Hello everyone. Hope you all had a relaxing weekend. I have been playing more Balatro and Nightreign, but I spent this morning readying another playthrough of New Vegas that I will be undertaking soon. Have a good week everyone!
All the Silksong posting drove me to try out Hollow Knight for the first time. Before that, I’ve been doing some flight sim in FlightGear.
Started Persona 5 Royal. It’s a JRPG alright. Fucked up (and not to mention shit writing) to have the first arc be about a teacher SAing students, and then to have the second arc require you to force one of those students to seduce someone against her will (and then when that seduction target joins you he never apologizes for being so pushy). The game also really suffers from a lack of MC involvement in dialogue. Like eg I don’t even think you were told you couldn’t tell anyone about the Velvet Room but I guess that’s just not an option.
I find it increasingly funny when it snaps back to Sae in the interrogation room asking “ah so you phantom thieves were really good at eating burgers, you must have had the help of an american!” or whatever every time you get a new confidant.
E: it’s also very funny that the politician guy was involved in three scandals that ruined his career, and calling a constituent an idiot is portrayed as an equal offense to embezzling millions of yen.
I started playing Jedi Survivor this week and it’s fun. Luckily I haven’t had any performance issues so far (8 hours in) so my experience is only positive. Lots of people complained about performance, especially at launch. It still has a Mixed rating on Steam because of it.
I’m not silking my song yet since I haven’t finished the first Hollow Knight yet. Besides, the stuff I’ve heard about the increased difficulty sounds terrible. I’ll probably just play it with mods when I get to it.
Me tomorrow
Psycho Mantis?!
…you’re that ninja
All my good impressions are gravely voiced, I kill a Randy Savage or Lemmy. Snake takes some work, but I’ve gotten the mgs1 take but not how Hayter did it after.
I’m bad at silksong
It was gonna be Silksong but controller issues decided to ruin my already pitiful current life. So I guess it’s gonna be No Man’s Sky for a bit longer.
second silksong post. sweating my meaty claws off climbing mount fey
Silksong update, some of these boss runbacks were designed in a lab to piss me off.
The one for Last Judge has to be the worst.
I had to do it so many times by the end i could do it without breaking sprint
I finally finished Outer Wilds and I wondered what the echo of the eye was because i missed how to do it during the game and even though I loved most of it i think heart breakingly that i cant be arsed to go back and do the echoes of the eye part. I did the whole base game without looking anything up
i complain a lot and spoiler below. im going to cushion this by saying if you haven’t, go play the game blind. I know people were raving when it came out but it should still be talked about way more than it is all these years later. it’s a great game and deserves more praise.
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except right at the end i was getting fatigued and looked up exactly how to get into the ash twin project because i spent over an hour at the correct spot (the teleporter that gets covered by the sand column) without guessing that i had to hide in the cubby briefly before walking onto it while it was getting sanded. I think it’s an incredible game but i feel like a lot of people just end up looking up some of the puzzles despite all the hints.
I really like the concept of the game but i struggle with some of the execution. Every time I was at the end of a puzzle and got knee capped by the time loop i was so annoyed. Some of the puzzles can be solved by dumb luck but im really hung up on getting into the ash twin. most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious. I don’t know if that’s good or bad but i think this sort of game without the time loop would be my favorite. if i just had unlimited time to bash my face against puzzles id be happier than being under that kind of pressure in a single player game. The writing is intelligent and funny, the movement is great too. Love the planets, love the art style. but i’m really torn about the time loop cap of 22 mins
that specific issue with that specific puzzle is a common complaint, I think the devs have said they would have handled it differently if they were to do it again
maybe someday you come back to search for the echo, they really managed to pull off the same feat twice
maybe someday you come back to search for the echo, they really managed to pull off the same feat twice
that alone makes me want to boot up my save
it’s both still outer wilds and also very different, but i think it’s a fantastic followup
most every other puzzle if you found all the pieces you knew exactly what to do and its this final one and the echoes of the eye stuff where it really wasn’t obvious.
Honestly I’m not sure how they could give you any more hints about this puzzle without just locking you in a room with essentially a copy of this puzzle and no other way out. The problem is you need to be in a place, and the physics of the Twins prevents you from easily being in that place. So you’ve gotta just figure out that the trick is to get to that place at the right moment before the physics can move you away. It’s a reasonable puzzle imo.
Echoes of the Eye is a really weird DLC that was grafted ungracefully into the game and I honestly wish it was completely separate. You’re lucky you didn’t stumble into it because I’ve seen a new player do that and it’s so confusing when you don’t realize that nothing there has anything to do with anything else in the universe.
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I think they “achieved” this with the quantum rock on ember twin. If you couldn’t figure out what to do with the easier to get to caves i believe the hardest to reach cave (at the bottom of the dried lake) spells out the puzzle even more explicitly than the other hints if i recall correctly. I resisted looking up that one and finally on a particular loop i managed to find the side cave at the bottom of that lake which is technically a stressful timed movement puzzle whereas someone who is better at contextualizing hints would be able to figure out how to teleport with the rock based on the easy caves. Maybe they could’ve hidden the ash twin teleporter differently or stuffed another hint somewhere?
Such a great game, one of my all time faves. You should definitely go back and try to find the echoes of the eye. Not exactly the same as the rest of the game, but still super fun! It’s got fun new mechanics to work with.
hint to find echoes
Look around more on timber hearth for some hints
beyond above hint
If you’ve already found the strange satellite photo, try hanging out at the satellite for a whole loop
V Jostar, his stand Silverhand, his quirky best friend Brendan, and the affable straight man - Takemura.
Silksong. It’s everything I wanted from a hollow knight followup. Including getting fucking killed by terrible pogo skills rather than anything else lol. Great boss fights, amazing exploration, and awesome cute little bugs that make me want to help them and cry when I lose them.
I dusted off the OG hollow knight. I got all the way to the end when I played it then didn’t beat the radiance. Figured I should do that before I buy the new one
Silking it hard right now. IN LOVE with this game. It’s huge, there’s so much to do now that i’ve got (maybe) all the movement upgrades like double-jump and stuff.
i started a new bg3 run a bit ago and i just started act 3. its an honor mode run so hopefully i can finish it this time
i have beaten silksong, until tomorrow, when i try to figure out if there is a different ending and how to get it
