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Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4)

your general thoughts and opinions on the game without spoilers?

I didn't really enjoy the first 5-6 hours I spent with it, mostly due to what I thought was a lackluster starting area and the story not hooking me in, but after the world opened up and the story got more interesting, I loved it. Ended up being one of the better games I've played in awhile. The combat felt really good for the most part. Fighting human enemies wasn't anything new but the dynamic with the machines and finding different ways to expose weaknesses and take them down was incredibly satisfying.

I did all of the side-quests and found all the collectibles on my way to the platinum. Very little of the non-story stuff felt skippable, and I enjoyed going through it all. The plotlines on some of the side-quests weren't all that interesting, but the gameplay more than made up for it. I didn't do any of the Frozen Wilds stuff just because I felt like I was done after getting the platinum and finishing the story, and there are other games I want to play, but it's definitely something I'd like to check out in the future.

Frozen Wilds is great, def check it out
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davidponte posted...

Horizon: Zero Dawn (PS4)

your general thoughts and opinions on the game without spoilers?
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Some of the corrupted zones get pretty insane. There's one corrupted zone in particular with two of the harder enemies. It's hell. I had to cheese it.
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Well, to be fair, Okada absolutely is an all-time great. Like, no question. If that's what they want to do then that's fine by me. The guy deserves it.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Ha Solio, you must really hate Silent Hill then lol.

It'd probably be annoying. But I don't hate Wolfenstein! In fact it's pretty fun, that door thing is just a small gripe.

SH does this a lot but it's in buildings like an Apartment Block, where it'd be weird if there weren't a lot of doors

Are the doors you actually can open differentiated from the background doors at all?

Nope you don't know until you interact with it.

Grooosssssssss
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XIII_rocks posted...

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Snake5555555555 posted...

Ha Solio, you must really hate Silent Hill then lol.

It'd probably be annoying. But I don't hate Wolfenstein! In fact it's pretty fun, that door thing is just a small gripe.

SH does this a lot but it's in buildings like an Apartment Block, where it'd be weird if there weren't a lot of doors

Are the doors you actually can open differentiated from the background doors at all?
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Y'all telling me y'all don't want to see AJ Styles vs. Rusev or Ziggler vs. Rollins? Neither one? Those sound like they'll be good matches to me!

And as an addition, I'd probably really enjoy Jeff Hardy vs. Nakamura

That said a lot of the rest of the card is pretty tossaway
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XIII_rocks posted...

I love it when games seem to have taken the time and paid enough attention to every possible outcome and have new dialogue or reactions after stuff happens

Undertale does this well but I was invested in the Mass Effect characters so much that when ME3 did this I greatly enjoyed it.

I also like it when games take the time to clearly establish relationships between your allies rather than just with you. And not just the odd scene but really throughout the team. Hence why ME3 really jives with me, though that's just an example and I'm not exactly the most seasoned RPG player.

Just great attention to detail in general really. I love to play a game and discover new things whenever I replay it. Not big things necessarily, just little quirks you didn't see before. My two favourite games do this really well.

Tbh we just need more game series like Mass Effect. Specifically for the thing you're talking about, but for a lot of reasons. I really wish they didn't screw up the animations on release for Andromeda because it was actually setting up a promising new universe!
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Ha Solio, you must really hate Silent Hill then lol.

It'd probably be annoying. But I don't hate Wolfenstein! In fact it's pretty fun, that door thing is just a small gripe.
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Just be prepared to gather quite a bit of the wood if you're going to use the rattler, cause it uses ammo decently fast and you've gotta be able to replenish your ammo. It's really fun to use so it's worth it
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Gotta do the Vectrex. I'm pretty sure it has a second controller. This thing was released before the crash of 1983 and has a lot of fun arcade games on it. No survival horror though.

Most of the super obscure consoles are gonna be older ones that aren't gonna be worth anyone's time anymore, but there's definitely a couple that are alright.
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The Carja Sling will be very very very important because it allows you to freeze enemies way quicker than the War Bow will. Rattler is optional - my main way of taking things down was to freeze then rattle, but you can quite effectively do practically anything to kill machines. That's why this game is so incredible, you can fight the machines in 20 different ways to the same effect if you wanted to!

