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Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Sun 21 Jul 2024 - 20:52 | |
| Here's a list of all the games I've given up on since March, in order of giving up. None of them are really big-ticket items, so I'm just going to group them all together. qomp2 - Kind of a Pong successor from Atari, 9/10 in Nintendo Life, and I actually kinda respect this. You have two controls, speed up and change vertical direction. Yes, only vertical. It's quite clever and the boss I got to was relatively well designed, but I eventually got very frustrated with the 'only vertical' bit. It feels like somebody here would like this though. Maybe Cappa or Jim? Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean HD - What MonolithSoft did before Xenoblade, a relatively well-received action deckbuilding RPG on GameCube but shinier. In theory all of those elements should add up to something I love, and I didn't mind it? But, I really wasn't feeling 60h+ of it. It's quite old-feeling, and the battling was average, and the main character's a bit of a berk. Also when I tried to image search it Duckduckgo took me straight to porn, so there's that. Penny's Big Breakaway - A 3D platformer squarely aimed at fans of Sonic and Billy Hatcher. I am neither of those, and so found the combination of encouraging you to go at speed (to shake off the penguin guards, for example) and explore the levels a match made in hell. I basically didn't like the way Penny handled at all, both she and the visual style felt squarely targeted at a source of nostalgia I just don't have. Unicorn Overlord - 3/10 and whoever bought it for me was an idiot.Megaton Musashi W: Wired - This is another, 'I don't hate it yet but I can't see 60h+ of this being fun'. Level-5's lavishly presented return to the big leagues, this is a mech-battling RPG with a heavy emphasis on combing through loot for mech customisation that didn't excite me and felt like it would only become more of the experience further in. Plus the story's the most generic shonen writing, and there are nasty bits of MMO in it (e.g. 'daily log-in rewards'). Tchia - And finally, this, today. Another Ninty Life 9/10, I basically need to learn that however much I like her writing, Kate Gray and I have very different tastes. This is a cosy-feeling indie BotW-alike with an admittedly neat transformation gimmick, with a really slow start that looks like sin on Switch. I think this might be good elsewhere maybe? Or if you're starved enough for games to push through the opening hours? Which I am not. Also: it was trying to be funny, and I didn't find it very funny. Have some screenshots for your pleasure: - Spoiler:
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| ![Go down](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | | Treesmurf Dry Metal Baby Princess
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![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Wed 24 Jul 2024 - 21:02 | |
| It's not often a "didn't finish" sells me on a game but qomp2 sounds great and Penny's Big Breakaway sounds even more my kind of thing than I already thought. Tchia is gash though, I'm glad you agree. |
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![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Fri 26 Jul 2024 - 21:46 | |
| And that's fine! Like I said in LGYF not so long ago, if my précises help people make their mind up in either direction then that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. ![Smile](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_smile.gif) And qomp2 genuinely should be a recommendation to some people. I basically threw a rage quit (combined with 'I've got too many games to play, I'm not wasting time on something that irks me') when I got stuck down a horizontal corridor with no way to go back for the umpteenth time, but up until then I genuinely thought there was a fair bit of good stuff in the game. Somebody more patient than me ought to enjoy it, and you have a child. Penny... eh. Read Cappa's views about that one over mine. Tchia had good ideas but the execution felt off, especially wrapped in the smallpox-ridden blanket that is its visuals on Switch. |
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| Penny’s Big Breakaway has a demo on all the systems now, and it’s been on sale with a hefty discount a few times as well. Even in July I think I’m ready to call it my Game of the Year. Nothing else I’ve played in 2024 comes close and, looking ahead, nothing looks likely to either. |
| ![Go down](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Three games, two of which I almost liked. - IT TAKES TWO (SWITCH):
![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 It-takes-two-official-nintendo-switch-reveal-trailer_x2c7.1200](https://sm.ign.com/t/ign_es/video/i/it-takes-t/it-takes-two-official-nintendo-switch-reveal-trailer_x2c7.1200.jpg) "(Switch)" is necessary here because this is obviously the worst version, with very evident graphical compromises - but that's not why The Lady and I dropped it. The actual crunch point was the second boss, annoyingly hard and with small windows to do anything, but the game was on thin ice before that. She's much more of a narrative gamer than I am (apart from a bizarre and unfortunate fondness for Crash Bandicoot), and she hated the writing. She's a child of a concluded relationship, and the idea that a divorce can be undone through a bunch of platforming challenges by the work of a dubiously voiced Book Of Lurve really stank out the joint for her. I wasn't far behind. Ultimately for all that I had fun with a fair chunk of the gameplay and enjoyed a 3D adventure that's built around co-op, that wasn't enough to compensate for everything this game did badly, including an odd lack of accessibility options for a modern co-op title.
