What Games Have You Completed? (2021 Edition)
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Another update.
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Surprisingly great game. You can tell something isn’t right with Mason throughout but how the tease it is great. I can see why the game has the reputation it does.
Sega Rally (2008)
Not great. I understand that drifting is one of the main parts of rally games, but it feels like they went overboard here. The bends are so bad you can barely turn without losing control.
Call of Duty: World at War
I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. The Russian campaign comes off as bleak and soul destroying, plus Reznov is a beast! I could probably have done without the US island hopping portions though, they’re nowhere near as good.
Syndicate
I know this game gets a lot of stick for switching genera but I thought it was great fun for what it is. A cyberpunk FPS that feels a bit like a cheap man’s Deus Ex. It looks great, even with the overuse of bloom and the guns are great. It’s a bit short but that’s hardly a criticism.
Turning point: Fall of Liberty
I didn’t hate this game, but it comes off as very basic and janky, despite the developers lofty ambitions. Despite a fun assault on the White House, be prepared for empty New York streets and constant spawn closets. It’s ugly and poorly optimised, even for 2008
Arcana Heart 3
I have a soft spot for anime fighters, so I loved this one. It might be a little pixely, but what harm.
Battle Fantasia
Another anime fighter, it looks a little cheaper but it’s oozing style. The controls aren’t as fluid though so it takes a little bit of getting used to.
Final Fantasy VI
What hasn’t been said about this game? The story is phenomenal, the battle system is fantastic, the characters are brilliant, the music… This is right up there with FF IX. If I have to nitpick, you can more or less cheese the endgame by teaching all your characters Ultima. Also, 14 characters is a bit too much, especially when 3 don’t show up until late-game and get no development. A couple of others more or less finish their development half way through and go nowhere…but like I said, nitpicking
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GAME: Grand Theft Auto Vice City: Definitive Edition
PLATFORM: Xbox One
Took my time with this one. This one was a little more buggy than GTA III. That, or I just happened to run into more bugs on my playthrough. Some of them were fixed after a patch that came out this week or last week.
It's more GTA. Nothing special. I've beaten this game many times already, including 100% on PC last year. Did it again here. 100%, all achievements.
Done and dusted.
Not moving onto San Andreas because I'm actually just exhausted from this trilogy already. I also wanna wait until these games are in an even more playable state than they currently are (still playable, but they still need more work).
Might give my PC some attention again for a change (don't panic, @Retr0gamer. No more fighting games 😂).
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GAME: Resident Evil Village
PLATFORM: Xbox One
Would you look at that, I sandwiched the year between two Resident Evil titles 😂
I like all entries of RE. I don't even mind RE6 that much, believe it or not.
I have to say my least favourite "types" of mainline entries in the series have been the first-person perspectives of RE7 and RE8. That's not to say they're bad - far from it - I just much prefer seeing the character I'm controlling, I much prefer the over-the-shoulder perspective, that's just me.
My biggest complaint with Village is it really teased me at the beginning on at least two aspects
Open Areas
This game made me think there was gonna be some sort of light Metroidvania elements mixed in with some Far Cry 5/Breath of the Wild, "you pick the order in which you do things" ideas. The former was kinda there. The only reason this game doesn't really qualify as a Metroidvania is; those games make you upgrade yourself in order to get to otherwise locked areas. RE makes you solve puzzles. It's also almost completely eliminated with the latter aspect. I really thought,
based on the introduction of four bosses being introduced,
that I'd be able to go to any one of them in an order of my choosing. Alas, it's just as linear as every other game, a truly missed opportunity in my books.
Fear
This is probably the 3rd least-scary entry in the series for me (behind RE5 and RE6 respectively). Don't get me wrong, the first half of the game certainly nails the tone of creepiness, and there is one location that made me think the game was gonna go the twisted route, similar to Amnesia or something. Unfortunately, once I made it to the half-way point, the game didn't scare me at all. This isn't just my interpretation of horror nor is it based on my level of "hardiness" in how I can handle a horror game -- I'm the biggest wimp in the world, I tried to livestream the aforementioned Amnesia a few months ago and I couldn't handle 20 minutes and closed the stream 😂😭 -- but Village is regarded as being... not that scary at all. I could count the amount of times I jumped on one hand, and most (if not all) of them were within that one twisted place I already mentioned
(that, and the fact that dolls in general unsettle me, and now you know the part I'm talking about).
Severe Lack of Puzzles
Look, I don't think we're ever gonna get classic Resident Evil puzzles again. The Remakes of RE2 and RE3 kinda brought it back but that's a given, considering they're remakes of classic RE titles, but I wish this game (and RE8 before it) made me sit and use my brain for a few minutes at a time. Past titles would make me so tempted to pull up a guide to solve a puzzle I'd be stuck on for about an hour. These later entries haven't made me feel the desire or temptation to do so once. The puzzles are fairly minimal, and any puzzles I do find, they're barely a thought, because they're solved before I've even blinked.
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Does any of those three complains mean I didn't like this game?
You'd be miles away if you thought that.
Village was so much fun from start to finish. There were so much I did like;
- Visuals. Even on an Xbox One X this game looks absolutely stunning. It runs fairly well on Quality (4K) mode despite a few frame-drops (which is fine considering it still tries to reach 60fps, but mostly settles on 45fps) and Performance mode gives you a near-solid, consistent 60fps, drops the resolution to 1080p and it STILL looks gorgeous. That's how well this game looks. The lighting effects are what impressed me the most - in fact it always is no matter what game it is.
- Gameplay. One thing that RE never fails to do is make gunplay feel satisfying. Headshots aren't nearly as satisfying as they are in RE2/3/4 but it's still fun mowing down lots of enemies and, my god, the revolver.... saved my arse many times - what a beast of a gun. I know I said this game isn't as open-ended as I would've liked but that doesn't mean there isn't plenty to explore. There are so much collectibles and secret items you'd be hard pressed not to want to go find everything in every location, and there are a couple of optional locations as well, so it's not entirely linear (well, except the main goal. You have to do everything in order in that regard)
- Characters. Very unique set of individuals here, all with outrageous personalities.
Lady Dimetrescu was taken too soon. She should've been a penultimate boss in my books. She was awesome!
- Story. Despite being all over the place at times, I really enjoyed where the overall plot was going, and ultimately I was very intrigued by a couple of certain plot points at the end.
Village isn't close to being a top 5 RE game for me but that doesn't make it a bad entry. It's a damn good entry and the story has gone really interesting. I'm really curious to see where the series ends up after this one. I really enjoyed my time with Village and I'll likely jump back in one day for another playthrough with more toys to play with.
Crackin' Xmas present from the missus.
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