Man, Chinatown wars musta had a shitload of content.

When was/is that free? I'm normally good at checking but think I missed it somehow

If you go for the DLC either look for a complete pack for a good price or stick to the two story packs.
Bring the Crunch is decent enough but From Dusk to Casa Bonita was my favourite bit of DLC. It genuinely made me laugh a fair bit and offered a new class and character which were both good.

The other DLC isnt really worth it. Danger Deck is just more battles so unless you love the battle system and would play it sans story I wouldnt bother.
The Towelie guide is pretty funny, just a hints system but presented by Towelie so fairly fucked up. Only worth having if you want to replay the game though.

Yeah neither of the two games are good enough on their own, they are fully reliant on the South Park writing.

Fractured Minds (PC).  Very short, but a couple of interesting mental health bits within.  No invert mouse though :cry:.  [6].

7. Vanquish (Xbox One) - 10/5 - 5.5hrs
Hard mode done! That was awesome. Even better than on normal. I have more playthroughs in me but I’ll give it a little break. What a game!
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Saw the credits roll on Doom: Eternal last night. Overall I enjoyed it, but I think I liked the simplicity of Doom 2016 more. It’s an absolutely cracking game, but 2016 was a genuine surprise and I’m not sure that the additions to the combat in Eternal improved the mechanics of the games - they perhaps diminished them?

I’m fine with the glory kills for health again, but the decision to make armour linked to a flame-thrower and to change the chainsaw to a regular use item for ammo, was a bit strange to me. I guess this was all to accommodate the sword, but in the end I think it just made the number of options (plus the number of buttons) too great.

Despite the increase in options, the player is however very restricted in what they can do at the higher difficulty levels, as the combat system has a rock, paper, scissors approach to enemies - meaning you have to dispatch them in the way the game wants you to. Nothing sums that up more than the enemies that take the game’s logic to the extreme (here’s looking at you Marauder).

Visually, the game is incredible though and I’d certainly return to another Doom in this style in the future.

Syph79 wrote:

Saw the credits roll on Doom: Eternal last night. Overall I enjoyed it, but I think I liked the simplicity of Doom 2016 more. It’s an absolutely cracking game, but 2016 was a genuine surprise and I’m not sure that the additions to the combat in Eternal improved the mechanics of the games - they perhaps diminished them? I’m fine with the glory kills for health again, but the decision to make armour linked to a flame-thrower and to change the chainsaw to a regular use item for ammo, was a bit strange to me. I guess this was all to accommodate the sword, but in the end I think it just made the number of options (plus the number of buttons) too great. Despite the increase in options, the player is however very restricted in what they can do at the higher difficulty levels, as the combat system has a rock, paper, scissors approach to enemies - meaning you have to dispatch them in the way the game wants you to. Nothing sums that up more than the enemies that take the game’s logic to the extreme (here’s looking at you Marauder). Visually, the game is incredible though and I’d certainly return to another Doom in this style in the future.

I preferred the last game too but I expect I'd play another one in a couple of years.  I sort of liked the Marauders in the end (not liked per se, but it's good to have a couple of 'oh no!' types in games like this), but thought the Arch-Viles lived up to their name.   Properly and fully hated them.

8. Bayonetta (Xbox One) - 15/5 - 10hrs
Yep. It’s still a [10] and the best game of its kind by a country light year. As if there was any doubt. PlatinumGames a go-go, baby. Insta-death QTEs can just fuck right off, though. Oh, and Gracious & Glorious. The cunts.
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Any muzzy review of games on Bone need 1 point docked as he now a spokesman for Microsoft.

The Missing: J.J. Macfield and The Island of Memories

It's a 2D plane platformer puzzler by Swery65 (Deadly Premonition, D4) where you have to intentionally dismember and brutalize your character to progress. A lift can't take your full weight? Find some spikes to sever a limb or two. Need a light source to navigate? Set yourself on fire and run through.

The catch is that J.J. feels all this. Every dismemberment knocks her flat with cries of pain and setting yourself on fire is probably the most blood curdling one for me. If you're a bit dense at figuring out some of the puzzles you'll be subjecting yourself to it more than you feel comfortable with.

She can take all this of course. Once you've made it past a challenge you can hold a button to regenerate her entire body if you need to. Makes for some great statistics you're presented with at the end such as "distance rolled as just a head" and "total weight of flesh regenerated".

The themes as you'd expect from above are heavy in the form of suicide and a later focus on identity and particularly gender identity. I don't think I have many relatable experiences to comment on a lot of it but it's really cool to see Swery trying to tackle this stuff at least.

21. Assassin's Creed: Odyssey - Fate of Atlantis -12hours- 10/10-Xbox One X

One of the best bits of DLC I’ve played. Yes it’s all the same missions over and over again but the stunning worlds they built and the mythology present throughout is truly incredible. The extra abilities, armour types and features they put in were also terrific and I wish I’d have had them all the way through. However by this point Alexios is an Isu-Human hybrid and he’s well aware so I suppose it makes sense only now would he fulfil his potential.

I loved that and I’m quite sad my time with Alexios in Greece, Elysium, the Underworld and Atlantis is at an end.

Is the penultimate stage the dice throw one (a bit like a classic Gunstar Heroes stage)? It was that, the Queen bee and one of the flying stages that gave me the most trouble.