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Well i'm calling it, i completed Blasphemous i got the "good" ending but not the canon ending alas. A cracking 2d souls-like. Very little to fault it really, great graphics and gameplay. I would say perhaps just like a souls game a lot of the best stuff is hidden content, players will have to discover much of it on their own without much hand holding. So expect hidden walls, obtuse puzzles, secrets and side quests to completing the game.

With all the patches/updates there has been a good chunk of content that will keep you going for a while. once you've beaten the game, you can go to new game + with a much harder mode (AKA torment mode) that puts serious limitations on the player. in addition if you want to play the extra content, you have to be on torment mode. Outside of new game+ there is a boss rush mode to play.


So do i recommend it? For the price you can get this game on sale, Absolutely. in fact it was probably what i needed to play after a somewhat dissatisfied games i had quickly finished.
 
I'm pretty sure that the 100 rep race in Wheel World is the final race, in which case I've finished it. It's an absolutely brilliant game with a very nice soundtrack.
There's just something about flicking back and forth between corners and then boosting down straights. It starts out simple but the end races are more difficult, although overall it's not a difficult game at all. You really need a controller to play it though.

I played it via Game's pass and it took me just under 6 hours. On fanatical it's £12.39 at the moment which is not unreasonable for the game.
 
I finished the main story of Creeper World 3: Arc Eternal. It's a great game for anyone who loves turtling in RTS games. It's fairly simple, with a map usually taking about half an hour, and it's not particularly hard unless you try to go for high scores.

The basic idea of the game is that there are one or more sources of Creeper that slowly spread over the map and you have to built a web of resource nodes and weapons to drive it back and destroy the sources.

Only one of the missions has a timer and if you miss it you get another 20 minute timer with a slightly harder to reach objective, which was plenty of time for me. In all the other missions you can take as long as you like. As long as you can set up a safe perimeter before the Creeper reaches your base you can just slowly push back until you've won.

After the main quest line, which slowly introduces new buildings and new ways for the Creeper to spread, there are plenty of challenge maps to try, both official ones and user-made ones.
 
I treated myself with the newly released puzzle game „Is this seat taken?“ after finally finishing my MA thesis.
A short and sweet puzzle adventure that made a lot of fun. I did question at some point why there are so many people not showering when going to a party, or loudly singing on a train ride, but it made it an interesting challenge to place everyone with their noses and ears intact.
I loved the little story alongside the puzzles, as it was just the right amount to give a red thread theough the game and it made the game a wholesome experience in total.
Not sure if it will be as fun to replay the puzzles after I have completed it once, but maybe I will give it another try in one or two years.
 
Gears of War: Reloaded. They have done a really good job of upgrading the graphics. I played the original and it was definetly worth playing again. Even on normal difficulty you can easily get overwhelmed if you don't use cover. Well it is the original "cover shooter". The story is a bit cheesy. I wouldn't buy it, but playing it on Game Pass goes is worthwhile.
 
First guy to beat a game in September! haha

So, just beat Cronos: The New Dawn. Started playing its NG+ hard mode.

One thing i dont like, and i didnt even know this game had it until the end, are ranking systems esp. in single player games. Why am i being ranked on a SP game that i beat? I got a B but i feel like i should have an A for, you know, beating the game. I dont like ranking systems.

8/10 game. Good story, visuals, VA and atmosphere. Combat was pretty good but movement SUCKED. I can get into little things i liked and disliked but, if you like Dead Space or Resident Evil, give this game a try. Its also not all that long, took me 17 hours to beat the campaign on normal (hard is locked for NG+)
 
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One thing i dont like, and i didnt even know this game had it until the end, are ranking systems esp. in single player games. Why am i being ranked on a SP game that i beat? I got a B but i feel like i should have an A for, you know, beating the game. I dont like ranking systems.
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Does it tell you what sort of stats they are ranking you on? A singleplayer score attack style game makes sense to rank the player on, but I thought Cronos was a survival horror game similar to Dead Space.
 
