CODE VEIN

Evening Open Thread

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What nightmares are made of.

Made more progress in SFM and played a little CODE VEIN. I’ve made it to the hell cocoon, and now I’m going to have to think about a strategy that doesn’t involve dying. Think I may have hit a point where I can take a break from this and come back to it.

I’m Officially An Addict

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I think this is going to be one of those games that I’m going to have issues putting down. I made it deeper into the city, leveled up a few times and collected more weapons and other items. The ruined city really gives off some NieR Automata vibes. I’ve been using this and Source Filmmaker to keep me up tonight… I’m pulling graveyards for the next week… while I’m more of a night person than anything I can’t really say I’m too excited, but I’ll endure somehow I guess. On the bright side I get to sleep in too, so there is that. I’m thinking of plopping into bed, grabbing my steam controller and playing a little bit more before calling it a night.

Anyone else having fun with their Summer Sale games?

Anime Souls

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Maintain six feet ahead of me, or you’re going to maintain six feet under me.

This was one of the many purchases I made during the sale. CODE VEIN is basically Dark Souls with an anime skin, and I’ve really been loving it. It somehow managed to suck 4 hours away from me,and I’m pretty sure the first hour was fucking around with different character options.

Dude where’s my blood beads?

You are reborn as a Reverent; A being that uses Blood Codes which give you different fighting abilities and options. As you play you can pick and choose your play style to be more melee based, mage like, and plenty more to discover. So far in my play through I’ve obtained 4 Blood Codes, and have already maxed three of them out. You go around fighting other Reverent beings, or rather “The Lost” who are Reverent who have become bloodthirsty. You, and people you eventually meet are trying to find more blood beads, which help sustain you and your Reverent buddies. This game is indeed very souls like, with multiple partners to choose from if you want a companion to tag along of either the human or AI variety.

No one pisses off the albino SheDevil and gets away with It… unless they are one powerful muthafucka.

I think I might be a little too addicted to the photo mode. I like games where I can have creative freedom, and one of the things I’ve been digging in later years is photo mode in games; it can make for some wallpaper worthy screencaps.

I’ve been awake for almost 24 hours… this bed looks like porn to me.

So far it has been a real joy to play. I needed to play something tonight to help readjust my sleep pattern, and CODE VEIN managed to keep my intrigue. This might even have to go on the list for games to bring on my gaming laptop. Another thing to scare people with during lunch breaks! I find people are less likely to bug me if they see me stabbing something and pretending it was someone who really pissed me off earlier in my shift.

So far, I would say that if you like Dark Souls and don’t mind anime aesthetics there is a good chance you’ll enjoy this.