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Shining Resonance Refrain Nintendo Switch Demo

Really enjoyed playing this RPG demo great colour graphics and music was great too. Plus the cut scenes are done anime style. It’s also available for PS4 and I think Xbox One and the demo is about 20 mins long.

My best combo on Street Fighter Hyper Fighting on Nintendo Switch using Ken.

https://youtu.be/6CveijrMoI4

Battlefield Hardline

By far one of worse Battlefield games I have ever played that’s if you can actually call it a Battlefield game as it plays nothing like one or the quality.
You play as cop and the idea of what they were trying to do was good but very quickly falls apart. You can either go guns blazing or arrest the bad guys which gives you points but even that feels half assed because sometimes even when you have the gun pointed them to arrest them it doesn’t always work then later on in the game your not a cop any more yet you can still arrest people which makes no sense.
The AI in the game is terrible the computer always spots where you are, even with there raider which they have borrowed from the metal gear games even when you stay out there sight they still see you so the stealth mechanics don’t work properly again it feels half done.
The game in the single campaign feels scripted which is a problem a lot of games have these days, the weapons don’t seem to do a lot of damage on the bad guys even you unlock better weapons and attachments for the weapons, for a example a had a hand gun with a silencer hit the bad guy right in his head close range did nothing.
The story nothing new cliched and a bit of a dull, if you do more arrests then you unlock more weapons and parts and battle packs which can be used in the online. All tho I am not playing the online part of game I have looked into it the maps are not great and you get half the content then you get in Battlefield 4 for example half the amount of amounts. Feels like at the time EA just wanted to create a filler Battlefield game till the real one came out, over all I can’t recommend it even cheap it’s got fantastic graphics and the controls are but that’s about it. You can’t skip big cut scenes, terrible checkpoints and Ep 5 is god awrful. Also the enemies can throw grenades but you can’t for some dumb reason, with playing the game more stealth and arresting people rather then killing them as I said earlier by doing this you unlock new weapons, attachments and battle packs all tho your rewarded these it would have been nice to get nonlethal weapons to also use one campaign mode but nope.

6/10.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 Demo PS4

Mafia 3 PS4

Takes a while to get used to the control but once you do so far very enjoyable.

(21-07-2018 11:10 )*Kal-El* Wrote:  Mafia 3 PS4

Takes a while to get used to the control but once you do so far very enjoyable.

As someone who appreciates music from all eras the 60's settings of Mafia 3 for me probably has one of the best soundtracks of any game with over 100+ songs from that era ie Rolling Stones,James Brown,Elvis,Sam Cooke,Animals etc.Much like the GTA games I do have a compulsion after getting in a car (legal means or otherwise) of flicking through the radio stations.

Some of my favourite sing-alongs whilst tearing down the streets of Mafia 3 (commiting various acts of lawlessness) include;

Animals - House of the Rising Sun
Roger Miller - King of the Road
Sam & Dave - Hold On,I'm Comin'
Sam Cooke - Chain Gang.

Nioh - PS4;

Game makers Team Ninja of the Ninja Gaiden franchise create a Dark Souls/Ninja Gaiden hybrid combining the RPG elements of Dark Souls with the hack & slash elements of Ninja Gaiden.Set in war-torn Japan in the 16th century you play Samurai Warrior William (a Scottish Witcher look-a-like) as he battles through swathes of Samurai,Ninja Assassin's,the undead,& demon's from the Yokai Realm across various landscapes across Japan.

Unlike Dark Souls Nioh is broken up over a series of chapters & challenges which usually involves taking on various bosses at the end that come in all shapes & sizes.From giant ogres that throw giant metal balls chained to their wrists, Ice Maiden/Demons that fire icicles & avalanches to giant tigers that fire electricity from every orifice the scope of bosses are impressive & like Dark Souls there is real sense of achievement when you beat them (some will take several hours & umpteen deaths to finally beat them).Mastering the vast array of weapons can be fun from spears, giant axes to samurai swords & kusarigama's (a handle with a scyth chained to it) & with the RPG elements to the game special moves can be unlocked/upgraded with weapons infused with mystical powers.Much like Dark Souls in Nioh once you defeat an enemy you can collect their souls (called Amirita's) which can be used to power up your character with special abilities.

It would be unfair to label this game as just a Dark Souls clone as it does have enough of it's own identity to differentiate itself & the concept of Japanese folklore with mystic demons etc is an interesting one.If your a fan of games like Dark Souls & Bloodborne this game comes highly recommended & this certainly isn't a game that will be completed in a few brief sittings.Infact there's around 35+ hours of gameplay involved before getting to see the end credits.

Overall;A great game that is a little more forgiving than the likes of Dark Souls (slightly easier) with impressive looking bosses & backdrop only slightly let down with the occassional slowdown & the occassional shonky camera angles (when locking onto the enemy);8/10.

which version of dark souls do you recommend playing?

(24-07-2018 18:27 )babelover48 Wrote:  which version of dark souls do you recommend playing?

The first Dark Souls (which was released as a remaster on the PS4/XboxOne several months ago) is widely considered not just the hardest game of the 3 Dark Souls but one of the hardest games to complete full stop.From Software (makers of Dark Souls) did acknowledge the games difficulty did annoy a lot of gamers & so they did make Dark Souls 2 & 3 a bit easier to play.

In truth though you don't necessarily have to play the game in order to follow a storyline as all 3 games have their own narrative but having completed all 3 Dark Souls & spent over 40 hours a piece on each of them if I was to rate the games in order from best to worst it would be.

1)Dark Souls 2
2)Dark Souls 3
3)Dark Souls 1

From Software also made the excellent Bloodborne (a PS4 exclusive) with it's Victorian London style setting has some of the best graphics on the PS4 & is considered one of the best games on the PS4.I'd certainly say Bloodborne is on par possibly slightly better than Dark Souls 2 (yes I have completed Bloodborne).

Isle of Man TT Ride on the Edge - PS4