Mister Jack

Oy, this animation.

I'm only two dungeons down so far but to be honest I can't remember a single song I've heard in the game so far outside of the remixed classic tunes. The music isn't bad, but it seems quite forgettable. Maybe I just haven't heard the really good tracks yet? My biggest complaint, outside of the technical issues and the rain fucking up my climbing, is the weapon durability thing. I get that the whole point is to keep using new and different weapons, and I do appreciate that, but it just feels like everything breaks way too quickly. Even in real life, I'm pretty sure medieval weapons were crafted to last longer than one or two opponents.

Regarding the lodge, you do get some weapons for completing all the trials, but it's not really anything better than the kinds you can buy. It'll save you some shards if you get all blazing suns, I guess. However, doing the lodge hunting sidequests will get you a weapon you can't get anywhere else, and it's a good one too.

I really wish this game had adjustable graphics settings like Nioh did on the PS4. If I could turn down some of the ambient occlusion or something in exchange for a stable framerate, I would do it in a heartbeat. I mean, it's already a Wii U game. No matter how nice it looks, Horizon still blows it out of the water.

Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice Man, I knew this was my favorite VN series for a reason. I meant to keep this as something to play whenever I couldn't get to Zelda for whatever reason, but I was so invested in these cases that I couldn't put it down. I even ended up downloading the DLC cases. As far as this series goes, this entry might be the best one yet. If not then it's certainly up there with the high points of the franchise.

God, season 5 is blowing me away already and it's only two episodes in.

"Git gud." Fuck off. That is the most obnoxious non-argument in existence to frequently legitimate criticisms of a game's flaws. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Other than the framerate, this is my biggest annoyance.

I'm several hours in and I still get drops whenever I'm in a village or whenever the weather is bad. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

This game is pretty great and all but holy shit the framerate is atrocious. I sure hope this is something they can fix with a patch. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

I know graphics aren't everything but good lord, what were those animators doing?

Horizon: Zero Dawn. Got the platinum while I was at it. This was a great game, easily the best Guerilla has made so far. I actually enjoyed the overarching story of the game, even if a lot of the side characters are rather forgettable. Learning the truth behind the apocalypse was satisfying. That said, the story stuff wasn't nearly as compelling as the actual robot hunts. If the game had been nothing more than Aloy: Robot Dinosaur Hunter I think I would have enjoyed it just as much. My only major criticism is that sometimes it can be hard to tell what you can grab and what you can't. White markings on snow covered mountains aren't exactly the best way to convey that information. Still, this is well worth any PS4 owner's time. Now I can move on to Zelda.

They can't dig up through water. At least for the corrupted zone, there's a stream nearby with a small pile of rocks right beside it. If you stick near the rocks, the rockbreakers can't dig under you, and when they start spitting rocks at you you can duck down behind the rock formation to take cover. From there I just took potshots at their claws, then their vents once they were disabled. I also made sure to only pull one at a time. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

I too would like to say "fuck corrupted rockbreakers." That zone took me a ton of tries to clear out, and the one that finally succeeded took me thirty minutes to get through.

I do not, no. I don't buy things all that often on Amazon. That credit took years to save up. Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

Okay, so normally I would never EVER buy this many games at the same time, especially when I'm currently still playing one, but Target was having a buy 2, get 1 free sale and considering I plan to play all these at some point anyway, that's too good to pass up. I got my tax return recently too, which made it easier to take advantage of said sale. Annoyingly, Target doesn't carry Nier in the store so I had to get Zelda and Ghost Recon through store pickup and order Nier to be shipped in the same transaction. Fortunately, the sale still applied when I did it that way. Since I was already on a game buying spree, I used my saved up Amazon reward credit to preorder this. I'm officially set on games for the next several months. Normally I don't preorder games through Amazon because they almost never send it out on launch day, but look at all those games up there. I'll be perfectly fine if P5 is a few days late.

I've used the rattler mostly for groups of humans or especially ornery machines. As far as I can tell it's not designed to target weak points or anything, but it can be good at taking off chunks of life in a pinch if you can deal with the fact that it goes through ammo like M&Ms. I consider it an emergency weapon.

The rattler is basically the cave-people version of a shotgun.

Trample them with your robot horse. Then you can say it was an accident.

I'm really digging this game so far. It's a far cry from Guerilla's past work. Also, this may sound weird but while I've played games where you hunt animals before, this might be the first one that really makes me feel like a hunter, if that makes any sense. On a side note, I like how they handled the whole "climb the radio tower to expose the map" thing you see so often in these open world games. I don't really like that trope in general, but if it's gotta be in there, then this is a clever way to do it.

Maybe I'm overlooking something here, but why do some games insist on capping equipment levels but then going past it anyway by adding some weird, confusing bullcrap to exceed the level cap? Destiny did it with the light levels and Nioh also does it by capping equipment at level 150 but allowing you to get equipment up to level +10. Why do that? Why not just make the cap higher? The higher level equipment can still be rare drops if that's the point of it.

Just saw Logan and it was indeed great. I know this is weird to say about a movie that's full of mutants, but the story was very human. It occurred to me while I was watching it that Fox has successfully managed to do what Warner Brothers has struggled with since Man of Steel: make a dark and gritty comic book movie and do it right. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Got the platinum for Nioh. I'm particularly proud of this one because some of these trophies were just brutal. The majority mostly just required dedication, like mastering all the weapon types, but you also have to beat every mission in the game. That doesn't sound so bad, but some of the optional side missions are just completely unfair, including missions where enemies are 100 levels above you and missions where you have to fight multiple of the game's hardest bosses at the same time. Considering that this game is trying to be like Dark Souls, you can probably imagine that this was one absolute motherfucker of a task to accomplish. But I did it. I can finally move on to Horizon now.

I still have a couple trophies left to get in Nioh, but one of them is based around rotating daily missions and the other involves grinding for money, so I might as well do that in spurts and move on to this. By chance, I also discovered I had some unused eShop credit on my 3DS, so I used it on this.