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Not gonna regurgitate the things I’ve said already but I did feel pretty good after beating Yiazmat and his 50 million HP in FFXII.

Oh he’s an enemy in the present day, in Ashina. Not Hirata.

He’s a sub boss that does grab attacks and flying kicks and shit. He has red eyes.

Play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Been playing this since the beginning of January. 144 hours in and it’s simply one of the best games I’ve ever played - and if nothing else, in terms of writing, voice acting, music, sound, visuals, it’s an amazing artistic achievement. Taking a break to play the next game on my list... Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - 7 hours in and I’m loving it. It’s proper hardcore but it’s hard to put down and I just want to dive back in straight away. Brings me back to playing the first Dark Souls. Want Fire Emblem: Three Houses - Probably my most wanted game of the year now. Hollow Knight: Silksong - I’m so happy at this announcement. To get back to The Witcher 3 and to play more games in my backlog. Bin Nothing it’s been non-stop good games recently.

I’ll post in a bit if that’s ok.

The other two? By the way you mentioned recognising the kanji that appears when enemies do sweep or thrust attacks, I could be wrong but I’m 99% sure it’s just the kanji 危 for danger. I’m not sure if you thought it was a different kanji or something. @DANGERMAN I see you’ve been studying.

Had another good session on this tonight. Beat the Shinobi Hunter and Chained Ogre which gave me a prayer bead each so I just need one more prayer bead to upgrade my stats. Also got another another gourd seed so I can use my healing gourd three times now. In terms of what’s available (minor spoilers): Anyway, many options to choose from. Great game, and proper hardcore!

Can you spoiler the location of items please...

4 hours in total now, made good progress. Beat that general which gave me an upgrade to my Healing Gourd. Also bought the Roberts Firecrackers upgrade for my prosthetic arm. From there I made it to the save point (sorry I haven’t memorised the Sekiro lingo yet) which I think is called Ashino Castle - Staircase (it’s the fourth one), where you fight the guy in chains who does the grab attacks. Minor spoilers: So I have a couple of places to explore. However there’s also a cave in a cliff-face that I spotted that I want to go back to (in the Ashina area). Loving the game so far.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-03-22-zero-escape-directors-serial-killer-mystery-ai-the-somnium-files-out-in-july New game from the developer of 999, Virtue’s Last Reward. Coming to the PS4, PC and Switch on July 25th. Gorgeous box art.

I checked but it looks like I pulled that one out of my ass. The Eurogamer review mentions that navigation is easier, but not necessarily combat. Most of the reviews say that the game is gruelingly hard.

Played it for a couple of hours. It has some of the ambience of a Souls game but it plays differently because of the importance of deflecting, breaking an opponent’s posture and hitting death blows. I like it, deflecting is very easy once you find the rhythm, then it becomes very easy to deflect and one-shot regular mobs. And then more powerful enemies have thrusting and sweeping attacks which I just practiced how to deal with with the guy that trains you. The training is very helpful. I like the Japanese used in the game. Everybody uses the traditional Japanese of the time like you hear in Kurosawa films. And Japanese characters appear on the screen too - when you die the kanji for death (死 - shi) appears.

Agree with Hendo on the previous page that Jumanji was great. I watched Alita Battle Angel in the cinema last night. It was a 10pm screening and I have a habit of falling asleep in the cinema...I managed to make it close to end I think though, before nodding enough. It was alright. Absolutely mindless though. Occasionally reminded me of Blade Runner 2049, a film a few rungs above this one on the artistic ladder.

Ah, my bad!

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-03-22-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-is-a-darkly-fascinating-immersive-sim Announced at GDC.