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Finally, a positive outcome from GG

There are three or four indie devs I give a pass to, but the rest of you should be making derivative games based solely on Treasure’s N64 masterpiece Mischief Makers.

I’m a big fan of Syndicate. I think if you managed to divorce it from AC as a whole it could have been an all-timer of a game, but as-is it’s just a pretty well realized late-stage AC with a great setting and some really neat ideas here n’ there, which is more than I can say for most of them.

And there’s a train! I love trains

Assassins Creed Syndicate solves every problem in the series by letting me pal around London as a really cool lady and kill the British tho, so there’s that!

If you could set aside 4 hours and 18 minutes today for my new video, that would be much appreciated.

I found a really cool thing related to jumpstart. Someone has been making custom jumpstart packs for a lot of different sets, and they've made a website where you can draft two packs of it and get a decklist

linghaosmith.github.io/Jumpstart-Un...

My dad just got me to watch the first episode of the show Slow Horses and then it was 4 hours later and I had watched most of the first season.

in case you missed it, Brush Burial: Gutter World is OUT NOW.
you can get it for $9 on launch discount.

I saw it in theatres on release. The children were that starved for werewolves

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I’m only half-lying

There’s a really bad movie based on a pretty bad book about that.

Absolute game changer.

Finale Pyramid Head fight still kinda sucks, but that was probably always gonna be the case. Final boss was so heavily improved it’s stunning.

James, I think, comes out as remake’s best adapted feature. Actor is excellent, and the little moments are so good.

SH2R great!
But SH4 still the GOAT =)

SH2:R just kept getting better at it went on. I still think the Hospital is probably it’s most successfully handled location, but both Prison and Hotel are great. Never felt tedious or blocked, backtracking never felt bad or over-wrought.

Abstract Daddy rework was a huge win. It was always so odd how it was handled OG SH2. The new one isn’t mind blowing or anything, but it’s a fun sequence leading up to the (very easy but decent) fight. Loved how he looked.

Eddie fight was actually fun, which is a triumph of gargantuan proportions.

SH2 Prison was also very good.

The game definitely has that quality almost every Survival Horror game has tho, where the first few hours are a stressful mess of low to no resources, and then once you hit the middle + onward you’re just absolutely drowning in ammo if you spend any time looking.

SH2R hospital was tops.

James continues to be endearingly the worst, and Maria really has a lot of room to feel like more than she did in the original.

As for the others, Laura and Eddie are about the same, with Laura’s new VA putting her a bit ahead, but Angela is really great this time around.

Gorgeous 🥰

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Real. The attack strings in ER felt really impressive on my first run, like something I had to adjust to and truly learn, but it really did just end up being a lot of ‘stop damaging for a bit’ over and over. Certainly hurts the ‘duel’ fantasy.

I do still love many of the bosses, but… yeah.

Learned behaviours/ built up skills make a huge difference, but ER more than most Soulsies really does have that ‘wow, this weapon is… uh… wow.’ quality.

RE Village asks us the question: What if we had the a bunch of really cool ideas, none of which fully get fleshed out, ultimately leading to a disappointing confluence of potential and payoff.

Also it’s awesome.

Oh yeah, this’ll be a problem.

I’ve seen a smattering of folks really turned off by the Octopath 0 demo, but I haven’t seen any info on why, which has made me much more likely to play the Octopath 0 demo.

I’m watching a really good video on why Resident Evil 5 is derivative and dull; very well made.

Unfortunately, I like Volcano Wesker.

I just found out about Lobotomy Corporation/ Library of Ruina/ Limbus Company and I fear I may have stumbled into a new obsession.

I think GDT Frankenstein would be made about 30% better by the removal of a few bits of dialogue, and with a little bit more faith in the audience. It really does feel like somewhere along the line someone made the call that ‘you really should be able to tell who the good guy is,’ which is painful.

TIL Nadu was still legal in legacy until just now.

GDT Frankenstein quite good. It’s a neat take on split subject matter (maybe 15% film, 50% Novel, and 35% new), and interestingly the most pro-creature version of the story I’ve seen, unfortunately in ways that shave a good bit of the moral complexity away.

Still, a great watch.