@Moot sorry it didn’t work out for you on Vita. It’s not an easy game at the best of times, it’s very demanding a bit like Trials in that you need to be throwing those inputs exactly when they are expected, and any messing up of commands will see you floundering. Haven’t touched a Vita in years but I suppose the stick is probably ill suited as you say. Maybe one day it’ll come out on another platform.

I’ve been grinding away at Hard on Wonderul 101 after finishing normal a few nights ago. Fuck me, it’s a brutal game. Absolutely love it though. Some the Alfheim equivalents in this game are absolute pad breakers - one of them last night took me 2 hours of concentrated effort to beat, but I managed it. Should probably file a report in the Just Completed thread, but it’s such a great game, Kamiya really is a special director and his team at Platinum seem 100% behind him. It’s utterly chock full of references to other games too - some of them are blink and you’ll miss it like the nods to Revengeance and Bayonetta, but others are far more obvious - it gets away with an extended nod and wink at Punch Out that works really well.

One thing that I imagine will put some folks off is how obtuse it can feel in the combat department. Nearly every enemy has a few tricks and weaknesses that the game just flat out refuses to tell you - it’s all about experimentation and working out how your Unite Morphs can prevail against certain foes, but also how their size and shapes can cause issues in certain circumstances The drawing also works really well, with only a handful of instances where it gets muddled, but cancelling and redrawing is usually fine - adaptation is good too.

If there’s one thing that a ton of games could learn from Kamiya then it’s his eye for spectacle and escalation, and his willingness to undercut himself with humour. It’s all clearly routed in his love of Super Sentai style shows, but some of the fights in this game build tempo ins ridiculous manner, aided by a few really choice tunes - there’s a song that plays called Tables Turn, when you start to get the upper hand in a boss fight and it does more for pulling you into the moment then any amount of AAA graphics whizz can ever manage. It’s also cute and instantly obvious that the QTES all map onto your previous experience with drawing the combat shapes making them easy to pull off and satisfying to boot. Definitely an all-time with a totally out there combat system that’s like nothing else (except maybe a dash of Okami - even then it’s not a one to one map) which further cemented Kamita and Platinum’s A team as leagues ahead of pretty much any studio that’s doing character action stuff. It’s a slim field, but I guess that makes sense, because why try and imitate the studio that consistently hit it out of the park every time they make one?

Tempy wrote:

@Moot sorry it didn’t work out for you on Vita. It’s not an easy game at the best of times, it’s very demanding a bit like Trials in that you need to be throwing those inputs exactly when they are expected, and any messing up of commands will see you floundering. Haven’t touched a Vita in years but I suppose the stick is probably ill suited as you say. Maybe one day it’ll come out on another platform.

Been thinking about it since so tried to grab it on Bone, only to discover it's a previous gen game (also not a BC offering). I assumed the Vita version was coss-play with PS4, but it's only on PS3. Didn't realise it had been around that long, doesn't look it. Shame.

I've lost some of my mojo, can't seem to settle on anything at the moment.  Probably because I've got so much down time at the moment, I'm a bit worn out with games.  I have to get to work roughly three hours before any work arrives (via taxi from Canary Wharf) just so my department can give the semblance of an impression of being busy. 

Toki Tori isn't usually my sort of thing, but I've finished the first world and it's very well designed.  Problem is I'm up for this sort of thing in theory, but pondering over solutions to intricate puzzles brings out my lack of patience and tends to have me itching for arcade thrills after half an hour or so.

So I played Not a Hero for a bit afterwards, which is one of my favourite games this gen (I played on PS4) and has the best cover system in any 2D shooter imo.  Simple and rewarding, plus it's pretty mean in places with its complete lack of checkpoints and I love it.  Was £2ish when I grabbed it on Switch, bargainous.

Brilliant. Now that something else I’ve gone and bought just because it looks great. I can’t help it.

Nine Parchments.

Nearly at the end of this in local co-op. Brilliant.
Needs some real planning and you need patience because friendly fire is a massive possibility. As is regening health on a big enemy. Feels like there was gonna be a bit more psot release support that didn't end up happening in spots, but it let's you customise heaps Anyhoo, even if ui sucks pretty bad.

Thoroughly recommended for anyone with an itch to co-op a diablo-lite clone, but wanting something fresher.

Many lols have been had. And when you nail teamwork or crossing Beams it's awesome.

4 player would be mental.

Facewon wrote:

We can do small visits at the moment so actually played some local co-op today.

Have mentioned this before, but nine parchments is a bit of a diamond in the rough. Really really pretty. Action/wizard Iso view thing. Up to 4 player co-op. 2 player is crazy enough.

Its USP is that all the different damage and shield types, including health regen work on both allies and enemies. Purple enemies shoot death, and take damage from green health spells. Same element means enemies are completely immune.

Any beam spells can be combined by shooting across each other.

There's numerous deaths, things can go wrong very very quickly, but you can also hammer things quickly if you get things right.

Brilliant stuff.

The Outer Worlds. Played it at launch, didn’t get far and it just didn’t grab me, looking for something different to play on Gamepass and I think I’m hooked. It really is the game Fallout 4 should have been. Forget that base building crap and let me do quests, level up with perks and shoot stuff. Another game to finish then before Control.

So it’s... good?

I have regular Persona 4 on the PsS4, I gave up at the first dungeon because the tedium of getting there was high. Worth it, should I fire in again?

hylian_elf wrote:

So it’s... good?

I'm enjoying it, but I think it tried to play it was going to be this huge deal, and it kind of isn't. It's very destiny with worse gun play. The flying is awesome and fun. And it's a spectacle, but a total victim of hype and seemingly plagued technically.
I rented it, so I'm gonna stick with it.

Ah. I mean PS5 is good but I don’t rate it as strongly as Golden. I’d argue it’s still worth a pop, though.

Got bored a bit at the bank and now wonder if I can go back. Too much water under the bridge.

MO: Astray. As per thread now. It's great. As many spikes etc as Ori, and the double jump works like the hooks in Ori, but doesn't freeze time, but completely different structure. Completely linear, with each screen a puzzle, and checkpoints out the wazoo. There's been a couple that have had cheap final bits (ie, Oh I made it, and suddenly it turns to getting over it) but they're minor so far, and there's been some good head scratchers. 

AC Odyssey. Nice and big and pleasant.

Cities: Same as above, mostly. Had to do a mod audit to sort some performance problems, and back on track. Have a city at nearly 100k, and we're really fine tuning it now. Move it Mod is so best.

Slay The Spire. Slowly getting the new char up to high ascensions. Just monstered Ac6 with a snecko, deva, retain deck. (Establishment to the rescue.)

Nine Parchments: Final couple of bosses. Chimera up first. It's a mofo, and many failures, but great great co-op game.

It gets better as it goes along, so this bodes well.

Missed one dude cos he kinda died... Which then meet the bonus at the end was impossible too. Lesson learned.

Yeah discovered per-level speedrun thing bus the shoulder buttons. Got a good with 0.19s to spare, phewf.