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Pelican Dunderhead posted:Put in enough hours to unlock the home base. It’s Suikoden 2. These are my thoughts as well. For a game that's 90% navigating menus it's a little frustrating that everything takes so long to do, but also the people you can recruit own and the game is fun so i'm not too mad about it.
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ultrafilter posted:Another Crab's Treasure I dunno about Steam reviews but this has been gettings 8s/9s/10s from review sites. I've been following it for a while and can't wait to play it tonight. 
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Iron Pineapple played it for a bit in his soulslike video series and was: delighted.
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ultrafilter posted:SAND LAND Never so quickly and desperately searched for the Japanese voices toggle.
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New games coming thick and fast all the sudden. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1561040/Diluvian_Winds/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257017215/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1714056997 quote:Diluvian Winds is a relaxing management game set in a small hamlet at the foot of a lighthouse. Welcome weary travelers and work together to expand your hamlet on land, under the sea, or among the clouds. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817800/Oddsparks_An_Automation_Adventure/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257018291/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1713966497 quote:Oddsparks is a blend of Automation and Real Time Strategy for both the die-hard fans of the Automation genre and the Automation-curious. Explore a strange fantasy world, uncover the mysteries of the past, automate your workshops, and go on adventures with your odd & adorable Sparks! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2015270/Rotwood/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257018330/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1713979195 quote:The world has been thrown into chaos, and it's up to you and your friends to battle the corrupted beasts of the Rotwood. Upgrade your gear, choose your preferred weapon, and hone your skills to defend your safe haven. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2376270/Lunar_Lander_Beyond/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256974607/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1713889056 quote:Guide a roster of colorful pilots, eclectic advisors and state-of-the-art landers through a taxing series of missions. Deliver cargo, retrieve resources, and rescue stranded pilots as you navigate a mysterious universe of moons and planets.
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bawk posted:I dunno about Steam reviews but this has been gettings 8s/9s/10s from review sites. I've been following it for a while and can't wait to play it tonight. The aesthetic is top-notch, the music is wonderful, the enemies hit hard but the shells balance things out a fair bit, but overall... The combat feels fuckin' bad so far. Feels like a mixture of Broken Straight Sword from Dark Souls + the low-adaptability heavy roll from DS2. You have a little bit of recovery time after the roll (to discourage spamming, I'd guess) but enemies have that Elden Ring tracking thing going on. When you're attacking, you lock in the direction you're facing during the animation, but when enemies are attacking, they're pivoting to face your position. Multiple times now I've died to a basic crab because it'll do a clearly-telegraphed two-hit combo, I'll dodge through the second attack, and it'll just pivot/smack me, then hit me again while I'm mashing the dodge button to roll away. The shells are okay, but their whole gimmick is essentially Weapon Durability, so you'd think the game would encourage you to use a powerful dodge in its place. It really seems like it wants you to be using, breaking, and scrambling for shells mid-combat instead. It'll get better with level-ups + the accessibility options are plentiful, so it's not like I can't mold the game into the shape of the thing I want to play, but it's so weird to play a game in 2024 that feels so sluggish.
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another crab's treasure actively wants you to be using your shells in combat for things like parrying and absorbing blows you would likely not do well against otherwise. a successful parry doesn't use up durability for your shell and it will build up the stagger bar on the enemy. the game even directly tells you in a variety of loading tips that if you're not using your shell then you're not going to be getting everything out of combat. it punishes trying to spam the roll because it wants you to get a feel for the attacks and not just rapidly hit a button to move away. it's straight up been one of the most fun combat systems i've played in a game in a while, but you have to 100% engage it on it's terms and use the resources it gives you, such as your shells, your special abilities and barbed hooks.
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Johnny Joestar posted:another crab's treasure actively wants you to be using your shells in combat for things like parrying and absorbing blows you would likely not do well against otherwise. a successful parry doesn't use up durability for your shell and it will build up the stagger bar on the enemy. the game even directly tells you in a variety of loading tips that if you're not using your shell then you're not going to be getting everything out of combat. it punishes trying to spam the roll because it wants you to get a feel for the attacks and not just rapidly hit a button to move away. Learning what the game expected of me and using this knowledge to beat the first boss after many failed attempts (bad at games) was the most satisfying experience i’ve had in a game in a very long time.
