I played the last backer beta (Medical should be basically complete at the point they released that) and it was pretty solid. I'm not a fan of the changes to the wire puzzles as they are much more difficult to figure out the way to solve them as the original but they're at least a new approach to that kind of puzzle.
The full game was released yesterday. It was on my radar, but the release almost snuck by me.
Yeah, I've got it installed but am working on Chained Echoes on the Xbox. I put that aside for Firmament (two long-running Kickstarter game projects, backed well before the pandemic and both releasing about two weeks apart
) because I figured it would be a game I'd be able to bounce around between. Ended up playing that all the way through (though it was only about 5.5 hours). I know SS won't be as easily bounced between so I'll be waiting until I'm done with CE first.Game Pass as well, and I've finished it. It's pretty short (as puzzle platformers should be) at 4-5 hours. There are a couple puzzles that have tight-ish timing, but overall it's a pleasant experience.
Woohoo, weekend viewing
Always a fan and very sorry I never went in person when they did it in MD
I had it on in the background for much of the day Monday and Tuesday. The SOTN randomizer was really interesting and the Ratatouille run was really funny. I also enjoyed the Bastion run that they did as part 1 of it was training someone who never ran the game to do the any% run, part 2 was having him do his own run and then part 3 was a race between the trainer and another Bastion runner. It looks like none of those runs are up yet on the YT page but keep an eye out for them.
IMO, it's less about being good at rhythm games so much as being S-Rank capable at DMC or Bayonetta type games. If you just muddle through them then Hi-Fi Rush will be about the same but if you're capable of 1-chaining levels in those games regularly then doing the same in HFR will be trivial. I found it to be mostly repetitive and bland.
DO IIIIIIT! Such a good game.
Started it yesterday. I'm not past anything that wasn't in the demo, but it looks and feels great. I only played a little of the original years ago, so I'm looking forward to some old school sneaky space horror.
I'm about 10 hours into my first play through. If you can go back in time and share information before you started, what would you say?
The early game introduces some techniques but doesn't push you to use them. Once you're feeling comfortable, play around with some of them anyways. Do some of the weapons drills in the private chambers (e.g. using the strand), and try things like skateboarding around on the floating carrier once you get it.
Yeah. You may get tempted by other options once they open up, but the bike is as flexible and useful as it seems.
I've got good memories of taking a fully loaded truck over a snowy mountain and just about making that work.
I'm not going to spoil anything so here's some general gameplay hints
Surprisingly, yes. The bike has better mobility on rough terrain than the truck. If you ever find three trucks stuck in a river near the Elder somewhere, that's me btw. Carry a PCC for generator if you're going on long routes, or use the roads if you've built them.
This only applies to Director's Cut - that's not available in the base game.
Don't be afraid to abandon vehicles if you run out of gas.
I suspect there may be some overlap in the Venn diagrams on that. Not saying all furries are Nazis, but sometimes people who are not socially accepted also tend towards other things that are not socially accepted.I kinda hesitate to point this out, but Steam let me know there is not one, but two Nazi-themed furry games it can offer me. Like, What the fuck kind of overlap is that?
Ok, Nazis, I get. They're a popular antagonist, and sometimes game makers make them playable. Furries, sure. Aside from the more traditional cartoon animal games that have been around forever, modern furries have enough cash to splash on buying games.
But Nazi furries? where the fuck is that commonality?
Oh, and to make matters worse, I had to do some digging after this unfortunate discovery and found out there's a game called Sex with Hitler, and it's exactly what it sounds like. I know better than to dig around search engines, but I do it anyway...
It's a weird overlap for me, because I'm familiar enough with furry history to know it basically evolved as an offshoot of gay culture in the 20th Century (speaking of not socially accepted), and generally plays fast and loose with sexual norms. So I might see how Nazi/Furry could be a kink thing, it also seems weird to go that direction, considering the outcasts the culture originally evolved from.
Your reasoning sounds better than mine. I’m not super familiar with furry culture so I’m probably wrong.
There is also Sex with Stalin, because you can't just leave it at Hitler. Both seem to be vying for 'absurd ahistorical parody romp' territory, so I wouldn't take them as serious kink material, except if your kink is also being turned on by the ridiculous.
Fuck this is going to be awkward to talk about.
I'm pretty sure the VG Cats guy went down that road. I haven't had the courage to check his site for quite a few years now
Just in case you are curious, the short of it is he ran into financial and relationship troubles, and resorted to drawing porn to make ends meet. Except, he wasn't good at it and it was clear it wasn't his jam. He eventually melted down, and deleted himself off of the internet, and tried to delete himself from the world. My understanding is nobody has heard from him in a long time, and some suspect he is no longer with us.
