Topic: Games you recently DROPPED

@kkslider5552000
Do you mean the choice between anime fanservice or swear swords? If so, yes anime fanservice is definitely worse. And I did not like it in 2. Easily the worst part of it.

All around, I guess Xenoblade 1 is still my favourite, but I love the world in 2 and the vibe of adventure. And the games do get smoother gameplaywise, with each entry. Well I guess I can not have the best of them all in one game.

I don't know If I posted this on here, but I'm going to pick up klonoa door to phantomile again, it's been years now and I'm revisting games on my ps3 again. And after finally being cuphead after quitting it years ago, I think I have enough patience now to beat it.

Wish me luck guys!

Yeah, I don't think most JRPGs are for you then. A lot of them delve into heavier topic matter, and tend to be more depressive or at least carry themselves with a more serious tone. It's a genre full of narrative-based games, where story takes lead over gameplay most times. I personally loved 3 due to how serious and depressive it is, but I also tend to like more hopeless narratives. One of the games I just beat was Persona 3 Reload. A game which at its core, centers around death.

@VoidofLight
I tried to play Persona 3 FES a few times. The most interesting part about it is, how fast it bored me each time, so I just dropped it. The game starts really interesting and fresh though.

Still thanks for the warning, because I was thinking about getting Reload a few months ago.

And I will not give up on jrpgs in general. I am sure, there will be great stuff with awesome atmosphere, like Terranigma, Secet Of Mana or Final Fantasy 3-10 , from time to time.

Edit: I am interested in Granblue Fantasy Relink.

@waveboy
I remember watching a playthrough, of the original Saturn game of Panzer Dragoon. The game is really something else. The gameplay, the atmosphere, the visuals and the soundtrack, felt unique to me.

Your comment made me want to play the original Klonoa games and the Wii version, to see and feel the difference, for myself. I had a good time with Phantasy Reverie.

I tried the demo for Mario Rabbids: Sparks Of Hope, but not for very long. I just couldn't get into the controls. It looked like Mario, but there was something jarring about not jumping . Felt too clunky for me to deal with. Sure there is a great game in there, but it wasn't grabbing me.

@waveboy Alan wake 2 and dead space remake don't disappoint. Judging by your love for RE, I think you'll get along well with them both. Especially alan wake 2 with its production quality.

Grabbed By The Ghoulies - As like every Rare game, it has aged atrociously and is just a terrible game.

@dmcc0 I totally bounced off Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon too, but went back to it some weeks later and loved it. Once you get your head around it, and work out which special items are worth getting, it’s really not super hard. I ended up beating it with every character. Definitely worth giving another go. Perfect phone game.

@waveboy Nah - I saw that Nitrome were involved with Dig and stayed away! They make respectable mobile games, but they’re basically a solid 7/10 at best.

First time ever I drop a game: Outer Wilds - for me a game must be first of all fun, this one I found unnecessarily frustrating and consequently boring.

Maybe not totally dropped, but The World Ends With You: Final Remix goes back into the backlog for now. Played the first 20 mins or so and found the touch control pretty frustrating, might invest in a stylus before I try this one again.

@GeneralFulbright I'm with you on this, I gave it a couple of hours and knew it wasn't a game 'for me'. Strange, as I expected to click with it....

I'm no stranger to slower and more thought-provoking games (I adore Disco Elysium) but I couldn't get on board with Outer Wilds. I found the control system quite cumbersome also, especially using the jetpack..

I might return to it and give it another go, but I've got too many other great games to play right now!

@CJD87 True, controls are awful and the pressure created by the 22 minutes loop totally ruins the pleasure of exploration.

Banjo Kazooie. I've posted my full thoughts over on pure xbox, but imo, it's an overrated mess of a game.

Maximum Velocity.

I have more games to play and far less patience than I did when this first came out on GBA.

@NintendoByNature

You reckon?
Played it recently and found the individual levels quite tightly designed.
The hub is pretty tedious though.

It pains me to say this but as excited about it as I was, Corn Kidz 64 was a massive disappointment for me. It controls really well and nails the N64 aesthetic, but so much of it was just an exercise in frustration, between punishing fall damage, inputs that felt unreliable, a pretty awful camera, and very cryptic world design that I just did not have the patience for. The game's like 2-3 hours long and I still couldn't bring myself to finish.

Divinity Original Sin 2 - This game is really too, too much complicated and confusing, so much that it almost becomes stressful and frustrating.
Just managing the inventory takes several hours, as does carefully reading every single damn book you find..... Definitely a great game, but really challenging for those who are looking for some hours of pure relax and fun.

On my Xbox I have Rare Replay and have made fairly good progress on some of the games included there. The N64 and Xbox games are popular, but I decided to get the most out of the game by trying some of the least popular titles released on the NES, SNES, and some random home computer called the ZX Spectrum that was popular in the UK, but with me being from the US, I really don’t know much about it.

The collection allows cheats, including infinite lives and a rewind feature, so I played Battletoads with the intent of beating it. I thought the cheats would help, but I was so wrong to think I could complete the entire game… I actually finished the notorious Turbo Tunnel level (though I had to repeatedly rewind) but the level I got stuck on was this pipe level where you had to run from saws, but I kept getting killed there. I dropped the game at that point because I knew completing the game wasn’t gonna happen lol.

There was also another game on there called Snake Rattle ‘n’ Roll that I was close to finishing, but the final boss was so difficult that I gave up. You have to repeatedly hit a button on the controller until the boss explodes(?) but it was tiring. I even used a walkthrough and it didn’t work. In my opinion, a lot of Rare’s games from the 80s to early 90s have bad design and have aged poorly with the controls and mechanics, ESPECIALLY the ZX Spectrum games their predecessor developed. I completed a few of those, but they are just plain bad that I dropped most of them immediately. I quit Underwurlde a few seconds after starting it.

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin.

I really, really wanted to like it. But after a few hours, I just couldn't stand the floatiness and hit detection of the side-scrolling sections, and the rice farming part was just too technical for me. I can see why some people would like how involved it is and how to understand the spreadsheets to maximize everything, but yea... I'm more Harvest Moon than Sim City when it comes to my farming sims lol

The one game that invites obvious comparison would be Harvestella, and I only played the demo for that one. But I will say, I was having more fun with Harvestella in the first few hours than I was with this game.