Ruining It For Everyone Else Since 2004
Finished the first chapter of Trek to Yomi! I was gifted this samurai sidescroller quite awhile ago, and it handles quite well! It does exercise the internal fans with its good graphics. The combat is pretty straight forward, light stabbing, heavy stabbing, parrying, etc. The game plays like an old Samurai movie, and even features Japanese voice acting! It makes me feel like I’m controlling an old movie, really cool.
Decided to do something SLIGHTLY more modern tonight… and there was no skimping on alllll the stabbin’! I finished a couple of missions, earned a new weapon and some in game reading material for later. There was also an achievement for helping 100 demons do some acid… damage. Also, since I’m an awesome ninja I also snapped some pics in Photo Mode.
What can I say? I’m a sucker for Photo Mode. 😛
This section has been a bit buggy (no pun intended, this game has a fair share of bugs). I can make it past this point, but sometimes the enemies don’t always do what they’re scripted to do, like explode. There should be an explosion here…
If I don’t get through this area, at least I have some entertaining footage to go through later.
Played more BloodRayne 2 in between Desktop and Steam Deck today, it was just too nice to do all my gaming indoors. I destroyed the Shroud Tower, and I sacrificed a bunch of vampires to a sacred helicopter.
I’ve ground away at it enough that I’ll probably visit some other games before returning to it – most likely something silly, and possibly modded. 😛
Made quite a bit of progress in BloodRayne 2! This game is as fun as it is buggy. Managed to get some fun film as well for a potential future video!
I have a problem. I want to play games on my 4K Desktop, but when I go through my library my eyes have been landing games that make me think “This would be fun to play on my Steam Deck…” dammit!
One thing I did find interesting about launching Brutal Legend on Steam Deck was that it launched with Proton instead of the native Linux build. For the heck of it I launched the native build, and it seemed alright apart from teleporting NPC’s in a couple of cutscenes, and it was getting a nice solid 30FPS. Not bad I’d say, right? Then I replayed the first chapter again through Proton and there were no teleporting models AND the framerate doubled! Translating it from Direct3D 9 to Vulkan instead of using the native OpenGL build seems to give it a nice boost! Pretty interesting since I’ve played this before under regular Linux desktop, that was quite awhile ago though.
Maybe now I’ll actually finish this title! It supports cloud saves, that seems to be helping me in between devices.
I made it through the Ephemera Boss Battle by climbing to the top of the map and kept knocking her down to the first floor over and over again until she got bored. Not quite how I was expecting it to go, but hey… if the game allows for it I won’t ask questions.
I finally made my way past the Meat Packing District in BloodRayne 2! Made my way past the boss battle, and now I’m a couple levels farther than before! It’s been a rainy day, cosy vibe, ass stabbing kind of day with plenty of chamomile to get me through all the destruction. I got an achievement for committing 50 carnage kills, apparently that’s a rare achievement? I get the feeling not many people have played it, at least post achievement update.
BloodRayne 2 might not have a photo mode, but with Krita and a little bit of imagination I can still have fun.
Attempted to play Deadpool on Steam Deck this evening. The good news is that it runs! The bad news is that it includes a free game of connect the dots. Either that or Deadpool is trolling me.