Lots of people swear by the Blast Sling for raw damage, lots of people say the ropecaster is a must (tie down then stab/barrage), and lots of people think that precise shots with elemental arrows are really the best. Try out some different things and see what you like best. Just about everything except the trap wire weapon is incredibly useful.

Oh and there's a weapon in the DLC that's pretty worthless too but you're not worried about that yet.
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Tbh I almost never used the tearblast arrows

But the chargeable super powerful bow in the DLC? Used that alllllll the time. So so so awesome. Notched three arrows, full charge, and deal massive damage.
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Hate: Doors that can't actually be opened and aren't just part of the backdrop. Example is Wolfenstein: The New Order.

There's a bunch of doors just laying around on the walls. Some are openable, some can only be opened from the other side, some are locked to imply that you have to find another way behind it but there is a room behind it, and some are just there for decoration. So... why are the decoration ones there? They serve no purpose and just waste my time having to get close to see if they're actually a door or just a part of the wall. Dumb.
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neonreaper posted...

Wish him well and move on

Move on as in distance yourself from them, or move on as in keep being friends like normal?
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

After watching a few documentary and youtube videos on ex-members, many people loved the ideas the low level stuff taught, which is how it hooked them. Many wish that they changed their stance to just the low level stuff becasue they would rejoin and think many more people would join if it was just limited to that. Basically they just want it to be a peace and love and self betterment thing.

Have you ever seen the videos from the dad of the leader?
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Also, just thought of this, I was very surprised by the vulgarity! They say bitch in two songs. Not used to that in kpop

Like, saying bitch in a song is fine, nothing against it, but it was like "whoa did they just say bitch?"

and then it was like "Whoa did they just say bitch AGAIN?!"
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Jakyl25 posted...

Define better

That's up to you
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In the opinion of B8 wrestling fans, was Ken Shamrock better in MMA or pro wrestling?
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Listened to the newest Blackpink release. Didn't like it!

I particularly hated how the songs needed to remind me who I was listening to every now and then.
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Korayashi posted...

Hmm..so if yo'ure asking for a friend and their friend told them they're a Scientologist...must mean Solio is the Scientologist! :O

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Asking for a friend
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Grand Kirby posted...

The home-run bat sound from Smash Brothers

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flOw (VITA)

This would be better if I had a controller that also wasn't my screen. Trying to play a VITA game with gyro tilt controls just doesn't work.

Even if I played this on PS3 or PS4 though, the game still isn't very fun.
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Hate: Achievements/Trophies that require you to be in the top xth percentile of an online leaderboard. Found in Killzone 2 and Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

As a trophy hunter, this shit is stupid. Fuck this shit. I don't have the time or the will to try and beat people who probably do have the time to sit in front of their TV all day and play the same game.
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MZero11 posted...

Hate: Force lose battles
Pointless. What's the point of a battle that's impossible to win? Just make a cutscene

Hate: When you wreck a boss and after the battle he's fine and destroys you anyway
Why did I even fight that battle? I accomplished nothing

Hate: Fake choices
"Will you do it?"
"No."
"Come on please?"
"No."
"Come on please?"
"No."
"Come on please?"
"No."
"Come on please?"

Ok fine why did you even give me the option to say no >_>

these are all good examples of things that are simply extraneous. However, I will argue that force lose battles can be used to good effect sometimes. They plant the image in your head that a certain enemy is way too powerful for you to beat, so when you do beat them later on, it's super awesome and you feel like you've really become stronger. It's more effective than a cutscene because in a force lose battle you actively take part in failing and you know that all of your best strategies simply aren't good enough.

They're totally awful sometimes but definitely usable.
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Hate: Nioh's reused assets. Possibly also linked to Dragon Age 2, if I'm not mistaken. I've never played it so I wouldn't know, but I've heard it reuses assets a ton.

In Nioh, if you ever try to do all of the side missions, you'll notice that you have to fight a ton of the bosses a 2nd time (and for a few bosses, you'll have to fight them more than 3 times). The environments are reused too. Some side mission layouts are seen 3 or 4 times, and the main mission maps are reused for side missions as well. It's horrible and lazy game design. If you want that many side missions, consider making new bosses or new levels for those missions instead of putting the player through something they've already seen.
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spot on johnny
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Shonen_Bat posted...

