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Heard really good things about the initial prototype for The House Abandon (as well as the full game in the past few days), so I'm really looking forward to checking it out. I'm going in mostly blind. All I know is it's text-based and I'm assuming there's some kind of meta element to it because I seriously doubt people would be making such a big deal about it otherwise. Plus, if you couldn't tell from the logo, it's one of those 80s nostalgia projects and I'm a huge sucker for that stuff so if anything I'll probably enjoy it for that alone.

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If anyone else has a PSVR, I recommend Psychonauts: Rhombus of Ruin by the way. I'm finding that Adventure games / Escape the Room games work *really* well in VR. Something about being able to look into the room and manipulate stuff... It makes a huge difference.

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Got the Noble Phantasm edition of Fate/Extella, yes, that's the second time I buy that game, though I pre-ordered the digital version, I've heard from other Fate/ fans that the art book included with this edition is worth the price alone, and since Amazon had it for cheap, it was a no-brainer for me. :P

 

Though that also means I won't be able to get Horizon, Ghost Recon or Nier anytime soon. :P

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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. 

 

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By chance, I also discovered I had some unused eShop credit on my 3DS, so I used it on this.

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The first goes pretty dang cheap at times (was in PS+ a few months back too if you have that), worth grabbing if you're into stealth games as it's pretty dang exceptional. Of Orcs & Men, which came first and I guess is a sort of sequel, is also kinda decent though it's not (entirely) a stealth game, and much more linear in its progression.

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It's kinda blowing my mind that something like Styx came out of Of Orcs and Men. I'm currently playing through it and I'm having a pretty good time with it but it's not exactly a great game. I'll post more in depth thoughts once I'm done with it but there's some pretty janky stuff in there. More Styx is always a good thing, though.

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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.

 

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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.

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Not sure how often I'll get to play this, since it's max 4-player, but it was £13, brand new. Jumped on it because it's a Martin Wallace thing, so they're not always in abundance (e.g. A Study In Emerald, First Edition or London), and I really like his designs. This is a deckbuilder mixed with area control game, a bit like aforementioned ASiE mixed with Onward to Venus, but way less complex. Like ASiE, your control over regions gives you that province card, which will have different symbols. With those you buy towns, cities, castles, build roads, invade other provinces, launch ships across the sea areas and purchase "improvement cards" to suit the style of your deck. Within that you'll need to focus on what scoring categories you'll be chasing because there are variable VP awarding condition cards (dealt from a deck at the start) that hold a set amount of VP tokens, which you take each time you meet that criterion. Once enough of these VP token piles have been depleted, players will be able to take an action to "end the game" if they're ahead in scoring (after ongoing wars have been settled).

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Forgot to post it because it wasn't a purchase but I won Hollow Knight in a giveaway on GAF a few days ago. Holy shit, it is so fucking good, you guys. If you're a fan of metroidvanias, you need to go buy it right now. It's the best one I've played since, shit, I don't even know. It blows pretty much every single one I can think of out of the water. It's also mind-boggingly massive. I'm like 15 hours in and it's obvious I'm nowhere near done. I was hoping to finish it in time for Styx 2 but that's not gonna happen. I've heard reports of people taking almost 30 hours to fully complete it and get the true ending. That's just insane quality and value for that price.

 

The way gaming press has been ignoring it is straight up fucking criminal yet it still managed to move like 40K units through word of mouth alone. If it had gotten a push from mainstream reviews, I fully expect it would've seen Shovel Knight levels of success. Hell, I personally think it's way better than Shovel Knight. Hopefully that can still happen once it drops on consoles. :(

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