Dust probably is better if you'd played it before the Ori games. It really helped revitalize the genre for a lot of publishers, but I do get where you're coming from. The controls are a tad floaty/slow for the genre.
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The first time I played Dust, I also quit before I finished it. I came back to it years later and started a new game because I figured I'd give it another chance. I ended up beating it that time around, but I honestly couldn't tell you much about it now. I don't remember much of the story or memorable moments in the gameplay. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable either.
Yeah, as much as I enjoy Metroidvanias, there are only a handful of really good ones that I've played. Looking at Steam, some Metroidvanias I've played are:
- Ender Lilies was good, but ironically, I got annoyed with how much backtracking there was because there were so many diverging paths that were closed off at early to mid game that I couldn't remember them all and had to rely on the map too much to go to each room with a blocked path to find the ones that I could finally open when getting a new power.
- Lost Ruins was okay, but nothing special. If I remember correctly, it has quite a few challenge modes you can do, including a mode where you play as some of the enemy characters in a run. I think I played through one or two challenge modes and got too bored of doing the same things.
- Strider is pretty fun. Combat is fast and fluid. Don't ask me anything about Touhou because I don't know shit about it, but
- Touhou Luna Nights is fun. I remember enjoying it while playing it, but for some reason, I've never beat it. Need to get back to it to do so because it has some fun gameplay.
- Guacamelee! and its sequel are great. Some of my favorite Metroidvania style games. They're not hard games, but the gameplay is fun, the art style is neat, some decent humor, and it's just good, light-hearted fun.
- Blasphemous is probably my favorite to have come out in a while. Fun gameplay, difficult at times, but not annoying. I have the second one, but haven't played it yet.
There's plenty of oldfags on here that I know some of you will be excited for a new Castlevania game:
Thanks for looking out for fans of the franchise, Konami.
Thanks for looking out for fans of the franchise, Konami.
Toss in FromSoft while we're at it
Yakuza is still pretty good, and they've settled on a formula of reusing assets in a way that the players accept in exchange for new games coming out more frequently than once every 5 years.
Yeah. I don't know if I'd really call it bad (aside from the story), but it's just... not good. When I started skipping cutscenes and thinking to myself how boring the gameplay was, I knew it was time to uninstall.
I was going to say that Timespinner seems pretty good so far, but I was looking over the Steam reviews and I think I'll probably end up dropping it. Apparently "the game's limited dialogue was more devoted to peoples sexual orientation/polyamory preference/gender than the actual story." Now I wish I had checked the negative reviews instead of just buying it when it went on sale because the gameplay looked good.
That's what Bloodstained is for.
Palworld was an absolute banger and came from Japan. Can't believe that cost $6 million to make.
I'm pretty much over AAA gaming. Bring back the indie teams with a dream and a garage to work in.
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Songs of Conquest has left Early Access, since Ubisoft won't make another (good) HoMM game, be sure to follow in the footsteps of your ancestors before you:
I bought it years back, but nice to see it being promoted.
I was honestly pretty surprised at seeing them break their concurrent players record, but even more surprised it was "only" ~5800. I was under the impression it was way more popular. So I'm very glad if this helps them grow. I mean, their other games are pretty good too, i enjoyed the Suguri and Sora games quite a bit.
Looks a bit like Heroes of Might and Magic, I used to play that quite a lot.
That reminds me. Endless Legend is also free on Steam for the next few days
All DLC is also heavily discounted, along with all of Amplitude's games on Steam. I actually haven't played Endless Legend much, but I've been wanting to go back and try it out. Last time I tried it out was back in 2016. Also, apparently, they fixed issues in one of the DLCs for Endless Space 2 that people hated. The recent reviews said they finally fixed it, so it might be time for me to actually pick it up at 75% off.
All DLC is also heavily discounted, along with all of Amplitude's games on Steam. I actually haven't played Endless Legend much, but I've been wanting to go back and try it out. Last time I tried it out was back in 2016. Also, apparently, they fixed issues in one of the DLCs for Endless Space 2 that people hated. The recent reviews said they finally fixed it, so it might be time for me to actually pick it up at 75% off.
Games journos can burn they are just now going to be eating themselves by all being in one place.
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