Jan - Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3)
Jan - Escape Plan (Vita)
Jan - That Dragon, Cancer (Mac)
Jan - That Dragon, Cancer (Mac)
Just beat this game and it took me about two hours. It's not as complete a package as something like Gone Home, but the rough edges make it so the emotional parts that hit you are devastating. It's not perfect, but I'd definitely recommend it (I'd also recommend playing this alone and having a VERY stiff drink to get you through some parts of it).
Overall I loved this, the plot and the ideas it put forward really stuck with me. Some of the gameplay though with the monsters I thought was pretty dire and an unnecessary hurdle.
Jan - Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3)
Jan - Escape Plan (Vita)
Jan - That Dragon, Cancer (Mac)
Jan - Super Time Force Ultra (Vita)
Jan - Super Time Force Ultra (Vita)
I ended up REALLY enjoying this game by the end. I almost stopped playing it after two hours because I found it very frustrating, but I gave it a second shot with some advice from Todinho and some tips I found online. I think the gameplay in this game is inventive, clever and really fun, but I think the game is pretty bad at showing you how to find that fun.
I was playing it as a traditional Contra / Metal Slug game and that's not a fun way to play it. I would die, rewind time to right before I died and then try to keep going. I think that's how the tutorial leads you to play it, but you die so often that it gets frustrating. The advice I found online that turned this from a frustrating game to one of the most exciting indie games I've played in years is that when you die, you should rewind back to the beginning of the level. You won't get very far in your first couple lives, but as your characters continue stacking, the screen starts filling with bullets from all of your characters and it begins to look like the end of a Super Meat Boy level, only you're playing it instead of just watching it. If anyone else gave up on this game, I'd highly recommend giving it a second chance.
Jan 2 - Fallout 4
Jan 3 - Assassins Creed Syndicate
Jan 5 - Gunpoint
Jan 7 - CoD - Advanced Warfare campaign
Jan 15 - Mad Max
Jan 16 - Saints Row IV - Gat out of Hell
Jan 20 - Transistor (and now Im humming mmmmm)
10/01 - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt (PC)
10/01 - Flow (2012) (Android)
11/01 - Asterix (1993) (SNES)
14/01 - Assault Android Cactus (PC)
14/01 - A Bird Story (PC)
15/01 - Home (PC)
15/01 - Looney Tunes: Road Runner's Death Valley Rally (SNES)
16/01 - Ikaruga (PC) [Arcade Mode, Easy]
17/01 - Nidhogg (PC) [Single Player]
18/01 - Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (PC)
18/01 - Samorost 2 (PC)
18/01 - Shelter (PC)
18/01 - Super Crate Box (PC) [10 crates on all three levels]
18/01 - Waves (PC) [Challenge Mode]
18/01 - The Yawhg (PC) [One "bad" and one "good" ending]
19/01 - Another World (20th AE) (PC)
19/01 - LEGO Batman: The Videogame (PC)
20/01 - LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (PC)
21/01 - LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PC)
So, it turns out that I was about halfway through each of Batman and the Harry Potter LEGO games. Managed to steal myself to blitz through the back halves of each, by ignoring the collectibles and focussing on just completing the missions. Playing these back-to-back it's really apparent how small the increments are between each successive game. The Harry Potter games do add an open world aspect, separate from the missions and hub of previous games, in the form of Hogwarts. Despite that addition, these three make up (along with Indy 2) what I consider the back half of "generation 1" of TTs LEGO games. I've tucked into Batman 2, and the addition of speech and (some mild) camera control really sets it and the games thereafter as separate (again, just my observation).
I completed Hotel Dusk recently. I loved it, but that last scene really dragged on. They were doing a great job gradually revealing things to the player up until that last scene. It's like they weren't sure how to explain the rest of the mystery to the player, so they just had some character spell it out for you with lines and lines of dialog. Overall the game was amazing though. Great characterization, great plot, and a unique art style.
I'm still very much looking forward to playing Last Window. I hope the ending will be better.