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BlackMageJawa posted...

HATE: Games that try to imply you, the player, are actually a bad person for scripted actions you have no choice over, particularly when they suggest that the 'correct' thing to do is to turn it off and stop playing. How about I save some money and don't start playing in the first place you pretentious hacks?

example?

Not sure how big of a deal it is since I haven't played, but Spec Ops The Line comes to mind immediately.

ehh I think that game doesn't try to say that you, the player, are a bad person.
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foolm0r0n posted...

Solioxrz362 posted...

Don't forget MGS2 with the sword

You mean the best part of the game?

I've never played through it all myself, so I wouldn't know! It does fit what he's talking about though.

Tbh Rising was pretty fuckin sweet so I'm sure the sword fight is awesome in MGS2
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BlackMageJawa posted...

HATE: Games that try to imply you, the player, are actually a bad person for scripted actions you have no choice over, particularly when they suggest that the 'correct' thing to do is to turn it off and stop playing. How about I save some money and don't start playing in the first place you pretentious hacks?

example?
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NBIceman posted...

HATE: Boss battles, particularly in the late game, that are designed around mechanics completely different from the battle system in the rest of the game. I'm mostly thinking of RPGs here, but I'm sure there's examples in plenty of genres. You spend all game becoming accustomed to and mastering the battle system only for the very end to turn everything on its head in an attempt to make it "epic."

KH1, as much as I love it, is one of the worst offenders of this. Fighting multiple Ansem forms while flying, despite having spent hardly any time flying in the entire rest of the game, is just so disappointing.

Don't forget MGS2 with the sword
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trdl23 posted...

ATB has a major flaw in that it causes heavily cinematic moves to grind action to a halt and games haste/slow status effects.

IMO that's the move animation at fault. Those kinds of moves slow the action down no matter what's going on. Before I realized that you could disable the long animations in the newer Pokemon games, I was always turned off to playing those because it just took too long to sit there and watch that.

Haste/slow status effects are typically fine as long as there are ways to heal yourself from having slow or for the enemy to debuff you from having haste, and vice versa. Like you shouldn't be able to just cast Haste on yourself and then be an unstoppable God who gets to attack twice as fast all the time. But that's not ATB's fault either. That's the game developer forgetting to implement balance to one of the status buffs/debuffs.
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pyresword posted...

Hate: RPG's that feature instant death spells while also having a "party leader death=Game Over" mechanic.

Oof let's go over RPGs.

Hate: Grinding. Who thought this was fun? There is nothing fun about killing things over and over and over again for EXP points. It's repetitive and lazy. I don't care what I get after I level up. Don't make me grind. Give me enough content to where I can go do side quests or something to level up instead of running around the same area to kill random encounters.

Hate: Random Encounters. These can be done right, but they often aren't. An area that has one enemy who has a 10% chance of showing up but can fuck your shit up is poorly designed. An area that has 5 different enemy mobs in it, all of which have a different status effect that they can put on you and exploit heavily, is poorly designed.

Hate: Boss battles that have completely unpredictable death moves, practically forcing you to die and retry. Alternatively, boss battles where the boss only has one real weakness and it's trial-and-error to figure out what their weakness is. Or both of these things at the same time. FFX was a real big culprit of this. Zombie seemed to be the favorite/least favorite status ailment of a few of the final bosses, and they're really the only ones where you have to worry about zombie. You could either exploit zombie heavily yourself, or you'd have to be ready to defend against it, otherwise you get 1-shotted. If you aren't well equipped, guess you get fucked up, then you gotta backtrack to get some zombieproof equipment which won't be useful outside of those boss battles.

Hate: Too many status ailments / elemental types. Persona 5 did this. You have fire, ice, wind, electric, physical, gun, nuclear, psychic, light, dark, and almighty to attack with. Then for status ailments, you have burn, freeze, shock, dizzy, forget, confuse, sleep, fear, despair, rage, hunger, and brainwash. That's just too much. You aren't gonna have any really intuitive or meaningful use of all of those. It's just extra stuff to keep up with that doesn't really add anything good to the battle system.

