RE4 wasn't THAT good to begin with. Really wish this was just the village section for 12 hours (even RE8 fails on that promise though).

ROLLING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

2022

if Sifu was a 2006 PS2 game developed by Clover Studio you would all be shitting and pissing.

Please cry more about how hard games are, it makes my slightly above average skill and resilience feel like a feat.

This is exactly like that ttrpg where you roll 2 dice and if your dice is bigger you get to roll the dice again but add 1 to each number until you lose.

Do Wreck-Em-Pants is my joker moment. Everytime I boot this game up I age a week.

If you don't like Amnesia, this isn't going to change your mind.

Combat is poetry. I like that lot.

Pure distilled ludo. The three-man team behind Timemelters and previously Sang-Froid trim all of the fat, sacrificing graphics and presentation to make this clicky, thoughtful puzzle-tower-defence-action game.

Each handcrafted level leads you comfortably through trial, error, iteration to the end (or often the beginning) of each map, where the plan comes together, your five clones high-five each other and shoot lasers into a magic ball.

The systems are smooth and intuitive, with very little unintended friction or bugs and that is a dream for such a miraculously complicated time-travelling mechanical device.

A treatise on why mob density is the single most important aspect of ARPG combat, something even Minecraft Dungeons. Giving you a horse is a weakness, no travel should be long enough without monsters to kill that I need a mounted companion, let me shield crash and leap slam to the next mob pack PLEASE.

Holy Moly I have never had a game do so little for me and invoke just nothingness in my neurons I am very sorry.

I'm not entirely convinced that I am good enough at this game to real feel it's depth. I'm having great success with summons and stand still builds and watching a damage/heal loop trigger 20 times because I summoned a minion, dealt damage to it and then nuked the screen is really satisfying, but I just can't get any hit based builds to click.

The most dissapointing thing for me is how hard it is to find a match for the DLC zombies maps - I'll probably never get a good run of the last 2/3 maps now.