radiofloyd

I played the first couple of hours of this and I’m glad to be back in this weird world. The game opens at the glacial pace of something like Stein’s Gate, with a very long conversation in the present day, before transitioning to the past (and another long conversation) and then you can finally control York. And that’s as far as I’ve played. The game’s cut scenes have a kind of cel-shaded style which I don’t remember being in the first game, but I could be wrong. Anyway I’m glad to be playing another Deadly Premonition game, eight years after I played the first.

I kind of liked the look of this. But then I saw it was getting slaughtered in the comments. On second viewing, I’m not so sure...

I’ve made my mind up to get it, but patches are in the works apparently. https://www.destructoid.com/stories/-patches-are-in-the-works-for-deadly-premonition-2-596903.phtml

Played ten minutes of this today and that was enough, time to move on. I played around 23 hours of this last summer and bumped it up to 57 hours this time. This game might have the best real-time with pause combat of any classic crpg I’ve played, but other areas are lacking. I don’t think the game compares favourably to classics like Baldur’s Gate or Planescape: Torment, or to more recent games like Divnity: Original Sin which simply has far more life to it. I would probably rate it 8/10, but still it goes into the “over-rated” pile for me.

This looks lovely. https://www.gematsu.com/2020/07/road-to-guangdong-launches-august-28

I blame the deceptive “look like they’re done” trailers that get released years before a game is ready.

Crusader Kings 3 and Cris Tales have release dates lol! I’m expecting Spiritfarer to come out this year. I’ve heard very little recently about Eastward and Mineko’s Night Market recently so I expect the worst. I would put Hollow Knight Silksong and Sable at a 50/50 chance of releasing this year. That’s my deep uninformed analysis.

Team Cherry have been teasing characters on Hollow Knight Silksong. Hopefully it’s the start of some kind of PR push before releasing it this year... I need more of my games to have release dates lol.

Final Fantasy VII Remake has been the only 2020 game I’ve played so far but it will take something special to knock it down I think (although there are some special looking games on the way).

Booted this up today having finished Act 2 the last time I played the game, around a week ago. When I travelled to Elmshore I was told that my characters were considered high level for this area and given the option to permanently increase the difficulty for the remainder of the game. Initially, I selected yes, but my very next fight against random enemies turned into a huge slog, so I reloaded my save and stuck with the standard difficulty. Finally arrived in Twin Elms now.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-07-01-worms-rumble-is-a-real-time-take-on-the-classic-formula-includes-a-battle-royale-mode As the link says, real time and includes a battle royale mode.

Watched The Ritual on Netflix. Watchable horror fare that’s never really boring and doesn’t drag on too long. 6/10

https://www.gematsu.com/2020/06/action-adventure-roguelike-undermine-launches-august-6 Super generic name, fun looking game.

https://www.gematsu.com/2020/06/fuser-gameplay-reveal-trailer This could be cool. It’s not the genre of music I usually listen to but at least this kind of music has a feel-good factor.

I’m quite interested in the Shiren the Wanderer game they showed in that event.