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« Reply #3622 on: 28 September 2018, 19:35:41 » |
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I played The Last Guardian, finally.
As far as Ueda games go, I... don't know what to think. For a game about bonding with a large animal, I suppose it does that very well. I feel like animal companions are the perfect workaround to imperfect AI. It's weird when a human character does something blatantly stupid, but when an animal does it, it's adorable at best, annoying but understandable at worst. Even when you credit an animal with a decent amount of intelligence there is still a barrier of communication present.
I think for me, though, my favourite is still Ico. From the music to the atmosphere to the gameplay.
It's also that there were times, when playing The Last Guardian, I found myself trying to do things I found counter-intuitive as a last resort only to find that that was what I needed to do. I was in the habit of exploring every last avenue before traipsing into an obvious ambush, or do pretty much anything that any reasonable person would expect would get themselves killed, or at best end in failure to avoid getting killed in already tense situations. There are these areas in the game that communicate great danger very clearly, which is both a good thing and a bad thing I find. I think these moments were relatively few, but they stick out, and it seems to me that they could have modified those set pieces to situations where what you needed to do seemed implausible and dangerous while still being clearly the only path forward, to convey what they meant to convey. Or at least make the alternative paths seem less plausible by comparison.
The game shows a fantastic effort and there are moments that really did work notwithstanding anything I just said, and I definitely look forward to whatever they do next.
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« Reply #3626 on: 10 October 2018, 18:53:30 » |
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Mother 3 is solid. It's good to see cult classics like the Mother series returning in popularity. I managed to play it about a year ago through, well.... unconventional methods. The rhythm-combo feature is a nice touch and the story is far more grim than it's predecessor. Here's to hoping Nintendo decides to release a Western version and/or an Earthbound re-release in the near future, as SNES copies of Earthbound are ridiculously priced through eBay... A 4th game seems as unlikely as a new F-Zero, but the fan-made Mother 4 looks to have the same charm as the other games. Sadly, there hasn't been any news in over 2 years. My guess is Nintendo dropped in to shut down the project... similar to how they handled AM2R and that Pokemon game creator program.
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« Reply #3634 on: 12 November 2018, 07:37:58 » |
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I think right now I'm mostly just looking for something action RPG-ish that isn't a Souls game. I may get Skyrim for Switch because I still haven't really played that.
You might want to check out Hollow Knight.
It's an excellent game in it's own right, but it definitely has some dark-souls esque bosses and the rest of it is melee metroidvania. I put like 30 hours into it, loved it.
And all DLC is free and there's still more to come. One of my games of the year, 2017, easy.
So I avoided this one at first because mainly I didn't want something Dark-Souls esque in any sort of way, call it fatigue, but I must say... this game is fantastic. I love the idea of old fantasy world mixed with an intelligent society of arthropods, which also happens to fit in perfectly with the ant farm style of world navigation and level design. I think that alone was a stroke of genius. It also has that way of bringing in the lore parts of Dark Souls and even though that lore is outright derivative in some parts, it shows that what some people really absolutely love about Dark Souls can be repackaged in a way that has intuitive design and fun, really well-balanced gameplay. I'd probably compare the game more to Castlevania's DS titles but I'm having much more fun with it than I do with Castlevania. I'm not finished the game yet but I just discovered an area that reminds me of the feeling I got when I discovered Anor Londo for the first time. Or for those who haven't played Dark Souls I could say... Hollow Bastion in Kingdom Hearts? The ambience and music works so well, too. I'm considering either Hyper Light Drifter or Blossom Tales afterwards.
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