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Shocktober V: The Dream Child

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M.K.Ultra:

--- Quote from: Evan_B on October 06, 2024, 04:26:35 PM ---I'm going to attempt my first Fatal Frame in Maiden of Black Water, and then try to finish out the month with Crow Country, which looked delightful when it was released on other platforms, but now I get to play it! Ha ha!

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Maiden of Black water is one of my favorite Wii U games. I am actually playing another Fatal Frame game now and will say more about it later.

M.K.Ultra:
Last week I completed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice on the XBox Series X. With the sequel having been released this year it felt like time to finally play the original. The game is quite creepy and perfect for Shocktober. In addition to the grim settings and enemies, the game really plays tricks on you mentally, on account of the eponymous Senua's mental psychosis. That kind of psychological scare that makes you question what you just saw gets me more than a jump scare or gore. The game is nice and short with a complete run taking me about 10 hours. You can also get all the trophies/achievements pretty easily with only one of them requiring extra effort. There are Lorestones hidden throughout the game and finding all of them is the one optional achievement. I was able to find them all without a guide since the game tracks how many are in each level and lets you replay a level to find more. I was not blown away by the audio or video quality like I thought even with the Series X upgrade, but maybe that is because of having seen footage of the newer sequel recently. This game is definitely not for everyone, but I found it to be original in quite a few ways and applaud the devs for taking risks. I will definitely check out the sequel at some point. Also, the game includes a "making of" featurette like they have in the special features on a home video release. As the game mentions, this does contain spoilers and should be viewed after playing the game. I thought it was a nice addition and wish more games would have something like this.

broodwars:
Well, a bunch of stuff I was looking to play got delayed throughout the month (my copy of Rain Code+ just got delivered, Alan Wake 2 got pushed back a few days, & Ys X is practically arriving in November), so to kill time I played through Little Nighmares 2 from my backlog and...I hate it. I'm a big fan of the first game, and I have no idea what happened here, but the devs completely lost the plot. The first game was clever and unsettling, and this prequel is just constant trial & error bullshit as you run through gauntlets of "gotcha" death traps designed to kill you until you memorize their exact positions and timing. And that's when you're not also fighting the game's camera to figure out where objects are in the world relative to your character.

Yeah, the 1st game's emphasis on cat & mouse stealth could get annoying at times (and that trophy for beating the game without dying is legendarily difficult. No, I don't have it), but this was not the right direction to go instead. Apparently, there's a 3rd game coming, and I can't say I'm looking forward to it after this.

In the last month, Sony added their extremely unnecessary, unwanted The Last of Us PS5 "remake" to the PS+ tier I temporarily have access to, so I figured I might as well give it a try. It's been probably a decade since I played the original game. Put a few hours in, and it's reminding me that there was once a time when I didn't hate this franchise and the homogeneity its success led Sony to embrace. The original Last of Us is a special game, and this is a good-looking "remake". It still shouldn't exist, but if you've for some reason never played the original Last of Us, it's definitely the best way to do that.

M.K.Ultra:

--- Quote from: broodwars on October 19, 2024, 10:21:29 AM ---Well, a bunch of stuff I was looking to play got delayed throughout the month (my copy of Rain Code+ just got delivered, Alan Wake 2 got pushed back a few days, & Ys X is practically arriving in November), so to kill time I played through Little Nighmares 2 from my backlog and...I hate it. I'm a big fan of the first game, and I have no idea what happened here, but the devs completely lost the plot. The first game was clever and unsettling, and this prequel is just constant trial & error bullshit as you run through gauntlets of "gotcha" death traps designed to kill you until you memorize their exact positions and timing. And that's when you're not also fighting the game's camera to figure out where objects are in the world relative to your character.

Yeah, the 1st game's emphasis on cat & mouse stealth could get annoying at times (and that trophy for beating the game without dying is legendarily difficult. No, I don't have it), but this was not the right direction to go instead. Apparently, there's a 3rd game coming, and I can't say I'm looking forward to it after this.


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It's a shame to hear Little Nightmares 2 did not improve upon the original. I only like the first game and did not love it. I prefer Inside and Limbo personally. I forgot to use my Pac Man amiibo to get that costume so I plan to replay it at some point just to try that out. I had the second game in some wishlists and it even dropped to around $25 US but I never did get it.

M.K.Ultra:
Nintendo has a bunch of Shocktober games on sale right now as part of the Screaming Deals sale. Check out the site for a full listing.

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