Finally beat the Rimworld quest line for the technexus! With over 1k hours in the game it really was a very satisfying capstone.
I just started Have a Nice Death and it’s so instantly appealing! I love the action, the art, the story. It stands besides the best action roguelite platformers I’ve ever played like Dead Cells, Blazblue Entropy Effect X, Rogue Prince of Persia, and Astral Ascent.
I’m back on Rogue Trader. Between DLCs releasing mid-playthrough, my chronic restartitis, and forgetting what I was doing when I took a break and got sidetracked, I’m on a new character again.
But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have saved the von Valancius worlds, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.
Also, his special features confuse me a bit, but new companion Eogunn is great. I was worried about too much overlap with him and Pascal, but they play off each other wonderfully in dialog, and in combat you can spec Pascal into plasma while Eogunn handles arc rifles. I’m actually using him as my primary Officer this time instead of Cassia or Jae.
I’m currently hooked on Yet Another Zombie Survivors. I can’t believe it’s only $15. Well worth it.
Finally got Blue Prince up and going. Didn’t really like it at first, but after the fourth in-game day or so, I started enjoying it.
Also, playing the new next-gen remaster of The Lord of the Rings: War in the North with a friend. It’s pretty mindless hack-and-slash, but it’s fun.
That lotr game looks kind of fun. I’m always looking for good co-op games.
It’s a nice little co-op game. Not really deep in rpg elements and the skill trees are basic, but it’s not grindy and there’s quite a bit of loot to be found.
Started playing Getting over It with Bennett Foddy with my partner - I completed the game a few years ago but it’s fun reliving the first time playing in watching (and helping sometimes!) my partner play. Their reactions when seeing stuff for the first time, trying to problem solve how to approach the next area, its awesome. Oh, and they do rock climbing IRL so their commentary is also very interesting too.
After a long time i started playing games again, finished a few games recently. Hoped into divinity original sin 2 for the first time now and having a blast
Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I keep playing super-long JRPGs back to back and I wanted a nice fun palate cleanser before starting the next one. And there was a sale to go along with the release of Brand New Day.
It’s fun. Web-slinging feels good. Miles’s unique powers are great quality of life improvements over the first game.
I would have waited a couple more months if I knew it was set around Christmas time. I’m the Christmas champion!
Castlevania: Circle of the Moon
I have no attachment or personal feelings towards the Castlevania series. I appreciate these games from a historical perspective but I never really spent much time with them outside of playing Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow for a few hours as a kid (it was a pretty random purchase at the time).
I’ve been eyeing a bunch of various older (mostly 2D) games recently and decided to buy Castlevania Advance Collection to finally give the series a proper try - it was on sale and fit the criteria so why not?I was a bit worried about getting into Castlevania as many of the games (especially the early ones) look like they wouldn’t really be up my alley in terms of gameplay and controls. That may as well be true, as I said, I never really played the series, but going with the Advance Collection turned out to be a good choice - even if I needed a moment to get used to how to play “properly”.
While I’m still in the middle of my playthrough, I can safely say that Circle of the Moon is pretty great. It plays amazingly well, looks and sounds fantastic - it’s a genuinely fun title and that’s not always a given when going back to old classics.It might be one of my favourite “new” titles I’ve tried this year. I can’t wait to get back to it.
LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
This is my… second attempt at playing this, I think? This time with a more “no pressure” attitude though it didn’t help much to be honest.
Game runs and looks beautifully on the Deck - stable performance, no technical issues (except for a single crash), great image quality. Can’t say I’m a fan of the art style (stylised LEGO blocks mixed with more “realistic” environments) but I don’t hate it enough to make it a problem.
Gameplay and story presentation on the other hand… I’m not gonna lie, this title puts me to sleep (literally). Both elements are well made but they also feel extremely flavourless and plain. “Inoffensive”, maybe? I somehow managed to finish year 1 and have zero desire to go back for now - I might have to try playing it in chunks instead of normally.It’s not a bad game but it’s sooooo boring - enough so to make me wish I was playing the old Harry Potter and The Sorcerers Stone instead.
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc
Ah Rayman… it’s a series I like even though, if I think about it, I didn’t really play much of it. I played Rayman 2 as a kid but only finished it a few years ago, tried (but never finished) 3 a bunch of times, spent some time with Jungle Run and dabbed a tiny bit with Origins - suffice to say, my attachment is more emotional or memory based rather than having to do with my actual experience with this franchise. It’s weird.
For years, Rayman 3 has become something of a “cool game I want to go back to and finally complete”. Well, I did just that.
I initially tried to play with the “Better Rayman 3” mod but something about its widescreen fix broke both the pre-rendered cutscenes and UI so I opted into using Ray3Fix and playing in 4:3 instead. It worked well enough though I can’t say it was worth it.
R3 is a pure downgrade from the second game. Camera control is more finicky, constantly shifting between full control, static placement and a weird in-between with partial control. It’s also physically constrained by the level geometry which makes it feel even more stiff and constricting, especially in smaller environments (which there are quite a few of). I’m genuinely not sure there’s another game where I fought the camera this much, even though I’m pretty sure R2 had a very similar system (it’s been a while since I played that one but I know it wasn’t this painful).
Gameplay feels worse than R2, with enemy lock-on often aiming at a completely different enemy (or even direction) than you intend to, unimaginative level design and pretty boring enemies (including bosses). It’s not all bad (there are some decent sections here and there) but it’s not enough to elevate the experience into something enjoyable. Finally, there’s writing. Oh boy, the writing. It leans way bit too much into the snarky and edgy “attitude” era as if it was afraid to commit to itself and play things straight. This makes it feel very dated and, in my case, difficult to sit through. After finishing the whole thing I can’t say it was worth it.It’s a mediocre title and a bad sequel, I’m glad I can scratch it off my backlog but I won’t be coming back.
Still going through Hitman achievements. Got the rest of Hitman 1 except Colorado, which I’m really putting off. I’m now doing Hitman 2. I’ll get to Colorado eventually.
