Games completed 2017

[Alex79]

JAN - Little Big Planet Vita (PS Vita)
JAN - Everybody's Gone To The Rapture (PS4)
JAN - Day Of The Tentacle Remastered (PS Vita)
JAN - Hidden My Game By Mom (Android)
FEB - Trials Fusion (PS4)
FEB - Life Is Strange (PS4)
MAR - ABZÛ (PS4)
MAR - Bloodborne (PS4)
APR - Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS4)
MAY - Salt & Sanctuary (PS Vita)
MAY - Yakuza 0 (PS4)
JUL - Grand Theft Auto V (PS4)
JUL - World Of Goo (iOS)

AUG - Killzone Mercenary (PS Vita)

As a technical feat, this is a really impressive game and goes to show just what the Vita was (is) capable of, and what a shame there wasn't more stuff of this production value on it.

Unfortunately from a gameplay point of view, it's a Killzone game, and as such as bland as plain noodles on dry toast. It's not that it's a bad game. It's a perfectly competent shooter. It's just so uninspired and boring. There wasn't a single stand out moment amongst the handful of missions in which you kill every identikit enemy you encounter and find the exit. I've played a couple of the Killzone games before, and if you enjoyed them or are desperate to play an FPS on a handheld then you might get something out of this (and after all, it doesn't really have any strong competition on the Vita) but if you're a fan of having fun, probably give it a miss.

Three word review (for the hell of it): Socks for Christmas.

[DomsBeard]

Spoiler: show

18th January Infinite Warfare Xbox One[/b]

Easily my favourite Call Of Duty Campaign I've played (FYI I have not played Black OPs 2 or 3). Great fun for a franchise that isn't usually my cup of tea.

23rd Jan

The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 2

Brilliant however I do feel that my decisions are based on my previous experiences with Clem which are not relevant here. If you've played it you'll know what I mean. But it is fantastic.

The Bunker

Probably the worst game I have played this gen. Awful, awful game. I can only best describe it as a videogame made by people who have never played videogames. Everything about it was bad. Infuriating controls, instafail sections that were pure luck that you passed. I wouldn't even recommend downloading it when it appears on PS+ or Games With Gold.

Would be a great Cane And Rinse Episode though

Resident Evil 7 Playstation 4

Really enjoy it and would recommend

17th Feb Doom Xbox One

Solid 8/10 for me. It outstayed its welcome but was fun none the less

Bioshock Remastered PS4

Glad I've finally ticked this off my pile of shame after all these years. The last boss reminded me of Metroid Primes final boss for some reason. Looking forward to listening to the show now.

March 3Rd

Batman Arkham VR

Very good, just wish there was more of it!

Rez Infinite PSVR

Acts 1-4 were amazing but I thought 5 was a bit of a let down. I obviously miss the point of it somehow

Area X is absolutely amazing though and apart from a bit in Arkham my highlight of PSVR so far. Would love a game based on Area X


The Walking Dead The New Frontier Season 3 Episode 3.

Quite disappointed in this episode I have to say. There was great momentum, cast and story built up in the two episodes previous and an excellent cliff hanger which fizzles out in episode 3. I was most annoyed about a character becoming pissed off with me when I killed someone instead of letting them turn


The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 4

Telltale have lost the plot this series. Some of the choices in this episode are absolutely ridiculous, I actually let one run out as I didn't feel able to make it leading to a game over screen. I'm happy to be proved wrong but I'm pretty sure they've never tied that to a major decision before?, mind you I have always never shied from making any decisions. Clementine might as well not be there and one scene with her left me scratching my head as the way she acts in that is something that ''my'' Clementine would never even think about let alone want to do what is discussed.


What Remains Of Edith Finch

An interesting "game", I enjoyed it in parts but also had a few questions left at the end of it. I think I'd better play Gone Home now for some kind of comparison.


Gone Home

It was alright, I've preferred What Remains Of Edith Finch and Virginia to be honest. I'll download the show now.


