I didn't recommend that.

Damn is blastermastr that good? I finished the og when on 3DS

Wariospeedwagon wrote:

I thought it was good value!  Did you get along with the original?  Apparently the new one is very similar, but more generous with its saves and checkpoints.

Got along fine - far preferred the in car bits but wasn't as outraged by over the top bits as others. Seem to remember the soundtrack being BANGIN

Was looking to get that on the eshop the other day (currently doing some animation stuff for a project with a biplane, so thought it could be a nice reference), still E45. No thank you, thought that would have been discounted to the E20,- series by now.

Finished a few games during this first week of my Easter holidays!

Batman The Telltale Series

This was good whilst certainly not being the best Telltale series. Some of the dialogue felt stilted and I still encountered a few glitches which really should have been fixed by now! However, the story did some interesting things with established characters and was pretty engaging throughout. Typical Telltale but still good.

Sunset Overdrive

What an utterly marvellous, colourful, fun, exciting, silly gem of a game.

Aaroncupboard wrote:

Sunset Overdrive

What an utterly marvellous, colourful, fun, exciting, silly gem of a game.

Perfect review right there.

Horizon New  Zero Dawn.

The Humans are Dead

I recall being completely indifferent during the build-up for this game.  Whilst the concept of robot dinosaurs seemed relatively fresh, early screens didn't do anything for me and the mechanical beasties initially looked over-designed and odd looking -like Guerilla was trying too hard.  Fast forward a few months and tales of reviewers gushing over the visuals reeled me in to see what all the fuss was about. A new IP that sets a new graphical standard?

Robot Love

Actually playing it, you get a real feel for the craft & artistry that's breathed life into these metal monsters.  Be it the skittish herds of robotic herbivores that can be set ablaze with a well placed fire arrow, triggering mass stampedes, to the lumbering behemoths that shake the earth with each pounding step,  every robot dinosaur has a tremendous sense or mechanical presence.   Some are god damn terrifying.  An enraged Stormhawk bearing down on you with a crackling energy shield during a raging snow storm is enough to put anyone to flight.  Others, like the meddlesome Longlegs and the prowling Ravagers can be almost as deadly in packs.   Guerrilla have done marvelously well to imbue each of their robotic creations with such character.

Death from Above

And this makes them all the more fun to kill.   Lobbing off a Ravagers heavy laser gun turret with a sonic arrow only to harvest it later to mow down herds of robot deer is just as satisfying as it sounds.  Sneaking close to a robo-crocodile with its power cells just visible above the water line, presenting an inviting target, never gets old as the arrows find their home and blow a hole in the creatures metallic hide.  Downing those pesky Glinthawks before they get a chance to launch their deadly cargo of freeze bombs is imperative.   Combat is extremely moreish. 


A Land that Time Forgot

The Robot Dinosaurs may well be the stars of the show.  But the Earth they rule over can often be just as majestic.  Galloping across the land on a robotic steed will take your from lush forests to rolling plains , across searing desert wastes to barren icy tundra.  Each environment type is programmed with detail, as if hidden robot hands have expertly crafted a biosphere just for you.  Which of course they have.  Day and night cycle seem a bit too fast, but this is a mere glitch in the system. Seeing the dawn break over the land where a race of robots now rule is a sheer delight.

File Error

Although perhaps Guerrilla lack the programming language to create a ‘perfect world’.  While the voice acting for the protagonist is top notch, other characters fall wide of their mark. There are human cities to visit, but they often feel devoid of life and without purpose.  And the main plot really is a load of hokum. Side quests equally banal.  In no way could this be regarded as an RPG.  Dialogue wheel offers or presents no meaningful choices and skill and character progressions are identical to Far Cry.  Strangely, I found the voice recordings from the Lost pre-robo-dinosaur age utterly uncompelling, so too the hunt for collectibles that seem pointless and grafted onto the game with no thought.

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I would of liked them to have gone full Monster Hunter with the crafting system, as it’s relatively easy to ‘craft’ top end gear without earning it via your bow ‘n’ arrow.  A more deeper, complex crafting system would help the post-game too. But tales of a forthcoming DLC has me hankering for some deep sea adventures (the only environment type not realised) so I can go hunt me some Robo-Plesiosaur.

Final Score:  8 bots of 10.

revelthedog wrote:

demons souls

I think I need to play this again and again and again before I can even properly talk about it.
It has so many areas and characters and bosses that are strong and are wonderful and it does atmosphere superbly.
There are some parts of it where it's quite unfair, and similarly parts where your ability to cheese a boss puts you in the other side of unfair.
I can see at this point why looking back on it after Dark Souls it is held in such renowned. It certainly laid the ground work for its follow up. And it maintains a stronger second part of the game over the follow up.
I feel I've scratched the Surface and nothing more.
4-1 areas out of 5

A few ales before you scribed this rev? Eh?

But going to replay a few more times to really get into it again.

Which one?

5) Stingray
4) Man Eaters
3) Artorias
2) Sif
1) False King Allant

Yeah maybe I should have suggested top 10! Hard to argue with any of yours...

Hmm. Top 20?

1) Gwyn
2) Gherman, The First Hunter
3) Martyr Logarius
4) Abyss Watchers
5) Father Gascoigne

1. Gil Gadot
2. Shakespeare's Sister
3. Creamola Foam
4. The Insprial Carpet
5. Papa Lazarou