2024 was my first year at RPS, and a guiding writer, it was a year with games that made you roll your sleeves, wipe sweat from your forehead and stare at the sky from the trenches, talking to life when you could not continue with the games.
In the middle of checking my mettle by people like Shadow of the Erdtree, Legendary Black: Wukong, and Wuthering Waves, however, there are moments when I sometimes enjoy smaller gaming experiences, maybe a bit more relaxing. I emphasized the two below, along with a game Batshite Kooky did not make our Goty list, but still won me thanks to its interest.
A haunting English
Alice B (RPS in peace!) Quite likes an English obsession when she participates in the demo in April last year. I also like it, and one of us may have reviewed the last game, but alas, it slipped through the cracks during the time the staff revenue here in the tree on the tree. Well, I am speaking out after the actual announcement that an English obsession is a worthy point and clicking experience to perform a lovely job is to bring you to 1907 British (and Scotland) to investigate the mysteries of greater than. You play a scholar named Professor Patrick Moore, who has been involved in spiritualism and men who have grasped the time, and you had 72 hours to prove Ma’s existence before the Metapsychic investigation at your university closed. Egad!
I am a person who likes the story of Victoria and Edwardian, so an English haunts all my parts, desires the mysteries on the streetlit street, with Gumshoes’ participation in the tweed suit. It also has my aspect that loves horror and wishes that adventure games and clicks will plunge into the mystery, so if you are attracted to this medium blend, let this go. You may expect great attention to set up, the quizzes that do not extend the logic of what is feasible, and even a short series where you play as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who is also busy believing in the soul when he does not think of a way to kill Sherlock.
My only criticism of an English obsession is the adventure that lasts in its middle (the Scottish expedition is not as good as it can), and the overall experience is not as tight as the previous work of the adventures of postmodern, Nightmare Frames, which is a song of the 80s of horror. (This is only due to real nightmares Damned Good and profoundly worthy of your download if you don’t have.) But if you stick with the end, you will receive a great final, along with some of the only dance fear I have experienced in a highlight.
Dragon of the teacher
I really like the stuffing of Dragon’s Dogma 2. From the instruction perspective, it was the first big project that I led between our small groups, bringing everything from the class guide to a big step, which Ollie started and I was completed. From the player’s point of view, I just need to dig the strange display here, as well as the dedication of Dragon Dogma 2 to allow you to do whatever you can imagine and then live with results. Those are the consequences of playing in a giant sand box, Dragon’s Dogma 2 said, now dealing with them! I respect that trust, and I respect the fact that this is a “capcom ass”, because it is often described in the Slack work. Even if it’s a memorable pawn system of AI companions developing on you as a game, “climb up the back of this Griffon and slash it a billion times when it sings in a dance style” or simply outstanding character models, but it’s a result.
As a religious person of the role -playing games on the table, I also admire Dragon’s Dogma 2 because basically plays a role as a teacher who does not care much about the plot of their campaign, but a silly story that the players decide on the way. This includes they decided to use the arrow constantly – killing anything in a single shot – on a random NPC that they accidentally romantic because the entire romantic system is unexplained and arbitrary. Everyone remember those types of TTRPG nights, and that’s why I miss Dragon’s Dogma 2.
Vampires survivors: Ode to Castlevania
I discovered the survivors of vampires for the first time this year. I know, a little behind the curve, but my aversion to anything too common means I have to wait for a certain amount of time to check the latest orthodox obsession. I am very happy to find that I like Vampire’s survivors very well, and plowing through the enemies of Castlevania Castlevania-AS-BY-ITALIANS because Poppea Pecorina is very happy.
But it was not until Ode to Castlevania DLC appeared in October that I really participated in Vampire’s survivors, because I love me some Castlevania, and the fact is a Belmont’s inspirational bullet game that is fully honoring its joy. And Gosh Darn, Ode to Castlevania is a joy, and is one of the strongest DLC packages I’ve ever played. Not only all your classic characters are present and calculated, including Simon, Trevor, Richter and other big names, but the amount of deep cut into this package is amazing. Once you “defeat” the main map of the DLC, expected to see a lot of survivors suddenly appear, like Quincy Morris, who has never participated in a true Castlevania game, but instead is John Morris’s father since 1994. same Quincy Morris, who was in Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel and helped kill Drac with a Bowie knife while also acting as a great Texas in Europe. Yes, Bram Stoker’s novel is Canon in Castlevania time; Go to Google if you want to read all the great Shenanigans including the official Castlevania legend.
Castlevania is in a strange place these days, where Konami has not made an official game since 2014 of Lords of Shadow 2, but has freely borrowed a license to anyone who wants it. And so we have Netflix program, which certainly makes the series more popular than ever. But we also have efforts like this great update for vampire survivors, turning the game into the best Castlevania game of the last decade. Don’t wait as I often do – play it today, especially if you’ve ever been beaten by a Medusa head to death!
