Rime - The Bear and Badger

Bob

I don't think I've read a review that hasn't mentioned journey and ico

Bob

I'm liking

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Bob

I've also had to turn the brightness well up cos it's gotten pretty dark.

Bob

Level 3 finished.

JonB

Just finished the second part. Liking it overall. Always appreciate a game that leaves you alone to explore and has no text or speech. The environments are very nice, and so is the music.

However, the gameplay is perhaps a little simple. Platforming and puzzling could both do with being a bit tougher and more original, plus it's over zealous with check points to the point that dying has no impact.

Journey/Last Guardian/Witness comparisons are all valid IMO, but so far it doesn't have any outstanding feature like those games all do. It's still a very pleasant and enjoyable experience though.

Bob

I like that checkpointing is generous. It allows experimentation.

I was amazed how many collectibles I'd missed and I thought I'd been pretty thorough.

JonB

Yeah, I was looking at them in the extras menu. Already missed some, of course.

superflyninja

I finished part 3 last night and am a little the way through the next section.
Overall I love the style. There is something quite unique in the art style. Special mention for the music in the third level, its fantastic. The game is not quite hitting all its marks though methinks.

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Bob

superflyninja wrote:

I finished part 3 last night and am a little the way through the next section. Overall I love the style. There is something quite unique in the art style. Special mention for the music in the third level, its fantastic. The game is not quite hitting all its marks though methinks. For example:

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In the third level. You construct the ball robot thing and make your way around a part of the level in its company. Fine. But then when the roball appears to sacrifice itself to open a door, the player is distraught. I just don't think the game earned that scene yet. The player had just become acquainted with the roball pretty much. They had not gone on a long emotional Journey(hohoho) and I certainly didnt Witness(heeeheeeheehohohoho) many relationship buidling scenes.

Ah it worked for me.. it's so difficult to say much more without giving anything away.

superflyninja

Bob wrote:

superflyninja wrote:

I finished part 3 last night and am a little the way through the next section. Overall I love the style. There is something quite unique in the art style. Special mention for the music in the third level, its fantastic. The game is not quite hitting all its marks though methinks. For example:

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In the third level. You construct the ball robot thing and make your way around a part of the level in its company. Fine. But then when the roball appears to sacrifice itself to open a door, the player is distraught. I just don't think the game earned that scene yet. The player had just become acquainted with the roball pretty much. They had not gone on a long emotional Journey(hohoho) and I certainly didnt Witness(heeeheeeheehohohoho) many relationship buidling scenes.

Ah it worked for me.. it's so difficult to say much more without giving anything away.

I see...Well ill probably wind up finishing it tonight hopefully

trippy

I'm not feeling this, it's very pretty but no Ico. I just did the

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JonB

Bob wrote:

I finished part 3 last night and am a little the way through the next section. Overall I love the style. There is something quite unique in the art style. Special mention for the music in the third level, its fantastic. The game is not quite hitting all its marks though methinks. For example:

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In the third level. You construct the ball robot thing and make your way around a part of the level in its company. Fine. But then when the roball appears to sacrifice itself to open a door, the player is distraught. I just don't think the game earned that scene yet. The player had just become acquainted with the roball pretty much. They had not gone on a long emotional Journey(hohoho) and I certainly didnt Witness(heeeheeeheehohohoho) many relationship buidling scenes.

Ah it worked for me.. it's so difficult to say much more without giving anything away.

Just did that part myself. Best section of the game so far. Still simple, but the level design is very nice, especially the thing that happens with the things.

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Bob

I'm looking forward to post completion note swapping.

superflyninja

Rightio, I just finished this. Im curious as to what you guys think.

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JonB

After you finish it:

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Tempy

I've only just put two and two together and realised that these guys also developed weird temporal murder mystery The Sexy Brutale, which released basically a few weeks ago. Apparently that's really good too, if people are enjoying this.

Bob

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the names of the levels on the stage select.

Yes. I'm assuming that was what Eurogamer where referring to as slightly over egged but I thought it was a nice touch.

I thought the level progression was lovely.. Such a variety.

For me it peaked at level 4.. but I didn't mind the

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Tempy wrote:

I've only just put two and two together and realised that these guys also developed weird temporal murder mystery The Sexy Brutale, which released basically a few weeks ago. Apparently that's really good too, if people are enjoying this.

Totally different kind of game, but I thought it looked good. It got panned when I posted the launch trailer in here.

They also developed Deadlight, which I'm sure was rated by a few here. Proving themselves to be a diverse studio.

It's published by the same folk that are publishing Dreadnought, for those who take interest in such things.

Kernowgaz

Tempy wrote:

I've only just put two and two together and realised that these guys also developed weird temporal murder mystery The Sexy Brutale, which released basically a few weeks ago. Apparently that's really good too, if people are enjoying this.

Aren't they the publishers? I thought it was developed by ex Lionhead staff

Tempy

Nope, Tequila Works are developers. They did work with Cavalier Games on Sexy Brutale though.

Kernowgaz

I know they're developers but they also published it .

From an interview on The Telegraph -

How long did development on The Sexy Brutale take?

We started prototyping ideas back in 2013, but it was only towards the end of that year that we actually pinned it all down into this precise game. In 2015 we signed a publishing and co-production deal with Tequila Works, whom we worked with until the game’s release in April 2017.

Tempy

Yeah I had no idea Cavalier worked on it until I googled the Sexy Brutale in response to your publisher question. I only heard of Tequila Works after watching a Super Bunnyhop Video yesterday, then when I was looking up Rime today I noticed the name. They still co-developed it, as your quote there says.

Kernowgaz

Either way it sounds great but will have to wait till backlog is cleared ( which will never happen)

superflyninja

@Jonb That was a nice touch. Number two helped explain things a little.
@Bob Hmmm That bit left me totally cold. Meant nothing to me.

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JonB

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superflyninja

I agree Jon!!

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JonB

I need to play it again though, to see it from that perspective from the start.

superflyninja

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JonB

Just finished stage 1 again and had a proper look round this time. Got all the pickups and quite a few more trophies (including 2 in the final part - turning up the brightness was a big help).

Interesting bit in the cutscene at the end of the stage:

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On to stage 2 next then, but that was my least favourite part of the game first time round.

n0face

This game is very nice.

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