Gradius III. It's still a neat shooter. Slow down and flickering are both horrendous on the current (screen filling bubbles) bit. Will stick with it to see if this area is anomalous, otherwise back to Axelay / RType III I'll a go.

While firepower 2000 is bland and has none of the charm of amiga super swiv, i find it plays much better.

Yeah I remember Supers Aleste & Parodius fondly, good shouts. No going back to the Snes version of Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts either, it's slow-down city. Replayed it on the super smooth Capcom collection version on Vita not that long ago so not too disappointed.

So after just having finished Bravely Default I've now started Ghost Trick on the DS. Seems like a nice follow up to BD, and strangely sharing some things with The 7 1/2 deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.

How did I end up with a trio of (Don't read if you're not familiar with any of the 3 titles mentioned).

My mind's gonna be all scrambled once I'm done with this and the book I guess.

hunk wrote:

SmashTV on SNES is pretty good. Can't remember slowdown there even with a gazillion sprites on screen.

Yep.  There was a bit of sprite breakup but only in extreme cases - but no slowdown.

Blew my mind when I activated turbo mode by reaching the Pleasuredome!! Went even faster.

Mana Spark (PC) - I played the demo of this ages ago and enjoyed it enough to keep an eye on it. It's a(nother) rogue-lite but I'm really enjoying it.

It addresses a lot of the issues I had with Dead Cells, there are far fewer enemies in a level but fighting them feels more tactical. Apparently they work together to attack you but I've not seen much evidence of that. Sometimes they appear smart but they're mostly just dumb enough to be enjoyable to fight. Best of all, if they hit each other it actually causes damages (love games that work this way). The bow based combat doesn't just feel like you're chipping away at numbers, it's weighty and satisfying, especially when you fire an arrow perfectly over a shield. 

While there's nothing really new in here and you can tell the budget is pretty low it's all been put together really nicely and is well worth the £6 or so it costs. Nice music, too. Anyways, a picture is worth a thousand words so here's a video of somebody else playing it.

Will add to wishlist. Fuck.

Meanwhile. Destiny 2 forsaken (with an starter of warmind dlc) is great fun. Stealing bows from warframe is a great idea.

Lots of content to get through. Few gripes. Haven't touched pvp yet.

I wanna play the trilogy. What you playing on?

Checked it out. £20 on PS4 or Bone. Over £30 on Switch. What the fuck, bloody fucking Nintendo tax.

I have take a moment to give big shout out to the strikes in d2 forsaken.

The game is in rude health and they are stunning.

Action packed romps.

Had a bash at deep sky derelicts last night, really like it - deck boulder darkest dungeon type

That’s cool. Cheers.

For Honor (w10)

Amazing little gem. Initial impressions are: how did this slip by me?
The fight engine and envronments are beautiful. Just done the opening level and I can already tell the fight system's got considerable depth; it packs alot of punch. It takes all the right cues from titles like Dark Souls and builds on the multiplayer. Good stuff so far.

Facewon wrote:

. Destiny 2 forsaken. Few gripes.

Still very few gripes. However, there's still some weird choices as far as fast travel and vendor location goes.

The walk to Hawthorne from the spawn in the main hub is getting old.

And there's a couple of weird choices in the new forsaken area too. Why do I have to walk this long ass corridor to see spider?

We need a name for the level of whining this is above first world problems.

The Torna expansion in XC2 continues to deliver and continues to stop me from playing any other game. Loving everything, from the nods to lore in the main game, to the remixing of the overworld theme.