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Khushrenada:
Holy crap-oli!

It's over a week into August and it just hit me that normally we should be doing BacklAugust at this point. Ugh! Just a sign of how gaming has really decreased for me even more this year as I put my time into other things. And not posting regularly on here has also had an effect.

So, is there anyone out there that's still playing games and wants to dominate this month by completing a few games? Check on in and make a post about it. Anyone still want to achieve a goal of completing something before the month runs out? Talk about it here. There's still 2/3rds of August left so still time to make something of the month before the summer is almost over.

Last year was the lowest total of beat/completed games at 36. With this delayed start, I'm guessing we'll probably see a final number lower than that but maybe I'm wrong and there's still time to stun the world with a strong gaming finish. Just how dead are the forums one year later?

broodwars:
I was wondering if we were going to do one of these, and as it so happens I have one to add to the pile already: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony (PS4), which I just finished a few nights ago.

This one's been in my backlog for years, essentially because the 1st case of this game REALLY pissed me off at the time, both because it lies to the player in a MYSTERY game and because it fridges a potentially interesting female character to further a lesser dude's story arc.

This game...is hard to talk about in this setting, because this game is incredibly polarizing in the Danganronpa fanbase explicitly due to its final case: the game's ending. Maybe it's because I already knew the big twist going in BECAUSE it pissed so many people off (and maybe it's because I knew the main storyline got a mediocre anime conclusion), but I'm actually pretty OK with the ending despite it basically being 3-4 hours of the developers raising their middle fingers at the Danganronpa fanbase and telling them how much they hate them.

No, I'm not exaggerating about that in the slightest. The final case of Danganronpa V3 is the staff airing their grievances with the Danganronpa fanbase, basically calling them bloodthirsty psychotics that force them to make games they didn't want to make anymore.

And then this same team went on to make Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (and a lot of the same staff worked on the Akudama Drive anime), so that sentiment was full of ****.

Perhaps I'm also not pissed off because I found the rest of the game extremely "safe" as far as this series goes. Lot of recycling tropes and ideas from other games, only much less interesting this time with much less compelling characters. As fucking nuts as the final case is, at least the game was doing something NEW and interesting for once.

I'm glad to finally have the game out of my backlog, but it's not a game I like very much. IMO, this series very much peaked with the 1st entry, and it just got ridiculous and "Kingdom Hearts-y" as it went along.

M.K.Ultra:
Glad to see this is still happening. Thanks Khushrenada for starting the topic. I am working on about five games right now so hopefully I will have something to contribute soon.

DigitalGreenTea:
Working on Luigi's Mansion 2 HD and Paper Mario TTYD at the moment!
Also might play Super Catboy, that looks like a great 16 high-bit pixel art action platformer.

broodwars:

--- Quote from: DigitalGreenTea on August 16, 2024, 09:24:03 AM ---Working on Luigi's Mansion 2 HD and Paper Mario TTYD at the moment!
Also might play Super Catboy, that looks like a great 16 high-bit pixel art action platformer.

--- End quote ---

Funny that you should bring up the Switch version of Paper Mario TTYD, because I just rolled credits on it. Overall, I still like the game, and the addition of the warp pipe room makes this game SO much more playable than the original version (if you did the Troubles or remember General White, you know why). That said, Chapter 3 (aka the Wrestling Chapter) is still fucking awful, and that last boss fight is an utter slog. I remembered it being one of the hardest boss fights Nintendo's ever made, and I still stand by that now after it took my entire inventory to take down. It's just an utter battle of attrition, which gets tedious as you just repeat the same actions over and over again.

Not gonna bother with some of the new post-game boss fights Nintendo added because I really don't care.

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