Another batch of games completed, lets start off with what i was playing after my dose of POE. This time it was indie puzzle platformer Black the fall. Trapped in a soviet/communist hell, our unnamed protagonist decides to make a break for it and run away from his daily live of toil. Cue platforming, stealth and physics puzzling to make it to the end game. its a reasonably solid puzzle game with a strong asthetic. The puzzles aren't too difficult, the problems begin when its:

A: Too dark to see what the hell is around.

B: Your character moves between different planes on a 2d world. its not always apparent what can/cannot be manipulated without some trial and error.

c: Monkeying around making the physics work. There were parts of the game that nearly got me grinding my teeth in frustration if i weren't the fact that i was chewing bubble gum furiously at the time.

Still, its not the longest game. i took around 4.5 hours to complete. For replay, you can find some of the hidden areas or play that mini game where you shoot pumpkins on a train carrying nuclear missiles.

i got the game for free so i guess i can't complain. Its competent enough.
 
So we move onto the main event, completing the legend of heroes: Trails of cold steel. An Anime JRPG in the long running Legend of heroes series. The best way to describe it is a JRPG with a drizzle of persona's social elements thrown in. Whilst the game plays like your typical JRPG, there are few things in the combat to differntiate it from your usual fair. TLDR: i liked it enough to have a vested interest for the series despite its misgivings. Giving it a solid 7 or a low 8 out of ten.

For starters, players can move a bit when fighting giving a tactical Strategy/RPG element, hell you can even configure deployment positions if you want.

Secondly you can customize your abilities, whilst each character has an affinity to certain elements, its entirely up to you how you deck them out. Pick the element, whether its offensive/defensive, targets one/area/AOE or straight up passive abilities (like the boring but useful +HP bonus or defensive abilities)

Thirdly, the abilitiy to link with characters. Build your bonds and they will provide support with each other, such has protecting characters, helping to finish off near dead enemies, auto healing or just all out smash enemies. apart.

Speaking of bonds, like persona series, there are social aspects to build up your bonds with each other. So cue story and social activities to partake in and get some tidit bit story and character building. its a real highlight of the game as i spend down time doing side quests for various students, getting to know the NPCs and partaking in various events when exploring the numerous locations.

For a vita game it was surprisingly good. Visually impressive and besides the frame rate tanking at some areas, on the whole its very impressive. The voice work falls between bland to ok and the soundtracks are pretty banging near the end.

So whilst i found the game overall very solid, i do have some concerning critisims about the game.

The best way to boil most of my issues is that the game doesn't value your time. Time skips/jumps days/weeks ahead and if you remember how galling it was in persona series, its just as bad here, if not worse. i would have liked to spend the time exploring or just socializing or something. in fact it make socializing a precious commodity as you WON'T be able to complete all the social events available. To top it off, the events are unique for that day/year. persona it was fixed so you wouldn't miss any of the story or content. To add insult to injury some of these social events are critical to filling in the journal or notes pages. Miss the event? hope you have a save or try again in new game +. In fact the only way to really see them all is playing New game + and/or collecting the unlock to have unlimited social time. But this comes at the cost of more important stuff like retaining experience, notes, items etc or costumes.

The point it got super annoying was during exams. Since ToCS skips days, you don't know what is taught in school. So guess what? socialize with your colleagues to learn the answers to lore and drivel that you weren't given at all or to get hints to what the exam questions might be. Unless you save, you won;t have all the answers or questions.

but thats not all. The combat system takes a hit. Spells aren't instantanous unless there are special events that occur. But thats nothing compare to how some of the bosses are absolute damage sponges and take forever to whittle down. Especially those with no apparent weaknesses, so you can't reliably build up the critical points to do all out damage. Bafflingly theres no real reliabe way to recover Combat points to unlock combat abilities which is where all your special super abilities happen. Hell, even resting doesn't recharge them! heals health and MP but not CP. bloody annoying. you could be starting a battle with no reliable abilties and skipping turns trying to cast magic instead or doing weak attacks.

