God foh war

Thanks! I enjoyed the music quite a bit! tho I think I understand the plot less now than when I started

Like I said in my beat comment, I enjoyed the game but a few moments felt more like timed puzzles than combat challenges and I did get a game over at 2-2 and had to restart which kinda hurt a bit but I managed

I can see myself coming back to it for a fun week night or something similar since its not that long and I've already figured out the bits that frustrated me during the first run.

I did go and watch a LP of the original version of the game and... how can I put this, Remake appears to be a faithful recreation by a team that lack the presentation skills of the original team. Obviously glad to be free of the at times severe pop-in of the original but the aesthetic, palette and mood seem much more consistent in the original and there's just some small touches that were lost in translation. In particular the soundtrack seems better synced at times, it's generally timed so that the song ends right when the boss appears and that is no longer consistently true.

Also not for nothing but the giant sandworms leaping around is much more striking in its original form where it is clearly beyond what most 3d games of that era and aesthetic were even close to pulling off.

It is funny, by complete accident I played Halo CE via the Master Chief Collection right before this and while I am told it had several issues upon release it feels very much like the right way to remake/remaster an older game in comparison. Granted I assume it had more of a budget but you are given the option between the original or updated graphics or sound effects in any combo you'd want on top of a bunch of minor tweaks allowing you to go as faithful or reimagined as you could want, and while I'm glad PD Remake exists so that I can at least play the game I feel a bit of something was lost in translation.

EDIT: Yeah sadly it seems Sega was not particularly... "forward thinking" when it came to keeping source code around, I don't know if you checked much footage of the original version but all things considered they recreated the actual game part remarkably well. I also do think their take on the world isn't bad, but if for example you check the concept art from their version vs. the concept art from the original end credits the difference is rather stark.

I unfortunately can't comment much on the different OSTs as I have a rather tin ear when it comes to video game music (unless it is truly remarkable it generally fades into the background while I'm playing anything).

I think I've basically hit the end of my time with it as aside from the hidden episode 0 I think I've seen most of what it has to offer. If this is my last update let me say I enjoyed talking about it with you, it definitely added to the experience. Perhaps we can do this again down the road (maybe for the spooky season.)

I did not get a chance to play the game again today (was short on time and a bit stunned at the early success) but I think taking a run at hard is probably a good idea, even if it proves to be too much I am curious as to if there would be many changes beyond just changing damage outputs.

The first finished thought that came to me is that mechanically I can see how Sega went from this to Rez. The "lock on" mechanic is obviously similar but what stick out to me in these rail shooters as opposed to the more typical Star Fox-esque ones is how they push back against the notion of the action always being ahead of you. Rez if my recollection is clear dealt with this by automating the camera changes from ahead to the side or back, but in PD managing this is actually on of the player's big mechanical responsibilities. There is some roughness here, at a few late game points I felt swarmed and a bit overwhelmed, but it is interesting to me that the game is capable of simulating that feeling of being swarmed from all sides when that's often one of the main things lost from a straight flying combat game like Ace Combat when it is placed on rails.

Also I pray the Switch version is in better shape than the Steam one. That is in bafflingly rough shape, you have to plug in the controller after the menu loads or the connection will be lost, screen tearing is prevalent unless you adjust the graphics settings in-game (doesn't really matter what, just anything) but will return in the next stage forcing you to do so again and oops can't fix it for the end cinematic/credits, thankfully it plays well enough but it's a real bad port.

I think I'm gonna at least skim through a LP of the original version tomorrow before getting to a hard mode run to see what's changed, and gather the rest of my thoughts. Hope you at least found it somewhat enjoyable beyond being curious.

BTW on the off chance you were curious, I finished with a 92% shooting rate overall.

QUICK EDIT: I played through the game on hard (took 4 or 5 credits as opposed to 2), I actually didn't know of the final boss's extra form until you mentioned it so thanks for the heads up, I likely would have missed it. Got up to 94.2% shooting rate as well, think that's about as high as I can probably push that.

Y por que es Wipeout Puré... te dieron una sopa, señor?

Checking back in as I noticed you cleared Deus Ex (yes it is probably a bit too long, also I chose a more... destructive path) and I'm probably gonna be through with Halo by the end of the week barring something going amiss, so I think our schedules might be lining up rather soon... unless Flicky is a much more of an investment than I've been lead to believe. If we wanted it could be time to get a mutual game in, or we could punt it down the road for a bit longer, but figured it was the right time to check in regardless.

EDIT: Well I'm now clear of Halo and Taiji is a puzzle game I can pick away at alongside something else, so I'm basically free whenever. I think I would lean Panzer Dragoon Remake over Phantasy Star right now as I sorta have to be "up" to take on a classic jrpg and am not sure that I am right now. That said if you really want to or wanna pitch another game from the list that's more than fine. My only concern with PD is that it is supposedly only an hour or so long, so we'd probably collectively knock it out within one or two play sessions unless it is drastically harder than I've been lead to believe.

EDIT #2: If left to my own devices I'd aim for like a Sunday start, but I have no idea if that's too soon for you and Flicky and such. I got literally hundreds of small PC games that I can dig through for a bit if waiting a few days longer would be better for you.

I'd probably just go with dropping comments on each other's pages as I generally check this site more than anywhere else. I'd also likely just drop my thoughts here as they pop up.

A 1CC is an interesting notion, if it is good and not super hard I might be down to seeing if it is doable, but yeah I'd rather try the game first before deciding on something like that

EDIT #3: Sooo... a 1CC is definitely doable. >_> I went in figuring I'll play until I die and that'd be a good day 1 stopping point and I didn't die until late in the final (actual) stage because I accidentally flew into a bridge. I continued and didn't die again. Did not expect that.

I'm gonna hold of commenting further until I'm sure you actually got the chance to try the game yourself. I will say I thought it was an enjoyable experience.

Also hope you didn't stay up playing Flicky to 5AM on this/my account, you could have always said "I need another day"

If you don't mind I'm gonna respond here as my PM inbox is just about full.

FWIW I've played the Wario Land games all out of order (beat 3 and 4 already) so getting to 2 before 1 would make no difference to me. I initially leaned towards Panzer Dragoon Remake over Phantasy Star simply due to laziness (I'd have played the GBA version on my DS so I'd like to go the Master System DS emulator route for it, so some flashcard work would be required), but on the other hand without something like this to spur me on I'd probably never get around to PS so... I don't know! Either would be good, I'd be fine penciling them in as the two options and deciding which one when the time is imminent (or if you have a clear preference can just go with that, it's a 50-50 call for me atm).

Timing-wise I'm good with the next couple month time-frame. The only gaming thing I have to deal with in said period is the theoretical release of Isles of Sea and Sky (has a generic Q1 2024 release date) which I have plans to play alongside someone, but I don't think that would preclude playing something else alongside it. When I'm finished up with Spider-Man 2 and you Witcher 3 and/or Deus Ex we can check in with each other and see if a start date can be figured out

And yes, if it goes well doubling back for a Halloween spooky game would be very doable.

EDIT: Thought you'd get a kick out of this: I finished up Spider-Man 2 and had no clue what to play next, so I let the site's fortune cookie feature choose from my 453 unbeaten PC games what game I should maybe play next.

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Honest to god the very first thing that popped up, I legit laughed out loud.

EDIT #2: Nah I just re-rolled after that popped up (the fortune cookie is not legally binding) so I'll leave it as an option, just had to share a chuckle.

Teptris

THE [Witcher=3] Witcher 3

Haha they do not I'm going to try and get back into grinding out some games this year.