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[D2M15]

I'd imagine that those more interested in the Grasshopper presentation than the action itself would consider this their least favorite Grasshopper game.

Perhaps, but to clarify I'm more interested in the Grasshopper action.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

I watched other people play through Killer 7 and No More Heroes 2.

Really don't think Grasshopper should ever take center stage when it comes to actual game design.

If you can get your hands on a GC, I recommend actually playing K7 for yourself (going by your posting history, not because I'm a raving GHM fanboy), even if you have seen it all before. It's a brilliant game, and is pretty much impervious to age.

Tried to in the past.

I got up to Sunset and just trailed off.

 

[D2M15]

If you can get your hands on a GC, I recommend actually playing K7 for yourself (going by your posting history, not because I'm a raving GHM fanboy), even if you have seen it all before. It's a brilliant game, and is pretty much impervious to age.

 

[Grisby]

Urg most of chapter 4 can suck it. By far the worst chapter in the game so far.

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those 2d sections were not fun at all, handled very poorly.

Having a good time otherwise. This might be my favorite Suda game.

 

[Tokubetsu]

I watched other people play through Killer 7 and No More Heroes 2.

Really don't think Grasshopper should ever take center stage when it comes to actual game design.

Same. This is pretty much the only Grasshopper/Suda game I can get completely behind.

 

[Yo Gotti]

Damn.

Came in here to read actual impressions about the game. All I get is PS360 graphics whore bitching.

 

[Criminal Upper]

I watched other people play through Killer 7 and No More Heroes 2.

Really don't think Grasshopper should ever take center stage when it comes to actual game design.

You could try this one, I dunno, might be fun?

 

[thetrin]

I watched other people play through Killer 7 and No More Heroes 2.

Really don't think Grasshopper should ever take center stage when it comes to actual game design.

I actually LOVED the gameplay in Killer7, but no other Suda game I've played (and I've played almost all of them) have matched it.

This looks to top it, though.

 

[PepsimanVsJoe]

You could try this one, I dunno, might be fun?

Had to buy a new tire instead. =/

 

[Trevelyon]

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those 2d sections were not fun at all, handled very poorly.

Yes, they are quite horrible. I thought Suda had greater plans for

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Justine, but instead she's relegated to a shitty flash game boss.

Probably a time constraint thing, EA probably cracked the whip.

 

[RedSwirl]

So, where, if at all, do you guys see the Mikami influence in Shadows?

I think most of us here were hoping that Mikami would finally teach Suda how to craft an actual game, and we could get something with Suda’s absurdity mixed with Mikami’s more disciplined game design. Does this game still suffer from Suda’s style-over-substance problem?

 

[Criminal Upper]

Awesome gameplay. The most fun I've had this year thus far.

It's a shame so few people actually know that the director of this game is Massimo Guarini, and not Suda.

 

[RedSwirl]

Awesome gameplay. The most fun I've had this year thus far.

It's a shame so few people actually know that the director of this game is Massimo Guarini, and not Suda.

Holy shit this guy worked on Rainbow Six Rogue Spear and Athena Sword.

 

[canadian crowe]

Chapter 2-2 is the best part of the game. So fun.

 

[G.O.O.]

I dunno, I think Lemon has been a word Suda has associated with being crap in other games, at least that's how I remember it. It could also be a tie back to his "Bitter" mode in No More Heroes.

Could you explain this ? I don't remember reading anything about lemon in past GHM games :/

And I read a review saying that the game was poorly translated overall. Oh well.

 

[Criminal Upper]

What does poorly translated mean? The games VO was directed by Kris Zimmerman Salter (MGS series, NMH) and the script received additional writing by two english guys.

 

[Trevelyon]

Anybody get the "Fiesta Caliente!" achievement? (Defeat 5 enemies at once using the Hot Boner)

I would like to achieve this, but no clue how!

Another easy spot to get this is in 3-3 just after the first battle with the

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teleporting demons, and after Justine gives you a big old frenchy.

There's a spot where jobber demons will be standing in a group, sneak up, put one on the ground or just sticky them all and let loose. Super simple.

 

[psykomyko]

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those 2d sections were not fun at all, handled very poorly.

I actually liked those parts personally. It was a nice change of pace.

 

[G.O.O.]

What does poorly translated mean? The games VO was directed by Kris Zimmerman Salter (MGS series, NMH) and the script received additional writing by two english guys.

I was referring to the subtitles (and text in general) in my language. The "lemon hunter" pun doesn't make sense when translated. On the other hand, the subtitles seem to take a few liberties with the dialogues...

EDIT : heh. "Demon pubes" isn't translated. Nice job.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Finally going to get to spend some quality time with Damned tonight and this weekend. Looking forward to it. Only about an hour in so far.

 

[remz]

Love the little sequence when you first start the game, especially the changed background for the create a file screen, which was awesome, hahaha.

