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I've been playing Lies of P. I'm about 13 hours in at this point. I don't think I'm going to bother finishing it.
I got the game for free, so I don't feel compelled to get my money's worth.
Going into it I had heard that this is the best non-FromSoft souls-like, and that's probably true, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as the games it's trying to ape. It's mainly cribbing from Bloodborne and Sekiro, 2 games that I love.
Lies of P's visual design isn't anywhere near as interesting as Bloodborne. The art isn't as interesting, the enemy design and variety isn't as interesting, and weapon designs and movesets aren't as interesting. I don't really care for the weapon combinations. 13 hours into the game and I still haven't found a single weapon that I really like.
The combat also isn't anywhere as good as Sekiro. The parry system in this game honestly feels kind of bad and clunky, and I can't get the timing of it quite down. By this point in Sekiro I could parry multi-attack strings from multiple enemies at the same time no problem. In this game I'm completely struggling to find the rhythm to properly parry multi-hit attacks, and the game also doesn't seem interested in making them the focus, except for a few particular enemies and bosses.
I also just really don't care all that much about the story. I don't find the puppets to be interesting enemies at all. The game got a lot more interesting when I got to the Cathedral, but now that I'm back in the main city on Rose street and I'm bored of fighting puppets again.
A lot of people seem to like this game, including a bunch of my friends, but this just isn't it for me. I find literally everything about this game underwhelming.
I got the game for free, so I don't feel compelled to get my money's worth.
Going into it I had heard that this is the best non-FromSoft souls-like, and that's probably true, but I don't think it's anywhere near as good as the games it's trying to ape. It's mainly cribbing from Bloodborne and Sekiro, 2 games that I love.
Lies of P's visual design isn't anywhere near as interesting as Bloodborne. The art isn't as interesting, the enemy design and variety isn't as interesting, and weapon designs and movesets aren't as interesting. I don't really care for the weapon combinations. 13 hours into the game and I still haven't found a single weapon that I really like.
The combat also isn't anywhere as good as Sekiro. The parry system in this game honestly feels kind of bad and clunky, and I can't get the timing of it quite down. By this point in Sekiro I could parry multi-attack strings from multiple enemies at the same time no problem. In this game I'm completely struggling to find the rhythm to properly parry multi-hit attacks, and the game also doesn't seem interested in making them the focus, except for a few particular enemies and bosses.
I also just really don't care all that much about the story. I don't find the puppets to be interesting enemies at all. The game got a lot more interesting when I got to the Cathedral, but now that I'm back in the main city on Rose street and I'm bored of fighting puppets again.
A lot of people seem to like this game, including a bunch of my friends, but this just isn't it for me. I find literally everything about this game underwhelming.
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Yeah makes sense this all happened during the years when the only games I remember putting serious time into were Final Fantasy 8, Skyrim, and Guitar Hero, so I missed all this. But thx for the rundown. It still feels funny to learn all these years later how my teenage quarter-eating games turned into franchises while I was busy drinking my way through New England lol
I get not learning about PS2 games, but I'm shocked you never heard of the Genesis games till now. Granted, I didn't know Shinobi started as an arcade game until about, I was 7. My older brother and I happen to find it at an arcade around the summer of 1996. My introduction to the series was the first Game Gear game.
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It is likely I just forgot about it. I was a Nintendo boy.
I was too, when it came to the Game Boy. Though we both shared an N64 and PS1, before eventually moving on to PS2 and GameCube. Though way later on, I got my own PS2 and kept the GC.
Double Dragon Revive is the better version of The Bouncer. While Rushing Beat X looks to be the better version of Demolish Fist. I am glad we're getting more 2.5D brawlers. I love pixels and hand drawn animation, but it's nice to have these be good and stand out from the crowd. Prevents oversaturation and from things looking stale on any of the store pages. Especially on Steam.
It's taken me shamefully too long to realise what makes breath of the wild Zelda so much less enticing to play than the previous 3D entries, after giving Hyrule warriors a go. And am not sure whether that makes me dumb or the director of....uh, the best selling version of the franch...look, fine, maybe they ain't dumb but there's more factors to that beyond my petty grievance lol!
