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“I Just Think They're Neat.” Like What You are Playing

Octopus Prime said:
Didn’t really care for Blue Prince, but Ruins of the Restless just came out and it’s kind of the same deal except a dungeon crawler instead of MYST, and I am here for it.

Similar basic premise; you have to assemble a dungeon, room by room, from a deck of randomly assigned chambers each day. Then after you’ve placed them all, you have to explore the dungeon you’ve built; which rapidly becomes more labyrinthian and which plays against the *really strict* time limit you have to work with, and trying to track down where, in the impenetrable gloom, a boss monster is hiding.

Leveling up is a real risk v reward thing since leveling up bashing monsters doesn’t boost your stats any; it just adds more potential rooms to draw from each day; actually making your guy stronger depends on what rooms you’ve placed. Some offer only temporary buffs for that run, others persist and can be repeated but take precious time off the clock while you use them.

You can’t really waste time grinding either since each run that ends without at least taking out a mini boss advances a persistent timer and once it’s full; game over (and it hitting certain thresholds gives you randomized curses that tend to be *really* bad)

I’ve barely scratched the surface and I am loving it
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Important question that will decide if this is kryptonite or my new favourite game:

When you say that there is really strict time pressure, is this real-time pressure, or, like, each room advances the clock sort of thing. And if the earlier, is that time counting down while I'm choosing/placing rooms/anything else, or just during combat?
 
There are both types of time pressure. Each run is on a clock, and you have a limited number of runs (further reduced if you die).

The run timer seems reasonably generous as long as you don't forget your own maze.
 
I am pleased to report that The Rise of the Golden Idol's second DLC case, The Lemurian Phoenix, is good as hell, as expected.
 
Been playing some more Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth on and off and really enjoying just vibing in the world with its cast as I play side content. Great game.

Also still cannot get over how much better this combat system was over Y7.
 
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Do you mean over Yakuza: Like a Dragon? I agree that it's a lot better. It's funny how I'm more of an action guy than an RPG guy but I like the combat in the Ichiban games more than the Kazuma games.
 
Adrenaline said:
Do you mean over Yakuza: Like a Dragon? I agree that it's a lot better. It's funny how I'm more of an action guy than an RPG guy but I like the combat in the Ichiban games more than the Kazuma games.
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Ah yeah, sorry wrote that when I couldn’t sleep. I’m just kinda surprised at how overhauled and refined the combat is in 8 versus 7. Being able to move and fully position yourself for attacks is such an improvement.
 
Date Everything is absolutely unhinged (positive). I don't usually go for this kind of game but so far I'm having a blast seeing all the completely bonkers stuff the devs threw in here.
 
lincolnic said:
Date Everything is absolutely unhinged (positive). I don't usually go for this kind of game but so far I'm having a blast seeing all the completely bonkers stuff the devs threw in here.
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All true and so great. Same boat, don't like dating games but this is just goofy. Still think the intro before you get to the dating stuff goes on a bit too long but that's fine.
 
I solemnly swear that I'll never play a parody dating sim until somebody sells me a sincere one.
 
Crusader Kings 3 is really fun when you make custom characters of your friends and then ask your friends what they would do.

Some of them are goofy (ok so you wanna seduce the holy roman emperor...) but a lot of them seem genuinely interested in this even if they don't actually have CK3.
 
Continuing to be absolutely delighted with Date Everything. This game is hilarious, charming, inclusive, and often strikingly earnest. Earlier tonight my girlfriend accidentally hit the wrong button when we intended to say something nice to one of the characters and ended up with the mean option, and we both legitimately felt bad about it.
 
lincolnic said:
Continuing to be absolutely delighted with Date Everything. This game is hilarious, charming, inclusive, and often strikingly earnest. Earlier tonight my girlfriend accidentally hit the wrong button when we intended to say something nice to one of the characters and ended up with the mean option, and we both legitimately felt bad about it.
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My husband and I agreed to play this together because we both love ProZD and have also been delighted by this game since it came out, but now he has to be out of town unexpectedly for 2 weeks for a family thing and I am very grumpy that I have to wait until he's back to play more boo.
 
Violentvixen said:
My husband and I agreed to play this together because we both love ProZD and have also been delighted by this game since it came out, but now he has to be out of town unexpectedly for 2 weeks for a family thing and I am very grumpy that I have to wait until he's back to play more boo.
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Oh yeah, it's been great to play as a couple. We're going on vacation on Saturday and I'm a little bummed we won't get to play for over a week while we're away.

We still haven't found ProZD, I don't even know who he voiced. But I'm excited to find out. The whole cast has been fantastic. I've seen a few names in the credits that I've recorded at my own job, which was also kinda fun.
 
I just finished Gris. It's a gorgeous little game with a unique art style, an incredible use of color, and a wordless story that's genuinely touching. It was also barely four hours, which I appreciate now that it's getting harder and harder to commit to huge games.
 
Finished my revisit of the PS1 version of Tactics Ogre today! It was a fun game, despite its issues. I love how the game gives you increasingly broken and fun shit as you progress through it, yet still manages to remain challenging, to the very end.

To me this is still the best srpg ever made. It has the exact combination of mechanics to make the gameplay enjoyable at a moment to moment level, and an intriguing story to keep you playing. This is something no other srpg, and indeed, none of its remakes have been able to capture ever since.

Anyway, Final Fantasy Tactics next, soon.
 
