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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2018 16:46 
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although it’s unapologetically difficult at times. (The gappy checkpoints in the last couple of levels were a source of frustration.)

Just you wait... It gets much, much harder.

I think I'm on about 850 stars. Its quite grindy by this point.


I had no idea there were this many. I think I'm on about 470-something, but I've bought Zelda now so it's going to have to keep being fun.

I've just realised I've no idea which box the case for Mario might be in. :(


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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1) I Expect You To Die (PS4 : PSVR)
2) Prey (PS4)
3) Sniper Elite 4 (PS4)

4) RimWorld (PC)

Finally built a ship and got off planet.

Want to lose 25% of your colony by attacking a wolf to get vengeance for the Yorkshire terrier it just ate? Want to capture a bandit and harvest all of his organs so your doctor's surgery stat goes up? Want to schlep halfway across a planet to pick up a ship's AI core only to have a trader sell you one when when you get back?

RimWorld.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
PostPosted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 12:45 
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Satsuma wrote:
1) Homefront (PC)
2) SUPERHOT VR (PSVR)
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
4) Uncanny Valley (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero DLC (PS4)
6) Layers of Fear (PC)
7) Genital Jousting - Story mode (PC)
8 ) Corgi Warlock (PC)


9) Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR)

I have very fond memories of light gun shooters in the arcades I’ve visited over the years: Operator Wolf, Beast Busters, Space Gun to Time Crisis 1 to 4, Virtua Cop and it’s sequel to House of the Dead and the sequels with increasingly mental new plastic guns to shake and pump and spray. I love everyone of them. Rush of Blood is the natural evolution of these games (eg. these games in VR). And it’s great.

A lesser man would complain about this and that but, for me, I just bloody loved shooting things in a virtual space like the old arcades. Some of the aesthetics are great (PIGS!) and some are drab grey walls but there’s plenty to shoot and plenty of fun to be had. It’s got a limited runtime but I don’t fancy spending hours encased in a VR helmet so I wasn’t bothered. I was more than happy just put on a level or two before turning it off. But I always wanted to come back.

I kinda want games developers to remake the old shooting games (well the polygonal ones) but in VR now. That’d be brilliant. You could be IN! THE! GAME!


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 15:07 
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2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
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4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront

11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief: by which I mean the most recent one rather than the 1998 original. A difficult one to judge this because for everything it does right it seems to fuck something up.

The idea of a central hub city is nice, but repeatedly traversing the same section quickly becomes boring. Designing the city with explorable parts is what you want, but they never lead anywhere very interesting and most of the time it's made challenging from bad level architecture rather than any genuine complexity. The basic stealth mechanics work as well as you'd hope, but they never get much more interesting as the game progresses so your interest wanes.

Ultimately I enjoyed it because I found it oddly relaxing once I'd got into the swing of the games systems but there's no denying it lacks variety and only a couple of the missions try anything interesting. I could say more stuff here but I doubt it's on anyone's list given the middling reviews it released to so I'm not going to bother.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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Grim... wrote:
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1) I Expect You To Die (PS4 : PSVR)
2) Prey (PS4)
3) Sniper Elite 4 (PS4)

4) RimWorld (PC)

Finally built a ship and got off planet.

Want to lose 25% of your colony by attacking a wolf to get vengeance for the Yorkshire terrier it just ate? Want to capture a bandit and harvest all of his organs so your doctor's surgery stat goes up? Want to schlep halfway across a planet to pick up a ship's AI core only to have a trader sell you one when when you get back?

RimWorld.


Rimworld, completely forgot about that. I remember the big issue and scandal across some websites because the game is apparently built on "sexist" code. What it gave was huge publicity to what seemed a really interesting game. I shall put it on my wishlist.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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The dev talks about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comme ... roversies/

It was all a bit overblown, which isn't a massive shock.

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1) I Expect You To Die (PS4 : PSVR)

2) Prey (PS4)

Jesus Christ that was good. I started it in 2017 so I'm going to name it my 2017 single player game of the year.


I am really enjoying it, just need more time to play.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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Grim... wrote:
The dev talks about this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comme ... roversies/

It was all a bit overblown, which isn't a massive shock.
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Yup, i went to read yesterday the original article on RPS, and it was really clickbait and written with pettyness. Developer dealt with grace, even though some of his choices are a bit questionable (e.g. women are more bi-curious than men), it was really unfair to him.

