Monday, February 4, 2019

Donut County

Store Page:
PlayStation 4

Total play time:
~2 hours

My thoughts:

This game is short and sweet (pun intended!). Great AAA-game detox. It's Katamari with holes. It's fantastic.

Rating:
5/5 stars.

Next game?
Sonic Mania Plus
Spider-Man

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Store Page:
Nintendo Switch

Total play time:
7 hours

My thoughts:

It's Mario Kart at it's best, what else needs to be said?

I found this useful:
https://kotaku.com/how-to-get-a-perfect-starting-boost-in-mario-kart-8-1599227060

Rating:
5/5 stars.

Next game?
Not sure...

Friday, February 1, 2019

Destiny 2

Store Page:
PlayStation 4

Total play time:
45 hours

My thoughts:

Intro:
Destiny 2 (vanilla) + expansion 1 + expansion 2 + Forsaken, picked this up for <$30 over the 2018 holidays. One of my best purchases ever!

Graphics:
The backgrounds blew me away. Sense of grandness is amazing! Love it.


Sound/Music:
The orchestrated music in vanilla blew me away. Loved it. The music became more generic as the game and expansions went on, though.


Gameplay:
Bungie getting close to perfecting the FPS as a genre. Controls were tight and guns felt great. Played it mostly for the PvE experience and had a great time doing it. I'm not much into the PvP-side nor the grindy endgame, but I hear they are both great!
Loot drops in the end game is broken. As a compose this I'm currently power level ~523 with max item level ~544. This week, I can do a heroic adventure on Mercury for a power item. Go to Mercury, that adventure is locked because didn't do the optional quest line to unlock Mercury adventures. Okay fine, let's start that. Took me ~30 minutes, in that time i got a ~514 drop (YAY! Close enough to my level) and a ~375 drop (WTF?! Why 375, why not 250?!) The req power level for this adventure is 250! This makes no sense!! So now I'm stuck doing a quest line almost 300 level below me, just to do another adventure that will get me one item. Yeah... No.


Story:
Vanilla had this because solar system spanning stories, the expansions brought them down to a single setting and very character focus. Then Forsaken, that was a self-serious revenge tale, I'm sure the pay-off will be great whenever Bungie decided to follow up on these plot threads.


Outro:
I enjoyed this game very much. By the end of completing all the Lost Sectors I felt burnt out. I would like to return and finish all those undone Adventures and Planetary Quests.

Rating:
5/5 stars.
4/5 stars.

Update (4/2019):
The endgame is broken and/or not for me.

Next game?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe