Last game you finished and your thoughts

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc


So I've just finished this, what a unbearlievable game. This isn't a genre that I've really played, I did try VLS on 3DS but it never clicked with me but this from the get go I've not put it down. The soundtrack, the style and story are all excellent. The only thing I can find a bit of a problem, it does seem to go on a bit to long that's before even looking at the bonus mode or if your Andy and want to platinum it, I could imagine it taking 40 odd hrs. I will be buying the sequel which has all ready been confirmed for the west and even tempted to watch the anime maybe.

If you have VITA well worth a play but I think most of the VITA owners on here all ready have.

I'm giving this a high 8/10.

I disagree that it's too long and the bonus mode is a few hours at most to speed run so a plat won't be too tough. I felt the length was fair and I'm still desperate for more.

I think Silver light touched on the length as well in his review. I'm hankering for more Ronpa as well though (started bonus mode) but I've not got the time which according to HLTB is 40hrs for 100% with work and other games I would like play.

Just polished off Sonic Generations.

The final boss is broken, but other than that in the main it exceeds being the cynical nostalgia trip it could so easily have been- City Escape Act 1 might be one of the best levels I've played in a platform game for a while. I just wish it had a 'proper' special stage.

Finished up The Walking Dead Season Two's second episode.

Spoiler:

Just finished a little indy rpg called Massive Attack or Space Effect or something.


Bloody good it was, too! In every area, it was one little issue away from perfection.
The graphics looked great but the lip synching was pretty off. It was the opposite of a Nintendo game;  great texture and things,  but not quite Keeping up with the little things.
The world was big and incredible but a little samey and confusing in some locations.
The action was fun, but the weapons lacked physicality. It felt too much like a numbers game.
Then there's that story.  Sure, almost every single one of its big scifi ideas was stolen from Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica or, more than anything else,  Babylon 5, but the characters and worlds and aliens and intrigue were all spot on. Plus, Shepard's interactions with her crew were always engaging. Apart from Ashley. Ashley can Fuck right off. And in case you were wondering, my Shepard's choice was Liara. I'm a romantic at heart and watching those two interact I wanted them to end up together.
I'm definitely giving it 10/10 (because Cap tells me off if I use decimals. )

Now start the rest of them, the next one is more action in my view with the third being in between the first which I felt was more RPG. Like what you said about he weapons being more about the numbers & stats of the weapons.

Babylon 5's a big pile of shit.

I like Ashley even though she is a massive space racist.

My Renegade Shephard usually went with Ashley as he was a massive xenophobe. Friendly to most humans, but a total bastard to the alien races.

Mas; I'll play the other two soon. They're on my list but alternating. I've got a whole generation to play!
Babylon 5 was pretty crap. My parents were super into it, though, and ME definitely took some hints.
I ended up going 100% Paragon without even trying because it was normally a choice between one sane option and burning down an orphanage.

Spoiler:

Darksiders II: Argul's Tomb - packed in DLC for WiiU

Just finished it - apparently. Guys, if you're going to make DLC exist as a totally separate campaign, you have to make the campaign end when it's all done, otherwise the player will run around going "so where's the next checkpoint? Birdie, you're supposed to tell me!".
4/10

I hadn't unlocked enough dialogue options. I've kept an earlier save so I can go back, but I was trying to play it so whatever decisions I made I had to stick with them.

That's fair man - gives your decisions more gravitas I suppose!

A fair few posts have passed without me completing a game - this will never do.

Mighty Flip Champs

DSiWare is something that's largely passed me by, seeing as my DS and the Internet don't connect. I'd heard good things about MFC and liked its later sequel right enough, so I went for it. It's a great puzzle game with a lovely flip-screen mechanic, which is much more thoroughly explored than the elements of MSF. The only drawbacks are that it costs £7.19, for which you can pick up better eShop games, and it can be very frustrating to work out what to do on more complex levels.

8/10

Killzone Shadow Fall



So I finally finished this today. The story mode was okay nothing that special but enough to keep me going to the end. I've tired multiplayer a few times but it's just not clicked with me. It does look nice though and this being a launch game makes me wonder what we get at the end of the PS4s life.