Bee said:
I just finished Gris. It's a gorgeous little game with a unique art style, an incredible use of color, and a wordless story that's genuinely touching. It was also barely four hours, which I appreciate now that it's getting harder and harder to commit to huge games.
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Awww I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's wonderful top to bottom. Nomada's second game Neva is also very good (it's also on the shorter side).
 
WildcatJF said:
Awww I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's wonderful top to bottom. Nomada's second game Neva is also very good (it's also on the shorter side).
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Thanks, it's on my radar now! I watched a trailer but it told me basically nothing. I think I might just go in mostly blind. It does look like there might be combat this time, so I'm curious to see what this team can do with that!
 
Started playing some Tetris 99 recently as my allergic reaction on the palms of my hands have cleared up enough for me to be able to comfortably hold a controller.

I really like that game a lot, not the best at it but as a pick up and play game it can be really fun for short sessions. May want to think about picking up the offline content DLC at some point as the only other Tetris experience I have on my switch is Tetris the Grand Master 2. Which is fantastic (although far more difficult), but not really that similar to Tetris 99 outside of both being Arika games.
 
Just finished a cool puzzle / cooking / narrative game - Venba.

The story of an Tamil immigrant family to Canada through 20 some odd years as told through cooking. It touches on the immigrant experience, from the dad having a degree in physics and struggling to find work even as a stockboy, the mother missing her home country and family, the son assimilating into Canadian culture and being embarrassed taking a Tupperware of biryani to school for lunch, and lots more.

The game play is cooking puzzles - figuring out how to assemble these delicious looking Indian dishes with limited notes since amma's cookbook is all beat up and stained.

The food looks amazing, the story is moving, the soundtrack is full of bangers, and it's even free on amazon gaming for the month if you've got prime. Highly recommend.

Oh, and if you're feeling adventurous, once you finish the game, they give you actual recipes for all the things you make in game.
 
Mr Bean said:
Just finished a cool puzzle / cooking / narrative game - Venba.

The story of an Tamil immigrant family to Canada through 20 some odd years as told through cooking. It touches on the immigrant experience, from the dad having a degree in physics and struggling to find work even as a stockboy, the mother missing her home country and family, the son assimilating into Canadian culture and being embarrassed taking a Tupperware of biryani to school for lunch, and lots more.

The game play is cooking puzzles - figuring out how to assemble these delicious looking Indian dishes with limited notes since amma's cookbook is all beat up and stained.

The food looks amazing, the story is moving, the soundtrack is full of bangers, and it's even free on amazon gaming for the month if you've got prime. Highly recommend.

Oh, and if you're feeling adventurous, once you finish the game, they give you actual recipes for all the things you make in game.
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Oh yeah I played this when one when it was on Gamepass a while ago. It's a tough one emotionally but so good. It's short but I wished it was a little longer which speaks well of it!

Spoilers for about halfway through if I remember correctly there is a point when you are playing as the grown son and reading that same beat up cookbook. But never fully learned your family's language and have forgotten most of it. Only vaguely remembering the definition of some words due to choosing to reject your culture when younger, whoof
 
I know it's not Talking Time's jam but the Battlefield 6 beta might actually be better than the entirety of Battlefield 2042's live game.

(I've actually been playing the game for a few months now since I'm part of the Battlefield Labs group. Beta client is far more stable than the rough pre-alphas I've been playing. I was worried about an October release but that was based on the pre-alpha builds. Beta needs tightening up but is otherwise good to go.)
 
Monument Valley III is more Monument Valley, prettier than ever and taking its non-Euclidean puzzles to places they've never been.
 
I could *barely* follow the plot of Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, but since 90% of the gameplay is “blow up the red things on your radar”, it didn’t require a hell of a lot of comprehension.

That being said, it’s a phenomenal example of the Air Plane Exploding genre
 
I beat my first Ace Combat game last year, with The Unsung War. It was a fun time, although well outside my wheelhouse. Some of those segments were pretty darn tough! I feel like I need to play AC7 at some point because of this remix:

 
I'm finally circling back around to try Star Wars: Jedi: Fallen Order, a game with a name like teflon that I am enjoying far more than I expected to. I did the big AT-AT Shadow of the Colossus set-piece last night where you clamber onto the side of an AT-AT, scale it, enter it, and then commandeer it and why did no one do this years ago? I've been playing Star Wars games a long time and driving an AT-AT is about the most fun thing one has ever had me do. I remember for decades people saying "every Star Wars game has a Hoth level because that's the fun bit" and Fallen Order is like "hold my beer".

I usually find Souls combat is at its best when it's challenging, but it feels the opposite here. When I go back to a previous area with a bunch of new powers and can run in and wreck shop on a bunch of Stormtroopers is when the game is at its best, making me feel like a Jedi, and I don't think I've had a single encounter in this entire game yet that's as hard as the easiest encounters in a real Souls game.

The focus on Jedi parkour makes it much more satisfying to nose around the environment looking for secrets than in a real Souls game too. It's surprisingly fun to navigate through old areas, blasting imps and searching for crannies with loot. That said, the loot here is uniquely unsatisfying, with almost all of it being cosmetics, and most of those cosmetics being stupid. I've picked up dozens of cosmetic components for my lightsaber, i.e. the tiny stick that I can barely make out, and I'm playing this on an 85-inch display. But at least those aren't ponchos. Hey, video game? No one looks good in a poncho.

Anyway, fashion Souls notwithstanding, I'm having a blast with it. Game good!
 
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