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[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

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[Yldr]

Lufia 2 Curse of the Sinistrals (2010) on DS

Let me preface by saying that I never played the original 1995 Rise of the Sinistrals on SNES; all I know is that the combat was turn-based whereas this one is a fully re-imagined top-down hack'n-slash not unlike Ys.

The first thing that sets it apart is how good-looking it is. The illusion would probably shatter on a big screen but on a handheld it's absolutely gorgeous, it's insane that the DS can even pull this off. The OST is solid too if not very imaginative, and combined with the visuals the game is always excellent at conveying its intended mood.

The writing is typical jRPG fare but I do give it credits for having characters hook up, get married and give birth midstory, instead of tiptoeing around the issue forever; otherwise it's so formulaic it might as well be a bullet-point checklist.

The combat system is pretty rudimentary though fast and satisfying, but it's the dungeons that carry the game: varied, elaborate, always with new and fun gimmicks, challenging enough to matter but still without dragging on, and again the beautiful 3D engine truly shines. Considering the dungeons are the core of the gameplay it will probably feel closer to Zelda than to actual jRPG household names.

Expect about 15 hours out of it, and the "real" ending isn't different enough to warrant a second playthrough, just watch it online. I'm not a huge fan of Japanese-styled games in general so it was just long enough to avert ending fatigue.

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[d1r]

Yldr did you try increasing the resolution? A lot of DS and 3DS games look pretty great on 1080p/4K.

 

[Blonsky]

Horus Heresy: Betrayl at Calth

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So Horus turned against the Emperor and on planet Calth two space marine factions start a years long conflict to see who is right.

Its a pretty below average turn based tactics game...........but..

..the game was made for VR and was released for VR and PC, in not a very polished state, before the company went to greener pastures.

So you have free camera to take all the shoots and angles of space marines you want.

Rocket to the face

Firm and protected.

Can only play as blue team, very short game and completley forgettable, it also gets more unstable in late game.

 

[Fedora Master]

Horus Heresy: Betrayl at Calth

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Can only play as blue team, very short game and completley forgettable, it also gets more unstable in late game.

So exactly like 90% of Warhammer games.

 

[Cryomancer]

M&M 8

 

[Padzi]

When your female stygian is being accused of being male and gay.

"ignobleness and pederasty"

 

[Silly Germans]

Some more Gothic 1 goodness

 

[Konjad]

 

[Kalin]

Mods fixed it?

 

[Konjad]

Mods fixed it?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2201586820

 

[barghwata]

 

[d1r]

Whenever I see this, I must post this:

 

[turkishronin]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

 

[spekkio]

Colony Wars a.k.a. console X-Wing

 

[Yldr]

Yldr Did you try increasing the resolution? A lot of DS and 3DS games look pretty great on 1080p/4K.

HD resolutions are precisely what would break the illusion because you would notice all the sprites and how close the transition happens between 3D elements and 2D backgrounds.

 

[warpig]

Colony Wars games had badass music

 

[Kabas]

Giants: Citizen Kabuto

Mecc part was fine
I would have enjoyed the Delphi part a lot more if it didn't have that boring ass jet-ski racing part and a fewer base building missions. Only the last race was somewhat not boring and i am pretty sure that the base building aspect is probably way more fun in multiplayer than it is in singleplayer.
Kabuto part felt like a breath of fresh air after Delphi thanks to the lack of "build everything until you can build a party house and get a tornado spell, repeat process 3 times".
Overall, ignoring some parts the game was fun.

 

[turkishronin]

so sad

I like how some enemies are named after Greek/Roman philosopher. Like Carnaedes is the soul of a criminal who has been wrongly jailed. The philosopher with that name wrote about the necessity of the absolute power of the state over the individual. Or in this case, Boethius, whose one of his works is about acceptance of hardship in a spirit of philosophical detachment from misfortune.

 

[d1r]

Zion Canyon in Honest Hearts

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

 

[Nifft Batuff]

Well, I completed the main campaign of Horizon Zero Dawn, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. It took about 35 ours to be completed. It was quite well focused, with only few optional side quests, contrarily to the absolute slog that was the last AC Odyssey. The combat was fun (in particular hunting the mega-fauna) and the world was varied and interesting to explore. My only gripe is that it is actually too much varied (you can have savana, deserts, tropical forests and snowy capped mountains only few kms apart...), to the point that it has the common sin of modern open-world AAA games: it feels like a theme park.

But the aspects of the game that really positively surprised me were the lore, the presence of some memorable NPCs (like Sylens, well characterized and acted by Lance Reddick), and the story. Being a sci-fi setting in an AAA game I really expected nothing good from it, but when I started playing, I found a story/lore and NPCs dialogs not only non offensive, like the average sci-fi you have in these times, including movies, but actually quite interesting.

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[Catacombs]

Well, I completed the main campaign of Horizon Zero Dawn, and I have to say that I enjoyed it.

Nice. It sounds like you blasted right through it. I'm about 15 hours in, with 18% of the story completed. I'm taking my time with it.

What's next?

 

[JDR13]

Well, I completed the main campaign of Horizon Zero Dawn, and I have to say that I enjoyed it. It took about 35 ours to be completed. It was quite well focused, with only few optional side quests, contrarily to the absolute slog that was the last AC Odyssey.

I'm 60+ hours in and not even close to being finished, so you must have skipped a LOT of content.