Ori and the Will of the Wisps could be quite a thing if they take feedback + Hollow Knight's awesomeness on board. Along with RDR2 and Trials it's topping my want list.

Deaths gambit.

How to steal from souls and get it ALL WRONG.

It looks pretty, but there's so much wrong with how the screens are divided up. It's just a disjointed mess, with terrible signposting.

Couple that with poor jump mechanics, and a ridiculously short stamina bar that stops you doing anything when its at zero and you have a problem. Structure around saves and enemies and level ups is exactly dark souls, but it lacks the learning and fairness aspect.

Lol.

Oh hi dude.

My PSN is going to expire early in Jan so I thought I'd better get on with some of the free plus games before they are gone.

Beyond: Two Souls

What a tedious, pretentious wank of a game.  The QTE stuff is utter bollocks.  It doesn't add anything and detracts massively.  Just let me press x and move on.

The only marginal fun was getting to smash things up and there wasn't enough of that.

Patience ran out on the train - so 4th or 5th mini-game.

Fucking dreadful.

(I didn't like it )

I genuinely apologise if this comes across as trolling, but what did you expect?

Not the game style per se, but a game from that developer, that director. He doesn’t make games. Pretentious wank with arbitrary, nominal, and yet also poorly implemented interaction is what they do.

Andy wrote:

Not the game style per se, but a game from that developer, that director. He doesn’t make games. Pretentious wank with arbitrary, nominal, and yet also poorly implemented interaction is what they do.

That probably is what I expected, but I'll try anything once, I guess. Well, if I'm not paying for it.

I did think the Detroit demo was decent though. Not enough to buy the game, like.

Immortal unchained.

This was always going to happen. But I'm annoyed it happened so soon.

I'd be interested in a making of. Or at least hearing where and how they got funding, because I wanna guess all the work went into the tute area, the nexus and the first level. It's all the proof of concept and builds quite nicely.

After that, the fall from grace is quite a fucking thing. I can't do just to how poor the opening of the next 2 levels are. It's staggering.

There's no black knight fear, there's just how are you going to shaft me this time fear.

Level layout was a highlight, but enemies and what they did within that layout was a lowlight.

Third area uses purple in a way that should be illegal in 2018.

Its like they played dark souls and what they got out of it was that the archers are the way to go.

Jesus.

Seraph (PC)

An indie 2d platform/shooter game.  It's main gimmick is that you don't have to aim your shots, you just shoot and the aiming automatically targets enemies.  I quite liked that, and controlling your character is pretty standard but feels fine (you've got a double jump, an invincibility dash, special moves with a cooldown metre etc).

I got a bit sick of it though.  Levels are procedurally generated and they all looked and felt the same to me.  Winning conditions are 'follow the arrow to this monster and kill it' or 'blow this thing up', then you exit.  There's levelling up and crafting which i did not enjoy.  There's an option to skip all story elements which I took (as I tried them in the tutoral, and it was just text boxes popping up which weren't very interesting and got in the way of the action), but maybe I'm missing part of the fun there.

Anyway, it seemed just okay and didn't capture my attention, time to move on.

Thronebreaker on PC - Have been really enjoying it, but I’ve been having a bunch of technical issues, including some fairly regular freeze crashes that require a reset.  Bit of a hassle.

The game pad layout/interface is pretty average too, so hopefully CDPR issue some kind of enhanced edition later on, as they often do.  I’ll wait a while before revisiting in any case.

Bloodborne. I completed Dark Souls, so probably could finish this, though crazily even defeating the Cleric Beast puts me in the minority of players.

If they let you pause in Offline mode I might have ploughed on but life is full of distractions and responsibilities.

It's too hard, too grim and too grey and I'm already losing enough hair.

Blossom Tales on Switch. It’s fun for the first few hours but there’s enough flaws that creep in to make it frustrating. Some of the boss battles in particular are just annoying rather than challenging.

The mechanics are solid but there’s a few design decisions that seem to be included because that’s how it was in classic zeldas but where there may have been legitimate reasons for that 25-30 years ago it’s another annoying aspect now.

Mikemsp wrote:

It’s worth losing a few strands over, stick with it!

That was nearly enough for me to reinstall it again, when you're in the zone it's amazing... must resist.

Not far, just to Father Gascoigne.

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