The gameplay is solid, although the game can feel a bit claustrophobic at times I'm loving it so far. The guns and stuff just feel chunky and satisfying. Very good.


Great music too!!

 

[ToyMachine228]

Loving the soundtrack. I hadn't played any of the Silent Hill games, but after just an hour and a half into Shadows of the Damned, I'm now a fan of Akira.

I'll post this again as my first post got lost; What causes the slow motion head shot sequences to occur? Stunning them with a Light Shot first?

 

[Furio53]

Loving the soundtrack. I hadn't played any of the Silent Hill games, but after just an hour and a half into Shadows of the Damned, I'm now a fan of Akira.

I'll post this again as my first post got lost; What causes the slow motion head shot sequences to occur? Stunning them with a Light Shot first?

If your first damaging shot is a headshot, it does it.

 

[semiconscious]

I actually LOVED the gameplay in Killer7, but no other Suda game I've played (and I've played almost all of them) have matched it.

This looks to top it, though.

that'd be nice, tho i'm not expecting it to. killer 7 is one of those rare, genuinely unique, amazing experiences, where all the weird (& there was plenty) comes together just about perfectly - everything 'wrong' about it is right ...

 

[george_us]

Beginning of Act 2-3 is amazing.

Edit: Or should I say Act 2-3.

 

[plagiarize]

haven't noticed more tearing through into Act 4.

how many acts are there?

 

[Brazil]

haven't noticed more tearing through into Act 4.

how many acts are there?

It goes up to 5-5.

 

[george_us]

Question: Is the

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Horse riding giant goat demon I fight supposed George from that story?

 

[Brazil]

Question: Is the

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Horse riding giant goat demon I fight supposed George from that story?

Yes.

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You'll always be able to hear the backstories for the big bosses before fighting them.

 

[george_us]

Yes.

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You'll always be able to hear the backstories for the big bosses before fighting them.

Ahhh kick ass. The

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tapeworm

of all things is what gave it away for me.

Edit: This game has some amazingly grotesque monster designs. I love it.

 

[Draft]

Gosh! Fourth lock-up between two PS3 slims. All well ventilated, currently about 9 degrees in the room, dead of winter, noticing it happens in brief transitionary moments, like for example when you mash square to light the fireworks, it just hangs and never comes back.

Been noticing a few weird hitches or hang ups with gameplay to in-game cutscenes transitions, like when

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George's beast form gets beheaded by Death, it sort of stutters into the cutscene, not smooth at all.

Happens on the Xbro version, as well.

Game is rough around the edges no matter what platform.

 

[JasoNsider]

Not entirely shocked. It's incredibly tough to get all crash-bugs out of a game and particularly for smaller teams/studios. Just to give you guys an indication, at work we get dozens of crash defects filed at work up to and including the final hours of a release build (PC, 360, PS3, etc.) There are so many ways to crash or bug out a game it would make most people's head spin. That being said, a really great QA team will find most of this stuff and report it so it never makes it to shipment.

And when I finally sit down to play a game, I appreciate those with the most polish and least bugs...since I have to deal with those all the time anyway! Haha.

 

[JaxJag]

I almost want to call this game a buggy piece of shit.

Not really a spoiler since it's so early on, but I'm on the 2nd mini-boss you fight. The one that chases you around the Carnival.

You have to shoot the light barrels to knock him down and expose his weak point. So the first time I fight him, he seems super easy, though a bit tedious with the whole he runs away because he's hurt and you have to chase him.

But I already made him run away twice, and the next time he starts chasing me I hit a light barrel right on him. He was standing right next to it, like a foot away at the most, but it does nothing to him and he ends up just killing me because I get hung up on a wall and the camera starts acting funky (i'm playing on hard).

The 2nd time I fight him. I make him run of for a 2nd time again, but the darkness doesn't come. I say to myself "oh god, it's glitched out". But I still look for the guy, find him, shoot the goat light.

The goat disappears but nothing happens, so I have to restart again.

Extremely annoying.

 

[John Harker]

Sushi With A Dick has GOT to be the new Companion Cube.

 

[Grisby]

Finished! About 7 hours or so. Though that last boss bbbbloooowwws. I think my game glitched a bit and decided I wasn't damaging him or something. Switched back after a bit but it still took a while to kill him.

Nice touching moment though for the ending and the after scenes make me hard (as Garcia Hotspur would say) for a SOTD 2.

 

[∀ Narayan]

Sushi With A Dick has GOT to be the new Companion Cube.

I love the music that plays when you follow them.

 

[John Harker]

Ugh, I posted a million times here about Killer7 in various different official threads, and my No More Heroes 1 thread is still one of the most pleasant ones around on this board, and it still annoys me when people compare all Grasshopper games to each other against some mystical standard. It's a big studio now, they have multiple projects lead by different team members, Suda is not the writer/producer/director on all of them. They should just be judged on what they are. This game feels like a Grasshopper game, it's fun to play, it's whacked out, and it stands on his own. Enjoy it or don't, but that's all it is.

