Had a quick poke on the PC Gamepass version as well.. maybe 10-15 mins?

A lot of audio glitches in the story sequences and a couple of microstutter sort of things gave me enough of a reassurance that it's not quite ready there for a longer root about. The wait for a few patches begins..

Odd? 1080Ti, 16gig. 

As I say I only played for a brief likkle look at dur purdies but the stutters seemed to occur in the audio track for a half a second and make a clashing low tone for half a beat.

So another hour under my belt, bringing me up to like two hours now. Woo.

But yeah I'm looking it a lot. Been a while since I played the first but it feels its own thing. Feels lots linear than the very first half hour, movement is getting quicker, I'm getting choice in per ups, I need to decide where to head with a big intriguing map and no major signposts. A bit of HK had rubbed off I'd say. But yeah, thumbs up basically.

I've fallen off this quite hard. Probably won't finish it. The twee music and glossy visuals can't hide fairly rigid platforming and fluffy combat. Dare I say it the game feels a bit dated.

I loved Celeste. Ori 2 feels too visually jumbled and busy for the sort of platforming. Most secret areas and their rewards have been a bit underwhelming. I'm gonna have another crack at it with a bit more energy coz I was knackered last night. Other games are of more interest to me now though.

I did my first proper chase sequence just before I posted last night and genuinely horrendous glitches aside it's Godly stuff for my tastes.

The performance issues don't seem to be affecting some players but judging it by what's in front of me it's borderline unplayable. Anyone with an interest in this and a Bone S should definitely avoid for now. I shut the Xbox down completely because I was starting to get worried about it.

I left it on suspend for the day yesterday and when I resumed it was fucking horrendous. Needed a full shutdown.

My bonex seemed to hard reboot when I loaded it from reboot. And then hard rebooted again when I loaded the game. And was then fine. So :shrug:, basically.

Heh

Yeh I bought some projectile weapon that I really wish I hadn't.
Every combat encounter so far has been very up close and personal.

I played for a fair bit yesterday, got to the unlock of the ability acemuzzy mentions, but I'm not 100% sold.
It's more of the same, and I did love the first one, but metroidvania style isn't always my thing. I like to be going forward not doubling back, unless there's some time saving teleport thing I've not encountered yet.

I just died and respawned on the other side of a door I can’t open. It’s a dead end room. I think that’s game over. All progress lost.

Just defeated a

and it was all one big muddle. I like the combat on the whole but the bosses aren't working for me so far. I've read that they've mostly replaced the chase sequences too, so this hurts. And because the screen gets extra busy for big beasties the framerate dips which means button presses don't feel like they register all the time. I'd actually watch a Digital Foundry teardown on this to see if it's just me.

I've also had to turn it off again after 90 mins. Didn't see a stutter until I reached the same water area that fucked it yesterday, then bam, back to unplayable.

I should stop playing it until they spruce it up again but I know I won't now.

It's getting progressively worse performance wise for me. The game clearly needed more bake. I'm a good ways in now and it's not a big game at all. Bigger than the first but nowhere near HK in terms of scale. It's decent when you get going on a good run, but all too often I'm left glancing at the map to check where I'm going - which sometimes appears straight away and other times leaves you hanging. Driving me fucking batty.

I've also got an awful audio glitch and an intermittent crackling sound. It feels as if it's on the brink of meltdown. It's an occasionally fun but mostly frustrating experience. I can't say it's a game I wanna play for long periods.

The Daddy wrote:

I'd had zero problems up to this point. Tried everything, there's nothing to kill me, no way out. Balls. I'll wait for a patch now I suppose.

Is it worth looking at the backup saves option when you click on your save slot?

I've copied mine twice just in case, it doesn't matter how much I like a game I couldn't handle a save wipe restart these days.

Classic Elf.