I've seen that one pop up on Steam sales and/or Gamepass so I may have subconsciously dismissed it. Glad to know it's worth checking out.
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It's just esoteric enough that I doubt it's for everybody, but if simple gameplay and gorgeous visual/aural aesthetics sound like something you might be into, *shrug* give it a shot.
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Doom Medievil continues to be pretty damn fun, especially since its started giving you those bigger groups of enemies so you gotta run around like a crazy person when you get low. I also found a favorite weapon, the chainshot. it fires a big iron ball attached to a chain into an enemy. Its got such great feedback, it crunches against the enemy and staggers them if not blows off a chunk, if its empowered it also does an explosion, it just feels really powerful and it is.
If you think it’s fantastic with a shield in the offhand, try 2-handing it!
Beat Gwyndolin!
From the start I try using Magic Shield, vastly overestimating how long will it last or how much will I need it.
I eat all three (?) of her attacks at one point or another. One of them can pierce through pillars. I take it as the game telling me not to waste too much time behind cover and after two cycles of missing Gwyndolin I start booking it and trying to shorten the pillar stops. Sometimes braving the damage is better.
From the start I try using Magic Shield, vastly overestimating how long will it last or how much will I need it.
I eat all three (?) of her attacks at one point or another. One of them can pierce through pillars. I take it as the game telling me not to waste too much time behind cover and after two cycles of missing Gwyndolin I start booking it and trying to shorten the pillar stops. Sometimes braving the damage is better.
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Fun fact about Gwyndolin, "she" is actually a man. Lore (which I know you're loving) is that he was raised as a girl/woman due to his feminine affinity for the moon. Oh, and if you remember the Butchers from The Depths? Yeah, they're women, very "butch" ones.
It's one of my two current favorite genres (assuming we're including Gris and Neva here).
My other current favorite genre is the half-a-dungeon-crawler, half-a-life-sim thing and I recently learned that a game called Moonlighter is a beloved progenitor of this genre AND I found it on GamePass!
So Fe and Moonlighter just installed on Rog Ally, woo!
On the big screen, installed Kunitsu Game Path of the Goddess, of which I tried the demo last year and had mixed reaction. It's the one where you gotta prepare an area with goons then fight off a bunch of monsters to protect a dancing lady. I found it a cool setup but found it really hard compared to its seemingly simple presentation. I'll see if I can get into it.
Well, cool! I hope Fe lives up to your expectations; enjoy! Hell, I might try out Moonlighter myself. That said...
I started playing Superliminal. It's a puzzle game ala Portal (replete with condescending AI commenting over a loudspeaker as you navigate the various challenges,) but the gimmick here is perspective. Objects you can pick up change size relative to how you've got them positioned in the environment and your line of sight, i.e.: so a chess piece that fits in your hand instantly and seamlessly becomes the size of a grown man when held out in front of yourself.
I can already tell it's going to drive me nuts, but, so far, it's great and super ambitious when you think of all the ways different players might try to address the puzzles and all the ways the devs had to account for them.
I've watched a couple of other people play this. It does seem to kind of run out of ideas at a couple of points, but the last few areas and the ending are a fantastic payoff.
Half-Life: Opposing Force has one of the worst HUDs ever. Probably not so tiny on lower resolutions, but still light green.
Thought I completed the series with the original last month, but this expansion pack is substantial.
Thought I completed the series with the original last month, but this expansion pack is substantial.
Yeah, just finished Superliminal in one sitting, and wow.... that was pretty incredible. With the initial overt similarities to Portal, I wasn't expecting things to take the turn they did, and what an amazing turn it was. 10 out of 10, HIGHLY recommend.
I wonder…is there also a masculine affinity for the moon? Why do the fems get dibs on the bloody moon anyways‽ Also, what’s the opposite of a Gwyndolin? A mandolin‽
Ah yes, that reminds me -
Oh listen to my heart break, every time she runs away…
I say this as a total guess and with absolutely no research put into it what so ever so could be totally wrong. But I'm guessing that the monthly Lunar cycle is associated to a woman's monthly cycle. Like the moon has the power to effect the tides on Earth, it was presumed to effect the hormones in a woman's body. Possibly also associated with Witchcraft, which back in the olden days and possibly in the near future the way this world is going backwards, were all presumed to be female, so the moon has been seen as a female symbol.