Jan 2 - Fallout 4
Jan 3 - Assassins Creed Syndicate
Jan 5 - Gunpoint
Jan 7 - CoD - Advanced Warfare campaign
Jan 15 - Mad Max
Jan 16 - Saints Row IV - Gat out of Hell
Jan 20 - Transistor
Jan 23 - Dying Light
Jan - Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3)
Jan - Escape Plan (Vita)
Jan - That Dragon, Cancer (Mac)
Jan - Super Time Force Ultra (Vita)
Jan - Three Fourths Home (Mac)
Jan - Three Fourths Home (Mac)
Played this after hearing a couple people talking about it. It took me around an hour. The writing was really good and it dealt with some interesting themes. You play as a woman in her mid-20s who fails out of school and moves back home with her family in Nebraska. It's a visual novel with some driving mechanics. I just wish the backstory was a bit clearer or more spelled out. I think the events of the plot would have hit harder if I'd had a better idea of what was going on.
10/01 - The Witcher III: Wild Hunt (PC)
10/01 - Flow (2012) (Android)
11/01 - Asterix (1993) (SNES)
14/01 - Assault Android Cactus (PC)
14/01 - A Bird Story (PC)
15/01 - Home (PC)
15/01 - Looney Tunes: Road Runner's Death Valley Rally (SNES)
16/01 - Ikaruga (PC) [Arcade Mode, Easy]
17/01 - Nidhogg (PC) [Single Player]
18/01 - Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (PC)
18/01 - Samorost 2 (PC)
18/01 - Shelter (PC)
18/01 - Super Crate Box (PC) [10 crates on all three levels]
18/01 - Waves (PC) [Challenge Mode]
18/01 - The Yawhg (PC) [One "bad" and one "good" ending]
19/01 - Another World (20th AE) (PC)
19/01 - LEGO Batman: The Videogame (PC)
20/01 - LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (PC)
21/01 - LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7 (PC)
21/01 - LEGO Batman 2: DC Superheroes (PC)
22/01 - LEGO The Lord Of The Rings (PC)
23/01 - LEGO Marvel Super Heroes (Wii U)
24/01 - LEGO The Hobbit (PC)
I needed something to take my mind off being ill this week and the LEGO games were just the thing. Writing up my notes on these as I type this in the hope that we'll get around to covering the Traveller's Tales LEGO games on Cane And Rinse at some point in Volume 6 or beyond. Ryan and myself have played an altogether unhealthy number of the LEGO licensed property games, though both of us have yet to try the much lauded City Undercover.
03 Jan: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (NES on WU)
17 Jan: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES on WU)
24 Jan: Crash Team Racing (PS1 on Vita)
Cibelle. (Steam) Not sure many will have played or even heard of this. Not actually sure how to describe it. Maybe an interactive biography? You basically click through a few months of a young women's life and her interactions with a young man who plays the same mmo as her. Voyeuristic. Uncomfortable. And definitely not for everyone. But something that is absolutely different.
countstex wrote:Cibelle. (Steam) Not sure many will have played or even heard of this. Not actually sure how to describe it. Maybe an interactive biography? You basically click through a few months of a young women's life and her interactions with a young man who plays the same mmo as her. Voyeuristic. Uncomfortable. And definitely not for everyone. But something that is absolutely different.
Sounds very interesting, I'd like to check that out. I'd not heard of it before (sorry, Leon.... ) but I do usually enjoy this sort of thing. I'm really interested in That Dragon, Cancer too, fingers crossed here for an Android (or even Vita, although they'll almost certainly fuck the pricing up) release.
EDIT : Bizarre, I posted this reply about 5pm and it appeared in the middle of the thread and said I posted it at 9:52 am!?
Jan - Persona 4 Arena Ultimax (PS3)
Jan - Escape Plan (Vita)
Jan - That Dragon, Cancer (Mac)
Jan - Super Time Force Ultra (Vita)
Jan - Three Fourths Home (Mac)
Jan - A Bird Story (Mac)
Jan - A Bird Story (Mac)
I thought this game was unbelievably charming. There's no text used during the entire game, but they do a really good job showing the personality of the little boy protagonist who is both hilarious and clearly very lonely. It doesn't pull at the heartstrings as strongly as To the Moon, but it seems to hint that the next game will continue following this character and I'd love to see them go deeper with him.
Alex79uk wrote:I'm really interested in That Dragon, Cancer too, fingers crossed here for an Android (or even Vita, although they'll almost certainly fuck the pricing up) release.
I'm not sure what your computer situation is like, but mine is pretty weak (Macbook laptop, over five years old) and it ran That Dragon, Cancer without any problems.
We hope at least some of the community will have heard of it as we ran this review piece by Alex Maskill back in December: http://caneandrinse.com/cibele/