Injustice 2 PS4

Jolly good fun. I enjoyed the story in 1 more but that doesn't mean I'm saying this has a bad story. Combat is better than 1, looking forward to seeing what the extra stuff involves and deciding who to use online.


May 30th The Walking Dead Season 3 Episode 5

Dreadful end to a really, really disappointing season. I have no idea what Telltale were thinking during this season it has been all over the place. The first two episodes they released back to back were excellent but it just goes to pieces in episode 3. Real shame as there were some good characters in there. I would not recommend unless cheap and I'm a huge fan of season 1 and 2. There will be a season 4 and I won't be rushing to pick this up like I have every season so far.

There was no point Clem being in it at all being brutally honest. Her story ark doesn't even get resolved. Annoyed!
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August 1st Horizon Zero Dawn.

My game of the year so far. Not played anything else really since picking it up. Amazing. Looking forward to the DLC now.
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AUGUST 11TH UNTIL DAWN

Great fun. I replayed the final chapter again to get the ''best'' ending I'll pop more details in the thread. Recommend

[Bakers_12]

20/1 Uncharted 4 - Moderate
20/2 Deus EX: Mankind
17/3 The Last Gaurdian
23/3 Grim Fandango
June Tales from the Borderlands
26/6 Life is strange
3/7 Shadowrun returns iO
13/7 Horizen : Zero dawn
29/7 Until dawn

11/8 Telltales Game of Thrones

On paper Telltales Game of Thrones should really work well. A game that main gameplay is choosing what to say should fit the political & tactical backstabbing of the source material, but it falls short for me.

1. Any knowledge of the show/books story lines can cloud you decision making when dealing with characters from the show.
2. I felt the story mirrored that of the Starks to much.
3. One of GOT big M.O.s is shock deaths of main characters, I felt that any deaths in the game where unavoidable and set ( though I have just finished until dawn and is death system would be so much better in this game)
4. I just think the art style just does not work for it! GOT is a very gritty fantasy world and the strange watercolouresqe backgrounds and cartoony inhabitant just don't sit well with me.

[Indiana747]

(Jan) Quantum Break - XB1.
(Jan) Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag - PS4.
(Jan) Adr1ft - PS4.
(Jan) Dear Esther - PS4.
(Jan) Virginia - PS4. (platinum).
(Jan) The London Heist - PSVR
(Feb) Flashback(2013) - PSN.
(Feb) Rain - PSN.
(Feb) Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light - PSN.
(Feb) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - PS3.
(Feb) Far Cry Primal - PS4.
(Feb) Bayonetta 2 - WiiU.
(Feb) Sniper Elite 3 - PS4.
(Mar) Life is Strange - PS4.
(Mar) Nier Automata - PS4.
(Mar) Halo 2:Anniversary - XB1.
(Mar) Guns, Gore & Canoli - PS4.
(Apr) Alien Breed Ep.3:Descent - Xbox 360.
(Apr) Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4.
(May) Battleborn - PS4.
(May) Diablo 3:RoS - PS4.
(May) Deadpool - PS4.
(May) The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - PS4.
(June) Killing Floor 2 - PS4.
(June) Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - PS4.
(June) Mass Effect:Andromeda - PS4.
(June) Nex Machina - PS4.
(July) Rise of the Tomb Raider - PS4.
(Aug) Zombi - PS4.

[Todinho]