Love: Final Fantasy's Active Time Battle system. Pretty good game design IMO. Retains a bit of turn-based combat, but also keeps the action moving. Forces you to make quicker decisions but also limits how much you can attack in a given time. Simple but effective, which is what I like.
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Please put the game you're referencing and describe what you love/hate about it.

I'll start.

Final Fantasy IX
Trance (HATE)

Why does this have to trigger as soon as you fill up the trance meter? So annoying.

flOw (VITA)
Gyro motion controls (HATE)

This game is probably fine on the PS3 with gyro motion controls. You tilt the controller to move your creature. However, when your controller also has the screen on it, it's really frustrating trying to look and tilt at the same time. Playing this on the VITA hurts your neck and gives you a headache. Whoever designed this port should've put in an option to move the controls to the stick.

Furi / EOE: Eve of Extinction
Boss rush mode (LOVE)

I love boss rush modes! They're really fun. If it's timed, it adds a bit of a competitive arcade feel to it cause you're really wanting that fastest time. It also let's you fight some of the most interesting fights in any game back to back to back. Boss fights are great. More games should have them.
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249USDollars posted...

I was able to block them with the element picker on uBlock

tell me how!
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Tag. I'll be reading!
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Did TrueTrophies start putting up unblockable ads for y'all too? I've got uBlock Origin running on my Chrome browser and it's not taking the ads off. I didn't notice these ads until today.
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mcflubbin posted...

And if anyone's interested, I had a pretty cool match on stream the other night:

https://youtu.be/D2Jyt4N7lus?t=1h11m50s

My brother was on commentary, so that was weird.

The final two rounds of game 3 were sick. Good stuff dude.
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Full Throttle Remastered (VITA)

Got some new VITA games during this most recent PSN sale and this was the shortest/easiest to platinum. I was on vacation when I started it so I just played parts of it here and there. Some clever dialogue. Way too short. But still good I suppose.

Really nothing special as far as the old point & click adventure games go.
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Mobilezoid posted...

FFIX

Unless you can negate every single status ailment, whether or not you win comes down to chance.

It's not worst of all time bad. It's kind of underwhelming but it's not something I'd call awful.
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For one thing the ending is silly

You can't tell me about all these themes when I am practically fighting a wine glass that had no way to fight back and then turns into some god or something, and then actually kills your party but all the cries of the people that are too far away to even hear revive you and you save the day.

It feels like the first Pokemon movie, and that's not a complement. Sure the themes are there, but it's told really poorly.
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If you're looking for something different politically or financially, Texas sounds like a good place to go.

If you're looking for different weather, do not go to Texas. It's still hot as fuck!
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pjbasis posted...

I only played the first one.

It was fine but I think I was comparing it too much to DMC3. And the lack of being able to run through it again with all your power-ups killed my interest in replaying it (which I need to do for a plat).

Maybe after DMCV I'll get back into the series.

AFAIK they are completely different series, and the first one is one of the weaker ones tbh. Definitely recommend at least going through the main games!

BlackDra90n posted...

Nice, I loved this game as well and I'm two trophies away from the platinum myself.

The only two left are killing all the ravens, which shouldn't be too bad with a guide, and beating Sigrun who is completely destroying me on Give Me God of War.

Ravens are gonna be fine, especially because the game tracks them for you.

Sigrun... yikes. That's not gonna be easy on almost any difficulty, and you're stuck on the hardest difficulty. Good luck my dude

(These are almost definitely fine to not label with spoilers but I guess I'll do it anyways.
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ninkendo posted...

good job beating Dad of Boy

lmfao

that's honestly a pretty good title

Xiahou Shake posted...

Just started this game a few days ago and holy shit I'm hooked.

When they announced it I was really worried that they'd overdo the narrative and ruin the combat, which to this point was the only thing the series had going for it. I can say it now, I was completely and utterly wrong. They've added SO MUCH that the series has never had, exploration is a joy and the combat is legit better than it's ever been. Like, the depth of combat is actually kind of stunning to me and it feels so damn good when you're playing it well.

