Before talking about what I played this week, I think I forgot to mention a game I played couple of weeks ago.
After finishing Judgment, and seeing that Dark Souls (next game in my list) isn’t on sale yet, I started Bioshock Infinite. I had played the first Bioshock but never got around to playing Infinite.
The visuals felt like late PS3 games, specially the camera and movement, but it didn’t feel that jarring, specially after couple of mins of playing it, didn’t notice that again during the whole game.
The game was beautiful, the gameplay and shooting was fun. And the story was “Bioshocky”. As someone who didn’t like the first Bioshock too much (I blame Rapture for that, just not my kind of place), I loved Bishock Infinite.
There are some lore elements that connects it to the first game, so you’ll enjoy the background story more if you know that, but you can easily play it without that. Not a very long game too, I think took somewhere between 10-15 hours.
Highly recommended to those who like shooters and haven’t played it yet.
Now to this week!
Finally started Dark Souls Remastered have been meaning to play it for the last few months but always end up starting something else.
I have said this about soulslike games before, but the game isn’t that tough. You just have to be deliberate about your actions, and can’t just button mash through everything. Also, the game doesn’t tell you half the things, you have to experiment to figure those things out, and you die, many times, but you also die in other games, I have died many times in Ratchet & Clank and they aren’t considered that difficult. Oh and just to be clear, it’s by no definition an easy game, but I think the difficulty is over-hyped.
Anyways, have been playing only Dark Souls since I got it, the only place where I got stuck was the Bell Gargoyle boss, died more than a dozen times, then my friend suggested to go to another area first before coming back to boss, so doing that and leveling up, and getting a better weapon / equipment made killing the boss much easier.
Have taken care of pretty much all the surface stuff now and have entered Blightdown. Ended last session when I reached the bottom, got poisoned and died with over 12K souls! Let’s hope I can reach it when I play next.
Didn’t really play anything else. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity and Cozy Grove all are on temporary hiatus.
Played a bit of Mutant Mudd Collection, mainly in bite sized times, which are usually reserved for Picross. Each “world” has 4 levels, I think I was in 2-1 before, and have reached 4-4 now. I can only see 5 worlds in the current screen, but no idea how many screens this hub world has.
The disappearing platforms are the most annoying aspect yet, but I think that’s only because they removed the limit of 5 mins from each level. I play slowly killing everything, so take more than that sometimes, even when I do clear it before that, it’s only because I don’t have to worry about any time limit, I doubt I would have cleared them if I had to try to go fast so that I can reach end before time.
Having fun with it. It’s pretty good for those small-breaks.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
You’re playing some really good classics there @[email protected]. You’re right, Dark Souls is not that hard, but it’s a game that requires you to play carefully and slowly learn enemy positioning and attacks.
Weekend ended up being really busy so I didn’t have the time for a good Nine Sols session, so the status for that game is still “at the last boss but need to sit down and practice”.
Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!
I played a lot of missions this week, but story progress was slow becaused DLC1 got released and I decided it was time to get the bundle. This first DLC comes with Big O, Bryger and goddamn Kamen Rider Double, and since buying the bundle also gives you extra missions to recruit the protagonists of two older games (Iori+Amari from SRTX and Saizo+Sagiri from SRTT) I had a ton of new content to play.
The DLC honestly feels overpriced for what it brings, but I’m having a good time with it. They did a much better job integrating the DLC in the main game compared to the previous game (SRT30), there’s a lot more interactions with characters from other series, plus a new side-plot with a common enemy focused on the units included in this pack.
Playing Super Mario Galaxy 2!
Reached World 5. I have enough stars to proceed to the next world but want to explore more before doing that. “Prankster Comet” challenge levels are getting quite hard, so I might avoid those at least until I finish the main game.
Finished Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk!
This is a very short (~30min) VN, but it’s quite unique and disturbing. You play as the “voice in the head” of a mentally ill girl who is trying her best to do a simple task: Buy milk and get back home. There’s only two endings, one if she manages to complete her task and another where she fails, and it largely depends on how nice or mean you are to her during the path to the store.
This bundle also comes with the sequel game which I plan on playing soon. It’s longer but not by much (people say it’s ~90min total with 5 endings), and I’m quite curious about it.
Probably not worth it at full price, but I got it on sale for $2 and so far it’s been an interesting experience.
Yeah, still have tons of classics in my wishlist, not all of them great but still games I want to try.
Benefits of being a patient gamer, there will probably be a version of game with all DLC included by the time I get to it, and it will be going on deep sales. 😁
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk sounds interesting, but as you say, also disturbing.