Doors. Just use the doors. @COMaestro
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Right, same here. I got it in some bundle or other or at a steam sale because a friend was addicted to it and never got around to playing it but a couple weeks back I tried it and promptly forgot to go to bed…
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If you enjoy FTL I highly recommend checking out Subset Games’ follow-up Into The Breach.
Different style of game (chess-like mech tactics), but has the same magic.
Cannot wait to see what they do next.
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I’ve been playing Cuphead now it’s on PS4. I have beat a whole 3 (THREE!) bosses, and I feel very proud. I’m close on the froggies, but that damn slot machine!
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Played cup head for a bit it is brutal. I walked away after about 6 bosses and now fear i’ve Lost the knack.
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You don’t lose the knack. The knack is in your bones. It’s an intrinsic element of your identity now.
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Picked up Greedfall recently as I’d seen it compared favourably to the Dragon Age games (which I love).
Started playing it tonight and it obviously owes a lot to those games in terms of gameplay and design. It’s obviously operating on a lower budget, though, with some dodgy animation, typos in subtitles, etc. But it’s got everything that I liked about the DA games that I found missing from other RPGs like Skyrim, etc. I like the characters and I’m interested in seeing where the story goes.
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PSA: Wilmot’s Warehouse (featured in Cool Ghosts episode 3) is currently available
for free on the Epic Games Store (until August 13, 11 AM of some USA time zone).
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Okay, I’m stupid. I’ve only just found out Cuphead has autofire. I’ve been tapping my way through 5 bosses!!! Being able to hold the button down makes everything so much easier!
Okay, I’m stuck on isle 2.
It’s weird the auto fire it’s a must but then why have the button other than another bit of finger gymnastics.
Bring back the good old auto fire switch from the commodore days.
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I was dreaming of my old joystick with autofire switch! I can see having to press the button does make the game feel more tactile, rather than just a jumping puzzle, but yeah… it’s a bit superfluous.
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If you’re playing on Steam with a controller you can mess with the controller configuration for a toggle-mode on your fire button? It’s a bit weird but should work with most controllers.
I’ve been playing Fall Guys, which is silly and fun and not much else. Which is great. The tone is really light and the character design is immediately recognisable which I like. Not sure I’ll stick with it for ages but I’m having a good time with it so far.
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I have Matt Lees and Tom Brewster to blame for my last acquisition, I bought Galaxy Trucker yesterday, started the campaign and it is a ton of fun. Nice and simple, but nothing beats that feeling you get every meteor shower where you cross fingers so you don’t get hit badly
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I really enjoyed the campaign, but I made the mistake of playing it on an emulator when I didn’t have an Android device, and I lost all progress each time the emulator updated.
After this happened several times, I finally got a smartphone and started again, only to find my progress reset at some point - I suspect the newly-implemented cloud saves overwrote my phone campaign.
I started again, and this time I think one of the kids accidentally opened the game on a tablet and managed to reset the campaign.
I have yet to go back to it…
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Finally went back to my playthrough of Dishonored 2 (Emily, High Chaos). I’d stalled out a while back because the level A Crack in Time mixes up the formula pretty dramatically by disabling your powers and giving you a that-level-only special device to flip between two time periods, and I wasn’t on board. Well, turns out that level is also great, go figure. Killing guards and then flashing forward in time to watch through a past-gazing glass as their friends freaked out and ran around frantically never got old. I also thoroughly carpetted the Grand Palace with severed body parts (springrazors and grenades make such a mess) on my visit there. Just got the final level left to go…and then I’ll have hard drive space for Horizon: Zero Dawn. 
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That seems like an awful lot of bad luck. How does it feel on touchscreen? I thought it would be a bit too fiddly on the mouse, but it feels quite natural, although it took me a few goes before I managed to get the spinning of tiles… Does it feel all right?
I much preferred it on a mouse, but it plays fine on a touchscreen too.
Incidentally, I pushed early for a Windows release, but caved anyway and bought the Android version and set up an emulator for it. When the devs eventually contacted me to say they had released a version on Windows mobile I was like uhh… the other Windows.
I think I bought it on Steam too, when that finally came out, but I don’t think I ever played it after all those resets, and with such limited time in front of my desktop.
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My controversial hot take: Hollow Knight is really quite great.
There’s so much superb design in there! I can see why it’s a YouTube creator’s wet dream of content.
EDIT: I just got the mantis claw! And now I’m stuck. Died a few times trying to reach a far end of a room (and save my soul collection in the process), but it was a dead end! Guess I’ve got to face the Mantis Lords then!
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