Hollow Knight(PC)- Ok first things first this is far from a perfect game and I have alot of problems with it, one I hate this convoluted map system where you cant map areas unless you buy an item for it and where you have to find an NPC in every area even after having said item to have the map and I hate that you have to buy and equip a charm just to be able to tell where you are on the map, this didnt add anything to the game for me other then frustration, second this game love giving you plataforming challenges which would be fine if it wasnt for it's crap checkpointing and the lives system, you can only take 5 hits until you're dead and this extends to the plataforming, 5 hits and you die and it's all the way back to the last bench and you have to try the whole thing all over again from the beginning which is incredibly frustrating especially in an area later that's just a plataforming challenge on Meat boy levels of hard, thank god I had charms that mitigated that otherwise I wouldnt be able to beat it but those are hidden and I can easilly see people getting to that level without those charms and then it's welcome hell. Third the economy in this game is not very well thought out, like in dark souls you collect money from killing enemies and lose that currency when you die but unlike dark souls you cant really invest in level ups, the only thing you can use that money on is buying stuff from shopkeepers at first everthing will seem too expensive but but by the halfway point of the game I had already bought almost everything the shops had, then I just kept walking around with bags of money because I had nowhere to spend that on, Shovel Knight had a similar problems but here it's far worse, lastlly I ironically encountered quite a few bugs in my time with the game including one where the final boss simply disappeared and left me alone in the arena making me reload the game,with all of this I find the claims that this is some sort of flawless masterpiece a bit exaggerated.

All this being said this is hands down the best 2D metroidvania game I played since Symphony of the Night, much like Dark souls 1 which has many flaws the qualities of Hollow Knight far surpass it's few problems, first I have to once again mention the artstyle because it quickly became one of my favorite game aesthetics, it manages to be bleak and sad but at the same time cute, it's really amazing and it's something perfectly ilustrated by the main character. Also even though the map was a pain in the ass exploring the world was a joy, especially since the devs had a dark souls level of attention to detail in designing these areas, I was always plesantly surprised by how the areas connected and how there were multiple ways to progress through the game, also alot of stuff is hidden I mean many abilities that you'd think were mandatory to finnish the game are actually optional as are most of the bosses in fact there a very few that you have to fight to beat the game but there's a bunch of them if you go look for it. Which brings me to the combat that is really fun and challenging, at first it seems quite simple and it kinda of is but it still has a depth to it having to time your attacks well,avoid enemy paterns and manage your soul meter, all of that is made more interesting with the addition to the charms which are maybe my favorite part of the combat because they act like Binding of Isaac itens in that they arent just stat upgrades they are modifiers that change how you play,for instance there's one that every time you take damage you deal an AoE attack around you damaging whatever is near, or another that everytime you heal leaves a toxic cloud that deals damage over time to enemies( loved that one) and there also ones that increase the range of your slash or increase your life. None of them is really boring though and all can be usefull but since you can only equip a limited amount it becomes this game of trying to figure out the best charm combination for you to succeed.

My favorite part of the game though has to be the world( the game has something that I adore which is the concept of a little town on top of a massive dungeon underneath where you explore that place and come back up, this is literally my favorite thing about diablo so I love it here too XD), I hate to keep bringing this up but this really is dark souls levels of quality in world building, it really is that good and to compare it to Hyper Light drifter that I recently completed and complained about it's super vague story, Hollow Knight isnt heavy on exposition either but first of all it has text that you can understand that gives you clues at what's happening and that you can piece together what's going on, also it has characters that are likeable, that you can understand and have character arcs so even if you dont get the story of the world these characters help you pull you in regardless I think, also while the greater lore of the world(like in dark souls) is shrouded in mystery and you have to dig in and theorize the main story is actually pretty simple and understandable, even if you dont understand it while playing it once you've beaten it things will click and you get alot more if you go for the true ending. So Hollow Knight does vagueness right in which if you are interested by the story you can explore more and uncover more of the story and lore if you want, unlike Hyper Light drifter and every other indie game where you're left with nothing. Also not to further beat on a dead horse but I have to say that this game succeds where Dark souls 2 failed when it comes to it's implementation of memories into the plot and gameplay it's way better integrated here and it's also way more compelling. Also as you'd expect the soundtrack is great.

So yeah it's not a perfect game but it's bloody amazing and honestly everyone should try it be you a fan of dark souls style games or just metroid games , there'll be something here for you to like.