So overall I'm getting it a 7/10 as it's a decent launch game and doesn't do anything bad but doesn't do anything amazing either.

The very definition of "alright if you're into the brand." Graphics a bit dated, but nice sense of scale. Quite fun to play but forgettable. Reminded me quite a lot of Starfox Assault, for some reason.

I waited for a bit before yabbering this time

SteamWorld Dig
Despite the fact that I have spent several hours a week for a year on Minecraft, there's a more therapeutic feel to SWD's mining sections; tapping away at a rock, nabbing a shiny gem, and knowing that you haven't got to spend ages trying to "craft" it into something less useful. The primeval "ping" of the satisfaction of trying to get a thing and then getting the thing; it's almost Casual. The last chapter does fall into the same "OhShitByTheWayStory" hole as e.g. Zack n Wiki, but without making it too dramatic, Image & Form provide a set of, albeit involved only in a minor sense, lovable characters. It doesn't outstay its welcome, a quick burst of fun. Also features a northern robot in a flat cap.

9/10

I never finished Steamworld, and I possibly never will. I found it incredibly average - average aesthetic, average music, average feeling of effort in/reward out, procedurally generated mines meaning that the world design was average at best (incredibly, the non-procedural bonus rooms were worse). The town was charming enough, I guess; and despite everything, I didn't stop thinking about it for a while after a substantial session, so it certainly wasn't forgettable.

But when the holes in the cave started getting massive in the last world, meaning that the mine felt less like my design and more like plonking ladders everywhere or risking running out of steam/space, I gave up. I'd give it a 6, maybe a 7, based on what I've played. (is hunted down and lynched by GNamers)

Every indie game deserves a 10 from me after playing Journey...

Andy's becoming a self-parody.  

Titanfall


So I got this on Tuesday, and been playing nearly of yesterday and today. The game has a campaign mode which is multiplayer with cut-scenes. So you play about 10 missions as the IMC against the militia then once you done that you can do it viceversa, the missions are based on death-match or capture points and you cut-scene before and after to process the story. So in cut-scenes you can see your character and the others your playing with. The story is rather basic is just there to make it feel like your fighting this big war but with no real difference if you win or lose, I was never on the winning team once as the militia but still got the same ending as the IMCs which I was won nearly all the missions. But you want to do the campaign to unlock stuff to use in normal multiplayer.

You feel like your just a cog in the war. The game is 6 v 6 humans which seems small but each team has grunts, so makes the battle seem bigger then they are. How the games play is great though, how it works is in team deathmatch it's the first team to 200 points, and you get 1 point for a kill of a grunt but 3 (I think for a human which are called pilots) and more for the titans which only the pilots can control.

The titans which is the many selling point from the name are okay but not great, I use mine in follow mode instead of piloting. So in capture points games I can run across walls etc to the point and my titan can take out enemies for me and keeps them busy. The free-running mechanic is cool and what sets it apart from other FPS as you can anywhere and much faster paced. The a shooting mechanic is pretty much like CODs.

I've put I've finished but like a FIFA or COD there is no real end point as you can keep playing multiplayer again & again, there is a level cap of 50 but you can prestige like in COD 10 times (it's gen something on this). So it can keep you busy for a while and there's a few different multiplayer modes and the campaign has some replay value if you like achievements.

Overall I've enjoyed playing this more then I have killzone or COD recently.

It gets a 9/10 for what it is, that's a online multiplayer shooter.

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

Before I start: Retro, I understand that you were probably running out of time at the end, but the last three levels may be the last things that people remember of your product.  You don't want to make them arguably some of the worst-designed, and inarguably some of the worst-soundtracked, in the game!  With that out of the way:


A great stand-up comedian - he'll have you in hiss-terics.  Erm, unlike me.

There are two sets of comparisons that probably should be made here.  It's a shame, in a way, because DKCTF is a fine game in its own right; but it's a fine sequel, and a platformer on a console loaded with good platformers (and that's arguably the only genre it's true for), so.

