Hey everyone! I’m back! Sorry for the lack of gaming threads. And I appreciate the people who took up the mantle while I was away. I hope to be back doing these more regularly but will figure something out for if I do decide to take an extended leave again.
Soooooo. What have you been playing!!! Since we last spoke I’ve been playing a metric fuck ton. I cleared a lot of backlog but right now I am devouring Control Reasonant. Game is unreasonably good. Highly recommend of you liked the first game! I personally think it is better in almost every way. It rocks
Welcome back! I’m mixing a few weeks together, but recently I finally managed to obtain a PSVita and I played through Gravity Rush, kinda short but really fun.
I played Denshattack, I still have to get all the gold medals, but it was enjoyable.
I also tried Qliphah in providence’s shadow. It has an interesting combat system, but it didn’t really hook me.
I’m interested in Control Resonant, I liked the setting of the first one a lot. How’s the gameplay in this one?
I find the gameplay more interesting this time around honestly. There are so many ways to mix and match your moves. You get 3 choices of a primary attack, 3 choices of a secondary attack, and I think like 6 or 7(?) combo finishers. You can mix and match those in a bunch of ways and each of those have their own trees to improve them, and you can swap them out. You start with one primary attack but can unlock everything as you find materials and stuff.
And those are just your normal moves. Each of the bosses you can fight will give a combat ability which uses a power meter that recharges by using your normal attacks. The bosses each give you a choice of 2-3 combat abilities to have at any one time, and you can swap later if desired (with certain items). Plus there are various attack types that different enemies are or resistant against, plus some of the status effects you can apply have synergies.
Exploring is a total treat too. The areas feel so packed with cool things to find and do. Just having an absolute blast
I’m switching between Blasphemous (stuck on the final boss) and Rivals of Aether 2. Either I’ve gotten worse at rivals or the player base has gotten better. I used to hang around the gold/platinum rank border and now I’m struggling to stay in the middle of gold.
I’ve been getting back into CS2 somewhat and recently also reinstalled Monster Hunter Wilds.
Apart from that I also dug up my old savegames for Zelda BOTW and gave the Cemu emulator another try. The last time I had it running it would randomly cause my system to crash. This seems to be fixed now, though I don’t know if my since upgraded GPU, the switch from Windows to Linux, or simply an update to the emulator fixed my issue.
I’m also digging into Control Resonant. I just love the weird and wacky style of this game and the original. The combat isn’t a pushover, but when you start chain moves together you feel like a badass, even early on. The movement in general is buttery smooth, feels great to just pick up and play.
I’m about to check this Nivalis Nights game out. Thing was in self caused development hell for years and I don’t have my hopes up. But I’m invested as I liked its predecessor and I’ve been waiting for it for awhile, so I’ll at least give it a fair shake.
Slow Roads. It’s not so much a game as it is a form of meditation.
Also playing Control Resonant, incredible game.
And juuust about to finish up Titanium Court, also incredible in its own way
Somehow I missed the release of Control Resonant entirely, despite being a fan of the first one. So, thanks for the reminder
Running through 2D Metroids in release order, up to Samus Returns right now. It’s weirdly a lot more fun now than I had when it was the newest game. I’ve been avoiding it since Dread came out and was just it but more and better but it turns out there’s something to be said for its relative simplicity. I find myself doing riskier and less efficient things I used to avoid because I feel so unthreatened now and feeling cool is more of an option.
Dying Light 1. Kind of late to the game. Liking it so far!