- WORLDLESS:
![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 Wordless-launch-trailer](https://nintendoeverything.com/wp-content/uploads/Wordless-launch-trailer.jpg) I think that if I'd finished it, I would have liked Worldless. A vibesy space-based Metroidvania, you play a bunch of white dots that coalesce into a needlessly sexy female form occasionally, and something's going on with your people that looks like interstellar war. You jump around the environments in a traditional manner for the genre, solving puzzles and occasionally getting into turn-based combat. The puzzles were okay, the exploration was okay, the combat was good. I just wasn't compelled to finish it. It didn't have anything that sung to me to carry me through. What's more, the fact that fights and exploration are separate put a bit of a dampener on that essential for a Metroidvania, the contiguous-feeling world. So, when I say "I would have liked Worldless", I think I would have only given it a 7/10. If there had been other people to discuss it with, or any one thing that really stood out, maybe I wouldn't be posting about it in this thread. But there weren't.
- ANIMAL WELL:
![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 Animal-Well-3-2000x1270-1-1068x678](https://www.nme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Animal-Well-3-2000x1270-1-1068x678.jpg) I've got a lot of respect for Animal Well. There are definitely games I've finished this year that I think are worse than it. But, "I think it's good" and "I like it" are different things. Take the visuals. The creepy animals, the lighting, the swinging foliage. This is a beautiful game, but it isn't a vibe I like particularly. There are only so many attacks from rubber-necked ostriches I can take. Or the items. They're indisputably clever, more interesting than your average Metroidvania collection, and the use of children's toys adds a little 'unsettling playroom' vibe to the game that I think is good - but again, I didn't like them. There's nothing here that allows me to smash those stupid beeping glowing mice things, for instance. There's no power curve. The well is always the one with the power, and you are not. And the results of the exploration: clever puzzles, new strange animals, bizarre rooms (e.g. a bunch of caged cats), new items, a flame perhaps. Nothing I actually enjoyed finding. I've got a lot of respect for Animal Well. I wish Billy Basso all the best, and I'm glad he found success here. But I didn't like it myself.
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| ![Go down](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | | Buskalilly Galactic Nova
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![Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts - Page 39 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Last game you DIDN'T finish and your thoughts Tue 27 Aug 2024 - 6:22 | |
| I've heard that It Takes Two does subvert that expactation a bit, I think? |
| ![Go down](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Maybe later on in the game, but we'd have had to play through several hours of Dr. Hakim to find out and that wasn't a sacrifice worth making. - Also (VERY minor spoilers):
That's not what the Wikipedia synopsis suggests.
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| I have been playing a few games the last couple of weeks:
Fuzzball
A free game that is just Bumper Balls from Mario Party, with some gimmicks thrown in on top. It's perfectly mediocre, and I'm glad I didn't pay for it, but you'll get a more refined, polished version of this in any Super Monkey Ball game that has Monkey Fight.