[Flabyo]

Jan 1st - Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)
Jan 8th - Shantae: Half-genie hero (XBO)
Feb 1st - Tales from the Borderlands (XBO)
Feb 6th - Stories: The Path of Destinies (PS4)
Mar 19th - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
Apr 2nd - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4)
Apr 17th - Ryse: Son of Rome (XBO)
Apr 25th - The Sexy Brutale (XBO)
May 13th - Borderlands 2 (360)
May 21st - The Witness (XBO)
May 25th - Injustice 2 : story mode, all paths (PS4)
July 17th - Horizon : Zero Dawn (PS4)
August 7th - Splatoon 2 : Campaign (Switch)

August 12th - For Honor : Campaign (XBO)

Free to play this weekend for Gold subscribers, so I figured I’d give the campaign a play through. It’s good, but far too obviously meant as a light introduction to the games mechanics ahead of you putting time into multiplayer. It has some great moments, but never quite let’s it’s characters develop properly. Ends just as it’s starting to get good as well, which is a shame.

Given I’m still not overly fond of the multiplayer in it (I was in both the closed and open beta, which put me off buying it in the first place), I think I would’ve preferred them to put all the effort into the campaign, but I doubt that was ever even on the table.

[Stanshall]

Todinho, great post, thanks. Very much looking forward to the Switch release of Hollow Knight before I jump in.

[seansthomas]

I’d defintely suggest you play the first games campaign if you still have it around, you’ll see many of the same ideas but it just seems to hang together better. And the final boss is so much more of a proper climax to the mode.

The octoling levels are all based on ones from multiplayer, which was the case in the first game too. But I think the levels here have way more vertical movement in them than those in the first game, which hurts the octolings as their AI doesn’t know how to use ink to climb.

Yeah the first games solo campaign felt almost as joyful as Mario Galaxy. This seems slicker and set up for speed run replays but hasn't been half as fun.

[Scrustle]

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05/01 - Forza Horizon 3: Blizzard Mountain
15/01 - Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
17/01 - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
25/01 - The Unfinished Swan
29/01 - Folklore
31/01 - Doom (Hurt Me Plenty)
04/02 - Gravity Rush 2
26/02 - Unravel
14/03 - Nier: Automata (Ending A)
20/03 - Nier: Automata (Ending B)
21/03 - Gravity Rush 2: Raven's Choice
24/03 - Nier: Automata (Ending C)
25/03 - Nier: Automata (Ending D)
25/03 - Nier: Automata (Ending E)
22/04 - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
27/04 - Dark Souls 3: The Ringed City (NG+ level)
28/04 - Kamiko
05/05 - The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone
06/05 - Yakuza 0
09/05 - Forza Motorsport 6: Porsche Anthology
12/05 - Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels
19/05 - Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (150cc)
01/06 - Rime
18/06 - Final Fantasy XV
03/07 - Stories: The Path of Destinies
25/07 - Splatoon 2 (Hero Mode)
31/07 - The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine

13/08 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

Wow, what a game! I am totally blown away by this. Ninja Theory really knocked it out of the park. Just amazing. An incredibly powerful and intimate look in to the mind of a character with psychosis. Done in such a way that really gets under your skin. It really envelopes you in to the mental word that Senua lives in. They do some very cool stuff with visuals and hallucinations, but the highlight is the audio design. The voices you hear all really feel like they're really in your head, with them having a range of different personalities that makes the experience feel very authentic. It's the major contributor to the atmosphere of the game which is top notch. Very surreal, unnerving, scary, but also fascinating and even beautiful sometimes.

Gameplay is also very well done, but it's not going to blow any minds like the presentation is. The combat is pretty simple, and there isn't a huge amount of variety to it. But it flows well and is pretty fast paced, at least considering the close and somewhat claustrophobic view you get on the action. But it feels very good with nice audiovisual design, and contributes well to the tense and intimate feel of the game. There's also quite a lot of the game without much combat at all. A lot of it is exploration, albeit down a very narrow path, as you solve simple puzzles by interacting with hallucinations in the environment. So those slower moments pace out the combat and make sure it doesn't outstay its welcome.

