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Happy about: Fable Anniversary

07/06/2021 07/06/2021

Many many years ago, in 2005 to be precise, I’ve played Fable: The Lost Chapters on PC and enjoyed it quite a bit. It didn’t exactly wow me, because of how intentionally primitive the storytelling was, but it was full of curious ideas. And from what I’ve seen and heard, all those ideas were developed and expanded upon in the highly praised sequel that still remains exclusive to Xbox 360 and thus, I’ve never given it a proper playthrough. I’ve not checked Fable III either, since the PC port of that game wasn’t particularly great and was tied into the terrible GFWL service, which was apparently the main reason the game was pulled from sales pretty soon after and remains not available for PC since then.

In 2014 an Unreal Engine 3 driven remake/remaster was released, called Fable Anniversary, which was basically exactly the same game as The Lost Chapters, but with many little tweaks and changes and with better support for modern hardware. And for the longest time I’ve not planned to ever play it. I thought that I will find Fable too simplistic and boring and not worth revisiting. Yet a discussion with friends prompted me to reconsider and give this game a go. I’m glad I did that.

Thoughts on: Yakuza 3 Remastered

01/06/2021 01/06/2021

Every since finally starting my journey through the Yakuza series with 0 three years ago, it’s been very interesting to see series evolve… yet also see that in an “incorrect” way. I mean, sure now I’m fully familiar with Y1 and 2 first hand, but those were the recent Kiwami remakes, not the originals. And even 0 itself was one of the newest developed entries in the series. In fact, Yakuza 3, even in its remastered format, is now the oldest made game in the series I’ve played. This age shows not in the most flattering way.

In love with: Cyberpunk 2077

15/05/2021 15/05/2021

Years after its announcement and months since its release I’ve decided to give Cyberpunk 2077 a go. Despite owning the game, I didn’t play it not for the obvious reasons of it being horribly buggy at the moment, but out of my usual principle of not playing story-driven games that have DLCs announced for it until said DLCs are out. I don’t like playing story-driven games until they’re “done” and I was willing to wait a year or more, just like I did with The Witcher 3 and it’s DLCs and expansions or recently with The Outer Worlds. But after almost half a year of CDPR spending all of their efforts on patches instead of additional content, I figured that the wait might be a bit too long for my liking and played the game in its 1.21 patch version. What an experience it has been.

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O tempora: Tomb Raider: Anniversary

03/05/2021 20/11/2023

O tempora is a series of retrospective posts where I play games from ages before to see if they stood the test of time.

I’ve already revisited Tomb Raider: Anniversary several times before. In fact, it’s been one of my favorite entries in the series, up there with The Last Revelation. But it’s been a while and the game has never been perfect in the first place. I was somewhat worried that it has aged more poorly than I’d expect.

Nah, it’s still great.

Revisiting Tomb Raider: Legend

28/04/2021 20/11/2023

After several years of writing about Tomb Raider games that are disappointing, I decided that it’s time to finally revisit mainline games from the franchise that I’ve liked. And started with Tomb Raider: Legend which I originally disliked. Oh boy.

But you know what? What if 15 years later I can enjoy Legend much more than I did when it launched? It surprised even me.

O tempora: Batman: Arkham Asylum

12/04/2021 23/08/2024

O tempora is a series of retrospective posts where I play games from ages before to see if they stood the test of time.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve revisited Batman: Arkham Asylum. A really curious mix of a beat ’em up and stealthy action adventuring inside a metroidvania-ish map it instantly became one of my favorite games and even though I’ve admired the later entries in the series as well, none of them came close to being as fun as this first one. I’m happy to say that almost 12 years later it remains wonderful.

Few notes on: Videogame music 2020

07/03/2021 22/02/2022

I had relatively high hopes for the music in games of last year, but it ended up being a bit disappointing. Which, I suppose, is par for the course for 2020. But some remasters and re-releases have sweetened the deal, while the rest of the games that I have played since the last time I did this sort of post have improved the situation even further. As a result, I did get to enjoy some nice memorable videogame tunes during this past year.

In love with: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus

03/03/2021 03/03/2021

I can’t believe how much I can sometimes enjoy games that are very much “not my thing”, but Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus managed to be that rare exception. It’s a tactical turn-based strategy game mixed with RPG and choose your own adventure elements set, as the title suggests, in the Warhammer 40K universe. And I tend to absolutely suck at strategy games and tend to dislike turn-based combat. Yet, somehow, something about Mechanicus clicked and I couldn’t stop playing it until I was done.

Happy about: Trials of Mana (2020)

21/02/2021 21/02/2021

I’ve never played games in Mana (Seiken Densetsu) series before. I’m aware of the popularity of Secret of Mana, yet to this day I’ve not checked it out, nor it’s poorly received remake. However, as a fan of certain type of Japanese action RPGs, mainly the Ys series from Falcom, when I’ve first seen the gameplay from the Trials of Mana remake, I got very interested. Now, after playing through the game several times and doing everything I could think of, I gotta say – I’ve had a lot of fun with the game.

Happy about: Paradise Killer

06/02/2021 06/02/2021

When I first saw Paradise Killer, I instantly went “nope” and moved on. I mean, it looked like a weak attempt to mix the currently still popular 80s aesthetic with Suda51 and Danganronpa that had all of the flair, but no substance. Yet, as time went by I’ve heard more and more good things about the title and eventually decided to give it a go myself. While my original assumptions weren’t entirely disproven, Paradise Killer turned out to be a really enjoyable game.

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