Saw other people trying this, and since I know I have issues with certain colour ranges, figured I'd try it. But yeah, 0.0046. Most of them: very straightforward: some of the blues & purples?! Absolutely could not see the diff.
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
Because of the way I map games, I’d already sunk too much time in to just write it off so I had to finish it. I’ve got better at disregarding sunk cost fallacy since then. Invulnerable phase bosses suck, though. I can usually see what the devs are going for, but rarely find them fun.
Yup. I had no intention of playing the sequel after my experience playing and mapping the first game anyways, but the number of people demanding to know why not and saying that AN is best game ever etc etc is ridiculous. It’s another case of “hard game gets a pass for stuff because it’s hard”.
Looking forward to playing this one. Already put 20+ hours into prepping map stuff for it.
A rather good bundle. FIST is great, Satgat and Kingdom Shell are pretty decent, Ultros is very much an acquired taste. Gestalt has far too much talking but is decent when you’re not being interrupted, and Primal Planet is cosy. Not played Lost Ruins, and not talking about the other two games.
According to my Toggl, I’ve already spent close to 20 hours working on a map for Solateria and the game isn’t even out yet (nor do I have an early copy).
SO. MANY. QTES. Note, I always play shooters on m/kb so the QTEs are horrendously unintuitive. F+R ?!?! Who tf came up with THAT little combo and gave me half a second to press it?!!! 🤣🤣
I’d say it’s actually in some ways an okay Resi plot, but the moment to moment storytelling makes everyone look REALLY stupid. It’s a style-over-substance game and I’m playing on because it’s like experiencing a slice of early 00s train wreck in action 🤣.
Why not play RE5 and RE6 like I’m doing (for the very first time)?
Not regretting it in the slightest.
(They’re so bad…)
On the Metroidvania front, I highly recommend this for Voidwrought and Yoku’s Island Express. Yars Rising is an acceptable MV but won’t blow you away.
Oooooh that is SNEAKY from the devs. I wonder if there's a way I can make it clearer that it's a secret within a secret...
>_< I tried to make sure all the teeny tiny little nubs on the map had a striped effect to make them stand out a bit more. Do you know which zone you're missing the 100% in?
Some feedback to PR folks that certainly wasn't asked for but hey: I find that I'm way more likely to redeem a Steam key and look at a game when it's sent to me directly via email than when I need to click through to some other site. Especially if you write "key enclosed" without enclosing a key.
I love Kotama. One of my fave games in the genre.
I. AM. READY!
We are finally (FINALLY!) ready to announce the GRIME II release date! Which is...
31st Of March 2026! Just a little over a month from now!
To celebrate, we've got a brand new trailer teasing some new bosses and combos.
I am… inevitable…
That’s 739,666 days, 2026 years.
Sons of Sparta completion timer is broken.
Something tells me this is busted.
Worked my absolute ass off over the last couple of days to get this into a decent state. (33+ hours). Needs some tidying & prettying up, but I think everything from my Plat trophy is on there. Supporters get early access. Release version in a "couple of weeks", probably.
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17 hours into mapping “God of War: Sons of Sparta”. 10 hours of footage covered. 15 hours of footage left to go. And then I still need to 100% bits. Erk.
Yikes! In a way I’m glad it’s not just me having a buggy time, though I’d rather it *were* just my experience that is off and everyone else was just able to enjoy. >_<
Yup, we're working on a new Castlevania game.
Thanks to KONAMI, & with Motion Twin's friendly advice, the franchise will be going back to its roots with what we hope to be the best whip traversal & combat ever seen in a 2D action-adventure game! Noooo pressure...
www.konami.com/games/castle...
Performance of "God of War: Sons of Sparta" continues to be terrible. Lagging game, spikes of frozen time, audio desycing all over the place, dialogue not playing correctly, animations for character and enemies randomly speeding up. Very poor. Needs a patch desperately. #GodofWar
Turns out there IS a screenshot memory feature. It's unlocked like 7 hours into the game, after you've already passed a load of stuff you'd probably have marked with a screenshot. Should've been one of the first things you unlocked...
19% completion after 6 hrs 20 mins seems like it might be decent if you value longer games, but right now I'm just not having fun because this combat-focused metroidvania doesn't actually have particularly fun combat. Will come back to it tomorrow and see if I feel different.
On the plus side, the map is nice (always a bonus in a metroidvania) but would have GREATLY benefited from a leaf out of The Lost Crown's book with the "screenshot memory" feature — especially because we can't place custom markers on a tile that already has a auto-placed symbol.
Oh, and if you're a fan of the "enemies glow a certain colour when they're about to do an attack; can you remember which thing to do to avoid it" thing, be happy that there are FOUR different colours in this one. (Though tbh Purple is just "run away".)
Verdict on "God of War: Sons of Sparta" by @megacatstudios.bsky.social after 6 hrs? "Needed more time to cook." Clunky controls, glitchy AI, challenge is mostly from throwing many enemies at once w/ dodgy hitboxes, contact damage stagger locks you when surrounded, + unskippable pre-boss dialogue.