Overall a great experience. Even if the combat is kind of basic, I can't really think of anything to criticise. Everything about the game is basically exactly what it needed to be. As I've said before, this game is almost as much of a horror game as an action game. And as the game suggests as well, I highly recommend playing this game with headphones. It's quite the experience.

And a slight note on the permadeath thing, sort of. I actually only ended up dying once in the game, from combat at least. I think I died one other time to an environmental hazard. I wasn't actually sure whether I was dying or not through the game, as you fall down when you're close to death during fights. Wasn't sure if that was technically a "death" or not. That was until one time when I did outright die and had to go back to the last checkpoint. Yet through the game the darkness creeps up your arm anyway, at certain beats of the story. So they probably fudge things a bit with how many deaths it actually takes to end your game, but I'm confident that I was more or less as far from it as I could have been.

[Alex79]

I read all that stuff about Hollow Knight and got excited thinking it was the recent update to Shovel Knight, which of course it's not.

[ratsoalbion]

It's a very cool game in its own right though.

[ratsoalbion]

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19 Jan: Contra (arcade on PS4)
19 Jan: Contra (arcade on 360)
19 Jan: Super Contra (arcade on 360)
19 Jan: Street Fighter III: Third Strike Online Edition (360)
07 Feb: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Wii on Wii U)
01 Mar: The Little Acre (PC)
12 Mar: Chibi-Robo! (GC)
26 Mar: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4)
09 Apr: Gone Home: Console Edition (PS4)
16 Jun: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (PC)
18 Jun: Nex Machina (PS4)
12 Jul: Puyo Puyo Tetris (NS)
29 Jul: FIFA 17: The Journey (XO)
01 Aug: Life Is Strange (PS4)
03 Aug: What Remains of Edith Finch (PS4)

13 Aug: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Enhanced Edition (PC)
We gonna do a podcast innit.

[kintaris]

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08 Jan: Crypt of the Serpent King (Xbox One, review copy, 100% achievements, one of the worst game's I've ever played)
19 Jan: Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
26 Jan: Dear Esther: Landmark Edition (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
26 Jan: Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
29 Jan: METRICO+ (Xbox One, review copy)
25 Feb: Spheroids (Xbox One, review copy, 100% achievements)
26 Feb: The Swapper (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
27 Feb: Contrast (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
3 Mar: Ghost Blade HD (Xbox One, review copy. Hard mode complete.)
11 Mar: Defense Grid 2 (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
11 Mar: 2Dark (Xbox One, review copy)
11 Mar: Sky Force Anniversary (Xbox One, all but one achievement - too grindy)
16 Mar: Sublevel Zero Redux (Xbox One, review copy - easy campaign completion only)
18 Mar: Death Squared (Xbox One, review copy)
6 Apr: Thimbleweed Park (Xbox One, review copy)
17 Apr: Mass Effect 3 (360 on Xbox One - returned for Omega & Citadel DLCs, plus Insanity run and 100% achievements)
28 Apr: Hitman GO (Windows Phone, 100% achievements)
8 Jun: LEGO Marvel Superheroes (Xbox One)
11 Jun: Beautiful Katamari (Xbox 360)
18 Jun: Sunset Overdrive (Xbox One)
12 Jul: Shadow of Mordor (Xbox One, including DLC)
13 Jul: ABZU (Xbox One, 100% achievements)
18 Jul: Picross 3D Round 2 (3DS)
18 Jul: Pac-Man Championship Edition DX+ (Xbox 360 - 100% achievements)
20 Jul: The Room and The Room Two (Android)
26 Jul: The Room Three (Android)
27 Jul: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition (Xbox One - 100% achievements)

12 Aug: Aaero (Xbox One, Standard mode complete)

"Completed" is a very strong word here, given that I've only finished the easiest setting and haven't even got 5-stars across the board there. It's a fairly engaging rhythm-based rail shooter, but frankly I could have done without the shooting part and instead focused on keeping on the rails. I think there still could have been enemies of a sort, but it would have been better if it was just about dodging them while keeping the beat. Shooting with the right stick just didn't always feel right. It's also pretty crap that the tutorial doesn't mention that the shots fire on the beat, and it's also not cool that your shooting reticule and the incoming missiles are both red. I'm not even colorblind and it's difficult enough to see what's happening - I can imagine it's nearly impossible to play if you have that condition.

