Board 8 > March B8 Game of the Month Club ft. Batman, Demon's Crest, and Sexy Brutale

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Downloaded Arkham City.

Of course, I also downloaded God Hand, so I think I might replay that instead.
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Eww, God Hand.
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KCF0107 posted...

Eww, God Hand.

Sounds like you're asking me to change one of my nominations to God Hand.

Let's see how much I end up playing before the deadline.
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Got my Switch back from my bro, downloading Sexy Brutale right now
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Gameking has beaten Batman: Arkham City.

Replaying this was a lot of fun. I remember having a great time traversing Arkham City, and I'm glad to see that the movement has held up. The Riddler trophies really reminded me of the Koroks from Breath of the Wild.

I'll have my noms up soon.
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Nominate Cosmic Star Heroine

(it's currently 50% off through March 26th on Steam)
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Already played 50 hours of Into the Breach this month, so yep, going to change one of my nominations. I guess I shouldn't nominate anything out of spite, though, so...

Change my nomination of Into the Breach to Doom (2016)
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Nominate Ghost Trick
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KCF had the same issue with sexy brutale had to guide for that moment in the basement

I ended up playing a different Batman, maybe will play Demon Crest if I can motivate myself
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Monthly Progress
Batman - gameking
Demon's Crest - Lolo, Ark, gameking
Sexy Brutale - Ark, KCF, peaf, gameking

Nominations
Ark - Pyre, Severed, Doom (2016)
Cody - Firewatch
darkx - Tales of Legendia
KCF - Batman Telltale, (Super) Cloudbuilt
LotM - Ghost Trick
MMX - This is the Police
Nee - Cosmic Star Heroine
Shonen - Zelda: Majora's Mask

Drawing will be on Sunday, March 25th
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I have finally procured Arkham City.

game finishing its install now.
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Any generic tips on Sexy Brutale without giving away any specifics? I'm struggling early (Clay and Trinity). I feel like I'm just going around watching them die and nothing I interact with gives me any clues.
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Follow characters as much as possible, looking through doors and such. On the pause screen, you can simulate time elapsing, and if you follow a character, you will always have a record of where X character is at Y time as long as you watched them at said time.

Maybe that's confusing, so let me use a fictitious example. Let's say Trinity was in a storage room from 1 PM through 3 PM. If you stand outside of the room, spying on it for the full two hours, you can see on the pause screen her face in said room for the full two hours. If you only watched from 2 PM to 3 PM. You will not have any record of where she was from 1 to 2, but you will see her face in that room from the hours of 2 to 3 PM. That will stay on record throughout the entire game.

The game really demands reconnaissance and espionage. Listening and watching characters reveals info you would otherwise not find out on your own.
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KCF0107 posted...

Follow characters as much as possible, looking through doors and such. On the pause screen, you can simulate time elapsing, and if you follow a character, you will always have a record of where X character is at Y time as long as you watched them at said time.

Maybe that's confusing, so let me use a fictitious example. Let's say Trinity was in a storage room from 1 PM through 3 PM. If you stand outside of the room, spying on it for the full two hours, you can see on the pause screen her face in said room for the full two hours. If you only watched from 2 PM to 3 PM. You will not have any record of where she was from 1 to 2, but you will see her face in that room from the hours of 2 to 3 PM. That will stay on record throughout the entire game.

Unfortunately this does not change much for me as I already knew all of this and I guess am just too dumb to figure out the solution :-\ but thank you for trying.
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Uh, another suggestion is to immediately start filling out the map of surrounding area and worry about characters after that. It could give you a better sense of, well, something. I'm drawing blanks on what other non-specific advice I could give you.
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Yes, I've done that too. I believe I have viewed the movements all day of every character that I can at the moment. I know exactly how they both die and haven't the faintest clue how to prevent either. I get the feeling I'm missing something incredibly obvious.
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I saved them. As soon as I noticed... something change I realized yes I did miss something incredibly obvious and something that I had examined before, just not at the right time and with the right combination of steps.
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and... the disc won't read.

gotta take it back. =(
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tomorrow
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Change my nom to:
Strong Bad's Cool Game 4 Attractive People

I will renominate Legendia if I beat Sexy Brutale by tomorrow but I wanted to make sure this got nominated this month because Monday is the last day to add Wii points for those who want to play it on Wii (though it is available on PS3 and PC as well)
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With the drawing tomorrow and just 11 nominations, you have over a 25% chance of having your game selected as of this moment!
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KCF0107 posted...

With the drawing tomorrow and just 11 nominations, you have over a 25% chance of having your game selected as of this moment!

Well, let me make those odds worse.

