What Games Have You Completed? (2020 Edition)

1. Gone Home (PC)
2. The Wolf Among Us (PSNow/PS4)
3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (PS4)
4. Crazy Taxi (PSNow/PS4)
5. Raiden IV: Overkill (PSNow/PS4)
6. Inazuma Eleven 2: Firestorm (NDS)
7. Ultra Street Fighter IV (PSNow/PS4)
8. Journey (PSNow/PS4)
9. Asura's Wrath (PSNow/PS4)
10. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1 (PSNow/PS4)
11. The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (Switch)
12. Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 (PSNow/PS4)
13. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (PS4)
14. Limbo (PS4)
15. Bioshock (PSNow/PS4)
16. Bit Trip Presents: Runner 2 (PSNow/PS4)
17. Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (PS4)
18. Bioshock 2 (PSNow/PS4)
19. Bioshock Infinite (PSNow/PS4)
20. Deadly Premonition: Director's Cut (PSNow/PS4)
21. Marvel's Spider-Man (PS4)
22. Batman: Arkham Asylum (PSNow/PS4)
23. Batman: Arkham City (PSNow/PS4)

Spent most of civilization's pause catching up on 'big' stuff I've never so much as looked at. Currently working my way through Arkham Knight to close out the Rocksteady trilogy but it's proving to be a bit of a wall for a number of reasons. Overexposure, firstly and obviously, but also the Batmobile craic is one thing but a core gameplay element seems to actually be using parking the ****ing thing as a puzzle. They've really perfected the combat here, so it's all a bit "Tale of Two Cities."

My prevailing sentiments around Arkham seem to be like my feelings around Bioshock in that there's the making of 1, maybe 2, really good games spread out over a trilogy + expansions that come to outstay their welcome.

GAME|PLATFORM
Star wars Jedi Fallen order|PS4
Control|PS4
Tekken 7 story Mode|PS4
Death Stranding | PS4
Super Mario Odyessy | Nintendo Switch
Subnautica | PS4
Fire Emblem three houses | Switch
Dark Souls Remastered | PS4
Katana Zero | Switch
Doom Eternal | Ps4
Return of the Obra dinn | Switch
FF7 Remake | PS4
What remains of edith finch | Ps4



FF7 Remake

Good game, the music got a great modern uplift from the original midi tracks.
Felt the same as a lot of other people in that there is a lot of padding in the middle.
Overall I really enjoyed it though and am excited to see where they take it in the future. Didn't like the
What remains of edith finch

Brillant game and so short, the only thing that I didn't like was the

Got the Plat in Lego Batman 3 the other day. Definitely one of the worse Lego games I've played. It still just about ticked the box of BREAK AND COLLECT EVERYTHING it does, but it's wrapped in a terrible choice of story (lets make the characters even more annoying) and the final round up to collect everything took way too long! Didn't help it doesn't indicate that a collectible is only available after getting a collectible on another map/world! Just didn't have the charm of the Lego Harry Potter series to keep going to the end. Even though I did. I wasn't going to be bet by a Lego game!

Divinity Original Sin 2

This was a slog. I haven't played this style of isometric RPG since the days of Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment. And at first it really impressed me. There are so many mechanics that can interplay to how you approach situations in a variety of different ways. It feels incredibly empowering and flexible in the early game, as you unlock new abilities and suddenly get the teleport ability which you can use in battle to dunk an enemy in water, drop an explosive barrel on their head, or move your archer to a high ledge. But then you realise you can just as easily use it out of combat to access treasure chests you otherwise couldn't, get past locked gates, or teleport a watching guard down a pit where they can't get out while you sneak past. Likewise, when you first unlock a healing spell in combat you soon realise you can also use it to heal an injured person you find in town and unlock new dialog options. The turn based combat is challenging, rich and varied, with the terrain layout playing a large part, and a variety of different tactical skills that are crucial - there is never a single encounter in the game that you can just hack away with your sword to complete.

However, while the starter areas are incredibly well designed and really make the most of the mechanics as they get introduced, the game struggles to hold together as it opens up. You are rarely given the slightest guidance on where you should be going and often end up wandering the map trying to find stuff that matches your level through trial and error. And if you're unfortunate enough to walk the wrong way you will get ambushed and you will die and you will sit through a very lengthy reload, repeatedly.

The game regularly feels incredibly unfair, even battles at the correct level sometimes can one hit your entire party if you haven't discovered the "trick" to them and had the misfortune of approaching from the wrong side or with the wrong equipment selected. Aside from combat, there are also multiple occasions in the game where you can say the wrong thing in conversation and end up with a permanent debuff for the entire rest of the game. You can easily arrive at an area in the wrong order and speak to the wrong person and close off entire questlines by accident too.

Compounding this is the fact that XP is at such a premium. Enemies don't respawn, so there is a finite amount of XP available. If you accidentally close off a questline, or deal with a quest in a way that doesn't net much XP, you can find yourself hopelessly underlevelled in the next area. At one point I was completely stuck at a battle where I was getting utterly destroyed, and I ended up going back and slaughtering all the guards I had used my persuasion skill to talk my way past, purely because I needed to level up and there was no other way. It really hurts the role playing aspect of the game.

By the final act (a good 100 hours in at this stage), I was getting tired of frequent ambushes, unfair quest lines, and constant reloading, so I ended up turning the difficulty down. It made the last few battles a bit of a snoozefest as they were easy to walk through, but I was kinda done with the game at that point and just wanted to finish it. There is such a solid base game here, which really shone in the early sections in particular that were much more tightly designed, and the writing and voice acting was all excellent too, but the mission design just got away from itself as the game went on and really hurt it.