Yesterday i went and installed FTL again. Still an absolute classic, and it has probably the best soundtrack of all time. With my baby daughter and the need to move house, i don't have much time, so this is the kind of game that i can fit in my schedule. I've finished once but i'm sure i was terribly lucky, but i'm going to try again.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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even though some of his choices are a bit questionable (e.g. women are more bi-curious than men)

In his defence, he used statistics released by an online dating site to model his relationship engine, so it wasn't a choice he made.

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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
PostPosted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 14:40 
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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront

11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune: Viking themed point-clicky thing. Looks lovely but the 'logic' of a lot of the puzzles was really iffy which is a cardinal sin in these type of games so I was pretty happy when it was done.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 16:51 
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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront

11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N: a 'job simulator'.

More accurately, a very short game set in yer dystopian future world where people are raised by an AI and, when they turn 18, are inculcated into a society that expects them to earn Citizen Points from performing isolating and repetitive jobs in support of some unnamed military effort.

The actual gameplay apes the sort of clicker games that are all over the mobile app stores but no more than is required to make its point and that's all over with very quickly, at which point the game quite abruptly ends.

So it's far too short and much more of a story than an actual game but I was quite impressed by how much setting it managed to lay in its very short run time. Thus, while I can't really recommend it as it's such a slight experience, someone involved in its design has the sort of deft world-building touch that could come up with something really impressive in the future.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 17:03 
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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront

11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker: another short story game that, like THOR.N came free from the Humble Store's 'originals' programme. This one has you as a mute hitchhiker and the game starts with you already having been picked up by an avuncular southern American farmer type.

Your driver chats away throughout and the interactivity is limited to conversation choices and some rare actual actions. Things start off pretty normal and then slowly get more sinister but, just as it's all warming up, it ends. That makes more sense in this case though as this is allegedly the first part in a series which will see you meet a series of different drivers which will play out the supernatural story.

It's a really interesting idea with great presentation (shades of Firewatch in its visual design) and very good voice acting so it's currently unfinished nature is really the only sticking point at the moment.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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Satsuma wrote:
1) Homefront (PC)
2) SUPERHOT VR (PSVR)
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
4) Uncanny Valley (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero DLC (PS4)
6) Layers of Fear (PC)
7) Genital Jousting - Story mode (PC)
8 ) Corgi Warlock (PC)
9) Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR)


10) Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)

Ah man, it’s excellent. It exudes quality throughout from it’s gorgeous celshaded graphics, its wide sweeping vistas that goes on for miles around in all directions, lovely charactisation and finally to the utterly beautiful full ochestra soundtrack.

There’s so much game here: 22 hours for the campaign and I’ve barely touched any side quests, challenge missions or decked out my house with bits of furniture. And that’s the true ending, not that fake ending at the end of Act 2.

It’s more Gravity Rush but betterer.

Mind you, there’s still the problem with the camera from the first game which can get a bit lost, but it’s difficult to think of a solution when the whole premise of the game is that you can move in any direction altering gravity. Some of the combat is a bit finicky as well.

Overall though it was a fabulous game. A genuine honest to goodness AAA Japanese title. They do make some amazing games those crazy kids.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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@Bamba - what conversation options does a mute have?

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@Bamba - what conversation options does a mute have?


A surprising amount it turns out.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront

11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault: a short room escape thing in the style of The Room series. It's decent enough for free and doesn't outstay it's welcome. It's in Android's version of early access but I didn't encounter any bugs or issues while playing through it.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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Satsuma wrote:
1) Homefront (PC)
2) SUPERHOT VR (PSVR)
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
4) Uncanny Valley (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero DLC (PS4)
6) Layers of Fear (PC)
7) Genital Jousting - Story mode (PC)
8 ) Corgi Warlock (PC)
9) Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR)
10) Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)


11) Playerunknowns Battlegrounds (X1X)

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner.

