Accident Prone

I've got SR2 modded on my steamdeck, works brilliantly. It comes with the powered-up baseball bat already unlocked so as its my third playthrough I've whacked it on the hardest difficulty to compensate for the comically devastating baseball bat attack. Its an excellent game and pairs nicely with the more detailed, more dense, slower paced GTA4.

Give the likes of Baldrick the vote and we'll be back to cavorting druids, death by stoning and dung for dinner.

Now that is excellent to hear! I'll stick that on the wishlist then! Cheers!

I had Metroid: Dread on my to-do list but I'll be sending it down to the bottom now. I never looked at reviews for the game, I just checked out the blurbs and quick scores, I had no idea that it had those elements baked in. As @RedTwostermentioned though, we still have Axiom Verge, and weirdly enough I began another playthrough of that last week when I ported it over to my Anbernic SP. Two games have been good enough to get past the Souls-like mechanics, and thats Blasphemous and Hollow Knight. I was never able to complete those games after multiple attempts but I saw enough of each game to love them, and I was able to do so because each game has a window where you can just brute force your way through. I haven't touched Silksong though as I've read that its much harder than Hollow Knight and I'm not throwing down that amount of money just to suffer cheap deaths at the hand of parrying.

I love Castlevania. I love every game that has built on and emulated those formulas. I love the GBA and DS 'Vanias, I love Symphony Of The Night, I love Bloodstained, Axiom Verge, Guacamelee, Timespinner, Rogue Legacy, Dead Cells, and every other game under that umbrella. So I'm always disappointed whenever I see a good looking game and its got "Souls-like" plastered all over it. You've got a 2D platforming "Metroid-Vania" and you're going to ruin it with fucking parrying? Whatever happened to hack'n'slash, dodge'n'roll'jump and more hack'n'slash? I won't say that Dark Souls ruined gaming, but I will say that their gameplay tropes benefit developers who are too lazy to build in a decent combat system. The new Castlevania having those same systems in place is just shite, and I would've spent a good AAA-price tag on a new 2D Castlevania.

There was an episode of Never Mind The Buzzcocks where Louis Walsh was a contestant and got grilled by Mark Lemar for repping Westlife. I haven't seen it in decades but whenever I hear "Westlife" the interaction pops into my head and I smile. It goes something like; Mark: Westlife....aren't very good, are they? Louis: They've sold a lot of records. Mark: Name one good Westlife song. - Louis hesitates and stutters - Mark: Ah.....