Yeah, I made a "What Are You Watching" thread and immediately decided to make another one about what video games we've been playing right after. So, same function as that one; what games have you been playing lately, and what are your thoughts on them?
Since I intended for this to be a record of the year's activities, I may as well start by catching up with everything I finished over the past month.
Since I intended for this to be a record of the year's activities, I may as well start by catching up with everything I finished over the past month.
- The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles - A bundle of The Great Ace Attorney Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve. I technically started this way back in December, but it's a bundle after all, so it took me quite a while to finish completely. A great addition to the series, sporting some of the best music in the franchise, and an engaging story, if a bit long-winded since the two games were definitely written to form one greater over-arching narrative.
- Cyberpunk 2077 - I bought this last August from Best Buy, along with a steelbook case, for a total of $10. Quite a steal. I'm sure everyone's talked about the technical problems to death now, but oh, dear me. Bugs aside, it was a serviceable open-world game, I suppose. I didn't keep up with the hype for this at all, and I definitely think that was for the better in the end, since I didn't go in with much expectation.
- Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro - Did you know, originally, the final battle of the game took place on the World Trade Center? But then 9/11 happened literally two weeks later, so they had to edit the games to remove any reference to the Twin Towers. That's probably the most interesting thing about this game.
- Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon - Yeah, I miss Castlevania too, man. Also, Miriam, my beloved. You know this is an authentic 80s Nintendo experience because it makes you play through the game twice, sort of.
- Doom 64 - It's always been really funny to me that Doom has cultivated its reputation as the ultra gory rip and tearing game, but the older games really had a much slower and deliberate pace, feeling more like puzzle arenas than anything else. And by "puzzles," I mean you run around aimlessly, looking for switches to pull, and then not get any input on what the switch did, so you have to run around the entire map again.
- Tales of Crestoria - Mobile game that just shut down on February 6. Don't play gacha games, kids.