T w e n t y S i d e d
This week I’ve been playing Slay the Spire, with a few Next Fest games mixed in.
Slay the Spire is going well, I got to ascension ten with The Silent, and finally trying to play The Watcher better.
Aside from that, I played the demo for YapYap. A game that is pretty much the reverse of R.E.P.O. instead of collecting valuables you’re destroying them, and instead of robots you play as little wizards that can cast spells with voice commands. Unsurprisingly it’s a bit janky at times, and the UI can be unclear due to a complicated font. But it’s a good idea nonetheless, and I look forward to seeing what happens with it.
The other game I played was Tears of Metal. A rougelike with gameplay that feels a bit like Hades. But instead of playing as the son of Hades, you’re leading a Scottish battalion trying to take back your homeland. I like how many fodder enemies there are. I don’t know what else to say. It’s fun.
What’s everyone else up to?
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In Atlas Fallen I reached the third and maybe the final but very big area. I switched from Mouse/Keyboard to controller. Somehow that is visually more clear. In most brawler games I have a better view controlling the camera with the mouse (Arkham/PoP series for example), not so in this game. The game is good but nothing comes of as extra ordinary good, just good.
In P5R I reached the third palace and unlocked the next Phantom Thief – Queen. Not the red head I thought will be the next member. As that read head is prominent on the cover, I have no doubt that she will join some time later. Somehow I still get new bonds (politician, high school detectiv, homeroom teacher, and finally Yosuke). Hard to say when the game let me have the time to develop those bonds.
Some of the dialog is hard to endure. Especially Sae and that high school detectiv (such a trope) jump to wild conclusions out of the left field. And I’m not sure which law they want to enforce? Even fantasy Japan will not have laws against “stealing someones heart”.
And when Sae verbally assaulted Queen for no good reason I thought: WTF? Are you totally drunk, lady? As that was a key moment to awaken Queen, the Awakening feels stale.I was fed up constantly overshooting in Snooker 2019 so I downloaded an iso of the PSP version of World Snooker Championship 2007 to play on my anbernic. I have the PSP game in my collection but no running PSP anymore. Much better game than 2019 even though the graphics are junk. Positional play is/was possible as you can adjust the power of a shot correctly. An 80 break was not that hard to accomplish, so a Century is just around the corner.
Coop still feature No Man’s Sky. Not much coop in this game, not much to do for myself at this moment.