Kendrick Kerwin Chua
2025-01-13 00:31:10 UTC
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Permalinktime all the central heating in the neighbourhood goes on all at once.
Play:
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Them's Fightin' Herds (PS4/PS5) - So how do you hold up a middling
fighting game that's hampered by having to render its combatants as
cartoon animals? You tie a 16-bit RPG exploration minigame to the side
of it so that each fight has visible stakes. The narrative is honestly
pretty inspired, but the fighting game is sort of weird and opaque if
you come in expecting any kind of resemblance to recognisable martial
arts. One of three delightful bargain purchases from this past weekend.
Hokko Life (PS4) - For five bucks! I read up on the provenance of this
game, and it's one of those titles that got into Early Access (tm)(R)(C)
on Steam and was immediately pilloried for being buggy and unplayable.
The console ports didn't come until they finished the game, and the
result is a somewhat underwhelming Animal Crossing clone. The kids would
describe it as 'chill' but so far all I can see is that it's
'derivative' and not always in a good way. Still, for five bucks it was
worth the laugh.
Want:
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Demon Gaze II (PS4) - On the way from VG Plus, assuming nothing catches
fire or gets a tariff attached to it. I only recently learned that the
two Demon Gaze games, Mon-Yu and Undernauts are all part of the same
game series. I do have both Demon Gaze games on Vita already, but given
that I'd accidentally gotten three of the four for proper big-screen
Playstation it seemed silly not to have the last one in-hand too.
Bin:
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Nothing game-related.
-KKC, who needs more sleep than he's been getting.