The day I hear Gaben kicks the bucket (or sells the company off) is the day I'm making backups of everything I own on steam and finding cracks for them. Wouldn't be even slightly surprised if it turned into a subscription service to play the games you already own after he's out of the picture. I'm sure they've got enough money to make that "legal" somehow if they were so inclined.
Genuinely curious to hear your thoughts on it (and others who hold it in high regard). I tried hard to enjoy it, but I absolutely hated its healing mechanics and the respawn system. I found them to be so poor that they encouraged me to drop my playthrough, I made it to the final boss, but apparently I hadn't grinded enough to unlock some hp bar deleting powers, so I moved on. I thought it was a neat throwback to classic Castlevania, but as I said, the aforementioned design choices were baffling and off-putting.
Death's Gambit, Moonscars, and Grime are 3 titles that I know I've played, finished, but I couldn't tell you jack shit about them from memory. Enjoyable to be sure, but largely forgettable. I do know that Death's Gambit saw a "complete version" which I didn't play. So maybe that one got better?
Grime is in my Top 3 vanias, a genuinelly great one.
Astalon was amazing. I loved the exploration throughout the tower and the roguelike aspect of deaths sending you back but still unlocking the map. I also really enjoyed switching between characters based on the situation. I found all three characters very distinct each with pros and cons. There are tons of secrets to discover and that is really what carries the game. If you are not big on 2d exploration, i could see how it falls flat.
EU would megacuck Valve if they did something like this
Solid gameplay but they for some reason hired a third party (that makes Sweet Baby look tame) to do the writing and the end result is all the good guys are weird homosexual mystery meats (and women) that talk about their proclivities in increasingly disturbing detail (and puns) as the game progresses to the extent the only way to persevere and finish the game is to just stop reading the text entirely (probably why I didn't know one of them was a tranny until now). On an unrelated note, the bad guys are all huwhite males for some reason.
At aa 50 bucks price point, so naturally nobody played it.
Really a shame I was really looking forward to the first game due to the artists talent. But yeah this should be avoided like plague.
Ubisoft is a big fucker, has many competent nooks and crannies. One of them is Ubi Montpellier, the studio behind Rayman. Those dudes have been making first class platformers for the past 30 years. Not surprising at all the new Prince has such positive responses.
I never bother buying Ubi games through someone else, afaik they always require you to download their shitty app anyways so what's the point.