The other bug bear of the game is more personal and its that ToCS story is incredbily cliched, filled with mary sues, troupes, cringy dialogue, cheesy names you find in any anime. We have big bussomed classmates, magic, mechs, magic, demons and yes even a talking cat. The design of the characters isn't all that great, being very samey (because you know, school uniforms) and when you compare it with like Persona's its just no contest.

The initial prologue (that just baffling starts in act 5) is confusing and is supposed to get you properly pumped up. instead it just left me confused and just cringing at how hamfisted the whole thing was (OTT music, naff diagloue). it seriously left a bad taste in my mouth. But to its credit, give it the time and you do get to like/ care for the characters (which have some surprising depth to them), people and dare i say, interested in the story. it does get better near end once the lore is firmly established and world but it could have been done better. hell, maybe a geopolitical map would have been nice.

So... all said and done, did i like it? I did have fun with it and enough to clock in 100+ hours on my first play through and that's despite the annoying combat and aspects. The game did grow on me and i certainly have a vested interest in how it ends and going to play its sequel. One day. more importantly it did get out of that funk after losing my shin megami tensei save game file so it had to be doing something right. Would i recommend it? i think it gets a thumbs up but your mileage may vary. if you can get into it, you're in for a treat.
 
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Another game finished and tis the season, we're looking into horror. in my case Zombie night terror. An indie puzzle game, players are tasked with controlling zombies to complete objectives, most consist of:

A: Kill X number of humans
B: Get X number of zombies from point A to B

There are 4 chapters in the base game and a standalone 5th chapter . initially, things are fairly simple and nothing too taxing as you can simply throw waves of zombies at the humans. But as the game progresses, the difficulty (unsurprisingly) increases and verges on more puzzle then action as maps become more complex, you get a limited number of zombies and the humans become deadlier.

On the whole i enjoyed the game. its very tongue in cheek and the pixel graphics are jolly good. The best way to describe it is a zombiefied version of lemmings. Mechanically they function the same way; they only move forward and won't turn around without a wall or another special zombie to direct them. Some of the last few maps aren't all that entertaining to play as it requires ever increasing amounts of finesse or luck to manipulate the stupid zombies to doing what you want. it only gets worse when you try to complete the challenge objectives as most of them are completing maps quickly or with a handicap.

would i recommend it? i would say yes. it goes for a dirt cheap price and its a delight to play if you over look the occasionally annoyances. Outside of playing the challenges, you can try and play community maps or make your own.
 
I just finished Merchant of the Skies. It's a fairly straightforward trading sim, where you travel between islands to buy low and sell high, though in the late game you have to set up your own production buildings on empty islands and eventually set up trading routes for a fleet of ships.

It never becomes complicated though, which was perfect since I was sick while playing and didn't have the energy for anything too complex. Just flying between islands and doing some minor side quests was exactly what I wanted.
 
Another game finished. this time its Resident evil: Code Veronica X on the PS2. Its a sequel of sorts to Resident Evil 2 where claire continues her search for Chris and to bring down the umbrella corporation in Europe. Things go wrong and she is captured and placed in an unknown prison island. But just as she is incarcerated, the island is attacked, the virus turns everyone into zombies and her captors set her free. As the story progresses the main objective is to just get the hell off the island but soon it becomes get the hell out of the antarctic research lab.


As a veteran of the old RE games with fixed camera angles, i knew what i was getting myself into and i was right at home playing it. i would argue that perhaps code veronica is patient zero when the resident evil series dialed up the camp factor and the way the CV tries to play it straight makes it worse. There are plenty of generally unlikably annoying characters, especially steve.

Whilst i liked the game, it does have its flaws when it comes to gameplay the level design isn't the best and i felt it could have been improved. Especially the save rooms are far and few between. The camera angles also aren't as good compared to previous games, too many times the camera hides corridors or areas from view and several times i was stumped what to do next not realizing that there is more to it. But more worryingly, the idea to play between Chris and Claire doesn't work completely and at times can screw you over.

