u/markercore

Hello everyone, welcome once again to the weekend!

I'm sick with a cold or something worse, super congested drinking tea and trying to play some games when I'm not coughing my lungs out.

Last weekend I finished Constance, I dunno, glad I finished I guess.

And while sick I've been mainlining Possessor(s) from Heart Machine and just really enjoying it. You play as Luca, a girl who is possessed by a demon named Rhem who gives Luca back her legs after an incident and helps her fight the demons who have infested the city of Sanzu. I think its a great side scrolling metroidvania, love how crisp the traversal feels with wall clinging and using your whip to swing from point to point. Seriously, I feel like if a game feels good to play I can forgive quite a lot beyond that.

Combat is a lot of fun using the various items you find around like corded mice and baseballs and samurai swords to beat up demonic filing cabinets and sharks. Hyper Light Drifters was one of my favorite games when I played it years ago, I don't know if I would place this that high, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit, definitely something to sink my teeth into while trying to rest. Currently I'm in the Aquarium trying to take down a madman and his menagerie of demonic animals.

But what will you be getting into?

Skating to the soundtrack of a cinematic life as you flip off everything in sight? Raising up new buildings with Timburr, Scyther, Charmander and all the rest? Trying to keep your cool as Ethan Winters as your hands get ripped off again?

Let me know below!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the weekend, once again!

I'm not really sure what my plans are this weekend, maybe cleaning up some of the games I have almost finished from the past couple months.

Before I get to those though, I made it to the final boss of Constance and I'm frustrated, but hopefully gonna get it in a few more tries. I have such mixed feelings about this game, I don't like it enough to say I love it, I don't dislike it enough to hate it. Nor am I quite frustrated or bored enough to drop it. Which leaves me in some middle ground area. To reiterate what I've mentioned before, I think the art style carries this game, I love the color palette they use, love all the little details like enemies in this fantasy world of burnout and dissociation that carry elements of the real world, like robots with drawing tablets they slam you with. Or the fact if you use your creativity based paint powers too much you can keep going, but it hurts - a very well done depiction of how hard it can be to create when you're completely drained of that well of inspiration and motivation, but it's a job and you have to go on. Unfortunately I feel like those threads are mostly breadcrumbs throughout, I wanted more connective tissue between the burnout and this fantasy world. And the traversal/platforming just felt more frustrating than satisfying for me. I think there's some really interesting ideas here, some beautiful work, I just wish it worked for me slightly more.

Sorry to have babbled on so much, that's been percolating in my head.

But what will you be getting into?

Playing as Indiana Jones, finding artifacts and punching Nazis? Being a surrogate space dad on the moon? Shivering and shaking in fear as you try to unravel the mysteries you've been thrust into as FBI agent Grace Ashcroft?

Let me know below!

Hello everybody! It's that time again, it's weekend game chat time!

So I've been mostly digging into two things:

The Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth demo, which much like the Dragon Quest 11 demo years ago, this has so much content, like 10+ hours of content for free. It's both a very fun open world exploration that reminds me of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, with party combos and little cutscenes for sidequests that add to the original, but also it has the hallmarks of open world games at this point with towers to activate and related enemies to defeat. I both enjoy those aspects here and find it to be an odd marriage. Having played this section in the original recently, these additions definitely make exploring much more dynamic instead of just an A->B system of go here go there. I do worry it'll feel overstuffed by the end of the game, but I'm feeling enchanted so far and very much enjoying.

Also been playing Constance an indie game that came out last week for the switch/2 where you play through a fantastical hand drawn world as a paint powered girl, there's also real world burnout office bits that surprisingly I've found to be the highlight so far. It could be just another aftereffect of Silksong, but I just want the controls to be tighter, more intuitive. There's this Splatoon-like wall climbing ability which looks great, but for me has been frustrating trying to get it to work as advertised. Plus I'm not really clicking with the bosses. The overall aesthetic evokes a chill out game but it tends to be stressful navigation.

Might grab something else, or finish Pragmata , who knows.

But what will you be getting into?

Flying with Fox McCloud and the gang in your ArWings straight into danger? Shield surfing through the Hebras? Playing a nostalgia fueled mixtape of music and antics?

Let me know below!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the weekend once again!

It's a rainy cold Friday by me, and I've been and plan to be, busy gaming. Played a bit of Pokopia earlier in the week from the library, what a delight, only made it to planting a flag on my house and getting a plan for the reconstruction of the Pokemon Center, but yeah definitely get the appeal. Gonna try to grab it again or buy it down the line.

Grabbed the demo for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, played through the first chapter, definitely cool to see that come to life. It's impressive they managed to get it on the Switch 2, and it's plays fairly well, but maybe not as tight a port as Remake. Also grinding for levels in the original ff7 where I'm trying to get everyone to around level 50, but maybe I should just be focusing on a few party members, I don't know.

And finally I've been waiting for Constance to come to the Switch 2, grabbed it just a bit ago, so I would say to early for impressions just yet. Though if you're unfamiliar, it's a side scrolling German metroidvania, with a lush hand drawn art style, telling a story dealing with work/creative burnout.

But enough about me, what will you be getting into?

Sucking up all the goes and taking their abilities? Rising to the top in Night City with V and Johnny Silverhand? Throwing a spiteful blue shell just cuz?

Let me know below!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the weekend!

I ended up grabbing Pragmata last weekend and I've been absolutely loving it. What a good gameplay loop, such fun grabbing collectibles for Dianna to play with, love the interplay between her and Hugh. It really keeps you locked in on the combat in such a new unique way going from hacking to combat and back, made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I dash-hack-shoot, creating last second combos to take down the robots perfectly(sometimes). I'm nearing the end, I'm in the last area, and doubling back to pick up some missed power-ups and such.

And I finally grabbed Pokopia from the library, but I haven't started yet. I think I only have another like 5 days on that so I better get going.

But what will you be getting into?

Teaming up to work your way through the split fictional worlds of your mental scapes? Slicing grass and grabbing rupees? Being a crow soul reaper and cleaning up the mess that's been made?

Let me know below!