regmcfly wrote:

I have really cooled on golf story. I don't think I liked it  

It seems pretty divisive.  I'm only 4hrs in but it's fair to say I'm loving it.  I only played through the GBA Mario Golf game last year, so it's nice to be putt-putting around and levelling up a character again.  Golf is a fantastic spoonful of sugar to help me take my RPG medicine, give me a three snap over a battle system every time.

A bit of a flurry from me...

Cosmic Express (Android)

I thought this was excellent.  Bite-sized puzzles which were all utterly fair, often had "obvious" answers in hindsight, allow deduction and logic, but are complex enough to be non-trivial, a good set of levels, variety within, and aesthically pleasing answers to boot.  Yes it's £4.49 for a phone game, but it's right up there for me.  I flirted with a very rare muzz [10] in fact, but think I'll call it a [9].

So yes, Cosmic Express > TLG.  You heard it here first.

I’ve been playing that on iOS.

Is that in Shoreditch?

Hue (PS4)

I thought the main mechanic was pretty cool, and liked most of the puzzles - it was just a bit slow to move around / get through them, with the platforming not quite tight enough.  Which came to a head in the very last level where you suddenly had to do a quick-fire button combo which was really out of keeping with the rest of the game which kinda left a sour taste in my mouth.  The plot was also stupid and just got in the way.  A stingy [6].

I tried Hue, couldn't get on with it.  Probably gave up on it a bit too early.

hocus (Android)

Decidedly meh puzzle game. Kinda Escher cubey rolly thing, which I can't help feeling should have been better than it was. I don't think my brain could cope with how the levels worked, so more often than not I'd hit the exit by random, or the levels were oddly 1D anyway, desire appearances.

An underwhelmed [4]

Oh, the cheevo for maxing all of your guns made me smile too:

JonB wrote:

Titanfall 2 Surprised how quickly the last few missions went. It's a good final stretch but doesn't come close to the best missions in the middle part of the game (the 'time travel' bit especially). Overall it's pretty much exactly what you want from a linear FPS campaign. Guns with a good punch to them, much spectacle, and some neat ideas. More than anything it keeps giving you new tools to play with, and really seems to want you to have fun with them, which is nice.  There's not a lot of challenge, but that's what the other difficulties are for. Might go back one day, but that'll do for now.

Me too and I pretty much agree with all of this.

Really exciting campaign. I also liked the bit near the end with the pistol which made you feel bad ass...

Had to drop the difficulty for the final boss battle but only due to lack of patience with the third stage..

It's a pity you can't mix and match from the load outs. Pretty generous with the trophies too got over 50% which is good for me.

I'd give it a solid 9 out of 10.

Contact – DS

 

Bit of a mixed bag action JRPG by Grasshoper. 

 

It’s a bit quirky in both tone and execution.  Story’s not exactly funny, but it doesn’t take itself very seriously EG: the bad guys moonlight in a synth pop band.  It’s mostly light and enjoyable.

 

Didn’t really get along with the mechanics of the game though.  There’s a lot of DS faffing about; peeling off virtual stickers and shit like that.  One of your specials needs you to blow into the microphone to inflate a balloon. 

 

Your character finds outfits that grant him special abilities that can only be used while he’s in that outfit.  That’s fine except you can only swap outfits at your base.  This is often no good – one dungeon in particular needs you to use 4 different outfits to beat it (not just to find all its secrets, just to get through it.  You effectively have to clock it (and the area leading up to it) 4 times!  Tedious).  Also you can only prepare food in your chef outfit, which is not a good combat outfit at all.  As such I didn’t bother with cooking.

 

On the cooking, food grants your character buffs, but they only last a while, and you only have so much food in your gut.  It is an interesting idea.  It’s a bit like potions in Witcher 3.  Unfortunately like that game, it’s more mucking around than it is worth.  It’s just easier to spam health potions even before worrying about preparing your food.

 

Thought it was just okay, but glad to have finally completed this game after owning it for like a decade or something.  Hurray for the 52 Games thread.

Mario Odyssey: doesn't do anything exceptionally inventive, but is a damned near perfect version of what it does. Still has shoehorned in motion controls. 5/5

Bayonetta 2: Removes the random instadeath, combat feels better, less stupid mini-games. Adds stupid, unskippable walk-with-sometime "cutscenes", thematically doesn't feel as tongue in cheek, story isn't as bat shit and everything just comes across as bad animé. 4/5

Abzu

Utterly beautiful, stunning, picturesque, very easy to play and enjoy, and finished it in two sittings. Several points in the game are serious wow moments but can't say I thought the overall was good. Got a bit too Ecco the Dolphin for me.
Well worth a rental or get it for less than a fiver and you'll not be disappointed.

8 basking sharks out of whales

Andy wrote:

It would’ve been better if they’d understood the strengths of they’re own game.

Catching a grammar pedant making a grammar mistake is always fun.

A grammatical mistake, Shirley?