It’s a great little game this with a compelling gameplay loop and moment to moment tension. During the last fight it was me and one chap on the outskirts of Ponchinki in a field. My hands were trembling in real life. I’d spotted him on the other side of the circle earlier so I knew generally where he would be. I tried lying down but couldn’t use my sights in the rustling corn. I sat up. I was in a bush not knowing whether I was fully on display. Could this be it? I was just inside the white circle and waited until the blue circle of death pushed further in expecting it would flush him out causing him to stand up and I could get a bead on him. Or did he already have me in his sights? The blue circle was closing and there was nothing. Hang on, was that him? I zoomed in on a spot in the corn. Bang, bang, bang-bang. He was dead and would sulk off to another game because he was forever a loser. I had triumphed against 98 other players. I was forever the winner.

I’m never playing it again because I won the game.


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 Post subject: Re: Finish 52 Challenge 2018
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You said you weren't counting this until you got it on both maps!

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Xbox only has one map!


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Xbox only has one map!

Does it? Fair enough then.

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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront

11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay: another short Humble Original. You arrive at your friend's house to find that she's been murdered and so you piece together what happened. First by using clue words to uncover memories then by putting those into the correct sequence once you've uncovered them all. It's pretty fun for the 15 or so minutes it lasts and a nice palette cleanser of a game. The ending suggests a much larger story but I've no idea of one is actually planned or not.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony: you're a detective sent to a space station to investigate the deaths of the crew and decided whether it was the managing AI that was responsible. You swoop around the station collecting clues then present them to the AI in order to solve the death of each crew member and, if pressed hard enough, the AI will confess to any it was responsible for. It's a nice looking thing with a dry sense of humour in it's presentation and the cross-examination mechanic works really well. Good stuff all round; recommended.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park: horror themed walking simulator based on some MMORPG that sees you exploring a theme park after dark looking for your son who's run off. It's possibly one of the worst games I've ever played in that it does precisely not a single fucking thing that's interesting or new and doesn't even have a story worth giving a fuck about. It's only potential saving graces are that it's short and doesn't look bad.


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It's only potential saving graces are that it's short and doesn't look bad.

Sounds like one of my ex-girlfriends.

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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+: VR game collaboration between Rick and Morty's Justin Roiland and CrowsCrowsCrows (i.e. Davey Wreden, co-designer of The Stanley Parable). It's as chaotic and ridiculous as you'd imagine with that pedigree and makes for an entertaining couple of hours; though obviously if you've got no love for R+Ms style of humour then you're going to have a bad time here. There are a few secrets to be found but the core game isn't going to take you all that long to blow through so it's not exactly a paragon of value for money. Which makes it the same as most PSVR content though I suppose.


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1) Wolfenstein 2 - The New Colossus : That was enjoyable and frustrating in equal measure. The lack of visible indicators when your health is low or you are getting shot to shittery from behind makes for a lot of deaths that you weren't expecting. On the other hand, running around dual wielding shotguns that fire three shells at once with copious amounts of ammo means that replaying sections is less of a chore than in other games. The plot veers from earnest and decent discussion about all manner of politics to shit and fart jokes so much it undermines any message it's trying to get across but fair play for at least raising some of the issues. Overall if you like shooting Nazis with overpowered guns and don't mind just dying out of nowhere every few minutes then this is the game for you. There's literally no point even trying to use stealth by the way, you get two kills in and then all hell breaks loose. Every time.

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1. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) - finished story + Pink Floyd level + over 300 power moons
2. SUPERHOT VR (Rift/PC) - finished story mode

So much fun! A bit short but I've unlocked new modes which may increase its longevity.

I can't imagine how much less good this game is on a flat screen. It feels made for VR even though I know it wasn't.

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I bloody love the endless mode. It’s a chaotic mess!


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I can't imagine how much less good this game is on a flat screen. It feels made for VR even though I know it wasn't.


It is a very different game. good in its own way

Hittng enemies with guns in harder, but hitting mens with thown objects is somewhere about infinitely easier.


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Satsuma wrote:
1) Homefront (PC)
2) SUPERHOT VR (PSVR)
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
4) Uncanny Valley (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero DLC (PS4)
6) Layers of Fear (PC)
7) Genital Jousting - Story mode (PC)
8 ) Corgi Warlock (PC)
9) Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR)
10) Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)
11) Playerunknowns Battlegrounds (X1X)


12) The Evil Within 2 (PS4)

TEW1 is brilliant. TEW2 is good but worse than the original in almost all respects.

TEW1 had amazing enemy designs and lots of interesting bosses. This hasn’t got that.