I'm apparently less than halfway through but another thing I'm completely loving is how the story's major beats so far have been very quiet and personal moments, but completely batshit stuff on par with other God of War games just kind of "happens" along the way to those key moments. It's a fascinating way to make the game epic and subdued at the same time, which works really well for the story they're telling here.

The original trilogy had a decent narrative! It wasn't anything that was really amazing or anything but it served it's purpose.

That said it obviously does not hold a candle to this game's narrative. Keep on going. You won't be disappointed. And I promise you there's a lot of stuff you haven't caught on this playthrough in terms of the story and dialogue. After you beat the game, I recommend looking on YouTube why you should do a second playthrough, or just do a second playthrough anyways and see what you didn't get the first time through.
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For anyone that hasn't bought the game or maybe just hasn't gotten around to it yet - yes, this game is as good as everyone says it is. In fact, you may not actually realize how good it is after beating the first time, and that's saying something because you'll probably think it's pretty fantastic.

There's a lot of presentation bonuses that really are impressive, such as the gorgeous surreal landscapes and the single camera shot, and they do help the game's story. The single camera shot keeps you with Kratos and Atreus, the gorgeous landscapes force you into immersion, and the great voice acting reels you in for the powerful moments.

The game does a wonderful job of a lot of things that seal this as the game that defines the PS4. It builds a lot of mystery early on, answers all of the big questions, and then raises a few new ones toward the end to promise the player that this world will be revisited in the future. It ties into the Norse mythology that the game is based on so perfectly, possibly better than the original God of War trilogy did with Greek mythology. It delivers a meaty amount of content, both in the story and in side quests / post-game adventures. Most importantly, it keeps its plot close but its themes closer.

God of War doesn't really ever lose the main focus of the plot, but what it does even better is always finding a way to tie back into the heart of the story. It's about a father-son relationship. It's about family. You could even say there's a lot about unconditional love in God of War, which sounds strange considering it's still a very violent and brutal game. But it's true.

The combat is no longer just stylish button-mashing as it was in the other God of War games (that's unfair to the old God of War games, but you can do a lot of button mashing in them and get away with it for free). It keeps the heavy-hitting nature of the previous combat systems, but adds more depth and options. Square square triangle isn't the easy-mode go-to move anymore. Most moves have a good use and it's fun to explore those options, while in previous games it was almost a hassle to learn how to do the more complex attacks because the easy SST combo was... well, it was easy! And effective!

After platinuming all of the God of War games, I can safely say this is the best one. God of War III is a fantastic game, and for a while it was in my top 10 games ever, but the new God of War certainly may be the best game on the PS4, and it will probably be remembered as one of the best games ever. It faces stiff competition from Naughty Dog for best PS4 game, as Uncharted 4 is also a brilliant release (The Last of Us too, if you think the remaster qualifies that title as a PS4 game). Both Uncharted 4 and God of War excel at the same things (powerful story, large-scale epic, strong characters, upgraded gameplay from other games in the series), but each one really stands out in a different way from the other, so I can't say which one I like more.

tl;dr It's fucking fantastic, go play it if you haven't. Might be best game on PS4, and it's definitely a game that every gamer needs to play before they die.
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I'm not really sure this fits under Kpop but it's related to Korean entertainment

I just found out that Lee Hwi-Jae and his twins isn't going to be on Return of Superman anymore, and my heart kinda broke. I love them. And there's been so many really touching scenes with that family, and a lot of things I can relate to with my brothers when I was little. What really got me was when Hwi-Jae's dad started getting really bad dementia because my grandfather died of Alzheimer's, and I have lived through a couple different relatives losing their memory late in life.

I hope that family keeps doing great, they really are awesome
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Will also hard disagree with everyone saying Persona 5

It was good but the pace isn't great and the whole section with the final boss was really weak IMO
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NowItsAngeTime posted...

Smash Bros. Wii U maybe?

as someone who has spent many many hours as a competitive player, would have to strong disagree

single-player content regressed from brawl, game suffers from balance issues especially after the release of the DLC characters. I think 9 is not a bad score for the game, but almost a 10 is high
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