rei
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Puyo Tetris 2, Puyo Puyo Champions and the SEGA Ages Puyo Puyos are on sale on eShop
Strangely, Puyosā Ambition isnāt. Missed opportunity.
I donāt have a definitive answer, but it isnāt nearly as effective. I believe that the successive-turn AP penalties are maybe larger? But also, weapon-type damage scaling is more extreme IIRC, so you can no longer shove āanti-armorā onto a scout and expect her to blow up a tank, even if you hit a weak point. Also, I believe that for the majority of the game, the orders available are generally less good, and more expensive (you might even be limited in the total number of orders you can issue in a turn / mission? I forget.)
The speed-centric arcade scoring is definitely the weakest part about them. Generally, if you role-play the story missions, and play the optional missions once each, youāre in a pretty good place money wise, I think.
rei
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Its title is " Ambition of the Slimes" in my region. I donāt see āPuyoā in its name anywhere?
I donāt know Japanese. Maybe Puyo is Japanese for slimes?
A year after, I trashed the Xbox One controller and got an Xbox Series one, and Iām surprised by the battery life of that thing. On par with the Pro Controllerā¦ with the caveat they donāt include rechargeable batteries.
No clue if the One I had was bogus.
Yes. I learned I have to use eye drops 3-4 times a day. Use them BEFORE your eyes dry out.
I still have to wear my progressives but it means I can actually watch TV at night now. I used to think I was going blind but it turns out itās just the cumulative fatigue by evening time meant I couldnāt focus on tv anymore.
For those (like me) that were waiting for Roguebook to drop on Switch, that happens on Thursday. I liked what I played of this on Steam but had to shelve it due to other big games in the same genre (such as Tainted Grail and Trials of Fire) already being ongoing games I was actively playing, and then when the DLC for it dropped I almost grabbed it but about that time found out it was coming to the Switch, so I have been eager for this release.
And while Iām here, let me just say I just picked up something called Infinite Adventures, a cool looking dungeon exploration DRPG that Iād never heard of but seems to have quite the cult following (very good reviews). It was only $15 and it looks like a really, really good dungeon RPG.
Has anyone else played this? Maybe itās already been discussed even?
I bought this on PC on a friendās enthusiastic recommendation and then never even opened it. I want to do the same on Switch, hah.
This looks super cool! I love the art style, even if the girls are Needlessly Sexy Chic, alas. Would you mind typing up a little bit of what it plays like?
Lantz
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Personally, Iām going to buy it on switch and then barely play it because I just end up playing more Spire.
Well, I havenāt played it yet myself - I picked it up on the eshop while at work and it will be ready for me tonight when I sit down to watch TV with the missus so thatās when Iāll dive in - but I have done a fair bit of research. Did you ever play Etrian Odyssey? Itās a lot like that. It sounds like you roll up the you character in the story, and then can recruit/create up to 5 other characters for a 6-person party (three front row and three back row, I believe) with 10 classes and each class has 3 skill trees to round out a unique playstyle. There are also five races and some other fun character-creation tidbits to dig into, it sounds pretty meaty and deep while not being overly complex.
I only watched bits of a few reviews on YouTube and both reviewers really liked the game and had nothing but good things about the gameplay/combat and light puzzle aspects, plus there seems to be a solid story holding it all together, with your character at the center of things. Thatās about all I know now, though it sounds like based on a choice you make at the start of the game you also have a powerful summon sounding creature that joins you early on. Some other little mechanics Iām looking forward to learning about as well, I get the impression.
This is probably true for me - I play at least two or three runs per night of Slay the Spire, despite a ton of other amazing games I could be playing. Even tonight itās likely Iāll play a bit of Infinite Adventures and ultimately save and quit out to do a few Spire runs. What can you do? Itās as close to the perfect game as Iāve ever seen.
Funnily, Iāve never really played any of this rough style of game apart from approximately ten miserable minutes of thinking I actually wanted to try to get through the World of Xeen trilogy of old M&M games a few years ago. I think theyāre generally a little too crusty for me, but one thatās kinda stylish and story-forward thatās also easy to drop in and out of (which is usually but not always the case with Switch games) seems like it could be a good way to give the genre another try.
For me the important thing is the combat is fun and there are cool ways to improve your characters - such as finding great and powerful new weapons and armors and the like, learning new and potent skills and spells, that sort of thing, while you face increasingly dangerous opponents. The fact the game is a āblobberā doesnāt bother me, though I have to admit Iād prefer an isometric style RPG - you can do a lot with a smaller budget when you donāt have to see the characters in your party beyond their portraits though, Iāll grant you. Iāll drop some thoughts here - Iāve enjoyed some games in this genre before (Bardās Tale IV and Legend of Grimrock most recently, but the Etrian Odyssey games are fun in their way as well) and there has been some Iāve really bounced hard of off (very recently the Labyrinth of Refrain demo - why the hell does it need to be so complex and unforgiving from the jump?) so it could go either way. But from what Iāve seen in video reviews, I think this one is going to be a winner.
Also, it was only fifteen bucks, so I figure well worth pulling the trigger and taking the plunge.
Iāve been enjoying the latest Experience game, Undernauts: Labyrinth of Yomi, which had a good discount here on eShop a couple weeks back. Itās most definitely a traditional blobber. :)
Also on Steam and the other machines.
Very cool looking - I stuck it on my DekuDeals wishlist to be alerted next time it dips in price. always good to have another cool game in my back pocket to check out down the road, thanks!
That looks like Stranger in Sword City. Same developer, I bet. That was a fun game, I need to get back to it. The Switch version came with another similar game.
I think DRPGs are a great fit for the system bu this Infinite Adventures just looks like a poorly made flash game. Iāve played my share of bad looking games but itās just clumsy. Subjective, I know, but it really puts me off. Especially when you have Labyrinth of Dusk or Stranger of the Sword City or Undernauts.
Chronic
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Wow, that Undernauts looks cool. Scanning through a review it sounds solid. Iāll be adding to my wishlist.
Yep, same devs - they also did the pretty decent Demon Gaze. Thereās even a bunch of character portraits from their older games in this one.
Compared to their prior games, I think Undernauts is more approachable, as well as a bit easier. No perma-death for example.
Thraeg
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Yeah, it looks pretty rough, and Iām concerned about the emphasis on random dungeons, which never seem to be a good fit for this genre. And the reviews are pretty mediocre from what I can see. Seems to be a safer bet to go with Undernauts or this:
And Dungeon Encounters is playing in a similar space, though it shifts the perspective.
Switching genres, but I just picked this up and am digging it so far:
Itās a frenetic action/strategy hybrid where youāre trying to protect a mobile castle from massive hordes of 8-bit monsters using direct combat, deployed barricades and turrets, or both. 4-player co-op, genuinely funny writing, and the Yuzo Koshiro soundtrack (available in different sound chip formats) round out the package.
