It’s still a really fun game! Miles has a bunch of great suits too, though the cat one can only be acquired after the main story, you can keep it on whenever in New Game Plus, which I did!
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I know, I watched a streamer play basically the whole thing a while back. I’m also aware that the writing isn’t great lol. I’m just looking to swing around and beat up bad guys with a cat friend. Sadly I just missed the steam sale, so it’ll be a while.
So as for what I’m playing, I just picked up theHunter: Call of the Wild. I don’t really like killing animals in games very much, so I basically just use it as a hiking sim. The game gives you access to two beautiful 50km-squared areas to explore (with many more available as low-priced dlc), I just like walking around and looking at stuff while watching a movie or letting a podcast run. It has maybe the longest day-night cycle I’ve ever experienced in a game, something that I wish was more common.
I’m playing the new Australia map, and it’s pretty cool. The roads and flatland make it great for the ATV, and the presence of feral, invasive species gives you reasonable motive to hunt.
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I really need to get around to the Insomniac Spider-Man games myself, they look like fun, and appeal to my love of the Arkham series and the Infamous games.
I have met him and he is still awesome.
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Finished Life is Strange 2, considering that I hated the first one, this was actually pretty nice, a better plot and characters, even tho Sean wasn’t a loveable character, he developed into a one, and Daniel is great, just great, a lovely character.
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Call me curious but what didn’t you like about the first game? Because I have a soft spot for the first game and True Colours but I have always kind of neglected LiS2 because nothing about it has interested me.
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I must say that I played the first game 7(!) years ago so I don’t remember it all to details, but what I remember is hating the plot twists.
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I suppose that is fair enough.
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More Zelda TOTK:
This game really is packed with things. Things that were definitely in BOTW, but are now more easily tracked via more quest logs, or item bonuses like treasure maps that mark an X (instead of the tedious, vague Misko’s Journals of the last game)
Anyway, cool cool stuff: can you actually get all Amiibo exclusive items in the base game now?!. I haven’t gotten one myself yet but I’ve seen clips of people finding some in hidden chests…
They apparently have Traveler Medallions and Hero’s Path map feature as a base-game thing… and Amiibo items too??
Actually great inclusive consumer-positive moves from Nintendo’s Zelda team!?!
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So, I’m in a bit of a bind :
I really want to replay Disco Elysium, as it has been a year since I played it. But, I still remember it clearly, and the time I tried to replay it last week found it a bit meh. The game is still good, but even with different stats, different copo type, and everything I still remembered too much of it. Hell, I even had the Horrific Tie with me this time (did not have enough inland empire the last time). But I remembered too much, and just couldn’t stick to it.
So…
I decided that I will play as a mess.
Not a mess (affectionate), as Disco Elysium does beautifully. (Drugs! Mayhem!, Molotov Cocktail! Neo-Liberalism!)
A mess (derogatory).
I’m going to see what the game writing is when you are a real piece of shit.
As in, I will go for the following achievements :
- Truly Rabid “Traditionalist” (say 10 “traditionalist” things)
- Baddest of the Bad Cops (Hit an all time low with Kim)
- The Most Honourable Cop in The Land (11 honour points, and so honour yourself)
- The Icebreaker (fascist questline completed)
- Glutten-Free Topping Pie (have Gary give me some pie, Gary is a cryptofascist)
- Recruit Detective Kuuno de Ruyter (so, Kim will be wounded at the tribunal)
- Enemy Of the Physical Realm (bang up 5 inanimate objects, yes I’m going there, it’s a sick play-through)
And just because :
- What body ? (solve the case without inspecting the body)
In short : I’m (re)playing Disco Elysium.
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This one’s part of my backlog. Hope to get into it at a good time, I’ve heard so many great things.
TOTK has me hooked, Ghost Trick just came out, gotta get into that, plus some titles on my PSPlus Extra catalog are calling me… 
But one day! One day indeed!
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Spoiler without context.
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AMNESIA ~ The Bunker
“During WW1, soldier Henri, amnesiac, must escape from a bunker where a monster - coming from ancient Roman galleries -, which hunts by hearing, has sown terror and chaos…” 
I’m back in my favorite FPS survival-horror puzzle-game franchise that I appreciate above all for its clean environments, its elaborate sound design and its very immersive atmosphere.
The player finally benefits from an infinite flashlight (and no more matches or oil lamp), BUT it must be recharged every fifteen seconds
and pulling on the cord causes noise… Are you following me?If you run, move or step on a large object, excite the rats
around you or set off an explosion, well, it’s a wrap!The monster seems to stay away when the galleries are lit by a generator, but the fuel that you have to pour manually runs out very quickly, coincidentally.
To play in the dark with headphones!