Kingdom Hearts 2
and
Metroid Samus Returns
as noms
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Monthly Progress
Batman - gameking
Demon's Crest - Lolo, Ark, gameking
Sexy Brutale - Ark, KCF, peaf, gameking

Nominations
Ark - Pyre, Severed, Doom (2016)
Cody - Firewatch
darkx - Strongbad Telltale
KCF - Batman Telltale, (Super) Cloudbuilt
Lolo - Kingdom Hearts II, Metroid: Samus Returns
LotM - Ghost Trick
MMX - This is the Police
Nee - Cosmic Star Heroine
Shonen - Zelda: Majora's Mask

Drawing will be within the next 12 hours
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My nominations will be Snake Pass, Jak 3, and Dragon Ball FighterZ.
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Last call for noms and nom changes
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Noms and nom changes are now closed. I will draw momentarily.
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And your April Games of the Month are...

Batman: The Telltale Series (PC/PS4/XB1/Switch/PS3/360/iOS/Android)
Cosmic Star Heroine (PC/PS4/XB1/Vita)
Severed (Switch/Wii U/3DS/Vita/iOS)

Congrats to myself, Nee, and Ark for having their games selected!

Also, to celebrate its 10 year anniversary, Valkryia Chronicles (PC/PS4/PS3) will be a special fourth game
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1. Batman Telltale
2. Cosmic Star Heroine
3. Severed
4. Zelda: Majora's Mask
5. Cloudbuilt
6. Kingdom Hearts II
7. Metroid: Samus Returns
8. Firewatch
9. Strong Bad's Cool Game 4 Attractive People
10. Ghost Trick
11. Snake Pass
12. This is the Police
13. Jak 3
14. Dragon Ball FighterZ
15. Pyre
16. Doom (2016)
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Batman Telltale is on Switch? Okay might play that. Otherwise there was a lot of stuff nominated I would have potentially played, but all got the short end of the stick.
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As Nee pointed out earlier, Cosmic Star Heroine is $7.50 USD on Steam right now. That deal has less than 24 hours remaining:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/256460/Cosmic_Star_Heroine/
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Yay Severed.

I've wanted to play Cosmic Star Heroine for awhile, but I had been waiting on the Vita version. Might as well play it now at that price, though. Even had a steam coupon lying around, think that's literally the first time I've ever considered using one.

And again a Batman game that I got for free that I probably still won't play. Might give Valkyria Chronicles another try, though.
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So is Telltale worth getting? I had this thread on the best Batman game and it came up a bit:

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/76425614

@MegamanX holds it in high regard, and he could elaborate more on that. From what I gather, it is not among Telltale's best offerings but still worth going through as it interestingly puts a higher focus on Bruce Wayne.
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Oh, hey, a game I picked was chosen! Gonna have to play that.

Also, holy cow, Valkyria Chronicles is 10 years old? If you had asked me how old it was, I would have been nowhere close to that. I've also been sitting on that game for a while, so I'll have to try and fit both in this month.
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Just ordered Batman for Switch physical on Amazon. Cheaper than digital.
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I think Batman Telltale is fantastic because it takes the characters and universe you know...and telltale tells their own story. If you are about tradition and can only accept a certain portrayal of each character pass. If you want to be generally surprised as the world isnt as you know it. go ahead
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Steam coupons stack with discounted games apparently, so if someone informs me within the next few hours, I can give away my Steam coupon for Cosmic Star Heroine, which will end up costing you I think $4.50 If the 20% discount is applied to the original price and not the discount. If not, it will end up being $6.00 assuming I did my math correctly.
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Starting in next month's topic, I am going to include under the fictional standings only users who have beaten at least one game since the start of 2017. I am not erasing any past history. All that info will always be on the spreadsheet. I just noticed it's getting a little bloated and doing this will shed over a dozen names (49 to 32).
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sorry, never got to play Batman Arkham City since my PS3 is packed up in preparation for my move.

I'll play next month's Batman since it was available on PS+, and maybe open the steelbook for Valkyria Chronicles PS4. I think Severed was also released on PS+? I'll have to look.

Cosmic Star Heroine isn't on Vita yet, I've been patiently waiting for it, since I have the PS4 version already and it's cross-buy once released. If it was there, I would have already started the game.
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If anyone with an Xbox One wants to make a last-minute scramble to beat Arkham City, Return to Arkham (remaster of Asylum and City) is available for $10 USD ($12 without XBL gold) on XBL
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/1/brw49cbs558d
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Batman is one of the Telltale games in my backlog, so looks like I'll be playing that next month.
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If you have a PS+ subscription, The Sexy Brutale is $6 on NA PSN
https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP3113-CUSA07134_00-THESEXYBRUTALE01

It can easily be beaten by the end of the month as it takes less than 10 hours to finish.
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@Cody11533

I don't know if you have a PS+ subscription, but you did say that XB1 was the only system that Sexy Brutale was on that you didn't own.
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Thank you for the mention! Unfortunately, I do not have PS Plus, but I am considering getting a month just for the sale.
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I've been taking it easy on games this month, but I finally started demon crest.

beat the sword guy and slime, the forest fire and the three tower area.
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Bumpers
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seems like I'm nearing the end of demon's crest. think I only have one more area to clear out before fighting phalanx.
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