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Hades - 2020 GOTY

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Someone prove me wrong. This game is fucking brilliant.
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What system you have it on?
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Bought it last night from Epic for $20AUD. Game is awesome. Sunk 2 hours into before I knew it before bed
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Got it on Switch and can't stop playing it. Magnificent.
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I might need to change this thread title to "2020 GOTY...for now".

There's every chance Cyberpunk will have something to say about this.

But it's safe to say Hades will be in my top 2 for the year. It just gets better and better and better.
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So tempted based off impressions like this.
But, ugh I hated Bastion, didn't like Transistor either...and the isometric perspective always dissuades me (unless it's an RTS).
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I see it's getting some stellar reviews, 92 average which is fantastic. I liked Bastion, didn't like Transistor though.
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Not my kinda game so it won't be my GOTY.

High hopes for Cyberpunk and the more I hear about Watchdogs Legion the more excited I get. The Census system sounds amazing and was added after the delay so it seems to have been a wise move on Ubisoft's behalf to delay all their games after Ghost Recon's reception.
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Twiztid Elf wrote:So tempted based off impressions like this.
But, ugh I hated Bastion, didn't like Transistor either...and the isometric perspective always dissuades me (unless it's an RTS).
I'm ok with isometric stuff but also didn't take to Bastion or Transistor. Hades does look pretty amazing in gameplay videos though. Will likely give it a look when I've knocked a few more titles off the backlog.

Performance is fine on Switch, Candy?
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More than fine. A few instances of framerate drop but not when it matters most.

I think this is at least as good a game as Dead Cells.
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Had a good run last night with the spear/trident. Managed to get through to the third boss encounter and almost beat them but didn't have a death revive up my sleeve. Really good game, reminds me of the old arcade style games - suitable difficulty curve and incentive to keep coming back.
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Candy Arse wrote:More than fine. A few instances of framerate drop but not when it matters most.

I think this is at least as good a game as Dead Cells.
Nice, chucked it on the wish list.

Dead Cells is a funny one for me. For the most part I love it, it's the perfect blend of rogue-like and metroidvania, and the character movement in particular is just so fluid and feels great. I don't like that the DLC areas were added into the base game but you just can't access them, so you've got to learn what the paths leading to them look like so that you don't waste precious time during a run going to a dead-end. But even before that happened, I found the unlock system is... "punishing" isn't the right word, but it's not good. There's heaps of shit to unlock, which is great, but because drops are random you're just broadening the pool of items, which decreases the chance of getting a combination with good synergy. Weirdly, it incentivises not unlocking more stuff, but that's kind of the long-term draw of the whole game. Probably a "me" problem, I dunno.
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