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Cyberpunk 2077 ce la vie

Skully on

I'm halfway through level 14 out of 18 total, so I really didn't want to give up on the game while I'm so close to the end. But there is an annoying glitch that is not allowing me to make progress. I found a comment on the Steam discussion boards for the game from two years ago by someone else who experienced the same glitch, so clearly the devs didn't care enough to patch it.

I'm so close to just dumping Shantae Half Genie Hero.

I beat the main campaign, but it has two additional ones, plus some extra game modes. And if I want to get all the achievements... I have to beat the game 21 times at least.

That's... insane.

Foxhack wrote:

Is that hyperbole, or do you literally have to beat it 21 times?

Renaissance2K wrote:

Not hyperbole. Basing myself on the achievements, it wants me to:

Beat the game, beat the game with 100%, beat the game on speedrun, beat the game on speedrun with 100%. That's for the main game, Risky Boots mode, and Friends mode (12 full game playthroughs);
Then I have to beat the game twice in the extra modes (Officer, Beach, Ninja) at 100% and on speedrun (6 playthroughs);
Beat the main game once with the alternate color costume (can be done with an existing save at the end, 1 playthrough);
Beat the Risky Boots mode with no upgrades (1 playthrough);
Beat the main game in hardcore mode (1 playthrough).

So 12 + 6 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 21.

Theoretically, I could clear the Speedrun + 100% runs and get several clears at once, but that's still 13 playthroughs at the very least.

That's insane.

Prince of Persia lost crown

Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas on

It's not that it's a bad game, it's just that every now and then I go through this phase where I get so distracted and hooked on VR games that I feel like I've temporarily lost interest in flat games for the time being, and this is a victim of that (it happens the other way too sometimes and I'll go weeks or months without using VR). I went about a week without playing it and just went to resume from where I left off and I had no freaking idea where to go or what I was doing, so I'm just going to delete it. I was around 6 or 7 hours into it and I could easily just look up a walkthrough to refresh my memory, but I don't feel like it.

Pepper Grinder. Controls didn't feel right, and the "search for hidden items in the stage" mechanic seemed at odds with the idea of smoothly flowing through the stage.

Looks like it’s gonna be Marvels midnight suns. I totally dig the card battles but the forced side stuff is starting to bug me. Going to take a break and see if I naturally gravitate back to it.

Runner3 on

I haven't given up on it completely just yet, but I know it's coming. I enjoy this series, with the first one being a WiiWare release, the sequel on Wii U and now this on Switch. While I enjoyed the two previous games over a decade ago, I can't recall if I ever actually finished them, or if I just played until the novelty wore off. This one warns you right off the bat when you boot the game up that it's the most difficult one in the series yet, and while you can adjust a few settings in the options menu to make things a little easier, I just don't wanna have to do that. So I'll play until I reach the inevitable level that I can't beat because I have no shortage of games in my backlog to move on to immediately.

Charles Martinet returns as the narrator (and as a playable character), and it's kinda nice to hear him with an actual speaking role with a script that has him doing more than just quips in a phony Italian accent.

I bailed on Unicorn Overlord. Dialogue was just too amateurish for me, and there was very little actual gameplay. I enjoy pretty much everything else Vanillaware puts out, so this was a rare miss.

Korix on PSVR. It's a base-building/destroying/tower defense type game. The premise is pretty simple. (Build your base up and destroy the other one (or two or three) using a handful of unit and building types.) However, as you get further in the campaign, it gets crazy hard. The longer you take to beat a level, the stronger the enemy units get until you have planes flying overhead killing all your people while all sides of your base get bombarded by artillery and invaded by these cubes that can take down walls in seconds with their lasers. It was fun for awhile, but I eventually got frustrated. Maybe I'll pick it up again at some point, but I needed a break.

Raccoo Venture on

It claims it is going for a 90s retro platformer vibe and I think it kinda met its goal. It reminded me a bit of Super Mario 3D World too, but with way more indie jank and almost none of the Nintendo polish. It's way harder than Super Mario 3D World was tho, as I'm tapping out right before I could reach World 3 because it requires me to replay previous levels and hunt for a few more collectibles before the bridge to World 3 will allow me to cross. That kind of thing shouldn't be a requirement unless I was going for 100%