Those were definitely the two hardest fights for me as well. I am not particularly good at fast combat; I tend to get impatient, go in like a tank and take a lot of damage. I went into both those boss fights with as many healing potions and healing upgrades as I could get. I also used the “ultimates” (Athra surges) as much as I could. The game has a pretty well implemented charm system allowing you to build combat advantages to your playstyle.
In the end, no boss took me more than 10 tries, and coming off Silksong a few months ago, that was a huge breath of fresh air.
I have been playing the Ace Combat Holy Trinity recently.
Since I took the time to make my controller work on my laptop in December, I jumped at the opportunity to look back at some oldies to legally emulate. (also replayed Sims Bustin’ Out handheld last month)
Just finished Ace Combat 5.
Will play 0 next week-end.
It’s chill. They are only a few hours long, and I don’t mind playing on a lower difficulty to just have a gentle cruise through them.
It’s nostalgic. It’s immersive.
It’s relaxing
@Rimland, I believe you appreciate this sort.
Have you ever seen Nassault videos?
A cinematic take of Ace Combat missions, made with a mix of DCS and sometimes real life footage, and more realistic flying and actions.
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare. A bit of an odd footnote I imagine, back when this was the last Alan Wake game, and nowadays with Alan Wake 2, and AW2 mostly ignoring American Nightmare. Still, surprisingly fun little game. It’s short and straight to the point, and I like the shooting. Not sure I’d really recommend it, outside of if you want to experience the whole Alan Wake saga.
Control. Loved this, great story, great gameplay, just tons of fun. And the DLC adds quite a lot of stuff too. Absolutely recommend the Ultimate edition of this to anyone.
Alan Wake 2. Loved this as well. Feels like the gameplay Alan Wake 1 tried to go for, but succeeded here. Wonderful game with wonderful story.
I’m definetly on board with the “Remedy-verse” now. Good chance I’ll get Control: Resonant when that comes out. I also went and bough the Max Payne trilogy and Quantum Break on Steam since they were on sale.
Sadly, I’ve reached the point now that I’m just not bothering to play games on my current PC, they all run slugishly, even ones that I should be able to run at max settings. The good news is that I should hopefully be able to buy a new gaming PC relatively soon, hopefully by this Summer.
Thanks! I do indeed
Never seen or heard of Nassault videos, might check those out.
Ace Combat is actually one of those series I have yet to get into… Been meaning to for a while, but still haven´t gotten around to it, even though I´ve had AC7 on Steam for some time now.
The PS2 holy trinity is definitely on my emulation to-do list this year!
Funnily enough if I remember AW AN initially wasn’t considered canon and was just a one off spin-off that reutilized concepts and ideas from the original canceled AW2
But then the actual AW2 released and American Nightmare became one of Alan’s various attempts to escape the Dark Place.
so the importance of the game is subjective. But for anyone and everyone interested going all in on Alan Wake it’s a good bridge between the first game and second game given the Lore in the 2nd game.
god I remember the long wait that was between Alan Wake and if Alan Wake 2 was ever gonna happen. Now the IP has relevance within the industry due to Remedy’s position in gaming now and I’m glad Alan Wake is getting the love and attention it rightfully deserves.
The whole lead-up to Remedy revealing Alan Wake 2 was actually going to happen was crazy.
Music Rights in AW1 expired and was delisted for a time, then relisted.
Microsoft’s rights to Alan Wake expired and defaulted to Remedy just before they release Control.
It’s discovered that Control shares a universe with Wake and even has hidden documents referencing it.
The AWE DLC’s key art mimics the cover of Alan Wake. It ends with a peek at Alan trapped in the Dark Place, and a tease that the FBC will return to a Cauldron Lake alert in “a few years in the future”
Alan Wake Remastered comes out, has a few hidden QR Codes that show videos of Wake writing. One of them is actually describing the prologue of AW2.
The Game Awards happen a few months after that… Alan Wake 2 is real Alan Wake 2 Is Real!!!
I would say it is very important given it firmly establishes how badly Alan is trapped in the Dark Place, sets up how he intends to escape it by using its fiction fetish against it, debuts Scratch as a villain and its prerequisite Old Gods song even has a teaser for Control in backmasked messaging.
“Take Control” even hints at Alan Wake 2 the same way American Nightmare hints at Control, by slipping in a backmasked message into the Old Gods of Asgard song.
They were tough years immediately following on from Alan Wake 1. I remember Sam Lake coming out with a video basically saying AW was going dormant for a while and no guarantee upon seeing him return.
Fast forward to present day and thank god he did as AW2 to me is one of the greatest games I’ve played.
Got a Steam Deck today, so I bought Cult of the Lamb. Only played up to building a shrine but I can tell already I am going to love this, not sure why I didn’t play it earlier.
Also started playing Delivery & Beyond with the guys.
Pretty fun for a (free!) clone of Lethal Company, which we have played quite a bit of.
Enough differences to LC to make it worthwhile as well, if it were exactly the same I don’t think we’d bother but it has its own vibe and different pressures (namely time, over monsters killing you).
I can also confirm there are chickens present @TheChicken
They wield knives and murder you.
He’s uh probably going to be confused by the statue outside should’ve been a more specific art nerd i guess i wish the fake version covered it up with the leaf logo redd has instead of just giving him a book
Yup, Polygon got exclusive access to show off the prototype for AW2 (probably used in a pitch to Microsoft at the time) that didn’t quite happen… @Silvereyes you might want to see too!
Another really entertaining cutscene with a bit of slapstick fighting in Indiana Jones Great Circle. And wilhelm scream! (Edit: wait, I checked, and this doesn’t have it! The guy who falls over the edge on the box near the end did the wilhelm scream for me last night! ..added 2nd video.)
I wonder if that’s affected by the “remove licensed audio” toggle… it IS a part of the Skywalker Sound Library…
