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I've been playing games lately so here we go! Mini reviews as I progress

Game in a series I've played some of is Fallout 4 - put about 60 hours into this. I think it does some clever things, but overall I was kinda disappointed with the direction. I like to play more talky characters, followed by stealthy characters, with straight up fighters a distant 3rd... but this game has no room for that. Even in the moments when you CAN get extra info out of good speech checks, you still get pushed into "Well anyway let's fight to the death I guess" moments. Not to mention, the absolute endless cascade of faceless Raiders, Ghouls, Mutants, and Synths. Like, the game immediately makes the value judgment for you -- the name of the enemy that's trying to kill you as you take 10 steps outside is "Raider scum". I wish there was more of a place in Fallout for people doing bad things because they're in terrible positions. My INT 10 CHA 10 character should not have ended the game with over 600 (human) kills. Come on.

Shooting Game is Vampire Survivors. It's a shooting game! Come at me! (Don't actually come at me cause I Great Gospeled my La Borra so much the floor is holy lava and you'll instantly evaporate). I played this awhile last spring on PC, but got back into it when it dropped on Mobile and played through the end. Very fun! I do think the last secrets are a little TOO cryptic... you end up having to wiki stuff. And for what it's worth, I do think HoloCure is a better game.

Action Game is Bleed. This was cute. The art style reminds me of the anime type stuff my friends drew back in high school. It took me a long time, honestly until the last stage, to start to feel more comfortable with the control scheme. And I didn't replay on higher difficulties, cause Normal was enough for me. But yeah, I enjoyed trying out different weapons against the bosses to see which one felt best.

Game with an Animal Lead was Frog Fractions. I... don't even know what to say about this game. I sure did learn some fractions! (Best moment was being called out for stale jokes when I typed xyzzy in the text adventure)

Finish a game in 1 day (more like 1.5 hours) was Hiveswap Act 1. I thought I was just getting out of the tutorial and then it went back to the title screen! What! Anyway it was... fine. Not as cleverly written as Homestuck at its best, or even Homestuck at its average, but better than Homestuck at its worst, I guess?

Game I received for Free was Gato Roboto. A friend gifted it to me around Christmas. This was a pretty neat, short, metroidvania. I learned to missile jump really early on and so of course I tried to break the game by going where I wasn't supposed to, and because of that I did the 3 main areas in opposite order, just making the game harder on myself. It was still totally doable, though. I managed to 100% this one. Some of the bosses were pretty clever!

Game that's unbeatable for 6 hours is Fate Grand Order. Of course, what else could it be? I hit six hours, estimated, during Saber Wars 2 rerun, which is tied for my favorite non-Main Story event. I've had awful gacha luck recently, though. Saving up until this summer. It's gonna be packed.

Game by an Indie Developer was Hollow Knight. Which, technically I'd already put a ton of time into this in December and just closed it out in January, buuuut I did get started on the Randomizer stuff, including Multiworld, and other mods, in January. I'd argue at this point it's not only a different game, but double indie!!

I've done a lot of HK rando but I think I might be ready to try the grind to beat the final pantheon, after this month's B8AP

2nd playthrough was heavy on shops so it was a constant hunt for geo. neat.

might try enemy randomizer soon...

Finished in about 10 hours. That was so great

changed a bunch of settings and gonna try another

started a rando AP game with a friend

finally, finally, FINALLY got the second wall jump and dash and it feels like I can go everywhere

alright, i went on vacation and forgot my laptop charger so had to take a break for a bit. I'm home, so resumed my game and.......!https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/7/2/AAdzGwAAEDr4.png

so all that's left is pantheon of hallow nest

it's like climbing the second highest mountain and looking up at everest lmao. "all that's left" is a pretty big task!!

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this game invented rooftops so easy even if i never played it

MZero posted...

I feel like that kind of defeats the purpose!

lmao and savescumming fire emblem is bad too huh

oh there's an achievement for completing the ritual by fighting nightmare king grimm huh

too bad the file that has the troupe is my steel soul file... this is gonna suck lol

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/7/9/AAdzGwAAECr7.jpg

today's progress

i'm at like 80% completion on this steel soul run so I gotta run around and try to figure out what I missed, lol. Then there's one more achievement

and then it's back to the main file for pantheon of hallownest huh

my first steel soul ended at a random room full of watcher dudes. Decided to push my luck. Surely they're almost dead! I can dodge this!

so now I'm save and quitting if I hit 1 health lmao

took me 4 tries to kill Nosk because I'm so not used to fighting him without longnail / double jump, ugh

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/7/AAdzGwAAECbB.png https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/9/8/AAdzGwAAECbC.jpg

yeahh boiiiiiiiiiiiiii

in the meantime I watched a fair amount of content from Skurry so I think I know who the missing fights after Mantis Lord and Nosk are, haha. And then after NKG is... Radiance?

anyway P5 sounds ludicrous

alright! I got my new controller and played a bit yesterday

warmed up by working on some more hall of gods fights and finally working out how Nightmare King Grimm works https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/6/5/AAdzGwAAECY9.jpg

then I did some Pantheon 1 with bindings. Nail, Masks, Soul weren't too much of a problem, but I still throw at the last second with charms bound. I've failed it like 3 times.

