J.C.

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  1. I bought this last night and put in about an hour. Got the first boss down and died horribly to the second one since its room wasn't clearly marked and I was far from prepared for it.

     

    So far, it's quite good! I kind of wish instead of stopping mid-air to do an attack, it would do a slam attack (unless you can do that some other way?). I keep hitting attack when that's what I want to do, and obviously it doesn't do that.

     

    I can't tell if pressing attack with the shield up is supposed to be a parry, or a shield bash, or both depending on your timing. If it's a parry, I've yet to figure out the timing.

     

    I haven't had the opportunity to check into different weapons very much, but I'm hoping to dive into that a bit more soon.


  2. So I bought this last night, and tried to play it. I've got kind of a middling laptop, but I exceeded system requirements by quite a bit, and it still ran like crap. It wasn't much better than watching a slideshow. Then it turns out this game is little more than a hidden object game. Disappointing to say the least. Given the awful performance, I got it refunded. Maybe a few patches will fix that, but at this point, I can't justify the purchase.


  3. That's...generous! Only yesterday I received Mega Games 2 from ebay to play Golden Axe. This free one comes in the Sega Classics 'wrapper' with the other titles greyed out. It seems that tomorrow they'll have Streets of Rage 2(!), Binary Domain and Condemned: Criminal Origins for free too.

    Is this the future; the evolution of the humble bundle? Free games? How long before marketing budgets are apportioned to 'pay' players by the hour for engaging with their brand?

    EDIT. Storybundle have a book bundle up at the moment with some interesting things. https://storybundle.com/games

    Oh awesome! I've been wanting that Shadow of the Colossus book as well as Second Quest. A few of the others sound good too!


  4. That is a really neat take on it, and it makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not so sure about the last couple lines with regards to this game though.

     

    brkl: Man, those photos when it gets all smoky are just haunting. That's one point in the game where I took my time to appreciate the visual changes to everything. Nice shots!


  5. Re: using Snapchat for The Witness. iOS has a universal app that is also free, called Paper. Originally an iPad app, it allows you to draw, in what basically amounts to MS Paint, with lots of similar tools. You can take a photo in it, or import existing ones, and draw over them. There were a few where I couldn't really take a photo of the solution, so just drawing the squares (if you draw one and close it, it makes it a proper square, which is nice) and then drawing the solution from there was far less frustrating than trying to memorize or anything. It also allowed me to work on some tougher puzzles while away from my PS4, which was nice. Best part: you don't need to install Snapchat.


  6. Yep, the river.

     

    If you want the solution:

     

    Press the button/key you press to enter the mode you interact with the puzzle panels. Start at the circular "starting" point of the river and draw a line from there to where it terminates. Complete the puzzle.


  7. Dewar:

    Go to the top of the mountain. There's a panel that is conveniently placed that will show you what to look for. They are not really like the regular panel puzzles, they are more about getting the right perspective and actually noticing them.