Nag

It has seemed a little disjointed in terms of story... and that'll always seem more so when you throw a semi open explorable area in to the game, unlike you I'll try to clear an area of what icons I can when they appear and that automatically puts any form of story progression on hold. It's kind've sounding like I dislike the game more than I actually do, I'm not, It's fine... I'm just not seeing the 10 that Ign dished out.

I'm a little ahead of you by the sounds of things, also off hand I don't know my hours but I'd guess it's closer to twenty hours than ten... I've been a bit silent on the game since Friday and the biggest reason for that is I was feeling pretty down on the game after my first session with it... there'd been lots of "this isn't a souls style game" rhetoric during the build up but I hadn't fully grasped just how important the whole defence aspect of the game actually is. As of Sunday I realised I couldn't be arsed with the constant difficulty spikes that the boss characters were throwing my way and dropped it to story difficulty (I'm not proud ☹️)... it's unfortunate that that has the downside of making scrub mobs almost non-entities but with a game that wants to make you look as cool as possible I'll take that rather than constant beat downs. In other regards I really like Miyamoto Musashi as a character, just the right amount of goofball and cool and when the fighting goes well it does make you feel intensely good about yourself. It's definitely not going to be my GotY but it's a good game that might grow on me even more given more time and practice with it.

I've bitten the bullet and booked to see the new Resident Evil film next Friday... wish me luck.

09/01/26 - Resident Evil 5 - PS5. 13/01/26 - Code Violet - PS5. 25/01/26 - Echoes of the End - PS5. 08/02/26 - Resident Evil 6 - PS5. 17/02/26 - Resident Evil: Village - PS5. 04/03/26 - Resident Evil Requiem - PS5. 17/03/26 - I Hate This Place - PS5. 27/03/26 - Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake - PS5. 19/04/26 - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - PS5. 27/04/26 - PRAGMATA - PS5. 10/05/26 - Mixtape - Series X. 12/06/26 - Days Gone: Remastered - PS5. 04/07/26 - Forza Horizon 6 - Series X. 26/07/26 - Gears of War: Reloaded - Series X. 08/08/26 - Halo: Campaign Evolved - Series X. 04/08/26 - Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2 - Series X. It's janky,its cheap, it's AA at best and you know what I had a damn good time with it... what's not to like with 4 random people blowing the absolute shit out of anything that moves... pure leave your brain at the door mayhem.

Possible GotY?... here's hoping.

If that was the star of the show I don't think I'll bother watching anything else... 😂

The second game update dropped today readying the game for the expansion... I think they must've rewritten the whole thing, it's over 45gb... 😂

We know Onimusha won't be involved by then... c'mon Capcom, give me some Veronica.

Was there any doubt...

Back to back State of Play presentations...

I'd forgotten about that one... you could use auto drive at one point but I'm not sure if that still works.

15 to 20 hours of main quest line and the same again for side and exploration gameplay... that sounds decent enough for me although I'm sure they'll be plenty upset that the game isn't 200 hours long given how long it's been in development. https://www.polygon.com/fable-game-length-interview-xbox/

Had a few hours with this now, just started Chapter 5, just like the previous two games and considering you could probably class this as a AA release it's a bit of a looker... if you've played any of the previous games I think you'll be right at home here, it foregoes stealth in favour of combat but the puzzles are still present and correct. Set 15 years before Innocence the story follows Sophia who you meet in Requiem with Amicia and Hugo... after a brief prelude featuring Sophia growing up and training (think tutorial) you're let loose exploring an island and killing multiple soldiers. Combat is fine, nothing spectacular but I'm still unlocking abilities at the minute so that could improve... I'm playing on normal and if anything I'm finding it a tad unforgiving at the minute, it's pretty easy to get wailed on and die considering you can only take three hits unless you can get a kill in. So far the performance of the game has been fine (Xbox Series X) and the game in general is pretty much what I expected... and that's a good thing.

I had the woman radio me congratulating me when hitting the last one plus the badge for getting them all is unlocked... so doing all the boards can definitely sod off while it's being temperamental.

I hope they add one extra mascot in a dlc or something... mines still locked.😢