I started the year with Great Ace Attorney 1 and I’m currently playing Great Ace Attorney 2. Additionally, I finished Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.
The Great Ace Attorney is a very nice take on Ace Attorney, well worth it if you enjoy Ace Attorney.
Senua’s Sacrifice is a very pretty game, but perhaps a bit harder to recommend. The puzzles are occasionally clever, but largely range between simple and somewhat tedious. Still, I really enjoyed the Norse mythology and the mind games. The sound design and the visuals are excellent.
Those past months I mostly played Horizon: Zero Dawn, and completed the base game and part of the DLC by now. From a gameplay perspective, there isn’t really that much going on, but everything that is there is incredibly well done. Good example of removing excess fluff unless there’s nothing left to cut away.
I also found the backstory quite novel and creative, but then I’m not that well-versed in the post-apocalypse genre. Got me thinking about pressure on the job, too .
And it’s the first 3D game I played that did look pretty natural, even at high resolutions. Still a bit clean, and the characters all seem to have spent massive amounts of time and income at their hair-stylist, but overall not a sore to the eye .
Now I’ve started playing Chained Echoes. Fun so far, and great pixel art. Wonder if I’ll actually manage to complete it, or stop half-way through, like with the last two JRPGs.
The Halloween Party
I hadn’t played them before. They are awesome! And the best part is: already by mid-February I managed to finish more games than during the whole of 2022!
I thought it was executed well enough but it definitely came across to me as a backstory made up quite late into “wouldn’t it be cool to make a game with robot dinosaurs” (the answer’s yes).
Though on the flip side, the backstory was in many ways more interesting than the present day story.
The story as such is quite standard though, cf. the typical gray goo and the proverbial paperclip factory.
Wikipedia tells me I’ve read about 3 books and watched 2 movies on the subject, and none of them were like “oh well, let everything go to hell and restart from scratch!”. But I guess with the amount of material listed, it’s probably been done before.
The game was made by a Dutch game studio. I understand they contracted the story out to some foreigner, but now you made me think of Children of Mother Earth. The tl;dr of the plot is that nuclear WW3 causes a series of natural disasters, most notably the earth turning on its axis, so that almost every human dies. The protagonists live in the post-apocalyptic paradise of Greenland while the resurrected traditional evil empire invading them hails from Baden. It probably wouldn’t surprise you to learn the Baden Empire dug up old deathbringers on caterpillar tracks.
Incidentally, there’s a scifi story from the '50s or '60s of a race of underwater humans who discover a mountainous metal plate. As they manage to decipher the mysterious markings on it, it’s unveiled that they were genetically engineered to thrive in the local planet’s environment. The clue at the end is a bit Planet of the Apes-like: they’re not just aquatic, but microscopic. Unfortunately I can’t think of the author or its title.
Having finished The Great Ace Attorney 2 (recommended), I discovered that despite coming with all kinds of extra content, it’s still missing two Japan-exclusive DLC episodes!
I’m playing The Dig on this new Steam Deck my wife randomly bought. I’ve never played this game before, it’s amazing. You’d run me out of here if you knew the classics I skipped back in the day.
Hogwarts Legacy myself and Fate of Atlantis with kid. We did all Monkeys (1 and 2 twice) and had to play another PnC. Fate is still great but shorter than what I remembered. Of course there are 3 paths. Hogwarts is surprisingly good!!
Same here. I actually started playing GAA last year, but took some big breaks in between. Finally started GAA2 last week and i just started case 2. I’m hoping to finish it relatively soon and then get to the second game of Famicom Detective Club.
Edit: I just read the thing about the 2 GAA DLCs that we outside of Japan still don’t have. I really hope those get released at some point! As well as Miles Edgeworth Investigations 2! That’s still my big thing, haha. I mean, hey, they finally released GAA after all this time…
I think it was @ZakPhoenixMcKracken who started me on the path toward getting the fan translation playable on my DS. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to devote enough time yet to figuring it out. One day…
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