Rhythm Heaven DS

Rhythm Heaven Fever on Wii

Recently beat Super Metroid and the original NES Metroid. I also beat Resident Evil 4 Remake and am now playing Resident Evil 5, trying to beat it for the first time.

RE4 is a masterpiece, no matter the form, but RE5…good game, but it’s so strange.

It’s not as much of a caricature as RE6, but it’s baffling how badly Capcom messed up the RE action formula with the fifth entry. Like…it’s so imbalanced with enemy hordes to ammo ratio, and enemies that would take five handgun shots or two shotgun shots in RE4 take about ten to twenty times that amount in RE5, it seems.

Last night, my stopping point was after beating the giant boss. The return of a giant boss in RE5 was so ridiculous and just plain dumb, that it is really hard to process or explain what I even experienced. You sit in a stationary vehicle, blasting this giant for an eternity, performing random quick time events at different points in the battle. I can’t tell if what I am doing is the right thing to do or not. The boss soaks up like a thousand bullets. The same sequence of shoot and dodge happens over and over and over. It doesn’t even make sense.

Again, it’s still a fun action game that does not suck because it’s built on an amazing foundation that is RE4, but wow.

Everyone else has already explained my viewpoint well enough, but I also want to agree specifically with Conan on the weapon breaking mechanic. It just never felt like an issue for me because the game is teeming with weapons options. And I liked using the various weapons. I also don’t know how you can have a balanced world if your weapons don’t break.

I guess you could have weapons level scale with your progress, but that would take away from the openness of the game. Every area would be dumbed down to the “level” of your character.

There would be an issue with just being able to run and find a very strong weapon and blaze across Hyrule with it apart from any consequences.

Anyways, in addition to being an incredible open world experience, I just want to say that Breath of the Wild came at the right time for me. I was finishing grad school, engaged to be married, and I rewarded myself with a Switch for finishing a really hard internship in my grad program because it was a taxing experience in a lot of ways. That game helped me relax at night, and it was the most engrossing gaming experience I had ever had.

Also, one last side bar. I would like a return of big traditional dungeons, but the shrines were AWESOME. It was like having dozens of mini dungeons with clever puzzles and mechanics to explore. I don’t understand the beef with them.

Horizon?

More like BORErizon, ammirite?

I remember in 2017 how the first game in the Horizon series was being put up against Breath of the Wild in terms of release hype.

Horizon came out and people were like, “Yeah, Nintendo fanboys can have their Zelda! We have Horizon!” The game was getting 8’s and 9’s for being a “good open world game.”

Then Breath of the Wild came out. And everybody, even the Horizon hypers were like…”Oh, oh crap. This…this Zelda Game makes Horizon look like a stunted experience.” Thus, Horizon was forgotten or at best treated as a second class citizen.

Peter Brown on Gamespot had reviewed Horizon and had given it a 9. He was excited about it.

Then, during an impressions video on Breath of the Wild, a colleague asked him, “How does it stack up to Horizon?”

Peter said, “Horizon is great, but this…”

I remember him being speechless.

Horizon has been in Zelda’s shadow since its early days. It was never given a fair chance, released when a masterpiece in innovative world design would come around and steal all of its thunder.

Oh, and Horizon is just plain boring. It never deserved those 9’s it got from critics.

I don’t see what’s so appealing about the PS5. It must just be brand recognition because it doesn’t have a super impressive lineup of exclusive games.

I guess it’s Madden, Fortnite, and Call of Duty bros buying it up.

@LJS9502_basic: Far-right is more like the Republicans in my home state of South Carolina. They are working to criminalize abortion there or at least make it illegal to have from conception.

Now THAT is far right, and that is what I like.

I like him okay, I guess.

He’s middle-right, not too offensive. Would tow the status quo line in a lot of cases but buck against the status quo in other cases.

He’s diet-Trump, not too exciting. He does the bare minimum that every Republican/conservative governor should be doing. We’re just so used to RINOs that when a moderate-right guy like DeSantis comes along, right-wingers go gaga.

Btw…Trump 2024.

Many black characters in games such as NBA2k and Madden NFL Football.

I am also playing through Resident Evil 5. I remember how so many people thought it was racist that this Japanese game featured white leads shooting zombie black villains.

Also, I recently completed Miles Morales, Unavowed, and NORCO on Steam Deck. They all are great games that have black leads. Those latter two especially deserve recognition.

It always fascinated me that he served as the mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.