Still, it has a beat and you can dance to it. The game doesn't really come into its own until the advanced setting though - it would have been nice to have been able to jump up to the next difficulty as soon as all levels were cleared rather than having to grind for 90% stars. Sometimes I find it easier to go back and get a perfect run on an easier difficulty once I've had a taste of a harder one (Super Hexagon, for example).

13 Aug - Burrito Bison: Launcha Libre (Android)

I've "Completed" this as much as I can be bothered to. There's a level of entertainment and skill on par with perhaps Jetpack Joyride, but unfortunately it eventually falls into the latest trend with mobile "clicker" games of pretty much new-game-plussing with buffs in order to continue to progress. Even worse, I found that some of the upgrades eventually made the game more difficult because of some poor balancing - you effectively become too fast and bounce too high to have any meaningful control over your run once you hit the upper levels of your upgrade. When I hit the first opportunity to reset the game, I figured I'd seen enough. A reasonable distraction but honestly life is too short to waste any more time on it.

13 Aug - Life is Strange (Xbox One - 100% achievements)

I played through this because Cane and Rinse just covered it and TrueAchievements are playing it this month for their Playlist podcast (they've featured my fairly negative opinions on nearly every episode so far!) Honestly, I don't know how I feel about LiS yet. It's definitely not the train wreck half of my acquaintances claim it to be, but it's not the show-stopping classic that the other half propose either. I'll probably leave a few thoughts in the podcast thread once I've digested it more. I have decided though that the problem with the dialogue isn't the teenspeak - it's actually just the stilted, unrealistic conversations at every turn, no matter the age of the person talking. Not every sentence needs to contain a cliched idiom of some sort, guys. Rein it in. It sounded like the screenplays I wrote at university, and I'm a systems administrator now...

[ratsoalbion]

It sounded like the screenplays I wrote at university, and I'm a systems administrator now...

Nice burn on both yourself and the game there!

I too ended up 'somewhere in the middle' with LIS, having completed it after the podcast was released.
Plenty of blatant criticisms that I could level at it, but also there were elements that I enjoyed and even admired.

[Indiana747]

(Jan) Quantum Break - XB1.
(Jan) Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag - PS4.
(Jan) Adr1ft - PS4.
(Jan) Dear Esther - PS4.
(Jan) Virginia - PS4. (platinum).
(Jan) The London Heist - PSVR
(Feb) Flashback(2013) - PSN.
(Feb) Rain - PSN.
(Feb) Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light - PSN.
(Feb) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II - PS3.
(Feb) Far Cry Primal - PS4.
(Feb) Bayonetta 2 - WiiU.
(Feb) Sniper Elite 3 - PS4.
(Mar) Life is Strange - PS4.
(Mar) Nier Automata - PS4.
(Mar) Halo 2:Anniversary - XB1.
(Mar) Guns, Gore & Canoli - PS4.
(Apr) Alien Breed Ep.3:Descent - Xbox 360.
(Apr) Horizon Zero Dawn - PS4.
(May) Battleborn - PS4.
(May) Diablo 3:RoS - PS4.
(May) Deadpool - PS4.
(May) The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing - PS4.
(June) Killing Floor 2 - PS4.
(June) Mirror's Edge: Catalyst - PS4.
(June) Mass Effect:Andromeda - PS4.
(June) Nex Machina - PS4.
(July) Rise of the Tomb Raider - PS4.
(Aug) Zombi - PS4.
(Aug) Injustice:Gods Among Us -PS4

[Chopper]

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (PS4)

Don't have a lot to add to Scrustle's excellent breakdown above.

