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Oh fuck my life. I can finally make it to the final boss' third phase and of course he does At least I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. If only faintly...

Yeah. I made some progress last night and one time even got to his third phase through sheer luck but I guess it was drunk skills because today I'm back to struggling against his first phase lol. It sucks cause knowing I'm at the very end of the game, I kinda don't have the patience to grind them until I have the muscle memory down. I wanna start NG+ and go back to just playing the game. Oh, for sure. It's kinda maddening because he's way faster than any other enemy in the game but his animations make him look like he's barely even trying. He's absolutely trashing the shit out of me but the fight ends up basically looking like this lol

Yeah, you can just hold but as far as I can tell that only blocks their attack. If you actually deflect, you deal posture damage and open them up for a counter-attack. Right now I've kinda hit a wall in the game. ? I'm at the very end and the only two things I have left to do are the final boss and an optional boss that kinda feels like he belongs in a Souls game more than this. Both are ridiculously hard and are making me eat serious shit. I kinda wish I could just go right to NG+, I've run out of mini-bosses and they're way more fun to fight than these assholes lol.

My only real tip is to get good at deflecting ASAP. Once I did, the game really started to shine and all my early frustrations disappeared. Seriously, after that boss I mentioned in your status update I started just utterly dominating most regular enemies. It's such a key aspect of the combat that it'll probably make or break the game for a lot of people. I also had to lose so many habits from the Souls games early on. For example, dodging is rarely the right move here lol.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 rated for PC! That was faster than I expected. Especially considering that financial report or whatever from a while back that seemed to suggest they were planning on porting Yakuza 6 next. I'm really glad that's not the case because even though I want them all, I have no interest in jumping right to the end of Kiryu's story. SEGA usually move pretty quickly with these, so hopefully an official announcement isn't too far off.

Lol. Fallout 76 sales and Rage 2 pre-orders must've been abysmal on their launcher. And after all the controversy surrounding F76, they must be desperate to gain back some good will. Now to wait and see if they lose it all again by taking Epic's money!

Not exactly a huge surprise considering the teasing and ARG weren't exactly subtle but Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is getting a sequel! Guess I'll need to go back to the original and finish it this time.

Pretty much where I'm at, yeah. I can wait a year for Outer Worlds but Control really stings. I love Remedy and it was gonna be their first game in a while that I didn't need to wait out some exclusivity period for. Also, if Epic are paying to make ports happen AND still only requiring a year of exclusivity then that's honestly really cool. I still won't use their shitty store but I have to give credit where it's due. edit: Damn, son lol

Holy shit. Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and even Detroit are coming to PC O_O Exclusive to Epic for a year, though. But honestly, if their deal actually played a part in making the ports happen then I can't say I'm really bothered. I really wish they'd use that Fortnite money like this rather than "here's some money to not release your PC game on Steam". Hell, if they can get Bloodborne on PC I might actually not wait out the exclusivity period and just double dip once it hits Steam...

James Gunn has been reinstated as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director! Kinda surprising to see them backtrack after such a long time but I'm really happy about this. Guardians is my favorite MCU sub-series and Gunn's firing pretty much killed any interest I had in the next one.

Alright, cool. Thanks!

The fact that it's coming to Steam day and date (or at all, really) is genuinely shocking news. Especially in these dark times where Epic are trying their hardest to fuck the PC market up. I would've skipped a Win10 store release because I still constantly hear stories of how much of an unusable fucking nightmare it is. But with a Steam release, sure, I'll give the series a shot. I'm surprised by the episodic release, though. It's been so long since the initial MCC release that I figured they had plenty of time to port the whole thing at once. For a newcomer like me, is it optimal to start with Reach? I know it's a prequel but those aren't always the best intros. Like, I'd never recommend anyone start with MGS3. I got you, Mal!

Devil May Cry 5 Welp, DMC3 is no longer the best one in the series. Everything about this game feels like a love letter to the fans, even the goddamn story is fan servicey as all hell in the best possible way. The game pretty much has everything I could've possibly wanted from it. Well, except for one specific thing but I have a feeling that's probably coming as DLC at some point. The ending felt a little anticlimactic but the journey there was so freaking hype that I really can't complain. It was a bit on the easy side but now that the tutorial is over I can bump it up to Son of Sparda difficulty and start the real game. I can't wait to really sink my teeth into it because goddamn does the combat feel good in this one. Dante is as wonderfully complex as ever, Nero's actually fun to play this time, and while he's the weakest of the three, V's playstyle is a pretty cool addition. I never quite figured out how to use him as well as the other two, though, because having to constantly keep your distance from enemies feels kinda weird to me in a game like this. So yeah, the wait was ridiculously long and we had to suffer through a decent but completely misguided reboot but it was all worth in the end because it led to this. Here's hoping we won't have to wait another 11 years for DMC6. At least, I'm assuming this isn't the end. The ending could totally work as a send off but it also leaves things wide open for the series to continue.

