Evil Eagle posted:

40) Bayonetta 2 (All Platinum Awards, All Umbran Tears of Blood and Rodin Beat with Bayonetta, Jeanne and Rosa) - No Item Use




Aside from Metal Gear July, this has been my big gaming project while I've been without a PC. 12 playthroughs across the last couple of months in anticipation of Bayo 3 next month. Finished just in time too, I'll have a PC again friday unless it shows up doa

I love this game, I wouldn't have played it so much if I didn't. But there are definitely some issues. Umbran Climax is cool at first, but it completely monopolizes the magic gauge on the lower three difficulties and its almost useless on infinite, except with Rosa where it's still crazy good. Torture Attacks and tetsuzanko just feel like wastes of magic, the only other thing I used magic for aside from UC is Umbran Spear. The magic and combo scoring systems were a lot better in Bayo 1. The Lumen Sage, in all 5 of his incarnations on the hardest difficulty, is complete AIDS blood that's impossible to react to. Certain enemies like Sloth and the flame swordsman horse angel aren't very fun to fight, and the flying boss fights are all very samey and uninteresting. Thank god for the Chain Chomp for those latter two but there's no helping the Lumen Sage, he's just too ridiculous. He's the number 1 reason I played through with all three characters instead of just going for Pure Platinum with just Bayonetta, I just don't think I could do it without items or obvious cheese like the bracelet of time, which I only really used on Rodin. Rodin is just insane, especially phase 2 where goes nuts and attacks so fast that you can't react, you have to dodge proactively. Absurd fight with Jeanne.

All that said I still really enjoyed myself. The game is just plain fun to play and replay. The moveset for Love is Blue just feels so good to get good with, and other weapons like the chainsaws, chain chomp, bow and scythe are a lot of fun too. There are a crazy amount of enemy types since they included nearly every enemy from Bayo 1 along with tons and tons of new ones. Dodge Offset/Charge modifiers are such satisfying mechanics to learn. Tag Climax is one of my favorite co-op multiplayer things, I played it a crazy amount on Wii U but there aren't really that many people still playing on switch lol. Really hope 3 has multiplayer too

I can't wait for Bayonetta 3. While Bayonetta 2 really feels like a pure sequel to 1, 3 looks like something completely new and interesting. Based on the footage that's been shown it seems like they're going back to the way the combo scoring system works in 1 with some new additions, and while something similar to Umbran Climax is in, it seems like it not only has its own separate gauge but is also used for single big moves rather than updating your whole moveset with screen filling moves. Just a few more weeks...



Rest easy, hero.

symbolic posted:

did collecting all the boos count toward anything beyond rank? i completely dipped from catching any after the first one and it didn't seem like it

sourdough posted:

Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions - really good, even with the silly script change. I do like Tactics Ogre better, partly because I liked the plot and characters better and you get to use more units in battle, and partly because FFT having no progression gating on jobs/abilities means I can't resist grinding for a bit early and then for the last like 1/4 of the game having the same set jobs and no new abilities to learn. SRPGs rule, I'm glad they're getting a little more popular again.

EmmyOk posted:

Story wise i got into the secret escape shuttle by unintentionally abusing some physics instead of extending the walkway. So super early on I knew I was experiencing something fake for sure. Didn’t change how much I liked the narrative or writing though.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

I thought the same about Prey and agree that Dishonored kicks rear end

Arrhythmia posted:

Billie Lurk is a death stranding character that doesn't like to post

Frenz posted:

Aladdin (SNES) - pretty good but it feels like it's missing a stage and needs more bosses. the controls are also kind of weird

Plebian Parasite posted:

edit: my dad was a big gamer when I was a kid so I beat a lot of games in the sense that I would boot up his 'nearly completed' game files and just do the final portion of the game, but I don't count those as they aren't start-to-finish.

That Little Demon posted:

lmfao

In Training posted:

29. Hotel Transylvania 3DS - 3/5 Family Stories Completed, the Target in Pickneyville, IL lost power and the kiosk stopped functioning before I could unlock the True Final Boss.

Jenny Agutter posted:

How many wonderful ones did you end up with?

Plebian Parasite posted:

100)Spring Falls

I was hoping that my 100th game would be something big or interesting, but nope, just a relaxing little puzzle game. It was a nice experience, a solid B. Reminded me a lot of Wetris or Aqua Aqua.

Aston posted:

24. CrossCode

This has taken me a long time to finish even though I really enjoyed it - I broke off my playthrough a bit over halfway through when Elden Ring came out, and only came back to it recently.

I found out about this from a Razbuten video about "indie games that you might not have tried", having never heard of it before, and I agree with his review that it's crazy this game isn't talked about in the same way as the other indie darlings like Undertale or Braid or whatever. It's a top-down sort of zelda/rpg hybrid but both the combat and the puzzles were pushed to their absolute limit - most of the enemies are sort of mini puzzles in that there's a certain way to break their defence and deal them a lot of damage, and some of them are incredibly inventive with this, and the puzzles (which were the highlight for me) are explorations of a particular mechanic and were mind-bending but never felt unfair.

I even liked the story, although your mileage may vary - there's a bunch of layers given the set up which is that you're trapped in a MMO, so you're playing through the story of the game you're in, there's a meta story of what's going on with your character, and then there's a sort of side story of the other players you meet along the way. For whatever reason, the experience of making real friendships online really struck a chord with me right after the pandemic, who would have thought. The actual writing was really good as well, I laughed out loud multiple times which is pretty rare for a game.

The only unfortunate part for me was the ending, as there's a "point of no return" which I went through severely underleveled and had to knock the difficulty down a bit to finish, which left a slightly bad taste in my mouth, but other than that I can't say enough positive things about this game. I loved it.

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symbolic posted: