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Bugsnax I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would. It's kind of a puzzle-Pokemon with vaguely sinister overtones. Figuring out how to catch each Bugsnak is pretty satisfying, there are enough patterns that you feel like you have a place to start, without it ever seeming rote. It was a good length too, and had surprisingly well-developed characters, that each go through a real arc. Good enough that I platinumed it. 4/5 --- Super Mario Galaxy I liked this game better than I remembered it. It's still not as good as Sunshine though. I really like a lot of the worlds, especially the more abstract ones, but like Mario 64 I found myself fighting with the camera a lot, and Mario not moving the way I want/expect him to because of the weird camera angles. It wasn't all the time, but it when it happened it was extremely irritating. Good game, but not great. 4/5
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Astro's is so good, and it's the one I would recommend you start with. I platinumed it in something like 4 hours. The only downside is that it makes such good use of the DualSense that all the other games will seem like letdowns in comparison. ? (Not that they're bad, just that they don't stand out as amazing like Astro's does.)
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There are a few training challenges Pete gives you where you're timed on how fast you can complete a given scenario, but there's no "limit", you just get a lower rating the longer you take.
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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Holy shit this game is good, even better than Spider-Man 2018. They edited where it needed to be edited (there's only two kinds of upgrade resources now, instead of like 6, and the ability tree is simpler) while still maintaining what made the first game awesome, and adding stuff in some places (like his venom powers). The smaller scope I think helped too, it just felt more focused. And without spoilers, they did some really cool things with his rogues gallery. All in all it was just a really excellent follow-up to the last game. 5/5 *Edit - Just realized I never posted in here when I beat Astro's Playroom a few days ago. That is also a really excellent game, way better than it has any right to be as essentially a glorified tech demo for the DualSense. My only real complaint about it is that it's only four levels and isn't a full-sized game. 5/5
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Falcom thread (Trails, Ys, Xanadu, etc.)
TheMightyEthan replied to toxicitizen's topic in Multi-Platform Games
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Rage 2 Played this on Gamepass, and it's pretty good. Way better than the first one, which I bounced off of a couple hours in. It's your basic open world game, but the fast paced shooting is fun, and I like the lighter tone they took with the world design. All the bandits have pink mohawks and that kind of stuff, it's not your typical grimdark post apocalypse. 4/5
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Yeah, I'll probably cancel it after this month, but then get it again when The Medium comes out.
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I ran out of stuff to play while waiting for my PS5, so I decided to get Gamepass since I qualified for a $1 introductory month. Tried several things on there, finally stuck on Rage 2. It's not the greatest game ever made, but it's quite a bit of fun. Much better than the first one so far.
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What are you listening to now?
TheMightyEthan replied to Chronixal's topic in Entertainment Exchange
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Not really.
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Dude, don't jinx it!
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Ghostrunner Holy shit this game is fantastic. It's like if Mirror's Edge and Super Meat Boy had a baby, and I am here for it. Basically you are a robot assassin in a cyberpunk dystopia, and you kill baddies by wall-running and grappling around and slicing them with your cybersword. You die constantly, but like Super Meat Boy you respawn instantly to give it another go, so each encounter is like a puzzle. Then you get to feel like a complete badass when you do this: (that's actually a very simple encounter from early in the game, I tried to record more but for some reason Game DVR stopped working so all the rest of my videos were just blackness ?) (also the video is only at 30 fps because that's what my capture settings are, but I was actually playing at 60) As you all know I'm a complete wuss about frustrating games and having to replay segments, so the fact that I liked this should prove it's not bad at all. There were a few parts where I thought the checkpoints were a little too far apart, but on the whole it really strikes a good balance between difficulty but letting you get right back into the action. I could probably count on one hand the number of times I really got frustrated with the game, which coming from me that says something. 5/5
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Apparently Nevada has "paused" counting until 9 am Pacific time tomorrow, because they want to cause as much anxiety as they possibly can.
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*internal screaming*
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I wish I still had time to do achievement hunting like that.
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Ghostrunner. After I finished Sleeping Dogs (which I always want to call Watch Dogs), I needed something to play while waiting for the PS5 to come out. I'd seen reviews of this and they were all glowing, and there was a free demo so I tried it and damn. This game is amazing. And don't let the haters tell you it's not playable with a controller, I'm halfway through and have only been using a controller and I'm loving it.
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Apparently you can turn off the haptic feedback and adaptive triggers in the accessibility options on PS5, which is cool, because I know some people with disabilities were concerned those features would cause them problems while playing. What's less cool is that their justification for not letting you use a DS4 on PS5 is that it doesn't support haptic feedback and adaptive triggers, which are necessary for PS5 games, but if you can turn those features off then that explanation doesn't hold any water...
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Sleeping Dogs This game was pretty good, it was nice to play a GTA-like somewhere other than America. The melee system was a lot of fun to, to the point that I actually enjoyed combat for its own sake, which is rare for me in a game like this. I also liked the Chinese action movie vibes, and while the plot was fairly predictable it didn't really detract from the overall experience. 4/5
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Legion is getting really mixed reviews. The consensus seems to be that it really suffers from not having an actual protagonist, and the varying scores are due to differences of opinion on whether the gameplay is fun enough to make up for the fact that there's nothing to make you care about the story. Since story and characters are usually my main driver in playing games, I think I'll give this one a pass.
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Dead Space 2 I really loved the first Dead Space, but for some reason when I played this one the first time I bounced off it. I'm guessing it's because I tried it immediately after replaying the first Dead Space, and horror creatures like these never work as well if you're too familiar with them. It's been years now though, so I think that effect wore off to some extent, and it stuck with me this time. Though I don't know if I could say I "enjoyed" it per se, it's really good, good enough to have me considering buying Dead Space 3 at least. 4/5