CMOT70: Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (XB1X)

I said in that other thread that I quit this, after falling foul of the dreaded game breaking bug on the second last boss (the big wolf thing). But after a cool down period I decided to restart it and finish, pretty much in one sitting. It's a lot faster when you know the puzzles and set the combat to easy to speed things up. Still can't skip the cutscenes though, which make up about a third of the play time. This time I didn't get the game breaking bug and reset the combat difficulty once I got back to where I was up to.

But nothing changed about my opinion of the game. It's still boring. At one point during the aborted first play through I was falling asleep and went and mowed the grass. When you are playing a game and start to think about mowing the grass almost with longing, something is badly wrong. Too many cutscenes, all the fights are the same just getting longer and longer. And the puzzles, well...think of a game where you come to a locked door and to open it you solve a sliding block puzzle. With me? Now you come to a river and you build a bridge by solving a sliding block puzzle. Still with me? Now you come to a computer terminal and you hack it by solving a sliding block puzzle. Well that's Hellblade, except it's not sliding block puzzles but a different type of puzzle. You solve every roadblock using the same type of puzzle.

Ninja Theory are obviously talented. But if I didn't already know they made this and went in totally blind, I'd guess that Hellblade was by some Sony 1st part studio for the PS4...it has that Sony game movie feel to it like The Last of Us (another one where you progress by solving the same couple of puzzles over and over). But these types of games always seem to score plus 90 on Metacritic, so someone likes them.

swsoboleski89: the voices don't stop

CMOT70: Ninja Theory are obviously talented. But if I didn't already know they made this and went in totally blind, I'd guess that Hellblade was by some Sony 1st part studio for the PS4...it has that Sony game movie feel to it like The Last of Us (another one where you progress by solving the same couple of puzzles over and over). But these types of games always seem to score plus 90 on Metacritic, so someone likes them.

magejake50: Slain: Back from Hell

A short 2d action/platformer which see's you rise from the dead to defeat the evil overlord that has corrupted the land. The game has an emphasis on difficulty, you will likely die numerous times, sometimes due to unfair traps, however checkpoints are 'usually' close together. It's short, if you're looking for a game to spend a day off playing I'd recommend it. The bosses are difficult, although the tactics are normally the same. There are a few glitches, one is getting the achievement for killing the 2nd to last boss halfway through a platforming section in level 1. Only 2 bosses are very difficult, which is down to having an absurd attack that's difficult to dodge. I'm pretty sure they stole one of the bosses from house of the dead 2 as well. Overall it's a good, albeit short game. I'd recommend getting it when it's on sale.

zlaywal: Are you using m&k or a controller?

magejake50: Dragon's Lair (GOG)

If you like QTE's and Instant death for making one mistake, then this is the game for you!

gloombandit: [breathes heavily (asthma? dust mite allergy?)