Pretty sure any bosses could be beat at any point. If you had the skillz

True (b0r1s), but it was one of the first games I played where I had to judge the difficulty spikes myself and return to certain spots later on. I tackled one of the trickier bosses too early and wasted a very long time beating him. After that I learned not to bite off more than I could chew. I'm used to games that present bottlenecks that have to be pushed through, and HK opened my eyes a bit. The Souls games do this afaik, but it was new to me.

For those who have HONKED, how short is short?  I'm roughly two hours in and I never want it to end.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

For those who have HONKED, how short is short?  I'm roughly two hours in and I never want it to end.

Its infinitely long if you just like dropping the flower in the lake.

Just tried the Ori & The Blind Forest demo, in handheld mode. It seems to perform very well, it looks lush on the Switch screen. I’ll be interested to see it on the TV when I get home.

Meanwhile, Link’s Awakening continues to be a lovely wee thing. I’m currently in ‘The Catfish’s Maw’, though, and seem to meet a dead end every few screens. I think I’m making progress. I wonder if, at some point I’ll unlock because there are various points across the map, including a few in this dungeon, that would seem to require it. We shall see.

On the subject of Link's Awakening, I'm stuck looking for the key in the Forest.

I suck so bad at games.

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There's promise of a hefty patch on torchlight 2 fairly imminently Bob. I'd put that at the bottom of the pile for now. Great thing but could still use a fair bit of fettling.

Andy wrote:

I wonder if, at some point I’ll unlock

Spoiler:

a longer long jump than my current long jump

because there are various points across the map, including a few in this dungeon, that would seem to require it.

I can see now that this must have looked quite foolish to Zelda fans, given that I have now acquired a thing I always hear people talk about being a thing in Zelda games.



Oh, and O&TBF looks lovely in docked mode, too.

hylian_elf wrote:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

acemuzzy wrote:

Hollow Knight is a [10] Ori is a [9]

As usual, Muzzy is correct.

No. HK is 10 but Ori is 8. Maybe.

For me Ori is a 7 and HK is as 10 as it gets

afgavinstan wrote:

I dunno where I stand cos I completely bounced off Hollow Knight

Likewise. I gave it 7 hours, enjoyed the first couple but I found the aesthetic very dull and just can't be arsed going back.

I wasn’t too bothered by hollow knight.

Ori has great platforming mechanics but there’s only a handful of times where there’s any interesting or challenging bits. The homing missile took a lot of fun out of it too. I still rate the game highly but those are the flaws.

JonB wrote:

As much as I appreciate the design of HK, it's far too spread out to be consistently enjoyable. There's a lot of traipsing about through the same empty spaces a dozen or more times. It's an 8.

This is exactly where I am with it. 18 hours in and still loads to do. And it’s all going to involve walking around a lot. It’s just not fun enough getting from place to place.

I think sayonara wild hearts was pretty cool. There were moments when it approached some of the elevated status feelings I got from tetris effect.

First paragraph is me. Assumed I'd loathe it but bought it anyway in the hope I'd like it, ended up playing for 37hrs in a couple of weeks.

It put paid to any hopes of hitting 100 for sure.