Chris and Claire will share the same storage so in theory Chris can use weapons claire finds and vice versa. The problem is that the first time you play it, you have absolutely no idea when the game does the switcheroo and typically Chris's story is much harder. For example, although Chris can pick up grenade ammo and crossbow ammo its pointless if you never get to use the weapon and its wasting inventory space collecting it. one character could be equiped with all the weapons you want and no way to get them back unless the game switches back to the other (which happens only once or twice). There is a risk you need to load a save game potentially a lot of replaying the game.

On the flip side, if you know what happens when, you can make adjustments like stashing the grenade launcher and crossbow for chris to use, it becomes a cake walk, especially against the hunters that appear in Chris's story. Come to think of it, RE:0 was what CV wanted to be, but tbh the 2 player coop mechanic in RE:0 wasn't good either.

Speaking of weapons they are a bit disappointing as well. The grenade launcher is a mixed bag performance wise, the crossbow is AWFUL without the firetipped crossbolts (infact its worse then the pistol!) and the shotgun is just not satisfying. but to its credit, the dual uzis/pistols is great at targeting multiple targets at once. Also you can escape grabs without taking damage if you break out quickly enough.

Outside of the main game, there is battle mode which is arena based combat game but i had no interested in that tbh.

So... do i recommend it, as a fan of Resident Evil series, i say yes. At least worth a play through just to see how things have progressed and also learn some background Lore along the way.
 
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Another game finished. this time its Resident evil: Code Veronica X on the PS2. Its a sequel of sorts to Resident Evil 2 where claire continues her search for Chris and to bring down the umbrella corporation in Europe. Things go wrong and she is captured and placed in an unknown prison island. But just as she is incarcerated, the island is attacked, the virus turns everyone into zombies and her captors set her free. As the story progresses the main objective is to just get the hell off the island but soon it becomes get the hell out of the antarctic research lab.


As a veteran of the old RE games with fixed camera angles, i knew what i was getting myself into and i was right at home playing it. i would argue that perhaps code veronica is patient zero when the resident evil series dialed up the camp factor and the way the CV tries to play it straight makes it worse. There are plenty of generally unlikably annoying characters, especially steve.

Whilst i liked the game, it does have its flaws when it comes to gameplay the level design isn't the best and i felt it could have been improved. Especially the save rooms are far and few between. The camera angles also aren't as good compared to previous games, too many times the camera hides corridors or areas from view and several times i was stumped what to do next not realizing that there is more to it. But more worryingly, the idea to play between Chris and Claire doesn't work completely and at times can screw you over.

Chris and Claire will share the same storage so in theory Chris can use weapons claire finds and vice versa. The problem is that the first time you play it, you have absolutely no idea when the game does the switcheroo and typically Chris's story is much harder. For example, although Chris can pick up grenade ammo and crossbow ammo its pointless if you never get to use the weapon and its wasting inventory space collecting it. one character could be equiped with all the weapons you want and no way to get them back unless the game switches back to the other (which happens only once or twice). There is a risk you need to load a save game potentially a lot of replaying the game.

On the flip side, if you know what happens when, you can make adjustments like stashing the grenade launcher and crossbow for chris to use, it becomes a cake walk, especially against the hunters that appear in Chris's story. Come to think of it, RE:0 was what CV wanted to be, but tbh the 2 player coop mechanic in RE:0 wasn't good either.

Speaking of weapons they are a bit disappointing as well. The grenade launcher is a mixed bag performance wise, the crossbow is AWFUL without the firetipped crossbolts (infact its worse then the pistol!) and the shotgun is just not satisfying. but to its credit, the dual uzis/pistols is great at targeting multiple targets at once. Also you can escape grabs without taking damage if you break out quickly enough.

Outside of the main game, there is battle mode which is arena based combat game but i had no interested in that tbh.

So... do i recommend it, as a fan of Resident Evil series, i say yes. At least worth a play through just to see how things have progressed and also learn some background Lore along the way.
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Honestly Code Veronica was my favorite RE back in the day on Dreamcast, and it could also be the fact it was the only RE at the time on Dreamcast. But RE 3 is my personal favorite out of them all from then. Congrats on beating it!

Also did you play on a PS2 or emulated?
 
