Another Agent 47 Enters The Frey
Decided to check out Hitman tonight. I’ve been having fun coming up with multiple ways to assassinate the target, and I’m not even past the tutorial yet!
I’d have to say that my fave method so far has been disguising myself as a close ally to the target and then strangling him to death, it’s probably one of my fave ways to even spend a quiet evening.
Evening Open Thread
Feeling too tired to write anything tonight. Think I’ll take the night off.
Open Thread.
We All Begin Anew Once More
All these years I keep meaning to finish this one. Perhaps my Steam Deck can help with that? I played a bit during lunch today, and was happy to find that it supports cloud saves! But then I tried to download them to my Desktop, and no matter what I did it would outright refuse to download it. Then I decided to do a little bit of experimentation, and switched from the native Linux build to Proton, and wouldn’t you know it? I have cloud saving! I know they have the definitive edition out, but I figure for Steam Deck this would probably be better on battery life. I might consider it during a future sale, but first I want to try finishing the original. 😛
Tears of Gaming
Spent some time in Crystar tonight, as part of the remainder of my weekend self care! I finished a couple more chapters, gained a new friend, and learned a bit about some of the souls I’ve been killing. All in all? A productive evening I’d say.
I have to admit, I do like the shining visuals of the labyrinth that is this universes purgatory. I wish I could say more about the combat… Crystar’s combat system very clunky, and leaves a bit to be desired. The fighting gets a bit repetitive; you spawn into purgatory, destroy lost souls and wander finding lost memories until you find the exit and finish your mission. I’m glad they at least gave me an extra character to help add a little variety.
Her name is Kokoro. I teamed up with her, she has some amazing fisting abilities. The voice acting in this game ranges from Ok to B Grade Anime voice acting. I’m thinking next time I play to see if I can load the Japanese vocals instead, just to see how well they compare to English… when I feel the in the mood to play again. :v
It’s Been Unreal
Took over my first bandit camp! It was fun picking all of them off before finishing off the few stranglers from within the hold. This is where I parted ways for a Coop adventure.
We completed The Ditcher quest, it ended about how I expected it to. We also cleared out a few bandit camps, collected some shrine pieces and explored new territory. Once again the Unreal Engine has done a good job consuming my weekend. :v
On the last session I earned a new face plate! I’m thinking this one is my fave so far. It gives me Mortal Kombat vibes.
Now Leaving: The All Mother’s Embrace
After taking down my first Sawtooth last weekend – I wanted to see if I could expand my horizons (no pun intended). This game has the perfect blend of stealth and chaos, and Aloy is an absolute badass!
So far I’ve cleared the proving, learned how to control machines, and have embarked on my mission as a Seeker. It was a fun evening, with mood lighting to match. I even burnt some game themed candles I bought off Etsy with some leftover birthday money, just to make things a tad more immersive. I needed a good palate cleanser after the disappointment that calls itself Shadow Warrior 3. I still plan to pace myself going through this, as I do with many other games. When and if the sequel is ever ported to PC I’ll consider upping my game time. Until then – it’s back to bouncing in between different games.
More images can be found in my Mastodon post.
StarCat 64
Getting some practice in the Whisker Squadron Demo… they’re releasing the full game next month! I’m thinking of buying it. I’ve been playing it on and off since discovering it during NextFest. It’s a lot of fun on both my Steam Deck and the PC, works really well with a Controller or a Keyboard and Mouse.
Shadow Warrior 3: First Impressions
A couple of sales ago, I decided to take the plunge on Shadow Warrior 3, and am I ever glad that I did!… I’m almost an hour in, so I can’t fully judge the game just yet, but what I’ve played and witnessed so far has been a real downgrade from the other two. The gameplay has been oversimplified compared to its predecessors; gone are the days of pressing certain buttons to perform sword techniques, your blade has been banished to your right mouse button!
For Shadow Warrior 3 the developers switched from their in house Flying Wild Hog Engine to Unreal Engine 4, and while it doesn’t look terrible it does seem to lack the detail that the previous games had. Gameplay also seems to have more of a classic linear approach… kind of underwhelming when you’ve played the previous installments. There is also more cutscene than the other two games combined, though they do at least look nice… I would of happily traded them in for the combat system from the previous games though. This installment in the series is giving me Serious Sam 2 vibes.
From what I’ve read it takes about 7 hours to complete the game, so I’ll be sure to take it slow as I do with most of my library. 😛 Maybe I’ll warm up to the game after a little more play time? I’ll write more about it as I progress. So far I’m not really feeling it, hopefully it picks up.