Katana314

@ Katana314 @lemmy.world

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15h ago

Accelerationism
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Katana314 @lemmy.world 15h ago
Obviously, we shouldn’t need to detail “villains bad” in media, but with so many of them having “from the ashes” plans, I’d like to see more heroes deconstructing their approach like this.

21h ago

Resident Evil Starting Point?

I've played a lot of the games, but I bounced off RE1 since it's a little bit stricter about resource management.

The remakes of 2, 3, 4, are all meant to be great entry points. If you like, 7 is also a good entry since it followed the poor reception of 6, and basically "soft-rebooted" with a completely different venue. For the most part, RE's base story isn't much more complicated than "Umbrella is an evil pharmaceutical corporation that makes monster viruses", so there's no strong need to follow an order.

I may be biased, but I think the story is faster and flows much better in Final Fantasy 7 original than remake. I think the long thread of hype for remake lead them to make way too much unnecessary "content" to bloat the size of the game, so they could justify 3 AAA games plus DLC around them. That can depend on whether you can put up with the older graphics.

If you'd like a JRPG from the same era that runs well on the Deck, another to consider is Trails in the Sky. Their remake is very true to the original, so there's basically no urgent need to play one over the other.

22h ago

Is "Motivation" important to you in games?

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Katana314 @lemmy.world 22h ago

Motivation from a character often pushes me to prioritize one game when I have many in my backlog. A key example of this is the Ace Attorney games, especially when compared to another mystery game like Return of the Obra Dinn.

In both games you’re solving a mystery, figuring out what happened. In Obra Dinn, you see the “happen” and fill out forms for which person was who, and how they died. But you’re not going to stop anything terrible from happening - that part’s done.

However, in Ace Attorney, every case has the same premise: Some poor fellow has been accused by an overeager justice system of murder. Worse, circumstantially it does seem likely they did it - and no one believes their story. As their defense, you prove them innocent AND drag out the evil miser who landed them in that situation, solving the mystery as you go.

In one of my favorite cases of the trilogy, the defendant was photographed in the act of stabbing the victim by a witness who was behind a fence. The accused was the only person at the scene, arrested on the spot, bears a cut on her hand from using the knife. When questioned, she willingly admits to killing him. Only reason you take the case is that she has no apparent motive, and her sister begs you to do it, feeling she couldn’t ever do such a thing. And yes: She’s innocent. Unraveling that mystery is one thing, but unraveling the motives to figure out how to help these people is another.

22h ago

Is "Motivation" important to you in games?

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Katana314 @lemmy.world 22h ago

I put it in all caps because I’m referring to the 2016 reboot. It tries to be fast paced, but even though the Slayer is silent they’re pretty successful in giving him an angry, rebellious personality.

1d ago

[Fanatical] Build Your Own Legendary Bundle ($24.99+)

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Katana314 @lemmy.world 1d ago

Bye Sweet Carole was a little bit of a disappointment to me; I liked the idea of a Disney-based horror game. But its story was often pretty incomprehensible, driven along by the protagonist constantly falling asleep/waking up in odd locations, as well as not having one gameplay system that it sticks with well.