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I just finished the Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective remaster. The gameplay’s great, the characters are great, the story’s great, you should go play it. Something I find funny is that the game was made in the RE Engine when it uses simple 2D graphics and not the hyperrealistic visuals of the recent Resident Evils. I don’t know why Capcom hasn’t made a sequel in the 13 years since the original came out, maybe if the remaster does well enough they’ll finally make a follow-up game.
The biggest negative I had was I thought couple of twists in the final chapter were really silly and not very good imo, which is a shame cause Shu Takumi made some amazing twists in the Ace Attorney games and the twists in the earlier chapters were also great.
After you beat the game you unlock “Ghost Puzzles”, which are just sliding puzzles but with moving scenes from the game. There’s three different images, but you have to do each image at three different sizes (3x3, 4x4, and 5x5) to unlock all the gallery pictures which look like they were originally meant to be phone backgrounds. The “trick” puzzles of the main game were really fun so it’s disappointing that the only bonus gameplay you can unlock are these.
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Thank you, Todd!
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Jaws Unleashed, 2006. It’s fairly excellent, you’re Jaws the shark and you swim around creating havoc. It’s basically abandonware now for windows, so if you just google it you can find it for free very easily.
EDIT: I found the best game. WolfQuest. It was developed with the Minnesota Zoo, you live the life of a wolf. It’s just… perfect. This is the anniversary edition, specifically.
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I’m playing Ghost of Tsushima again, its so damn pretty.
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Some more WolfQuest photos.
A bear comes over to check out my wolf’s kill.
Winter is pretty, rip deer
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Been playing through Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective.
It’s just as good as it ever was. Quirky characters galore, wacky deaths and ways to prevent them, and a wildly interconnected story (I’ve played the DS original a couple times and I’m just now remembering bunch of great foreshadowing peppered throughout.
Just finished the “crushed by giant chicken leg” chapter. Truly a wild death for Lynne. (Who I’m certain is actually inspired by a chicken design. That red poof of hair, her drooling love of chicken. C’mon lemme have this one!)
I’ve also just started Stray. I’ve got until the 18th to play it with my PS extra subscription. I guess they only got a year’s contract on the service.
It’s a very pretty game, the platforming is super intuitive, impressive how smooth it can feel.
Kinda sucks there’s no photo mode, but the design choice of 90% of the time using no HUD at all kinda fixes that issue.
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Played through the opening events of Oxenfree II last night (or the playstation activity card tracks as “Act 1”, an 80-minute chunk with all the set-up of the inciting incident…)
First impressions:
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The 2D-3D painting style is great to see once more. I feel like everything looks a little more crisp this time.
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Even just opening the map got me super dang hyped, because it’s a massive detailed piece of art, showing area pathways and the design of each region, rather than the very broad, minimalistic map of the first game
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The way it links back to the first game’s lore from a different perspective, and equally links back to the first game’s setting is fuckin’ coooooool.
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Right off the bat, much earlier, you get to see some mind-bending ghostly stuff. Teleported to who knows where, when, or why, planting so many questions and theories to hopefully be solved later…
Ox1 doesn’t really get cccrazy with its time shenanigans until about halfway through or more I’d say. -
conversations can carry between areas/loading screens which is a major plus. Ox1 had a ton of dialogue and I often needed to wait at an exit to listen to it all before moving on. This game does it better.
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the radio is gonna be a great tool to fool around with on future playthroughs. The first game had a bunch of stations to tune into while walking around, but most were music stations, with the occasional voiced info stn.
Ox2 has multiple themed voiced stations, with named characters, who I assume will have some sort of arc over the course of the game. It’s a lot to keep track of at once but I know I’ll be listening to “Let’s Cook Damnit” a lot. Because it makes this a chicken game of the year already.
The big fans better scrape all his dialogue, because this Arroz Con Pollo he’s talking about is very detailed. -
Also, you have no idea how psyched this one scene in the opening makes me…
Back during the promo period for Ox1, there was this one image that was used in trailers and sometimes in official art, but that scene never made it into the final game. No overbearing massive spooky ghost design. But it’s in the sequel now woohoo!
orig. oxenfree trailers:
Double also – there’s a Content Warning option in the menu to warn people of some dark themes in the game – very neat!
Oh, and you can download Oxenfree 2 on mobile right now through the Netflix app at no extra cost. That’s wild. But I guess they can afford it since they literally own Night School (branded as a “Netflix Game Studio” now) which is extra heckin’ crazy.
–and on that note I wish the best for Night School because I don’t see this Netflix Games thing panning out well long-term…
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I just got Zelda Tears of the Kingdom and I’m not even a minute into the game when already my experience is ruined. The Link I’m playing as has 30 hearts and 3 full stamina wheels, when in Breath of the Wild you couldn’t ever get the last 2 health/stamina upgrades (the last 3 if you didn’t have the DLC).
#NotMyLink
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