Update Two Hundred and Fifty-Seven: 5 December 2018
the Journey Down: Chapter Two
7.7 hours playtime, ~3 hrs actual, No achievements
5/10
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A competent if not very memorable point and click, the Journey Down continues in its second chapter. It’s another point and click where the set design is amazing, but nothing else quite matches up. Everything about this game is just okay to the point where it’s hard to come up with anything to say about it.
Nothing’s really compelling, but nothing’s bad either. It just is. Ahhhhh I want to write more stuff than this but there’s really not a lot to say!! Aaaa, the soundtrack’s pretty good! The modeling and animation are really basic and unpolished, which grated on me some. Uhhhh. We’re playing Yakuza Kiwami and while it definitely shows its age (in the sense that it’s a remake of an older game compared to the updated, fresh, experienced narrative sensibilities of 0) it’s awesome and I love chasing Majima down and Kiryu is Best Boy who drinks his respect women juice and we haven’t even gotten to the Big Dad Energy parts and really I’d rather be talking about that instead.
Uhhhh! I wouldn’t pay money for the Journey Down but I’m not unhappy I won it on SG. Review over!
Next up: I probably won’t 100% clear this, but I want to give it a shot! Time to give roguelikes a try!
Okayyyyyy scratch that, I gave roguelikes a try and I just am not about them. I’m just slotting this into Won’t Play. INSTEAD -
See you soon!
lol @ giving roguelikes a try. I suck at them and hate losing my progress, but I can deal with easier ones or ones that still let you progressively build up somehow. I got Flame in the Flood when it was free because I liked the setting and art, but I haven’t played it.
I figured at least I could try ONE, and luckily with it being an SG win, I didn’t have to pay!
The losing all your progress is one big thing, but even rogue-lites like this one… the ‘procedural generation’ aspect of it really just means ‘it’s going to look the same a lot with some variables changed and that’s it’.
At least I never have to play another one!
I do like roguelikes & roguelites, but Flame in the Flood was a game that I just disliked. There was so much just waiting on bars to fill that I got bored fast.
I didn’t even get that far - the boredom came from the couple of places I found being very… samey.
It’s just very much not my genre.
I’m not a fan of roguelikes/lites either, I remember activating Flame in the Flood because the artstyle and wilderness theme looked quite nice. I hope the gameplay isn’t too stressful, constant survival management can take away the fun from exploring so easily.
There has been a small amount of “Yakuza hype” in the BLAEO feed for the past month or so, it has made me curious about the series. :D
I don’t know if I would say it was ‘stressful’ - I guess ‘annoying’ is more like it. I wanted to just kind of explore and piece the story together, but all the survival management got in the way and then all at once I got like four health alerts and then my poor girl was just limpin all over the place aaaaand…. ehhhh….
ccccccccccccc: yessssssssss please pick it up, 0 is going to be probably around 13 US American during the Winter Sale and that’s an absolute fucking steal, and THEN after THAT you’ll have SEVEN more games to play (if you can get access to a PS3 and PS4. Gank them from your friends!)! Kiwami hopefully will be out on Steam within the month, and additionally hopefully the rest will follow.
If you have any questions about it please feel free to ask because literally I haven’t been able to shut up about this fucking series for the past (checks watch) four weeks.
And that isn’t stressful? D: Oh well, I’m giving it a go eventually, at least it’s good to know what to expect.
I actually got Yakuza Kiwami with my PS+ sub last month, so that’s something I could try first. I don’t mind aged graphics if the gameplay holds up and the controls feel fresh enough.
I guess it wasn’t stressful just because I went in knowing I wasn’t going to do well, and I just wanted to see if there will be something that hooked me. Sailing down the river with the music playing was a good moment, though!
Kiwami came out after 0, and uses the same engine, a lot of the same assets and animation (not a bad thing! It’s all Kamurocho, after all). It seems a good place to start (it’s a remake of the first, after all), though I’m happy I started with 0. I enjoy the gameplay pretty well, though I’m no action-fighting expert and honestly the gameplay isn’t one of the main draws. It’ll definitely help you feel like a big badass, though!