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I think the combat is alright, a bit floaty at times and a little repetitive. Dodging is still the most powerful defensive move, at least for me, plenty of I-frames if you time it right. Just can't panic dodge. I don't understand how to parry though. I've tried blocking at the exact right time and I'm sure I've done it but it just blocks? I'm probably badly underleveled because I didn't really waste any time leveling just went straight through. As a result I turned enemy health slightly down just to make the whole thing take less time, and also turned off loss of microplastics on death for the same reason, so I could level easily without laboriously backtracking. I'm also confused where to go after killing the duchess, if someone can enlighten me that would be nice.
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Play posted:I'm also confused where to go after killing the duchess, if someone can enlighten me that would be nice. Exit the boss room and a path will open. I was confused for a while too.
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Play posted:I don't understand how to parry though. I've tried blocking at the exact right time and I'm sure I've done it but it just blocks? I'm probably badly underleveled because I didn't really waste any time leveling just went straight through. You have to release the block just before impact to parry. It's weird and I've only ever done it by accident and flubbed the riposte.
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Moonlight Pulsequote:Teamwork matters most in this seamless, fantastical metroidvania within a living, breathing world. Realize each character's true potential to take down an invading force of overwhelmingly powerful parasites. 100% out of 8. 20% launch discount. Virtua Unlimited Project quote:Virtua Unlimited Project is a 2D pixel-art style ACT game featuring VTuber characters. With classical platformer gameplay, challenging combat, and retro game feelings, VUP presents you a surreal, virtual world in which you will play as Aizawa Kana to venture and seek the truth beneath. 83% out of 37. 10% launch discount.
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LeFishy posted:You have to release the block just before impact to parry. It's weird and I've only ever done it by accident and flubbed the riposte. I looked it up though and isn't it a skill you need to unlock? Sax Battler posted:Exit the boss room and a path will open. Ah, thanks much.
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Play posted:I looked it up though and isn't it a skill you need to unlock? the parry is literally one of the first things you can unlock in the skill tree
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Johnny Joestar posted:the parry is literally one of the first things you can unlock in the skill tree All I have a shelleportation, all the rest say prerequisites not met I'm not that far in the game, obviously. Still, a parry would've been pretty nice not sure that should be in a skill tree at all
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Play posted:All I have a shelleportation, all the rest say prerequisites not met did you not talk to the moon snail again
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Johnny Joestar posted:did you not talk to the moon snail again there it is, lol. I thought I'd gone through a lot of the game with only one skill unlocked
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I beat crab souls just now. I didn’t really enjoy the combat as I could never get the parry timing and there is a lot of tracking attacks. I did enjoy the area design and the story so I would recommend for that alone. Some of the glitches are super annoying as one boss can kick you through the floor. Halo 3 sniper trauma also returned 
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Play posted:there it is, lol. I thought I'd gone through a lot of the game with only one skill unlocked yeah i'd played the demo and had gotten a feel for some of the more 'advanced' part of the toolkit, so i definitely felt the lack when starting out. it was a relief to immediately slam in the upgrades i knew i wanted.
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Nordic ashes loves to spawn hurt zones on the floor from Miniboss enemies and has a huge visibility problem even with slider settings adjusting effect visibilities so you will get hurt a lot no matter what. It's an average kinda VS clone. Good for a few hours.
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ultrafilter posted:
This game is super good, its worth mentioning its made by Level 5 (dark cloud/professor layton) and I've sadly seen almost no one talk about it. The combat is fun and arcadey, there's all sorts of loot, and customizing your mech is fun. It also has a surprisingly in depth story and rpg elements like an explorable city full of npcs, and a crapload of fully animated cutscenes. I'm liking it a lot so far and it seems to have had almost no marketing push for it. https://twitter.com/DominicTarason/status/1783314332748546454 free hubcaps fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Apr 27, 2024 |
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I wouldn't even say almost, I'd say literally zero marketing. Likely not helped due to Level 5 closing their NA branch back in 2020, but even taking that into account it's kind of insane they just dropped a major release - one that'd be potentially able to sell well at that, we're not talking pushed out the door to die - completely out of nowhere and say nothing.
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Lord Koth posted:one that'd be potentially able to sell well at that Source required on that last bit of info. Looking at the game, I would probably bounce off the demo.
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No marketing, no demo, no proper example gameplay video on the steam page. I could go looking up gameplay from the last few years of the JP-only original version, but I am incredibly lazy. 39 pieces of day 1 DLC totalling 250% base game cost. But I guess that's just the world now.