A lot was made in the reviews of the “open world” but TEW2 isn’t really open world. Well, you can go from the last level back to the beginning if you wanted to but it’s a fairly linear path through the game but with two largish levels you can wander about in and find some side missions if you’re that way inclined. I thought the open nature of the game was pretty good but I preferred the linear nature of the first game more: It took you on a ridiculous journey through hospitals, castles, cities, basements, torture chamber and so on but this place is stuck with generic rural town No. 17.

The shooting is good, though, and the item management and stuff is really great - just like the OG! I really liked playing the game. It’s less like Resi 4 than TEW1 but still feels fun and tense as the enemies cause you a bit of bother with little effort on their part. It’s certainly not easy and I like that.

Unfortunately when I wasn’t playing the game it was boring shit. The characters are the blandest generic video game hokum that I’ve seen in some time and the dialogue straight from Resident Evil 1. The cutscenes are boring and the new voice for the main character is fucking dreadful.

Finished in 13 hours which, I think, is about 10 hours less than it took me to finish TEW1 and that wasn’t “open world”. So, y’know, that’s probably a negative for open worlds, I think, maybe. The story was all wrapped up so there probably won’t be another TEW ever again. But that’s probably for the best since clearly this outing hasn’t had the love poured into it that the original had. I don’t think either sold particularly well on release. And that’s a real pity but if you don’t support these games we’ll end up MP games with loot boxes up the arsehole and a diminishing amount of AAA single player games.

It’s a solid 6/10.


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2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+
24. Seasons After Fall: puzzle-platformer with light Metroidvania aspects wrapped up in a eco-mystic narrative.

The core mechanic is the ability, once unlocked, to switch at will between the four seasons which changes certain aspects of the environment to further progress. Not massively original but well implemented and absolutely fucking beautiful throughout; sceenshots and even videos don't do justice to just how pretty it is. If it's got a fault it's that it's not always brilliant at explaining where to go and what to do, but I was never left entirely lost so it was obviously doing something right in that regard; and, one single shitty puzzle aside, my progress was always pretty smooth.

I feel like I'm sort of damning this with faint praise because I really, really enjoyed it while it lasted and it's certainly a lot more than the sum of it's parts.


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2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+
24. Seasons After Fall
25. Legacy 2 - The Ancient Curse: point-clicky thing that attempts The Room style kinetic puzzles but forgets to include logic, decent graphics or an environment that isn't annoying as shit. Suffice it to say that I was glad when it ended.


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1) Super Mario Odyssey (Switch)
2) I expect you to die (PC/VIVE)
3) We Were Here (PC)

Short fun coop game where you're locked in a different path to your friend and you have to solve puzzzles through the power of speech.

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4) We Were Here Too (PC)

Somewhat short fun coop game where you're locked in a different path to your friend and you have to solve puzzzles through the power of speech.

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1. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) - finished story + Pink Floyd level + over 500 power moons
2. SUPERHOT VR (Rift/PC) - finished story mode
3. Human: Fall Flat (PC) - finished all levels

Quirky physics-based third-person puzzler, equal parts frustrating and hilarious. Tear-inducingly funny in co-op. I am very helpful!

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3) We Were Here (PC)
4) We Were Here Too (PC)
5) Human: Fall Flat (PC)

Quirky physics-based third-person puzzler, equal parts frustrating and hilarious. Some berk appeared in my game and made it very hard.


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Dark Souls looks different these days!


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Yeah, I changed the game, but for some reason it didn't.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+
24. Seasons After Fall
25. Legacy 2 - The Ancient Curse
26. XON: Episode 3: the continuation of the XON series which dumps you in an alien environment filled with mysterious machines you need to manipulate to progress. It's very Myst-y in that you're given no actual instructions and have to puzzle everything out simply by observing the effects of your experimentation and spotting patterns.

The first two episodes were really good--much better than you'd expect from something like this--but this third episode was a bit short and actually ended with certain objects not having been required. I presume ep 4 will round that out but it's not a great design; the previous eps were entirely self-contained so you knew that if there was something you could fiddle with then it would be required. Here though I spent no small amount of time poking at certain machines that ended up not being required and this left me stuck for a good while thinking I was missing something.

Also, the environment design was a bit off. A couple of sections of the level were buried down long anonymous looking tunnels that were so dark you couldn't even see the other end unless you sort of stumbled across it (or went down the tunnel backwards) which is pretty shitty. You want to challenge people with good puzzle design, not by hiding entire sections of your game.

