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Zaphod42 posted:Shovel Knight devs made a Ninja Gaiden type game?! Sign me up they're only publishing it, but it looks really good
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thanks this is fun but beware if you kill the final boss it wipes your save ??? you have to start over to explore anything missed
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Mar 1, 2021 22:03
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 https://twitter.com/AxiomVerge/status/1425490103049220104 Switch, PS4, and Epic at launch, PS5 later and Steam eventually. This announcement just made my day/week/month! Here's the launch trailer if you haven't been following this for years or are somehow not familiar with the first game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZG0vU9RYSE
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Aug 11, 2021 17:40
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Hwurmp posted:You could lift it out of the water with a bunch of web strands attached to the ceiling. unless I've missed something very obvious this is the only way to elevate objects and gets kinda tedious, still fun though
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Sep 11, 2021 04:11
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I completely forgot this was coming out and was the best kind of surprised when I saw it released, if it's even half as good as the first then it's easily worth double the price.
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Jan 14, 2022 22:20
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I bought the unfinished vampire smash tv and it's good
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Jan 15, 2022 11:33
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At 13.5 hours I'm up to 98% completion in Supraland SIU. Apparently I'm missing 2 chests, 1 upgrade, and 3 secrets? Not sure how that all adds up, but having a blast.
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Jan 18, 2022 14:21
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1231880/Haiku_the_Robot/quote:Delve into the depths of a mechanical world in this cute, adventure-exploration game. Explore and fight in a land full of corrupt robots and machinery. All while seeking answers to the mysteries around you. New 2D indie metroidvania very much inspired by Hollow Knight but with pixel graphics and robots. Backed it on kickstarter a while ago and now it's out, played about an hour and seems very solid so far. haldolium posted:Ultra Deluxe is great, do buy if you enjoyed Stanley Parable. It really is, the new content overlaps the old so there's plenty to experience and the narrator is as great as ever.
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Apr 28, 2022 18:13
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RC Cola posted:What can y'all tell me as someone who has never played? Play the demo for the original game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/221910/The_Stanley_Parable/ It's not a slice of the main content but rather its own standalone appetizer that will give you a solid idea of whether you will like it or not without giving away anything.
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Apr 29, 2022 06:00
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You're pretty much SOL if you're looking for something modern in the vein of Quake or Unreal Tournament multiplayer, arena shooters are deader than this forum when it comes to competing for players against all the battle royales and big name franchises.
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May 29, 2022 03:30
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ultrafilter posted:The Looker I wanted to play this because I love short parody games but it has zero configuration options. No mouse invert, no key binding, no audio controls, no nothing. The dev has said he'll add some but until then my upside down brain can't process it 
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Jun 19, 2022 00:50
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Kickstarted this (apparently 2 years ago now, wow) and it's finally in Early Access: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1249480/ExZodiac/ https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256897125/movie480_vp9.webm It's totally not Starfox. Contains 6 of the planned 12 levels and what's there is claimed to be complete but I haven't played it yet.
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Jul 21, 2022 18:36
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I have absolutely zero memory of playing the first Blossom Tales but steam says I have 10 hours and a bunch of achievements to go with my cleared save  I think I'll hold off on the sequel.
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Aug 16, 2022 22:15
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New game from the maker of DEVIL DAGGERS except this time it's on all of the drugs https://store.steampowered.com/app/1743850/HYPER_DEMON/ quote:HYPER DEMON is an FPS like no other..  big visual headache/epilepsy warning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScglDSi9KUs DEVIL DAGGERS had some surprising depth and strategy for how simple the gameplay loop was and this looks to expand on it in several ways.
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The person responsible for that Zelda OoT Sudoku from back in 2020 made it into a full game with more features. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1806960/Mythos_Sudoku/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256910862/movie480_vp9.webm quote:A WHOLE NEW WAY TO SUDOKU I played through it the last few days (~12 hours total) and it was very chill if you like sudoku. Some of the variants are wild and it's all randomly generated. The final boss in particular had a really cool twist.
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ultrafilter posted:It was in early access for a year or so and exited today. I had grabbed a copy on sale during EA knowing the price would increase after full release but held off on playing it as there were regular content updates similar to the development cycle for Rogue Legacy 2. I was iffy on the kickstarter at the time as it was a new dev - and it certainly had its share of delays - but it seems like they nailed the final product. I'm only an hour in so far and this game now has my full attention. It feels very polished and fluid in a way many of these solo indie projects don't. The obvious comparison is to Hollow Knight but so far this has a greater focus on platforming and less on souls-like combat; it also features color. There are teases of many movement abilities and they all look to be quite dynamic and interactive instead of "fire and forget" scripted skills. I've even found some minor sequence breaks with the first ability allowing me early access to a few shortcuts and collectibles. There's been a flurry of small patches in the past week and even a couple post-release, and the dev is active on the Steam forum and his Discord. I am really tempted to stay up all night and play more, but alas. There's also a silly tie-in if you own Haiku that says a lot about the community attitude: https://twitter.com/MrMorrisGames/status/1644358291751837697
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poronty posted:Oh man Lone Fungus has been an absolute blast to play so far (I'm somewhere around 50 or 60% completion I think?), but it's once again one of those hardcore vanias that require an insane level of precision and about a million fingers on both hands for the bosses and collectathon challenges in the latter half of the game. That's my conclusion too, although I was able to see through to the end. Sitting at about 95% completion and not sure if I want to try for the rest because what little is left is so incredibly precise. The controls also seem more complicated than they have to be, there's two different kinds of attack buttons and jump buttons and dash buttons
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King of Solomon posted:Wow, that's really disappointing. I'm still going to play it after I finish the games I'm playing right now, but hard precision platforming just isn't what I want out of a Metroidvania. All of the hand contortionist stuff is purely optional for useless collectibles and achievements, none of it will gate progress or even minor upgrades. Anything that does yield progress is more like a light puzzle as to how the mechanics interact and thus training for the horrors to come. It is however almost impossible to know which challenges are what kind when you initially find them because of the dumb map system that only fills out rooms and highlights pickups when you save at a shrine. There were a couple bosses that I felt were unfun because they have too much health, cheap attacks, too many attacks to dodge reliably, or just move about the arena way too freely. Very few of them featured any of the movement tech which was pretty disappointing. And despite there being 60 possible relics to equip they don't really change combat dramatically and just like Hollow Knight are prohibitively expensive to use more than 1 or 2 of the best at a time. I did go back to get 100% and it honestly wasn't rewarding enough. The handful of challenges I had left I already knew what to do so it was a matter of dying a hundred times to get it right. The items I could have tracked down on my own since there's an item given before the final boss that alerts you to secrets when you get close but it was easier to use a map someone else made rather than run around every room again humping walls. If you do choose to hunt stuff down then it is imperative that you mess around with the spell combos when traversing rooms. The game does a very poor job of explaining this in a single line of text and undersells their utility by relegating them all to optional challenges. Doesn't help that the button to change spells is L3 and I prefer to play with dpad so I mostly ignored them.
