Piston Hyundai
Member
Yeah, Hilda Berg is probably the coolest design: there's a dope ass transformation, Hard Corps references, and weaponized onomatopoeia straight from Parodius. It's hard to beat that.
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Yeah, Hilda Berg is probably the coolest design: there's a dope ass transformation, Hard Corps references, and weaponized onomatopoeia straight from Parodius. It's hard to beat that.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I only get organic, non-gmo difficulties.
Maybe artificially hard is the wrong word. More like obnoxiously hard, sorta like Super Meat Boy.
Piston Hyundai
Member
there's like one section of the game that got on my nerves, and it wasn't a boss fight
MassiveNights
Banned
Steamworld Dig 2, Picross S and Golf Story are ruling my world right now. That goddamn Switch.
Incandenza
Banned
Man, 2008-2010 was such a great period for racing games and it hasn't really been that good since. You were getting Burnout Paradise, Forza 3, Dirt 2, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, Midnight Club LA, GRID, Gran Turismo 5, hell even Blur. I've yet to find a racing game this generation that has really grabbed me.
I mean you're comparing it to another one of the great hard platformer
I guess that genre just isn't for you and that's fine, friend
Ghostmaster
Member
The worst thing about Cuphead is getting yourself to remap the controls, after that it is mostly fine.
The hardest thing is that the foreground objects can obstruct the projectiles and sometimes the colors don't stand out against the backgrounds. (The platforms in the bee boss) It is no Ninja Gaiden or Dark Souls.
The hardest thing is that the foreground objects can obstruct the projectiles and sometimes the colors don't stand out against the backgrounds. (The platforms in the bee boss) It is no Ninja Gaiden or Dark Souls.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Yeah I've died a lot but never in a way that makes me think it's bullshit which I think means they tuned the difficulty pretty well.
It's just that sometimes the foreground stuff can really fuck with you in small ways that adds up.
It's just that sometimes the foreground stuff can really fuck with you in small ways that adds up.
Spirit of Jazz
Banned
This post looks wrong. Care to define how it's artificially hard when it requires skill/pattern recognition to overcome it?
Edit: I'm so slow...
I love D:OS2 but Vinny's falling behind on Warhammer quick looks.
Piston Hyundai
Member
fuck, fuck, fuck that pier level, though, seriously
must have taken me two hours on the pacifist run
must have taken me two hours on the pacifist run
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Unless it gets harder later on, it's not that much of a bullet hell? The max number of 'bullets' I've seen in the screen is like...7 slow falling ones from the boss flower? It's more like a puzzle if anything. Even Hilda Berg doesn't have alot of 'bullets', although she does get super hard in her final form because there's like 4 things you have to watch out for.
The one issue is that I have died to stuff that was obscured from the foreground, again from Hilda Bergs final form.
Is anyone making arcadey racers these days man. i miss them
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I haven't gotten to that yet, but I've restarted the tree trunk one a lot because the slope fucked me over so much trying to parry for that coin.
I haven't gotten to that yet, but I've restarted the tree trunk one a lot because the slope fucked me over so much trying to parry for that coin.
GOD fuck that level too fucking dumb ass bees and dopey tree trunks shooting slow projectiles at you and you still get hit because you suck at the game and god damnit I hate it so fucking much
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I swear to god that the stacked pieces of tree on that level, that spit out the bullets, are caricatures of these guys-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s22PZRXAIY
Like when the spit out the bullet in the game, I swear to god it makes the same face as when the guys whistle in the video.
Karspankey
Banned
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
See I found that part easy to just jump through.
That fucking parry for the coin though.
Also I feel like i die most of the time from going for the parry.
