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Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: August 30, 2020, 10:07 am
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I played INMOST on Friday night. It's a kind of a puzzle
platformer. It looked like a metroidvania from the trailer, and
I suppose it kind of is I guess.
I like how moody and atmospheric it is, the music's good, the
world seems really cool and there are some awesome moments.
However, that's overshadowed by all the really slow walking
segments which get tiresome, the confusing and pretentious
story, the mediocre puzzles and the fact that the controls can't
be remapped.
My biggest gripe is that it has a serious problem with "show,
don't tell", in a certain sense -- often, when something
important happens, the game will [font=Verdana]rip control away
from the player and[/font] launch into a cutscene. This gets
really glaringly bad at the end.
I was unimpressed by the metroidvania aspect too -- the main
character, the wanderer (I think that's what he's called) starts
out really underpowered, which is to be expected for
metroidvanias, but the problem is he stays underpowered for the
whole game, you never feel like the world opens up. The second
playable character, the girl (who I think is supposed to be the
wanderer's granddaughter, or something like that, like I said
the story's confusing and pretentious) is even more
underpowered. The third character, the knight, has access to
more abilities, but unfortunately that seems to exclude jumping.
Not all the puzzles were bad, though -- I really liked the
endless hallway thingy, I felt super dumb for not figuring that
one out sooner. Several puzzles involved getting rid of some
monster in some clever way, most of those were quite interesting
as well.
5/10
In more positive news, today I got this in the first level of
Celeste -- it's 2nd place:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3W0gI6IMM
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: IlinaFan01 Date: August 30, 2020, 10:36 am
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@King - I think that was Noxid's avatar at the time.
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: August 30, 2020, 10:49 am
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[quote author=AuroraDash link=topic=340.msg11863#msg11863
date=1598800025]
I played INMOST on Friday night. It's a kind of a puzzle
platformer. It looked like a metroidvania from the trailer, and
I suppose it kind of is I guess.
I like how moody and atmospheric it is, the music's good, the
world seems really cool and there are some awesome moments.
However, that's overshadowed by all the really slow walking
segments which get tiresome, the confusing and pretentious
story, the mediocre puzzles and the fact that the controls can't
be remapped.
[/quote]
Hoo boy, if you love pretentious story writing then I'm sure
that you've heard of YIIK: The Post-Modern RPG? Much like Sonic
06, the music is the best part of the game though at least Sonic
06 wasn't pretentious in it's own story.
[quote author=Charlie link=topic=340.msg11869#msg11869
date=1598801801][font=Verdana]@King - I think that was Noxid's
avatar at the time.[/font][/quote][font=Verdana]
And it's glorious. His avatar was so unexpected that I must
spent several minutes laughing before getting on with the
mod.[/font]
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: September 7, 2020, 5:46 am
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So over the week I managed to:
Finally complete The Bouncer's Survival Mode as Dauragon C.
Mikado (Awakened) and unlocked Sion's Jet Black costume for Vs
Mode.
Complete The Legend of Dark Witch's Normal Mode as Zizou (with
all upgrades and Syega Crystals) and will be completing Lunatic
Mode.
Complete Cave Story's Boss Attack mode and will consider doing a
second playthrough to unlock Curly Story.
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: September 11, 2020, 7:20 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p7hwm2_sw8
This is a custom level, but I'm still happy with it, managed to
get under 3 minutes which is really cool.
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: IlinaFan01 Date: September 16, 2020, 6:04 am
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Kirby Super Star Ultra times... for the top three Helpers to
Heroes: 04:38:25 (Bonkers), 05:37:79 (Rocky), 06:13:19 (Burning
Leo).
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: September 17, 2020, 10:31 am
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So I decided to replay Dark Spirits (a DSi game I have on 3DS)
and managed to get past the third loop (which was pretty hard)
and have now made it to 4-1. The final boss on the 4th loop uses
the attack patterns from the last 3 loops (1-5, 2-5 and 3-5)
except he takes less damage once you destroy all 4 of his gems.
I've yet to defeat that boss and the game doesn't have a level
select so I'd have to make it to that boss all over again.
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: Cibryll Date: August 7, 2021, 3:02 pm
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Just cleared 9 Hours 9 People 9 Doors and... got the ending
where everyone died. Including June and Junpei.
Zero probably did it. I know I took door 3, and the one before
that, I think, was 4? (It went to a kitchen with Santa and Lotus
and June.)
Either way, is it truly the end?
Can't be, else it wouldn't have other endings. :p
Just a bit gory, though...
A part of me expected one of the deaths, but... I'll try with
the other endings when I feel like it.
Playing Pokemon Sunday Version now, with its Light-type (weak to
AND effective against Dark). My team's too weak for the second
Gym, haha... that Umbreon (Lv18?) wiped my entire team out
(they're Lv17, minimum).
So: training time. (The Exp. Share helps, though.)
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Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: August 7, 2021, 4:02 pm
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[quote author=Charlie link=topic=340.msg15512#msg15512
date=1628366528]
Just cleared 9 Hours 9 People 9 Doors and... got the ending
where everyone died. Including June and Junpei.
Zero probably did it. I know I took door 3, and the one before
that, I think, was 4? (It went to a kitchen with Santa and Lotus
and June.)
Either way, is it truly the end?
Can't be, else it wouldn't have other endings. :p
Just a bit gory, though...
A part of me expected one of the deaths, but... I'll try with
the other endings when I feel like it.
Playing Pokemon Sunday Version now, with its Light-type (weak to
AND effective against Dark). My team's too weak for the second
Gym, haha... that Umbreon (Lv18?) wiped my entire team out
(they're Lv17, minimum).
So: training time. (The Exp. Share helps, though.)
[/quote]
Very nice! ^w^ I think the idea behind Pokemon is very cool and
I've played a few versions and fangames of it, but often I just
end up losing interest after a while.
I've been playing a lot of Sunblaze lately :3
#Post#: 15515--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: August 8, 2021, 4:31 am
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Gamewise, I've gotten back into Digital Devil Saga 2. I've
already gotten all of Seraph's Mantra's and intend to get them
all for all my other party members. Which basically boils down
to me spamming Megidoloan on waves of enemies to grind money to
buy the more expensive mantras for each character.
And also Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road. I'm now at
the Winter area so I need to complete that area before the final
dungeon.
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