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Sadly most of the negative reviews are in Chinese and machine translations butcher the gaming lingo they use so it's hard to know what the complaints are.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/1244090/Sea_of_Stars/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256935914/movie480_vp9.webm The new game from the devs behind The Messenger is finally out. quote:Sea of Stars is a turn-based RPG inspired by the classics. It tells the story of two Children of the Solstice who will combine the powers of the sun and moon to perform Eclipse Magic, the only force capable of fending off the monstrous creations of the evil alchemist known as The Fleshmancer. ------------ https://store.steampowered.com/app/2179860/Prison_City/ https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/256945265/movie480_vp9.webm quote:Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle techno-terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses. It's like a mashup of several NES games.
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ultrafilter posted:Pepper Grinder Currently rated 89% out of 131. This is quite good and almost lives up to what it looks like it should be, but there's a few issues holding it back from being truly fantastic. My biggest complaint is the swinging grapple controls. Instead of a normal hold-and-release setup it has you tap X (generic contextual input) to latch on and then tap R2 (the dig button) to release; this feels absolutely terrible and even after beating the game it never became second nature. Also the A button (jump) cancels the animation entirely and resets your momentum. Thoroughly disgusting. They need to add an option to change this. Second major complaint is that you can't skip boss cutscenes. For two of them it's a brief 10 second intro so eh whatever, but one is more like 20 seconds and the final boss is almost a full minute. Adding to this, in time trial mode you get to replay the short section of stage before the boss each time because checkpoints are disabled. With the par times on boss stages being 1-2 minutes it's inexcusable that every time you fail you get to waste just as much or more time sitting around doing nothing as you do actually playing. I gave up trying to medal the final boss because of this. Outside of those and while playing casually it's a very fun experience. Moving around and exploring levels is a blast and you can tell a lot of care went into making sure cycles line up properly. There's plenty of stage gimmicks, neat interactable objects, fun mechanics to go fast; all the usual stuff you'd expect out of a platformer. The music is good but not great, ranging from hectic drum and bass to chill ambient tracks but often feels like there's an instrument or melody missing from the composition. I'm surprised there's no in-game leaderboards with how much movement tech and intended skips are packed into each level. Speedruns will be fun to watch for sure. A few other minor things stick out to me. Sometimes when exiting dirt or water you can get caught up on walls and freeze in place. The time trial goals are all very reasonable except one stage that is practically impossible. I'm convinced they goofed the time requirement because I can't even get within 25 seconds when I beat plenty of other stages by that much or more. There's a silly cosmetic gacha mechanic to spend the money you find in levels and it hands out way too many duplicates, the full set is required for achievements. Even with the current flaws I still wish there were more of it. There's a total of 24 stages across 4 worlds and Steam has me clocked at 6.7 hours played. Some really challenging extra stages to flex your acquired mastery would make a welcome addition since the base game isn't terribly difficult. Swilo fucked around with this message at 07:51 on Mar 30, 2024 |
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ultrafilter posted:Minishoot' Adventures This is super cool, it's very much Zelda meets twinstick shooter. ultrafilter posted:Carpathian Night Starring Bela Lugosi This was a letdown. The final product feels somewhere between rushed gamejam entry and unfinished student project, in the blandest way possible.
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fez_machine posted:Against The Great Darkness You had my attention but then it was an early access roguelite, maybe in a year it will be complete and worth a look (or abandoned).
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https://mystic-valley-game.itch.io/mystic-valley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efsxIWuF178 quote:The new game from the creator of TANUKI JUSTICE and AGGELOS!
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ultrachrist posted:Aggelos is an extremely good Zelda2/wonderboy type game. Total hidden gem. This looks cool, they're doing Zelda 1 now. I wonder if this will get distributed to wider platforms like their other games. I'm not sure, it's been released independent of their previous publishing partners so it may not. Just finished up after about 4 hours, at 3:10 on the in-game because I forgot to save before quitting between sessions and had to replay the fifth dungeon and final boss  It's a fun little 8-bit adventure game with a lot of obvious Zelda inspiration, but also some older Japanese PC titles like Ys and Hydlide, and probably others I'm missing. It gets surprisingly hard by the end with lots of bullets to dodge but never feels unfair; it says I died 20 times but there's probably another dozen in that bit I lost to not saving.Definitely worth the $5.
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There's a little star icon on the corner of every review that tells you whether it counts towards the total or not, Steam excludes anybody who registers with a key or received a gift instead of purchasing directly.
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