The 7th Guest posted:

Aeterna: Noctus is another Metroidvania I'm not sold on. I want to give it props for having hand-drawn animation for most enemies and the main character (as opposed to cut-out tweening), but the combat is unfortunately very stiff, and there's a lot of very flat level design... the screenshots show better theming and level design so I dunno why the opening area is so flat. Probably trying to mimic Hollow Knight, as this game ALSO has pins to buy for the map (and I bought a region map from the merchant and it didn't seem to do anything? Not sure if that was a bug or if I'm missing something). Thing about HK though is that seconds beyond the opening town you already have deep platforming and exploration in that game, here it's just flat each way to start off.

ninjoatse.cx posted:

I really liked Deedlit in Wonder labyrinth. A very nice SotN clone, though it was not difficult by any stretch. Don't think I ever died while beating it.

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

I never really used any of the parries and just relied on constantly dodging through enemies, but my brother is near the end of the game and says the headless shield knight parry is extremely good for the whole game. The default item parry is weaker because its infinite.

I never really used gerrod and used umbral knight + dark witch eleine for my primaries for a majority of the game. I also never unequipped guardian siegrid once.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Impressions of Scum: weirdly meditative, I love how in-depth the crafting and survival systems are? Given how much labor goes into building even a simple shelter this might be a dealbreaker for some but I found it incredibly satisfying.

I also love how the zombies are tied into the lore - they're "puppets", which is to say they're partly mechanical, they're the corpses of the previous players reanimated through science.

Also I died by eating an entire pumpkin, then drinking an entire bottle of water. My body just exploded from too much food, and that was that.

haldolium posted:

I was just thinking about doing Northern Journey Awareness posting too.

The game is very good and the developer (Norwegian guy) is very active and nice, already fixed so many things and added QoL stuff in roughly a month since its release. It is also the worst offender for people with arachnophobia featuring all the spiders you hate doing exactly what you fear.

Absolute recommended, the DUSK dev even left a review to praise it on Steam.

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

If youve found both broken headlamp pieces then yes you should go to trollhole. Its one of the things you need to do before you can reach nokkpond.

lordfrikk posted:

I also put around 30 hours into Subnautica: Below Zero and I think it's too much of a rehash, that is to say, it's still the same great game that Subnautica was, but there's just no innovation. The Seatruck is kinda solving some issues that the Nautilus had but that's about it. I can't remember exactly how much of it there was in the original Subnautica but the walking on dry land... there is nothing I want to do less in Subnautica than walk for an hour or two on dry land. I consider that to be a huge step backward.

GhostDog posted:

Northern Journey lost me. The difficulty is all over the place, the combat is most of the time just tedious, interspersed with boss fights that seem to be designed around bunny hopping and circle strafing, only you have single-shot weapons that have long wind up animations and slow projectiles. It's the diving section though that broke me, can't see poo poo, don't know where to go, get attacked through the ground I'm walking on basically. I'm genuinely sad, the first five hours or so I thought this would be in the running for my game of the year.

punk rebel ecks posted:

Yeah itch.io basically out GOGd GOG. Those mega bundles did wonders for them.

I just find it insane how terrible the client and store is. Theyre literally giving away free games and I still wont bother with it. I used the client for GTAV and that was enough.

lih posted:

ender lilies is a dreadful slog and i don't know how it got any praise at all, but i only got a few hours into it before getting sick of it. the combat is dreadful, it's going for a 2D dark souls sort of thing but they forgot to make any of the enemies fun to fight at all and just settled for making everything a damage sponge. there's also little in the way of interesting exploration or abilities. i guess the presentation is generally nice but is that really enough to fool people?

Play posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StVLDhk0Fog

what a visual style, so nice. couldn't figure out when it came out though

GreenBuckanneer posted:

MarcusSA posted:

I love love love the first one and was kinda disappointed when people started saying the second one wasnt nearly as good.

Im hoping its good because I am waiting to get it.

Infinity Gaia posted:

That list of monthly releases has made me wonder what's going on with Salt and Sacrifice. It still seems firmly on track for May 10th, but no Steam page is odd. I wonder if the dev took an Epic deal and is trying to keep it hidden or something.

No Wave posted:

Rogue Legacy 2:

It's basically really, really good. It's also very challenging unless you grind a ton, you get to see what the devs consider appropriate difficulty during special challenges with pre-set stats and they're pretty ball-busting. The gameplay is excellent for a metroidvania and while the classes aren't exactly balanced the weapons feel quite different and you're bound to enjoy a few of them (Ronin being one of them for sure). You'll form strong opinions on which classes are good and which ones aren't and not everyone will agree.

The infamous RL1 metaprogression is absolutely present and central to the game though so if you don't like metaprogression do not buy. It's actually a bit more irritating than RL1 because RL1 didn't have much to its gameplay beyond grinding the tower whereas RL2 the gameplay is really good, they made the dash cancel everything and allow everything to cancel you out of your dash so there's plenty of fun to be had. A few of the bosses are frustrating but a few (like the final storyline boss) are pretty excellent.

As a warning there are tons and tons of gameplay mechanics gated behind NG+ cycles, you really are expected to beat the game multiple times to see what the game has to offer.

HopperUK posted:

Lots of people do seem to be enjoying it, though? I'm honestly puzzled - usually a game as bad as you're saying would be like, obviously, clearly bad to everyone playing it. I haven't tried it, going to wait for a deeper sale. Just wondering what the truth of the matter is here.

ymgve posted:

Speaking of, Salt & Sacrifice is out tomorrow.


_{on Epic}

Gay Rat Wedding posted:

We Were Here Forever is out today, the fourth game in the We Were Here series. I've played the first few puzzles and it's been solid so far. each game in the series has been substantially better than the last so I'm looking forward to seeing what kinds of puzzles this one has down the line.

for those unfamiliar We Were Here is a first person puzzle series for 2 players where puzzles require a lot of voice communication and asymmetrical roles. the players are usually separated so you need to verbally describe what you can see to your partner and work out what you're supposed to do. they're extremely budget, but the puzzle design is highly varied and challenging enough to be engaging without ever getting too absurd, and there aren't many other games like them.


(from we were here 3)

victrix posted:

Yeah I've only killed a few of them, but if the entire game is just chasing mid bosses I'll be disappointed. S&S didn't have the greatest bosses in the world but it had lots of cool ones.

There do seem to be fixed non mage bosses though, so they may just be the primary prey to acquire materials for gear, which isn't necessarily a bad idea.

Have to see how it plays out, the first game is easily one of my favorite souls likes in terms of atmosphere and scale so I hope this one lives up to that.

Lakbay posted:

Theres roaming versions of mages once you beat a named one you can farm (they get kinda annoying which is one of my gripes)

The other indicator is how much silver you have

Youll find an item called a Pale Candle if you explore more of the first area, the sunbros covenant is also in the first area