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Games You're Playing Right Now Thread VI - Even in this thread, F O E
Ionasal kkll Solciel:
Ace Combat 7. On the one hand, I'm so damn glad it has (had?) AC5 bundled with Playstation copies, and ACI-type PvP multiplayer. On the other hand, I'm so awkward using the flight stick and even with the regular controller, I'm much worse than I was in ACI.
I like the PSVR campaign, though.
Pywackett-Barchetta:
Having now wrapped up the Cabaret Club Czar subplot of Yakuza 0, with about 90 hours logged in the game, I have now begun Persona 5.
I am really liking having these very meaty, very stylish, very immersive games that I can just get lost in for ages
CF7:
Oh, Hollow Knight, how i love thee. Today i made it to Spoiler: Nightmare King Grimm and after a couple hours or so spent on him i actually beat him. That was a blast. No cheap tricks (well, his attacks might seem like that at the start, but all of his attacks are 100% avoidable and punishable, but you usually have less than a second to react to them), just pure skill. That felt good. No. That fealt GREAT. Charms i used Grimchild (required), Mark of Pride, Unbreakable Strength, Unbreakable Heart. Also since i haven't made it toSpoiler: the Abyss yet, i didn't have invincibility frames on my dash.
MewMewHeart:
Kingdom Hearts 3 making me cry all the tears of happiness l can't put the game down and the graphics and faces are making me squeal in delight. Ah, but some of the gimmicks and stuff l have to get used to like the Shotlock system.
Pywackett-Barchetta:
Forza Horizon 4 might be a loot-obsessed, crash-prone, buggy mess, but hot damn, I've spent almost the whole last week not even leaving the garage screen and having an absolute blast creating monstrosities to rival my time in Need For Speed: Underground 2. Slapping rally lights to the front of everything, chopping out half the parts, and ending up with something that somehow performs better than before I took every tool in the shop to it... it's a blast! This is what made the previous Forza games so incredible, and it's far and away its strongest point; that's much of what made it so distressing that this title unsubtly nudges you towards pre-prepared special edition cars with all that stuff already done for you. That kinda guts half the game that way. Turns out, though, that some of the absolute best skills in the game are actually applied to cars that, in stock form, are pretty much utterly useless for racing... meaning if you wanna replace everything in it and make a sleeper car, more power to you. It'll be on even footing with the best of the best. In any case, even if you're just screwing around, you can end up with some wonderful before-and-after comparisons.
As the livery (which is not my creation) suggests, I'm still on Persona 5, and judging by how long this game apparently takes the average player to beat and my general cluelessness with RPGs... it's gonna be a while. I'm absolutely having a blast with the daily student life bit. Maybe not so much the, uh, actual RPG meat of the game, but I figured that. Still, the characterization is more than good enough to carry it for me. There's nobody I'm supposed to like that I actually dislike (though I'm feeling bad for Ryuji getting harassed by half the team at this point), and nobody I'm supposed to dislike that I fail to, which... isn't what normally happens in these sorts of games. Count me pleasantly surprised!
(Count me also pleasantly surprised that after playing Yakuza 0 and going right to Persona 5, one of the theaters in this game is showing "Like A Dragon", which is... the exact first game in the Yakuza series by its original title. Which did have a film adaptation by the same name. So.)