I died exponentially more times than he did, and I can say that people not considering the game due to loss of save should set their minds at rest.

There is one fight that (unless I've misunderstood it) relies on the player dodging attacks based on sound cues, which I think would block progress for deaf or hard of hearing gamers. Now I think of that, the game would be a totally different experience with subtitles, and probably wouldn't work at all. That said, by the nature of the game , there's probably not a lot they could do about that. Though the sound-based fight was annoying.

I could have done with the number of enemies in the mook fights having been reduced by about a third too. They dragged on a little long for my taste.

Finally, I never knew the Orkney Picts spoke BBC English. You live and learn!

[Flabyo]

Jan 1st - Gravity Rush Remastered (PS4)
Jan 8th - Shantae: Half-genie hero (XBO)
Feb 1st - Tales from the Borderlands (XBO)
Feb 6th - Stories: The Path of Destinies (PS4)
Mar 19th - The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (WiiU)
Apr 2nd - Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (PS4)
Apr 17th - Ryse: Son of Rome (XBO)
Apr 25th - The Sexy Brutale (XBO)
May 13th - Borderlands 2 (360)
May 21st - The Witness (XBO)
May 25th - Injustice 2 : story mode, all paths (PS4)
July 17th - Horizon : Zero Dawn (PS4)
August 7th - Splatoon 2 : Campaign (Switch)
August 12th - For Honor : Campaign (XBO)

August 14th - Attack on Titan : Wings of Freedom (XBO)

I actually finished the basic story mode of this months ago, which covers season one of the anime, but there’s a bonus chapter that teases season 2 that you unlock by grinding the games ‘free’ mode and I wanted to do that too.

I’m glad I did, the final mission of the bonus chapter is more crazy and fun than anything in the basic story mode. So with the credits rolled for a second time I think I’m going to call this one done. I still have about 10 more missions to do in the free mode, but I’ve unlocked everything there is to unlock so that would just be achievements to go for now.

Really enjoyed it. It doesn’t play like a Warriors game but it has most of the same structure and basic feel of those games. It really nails the traversal, which is the main thing from the anime they had to get right really (there are other AoT games, but none of them get that bit right, they don’t get it should be the main focus of the game).

[arry_g]

Due to a series of dramas, illnesses and work commitments. My list (that I have maintained since I was 7 until last year) is no longer maintained. Still, games I have completed so far this month include:

As speed runs:
Pokémon Blue - 1h 59m
Pokémon Red - 1h 57m
Pokémon Yellow - 1h 52m
Pokémon Black - 4h 39m
Pokémon White - 4h 52m

Normally:
Pokémon Sun
The Evil Within
Prey

[PressEscToExit]

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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4)
VVVVVV (PC)
Rise of the Tomb Raider (PS4)
Life is Strange (PS4)
Little Big Planet 3 (PS4)
Ratchet & Clank (PS4)
Earth Defense Force 4.1 (PS4)
DRIVECLUB (PS4)
Bloodborne (PS4)
Batman: Arkham Knight (PS4)
Transformers: Devastation (PS4)
Wolfenstein: The New Order (PS4)
Ghost Blade HD (PS4)
Until Dawn (PS4)
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty (PS4)

ABZÛ (PS4)

I finished this late last night - headphones on, lights off. Journey is still the standard bearer for This Type Of Game, but even if it can't quite match the emotional resonance of TGS at their best, there are moments here that match or possibly surpass it in terms of sheer audiovisual spectacle. In particular,

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the massive swirling shoal of fish whipped up by the hunting icthyosaurs, and the breaching blue whale

. I'll likely play it again in a year or so - I'm such a sucker for underwater exploration in games, and this is probably the slickest and most graceful implementation of underwater movement I've seen. Structurally it borrows so comprehensively from That Game Studio's playbook that it's a little jarring, but they did a great job of using that framework to provide an affecting and absorbing experience nonetheless.

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