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The game is so utterly and completely unknown you can't even obtain it nautically even though it has no real DRM. Truly the most powerful anti-piracy solution of all time.
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Infinity Gaia posted:The game is so utterly and completely unknown you can't even obtain it nautically even though it has no real DRM. Truly the most powerful anti-piracy solution of all time. I'm sure it'll be around in the next couple days
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Tales from Candleforthquote:Tales from Candleforth is a folk horror 2D point and click game with puzzles and escape room mechanics, that narrates the fairy tales from the village. The text contained in this ancient and evil book is now bleeding out, mixing the world of nightmares with the real one through handmade 2D graphics. 100% out of 31. 20% launch discount.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865440/FRONT_MISSION_2_Remake/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257019516/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1714482016 quote:FRONT MISSION 2: Remake preserves the mature story, strategic turn-based combat, and Wanzer customization options of the original.
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2865440/FRONT_MISSION_2_Remake/ O sick, gonna enjoy this one! Love me a Mission on the Front. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2761610/Creator_of_Another_World/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/257002905/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1708992529 Creator of Another World. Japanese-made roguelike, seen some comparisons to Elona. Not enough reviews yet to generate a score but the two I can currently see are positive, and it's an intriguing enough idea.
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Incidentally the actual creator of "Another World" was Éric Chahi. And as to not waste posting space (or to waste posting space even more depending on how you look at it) a new game released yesterday and it may be among the most "uuuuhhhhhhhhhhh" things I have seen for sale. Spanky! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1732420/Spanky/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmzlEtI5_KU Spanky! is THE booty-physics party game that brings cheeky movement mechanics to chaos-filled party modes. Twerk online with up to 7 friends and slap some jiggly tush! Spanky! is a light-hearted multiplayer experience with humorous elements, including characters with jiggly butt physics. Have a blast, and always play responsibly and respectfully. ᵀʰᵉᶦʳ ʷᵒʳᵈˢ, ⁿᵒᵗ ᵐᶦⁿᵉ. It's trying to go for a "gender neutral" approach but I imagine it's not going to be easy keeping a low age rating for a game like this. I played a version of this at one of the Demo fests and while it's not bad I don't know if any game like this could ever catch on in the long term, but regardless if you ever wanted to get in on the ground floor while people are likely to be playing it then there is no better time than now.
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INDIKAquote:Play a third-person, story-driven game set in alternative Russia at the turn of the XIX century where religious visions clash with harsh reality. INDIKA tells the story of a young nun who sets off on a journey of self-discovery with the most unusual companion by her side, the devil himself. No reviews yet. 10% launch discount.
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Abiotic Factor released into EA https://store.steampowered.com/app/427410/Abiotic_Factor/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256996540/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1706209835
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ultrafilter posted:INDIKA 86% out of 30 as of now. I've been watching this one for a bit as the premise seems cool but will sort of see where the dust settles on how well it's executed (and I make more of a dent in my current backlog) before I jump in myself.
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ultrafilter posted:MEGATON MUSASHI W: WIRED Played this for quite a bit yesterday, and it's a very, very strange formula. I like so much of what they did but I can't look past one thing. This game is EASY. Like, insanely easy. I played for a long time hoping it would get harder, and it didn't. It's simply one of the easiest games I've ever played in my life. But in addition to that, it has some of the most expansive and complicated systems I've ever seen. Which makes it seem like it isn't, in fact, for children. So I don't really know who it's for, even if the VN elements, story, and mech customization are decent to good.
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Play posted:Played this for quite a bit yesterday, and it's a very, very strange formula. I like so much of what they did but I can't look past one thing. Let me just reassure you that it does get hard, it just takes a really long while. I'd say until practically the end of the first major arc/first game's content. There's just an overwhelmingly ridiculous amount of content so the easy tutorializing part is way the gently caress too long.
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Play posted:https://store.steampowered.com/app/2068280/Nordic_Ashes_Survivors_of_Ragnarok/ As someone who bounced off most survivor games (rather just play more VS usually), I really like this one so far. What makes sets it apart is how RPG-like it is. The characters have defined skill trees that change how they play. That makes the powerups you want for them different too. You're encouraged to move around the map a lot more than VS. Progression feels good. Might wear off after a while, but it completely too over my afternoon and I just wanna play more.
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