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Honestly Code Veronica was my favorite RE back in the day on Dreamcast, and it could also be the fact it was the only RE at the time on Dreamcast. But RE 3 is my personal favorite out of them all from then. Congrats on beating it!

Also did you play on a PS2 or emulated?
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i emulated it. i saved scummed more then i expected as there were points in the game that really pushed me hard. Ammo is surprisingly tight in this game and the awful weapons didn't help. But on the flip side i had ammo to spare so maybe i should have gone a little crazy. But playing as Chris it was difficult when claire had the crosssbow and grenade launcher in her possession. What made it worse was trying to get that bloody shotgun you didn't really get it until you left the base. assuming you remember to grab it....

oh and the final boss was nothing short of annoying. even with save scumming it took a few attempts. The problem was that the little bugs stun lock you when you attack, so i couldn't even ignore them. All i could do was just fire my weapons do some quick dodging and hope for the best.
 
for me,in recent days especialy, i have been mentaly craving virtual towers online-my gaming laptop is going into PC specialist to get sorted out on monday,up till now i cant play the simulation because the chargers jack constantly falls out the charging port and it masively impacts on the frame rate of the rides you go on.
ive never been to alton towers though dont live that far from it really,and all ive heard since i was a kid was my sister ranting on to my parents about how good alton towers is. if your settings (well,your computer) are good enough,you can get around with no major issues.try it!! i was quite late to discover this,but i found it for free on steam-top simulation, get it if you have a decent setup up folks.
it almost makes me feel like im there with absolutly naff all acess issues (im a rigid active wheelchair user from a spinal injury, im severly epileptic,severly autistic & mildly learning disabled and struggle to comunicate my needs across to places even though im with suport staff 24/7-although i did go to a rather lovely nightclub a coupple of weeks ago to watch one of the DJs from keinemusik play a tech house set and i got lovely acess to VIP,but thats a completly different bag to gaming.
 
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I finished Hell Is Us. Its a pretty good AA or B game, its trying to do some things different that dont always hit 100% but worth a look, even if just for the sound design which is really, really good.

A third person, semi open world, action/adventure game with puzzles ala Tomb Raider. Set in a fictional European country during a civil war sometime equivalent to around our 1990, you play as Remi who grew up in the country of Hadea and left as a child. Remi's a soldier for a UN peacekeeping type organization and he's gone rogue to return and find his parents who he hasn't seen since leaving 20+ years ago. Pretty soon you start delving into ancient tombs and the history of the area and people which are responsible for the weird stuff that's happening.

Story and setting are interesting and have something to say about war and prejudice, although its a bit on the nose at times I didnt find it flippant. There's a civil war going on between two denominations of the regions religion, Sabinians and Palomites. Obviously then this isnt a light hearted game, the whole world is burning around you and theres few jokes involved. Content warning for depictions of violence, executions, and other stuff that happens in a genocide. Voice acting is good, dialogue is a little wooden from NPCs but good video game level. The art design of the mysterious creatures along with the sound design does a lot of work to make it feel distinct, with eerie spacey ambient synth noises which are different for each level. Without spoiling anything many enemies from early mid game onwards have elemental qualities and there are several types from each 'element' with different move sets which are very surreal. No human enemies to fight, its all monsters here. But you know, arent we the real... anyway.

The devs state at the beginning in a message they dont have any kind of minimap or other kind of UI overlay as part of their design philosophy. In some levels there are in game physical maps to look at, but its a menu item you need to select from a quick slot. Theres also a compass that needs to be activated to use, to help navigate by memory and landmarks. On your Nokia communicator-esque tablet/Pip boy is a quest log of sorts but you have to do some work to figure out exactly where to go and what to do, from notes, messages and directions from conversations with NPCs. This works quite well, and overall I didn't have much problem figuring out what to do, but you do need to pay attention to the world and read letters and signs. Similarly the puzzles are mechanically fairly simple, but require you to pay attention to conversations, tapes, notes and the environment. I took some actual paper notes playing this one.

