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#Post#: 16016--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: October 31, 2021, 4:42 am
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Been playing through Omori. I'm about 17 hours in and
nowhere close to the end yet.
There are aspects of it that I really like. The story is quite
cool and the music and art are great. The follow-up action and
emotion mechanics add a lot of strategy to the JRPG combat and
stop it from getting too tedious.
My biggest problem is that there's an insane amount of
padding. There are literally dozens of crappy fetch quests, and
there are many, many unskippable cutscenes that consist entirely
of boring dialogue. It's like the game goes out of its way
to waste my time.
For the most part, I think I like Deltarune better.
#Post#: 16019--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: October 31, 2021, 7:30 am
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[quote author=Charlie link=topic=340.msg16010#msg16010
date=1635595343]
The clock-dash was the easy part to me. The hardest part was the
whole "dodge Time Eater hands".
[/quote]
Dealing with Time Eater's hands once he's down to 2 HP
is the worst because of how frequently it happens. That and they
look like bars of soap.
[quote author=AuroraDash link=topic=340.msg16010#msg16010
date=1635595343]
Been playing through Omori. I'm about 17 hours in and
nowhere close to the end yet.
There are aspects of it that I really like. The story is quite
cool and the music and art are great. The follow-up action and
emotion mechanics add a lot of strategy to the JRPG combat and
stop it from getting too tedious.
My biggest problem is that there's an insane amount of
padding. There are literally dozens of crappy fetch quests, and
there are many, many unskippable cutscenes that consist entirely
of boring dialogue. It's like the game goes out of its way
to waste my time.
For the most part, I think I like Deltarune better.
[/quote]
Crappy fetch quests and unskippable cutscenes you say? Sounds
like the Lost Sanctum in Chrono Trigger DS. That dungeon also
had backtracking, lazy bosses and a dungeon which is a
recoloured version of an earlier one. One cave area has the
Ocean Palace theme and only for that area (thankfully the main
track wasn't wasted).
#Post#: 16021--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: Cibryll Date: October 31, 2021, 12:38 pm
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:))
Bars of soap? I think CS Balrog was based on one, rather than a
toaster...
[quote author=Balrog]I AM NOT A TOASTER!!![/quote]
I like the Ocean Palace theme. :3
Never started with the Lost Sanctum, though... I mean. I did
finish CTDS, but beating that Dream Devourer was tough. ... What
was I dreaming, again?
Anyway. I think I'll get lost in the Lost Sanctum anyway, so
I'll just listen to music instead. :p
CT had some pretty great songs, though I wish "Battle 2" got
more use than it did...
#Post#: 16026--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: October 31, 2021, 3:23 pm
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[quote author=Charlie link=topic=340.msg16021#msg16021
date=1635701904]
:))
Bars of soap? I think CS Balrog was based on one, rather than a
toaster...
I like the Ocean Palace theme. :3
Never started with the Lost Sanctum, though... I mean. I did
finish CTDS, but beating that Dream Devourer was tough. ... What
was I dreaming, again?
Anyway. I think I'll get lost in the Lost Sanctum anyway, so
I'll just listen to music instead. :p
CT had some pretty great songs, though I wish "Battle 2" got
more use than it did...
[/quote]
It's probably the circular shape or the texture.
Ocean Palace is great but so is Black Omen. I've done the Lost
Sanctum and the weapons are worth the sidequests. I also liked
the Nu bosses and it's a shame Chrono Trigger never had a boss
rematch mode. Though personally, the Dimensional Vortexes were
better. Also Battle 2 was only used in the Monster Arenas but
I'm not sure if ever caught on.
#Post#: 18258--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: April 2, 2022, 7:22 am
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Got the true ending in Unsighted. I have a lot of mixed feelings
about this game.
The combat is awesome, it has similarities with games like Dead
Cells and Scourgebringer, but with even more of an emphasis on
patience and defence -- most of the time it's about waiting for
the right moment to counter particular enemy attacks until the
enemy is made vulnerable and can be punished for high damage. Of
course, one can attack at other times, but it's less effective.
The platforming isn't awesome -- both the controls and the
graphics really are not built for platforming. The jumps are
glorified dodge-rolls that follow awkward rigid arcs. The game
has a 3D world made with 2D graphics, in such a way that it's
impossible to know what height something is just by looking at
it.
The way the world is put together is really annoying. There are
artificial one-way barriers everywhere that aren't visible on
the map and often seem to be placed haphazardly with no sensible
reason to be there, so the world is a pain to navigate. This
gets even worse in the dungeons, where there might be like 6
different paths available but only one of them will actually
lead to something you can do at the moment. Some of the dungeons
can be kind of broken by skipping large sections of them using
items you're not supposed to have yet, but that doesn't always
work. I never want to do the bloody Factory ever again.
