Fantastic addition and (supposed) conclusion of the Dark Souls series. The Greatest Hits collection of all “Souls” games, which has it’s cons, but makes a incredibly fun to play game.
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Thoughts on: Broken Sword 5 – the Serpent’s Curse
It’s probably the second best Broken Sword game after the first one, tied in a way with the second one. It’s also probably not a great adventure game for 2013, nor a proper evolution for the series and its characters.
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Thoughts on: The Last Door: Season 2
Slightly weaker than Season 1, but still an amazing story-driven horror adventure game. If you’re looking for Lovecraft, Edgar Poe or Kafka-type unease, madness and horror, look no further than The Last Door. And play both seasons chronologically.
Thoughts on: Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Finally, my soul is free to be reborn in the world without Lightning.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 was a pleasant surprise (even if not the greatest game) after the horrible pointlessness of XIII. So you could expect Lightning Returns, aka XIII-3 to be even better. Nope, it completely destroys everything that it could’ve had going for it. While being absolutely sure it’s doing great.
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Thoughts on: Final Fantasy XIII-2
After suffering through Final Fantasy XIII where nothing happened, I didn’t expect the direct sequel to be any better. The first game of the “Lightning saga” wasted all of the potential it had in the mythology and themes, so I didn’t expect that Square Enix can somehow make it so the sequel fixes all of the problems. I was not ready for Final Fantasy XIII-2. It’s impossible to be ready for this game. It’s a bizarre mix of pleasant and unpleasant changes and new ideas that somehow manage to fit the conventions of the series.
Thoughts on: Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII was released in 2009 and after the initial wave of praise, it started getting very different opinions thrown about it. I read all those opinions and had certain expectations, but… It’s Final Fantasy, come on! I played all of the previous titles, though have not finished any of the PS2 games. X just didn’t click with me at all, due to characters and the setting, while XII was completely almost 100%, but I got bored during the final boss fight and watched the ending online. Hopefully, it gets a re-release in HD someday, preferably on PC and I’ll definitely play it again. Anyway, I couldn’t skip FF XIII, all of the “Trilogy”. And it starts… well, atrociously.
Quick thoughts on: Pillars of Eternity (with The White March)
After supporting the game on Kickstarter (one of very few games I supported), after patiently waiting for two part expansion to get released, I finally played Pillars of Eternity in it’s complete current 3.x version and it was an amazing adventure to have. All of my expectations were met and exceeded and not just because we sadly lacked games with truly great stories for the past decade, but because even if there were many, Pillars would be just as great. It’s everything you loved about Black Isle, early Bioware, Troika and, of course, Obsidian themselves, but perfected, taken to a new level, despite the very nostalgic interface. It’s simple enough to get sucked into it, but complex and deep enough not to be a very fast food-ish feeling game a lot more recent AAA RPGs have become.
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Thoughts on: Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel with DLC
Is it a bad game? No. Not entirely, anyway. And it tries. And a lot of it’s ideas are actually superior to the ones found in Borderlands 2 and it’s DLCs. But “making it all work” is where it often fails and fails miserably.
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Thoughts on: Lords of the Fallen
Lords of the Fallen is a pretty interesting attempt at creating an aRPG that follows on the formula of Dark Souls, but with a more Enclave and Blade of Darkness feel to it. Where it succeeds it does things very well, where it fails it fails pretty hard.
Thoughts on: Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim
Of all the 3d/2d Ys games made, Napishtim was the first to be made, yet the last to finally get a proper PC re-release. And while most of the good stuff that people loved about Felghana and Origin is still there (as it originated there), it does feel like a first attempt.