Roy42 wrote:What class are you, Scrustle?
If you really want to kill the Taurus Demon quickly:
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- Buy the residence key from the merchant, unless you have the master key. Near the set of stairs that leads to the black knight, you can see a chest. Go to the house that leads to it and take the gold pine resin from that chest. Go into the boss area, kill the two archers on the tower, get close to where the demon appears and apply the resin. Get on top of the tower, then do a jumping attack off of the edge. You will do the damage of a plunging attack plus the damage of a jumping attack, both of which will be increased with lightning damage. If it's still alive, hit it a few more times before it fully recovers.
I'm just a normal fighter. Didn't want to get too crazy with my first go at the game. Thanks for the tips though. I'll try that out. What do you mean by the "black knight" though? I don't think I've seen any enemy that stands out as being that, unless you just mean the guys with shields. There's a lot of those though. I have noticed a chest that's out the back of one of the houses, but I couldn't figure out how to get to it. Could that the one you mean?
Anyway, today I decided to go buy Strider since I finished Dust. Loving it already. I was really surprised how quickly it throws you in to the actual game. It's literally like 5 seconds from pressing "Start Game" to when you're on the ground cutting through people. The other day I was watching the Giant Bomb video on the old NES version of the game (which this new one is supposed to be a remake of, although it takes cues from the arcade version too, apparently) and that game had way more set-up and story before you got in to the action. It's unbelievable that a 2014 remake of a 25 year old game would make the original look like it's filled with pointless fluff at the start. It's really refreshing actually, although I would like to have at least some context for what the hell is going on, not that it really matters too much in a game like this. The bonus "story" stuff I've unlocked so far doesn't seem to explain anything about why I'm in this place or who I'm fighting at all.
But I'm loving how the game plays. So fast and smooth! Your sword swings literally as fast as you can press the button. It's instant. It's feels really good too. It has a nice sharp sense of impact. Almost like how the best Japanese action games tend to do. There's a lot of freedom of movement as well too. You can go anywhere, and go there fast. You can attack at all angles and pull off all kinds of crazy acrobatic stuff. And that's right at the beginning before I've unlocked anything too! Visually it looks cool too. I like the subtle retro look they've gone for with it. There's something about the lighting which I can't put my finger on which makes it look kind of 80s. I like the cool subtle scan line filter effect it has too. It helps give that kind of 80s vision of the future, that the original was too I suppose.
Also, has anyone else who has this game noticed how big it is memory-wise? I'm playing on XB1, and although I knew the current gen versions have some slightly more flashy visual effects, I was quite surprised to see how large the file was. Just over 3GB. That struck me as being pretty huge for what the game is. Is it the same on the old consoles, or have they just coded the ports of new console versions badly because they know they can get away with it?
I've found it strange how lately I've been getting quite in to the Metroidvania genre, yet I've had real trouble getting on with the games that are the genre's namesake. I can see why SotN and Super Metroid are well loved and influential games, but these more modern games just have so much more versatile and intuitive controls and movement. Games like Strider and Dust for example, as well as Muramasa, and I suppose to a certain extent Mirror of Fate and Lords of Shadow 2 as well.
Also played a bit more of Fable Anniversary today. I think that game has aged after all. I used to think it stood up pretty well, because I gave the original another playthrough, or partial playthrough, a few years ago. It still felt pretty good to me then. Not sure why I thought that, but playing this new version made me realise that actually it isn't as timeless as I thought it was. Although it still controls a whole lot better than Fable 2, it does feel quite clunky now. Voice acting isn't great either. The start of the game, even beyond the childhood stuff, is pretty tedious too. And as I've mentioned before, this remake has its own problems as well. Graphics may be better than the original, but by modern standards they're actually not very good. The game has some serious stability issues too. I'm guessing that's why the game was delayed; because they had problems getting it to run properly. They didn't manage to fix it completely though, it seems. There's the awful pop-in, and the slow menus, as well as the fact the game crashes really frequently. It's pretty poor.
The character models can look really disturbing sometimes too. For example there's one character specifically that really makes my skin crawl. It's the little girl who wants you to find her teddy bear at the start when you're still a child. She has these really disgusting bulging eyes, which have this glazed over, completely lifeless look to them. Then there's a point in the game when you first get back to Oakvale as an adult and you see her, which causes a flashback to the night when the town got raided and burnt down. While she's talking to you and you get the flashback, you see her character model revert back to her child self, and the town appears to be burning again. Seeing the flickering red of the flames reflecting in those horrible, dead eyes was fucking terrifying. Someone needs to make a gif of that or something. People need to see that horror.
I'm not hating my experience with it though. I guess a lot of that is nostalgia, because if the series had never existed before now and this was the first installment, I would probably think it was crap. It probably wouldn't have been received anywhere as well by critics as it has been too. Not that it exactly got glowing reviews as it is. I suppose it's still got a certain charm to it though, and it's more or less competent as a game, even with its problems.
),but all you need to do is go to youtube or a Forum and you'll see tons of stuff like that,is the amount inferior to those of movies and other media?Well I dont know but I'd guess it probably is but that's also because those have been around much longer and only recently more people have started to take games seriously enough to make this type of content,maybe It's just me but all I seem to hear is how everything having to do with games is worse than in other things or it's just terrible or how it needs huge improvements be it critique,representation,stories or whatever but considering what the game's industry is and where it came from I think the legwork done so far it's pretty impressive,I think there was a slight regression in this generation but that's beside the point,I mean I dont wanna say that people shouldnt try to make things better but to keep hearing only negativity is really sad.