First off, how does it compare to Donkey Kong Country Returns?  Very closely, to no one's surprise, and if you're the sort where familiarity breeds contempt and you played DKCR not so long ago (on the 3DS, say), you might want to leave this on the shelf for a bit.  Oh, and the shadow thing was impressive the first time, but it really has lost some of its value here; and there aren't any further impressive filters.

But DKCTF goes to great lengths to solve the problems that its predecessor had, not that there were many.  Waggle to roll?  You can if you want, but assuming that you're sane, it's out.  That blow move, which you had to use on all those dandelions?  Subpar bosses (apart from the final one)?  That annoying pig trying to give you help you don't want, loudly?  Gone, gone, gone.  A rather cheap Hard Mode, required for the last few unlockables?  ...Yes, it still has that one.

The new additions are worth touching on, but no more.  The two extra Kongs are fun, and Cranky in particular does add his own thing, but they're not earth-shattering.  (Nor do they feel as desperate an addition as Yoshi's Island DS' babies, mind.)  After looking like it'll make you swim every two seconds at the start, swimming is really kept to one world, and works... mostly.  It's prettier, natch, even if the much-lauded changing camera angles add precious little; and has much more memorable music.  It does feel slighter, though, with two fewer worlds and about ten fewer levels.  Even with the delays, did Retro run out of time a bit?  And the final boss is a letdown after the mighty Tiki Tong.  Still, the others are much better - Mugly who?

Oh - and it's still hard.  That difficulty hasn't gone anywhere.   at Bopopolis.


Okay, so the shadow stuff still doesn't look bad.

Then, how does it compare to the Wii U's other top platformers?  Chances are that either Rayman Legends or Super Mario 3D World is going to be your favourite Wii U platformer (sit down, NSMBU, you had your moment in the sun), with RL being slick, pure and fat-free, while SM3DW throws ideas around like there's no tomorrow and is the harder game in its latter stages.

TF is more about the spectacle than either of those two.  First off: in my opinion, it has far and away the best soundtrack, even without having the music levels.  David Wise is a master, and his effort is right up there with Banjo-Kazooie in "great soundtracks for brown mammals to platform to".  Aesthetically, every level looks and feels different in a way the other two don't always manage, especially with regards to things going on in the background.  Even if the game doesn't have as many ideas to work with as SM3DW, you'll forgive that given the variety in the level themes.

As for the actual platforming, the pace lies between the sluggish non-analogue Mario & co. and the fast-and-floaty Rayman.  I found DK and his simian chums more fun to control than Mario (could be something to do with the analogue movement, maybe?), but less fun than Rayman (especially the swimming).  Conversely, the level design is arguably worse than SM3DW's ideas factory, but better and more varied than RL's (music levels excepted).  The enemy design beats both, as does the final boss (although RL's bosses were better overall).

The game's "secrets" don't tend to be as cleverly placed as the Green Stars or Teensies: secret exits are largely obvious or (in one case) completely irrational, while too many jigsaw pieces rely on collecting a set of bananas or breaking open a bulb.  It's more about the challenge of surviving for long enough to collect them.  Still, at least it has secret exits.  You know what it doesn't have?  Time limits.  And a good thing too.


Do you have to ring the bell?  Of course you have to ring the bell.

How does it fare, then?  It's a three-way choice between purity, ideas and spectacle.  Okay, that's unfair: TF does more than just spectacle, and does it as solidly as you'd expect its hero to.  It's enjoyable, even when it's breaking you over its knee.  So, which is the best of the three?  I can't decide, and fortunately I don't have to.  It's probably better than its predecessor, but I don't even have to decide that.  I just have to give it the same score I'd give the rest of them.

8/10

Oh, and have rubbish final bosses become a trend on the Wii U?  RL's was announced with as much fanfare as a stealth jet; SM3DW's had plenty of fanfare but the actual fight was one jump; and I can't even remember NSMBU's.

Well, I got the credits...

Dr. Luigi

It's Dr. Mario with a green HD sheen. A further novelty is the L-mode, which I couldn't get to grips with and have so abandoned. The on-line paired me with someone after a minute's wait and seems lag-free. However, even at the current price of £8.99, do you really want to play Dr. Mario again?

6/10