acemuzzy wrote:

Celeste "probably top 5 games of all time" per your words gets the same score as Ninja Senki DX? I mean what the actual fuck you are literally and quantitatively a moran.

27. Asemblance
21st July 2018
Bit of an obtuse one this, and as I later found out, not a standalone title but the short prologue to a future episodic series.  A walking simulator crossed with a psychological thriller, the game begins with you in a lab of sorts, one that seems to act as a portal to unlocking memories which you can then explore.  There follows a mysterious and fractured series of memories that have implications of a wife and child in them but of their whereabouts and well being we are not told.  Nothing is really resolved and there are a number of equally obtuse endings that can be unlocked and secrets uncovered, one can only imagine future titles would embellish the plot further.  For now it is a bit of a curio that may blossom into something more.  6.5

28. Zombie Army Trilogy
15th July 2018 - 5th August 2018
A spin off from Rebellion's Sniper Elite series, this game sees you revisiting maps and locales from the main games, the 'plot' revolving around Hitler's last days in the bunker and his final act of desperation, releasing the Nazi Zombie horde.  Playing as one of eight characters, you battle thousands of the occult Nazi horde over three acts, as you push through Germany to defeat Hitler and his nefarious army of cadavers.  A very long and repetitive title, with many a difficulty spike (on Sniper Elite level), and one probably best experienced in co-op, the game suggests this is the way to play but solo is fine.  It isn't a great game, it isn't bad, but its gameplay loop will see many give it up.  Not me though, I stubbornly battered through and gave old Jerry what for, even if he was already technically dead. 7

29. Tekken 7
5th August 2018 - 6th August 2018
This was free to play over the weekend dated here and it was a good title to give one's gamerscore a massage so I had a dabble.  I am far from the world's biggest beat 'em up fan but I do seem to cross paths with the genre every now and then.  This is incredible polished and quite an easy beat 'em up to get to grips with.  I rinsed the bonkers campaign story mode, which was entertaining nonsense, and also gave the character missions a good go and the Treasure Battle mode.  It wouldn't be something I would probably buy but I could appreciate its slick production values and intense fighting.  7

30. ONRUSH
10th August 2018 - 12th August 2018
Another Xbox free weekend opportunity, and one to finally experience why this game failed to trouble the tills.  It's an objective based arcade racer, and one where the reward isn't from crossing the line first.  The various race types on offer see you racing through gates to add seconds to a decreasing timer, accumulating points from boosting to reach a target score and other such objectives.  The core racing is solid, the first several hours very enjoyable, I really enjoyed the objective nature of it, its flaws present themselves over time though, and begin to grate after a while.  Its biggest issue is the takedown mechanic, and the apparently arbitrary nature of it.  The takedown from above is fine, no issues, but the side on takedown is odd, unreliable and frustrating to pull off consistently without failure, it doesn't seem to award the aggressor.  Coupled with this is an unskippable wreckcam and unnecessary respawn time of three seconds that kills the flow of the game, and given the flimsiness of the vehicles, wrecking is something you see a lot.  A missed opportunity perhaps, maybe it was doomed no matter the result, maybe its flaws were glaringly evident in the beta and kept people away.  It's a great game at £20, ideal for Game Pass even, it is still getting supported despite lay offs so hopefully it may have its flaws addressed. 7.5

Nina wrote:

Heh, that doesn't say anything! How far are you in Captain Toad? I was wondering if 100% for a book is all diamonds and subquests, or if you also need the pixel things. I've completed the main game and Odyssey stages, but there's still things that can be unlocked. Got all the diamonds in the first two books, so got still some left. Not sure if I really can be bothered to do the sub quests. Couple of the later stages made me pretty angry and Toad's voice doesn't help with that.