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Bleah. Google is doing that thing where they're challenging everybody to
sign in because they needs their demographic research datas, dammit.
What makes you think my abuse of your API system to watch content
without advertising means I'm an automated script, Youtube? Maybe I'm
just a very grumpy man who got tired of being told he needed cheap
clothing from China.

Play:
--=--

Sengoku Basara Samurai Heroes (PS3) - On the strength of Stephanie
Sterling's feature this week. I'd passed on this back in the day because
I assumed that it was a bishoujo dating game set in historic times along
the same lines as the two PSP Hakuoki titles. I did not realise that
this was Capcom's answer to Koei's Warrior games, where they
purposefully simplify and subvert the brawling action in the name of
making it more nutty and entertaining. I find it a little repetitive,
but if I stick with it more than a few days this will probably get top
billing in my podcast report.

Freedom Wars Remastered (PS5) - The controls are different to the Vita version, so I keep fighting muscle memory because I want to mash face
buttons instead of triggers to do attacks. Also, I've forgotten all of
the PvP tactics that the game wants to teach you in its lengthy tutorial phase, in that you have to think about defence as well as offense when competing with a team of other 'Sinner' characters as opposed to the
giant robots that you can cut pieces off of. But the setting is still as arresting and compelling as it ever was, especially if you have the
English dub on. The voice acting is way, way better than it needs to be,
but the real kicker is where they *didn't* use voice acting. I will get
into that more in the podcast.

Want:
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Demon Gaze II (PS4) - On its way from Canada. This not-buying-games- from-Amazon thing is working out much better than I ever thought it
would, especially as the prices are competitive and there's no middlemen
or third-parties mucking up the process. I give them money, they give me games. And I don't need two-day delivery. Jeff Bezos is a spineless
coward who doesn't deserve to own a newspaper and no number of
successful rocket launches will ever enable him to regrow his hair. I
need to workshop that until it rolls off the tongue better.

Bin:
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Nothing game-related.

-KKC, who has the US bank holiday off to play more.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:

Bleah. Google is doing that thing where they're challenging everybody to sign in because they needs their demographic research datas, dammit.

I reward their interest by appearing to be a tedious nerd. Not
something that comes easily to me of course, but needs must.

Play:

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (PC) - did episode one of four,
with hints set to "never". I didn't think the difficulty was
unbearably low, really, but the game seemed very plain and dull
somehow. So as it turns out, I'd say I neither enjoy this nor moaning
about it - it's just kind of blandly there. Meh. I might not bother
with the rest TBH.

Just Cause 2 (PC) - some more messing about on this, post-story. Not
that I intend to do much more with it, but I'm a bit surprised just
how many faction missions I still have remaining if nothing else.

Freedom Wars Remastered (PS5) - The controls are different to the Vita

[...]

But the setting is still as arresting

ISWYDT.

Want:

To try one of various pending racers and FPSen, the most likely being
GRIP (PC), the Rollcage-like one from some years back. Assuming I
don't just end up playing Outrun 2006 again.

Bin:

Nothing.

-Rus.
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On 20 Jan 2025 at 19:31:25 GMT, "Russell Marks" <zgedneil@spam^H^H^H^Hgmail.com> wrote:

Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures (PC) - did episode one of four,
with hints set to "never". I didn't think the difficulty was
unbearably low, really, but the game seemed very plain and dull
somehow. So as it turns out, I'd say I neither enjoy this nor moaning
about it - it's just kind of blandly there. Meh. I might not bother
with the rest TBH.

Yeah, that's how it struck me too. Just no life in it.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"History repeats itself. Has to. No one listens."
-- Steve Turner
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