I enjoyed my 2nd playthrough a lot more than the 1st
playthrough, because you can use everything you learned from the
first time around to play the game in a totally new way. There
are enemies called "Shadow Creatures" that one is led to believe
can't be killed until the endgame, but they can in fact be
fought right from the beginning. There is a crafting system
which I originally thought was bloated and unnecessary --
there's a Minecraft-style crafting grid, except it's a waste of
time because you need to find crafting recipes in the world
first, and that's also a waste a time because crafting materials
are extremely common and pretty quickly have enough to craft
anything you could ever want, so it would make more sense to
just find the thing directly out in the world rather than a
recipe for the thing. However, using the manual crafting grid,
you don't actually need to unlock the recipes if you've already
memorised them, letting you get stuff way earlier than you're
supposed to.
On my 2nd playthrough I tried to beat the 5 main bosses needed
to unlock the endgame in the opposite order -- not only is that
possible, but the game gave me an achievement for that. On my
3rd playthrough, I left Downtown during the prologue and beat
the entire Factory before returning to finish the prologue. The
game gave me an achievement for that too.
I originally assumed that the true ending is unlocked by saving
everyone, but nope, that just gets you the normal ending again.
I had to look up how to get the true ending and the requirements
were a long list of crazy stuff, most of which I had no idea
existed.
The bosses are mostly quite awesome, with a few exceptions.
There's one right at the end that just copies all of the
abilities of the other bosses which I thought was lame. It has a
second phase which is the same as the first phase except there
are two of it, which doesn't work well because the bosses it
copies aren't designed for that and don't play nice with each
other. All three of the bonus bosses, while better designed than
that one, were a bit disappointing -- one of them was pretty
cool but I was way too powerful by the time I found it and it
went down really fast, whereas the other two were basically just
upgraded versions of earlier bosses.
The game has lots of cool moments but the bad parts are too
annoying to be worth playing again, unless maybe I give hard
mode a try.
#Post#: 18314--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: April 9, 2022, 5:41 am
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Everyone else has their own gaming threads so I will take over
the main gaming thread >:3
I bought Spiritfarer which is supposed to be really great but I
couldn't get into it. It's certainly gorgeous looking, I love
the artstyle. Dealing with the lost spirits' bizarre dietary
requirements is already becoming quite a chore and I only have a
few of them so far.
Rotund Rebound came out last week -- I got sent an early version
of this about 2 years ago, and the finished version has been
polished up nicely. I've been enjoying it. Level 4-8 is a huge
difficulty spike T_T
Janitor Bleeds also came out last week. Haven't gotten very far
in it yet, and it's not the kind of thing I usually play but
it's alright so far. I like how it messes with my expectations
-- when the red square thing attacked me in the vents, it came
completely out of nowhere because I was convinced the vents were
safe.
#Post#: 18316--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: Cibryll Date: April 9, 2022, 8:01 am
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[quote author=AuroraDash link=topic=340.msg18314#msg18314
date=1649500874]
Everyone else has their own gaming threads so I will take over
the main gaming thread >:3
[/quote]I see your plan and, by the command of UB-Bloom, I am to
counter with a board for you to make your own gaming thread in
HTML http://lunarshadowcs.createaforum.com/auroradash's-well/.
:3
#Post#: 18334--------------------------------------------------
Re: Gaming Thread
By: AuroraDash Date: April 10, 2022, 7:55 am
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[quote author=Charlie link=topic=340.msg18316#msg18316
date=1649509273]
I see your plan and, by the command of UB-Bloom, I am to counter
with a board for you to make your own gaming thread in
HTML http://lunarshadowcs.createaforum.com/auroradash's-well/.
:3
[/quote]
oWo
Well, thank you! :D
#Post#: 18967--------------------------------------------------
Re: General Gaming Thread
By: Cibryll Date: June 9, 2022, 12:43 pm
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Repurposing this thread for general gaming chat.
Games without their own threads, games for unknown platforms.
I, as a lover of cat, approve of this
HTML https://twitter.com/jeffaramos/status/1534917158567919618
so
far. I see a CAT. We need more games with a CAT. :3
#Post#: 18971--------------------------------------------------
Re: General Gaming Thread
By: King (2.0) Date: June 10, 2022, 11:11 am
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[quote author=Charlie link=topic=340.msg18967#msg18967
date=1654796592]
Repurposing this thread for general gaming chat.
Games without their own threads, games for unknown platforms.
I, as a lover of cat, approve of this
HTML https://twitter.com/jeffaramos/status/1534917158567919618
so
far. I see a CAT. We need more games with a CAT. :3
[/quote]
Huh, I remember seeing a cyberpunk styled game where you could
play as a cat. I'm not sure if that's the same game or a
different one.
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