The overall structure of the game once it opens up is a series of self contained semi open world levels which contain dungeon areas as well as open ones. An APC which serves as a base will automatically drive you around via cutscene, and any level is accessible at any time once they're unlocked through story events. There is back tracking for quests and hidden stuff to find in each level. some of which is unlocked after main quest events. Finishing the main quest wont lock you out of cleaning up extras if you want to, which is good for those who want to 100% things. I found the few dungeons to be mostly well designed, with loops and verticality. A little confusing without a map but after a few circuits they became easier to navigate with experience.

The combat is fun but not world class. I played it on normal difficulty and theres a good variety of fast/slow/mid weapons to build in the various elemental powers with slottable abilities both active and passive to try out. Its all melee with some active abilities that will stun or launch projectiles on cool downs and limited by a 'mana' bar. There's a drone companion that has 4 slots for different skills, I found it useful early on but a bit superfluos by the end, but its possible you can build around it to stun enemies, I didnt need to try on normal difficulty. Ive heard people wonder whether its a Souls like, its not. Enemies don't respawn after hitting save spots and once you've killed normal enemies they're gone even if you die as well, but do return if you APC to another level then come back. It is possible to permanently remove enemies, but its a semi spoiler as to how so I'll leave that there. There are some boss fights along the way that take you out of the games normal combat mode, aesthetically they were interesting but I wasnt amazed by the design. They werent major roadblocks, werent offensive and arent the focus

Overall its budget shows in a few things, Remi the main character cant jump over knee high fences in the name of level design, and the enemy variety could have been better by the end. but if you can accept that for what it is, its a fun game and worth the full price if you like 3rd person action games.

8/10
 
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I finished Cyberpunk 2077 today. At least the main mission, I skipped quite a lot of optional content.

Gameplay is great. I went for a stealth build and never got tired of hacking the cameras, taking a couple of enemies out with quickhacks and then shooting the rest with my silenced pistol.
Progression felt good too. Both money and crafting components kept being valuable right up to the point where I had bought every upgrade I could get. Similarly for perk points, each one was valuable for my build right up to the end.

The worldbuilding is great too. There are a ton of details that just make the world feel like an actual place rather than just the backdrop of a game. From the slang to the different levels of cyberware visible in different characters to the bits of lore you can find scattered about, everything works together to immerse the player in Night City.

The story is above average for a video game. Nothing particularly groundbreaking, but at least I never felt like I was just doing fetch/kill quests (except perhaps for retrieving those cabs, but even those missions were still interesting).

This game is not great for playing for short sessions though. Because it's in an open world there's quite a bit of traveling involved, even with the many fast travel points, but I found manually driving a car to be an exercise in frustration most of the time. There is an autopilot, but you do have to babysit it in case it gets into a collision and stops working.
There is also just a lot of talking. I fast-forwarded every single piece of dialogue the game let me and just read the subtitles instead. The worst parts were when you had to follow someone while they talked at you, because you'd have to alternate between fast forwarding their dialogue and then running after them.

Luckily I didn't encounter any game-breaking bugs, it seems the game has come a long way from its terrible launch. The only bug that was somewhat annoying is that, when summoning my car, it would frequently spawn in the air and end up upside down with no way for me to flip it, but walking away a bit and resummoning it usually fixed the issue.

All in all I enjoyed the game.
 
Not games per say, more like Doom2 wads.

First up Ad mortem a halloween inspired Megawad. Filled with skeletons, pumpkins and a couple of fantasy monsters. visually its very good, but being a community effort, the difficulty lets it down as it's just all over the place. its a challenging Megawad and at worst is filled with dick move deployments. For example, collect a secret powerup and an explosive monster rushes in from behind. Or perhaps claustophbic combat with little or no movement. All too common enemies just materialize out of thin air in front of you and some of the monsters are annoying as hell. The souped up Cyborg Revenant thing has a homing rocket launcher that does massive splash damage. But its still a play but it can get fustrating at times. i would probably give it a 3/5.


