8/11/2023 0 Comments Mario world in dying light map![]() My first hour with the game was spent right outside of the game after receiving my first mission and gear. So I’ve played a total of 90 minutes of this game thus far and I’m already heavily discouraged by its 1998 graphics (I installed the 2009 improvements) and Deus Ex style shooting. All I knew was that it was a first person open world game often called ‘open world Half-Life‘ and folks told me I’d love it after I’d expressed how much I enjoyed E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy a game that is equally brutal and does very little to introduce you to what is going on around you. games as well as now owning both Metro games from the PS4 ‘Redux’ collection, I figured it was time to give one of these games a chance and hooo-boy! Shadow of Chernobyl is relentlessly difficult at it’s start especially if you have no idea what to do or what the general mechanics of the game are. I want to know what you’re saying when you kill me!Īfter owning all three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl The game speaks Ukranian/Russian a lot. Will not be playing it for review anytime soon and I feel no rush for it. I like that they’ve added a Navi-like light spirit to help narrate your way through the game and the sound design is well improved as well but I’m going to need to shelve SteamWorld Dig 2 for a few months while I play something else. The game looks amazing and it looks to be a great follow up to the first game but I could not get into it after the intro. It is very much the different between Super Mario Bros. The ability to dash-run is great but it adds an odd momentum to the controls that I don’t like compared to the first game. As soon as I went through the game’s opening section and reached the town I felt frustrated with the slightly more floaty controls and physics. Immediately after finishing up Elex I spent a few hours starting up SteamWorld Dig 2, the direct sequel to SteamWorld Dig, a metroidvania (action platformer with exploration) game that I finished mid-2017. I kinda hate the character design though. Status: Finished! SteamWorld Dig 2 A clipped 4K screenshot of SteamWorld Dig 2. ![]() Great game otherwise, despite how broken and difficult it was. I doubt it was intentional or political but it did stand out some. Perhaps it just comes down to comparing the resources of a huge studio out of Amsterdam to a small one based in Essen, but it shouldn’t be such a contrast. This began to nag at me as I was making my Games of the Year list and taking stock of the world of Horizon: Zero Dawn a game where they took the time to represent all races possible. Who survived? Apparently just white folks that made babies. The story involves almost all human civilization being wiped out by a comet and four factions surviving across the sole remaining habitable continent. I know this will come across as “social justice warrior” rhetoric, and that is why it won’t be in my review but why should a game be completely white and completely heterosexual? The premise of the game does not call for it. To be clear, I don’t -need- games to represent all races and sexuality in games, but I think RPG games are specifically better when they represent as many perspectives as possible. Piranha Bytes games are fantastic and immersive open world games that are, much like Spiders ( Technomancer, Bound By Flame) full of awkward combat, cheap voice acting, and a lot of in-game glitches/bugs but they aren’t known for representing all human beings in their games the same way BioWare are. I’ll keep this brief as I’m writing a pretty lengthy review on the game but the nagging takeaway from the game’s world design and cast is an observation that the world of Elex is entirely white-washed. Elexįirst and most pressing news is that my ~70 hour adventure in the world of Magalan has ended with completion of Piranha Byte‘s latest open-world RPG Elex. Here I’ll generally update my progress in any and all games I’ve touched in the past two weeks, updates on reviews I’m writing, games I’m looking forward to, thoughts I’ve had, and things I’ve purchased. ![]() BACKLOG is a bi-weekly update column on how I’m progressing through “old” games that have been stuck in my ‘backlog of unfinished games’.
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