April '20 Play Log II
Spring is finally starting to spring, which is making quarantine marginally more tolerable. I planted some dwarf apple trees in my back yard a almost two weeks ago. So far I don’t see any buds, so I’m a bit nervous. I really hope they survive. If they do I won’t get any apples until at least fall 2021, but I’m really looking forward to that.
Overall a good FPS, but there’s no story at all, which was a bit disappointing.
Pros:
- Mission descriptions are frequently funny
- I like the comic book type art style
- Good weapon variety
- Ripping around in the vehicles is fun
- Being able to get a second chance if you kill an enemy after you run out of health is great
- Mad Moxxi DLC: really great music, very challenging
Cons:
- The ending sucked
- No story at all, or background on your characters
- It’s not obvious when DLC becomes available (I didn’t find them until after I beat the game)
- DLC: no waypoints within individual DLC
- Mordecai is a sniper, his skill is sending his pet Bloodwing to kill an enemy, but struggles with medium range, and can’t do long range at all. It also often gets stuck if you’re not careful.
- Hit boxes on cover/walls/etc are badly done. I often used cover to snipe, and frequently got in situations where I couldn’t figure out why I kept missing, only to eventually realize the I was hitting what I was hiding behind/beside despite actually having a clear view.
Verdict: 7/10
First time playing this game. It’s quite good, but the lack of story was disappointing. I’ve heard the second one is better. I’ll probably pick up The Handsome Collection at some point. I have the Pre-Sequel, but no DLC for it.
Not nearly as good as other Sakura games. I wouldn’t describe this as bad, but the story didn’t hold my attention enough to recommend it.
Pros:
- Good graphics ;)
- Some choices, though they mainly affect who you end up with
Cons:
- The story is pretty boring
- The protagonist is an idiot. Surrounded by beautiful women and all he can think of is trying to escape them.
Verdict: 5/10
SG win. I wouldn’t call it bad, but not good either. The protagonist is an idiot. I’d be willing to give more games like this a try. I think they have some potential if the story is decent, though I can’t see myself becoming a ‘fan’ of them per se.
I haven’t played much anime before, and never any VNs, but I actually really enjoyed this. If you’re expecting a choices matter/exist type game though, this isn’t it. There’s only one choice, and it doesn’t affect the story in any way.
Pros:
- Some nice graphics ;)
- The story was better than I expected
Cons:
- The protagonist gets way too flustered around the girls
- As much as the whole hero bit is done somewhat tongue-in-cheek, it still felt a bit cliched at times
Verdict: 8/10
SG win. I actually quite enjoyed this one. I have 2 more Sakura SG wins, I’m hoping their more like this one as it had a much better story.
Recent Acquisitions
- Submerged
0 minutes playtime
0 of 10 achievements - HITMAN™ 2
0 minutes playtime
0 of 146 achievements
Upcoming
I had intended on focusing on my abandoned backlog. Specifically games with controller support I can play from my living room, since being stuck in my computer room for 12+ hours a day is getting to me. Of course it’s now a new Play or Pay cycle, and Cece and Ninglor went and picked some really good games, so I’ll try to balance them instead.
- Hard West
6 hours playtime
2 of 35 achievements - Lovely Planet
0 minutes playtime
0 of 14 achievements - Assassin's Creed Revelations
17 hours playtime
no achievements
- The Wolf Among Us
0 minutes playtime
0 of 35 achievements
I actually have no idea how you’re supposed to play Lovely Planet with a controller, since it demands unnatural precision at times. I was playing on kb+m and still ragequitted HARD on later levels.
Yeah I used to do FPSs on controller but I got a decent mouse and have been doing them more with mouse recently… I doubt I’ll end up getting many achievements on Lovely Planet. Thanks for the heads up though, I’ll definitely pick the easiest difficulty then.
To me the most disappointing thing about Borderlands was the ending. I was in disbelief that the game suddendly was just … over. Without anything. Still quite a decent game, as you say. Not as good as Borderlands 2 though.
Yeah definitely. Looking forward to 2, haven’t had any luck trading for it yet though.
yeah the dlc pops up straight away on all the games but only borderlands 2 separate the fast travel stations into dlc areas. I also agree with the ending, just suddenly ends and unless you have some more random pointless side missions you got 1 last mission and then nothing. Just have to run back to the fast travel to start the dlc
Congrats on your progress! Just wanted to warn you that the borderlands 2 online is totally broken rn :( I tried to play with a friend recently and couldn’t. The solo probably works fine though and it’s a really fun game. Hope you have fun!
Thanks! I’m mostly interested in single player. Thanks for the warning though!
Good luck with the apple trees!
Oh, you got Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. I just love my Agent 47 :]
Have fun with your PoP games \o/
Thanks! Yeah, I’ve had it for a while though… I keep getting it mixed up with HITMAN 2 which I actually got recently :P.
Irritating how they have basically the same name, right?
But ok, so you actually got HITMAN 2 just now :D
Haven’t started that one yet. Still have to finish HITMAN - which will take me another 100 or more hours :D
It is a bit. Yeah same. Don’t recall if I’ve finished all of the main missions once, but either way I want to play through them a lot more before I start the second one, so it certainly won’t be any time soon.
I haven’t bc I tried to do everything else, before I move on to the next. Meaning I just now reached mission 3 with almost 100h or such game time :D