Eh.
I'm actually lazy when it comes to gaming, sometimes.
I got to the final bosses in like January 2019 and never continued. Until today.

Except SMTDS2. I reached the Polaris boss more recently than that.

On 26 August 2020, I finally cleared "Dragon Quest IV" (DS).

Just half an hour prior to this post, I cleared "Nostalgia" (DS) as well.

* triumphantly poses, only for a flower dragon to fall on Charlie's head *

... I'm Flora and Melody shipper... @.@

* faints *

I played INMOST on Friday night. It's a kind of a puzzle platformer. It looked like a metroidvania from the trailer, and I suppose it kind of is I guess.

I like how moody and atmospheric it is, the music's good, the world seems really cool and there are some awesome moments. However, that's overshadowed by all the really slow walking segments which get tiresome, the confusing and pretentious story, the mediocre puzzles and the fact that the controls can't be remapped.


My biggest gripe is that it has a serious problem with "show, don't tell", in a certain sense -- often, when something important happens, the game will rip control away from the player and launch into a cutscene. This gets really glaringly bad at the end.



I was unimpressed by the metroidvania aspect too -- the main character, the wanderer (I think that's what he's called) starts out really underpowered, which is to be expected for metroidvanias, but the problem is he stays underpowered for the whole game, you never feel like the world opens up. The second playable character, the girl (who I think is supposed to be the wanderer's granddaughter, or something like that, like I said the story's confusing and pretentious) is even more underpowered. The third character, the knight, has access to more abilities, but unfortunately that seems to exclude jumping.


Not all the puzzles were bad, though -- I really liked the endless hallway thingy, I felt super dumb for not figuring that one out sooner. Several puzzles involved getting rid of some monster in some clever way, most of those were quite interesting as well.


5/10


In more positive news, today I got this in the first level of Celeste -- it's 2nd place:

I played INMOST on Friday night. It's a kind of a puzzle platformer. It looked like a metroidvania from the trailer, and I suppose it kind of is I guess.

I like how moody and atmospheric it is, the music's good, the world seems really cool and there are some awesome moments. However, that's overshadowed by all the really slow walking segments which get tiresome, the confusing and pretentious story, the mediocre puzzles and the fact that the controls can't be remapped.

Hoo boy, if you love pretentious story writing then I'm sure that you've heard of YIIK: The Post-Modern RPG? Much like Sonic 06, the music is the best part of the game though at least Sonic 06 wasn't pretentious in it's own story.

@King - I think that was Noxid's avatar at the time.

And it's glorious. His avatar was so unexpected that I must spent several minutes laughing before getting on with the mod.

This is a custom level, but I'm still happy with it, managed to get under 3 minutes which is really cool.

So I decided to replay Dark Spirits (a DSi game I have on 3DS) and managed to get past the third loop (which was pretty hard) and have now made it to 4-1. The final boss on the 4th loop uses the attack patterns from the last 3 loops (1-5, 2-5 and 3-5) except he takes less damage once you destroy all 4 of his gems. I've yet to defeat that boss and the game doesn't have a level select so I'd have to make it to that boss all over again.

Just cleared 9 Hours 9 People 9 Doors and... got the ending where everyone died. Including June and Junpei.

Zero probably did it. I know I took door 3, and the one before that, I think, was 4? (It went to a kitchen with Santa and Lotus and June.)

Either way, is it truly the end?

Can't be, else it wouldn't have other endings. :p

Just a bit gory, though...

A part of me expected one of the deaths, but... I'll try with the other endings when I feel like it.

Playing Pokemon Sunday Version now, with its Light-type (weak to AND effective against Dark). My team's too weak for the second Gym, haha... that Umbreon (Lv18?) wiped my entire team out (they're Lv17, minimum).
So: training time. (The Exp. Share helps, though.)

Very nice! ^w^ I think the idea behind Pokemon is very cool and I've played a few versions and fangames of it, but often I just end up losing interest after a while.

I've been playing a lot of Sunblaze lately :3