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8.) Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain This is a series that I've always been interested in, but never actually got around to playing ever. Since they just did the remaster for Soul Reaver 1 & 2, and they ran a Kickstarter for a super cool looking encyclopedia thing for the series, I figured I'd finally give it a shot and of course needed to start with the original one. XD You can really feel the age on this one, but damn it must have been a great game when it originally came out. The controls and menus and such are a bit painful to work with nowadays, but I can forgive that for just how much the game was trying to do for the time it came out. There was a lot to be impressed with when keeping things in perspective and I had a lot of fun playing it overall. Looking forward to eventually playing the rest. Also didn't realize that Amy Hennig was heavily involved in these games, so that's kind of neat seeing her older work.
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Happy birthday to: Psycho666Soldier (35) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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The Switch 2 will be out June 5th, and will sell for $449 in the US, along with a bundle that includes the new Mario Kart World, for $500. The Switch 2 will run up to 1080/120hz undocked, and up to 4K/60hz docked. Check out the official Nintendo Switch 2 website for more information
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Finished up season 2 today. That show hit pretty hard at the end. There was a heavy setup for season three in the last episode of season 2. I can't decide if I would rather binge all of season 3 in one go (after is it out in like 2027 or whatever) or watch the weekly releases.
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Zau was a great game. Just long enough to feel satisfying and ended before it became a drag. The movement and the platforming(and the boss fights) were definitely the highlights for me gameplay wise. I found the combat zones to be tedious, though
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Happy birthday to: webhead (39) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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6.) Tales of Kenzara: Zau Saw this one a while back on the Game A(d)wards and it looked interesting. Finally took some time to play it and am glad I did. Solid story and gameplay all around. Pretty competent (but not overly difficult) Metroidvania style game that didn't feel overwhelming and had a fun combat system that involved switching between 2 masks that change your powers and damage type. Really enjoyed the story overall and had a lot of fun playing through it. 7.) (PSVR2) Behind Your Eyes Interesting if short and gimmicky VR game. The game controls off of blinking, and is presented as your life flashing before your eyes after you've died. Basically, the more you blink, the faster the scenes go by and you can miss details or important things about the story if you do. It's a really cool concept in theory, but I found playing it to ultimately be super frustrating because the game indicating not to blink just makes you want to blink that much more. XD Luckily they added an option to not use the eye tracking and just hit a button to "blink" so I ended up switching to that half way through. I enjoyed it well enough, but it seemed really linear (would have to play through it again to see if anything changes with seeing more of the scenes), and there wasn't much to it. It ended up being a pretty sad story, but that's a bit expected. Managed an interesting twist near the end that I didn't actually see coming right away though, so it gets some points there.
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Happy birthday to: Lucy -- Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Happy birthday to: Shade Aurion (39) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Happy Birthday dude wherever you are. Hopefully just busy and still alive
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Happy birthday to: dr. b (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Went out to eat and otherwise just messed around at home. Had just got over being sick for a couple weeks, so not a lot of energy at that point. XD
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Today's Birthdays - Mera'din
Psycho666Soldier replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
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Happy birthday to: Mera'din (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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1. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (Gold Medal, 64:07 😎) - I can see why this was so well loved back in the day. Cute, fun, easy to play, new twists and wrinkles thrown at you through about 3/4s of the game to keep you interested. Side quests are there if you want and easy. Probably would've hated some of it more if it wasn't for the QOL improvements that the Switch version added. - I liked the Twilight Town plot twist the most - Bowser felt shoe-horned in and wasted, though I absolutely fucking loved when he Solid well-done RPG all around. 1a) Doom (1993) First episode definitely the best. Fourth episode was not fun. Still love the sound effects and how visceral it is to kill the shit out of things. Have it listed as 1a because part of me still wants to try to platinum (probably won't happen, beating the hardest difficulty on co-op is way too rough) and part of me also at least still wants to try the speed run trophy (the only other trophy I didn't get).
