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I bought Celeste last week. Didn’t regret it, fantastic platformer and experience all around. It controls so well and that dash is one hell of a multi-purpose double jump. The game keeps finding new level mechanics to introduce and even goes a bit wider with its “boss” fights sometimes.

Bullhead is phenomenal.
He’s great in Mustang too but it’s the role he seems to love or gets typecast in: physical, brooding, silent, intense, ...

Nevermind. It’s an editorial, not a review. I don’t agree with the premise of it but the writing itself is balanced and nuanced enough I see what the writer liked and disliked in the game. 

Game reviews are still in such a weird place. You’d never have this take on a movie where it was ‘I do not want this, I want that, ergo this game is bad’.
Juding a game on its own merits or faults and digging in why it doesn’t work, would be much more interesting. I didn’t get anything from this except “the world…

I don’t particularly mind the game over-messages but gruesome animations like The Last of Us or Tomb Raider really get on my nerves after a while. 

I could have never thought of that but now I can’t unsee it. Wow. 

It was a good Spider-Man story, hitting those “everything goes terribly for Peter” notes pretty well but all in all, the plot was forgettable.
I enjoyed the webswinging a lot but the gameplay was generic and repetitive. If it wasn’t Spider-Man and the webslinging was shit or not there, nobody would remember it.
It’s…

Picked up Dark Souls 3 again after 4 months. I genuinely enjoy the bossfights so far and they even give me less trouble than the normal enemies. I was stuck in the swamp where some knight in a hallway killed me about 20 times. Finally got him only to discover it was a dead end. Also beat a giant crab once. So haven…

Exactly, it’s not what the story is, but how it’s told. The Last of Us tells it perfectly. Still haven’t brought myself to play it again. I get anticipatory sadness when I think about it. 

Kombatant: Steven Spielberg

As a ‘treat yo self’, I bought Kentucky Route Zero last week. Midway episode 3 right now . I like how all the dialogue options seem to lead to the same outcome so my choices feel like flavouring or filling in the character blanks more than roleplaying from zero. The weirdness really amps up in episode 2 and I wonder…

I love the combat but hate spending time in its world. I’m actually not stuck in Dark Souls 3 and defeated a few bosses so far. I’m just in a depressing swamp with giant crabs and some knight blocking my way. (okay a little stuck)
Giant crabs should be awesome, not terrifying. Seriously, they creep me the hell out.

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In one of those gaming moods where I want to start something but I won’t actually know what it is until I find it, which means a lot of flailing around and buying new games that I don’t end up playing for years.

The main story is the developing relationship between Kratos and his son. The ending felt completely natural to me. They even had their third act falling out kinda before the reconciliation and overcoming of an external obstacle. The ebb and flow were pretty standard so when I beat the “endboss”, I knew that the final…

Do you not consider Baldur the primary antagonist? He seemed pretty antagonisty, especially that scene on the mountain where he’s talking to his brothers just before Kratos “liberates” Mimir.

Played and finished Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter. Decent B-game, in story, gameplay and execution. It has several fun mini-games and some of the cases make for a good puzzle. The smartest bit in the game is the neuron system. Depending on the choices (always binary), different conclusions are drawn, resulting…

Yeah, and they knew it was pretty too. The option to change the time of day with a button press is fantastic. I just fly or glide through the air and take it in.
The controls aren’t that bad but doing tricks is very vague and the landing especially is incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes my character will scream “oohhh…

I’ve been rummaging through the PS Plus games library, games I didn’t jump at at the time but maybe there’s a gem somewhere?
So first I played Steep, the extreme sports simulator. The physics and the graphics are great. Snowboarding feels great, wingsuiting feels dangerous and fast. Oh, and there’s a rocket suit…

While I’ve seconded Perfect Engine’s mention of Uncharted and Tomb Raider-like games, this crisis particularly Nioh 2 has been my go-to-comfort game. Now that I have the controls down and know all the mechanics, slicing and dicing yokai and samurai is very satisfying and something I can get lost in for a few hours.
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