybe it's explained that they adapt to the Host's personality or something

GeminiDeus posted...

Honestly, just hold off on it. Maybe next Mar10 or the year after it will be 33% off. I'm sure you've got other games you can or want to play until then. I've held off on purchasing many games I've wanted for price drops, such as Mario+Rabbids Sparks of Hope Gold Edition, which I finally bought in January for like $41 (which went on sale again for Mar10 for $36).

Yeah that's when I bought Bayonetta Origins, Nintendo had one of their "sales" where it was $42 instead of the usual $60 so I got it then. I'll do the same with lm 2, definitely not in a hurry to buy or play it until it goes on sale, or as much a sale as Nintendo is willing to go.

Wish they had released 2 before 3 because I'm worried the QoL improvements in 3 will make me not want to go back to 2. Oh well.

Someone posted this video in the other topic:

https://youtu.be/5yapbT_FgFQ

I skimmed a couple minutes of it and it's actually not half bad

You know even on ps4 it doesn't quite have great performance, there's a surprising amount of slowdown and load times for what looks like a really non-resource intensive game. Not a big deal but just putting it out there, can only imagine how much worse it would be on Switch.

So now it's not just The Suicide Squad, but also Blue Beetle, 2 live action movies from DC that are good/great after 15 years

Yeah this month is pretty much the best time for me to go through my own backlog, I finished Barry and decided might as well finish up Doom Patrol after waiting all these years for it to wrap up

Asherlee10 posted...

P. Terry's

I'm curious what a veggie burger of theirs is made of. Also oatmeal and chocolate chip in one cookie? Some interesting choices they're making.

Squall28 posted...

Yeah it starts retreading on too much stuff in season 3. I didn't even bother with season 4.

That's what it felt like, retreading the same ground of the previous seasons which gets tiresome. You're really not gonna continue with 4 now that all episodes are out though?

Welp I just ragequit and turned it off. Got poisoned by the Scorpion enemy Noise variety. I seem to have a vague recollection of this enemy also being annoying in the original game. Guess I'm gonna have to find anti-poison gear because it's insane how quickly my HP dropped.

Honestly I'm just mashing buttons right now which hurts my hand so I'm gonna need to see if there's a rhythm to the triangle-square-L1-R1 button presses.

ECW_Originals12 posted...

And three years from now it'll still be 60 dollars

Kirby and Bayonetta had one of those "$15 off" Sales on Switch store a year and a half after release so hopefully the same thing will happen here

Damn, reading old posts about the game and the amount of vitriol people had for it... just don't do 100%, it's not like the game kidnapped your family and forced you to do it. What's with some gamers' compulsive need to do everything. The hate is completely justified but at the same time it's like, don't do it.

I definitely got frustrated at times, but honestly I was thankful for the infinity lives mechanic the game had and that they maintained the aku aku mask tradition. It helps for us who just want to beat the game.

There are some obvious parallels with Ant-Man 1, all of which I liked or didn't mind, especially since I enjoyed Ant-Man 1.

havean776 posted...

I like the part where he keeps telling his suit how wrong killing is. Then his Grandma mows down a group of people in front of him with a machine gun and he's all like "Grandma You're so cool!".

That was certainly... odd. Like they wanted their cake and eat it too.

Especially funny because then they did the whole oh bb is going to kill the bad guy out of rage and then suddenly the bb system is like no Jaime, killing is wrong. Like an attempt at a callback but really clunky.

Really hope it makes it into the new DCU or at least gets a sequel, because it was perfectly self-contained as a first movie and could either continue to be self-contained or be brought into any fold.

I don't know if I'm liking season 3.

I watched the first 2 seasons during the pandemic and was going crazy at the cliffhanger for season 2. But then season 3 starts with a whimper and now this whole sisterhood of dada arc is just... boring.

I actually enjoyed it in season 1 and 2 for being a character study more than a traditional superhero show, especially when they went on crazy adventures like the pink bad idea insects. But now as of season 3 it just feels... meandering. And no Timothy Dalton sucks :(

Especially after losing Alan Tudyk

Um a bit of an overreaction itt to the protagonist that we spent the year getting to know, fostering relationships with and developing bonds, dying at the end. Am I missing something here?

It's been 15 years since I played the original and so much has changed since then, but so much becomes instantly recognizable like the soundtrack and beats

Hayame_Zero posted...

I would be surprised if it was cheaper than that. It's Nintendo.

But I wouldn't get it if it was $20 because it was not good.

That's what worries me, I hope I'll still like it and that having console controls will help. They had a sale a couple months back for kirby forgotten land so I'll wait until they do the same thing for lm 2.

If the switch were failing as bad as wii u or even late stage wii, this would have been bundled with the first game and charged $40, or no more than $50 but for two games, rather than $60 for one game.

I missed out on this game the first time so I do want to play it because I'm such a luigi/luigi's mansion fan, but I also heard it wasn't as good as 1 or 3, so this feels a bit of a rip-off.

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1768684978974662848?t=WFoB5_yV440gdvndNZfPfQ&s=19

For what was a 3ds game

I haven't even bothered getting the tapes except a few I was able to get through normal play. Their condition is you have to get through a level without dying once, and then you can collect the tape. Yeah no I'm not gonna do that.

You missed one (perhaps the most important one of all)

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Thisguyownsyou posted...

As someone who did in fact 100% it, I do not wish that fate upon anyone, and yes Cortex levels were the worst part. Well, not including all the animal riding levels which were straight up horrible when it came to getting the perfect relics. It's one thing to not die on pure platforming levels, but it really feels awful to essentially perfect like 80% of a level only to have to restart (and sit through long loading screen which probably added literal hours to my total playtime) because of shitty slippery animal controls at the very end...