Guess that's what happens when you stream Destiny for 3 days, people start to lose their minds lol. Side note I opened steam to buy Cuphead and ended up buying Divinity 2 and Battlechasers instead; both if which I have no time to play really. I make great decisions.
one time i chased a pink fish for two screens only for it to hit me and not give me the parry
BreezyLimbo
Banned
The good thing about the parry is that it has a huge window to hit it. You can safely press the parry button before the actual object hits you and you'll still get it, since the parry works through the whole animation and not just the start.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Karspankey
Banned
Golf Story is so good
but
it is sooooooo buggy ;_;
lost so much progress twice now
but
it is sooooooo buggy ;_;
lost so much progress twice now
BreezyLimbo
Banned
It's more about the other things that I hit chasing for it.
true
sometimes going for the pink projectile can cause you pain
OdysseusVA
Banned
And now we know how they truly feel
Glass Shark
Banned
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The Dear Leader
Banned
Giant Bomb |OT33| Anyone else bored with Giant Bomb?
PushTheButtonMax
Banned
This is why you use notepad to type things out beforehand and wait until the end to fill in the recipient line for work emails.
I hate how once you're done with the disc golf, drone and RC car challenges, you can't replay them ever again unless you start a new file and reach those parts of the game again. Like, why?! Just let me talk to the NPCs again and play them
cartridges bro
It's $20 on both Steam and the Switch eShop. Unless you're located elsewhere with a price difference?
Is it even out on physical? lol
Hmm yeah... Here in Canada it's 21.99$ on Steam and 26.79$ on the eShop
broncobuster
Banned
It reminds me of Contra Shattered Soldier in a lot of ways. I'm not particularly good at Cuphead or Shattered Soldier, memorizing the patterns and whatnot. Watching someone who is can be, I dunno, cathartic?
Messing with Golf Story and Everybody's Golf in a short period kinda makes me wish they were the same game.
What happened to that Daytona USA kickstarter game meant to release on the Wii U. At least there's Mario Kart... the last Sonic racing game was five years ago.
Blitzrules240
Banned
Everyone should play Golf Story.
Edit: Guess I should try to beat Yakuza Kiwami before Odyssey comes out.
Edit: Guess I should try to beat Yakuza Kiwami before Odyssey comes out.
Incandenza
Banned
While y'all were watching the raid last night I finished Chapter 6 of Yakuza 0. Shit got too real :'(
RumbleHumble
Banned
As a huge Metroid fan, SWD2 is the best Metroid since AM2R
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=250849214&postcount=35
Like, why even post? I've seen truly empty posts but they might as well have just said "I don't know".
Like, why even post? I've seen truly empty posts but they might as well have just said "I don't know".
my post count is all that matters to me anymore
Just did that last night - I found the easiest way was to play the 'avoid' game rather than 'kill everything'.
I sped through the Bee/Tree Trunk section and only focused on killing the bees when needed. If they go past you, they just keep going south.
The only thing I had issues with was at the start; trying to get that coin.
I don't want to just undercut you about this at every turn but I think it's important to have another opinion: As a huge Metroid fan, SWD2 did nothing for me from the perspective of a Metroidvania. (Because I don't think it counts as one in the first place)
Piston Hyundai
Member
that's totally the way to get through those stages
I think I've used the smoke bomb for pretty much every single part of the game
the only time I did anything else was the 2x Heart charm for the Pier pacifist run
RumbleHumble
Banned
Valtýr;250856384 said:
It's all good. Opinions and all that. Why do you feel that way, if you don't mind me asking?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
ECHO is so fucking good. This might be one of the best examples of a game that feels like short fiction I've ever played, and I'm starting to get the hang of the mechanics now
Its honestly less that there's an enormous amount of strategy around using or not using certain actions every cycle and more that you try to avoid doing anything, but have to open a door or vault a railing in a pinch and then next cycle through you kick yourself as all your clones vault over railings and open doors to rush at you
Its honestly less that there's an enormous amount of strategy around using or not using certain actions every cycle and more that you try to avoid doing anything, but have to open a door or vault a railing in a pinch and then next cycle through you kick yourself as all your clones vault over railings and open doors to rush at you