Stop playing Red Alert Birdorf, muzzy and I are typing about you at the same time.

Because we are the same person.

Back on Red Dead 2. I almost quit and sold it, so glad i didn't. Just gone in to the mountains and helped Rain Falls. Oh my god, it looks ridiculous. Missions have been good recently too.

Speaking of Infinifactory, there's a new Zachtronics game out in a couple of weeks. 

It's a visual novel.

https://twitter.com/zachtronics/status/1156962118668713984

It's a cracking deal, weighing up options at the mo. I quite like the idea of joining for a month at a time here and there to play through a specific game or two, but obviously the long term saving is in the long term subs.

Yeah sod it, I spent that on Mutant Year Zero on Switch anyway and I've got a refund on the way for that. Ta chaps.

Is that the one that looks like it could've been made by the same team as the 2D Rayman games? The Edge review put me off but they went lower than most, a few things I read recently suggest it's decent. I thought it looked good from the trailer.

Mutant Year Zero.  I'm loving it, slowly finding my feet is an enjoyable process, but it's no pushover is it?  I'm playing on normal, which seems to be the game's equivalent of easy, but I've had more than a spot of bother with larger groups of enemies so far (even those on lower levels than my team).  Stealth is key, but I want to up my levels by engaging certain enemies too.  Until the end of my last session I didn't have a silenced weapon for every party member, so stealth kills weren't always on the table as two shots wouldn't necessarily result in a silent kill anyway.  

Itching to get back to it over the weekend to find out what I'm doing wrong, quality game.

Finished Guac2 whilst I was away. I loved it, like really loved it. Went onto Monster Boy after that. It’s fine really but incredibly frustrating with its enemy placements and overall character inertia.

8 mechs down in Mechstermination Force. Not bad, but the controls aren't exactly tight when compared to the best in the genre. Works as a sort of Cuphead of the Colossus, glad I bought it but it's taking some adjustment after the precision of Blazing Chrome.

Dark Souls 3.
Fuck me those croc/gaping dragon beasties are nasty.
And now I've discovered a secret lair with 2 of them lurking together.
Fuck. that. shit.

Omensight, which is the latest game from Spearhead Games, who made one of my favourite [7]s, Stories: The Path of Destinies (which should probably have been called Stories: The Paths of Destiny, but that’s another matter).

It’s more of the same, which is largely a good thing. Very similar combat, although I’m finding it harder to wreak the same havoc as I could in the first. It’s a couple of things: firstly, I’m finding it harder to follow the player character (The Harbinger) around the screen, and I’m also finding it harder to control the dodge/counter in order to limit my damage and really chain together assaults.

Whereas, in the previous game, you followed different paths (choose your own adventure style) through various locations, this time around you follow one of four protagonists through the last day before an apocalypse, at which point you rewind to the start and go again. You’re piecing together the events that led to the apocalypse, and the information you bring occasionally leads to the characters following a different path that day. The loading screens between morning, afternoon, and evening show you where all of the characters are going so, as you become more familiar with the day’s potential events, you can place your current actions in the wider events. It works quite well.

I’m playing on PS4; I had bought it for Switch, but it released in a pretty bad state, too blurry to make any sense of the on-screen action. After an email exchange with a lovely PR man in Canada, I got a free code for the PS4 version, which looks lovely.

They’re now working on an RPG, currently called Project Witchstone, which was originally supposed to be PC only, but was recently announced for consoles, too. I’m following the development where I can, I can see me diving headlong into that. It doesn’t look like it’s set in the same world as the first two (which I’m sure are set in the same world) which is a minor pity, but one I can live with.

On the plus side you haven't got long left.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

On the plus side you haven't got long left.

I've been playing Framed too. Keep playing games you say are crap and you've been consistently right for the last few...

I've got a soft spot for the genre but no predisposed affinity for sci fi. It was fine, but with the caveat of 'I guess'. Framed is a'ight, didn't outstay its welcome but shuffling images around until you find the correct order would get old fairly quickly if the game lasted longer than an hour.

No. Not quite. It's pretty similar though TBH.