Anyay. It's the bloody music! Or lack thereof. Instead of an eclectic buffet of memorable fancy tunes across the spectrum of magical emotions, there's just nothing. Absolutely buttfuck nothing beyond the last song playing in the shop you went to echoing around your definitely very sane and not troubled head. Let me tell you there is only so long you can hum Tom's Diner to yourself before people nearby start calling welfare checks on you. Music isn't important for many, I understand, and the games are selling well regardless - a broad pattern industry wide now it's long broken into mainstream - but it is part of what made Zelda stand out amongst the rest in my insignificant opinion. That and the weird UFO side story in majora's mask lol
Anyay. It's the bloody music! Or lack thereof. Instead of an eclectic buffet of memorable fancy tunes across the spectrum of magical emotions, there's just nothing. Absolutely buttfuck nothing beyond the last song playing in the shop you went to echoing around your definitely very sane and not troubled head. Let me tell you there is only so long you can hum Tom's Diner to yourself before people nearby start calling welfare checks on you. Music isn't important for many, I understand, and the games are selling well regardless - a broad pattern industry wide now it's long broken into mainstream - but it is part of what made Zelda stand out amongst the rest in my insignificant opinion. That and the weird UFO side story in majora's mask lol
Breath of the Wild has music, it's not my favorite OST of the franchise, but it's there. Some of it is pretty good too, like Kass' theme:
Ok maybe attempts to entertain myself with hyperbole have backfired a bit. There are pockets here and there where music may occur, it's just so rare it kinda feels like nothing. It isn't woven through every moment and area like it breathes music. Also while I ain't bothered looking this part up to clarify, there seems to be a distinct absence of anyone talking about being able to play a magical instrument to affect the game world. Is like instead of celebrating musical passion they just went "musics? I hardly knew her!"
None of this is like a dealbreker or makes it a bad game at all, am still going back to it occasionally cos the Zelda fanboy within has to feed either way (and why I won't look up to check whether instruments exist in case of pleasant surprise lol). Just kinda miss the tickly ear brain stimulations
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Y'all need to see these. Especially the first video. The second video is more so an informed reactions and companion piece.
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Intelligent Systems took the phrase "shiny new graphics" far too literally when developing the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake.
Grass shouldn't be reflective even if it does have updated graphics.
Grass shouldn't be reflective even if it does have updated graphics.
Intelligent Systems took the phrase "shiny new graphics" far too literally when developing the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake.
Grass shouldn't be reflective even if it does have updated graphics.
It's incredible that the Make My Video series of games never received a spiritual successor. I don't have to tell you how much potential there is in a video 'game' where you re-edit a music video to include more random public domain footage.
You just saw SGF's recent Sega CD video, didn't ya?
The reason no one ever attempted it again, is due to being too niche to begin with. Second reason, you can pretty much that do that with any video editing software since the 2000s. A game like that could be fun, with all of the licensing and rights issues with copyrighted songs, YouTube's shitty bot systems, and just what headache it can be to get through all of that now, I can' blame anyone for not even bothering in the first place. If it were the 90s or some parts of the 2000s, you would have actually had a point. In the YT era and post YT era, not any more.
I did. Unfortunate that YT issues holds back the videos from being a really good look at the games. Spoony's review will probably always be king with the world we now live in.
I disagree, the Make My Video format has as much value today as it did in the 90s.
More power to you on that front, but there's really no value to this game anymore. I love the idea of it but once again, advancements in software pretty much killed that. An idea could work, but once again, you would have to use either public domain songs and videos most of the time, or people who don't mind their songs being used without a price (they'll almost always either be indie or game composer who usually don't mind), but at least the credit and permission. If somebody can get it running off the ground in a modern day. Then I'm all more happy for those people or persons, but I'm not gonna waste time thinking about what could have been.
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I never said it did. It's a game that tried and has unique ideas, but wasn't picked up ever again by anyone. Hence why I said I wouldn't mind if somebody picks it up, but i'm not gonna waste time thinking on what could have been. If somebody picks up on this and tries to do something with it or expand then more power to those persons. If not then, oh well. No sense wasting time thinking about.
Whatever you feel that's fine. I'm not doing a back and forth on this. I've already what I said, and anything else is just gonna get redundant.
Pathologic seems to have found the chest code to avoid the criticism aimed at reboots not being something new, and that is to just name your reboot like it's a sequel instead. Not sure the shelf life on this chest code but it appears effective. Dragons Dogma 2 kinda half dabbled in these waters, though maybe that's my poor memory of the first game lol