WorKid wrote:

Golf Story I really liked it, I think enough has been said about it over in the Switch thread. Galf is shite but an amusing easter egg. It's clear a lot of love has gone into it.  One under par.

Re this.

another code on DS. Short, simple, sweet, and goes full anime at the end. I think it's from the Hotel Dusk guys which I have ready to go next.

hylian_elf wrote:

So is that a 4/10 or something? Or 6? Depending on what an avweage/acceptable game gets nowadays. Or something?

It's better than average. So like a seven or an eight.

Nina wrote:

I enjoyed both of them a lot, Hotel Dusk felt a bit more "grown up" if I remember correct. Loved those games, were the ones that eventually led me to 999 and VLR (still need to pick up the last one)

I didn't know there was a Hotel Dusk sequel and now I'm on the hunt. Seems very expensive though.

Mario v Rabidds

Who'd of thought that a game not made in house by Nintendo could feel so Nintendo? Bloody awesome. Turn based strategy games (I've only played one on my switch) work really well on it. This is an essential purchase for any switch collection alongside, Botw, Oddessy and Mario kart.

So so very very good and stupidly addicitive.

10

One in particular!

Mario Odyssey. Bowsers down but obviously a lot more to do. It’s actually very quick to blast through the main game. All of it very inventive and enjoyable. It’s definitely there with that Mario 64 feel. Its deiniftely a [10]

Horizon Zero Dawn

Many thanks to Stoph for the loan, it's been a wholly pleasant way to spend my time over the last week.

It's really good at what it does, aside from some minor niggles about excessive repetition, broken mico-navigation code (Aloy will happily vault over a waist high desk you happen to walk near, but can get stuck on a small lip of a bridge) and a handful of other mostly inconsequential things.

While most of the characters are forgettable and their relationships undeveloped, the overall plot is fairly decent and a little less predictable than expected. Dunno if any of the side quests have decent story as I skipped all but one.

Combat etc. is fairly fun, feels chunky and, initially at least, the machines feel suitably large and imposing. There's just about enough variety to keep it interesting for a run-through, but it could have done with some different scenarios, or something, beyond the small handful it managed. Friendly NPCs do have a habit of deciding you've broken cover and charging in when all you've done is stealthily taken someone out, though.

The graphics are top notch, if marred by too much night time and, in certain areas, too much rain/fog. The use of colour is amazing, which detracts a little when the palette changes abruptly during the day/night cycle.

Overall, then, I enjoyed it. Not as much as I feel I should, however. Partially, it's the game's fault; I dialled back the difficulty because I was getting fed up with the repetition, so encounters lost a lot of their impact. The biggest problem, though, was me or, more specifically, the number of very similarly put together RPGs I'd played. It all felt like I was retracing the steps I'd taken in so many other games. I think I'd have much preferred this had it focused on hunting larger and larger machine beasts and done away with some of the open world RPG trappings.

4/5

Next up: Breath of the Wild. Kinda concerned I'm going to bump up against the same problems, though with hope that the Nintendo-ness I'm sure will be present will be able to mitigate them.

I'm late to the party but Dishonored 2. After so many disappointing big releases it was nice to finally play a AAA game that deserves all the A's.

Art direction is impeccable and it's hard to fathom the work that went into this game. It's incredibly beautiful at points, and so full of detail, the architecture, furniture, paintings and faces are second to none.

Atmosphere is so thick, yet nearly always consistent, despite being by turns surreal, funny, horrific and beautiful. 

I don't have the time or the patience for stealth so it was also Absurdly fucking violent.

It's very Ample too, with two characters and two ways to play each. That said, the story didn't do much for me and it's a little emo in parts (the overseer, is like, ewwwww) but this is an incredibly rich experience and has to score a decapitated head out of an antique teak sideboard.

trippy wrote:

I'm late to the party but Dishonored 2. After so many disappointing big releases it was nice to finally play a AAA game that deserves all the A's. Art direction is impeccable and it's hard to fathom the work that went into this game. It's incredibly beautiful at points, and so full of detail, the architecture, furniture, paintings and faces are second to none. Atmosphere is so thick, yet nearly always consistent, despite being by turns surreal, funny, horrific and beautiful.  I don't have the time or the patience for stealth so it was also Absurdly fucking violent. It's very Ample too, with two characters and two ways to play each. That said, the story didn't do much for me and it's a little emo in parts (the overseer, is like, ewwwww) but this is an incredibly rich experience and has to score a decapitated head out of an antique teak sideboard.

It's a great game and well worth a second play through with the other character and more time exploring each level for the side quests.

Got so much more out of it second time through.

I think it was brave of the developers. There is a tradition of it in other media.

Have

Wait, are you saying the Irish confused "should've" with "should of" so much that it's actually been accepted as the way it's done over there now? Funny the way language works, innit.

That weren't directed at youse.

AJ wrote:

Wait, are you saying the Irish confused "should've" with "should of" so much that it's actually been accepted as the way it's done over there now? Funny the way language works, innit.

More like "would've" with "would of", and not all Irish obv. Think it's more of a convenient shortening of sounds thing in speech rather than confusion.