What the Dub
Drawful and Quiplash are family favourites, and this looked like a fun addition for multiplayer sessions that can also be played with grandparents. You get shown short clips from old B-movies and then a gap is left for you to replace the audio, by typing in the text and "text-to-speech" does the rest. It's good fun, but your time will vary depending on who is playing. With an 8-year old and a 12-year old, pretty much all answers revolved around farts, insults, and death. Enlightening stuff.
Humanity
I've been trying to hammer this out before my Game Pass expires, and I'll admit, it's a brilliant puzzler. Often described as Lemmings with a dog, it is bigger and more challenging than I expected. You start by laying down directional arrows on dioramas, but it moves on to jumps, block-pushing and even full-blown war between your guys and "the others". The mood is quite sterile and colourless; it's going for a futuristic Minority Report aesthetic, which looks great, but the music is particularly bad. Thankfully, it's ripe for a podcast in the background. It also feels like a quintessential PlayStation game, so playing it on an Xbox felt a bit odd. The style and the UI all scream Sony. I recommend this one, it is definitely worth grabbing in a sale.
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess
I played this for an hour or so, but was put off by the repetitive gameplay loop. I get that it's going for the Onimusha/PS2 brawler thing, and it's a good looking game, but the way it bombards the player with tutorials at the start really overwhelmed and confused me. I did the first section, and then uninstalled it. |
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| I have the demo of Kumitsu-Gami downloaded but haven't played it yet. Its probably to my tastes as a specific genre of weeb.
I am interested in What the Dub, though, that might be fun with my family or something. |
| ![Go down](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | | Balladeer DIVINE LONELINESS
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| Kunitsu-Gami has a couple of very big fans in the Back Page Discord. This take offers some balance. |
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| Kunitsu-Gami was part of that mad week Xbox had like 5 day one releases on Game Pass (same week as the price increase), and tipped me to get a cheap Carbon Black Series S. I've still not played it, and feel talked about this before unless it's a down month even if the game is great, I'm not great at playing games in my sub, I'll soon be playing games like Astro Bot or ones that I know will be worse but as I bought them such as Dustborn then ohh Kunitsu-Gami still be there in 3 months time. Anyway Concord wasn't a game I could have really finished anyway, and I do often use this thread to talk Football Manager. However, you may have guessed I'm here now and not when I'm level 100 with my Platinum Trophy, as yesterday Concord went offline and I just got my refund (that buy some indies now, shame Yars Rising got a 4/10 from EDGE, so not that one). On Concord the game itself, I quite liked it the gameplay felt very Halo/Destiny you could tell the devs had worked on those games. I liked I just bought the game and got a "complete" package withy none of the f2p stuff other games seem to ended up having. My issues weren't that this was Guardians of the Galaxy at home, how Concord took 8 years and something like Astro Bot took 4 years (I know they had the groundwork with previous games) to miss the boat of GOTG etc along with live service games such as Overwatch though people seem pretty keen on Deadlock and Marvel Rivals. And there was the whole certain section moaning some Alien characters used they/them (like maybe that's what they're species are anyway) and you could see everyone's pronouns. No my issues were lack of modes as the game had 6 which really needed to be in a quick play type thing (moshpit on COD) where it would just put you in any of them, instead it was alwsy got to come out of this one go into this one then wait ages. Communication, you could tag enemies with the touchpad, but I would have liked an option to go let's go attack point A or I need healing or even some emotes that the characters have to give a wee bit more personality. The game had no ranked mode, sure each game had a point of a win and get exp for rep, unlock new gear though I would have liked a competitive ranked mode where my goal would have been let's get into gold. On gear, it never said how to unlock any of it, at least tell me ohh to unlock this skin for IT-Z you need to get her to level 25. Yeah, for me the core gameplay loop was great, just a lot of it around it wasn't fleshed out and people seemed to have issues with characters for whatever reason. When or IF, Concord will be back who knows but can tell you it's got a whole episode devoted to it on Secret Levels and people already trying to flog the physical copy (it's useless and can't remember people doing this for Babylon's Fall) and the DualSense for a pretty penny. |
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