Report 45: Going dark places
Welp, I’ve completed The Lost Update, and now I guess I’m officialy finished with this game for the second time, since there are no more updates planned. This one didn’t change my opinion about the game much. While there’s more strategy involved than I thought at first, it’s still fairly primitive and you got shit luck with items and spells, chances are you’re not gonna save your run, like you could still do in Isaac if you try hard enough.
Bum-bo The Lost is fairly interesting to play, although your strategy during the game is pretty much just making The Negative a 0-charge item and then just roll with it. Ghost tiles were really fun.
Although I think I’m being somewhat harsh to the game only because I compare it to Isaac all the time in my head. I still played it for 50 hours and barely noticed that. It’s just sad that it doesn’t have that much replay value for me. Once I was done with the character’s achievements, I never touched that character again.
Bum-bo The Weird is still the best Bum-boy.
And yet another great game replayed. It is much more satisfying to shoot enemies in this one, ragdoll physics and all. It’s much shorter than the first one, though. If I didn’t stop to listen to every conversation or TV program I could, I’d probably beat in 3 hours or so. MP2 is also significantly easier than the first one, you have more bullet time, bullet time jumps are much better, and it’s just easier to kill enemies (at least I felt so). Even though both games have a fairly simple plot, I liked the first one’s better.
But still, daaaaaaamn does the shooting feels good.
Overall, a good sequel. I’ve yet to replay MP3, and I have no nostalgia goggles on about it, so we’ll see how it goes when I get there.
This is yet another NIS game with similar style and atmosphere. I’d like to mention that I liked this one MUCH more than Hotaru no Nikki. It’s also a platformer, but with a heavy emphasis on puzzles this time. Now you have full control over your characters (thank god) and you can switch between them any time. It’s Lost Vikings stuff - different characters with different abilities assist each other to get through the levels.
The art is pretty good as usual, music is also nice. The plot… I wish it was more coherent, because my monkey brain couldn’t comprehend it properly - I was too focused on puzzles and trying to finish the game itself.
It can still be pretty frustrating at times, but it was nowhere near as annoying as HnN can be, at least in my opinion. It also had just the kind of speedrun achievements I like - you can speedrun-mode each level separately, cutting off your overall completion time bit by bit.
Overall, it was pretty good.
This is a sequel for the first Yomawari game (duh). It’s basically just like the first game, but there’s more content and the plot is slightly more complex (but nothing mind-blowing, obviously, it’s all still pretty simple).
Just like the first game, this one is very interesting to explore. The ways you should interact with the world to get some of the collectibles can be more creative than before. Now, each chapter has a full-fledged boss battle, which is nice. Pretty much all the boss fights were pretty annoying until you figure out how to deal with them, that’s when they turn out to be fairly simple.
If I had to point out things that I didn’t like, it’s the fact that this one starts to frequently use jumpscares. I mean, I was fine with it, but the first part was great without them (at least I don’t remember any). Also, some of the backtracking can be really tedious.
But then again, at least this game doesn’t include the goddamn torture that was returning the chickens quest and “play for 50 hours” achievement from the previous game.
Overall, it’s a very solid sequel that stands on the same level as the original.