Hello fellow assassins. This past weeks have been very slow. I was diagnosed with post-Covid syndrome, which it’s making hard to breath and walk more than 100 meters, so I did not feel like playing anything, honestly. Please be careful with this shit, for you and your loved ones.
Anyway, I was able to do something for the 100 game challenge:
This game has always had mixed reviews from the community, and for me now it's clear why. It tries to emulate the good ol' Banjo games, which I did not play (PC gamer + Nintendo portable only, never owned a PS), so I cannot discuss if they are accurate in the feeling or not. But, what I can say:
The GOOD:
The game is beautiful, cute and very charming. Characters and worlds are colourful and fun, gameplay and challenges are a joy to experience. Variety of moves and powers is very good, you can feel the progress. Collectibles (a fuckton, but usual for this genre), do not get in the way too much, progress is bound to them of course, but I did not find it grindy at all to advance. Bosses were original and fun (not the last one, more about that below), and since they are not mandatory for the most part, it's an optional challenge you can enjoy or pass.
The BAD:
Here is were things start to get downhill. I loved the characters, the worlds and the general challenges, but there were 3 points that dampened my whole experience:
The CONTROLS. They are abysmal, unresponsive at times. I understand recreating the games of old in terms of gameplay and challenge, but for fuck's sake, you cannot create games which control like they are 30 years old. Huge dissapointment, and biggest sin of this game for me.
The last boss is unnecessarily long and unfair. I say unfair and not difficult, because I hate artificial difficulty. When you cannot dodge attacks because the flying controls are wonky as hell, then it's just not fun to play anymore. It's design is just annoying, and I saw this point repeated all over the internet as well. A lot of people just raged-quit at this point.
Minecart and some other minigames. They are a very good idea, badly implemented again due to poor controls.
That's all from my side, I really think controls in a game are very important, and if you get them wrong, you are hampering your customer's experience. This is not 1980 anymore.
RECOMMENDED TO PLAY: YES
RECOMMENDED TO BUY: NO, buy A Hat in time if you want a better game in this genre. That one is 9/10 in my book.
Shadowrun Returns
This game feels incomplete. I think the idea was for it to be a tool, in which you would download and play other people's campaigns. Official campaign is short, but decent, kinda as a presentation card for Shadowun. Gameplay speaking is nothing special, your standard turn based RPG. Difficulty is very lacking, even on hard, but does not matter much.
Setting is very interesting, and I look forward to read some more about this world and to play the next games (Dragonfall is also in this challenge).
I tried, but I really don't like card games :_(. I got bored almost inmediately, but it seems very interested, if multiplayer focused hybrid between card and board game.
Currently playing:
That’s all for today, be safe and happy, and keep gaming :)
Get well soon! sends strength and mental hugs
Thank you very much, Im trying :). Be safe and healthy!
Difficulty is very lacking, even on hard
Yeah, turns out the only thing difficulty changes in Shadowrun is hit-chance. I’d recommend against getting the other ones, but it looks like you already bought them.
And the hit chance is retarded sometimes. Like 50% hit in a point blank shotgun shot? Yeah, sure… :D. I will play dragonfall sometime during this year probably, we’ll see how better is it :)
This is Rocket League!!!111 Sorry, I’m a huge fan of this game since 2016. xD Do you plan to play it long-term?
Sorry to read you have post covid symptoms still. I hope you feel better soon.
Reading again and again about the controls of yooka laylee is the main reason I haven’t been wanting to give a try to this game. Especially because I still have A hat in time to play instead. And finish Mario Odyssey…
Thanks for the support, I feel somehow better already. Yooka Laylee is mostly good and fun, but the controls are indeed terrible. A hat in time is a really good game, you should consider it when you want to play some platformer :D. Cute as hell game, and quite challenging at times.
Yeah the last boss sucked in yooka-laylee. I was enjoying my time then that happened! As soon as I got hit once in the 1st couple of stages I knew it was game over no way was it gonna be won.
I also hope you are better or that you get better soon, sucks that is happening.
Yeah, totally horribly designed boss :_(. Thanks, my health seems to be better now, we’ll see in next weeks :)
Well I can tell you it certainly doesn’t get any nicer in the next game. At least it gives you checkpoints if you desire but the fact you have to repeat horrible platforming sections otherwise not so nice
awww I was looking forward to playing it :_(
Well it was certainly more fun then I expected but yh that ending gosh darn it. Even if you are amazing at taking no damage you need to be step by step perfect for the ending bit. There’s even a secret ending for doing the final lvl on your 1st go. That’s before you even start the main game!