The other one was a bit of a surprise to me. Declared New Apolcalyse. DNA takes place after doom 2 where doom guy breaks out of hell to face off against the 4 horsemen of the apolcalyse. its only half as long as your standard megawad but my god the effort gone into this one is brilliant and is filled with plenty of horror touches and detail that only i could dream of making. Admittedly, the first 2 maps aren't all that exciting but it does give you a taste of things to come. Further on you go, the more impressive it gets. The Wad is full of modifications and game changing mechanics adding new weapons and a wide number of enemies so it plays slightly differently to your typical wad. I would argue that some of the changes aren't great, like moving the chainsaw to 0, having the chainsaw fuel explode on shooting it or the grenade launcher being a weak alternative to the rocket launcher.

The difficulty of DNA in the Readme file stated it was hard and yeah it was. The challenging monsters, the lack of ammo and health made combat pretty difficult and you really needed those secrets to keep alive as some encounters were just brutal. In the pendutlimate map Alexandria the central hub area may have plenty resources but you would be foolish to use too much of it as it also acts as the arena for the boss.... oh what joy i had walking into the boss fight with just 40% health and the upper areas sealed off. ultimately i had to cheat through it as the boss was pissing me off with the lack of ammo and health available. if you thought that wasn't hard enough level 15 (i had to cheat to get into) pits all four of the bosses at once.

That being said, DNA was a fantastic WAD. I would recommend playing on easier difficulties or cheating through certain areas certainly just to experience one hell of an technical achievement it was.
 
RoboCop Rogue City. Right now its 90% off.

I liked this one quite a bit. An FPS with some light RPG elements, beautiful graphics but you can see this wasnt a game with a huge budget, one map is reskinned for several different levels, character models re-used and some jank. Despite all that I found it quite charming. Robocop is dishing out cheesy one liners, and the story is B grade stuff, compelling enough to keep the game rolling forwards but self aware enough to be pretty funny at times too. Particularly hilarious are the death shouts of thugs as they ragdoll to the floor limp and just too late to take seriously you a get a 'ARRGGHH MY HAND'

Robocop is very slow moving and cant really duck behind cover, to compensate for that there are active shield and healing abilities and all the enemies aside from a boss fight or two go down quick. Its a slightly different take on FPS than the super fast moving or cover based stuff, almost makes it like a shooting gallery. It works well for the most part, except for one or two boss fights with giant robots where I found it a little frustrating trying to hide behind pillars because the boss was to powerful to tank hits from.

There are maybe 10-12 different skills to upgrade with experience you earn from killing stuff and exploration in the levels. Each skill has 3 levels at which you gain an active or passive ability. Most of them are combat and health related, a shield, power punch, bullet time, and more but I didnt find all of the skills useful on normal difficulty at least. Related to that, there are 'PCB's' that upgrade Robos pistol along with components you add in to them in a kind of mini game in the menu. Having done a fair amount of exploration, I was able to turn my pistol into essentially a Mini Gun with infinite bullets that never needed reloading and did twice its base damage per bullet. Fun as it was to essentially hold down fire and hose down entire warehouses of bad guys, it made the last maybe 3 levels on normal difficulty basically a walking simulator, including the bosses.

The jank I mentioned only really showed up a couple of places. In one side quest where I was trying to rescue a lady from a burning building the only way to prevent her dying over my shoulder was for some reason to walk backwards down some stairs. Also there are investigation segments where you have to scan a scene for evidence, and a couple of times the '?' in the relevant place didnt appear for some reason.

The surprising thing for me was the amount of conversation and exploration in the game. I was expecting a straight up shooter, but actually the levels reminded me a little of Deus Ex, where you explore and find random encounters and side missions dotted about. The story here isnt great as I mentioned, but its quite self aware and did make me chuckle a few times. There are also choices you can make related to a lot of the characters you meet who weave in and out of the story as you go along. I dont think they make any difference to the gameplay or level path, but you can choose to support the OCP corp or go against them in a few different situations and probably get different outcomes in the very end cutscene.

Took me 16 hours did most stuff 85% cheevos.

Anyway, its nice to put my thoughts on it down here and collect them somewhere. If you read the whole thing, congrats!

7/10, but a really fun 7/10.
 
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