I have it, the actual hockey gameplay is brilliant fun, one of the better arcade style hockey games I’ve played. The roguelike elements fall a bit flat though, it’s just not that fun and the upgrades don’t really feel like they do anything.
It’s a shame cause if it was just a traditional hockey game with the same gameplay and has franchise mode / online matches I’d play the heck out of it. They have a season mode in their roadmap somewhere.
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I downloaded Enter the Gungeon a few days ago on recommendation from a friend. Pro: Love the cute pixel art style and the gameplay is fun. Con: It's brutally hard and there is extremely limited progression (i.e. can't make your guns stronger, can't easily get extra health etc.). I want to like the game but I think it's too hard for me. For example, to get more health, you need to be able to no-hit the boss on each level which is pretty much impossible for me.
That's where cheats or trainers come in! Use something like WeMod to make the game easier. There's no way I would have got as far as I did in Elden Ring without it (or at least not without a whole lot more time played).
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It's pretty rare to play a game where I actually listen to all the dialog, most of the time I just read it and skip past the voice acting.. I'm not even sure if they have a skip feature, I haven't felt the desire to do so once.
Probably my only thing I'd say that doesn't have my gushing enthusiastic approval so far is the skills and tools in context of combat. And maybe this changes later in the game, but I don't really find a need for the sticky bombs or smoke bombs or any of that. Parrying is really powerful and most of the time I can pretty easily just go initiate a standoff and kill everyone.
If I go with stealth or try to pick everyone off with arrows it's more a choice for variety than feeling the need. There's only been a couple of times where I aggro'd a whole big camp that a smokebomb came in handy. I guess I could turn up the difficulty, but TBH I'm enjoying feeling like a powerful skilled samurai rather than being a ronin in the grass.
But that's REALLY digging for something to comment on.
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At first, I did a lot of stealth clearing camps but realized later on that you got the tools to just be a crazy insane power god of war. And you can adjust the difficulty to keep things on a razor's edge. So satisfying but not easy or mindless at all.
Again, not sure if you want to see the combat that you can push into you can search for "#GhostOfTsushima much118x" or "GhostOfTsushima SunhiLegend" on twitter.
And it doesn't matter because Ghosts of Tsushima came out on PC and holy crap is it good, this'll keep me busy for a while.
Ghost is amazing, played it 3 times already. And the DLC is great and keeps things fresh with a new approach/angle too.
My only recommendation if you WANT to be busy with it for a while is to do all the side stuff / collectibles. My only knock on that game is it's a bit short, so stretch it out doing everything as much as you can.
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So yeah Hades II is pretty darn playable and fun. I'm 30ish hours into it and I'm sure there will be some stuff that they'll add in that is obvious like
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the remaining portion of the surface
and the odd character art that is missing with placeholders.
Still, well worth the cost already for me.
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Not going to lie, it'll be pretty funny running the rest of the surface run with a different voice after certain boons.
I don't think there's anything about it that hasn't been done before, it's just really excellent at what it does. The characters make me care about them, the writing is good, the voice acting is great, it oozes style, the graphics are great (and sometimes truly beautiful).
They really put in effort into detail. The various petting animations for foxes. The different end-of-mission bits with your horse. Tons of small stuff is done so well. I really like how it guides you to your chosen waypoint.. it doesn't just put a marker on a compass or beam of light in the sky to break your immersion, the wind blows in the direction of your destination, and you can hit a key to gust up the wind to see more clearly.
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I don't think there's anything about it that hasn't been done before, it's just really excellent at what it does. The characters make me care about them, the writing is good, the voice acting is great, it oozes style, the graphics are great (and sometimes truly beautiful).
They really put in effort into detail. The various petting animations for foxes. The different end-of-mission bits with your horse. Tons of small stuff is done so well. I really like how it guides you to your chosen waypoint.. it doesn't just put a marker on a compass or beam of light in the sky to break your immersion, the wind blows in the direction of your destination, and you can hit a key to gust up the wind to see more clearly.
You had me at petting foxes. I'll probably give it a try since it's so highly talked about. I'm all about indie and retro games lately though, and I'm really having a great time.
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Not sure how that'll work out for them overall, but in my case I rarely purchase the CoD games since I'm only interested in the single player part and the value of them for that has been terrible; I'm not paying $80 or whatever for a <10 hour single player experience.
Even on sale it's not worth it.. I got a recent Black Ops on sale and even then I felt ripped off.
But signing up for Game Pass for a bit to play that and a few other games on Game Pass will get them $$ from me they wouldn't have previously.
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