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1. Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons 2. Disco Elysium 3. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth 4. :ps1: Final Fantasy VIII 5. Tales of Kenzera: Zau 6. Animal Well 7. Tunic 8. Dragon Ball Sparking Zero 9. Dark Cloud 10. Pseudoregalia 11. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door 12. Teslagrad 2 Just rounding out the rest of the list I finished. I did my usual write-ups for Dark Cloud and Pseudoregalia on a different forum a while ago and just forgot to catch it up here. Dark Cloud 7.5/10 Pseudoregalia 8.5/10 Last two from the year. Pushed this off too long, so I'm not gonna go full review mode. TTYD is incredible and the remake does it wonderful justice. First time I beat it all the way through, absolutely love the story, the characters, the setting, the mechanics. This is peak Paper Mario. Peak Mario RPG tbh. Hoping it sold well and convinces Nintendo to make a proper faithful Paper Mario sequel with full RPG mechanics and FUCKING PARTNERS. 9/10 Teslagrad 2 felt like it maybe could have been a bit longer, and I wasn't as immersed in the setting the way I was with the first one. The main campaign is definitely way too short. But if you take the time to go through and do all the extra challenges and find the extra upgrades, there are some awesome uses of platforming in this game. Honestly, the platforming feels really smooth and clean and is just fun to move around once you get a few key upgrades. Hope the dev team keeps working on stuff and maybe makes something just a bit bigger next time. 8/10
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5.) Little Orpheus Got this one on a sale because I liked most of Chinese Room's other games so figured I might as well play it at some point. Not bad for what started as an episodic mobile game. Not much to it for gameplay (though more than Chinese Room had done up to that point), but the story was at least entertaining. Mostly just dumb, silly fun in the style of an old pulp serial adventure thing. The only real annoying thing with the game is that they add in collectibles to the levels AFTER you do them, and it wasn't so interesting that I want to replay it a 2nd time. Feels like that was a half baked idea to try and push a little re-playability or something. Regardless, probably not worth the $12 or so it normally is, but definitely didn't regret getting it for $3-$4 it had been on sale.
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And Undead Unluck finished a couple Sundays ago. Very satisfying ending. Doesn't try to do too much or be too confusing, so arguably safe, but honestly, it just feels so right after everything that happens. Loved this manga so much. It's dripping with charm and just pulls you into the emotions of the characters. And they did such a great job with the last couple chapters. I can't wait to see the rest of it animated.
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Today's Birthdays - Tassifox
Psycho666Soldier replied to Birthday Greeter's topic in General Insanity
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Happy birthday to: Tassifox (41) Wishing you all the best! What did you get? What did you do?
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Guess their marketing worked. XD Yeah, Little Goody Two Shoes definitely looks like a more fleshed out experience. Seemed more like a full on RPG from the stuff I had seen when it released. I spent extra time last night getting (most) of the other endings as well. Glad they have the extra room where you can select how each chapter ended and start from any chapter, though I was tempted to do a full new playthrough since it seems like there are some small changes to things in New Game+ as well as some extra other content. Definitely seems like the 3rd Normal ending (getting all the Regalia set and getting to the mirror first at the end) is the ending that links to the other game, which makes sense since it seems to be the "best" ending. They all add a little bit/reveal parts of the story though it seems like. The extra ending added with New Game+ was also intriguing and I'm wondering if it will have anything to do with the overall story or something they do in the future with it. Really interested to see if Little Goody Two Shoes explains more of what happened. Overall, the game was pretty impressive for something that was made in RPG Maker (have only ever seen pretty mediocre stuff previously). I'm probably going to try to finish up some other half-finished stuff clogging up my backlog before I dive into the other game, but I'm looking forward to it.
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I actually have been playing this very slowly with my girlfriend over the last couple months too for the EXACT same reason. We technically beat it, but I want to go through and get the different endings before moving on to Little Goodie Two Shoes, since I know the ending we got doesn't directly correlate it. I'm kinda with you where it's a fun experience if not a bit predictable and basic. Little Goodie Two Shoes seems like it's the more creative/original game. That said, I did really enjoy this and it was fun going along the journey of seeing how the protagonist and the other characters fit into the whole narrative.
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4.) Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum This is one I had started a while ago but had kind of fell of of playing when other stuff came out. Interesting little 2D gothic/psychological horror game. Doesn't give you a lot of info to work with and kind of have to stumble through figuring stuff out. Interesting story overall, but a little predictable. Nice variety to the endings and some decent replay value. I had actually picked this one up due to another game, Little Goody Two Shoes, releasing as it looked really interesting, but this one is part of the same series and released first (even though I think Little Goody Two Shoes is actually a prequel to it). It sounded interesting as well so decided to give it a go. All around solid experience. Glad I gave it a shot.
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Haven't seen b in a minute and not sure anyone else has been following, but Beat & Motion had it's last chapter last week. Honestly I expected it to end quite a few chapters ago and would have been satisfied as is, so I felt it ended at a good point. Wasn't much else to develop without making drama for the sake of drama. Really love the way they portrayed Nico and Tatsuhiko's relationship. The final chapter is absolutely stunning and gorgeous, and love that there's minimal dialogue. Great work, I hope it gets animated some day, but honestly the manga format just captures such a unique beauty I'm not sure would hit the same as a cartoon.
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3.) Copycat Short game, relatively interesting concept, but the execution fell kind of flat. Basically a cat walking simulator with some mild timed button press gameplay and a semi-depressing story (of the stereotypical indie game variety). I see what it was going for, but it didn't really pan out on the emotional front. It got close, but it was too predictable, or too bewildering in turns to really land on its feet (pun intended). Didn't hate it, but it also doesn't stand out compared to similar games.