We'll see what ep 4 brings but ep 3 has been really disappointing given how awesome the preceding parts were.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+
24. Seasons After Fall
25. Legacy 2 - The Ancient Curse
26. XON: Episode 3
27. Secret of the Lost Pyramid: standard, though slightly low-rent, point-clicky escape thing for Android.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+
24. Seasons After Fall
25. Legacy 2 - The Ancient Curse
26. XON: Episode 3
27. Secret of the Lost Pyramid
28. The Mystery of the Orphanage: same dev as the above so same comment. Though, admittedly, this one was nicely logical and I never got seriously stuck at any point.


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1. The Magic Circle
2. Rusty Lake: Roots.
3. Old Man's Journey
4. Bohemian Killing
5. Hidden Folks
6. Until:Dawn: Rush of Blood
7. Rusty Lake: Hotel
8. Outlast
9. Rusty Lake: Paradise
10. Homefront
11. Batman: The Telltale Series
12. Red
13. Evo Explores
14. All That Remains (part 1)
15. Thief
16. The Frostrune
17. THOR.N
18. Hitchhiker
19. Sherlocked's The Vault
20. Crescent Bay

21. 2000 to 1: A SpaceFelony
22. The Park
23. Accounting+
24. Seasons After Fall
25. Legacy 2 - The Ancient Curse
26. XON: Episode 3
27. Secret of the Lost Pyramid
28. The Mystery of the Orphanage
29. Life is Strange: narrative teenage-angst time-travel drama a-go-go. The quality of the episodes is definitely patchy, and some of the characters are off-putting (Cloe in general is a fucking asshole), but it's lovely to look at and when the narrative beats land, they land proper; to the point that I actually found myself tearing up a couple of times. There's an argument to be made that everything's stretched out a bit much given the ~3.5 hours per episodes--and I do feel that some of the 'game' elements were just added in to avoid 'walking simulator' accusations--but none of it's too onerous and maybe a shorter runtime would've softened the impact of some parts too much. Good stuff, though possibly not as good as common wisdom would have us believe.


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1) I Expect You To Die (PS4 : PSVR)
2) Prey (PS4)
3) Sniper Elite 4 (PS4)
4) RimWorld (PC)


5) Titanfall 2 (PS4)

Well, I finished the campaign and prestieged in MP, so I'm going to call this done (although I'm still going to play the shit out of it). The campaign was short (which is a good thing) and had one of the cleverest bits I've seen in modern videogaming in some years (I won't spoil it, though).

MP is brutal and I'm shit at it, but much fun is had being either a JUMPY BOI or a STOMPY BOI. Beth the Titan also approves.

Titanfall 2 is brilliant.

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1) Homefront (PC)
2) SUPERHOT VR (PSVR)
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
4) Uncanny Valley (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero DLC (PS4)
6) Layers of Fear (PC)
7) Genital Jousting - Story mode (PC)
8 ) Corgi Warlock (PC)
9) Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR)
10) Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)
11) Playerunknowns Battlegrounds (X1X)
12) The Evil Within 2 (PS4)


13) Super Mario Odessey (Switch)

Finished the campaign, now to mop up some moons if I can be bothered. It’s a pretty ace game, as everyone knows, but what stops this being a 10/10 game is the lack of any decent and/or memorable music throughout. There’s one ace level with the signature tune but other than that? Nothing. Where’s the Beep Block Skyway? Where’s the Gusty Garden? Where’s the Puzzle Plank Galaxy? Mario is surely known for the kick ass tunes.

I thought it was a super ace game and it’s plenty fun but the lack of awesome tunes is a reet pisser.

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1. Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) - finished story + Pink Floyd level + over 500 power moons
2. SUPERHOT VR (Rift/PC) - finished story mode
3. Human: Fall Flat (PC) - finished all levels
4. Golf Story (Switch) - finished story mode

Loved this. Basically an Undertale/Earthbound-style RPG where all the combat is replaced with golf. Brilliant 16-bit-era graphics except the speech bubbles which are hi-res. Some great little Easter eggs and side games too. A funny script and had me smiling throughout. A surprisingly deep game of golf too.

I just need to mop up some side quests and I'm done. You can also play 2 player golf rounds using one pair of joy cons.

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