Board 8 > Post Each Time You Beat a Game - 2018 Edition

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Boring is obviously in the eye of the beholder, but the first episodes tend to be a tad slower in the pacing department is because it is necessary for world-building and establishing characters, even in licensed games.
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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective for DS
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KCF0107 posted...

Boring is obviously in the eye of the beholder, but the first episodes tend to be a tad slower in the pacing department is because it is necessary for world-building and establishing characters, even in licensed games.

I suppose. It's just, I wish they just had some kind of recap mechanism.

Shadow Warrior 2 (PC) is done. And Holy shit its terrible. On paper it sounds great. It's Borderlands with ninjas, cyberpunk, and demons. But the system is broken as shit. A third of the way I found a rare sword that I just never let go of until finding the plot sword which was the only thing stronger. The sword abilities that cost mana in the last game cost NOTHING in this game and so its very easy to just spam them over and over.

In addition, you also have infinite stamina for dashing, double jumping, and running, essentially making this game a boon for speedrunners, but not someone who expects the followup to the excellent reboot that was the first game. There are missions where I just breeze through the objective slashing things with my infinite sword skills and it felt more boring than your usual Ubisoft game. The writing has also suffered imo. Good job retconning and refastening the plot from the first game however, whereas in the first game every piece of dialogue was informative in some way, in here it was just to make Lo Wang an edgy immature asstard.

First Wolfenstein now this. What other crappy sequels to awesome games will I play next
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finished A Way Out (PS4) today with my bro. I know about the studio's previous game so I pretty much knew about this one's final choice. I didn't expect it to be a Versus finale though. That was good. Both endings are really powerful and touches the heart. It's a nice story, and certainly better than anything David Cage attempt at storytelling.
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I need to make a new topic don't I? Tuesday at the latest, but I hope that I can Monday.
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Yoku's Island Adventure (PC)

Fun little pinball/metroidvania game, though I did guess at something early on and was correct about it
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MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies (Vita)
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New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS)

Finally got around to this one, and there's a very good reason I waited this long. This is the worst 2D Mario platformer I've played. The focus on collecting an absurd number of coins removed any risk of a game over, so apparently the devs took that as an excuse to fill the game with uninspiring levels and fake difficulty.
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Final Fantasy VIII (PS1)
Best things: Soundtrack, Ultimecia, card game, flashy attack animations, frequent access to flashy attacks, customization
Worst things: Regional card rule system, drawing 300 of X, unconvincing romance, general cryptic sidequests and lack of balance, overwhelming customization from the very beginning

I didn't expect the grand finale to be quite that hype.
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Quell Memento (Vita)
Now that was long overdue. Turned out I was pretty close to the end.
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