 

[Papercuts]

Finished! About 7 hours or so. Though that last boss bbbbloooowwws. I think my game glitched a bit and decided I wasn't damaging him or something. Switched back after a bit but it still took a while to kill him.

Nice touching moment though for the ending and the after scenes make me hard (as Garcia Hotspur would say) for a SOTD 2.

I loved that boss at first but it seriously felt bugged to me. I was playing on Hard and literally think it took me ~45 minutes of constantly attacking to finish.

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When he gets stunned and you need to use the hotboner's charge on him, it would fairly often just vanish. If I kept shooting it would sometimes blow up, sometimes not. So I would at times see this miss when he was glowing yellow, then it took FOREVER for him to get to that point again.

There was a boss earlier on that also took like over 30 minutes, it was odd. Ended up taking my 9:57 on hard.

 

[Draft]

Not sure what you're saying exactly, but the gag is clearly based on the similarity of the words "demon" and "lemon" so it doesn't make a lot of sense to translate "lemon" into another language. The joke should have been rewritten but I guess they couldn't spare the 4 seconds it took to come up with any of the jokes in the game.

Hold on.

Are you suggesting that in Japanese "lemon" and "demon" rhyme? Because that's a pretty crazy coincidence! I mean, they don't rhyme in English, but to be so close in spelling...

 

[John Harker]

Crud, accidentally skipped the death scene with George

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beast form, and then I start the next chapter and johnson says 'I told you about the Grim Sisters.' or something. I guess I missed a scene. What did it entail?

 

[Teknoman]

Loving the soundtrack. I hadn't played any of the Silent Hill games, but after just an hour and a half into Shadows of the Damned, I'm now a fan of Akira.

I'll post this again as my first post got lost; What causes the slow motion head shot sequences to occur? Stunning them with a Light Shot first?

You have to play Silent Hill 2 and 3 at some point.

 

[Papercuts]

Crud, accidentally skipped the death scene with George

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beast form, and then I start the next chapter and johnson says 'I told you about the Grim Sisters.' or something. I guess I missed a scene. What did it entail?

You can skip it? Huh...

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He falls to his knees and you see a Grim Reaper come out and slice his head off.

 

[John Harker]

You can skip it? Huh...

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He falls to his knees and you see a Grim Reaper come out and slice his head off.

I got that achievement and force of habit, I pressed the Guide button to read what it was... apparently in this game, doing that doesn't pause it! I missed the whole scene. I almost died in a fight pressing the guide button too, since it didn't pause. Oops!

 

[Papercuts]

I got that achievement and force of habit, I pressed the Guide button to read what it was... apparently in this game, doing that doesn't pause it! I missed the whole scene. I almost died in a fight pressing the guide button too, since it didn't pause. Oops!

Oh yeah, haha. This is the only game I can recall that doesn't pause with that, you have to remove the battery pack from the controller to force it to pause.

 

[ToyMachine228]

Biggest problem I have with the game so far is just the random freezes and cuts in between transitions between gameplay, in-game cutscenes, and CG cutscenes. Enjoying it as a whole for sure, it just lacks that final layer of polish.

 

[Data West]

Anyone else have a rare bug where you can't turn right on the 360 version? Happened twice to me

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Hold on.

Are you suggesting that in Japanese "lemon" and "demon" rhyme? Because that's a pretty crazy coincidence! I mean, they don't rhyme in English, but to be so close in spelling...

I was talking about English and whatever language the poster I was responding to was talking about (which I assumed was not Japanese). If you're making a clever point I'm missing it because the rest of this conversation happened too long ago.

 

[StuBurns]

The lemon comment confused me too. I thought it meant the innuendo doesn't work in their language, but I wondered what specific joke it was because in English lemon means lesbian and dick at times.

 

[Ridley327]

Just got done with the game. The presentation is sloppy as all hell, but the gameplay is absolutely rock-solid and it does a very good job of keeping things fresh from chapter to chapter. The humor is, well, crude and juvenile, but it's a very endearing sort of crude and juvenile that doesn't try too hard, nor does it outstay its welcome. The sound work in general, as is often the case for any Grasshopper Manufacture, is absolutely phenomenal, with particular accolades centering on the fantastic soundtrack. The only big knock is there really isn't anything to do after you've beaten it if you're not an achievement/trophy whore; no new game+, no bonus modes outside of a difficulty unlock, no nothing.

Bottom line: fun, fun game that actually plays quite well.

 

[WrathOfOtaibah]

PS3 problem here:

Whenever I put the game in the tv gives a no signal for both video and audio output, it happened the very first time I put the game in but after that it was smooth sailing till today. I literally tried 8 times and it did the same thing.

help?

And where is my replies?