Lifeless Planet resists the urge to implement action into the game, instead relying on mood to keep things tense. It works for a while, but over time the mix of environmental hazards loses its effectiveness. It doesn’t help that the game holds your hand from start to finish, constantly giving away how things are to be solved.
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Of course, everything takes a backseat to the deep combat system. Studying a character’s move list and learning all of the frame data and block advantage of your moves can and will turn you from a scrub to a pro with little practice. Moves with a lower number of frames are generally used to interrupt an enemy attack or string together larger hits from you.
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In case you haven’t heard, the Souls games are (in)famously difficult, and ultimately rewarding. Dark Souls 2: SoTFS is, in so many words, a glorious punch right in the nose to new players, and a bruising sucker-punch to the kidneys for veterans.
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Do you remember when baseball games were fun? Back before it was all about picturesque recreations of stadiums, lifelike players and tons of statistical minutia. We’re talking the days of Baseball Simulator 1000 and Baseball Stars, when sitting down and basking in the gameplay trumped everything else. Well, if you do, Metalhead Software’s Super Mega Baseball hopes to recreate that fun. And if you don’t, it intends to introduce you to it.
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Many sports games, like Madden and NBA 2K, strictly adhere to the idea of not fixing something that isn’t broken. The gameplay has, for the most part, been perfected, so what’s left to change each year is mostly the roster along with small tweaks and maybe a new mode or two. RBI Baseball ’15 tries to follow this model, but it forgot it never perfected its mechanics — or even reached the same level of games made 20 years ago.
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Attack combos are just as spectacular to observe, and the wide enemy variety will keep you in a perpetual state of interest. That being said, the monsters (or Oni) aren’t packed to the brim with polygons, lending to its Vita roots, but the textures have gotten a massive facelift and the creatures are more intimidating and terrifying than ever before.
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Awakening to a world that has been effectively destroyed by an event known as “the Calamity,” you make your way to your people’s safe haven (”the Bastion”) to find that you’re the only person to reach the sanctuary. That means it’s up to you to save the world… at least what’s left of it. To do so you’ll need to venture into the remnants to find crystal shards to build up the Bastion, which operates as a central hub for all your adventuring.
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