Did you really? That's crazy. A friend of mine almost cried and straight up gave up when attempting to complete it.

There are a lot of things I liked about the movie, but you know what I really liked? Not just having Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle (whom I loved since seeing his arc in Young Justice) but also hearing about Ted Kord and seeing his inventions, so we got to see more than one iteration of the blue beetle. The idea of his family and jenny going to save him with her dad's inventions was neat.

I thought they just had perfect casting with Xolo Mariduea, but unlike other great-casting-but-bad-movies, this movie is actually better than I or probably anyone was expecting.

Susan Sarandon as the villain? Heck yeah this entire movie's casting is on point. Love Jaime and the entire family really. The scarab design was on point.

It's really a shame that it came out when people were tired of super hero movies because it deserved to see success.

I suppose the amount of people that even played this game can be counted on one hand, if that

Punished_Blinx posted...

The best part of Larry David is that he has a lot of stories of him basically being his character in real life. His podcast with Conan was hilarious.

"Oh sorry I don't take pictures outside."

The line between fiction and reality is blurred

I finally tried a couple of inverted levels and... thanks, I hate it.

The psychedelic colors and creepy design would have been cool and it almost reminded me of Psychonauts, a game I love, however the inverted level itself is just horrible to platform through. It's incredibly dark and you can barely see anything and expected to have fun playing it?

Interested to know who these people are who did do everything, they must be like robot talented.

Really think I'm gonna like this game. I tried the demo, and despite going in with no intention of liking something from modern SE, I was surprised with how much I liked it and how much it felt like playing TWEWY again, which is tied for my favorite game of all time. Got the game after that.

Even though the first game was on DS, I got it on ps4 instead of switch since I heard it has better performance there. Anything else I should keep in mind while playing?

viewmaster_pi posted...

one of my biggest complaints that i stand by is that too few of the levels and worlds felt "Crash"

the island goes by very quickly, the pirate world is alright, the snow world is alright, and the latter swamp-half of the new orleans world is alright. i think i remember a mine or some kind of sewer, or plant, that was cool too. and the other playable characters were just really janky, especially cortex

You know what I actually loved the Cortex castle aesthetic (I love castles in general) but the last bit of platforming ranged from tedious to annoyingly difficult.

Not sure what you mean though. When I first played I did feel like the "order" of levels was messed up, like they did away with the traditional 90s design of forest first, then desert, then fire, then ice land, etc etc

viewmaster_pi posted...

this isn't true at all, get a grip already

however i kind of agree with the rest, and then crash team rumble executed the series at point-blank

Okay what exactly happened there and when was this? I was following the series relatively closely during that Crash trilogy/spyro trilogy remake era where it seemed like they were remastering all our classic games and done pretty well too.

Southernfatman posted...

Larry is right a lot of the time. It's just that most people within the show are just nuts. Larry can be wrong too of course.

George Costanza could be right at times too.

You know we live in a society!

Love when George finally wins one over Larry in the tipping scene

Yeah the levels are so damn long, even for just reaching the end of the level, never mind 100%ing it. I can't even imagine playing the game the traditional way with limited lives. On the last level I died literally 100 times. That part where you have to not get hit by lasers and they keep switching each mask that you use... goddamn. Just goddamn. I still don't know how to do it, I just sacrifice an aku aku mask to go through

There's definitely a lot of effort put into this game, it has its charm and even dumb jokes that I can't help but laugh at. The masks idea was cool for the most part.

Some of the controls are wonky, not just for Crash but the other characters you get to play as. I can't even imagine going for 100% with Cortex, that must be miserable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwvMOCKbmk

rivers posted...

His advice to Lewis on dealing with the premature honey was pretty good too

That made me laugh because in other shows, they might rely on the trope of the woman being "offended" that a guy calls every other woman a honey, but here it's preferable to the 70 year old man to refer to girls as honey rather than his not-yet girlfriend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV2Z--YYlwU

The scene that got me to watch the show finally. Love Michael J Fox so much.

action52 posted...

That wasn't a real crossover so much as a parody. They show his origin, and the same chemical that gave him his powers seeps down and transforms the turtles.

The original TMNT comic was basically a parody of Daredevil.

Daredevil was trained by Stick... the turtles were trained by Splinter.

Daredevil fights the Hand... the Turtles fight the Foot.

And their ally Casey Jones is basically the Punisher, with sports equipment.

Yeah I love this. I love the fact that while tmnt's origin is a spoof of the Marvel-owned Daredevil, the turtles are more commonly associated with DC, namely Batman

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81fxAHZ1JDL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

(a really great comic to read by the way)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRkmES3_rWo

I always laugh at this scene because it's one of the few times Larry wasn't overwhelmingly wrong about his opinion on something society related

Ivany2008 posted...

I'm personally a fan of Nectarines. All the taste of Peaches, but none of the fuzz. The only issue is eating them at the right time after harvest.

They actually taste better than peaches.

But yeah I never find a good one unless I travel abroad. Tried some nectarines in different countries in europe and they tasted absolutely delicious. I could eat 3 in one sitting.

I like Bill Skarsgard. I don't like this

viewmaster_pi posted...

some are fine, to be fair. it almost seems like different people decided different levels, instead of one designer with a vision for how they should all be

That's not unlike the original trilogy which had good levels and bad levels. For my part the levels I loved in 3 (my favorite of the Crash games) were the ancient egypt/medieval times/arabian nights levels, and I disliked everything else. Those were the only levels I bothered to get gems for and do some time relics which I never like or bother to do