What PlayStation games are you playing ?

Yeeaaaah I'm done with Outer Wilds. The ship controls has utterly destroyed the experience for me and I no longer give a damn about the story as a result. I'm just gonna look up the trophy guide and quickly get the trophies out of the way so that this game doesn't blemish my account. Currently the worst game I've played this year. Can't believe such a major flaw has been glossed over in favour of the discovery aspects which are, admittedly, very good. On the flip side, Gone Home was brilliant.

Days Gone does not get more interesting. That is what the game wants you to believe by stringing you along for so long but it's all smoke and mirrors. Even Sam Witwer was trying to peddle this , "it gets good after umpteeth hours" by accusing a critic of not finishing the game (without any proof, by the way) simply because that particular critic didn't mention hordes which was really reaching. The hordes is not enough to save it anyway and the hilarious thing is I heard that if you attempt to do them before you're officially supposed to they won't be marked as complete. What a waste of the player's time. The fact is, Days Gone is the same game at hour 45 as it is at hour 10. Still unrewarding and drip feeding skill points , still has the sh*tty bike system and meh gameplay. It has one quite good story reveal right before you get to the second half of the map and then thereafter everything just gets progressively worse and more boring. The story meanders to the point where there isn't an actual plot anymore and the final boss fight is horrendous. The most important plot development takes place in a post credits scene. I mean, really lol. Honestly, there's so many baffling decisions made from a story and design perspective it's fascinating. It was by the halfway point that I still didn't completely hate the game. Don't make the same mistake I did - if you're not feeling it get out while you still can. Save yourself. It's too late for me.

As for The Outer Wilds, I calmed down after raging and decided to give it another go. 😂 I ended up pulling an all-nighter as I kept being compelled to find the next discovery and now I'm knackered. It was actually after getting the trophy for landing the model ship on the moon where I thought, "Well, if I can handle that model ship , which is way worse, then I can tolerate the real one."

I'm gritting my teeth with the ship and cracking on. The thing, it's very physics led which I had to adjust to. I found the best way to move around was locking on to where I wanted to go and then looking at the arrows to orientate myself, using auto pilot liberally, matching velocity and using the landing camera etc. You really have to utilise all aspects of the ship; you can't just hop in and expect to zip along to where you were, at least at first. The problem is that it's completely pointless. The novelty of managing the aircraft gets old fast while actively detracting from the point of the game which is this big mystery. I said this before but I feel like the devs made the ship needlessly complex and put in way too many time-wasting obstacles or time limiting obstacles (in a game where you're already on the clock) because the actual puzzles are very easy, especially since the ship log literally connects the dots and tells you whether you still have more to explore in an area...

I do love the music though, especially the one when the loop ends; almost feels like it belongs in a different game, tone wise. I remember in the Dark Bramble where I had made a discovery after many hurdles to get there and then that music started playing.

I laughed. It completely ruined the moment, and there are so many Curb Your Enthusiasm moments like this that make it feel awkward. Oh, and the save system is stupid. One crash and that could be hours of progress gone.

As for trophies, much like the whole Soulsbourne versus everything else debate, people should allow people to play what they want, how they want and when they want rather than gate-keeping. If you're not into trophies, cool, but no point dictating to others how to spend their time or asking questions you have no interest in finding the answer to. You do you.

The web swinging was so incredible that one of the first things I did was collect all the backpacks, as it gave me an excuse to do it there and then. The narrative reason for the backpacks was clever and as this Peter was older it was fun recapping his little adventures from when he was younger through them. I also liked the upgrade where you unlock all the little air tricks and how the game compliments creativity with 'amazing!', 'spectacular!' etc. The swinging is deceptively more deep than it first appears. It takes true mastery in order to do it seamlessly. I appreciate it even more now after fully maxing out Spider-Man in Avengers who is, well, I'll save that for another time.