What games are you playing now?

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Just finished Mouthwashing. I had never played a game that made me feel sick, and now I have! It's good, but it is truly, genuinely horrifying. I'm glad it's short, otherwise I may have stopped playing. Never mind mouthwash, I need to rinse my eyeballs.
 
After having it in my backlog for nearly 5 years I finally started and completed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and really enjoyed it. Was an interesting experience, though not a long one. But it worked.

However, I jumped right into the sequel Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (don't get me started on that title :lol:) and it's just not clicking in the same was as the first did. The game is visually one of the best I've seen and the acting is top notch but it's somehow boring and emotionless. Loads of walking and some very slow paced sections meant to perhaps build the mood are just hard to get through. The puzzles you do encounter are pretty clever, though.
 
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After having it in my backlog for nearly 5 years I finally started and completed Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and really enjoyed it. Was an interesting experience, though not a long one. But it worked.

However, I jumped right into the sequel Senua's Saga: Hellblade II (don't get me started on that title :lol:) and it's just not clicking in the same was as the first did. The game is visually one of the best I've seen and the acting is top notch but it's somehow boring and emotionless. Loads of walking and some very slow paced sections meant to perhaps build the mood are just hard to get through. The puzzles you do encounter are pretty clever, though.
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Same, the original Hellblade was quite the experience with the binaural sound on headphones, but let's be honest, it's a schizophrenia simulator centuries before any concept of mental health existed! I didn't need a repeat of that, regardless of how impressive the visuals are.
 
This is my plan for the rest of January:

-Finish Zombie Island 2 (PC): I'm close to the endgame and I'll probably finish today or tomorrow. I won't touch the expansions and will save them for a new game with another character.

-Finish Astrobot: It should've not taken me this long, maybe I don't really want it to end. Game of the Year? I don't know... but one of the best 3D platformers and mascot games of all time? For sure. Now go make an Astrobot kart racing game Team Asobi.

-Start Horizon Forbidden West (without the Forbidden Shores expansion it was 40% off in the PS store). I chose the PS5 version over PC because I wanted another game in the console and not just use it 90% of the time with GT7.
 
I've been playing Armoured Core 6, which I love, but it's quite stressful in a way I feel too old for now. It's a very clever game, it definitely has the soul of an Armoured Core game (which I find astonishing given how long it's been since the very first one), and that includes the completely blind manner in which it throws challenges at you that you just have to hope you're equipped to take on, because you really don't know what you'll be facing next - but maybe that's OK?

I can't tell how I feel about it, because it fits the premise of the game perfectly, but as the person actually playing the game it's kind of annoying to build an AC that does fine throughout the mission then suddenly gets steamrolled by the boss fight at the end of it, then because you don't have the parts available to address the issue with your build in the game over screen (which lets you assemble your AC then start from your last checkpoint) you have to quit back to the hanger and possibly grind some old missions to be able to buy more parts.

But... The game is really fun, so is it an issue having to play more of it? I don't think so. It has impeccable vibes, it runs really well on my Steam Deck, the controls (except the massive deadzones that I have yet to tune out) are great, movement, combat, all that - so good. In so many ways it feels like a faithful continuation of the very first game, which I played from start to finish last year, which is especially impressive given how long it's been. But, grinding seems to be one of those Japanese game development tropes that has never really gone away, so I guess you just have to embrace it.
 

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