So then I gave P4 a shot again just to see where I stand and fairly easily made it up to Pure Vessel. Now here's a fight!! Started grinding him out in the practice and fiiiinally got comfortable enough with his attacks to beat him on normal. I think I'll keep practicing til I can beat him enhanced, then go through P4 again.

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oh

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i watched a friend play this once but I couldn't get it until here

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i've heard of this!

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https://framed.wtf

i've never seen this so I didn't get it until it was free

Yeah this sucks, I think I need to take a break from HK until I get a new controller. I can't even beat Oro and Mato because it's like, random if i'm gonna single or double jump or jump just won't work

Kenri posted...

I must be the only person in the world who finds Radiance way harder than NKG lmao

the problem is most of NKG's attacks are at least similar to the attacks from his regular form, except if you do the same thing you did before (at least in my case) you get a face full of red flames. So I kinda have to un-learn some strategies and start over on him

I'm off from 12/24 to 1/15

We actually work an extra hour 3 days a week all year long to "afford" a real winter (and summer, though it's shorter) vacation.

how long of a game is this? I've heard great things and I will have some time over the holidays but... the shorter the better in some ways...

Leonhart4 posted...

Ys is "eese" apparently

like the english word Ease, yeah

Anagram posted...

We all know about Teedus, but I just learned Live a Live is "Liv Alive."

it's not though. It's so Live (rhymes with hive) Alive

oh man this looks fun as heck

(please be gay, please be gay)

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First guess was Galaxy cause I suspected "new mario" but I haven't played any since... uh, super mario 64...

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wtf was that first frame

okay I did some practicing in the hall of gods

the good news: beat Ascended on most bosses. Will keep chugging away at it
the bad news: my controller's A button is giving up the ghost. It's been finicky this whole time but it's giving way too many phantom inputs and getting stuck down, and in a big fight that matters a lot! It's a $20 logitech controller I've been using for years, so I'm not too surprised.
the predictable news: i practiced nightmare king grimm a bit and oh. my god. no. what?? certainly makes the first form seem Free by comparison

i'm not sure if it's on steam but i really enjoyed Minit, and it's about this length. It was in the Ukraine bundle

my unexpected solid gold from that bundle was Lenna's Inception, but it's probably a little longer than 3 hours for a first time playthrough

once I passed the 90% completion mark I got hints from friends, and once I passed 100% I went ahead and checked the wiki

still did like 50 hours of exploration on my own lol

DeepsPraw posted...

yep and when you're done with the 4th one, you never have to play that mode again!

ha, haha, ahaha...

Came here to say Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

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well i haven't seen it but i've seen movie posters lol

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lmao i don't know this series at all but that sure is an obvious clue

_Blur_ posted...

Pantheons! Pantheons! Pantheons!

did you fight Nightmare King Grimm yet?

oh yeah I guess I could go back to my main file and work on that 4th pantheon huh

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/2/5/AAdzGwAAEA0V.jpg

alright then!

steel soul time

ok last post complaining about this:

i'm mad cause shitureishimasu ga RIP was my karaoke jam!! gahhhhhhh

oh man that's a good lookin dog. So sorry, man.

LMAO

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man, I am NOT a movie person, but that particular shot just stuck with me

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was that a hibiscus in the first image? I was like, what kind of game has okinawa imagery...

it kinda sucks how boring the "bosses" are compared to holocure. At least with any decent run you probably only even have to *move* against the 25 min boss, unless you're playing a stage with hazards

Steiner posted...

ARR is easily the worst, sloggiest part of FF14 and all players agree, so if you finished it.... worth giving the expansions a try!

yeah everyone says this and I even enjoyed ARR (though the post-ARR content........ugh....)

and yet heavensward was just SOOO MUCH BETTER, immediately. believe the hype

redrocket posted...

Wakka best character from X (and by a wide margin). Is any other result even close to as weird as that?

I heard he was in a new meme this year?

anyway hell yeah Haurchefaunt

pretty rarely, though recently I did listen to The Most Wanted Song and The Most Unwanted Song with my girlfriend so we could experience the... art?? of it??

i tried googling to see what you're talking about with april fools and the top results are Hero Hei of all people defending Calli

so

yeah I'm out

all I own is pekora mousepad / signed "photo" / eyemask / dakimakura, and ame's 1st birthday merch like the pillow and ID card

huh I don't actually know how livesplit works. I should figure that out soon!!

gmun and bolo putting my feelings into words better than I could, thank you

man literally up until this month I was still holding out hope I could catch a ddk live before I left japan, too. I'm always like, come up to sapporo!

AriaOfBolo posted...

Yeah. Her music pulled a lot of mental health weight for me back in the day, I still like it a whole lot in a vacuum, she's got an actively pro-trans track record, and I really looked up to her for a while. But her past and the April Fools thing already had me on the fence about her, and it seems like she's picking up steam to get worse. I've seen this movie before, albeit usually with trans people instead of Black ones. Done supporting her. Sucks.

what was the april fools thing?

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turns out you need to say Source, whoops

complaining about woke cancel culture etc https://genius.com/Mori-calliope-internet-brain-rot-lyrics

it's tough because I know she gets so much hate over a choice she made a long time ago <i>and can't even talk about</i> when she's in character, but still, guh

she must've surrounded herself with those kinds of people.....