Got some Steam cards for my birthday, managed to pick up ten games... and then put one back.
Breathedge, Steamworld: Hand of Gilgamech, Kitaria Fables, Persona 5 Strikers, Palworld, Power Chord, Cassette Beats, WitchHand, A-Tech Cybernetic VR, and
Into the Radius VRSuccubus Affection
So far I've played:
A bit of Cassette Beasts- pretty good so far, but I'm not too far into it. As you probably know, a pretty neat pseudo Pokemon knockoff.
One entire game of WitchHand as the Celestial Witch- kind of a card-based resource management game. Pretty simple and fun, at least as the Celestial Witch- haven't played Chaos Witch or Culinary Witch yet. But fair warning: The Ancient Waypoint starts the final boss battle if you slot it and let a Witching Hour happen... AND THE LIGHTHOUSE THE FINAL BOSS DROPS DOES NOT DO A GOOD THING. I knew about the first, but didn't know about the second, so I was completely blindsided when I finished the very long crafting of the Lighthouse and the final boss reappeared with even MORE attack and an absolute shitload of health. Have a bunch of Witch's Marks and heavily shielded Ancient Familiars handy if you can- plus a few Freeze spells to keep him from attacking. Some Fireballs or weak familiars to deal with the adds would also be advised.
A-Tech Cybernetic VR is, as the title suggests, VR. At least the early parts do indeed seem to be what Doom VFR should have been- dealing with Cyborg Zombies. Headshots do not always kill them even if the head pops off and the body will continue to come after you- carrying a melee weapon is a good idea to save ammo because the body takes quite a few more shots. Shooting the legs also works, at least the one time I had that idea so far. I've just run into the ones that fcking teleport in out of nowhere- and teleport closer every few seconds instead of shambling. The female zombies do run pretty fast, but are more fragile. It's not too difficult at all so far, but I just quit after spotting the first one carrying a gun- I'd just hit a checkpoint and decided I was done after a peek anyway, so we'll see how that goes next time. My one complaint so far: need more holsters. You can carry two things at once and have two weapon holsters. Would be real nice to have a weapon wheel to carry all the weapons, but that's more a modern game design complaint. Grenades have their own three slots at least, and there's an extra spot for your flashlight- I assume that's the only thing you can put there, as there are dark parts and you will want it.
Annnnd Into the Radius. Which I got a refund for. Half- partway into the tutorial I chickened out. Abandoned farmhouse, everything is dark, things are hanging in the air unnaturally, there are black statues of people that shatter when you touch them, there are skittering scratching noises EVERYWHERE and it doesn't even have the decency to give you any enemies. To say nothing of needing one hand to hold the flashlight and one to open cabinets for loot so you can't even hold the piddly knife they give you. Freaked me the HELL out. I returned it and got some porn. Which I haven't tried yet.
This brings me to an interesting question: A-Tech doesn't really scare me- granted I jumped when a bunch of corpses came to life under my feet and murdered me in an instant, but I wasn't actually that scared. But Into the Radius freaked me right the fuck out.
When I go to the movies with my mother and we're watching the previews, I always warn her to close her eyes when I know a scary movie preview is coming on. Monster movies, general horror- as long as it doesn't involve cognitohazards, it doesn't really bother me that much.
But when the preview for
Gravity came on, I had to close my eyes and just breathe because it freaked me the fuck out. That shit scares me, and my mother was baffled by it.
So how about you guys? What's YOUR nopenopenope?
