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Leon's Mahjong (iPd) by berliner (Dec 26th, 2025 at 04:17:38) |
Today I've finished all the new mini boards add on. They are quite fast to finish.
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BALL x PIT (PC) by jp (Dec 21st, 2025 at 14:13:17) |
So, I finished it - and there's a new game +, but it is now starting to feel really grindy.
I'm a bit annoyed tbh, but I realize I'm being stupid here. So, there's a trophy for clearing all the levels for each character (1 trophy per character), and when I triggered the "true" end of the game (prior to whatever the true ending of new game + is), it reset the pit - and it takes a lot more clears to get the next level of the pit, which means that I sort of have to play the game all over again, grindier, just to get those trophies if I really want them. And I kind of do, and kind of don't, but I would if I could go back to the regular version - because then it's less of a grind and more like "mopping up".
I did unlock some crazy new ball evolutions that was fun! (according to the in-game encyclopedia, I've now done them all). I might play a bit more, but mostly for "mopping up" - there's some item evolutions I haven't figured out yet, but we'll see how much more patience I have.
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Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom (PS4) by jp (Dec 21st, 2025 at 14:08:07) |
I've played about three hours at this point, probably in the middle of chapter 2 (I'll see if it's the middle or not because I've just landed in a new area - the valley of something-or-other).
I think that one of the things I've enjoyed most so far has to do with the fact that I played the first game a while ago and I don't remember much about the details, but that it's all slowly coming back, but as a sort of warm fuzzy memory. I need to check details, but the games are pretty different - the combat system here is active, not turn-based, but was the first game turn based? I don't recall, would have to check. But still, the general vibes and wonder of the world is still here in interesting ways. The colors, the art, etc. - BUT, you can tell that it is all now one step removed from the earlier Ghibli collaboration. The style is slightly different - not off, or bad - just different. You wander around an open-world area, avoiding monsters if you want to, picking up loot (shiny glinting sparkles to walk over), and meet interesting characters.
This time around there are "higgledies" - strange creatures that have some sort of elemental assocation, they're like spirits, but not really, they remind me of the Kodama (the little white creatures that rotated their heads) from Princess Mononoke, but also the fire sprite from Howl's Moving castle. They appear in combat and you can trigger them to help out. They can also (if you have the "right one") help with things in the environment - for now a buried clover leaf that, when activated, creates an updraft you can ride to a higher location.
It's all sweet, and nice, and interesting. So, I'll keep playing until it is no longer that.
The only thing that's surprised me negatively is that the camera distance seems weird. Some areas are thirdperson, but kind of close, and the camera moves really fast and I just seem to get a bit dizzy as I run to the next location (they're super linear, tbh). The overworld view seems really pulled back - I like being able to see the scope of the scenery (super cool), but sometimes wish I could bring the camera in closer? I think I might need to figure out if I should play a certain distance from the TV...
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Assassin's Creed Unity (PS4) by jp (Dec 20th, 2025 at 17:17:37) |
The weirdest thing happened when I booted this up to play last night.
There was already a saved game! In my name! About 7% through the game - so, not very long or very far, but I couldn't remember playing this at all! I thought perhaps a family member did? Nope they all said. The saved game was from 2019...so , not TOO old - as in, if it was me, surely I'd remember?
Oh well, no problem, I'll just start a new game.
You can't.
I couldn't find anywhere in the interface where you could start a new game, delete your saved file, nothing! I googled, and everyone was saying you had to turn offsyncing with Ubisoft's Origin - which won't work because I'm on PS4 AND, the saved file is in Sony's cloud saves... and I couldn't figure out how to delete a file from there either. You can only upload/download...which was really frustrating.
Oh well, let's just play one of the first missions - see how it goes..
And, it goes poorly - not gameplay-wjse it's just that the whole thing was pretty buggy - I saw characters doing weird things (floating in the air, etc.) but more importantly - significant mission triggers - didn't trigger! I continued, and eventually they worked out...so, I decided to just move on to the regular missions and just be ignorant of whatever story had happened...
So, I start an assassination mission - kill a guy inside Notre Dame - neat. It says there are different entryways, alternate missions you can do to make it easier and so on including a short scene with a priest who's locked out at the top and complains his keys have been stolen.
I wander around outside, getting the lay of the land, and notice there's a target - person with keys - so I steal the keys! Yay! Making progress - and then I realize I can pretty much climb up the walls of the cathedral, so I do.
And then I get to where the priest was complaining - and I use the keys to unlock one door. The other doesn't unlock - the priest just stands there - I go around unlock the door from the other side, and still no effect. Later on I die..so I start over, but this time my characters (Arno?) automatically unlocks a door and the priest goes like "thanks". Oh! But then, nothing else happens...and then some other part of the mission gets borked.
At that point I decide to bail, because this game is now old - I'm playing, I supposed, the version with all the patches and fixes...amd it's still THIS janky? Wow.