Again, total guess.
Anyway, who wants the moon? A cold, dusty place. We men own the sun, they are merely reflecting our glory, brother.
Anyway, videogames.
Platinum 31 belongs to Dave The Diver. I really liked this game, you are Dave, a big fat ass harpoon fisherman who inherits a sushi restaurant and the worlds best sushi chef. So in the day time, you go diving and destroy the local ecosystem by fishing the ocean clear of fish and slaughtering a ton of sharks who despite the apparent abundance of food, only ever want to eat you. So they deserve all the death, the jerks. In the evening, you get to serve the fish that you caught as sushi. And as the game goes on, you unlock new equipment for fishing and new recipes for the restaurant. The game has a really fun game play loop and the story is has a not so subtle story about treating the oceans with respect, despite all the death you inflict on the more aggressive species. Also, the game makers must have friends everywhere as there are bits of Dredge, where you serve sushi made from the abberation fish to the hooded figures. A card game that is basically Balatro and I think Yakuza even shows up with a side scrolling beat em up level.
Not a hard platinum, most of the trophies you'll get by just playing the game, a couple of the trophies are a bit grindy, especially the one where you have to raise tamogatchi which you don't get to start until near the end of the game. Also, the game does get kind of dull after you finish the main story line, there is no point to jumping into the sea to fish as your fish farm will provide you with all the fish you need. However, I did still enjoy the running of the restaurant.
I have one question. How does Dave stay so fat with all the swimming he does?
Platinum 32 comes from finally finishing my second play through of Spider-Man : Miles Morales, not a lot to be said here. You are the younger Spider-Man and you swing around New York helping people by punching other people in the face. And its a lot of fun, the swinging is still a great way to get around and the combat is still crunchy and satisfying. You all know what this game is and if you don't you probably don't care anyway.
One issue and I'm surprised it never got patched out. The sound still dropped out at certain times and all of a sudden, Miles would be having a conversation with himself like a crazy person. Maybe it got sorted with the PS5 upgrade.
It also made me think, hey, wasn't Spider-Man 2 supposed to get DLC? So I checked and its been cancelled. For fuck sake Sony (and maybe Insomnia), why are you allergic to my money?
And finally, I picked up Vampire Survivors, I'd heard good things but stayed away because honest;y, it looks a bit shit. But for £4 I thought it was worth the gamble. I was so wrong, this game is so addictive and even after stopping playing last night, I still see flying projectiles and falling upgrade gems when I close my eyes. A major publisher would have made this free to play and loaded it up with loot boxes and microtransactions. Anyway, this is a bullet hell game, where all you do is move. Ok, there is a bit more to it than that, the character will automatically attack the monsters that spawn on screen and you pick up the upgrade gems to unlock new attacks as well as buffs. And as you rank up, so does the action until 30 minutes later, the screen is full of enemies and projectiles and after 30 minutes, you get murdered by a boss vampire. Fun stuff.
Anyway...what about werewolves? They change with the full moon, they are pretty manly.
They actually coined a new term for games like Vampire Survivors: "Bullet Heaven", where you are the bullet hell.
I love Vampire Survivors and I should play more of it, but I probably won't feel bad watching you play it vicariously. Also, that's not the vampire killing you after 30 minutes, that's the Grim Reaper. The vampire is in another coffin.
Wow, awesome, glad you found a game that hit you like that.
Do you think it would be better to play on a couch+TV setting or on handheld?
I remember Superliminal being mentioned when that game came out a year or two ago where you're taking pictures and the pictures are used to change the environment- where folks were knocked out by the demo but got bored with the real game.
But I think it's on Gamepass so I'm intrigued.
I tried to play Citizen Sleeper on my ROG but it's not practical- that game was built for a mouse. I refuse to play games with mouses, so oh welp not for me (yes I am that shallow).
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In Japanese mythology it was the sun that was perceived as female (Amaterasu) while the moon was associated with masculinity (Tsukoyomi).
In Egyptian mythology both are male (Ra and Khonsu).
Maybe sun = male and moon = female is a Western thing. Helios and Selene (and Artemis, and Hecate). I do think periods and moon cycles and witchcraft have something to do with it. And in every Romance language, the sun gets a male pronoun (el sol) and the moon is female (la luna).