What are you playing?

this is the kind of post that I’d translate over at Cohost, but I guess here would be a whole lot of space for not much; but its a list of 66+ indie brazilian horror games that you can check out (and use your browser translation tool)

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I just tried out Meteos for the DS, Masahiro Sakurai’s little block puzzle game for the DS. Quite engaging and challenging, and the little vector-y guys are a cute touch. Also reminded me of how much I admire the music genre of “Rompler orchestra”, a label I may or may not have just made up myself.

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Drova:

Chapter 4 - I Hope You Like Bears

Though there’s a great feeling of growth and power from handling things as they are right now, compared to dying in two swipes back in Chapter 1

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I looooooove Meteos. I stayed up so many nights, hiding under my blankets, playing Meteos as a teen. The art direction, the music, the game feel…it’s a real gem.

Yeah bears going from “oh fuck I need to prepare for this” to “whatever, I have the most recent heavy armor and I do like 3x as much damage as I used to, get fucked” gives me that good Gothic feeling for sure.

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I’m not normally a holidays person, but hearing about the new remaster of Clock Tower got me in the mood to play that, and put Wild Arms on a short pause (I assume). Going with First Fear instead of the actual new remaster, just because I want to save a bit of money, and I already had it loaded on my vita. Liking it so far! The cat scares in the first section, before you meet Scissorman, were especially good (For some reason I can enjoy those a lot more than jumpscares)

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i guess this post is about what i’m NOT playing (yet), but i’m looking at the dragon age: veilguard reviews on steam and OOF. especially bad reviews on the steamdeck, which i’d be playing it on… guess i’ll have to deal with the fomo for now.

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Well, I hit the first proper cutscene right at the stroke of midnight (Maybe not the one you’re thinking of, if you’ve played it; Jennifer finding her dad’s corpse in the walled off room, not Scissorman spearing Ann while jumping from the skylight), so I guess its my main project now. Don’t have a huge amount of experience with horror games (Signalis, and the first hour or so of Amnesia and Little Nightmare), and its definitely running into some of the issues that led me to DNFing the latter two (Namely a lack of particularly engaging gameplay, with the former not really giving me much to stick with and the latter killing me too much to stay engrossed in the horror), but its also got a lot of the elements of the former (particularly its endgame) that really clinched it as Heat’s Perfect Horror Game. I might willingly buy the remaster once I’m done with this, just show my support. I hear its even a decent remaster, just a bit lacking in keyboard and mouse controls, and missing the small handful of bonus scenes from The First Fear.

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It might be 3AM but at least I can say I beat all the Shadow Generations white world challenges (the 10 things where you either grab a lot of rings or chase a clock around) with rainbow rank (completed with at least 10 seconds remaining on the clock). The hard mode versions of those challenges are, believe it or not, actually pretty dang hard: I barely lucked out on a couple coming in less than half a second within that target 10 second time – and many more times wound up with times like 9.91s remaining…

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It works fine on steam deck for me if it’s any consolation. Not like, 60fps ray tracing good or anything, but it hits a steady 45fps 90% of the time, and 30fps for the last 10%. Looks great too. Gorgeous on my desktop but not bad on deck.

It also is the best feeling US-developed action rpg I’ve ever played but I’ll get into that when I have more energy. But it’s got that goop fr

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That’s very interesting coming from you, I was just talking yesterday with a friend about how tedious I found both Origins and Inquisition, they gotta have done a complete overhaul if it piqued your interest (and, frankly, this is the first thing that made me interested in this game)

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nodding, taking notes!! i’m not a Quality Fiend or anything i just want the dang game to work haha and i’m Worried about all the neg reviews saying it straight up did not work on steamdeck. but if it Works, it Works!

also HUH REALLY… i loved dao and havent finished da2/havent played dai but i Suppose i’ll have to give vg a try at some point :3

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it’s not Nioh 2 or anything but it’s like someone at bioware recognized that hitstun and animation canceling are cool and that videogames don’t need to match real life 1:1

i’m playing rogue and they have a resource build-up via normal attacks that you then spend on special moves and it’s very reminiscent of FF7R, along with the sphere grid they have which was apparently directly inspired by FFX’s sphere grid and FFXII’s license board

i fell asleep once playing Inquisition mid-fight and the controller fell on my foot so we are of like minds here.

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oh i am so fucking relieved to hear this because i’d been hearing mixed things but your taste in games is peak so if you like it i’m confident i’m gonna enjoy it. thank god lol

crying. this is too real i hate dragon age inquisition.

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Drova:

Chapter 5 & Ending:

With that, I’m fairly satisfied with a “plain” ending. It was a very good game, mind you, but I’m terribly allergic to completionist quests, and as soon as I realized that the Ruin Raiders and the overworld temples would mean me having to dig up all major Relics + Solving the puzzles, I checked out and just accepted I’d get a so-so conclusion. Its not a terribly bad one, to be fair, but not he Perfect ending. Still, at the end of the day, overall a great experience.

This is also the first time I actually finished one of these, I always quit PiranhaBytes games when they introduce the Bullshit Mob™ in Chapter/Part 3 - the orcs in Gothic, the lizardmen in Risen, etc.

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Started playing Signalis and i think I’m at a point where i have to start actually exercising my brain, feel like to to this point it’s very straight forward. Having a great time though

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You’ve lapped me now! Gonna probably knock it out this weekend from the sound of it.

Somehow Risen’s final chapter is actually worse than the standard bullshit mobs lmao. The final boss fight is legitimately like, a gimmick boss. It’s such a weird decision.

e: now that I think about it the Gothic 1 final boss is a gimmick too…maybe Piranha was just not very good at endings lmao.

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Every chapter after 1 goes by super fast (which is also very PiranhaBytes, you do 80% of the game before picking a side), I actually got a little scared over how quickly 2 went by and took things a little slower, but there’s not a lot of side content left if you did a wide search during 1.

TBH if I hadn’t picked this up on a weekend and done most of the playing there, I’d still be chugging at it.

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I really Really like Signalis up until (minor midgame mechanical spoiler) the segment where they not only take your map away but make it so the rooms dont connect logically, which led to us missing SO MUCH of that segment due to our inability to keep track of where we had and hadnt been
Before and after that it was a lot of fun, which is surprising because horror games aggressively arent our thing? It’s wild
What’re you liking so far?

The vibes are good for me, so far. Very strong aesthetic choices and the character design does it for me.

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