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Banner Saga Trilogy (PS4) by jp (Dec 6th, 2025 at 14:27:00) |
I started playing this back in October - maybe earlier? - and it was really confusing for me. Mostly I kept making mistakes I blame on the interface. For example, I'd select a character, move it, and then try to attack only to realize that I wasn't adjacent to the enemy like I thought. So, I'd miss a turn, my characters would die - but, I moved on. In the sense that I know this game is supposed to be sad, there's attrition, you make do an move on. But overall combat was really fiddly for me - I'd bungle selecting characters, and I wasn't really understanding the system.. does facing matter? are there attacks of opportunity if you move away, etc. These aren't dealbreakers for me, I was happy to try to learn and figure things out, and since you can't really save, it just continues - I though I'd just see how far I could get. Especially since it seems really brutal! I think the upgrade points are basically how you heal? Only two points at a time - so, it really is attritional. Or maybe I'm really misunderstanding the progression system.
I did think it was interesting to follow the different stories - I have a hard time following the names and whatnot, but just seeing there were two groups, different character abilities, and such seems interesting.
Then other stuff got in the way and I wasn't able to continue playing for a few weeks.
I just came back to it, and wow - still the same UI stuff and ugh. I just don't feel like it's worth it to continue playing (a drawer full of other PS4 games doesn't help). I wonder if the console version is just worse than sitting at a desk on a PC? As in, would I make as many mistakes if I was on mouse and keyboard with the screen much closer to my face?
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Serious Sam: First Encounter (PC) by Sharkeyx |
| A simple, but very challenging shooter. Fun to just burn some time on, but nothing deep enough to play it for long stints of time. |
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most recent entry: Tuesday 29 March, 2011
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Description:
Alien forces called Mental are destroying all of humanitie's outposts throughout the galaxy and have come to earth now. It is up to Sam "Serious" Stone, in recognition of his many victories against the enemy, to obtain an artifact left on Earth called the "Time Lock" to go back in time to prevent all of this from happening and defeat the enemy there.
Player/Game Mechanics:
The main character is Sam "Serious" Stone, a decorated hero in the wars against Mental. The game can be played as either a first person shooter or a third person shooter with the click of a button. As the player travels through the different levels they find more weapons (up to 16 may be found through out the game). Each weapon is nicely varied from each other to help accomplish certain roles and gives a nice bit of variety in the gameplay and how the player may complete each level. The player must navigate through the maze of each level and solve simple button puzzles to unlock doors or disable traps to proceed. Enemies will spawn as the player continues through the level, and upon defeating certain enemies, as well as when the player tries to pick up certain items on the ground or crosses certain thresh-holds in the level (similar to the old school Doom games).
Graphics/Sound:
The Graphics have been updated with new textures and character models in the HD remake that I played. The graphics are bright and mostly open areas, and the enemies really pop out of the background with their varied forms being distinctly out of place for the Earth environments which they find themselves in. The sound plays an integral role in the game, as each enemy makes certain sounds as they approach you to alert you to what enemies may be trying to blind-side you.
Levels:
Each level is based in a different area, which makes each area fresh to the player as they traverse the multiple levels on their quest to obtain the "Time Lock."
Game Session 1:
I played through the first few levels and in the initial levels I started with a combat knife and a revolver. The revolver had infinite ammo, but had to reload after every 6 shots. The levels were very open at first which made dispatching the enemies very easy before they could get close enough to do anything. The movement is pretty fast in the game which allowed me to be able to sidestep most attacks. I found a dual-revolver weapon pick-up a little way through which greatly helped since the enemies began to spawn in larger numbers to try and overrun me, but overall I thought the game was overly easy and no real challenge. Once I found the shotgun it allowed me to quickly dispatch the only enemy that gave me a problem, which was a skeleton bull that charges you. Was reminded of old school Doom as I went through the levels because when ever you enter a room it may be empty, but as soon as I would go for a health pick-up or armor enemies would spawn right behind or around me.
Game Session 2:
I continued the game where my last session left off and was pleasantly surprised to see the difficulty ramp up considerably. Particularly when I found the coachgun (double barreled shotgun). When I entered the room it was a massive Egyptian architecture room with many pillars, and as soon as I approached the gun I was met with tons of enemies continuously spawning as I defeated them. It became evident that the game was just going through a warm-up in those early levels. There was also quite a bit of old 90's action humor mouthed by Sam as I defeated enemies or encountered more or found new gear/weapons. Also, I found a reference to Indiana Jones where he was being chased by the boulder, and had a good laugh. Once I found all the elements that I was sent to find I went to a city called Memphis where the enemies became much larger and greater in number, but I also found a Rocket Launcher and a Tommy Gun to help even the odds. I ended my game session in the middle of a desert where I had to fight off all the enemies I had previously fought, but in large waves of each that just continued to come until I was overwhelmed by all of them.
Overall a fun game to kill time with and it also has co-op which should be fun, but without anything that really grabbed me I found it hard to continuously play the game.
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