Yakuza Kiwami I finished the story about a week ago. It was alright. About as meh as I remembered but Zero really fleshes out a lot of key characters, so it ends up feeling less confusing early on. The game makes no effort to clearly set up the structure of the Tojo Clan, so you're hearing about this and that family and some assholes die and you have no idea who the fuck they are or why it's that big of a deal. At this point, I'm pretty much convinced that Zero exists solely because they considered remaking the first one and realized what a dogshit introduction into this world it actually is story-wise. This is why people say Kiwami is glorified DLC because playing it after Zero is so much more enjoyable that it's basically mandatory. That's just the story, though. I imagine in that regard the series will only get better from here on out. At least I hope so. I don't want to set myself up for disappointment, so I won't expect anything as insanely good as Zero. Gameplay is as good as it was back in Zero, although I did miss the disco minigame. Also that one really good karaoke song. As for completing the game, well... I tried. I don't have time to do a Legend playthrough before DMC5 unlocks tonight, I have no desire to do the climax battles right now and that fucking endless Haruka fetch quest in the post-game mode is actually broken near the end, so I have to wait for a patch to finish that. And I haven't even gotten to the part where she wants you to get 950 points in karaoke on Otometal... I really wish the game would let me smash a motorcycle into her dumb little face because fuck that song and fuck you, Haruka! But holy shit, this game sure makes you work for this completion. I mean, casino/gambling minigames are whatever. Most of them are simple enough to figure out if you don't already know them. But I actually learned how to play fucking Mahjong for this shit! Which I've wanted to do ever since watching a few episodes of Akagi with a friend like 15 years ago. It's a pretty fun game! Anyway, between DMC5 and Sekiro, I'm probably good for the next month or so but after that I'm gonna need Kiwami 2 ASAP. So get on that, Sega! Now if you'll excuse, I'm going to go spend the next ~10h pulling my devil trigger eagerly waiting for DMC5 to unlock on Steam.

Pretty much. I often get the urge to do a marathon right before a sequel is due to come out but I almost never actually do it. For example, there's about a week left until DMC5 and I kinda want to replay DMC3 and 4 before then but I'm probably just gonna end up spending that week trying to 100% Yakuza Kiwami.

Which mission is that? I was just thinking that I need to fire up the game more often. I haven't touched it since November, even though I made a point of keeping it installed on my SSD. I was planning to get every elusive target as they became available but I keep waiting until it's too late. I've missed every single one so far lol.

Yeah, that's because it's really one map short of the first season. They kinda hide it by re-using the first season's tutorial, so they technically both have 6 non-tutorial locations but, I mean, come on. That first beach house map is even lighter in content than the fake boat level. It's basically a glorified tutorial for some of the new mechanics with little replay value. Can't really complain, though, considering they gave season 1 owners the previous locations for free. There's also the two upcoming expansion pass locations, which as far as I'm aware there's still no ETA for. I'm really curious to see if they'll conclude the story or still keep things hanging for a potential third game/season.

Well, I know roughly what to expect in terms of story length because I played the original on PS2 when it first came out. But if it's that much shorter even with the side-content then I guess it must not have anything as insanely time-consuming as the real estate/hostess club minigames Y0 had. Which would be kind of a relief, tbh lol. I enjoyed those modes but they are one hell of a time sink. I've come to realize that Howlongtobeat is wildly inaccurate for me, though. My completionist (and apparently very slow) playstyle means I'm often well above their average time, even the completionist ones.

Jesus, didn't you just buy it a few days ago? Yakuza 0 took me almost 80 hours to beat! Is Kiwami 2 that much shorter or did you just not get lost in the side-content at all? I mean, I'm kinda worried that the two and a half weeks between Kiwami 1 PC and DMC5 won't be long enough to finish it lol. Also, weird, I could've sworn the remasters had been confirmed for the West. I still think it's a sure thing but maybe they're waiting for all 3 to be out in Japan so they can release them as a package over here?

Looks like what was supposed to be the first paid Hollow Knight DLC turned into a full-blown sequel! Hollow Knight was absolutely fantastic, so I'm seriously down for more.

Tbh, I started having the most fun once I bumped up the difficulty and did a second run with better knowledge of the game. It's definitely a "first playthrough is the tutorial" kinda game, like most Platinum titles. I never used any of the laser weapons but that's mostly personal preference, I'm sure all weapons can be valid choices with the right play style. I mostly relied on the heavy machine gun and assault rifle when I wanted to maximize damage (e.g. unloading on a boss' weak spot) and the shotgun for small fry enemies. The shotgun is ridiculously satisfying once you get good at dodging fire and popping in and out of slow-motion for quick headshots. It's also pretty lethal against tougher enemies once fully upgraded. Outmaneuvering a Romanov and taking it out with a few quick, well-placed shotgun blasts is the kinda thing that makes me wanna fire up the game just thinking about it. Another move like that is throwing grenades, vaulting out of cover and shooting them in the air for maximum destruction.

I hate being that guy but... you may have been playing it wrong. Vanquish is anything but that. It's also one of the very few games that I think is actually possible to be played wrong. I'm convinced that most people who didn't like it played it like a cover shooter ( mainly because it's really not great when played that way) when in reality it should be approached with the same mentality as something like Devil May Cry. You should only be taking cover when you overheat, and you really should be trying to not overheat.

There's been plenty of these online over the past week but this is the best one I've seen yet.

Pre-ordered on Steam, partially to get tokens for the lunar sale discount but also as a fail safe just in case Epic decide to get their fucking hands on this one too. It's cheaper on Fanatical, so if nothing happens I'll probably just refund it and get it from there at the last minute. I'm seriously considering doing the same thing with Sekiro... edit: Yeah, fuck it. I earned enough tokens to get an extra 6 bucks off and it's not actually available anywhere other than Steam, so it's not like I'll be getting a better deal than this. I was hesitant due to not knowing the system requirements but they just updated the Steam page with them and they're about as low as Dark Souls III, which is a pleasant surprise. Oh and speaking of Dark Souls, the remaster finally dropped low enough for me to bite so I grabbed it a few days ago along with a couple other things.