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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Project Wingman

I'm almost done with the second playthrough, still having a ton of fun even if it's not perfect. While I really like Prez, limiting your plane choices to two-seaters can feel really rough in certain missions and I probably won't be doing that again in the future. It's unfortunate that all the late-game planes are solo only as stat and load-out differences can make things way easier (or at least more fun).

I also took the time to read through all the lore documents available in the game and it only made me more interested in a direct sequel. We have new conflicts against the Federation flaring up around the world, a bunch of global players we haven't seen yet (Periphery countries, West African Concordat, the European alliance). We could have Federation megacities as mission backdrops in contrast to the more natural and modern environments from this game.
There are some many interesting things they could do with all this world building, it would be a waste to stop here.

Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight / Persona 4 Dancing All-Night

I've decided to finally set up PS Vita emulation on my Steam Deck and what's better for that than Persona dancing games? Not like I have many other Vita games but still.
I had to change the graphics API to OpenGL as for some reason both games crashed with Vulkan (didn't have such problems when testing on desktop), other than that they work great.

It's been years since I last played one of those and boy am I rusty - even basic songs on normal feel overwhelming at times! I just started and should be able to get back into the rhythm soon enough but man, seeing how much I suck now was a bit of a surprise.

Umurangi Generation - Macro DLC

Finally got to it and after all this time I feel a bit mixed - both on the DLC and the game overall. I'm still mulling things over so here are the highlights:

DLC keeps the atmosphere of the base game nicely. It's cool to see how things were before the original stages.
Music is once again pretty great if a little too bombastic compared to what's happening on the screen. I don't particularly care for the edgy dolphin in the club stage though.
At times things feel like they were done in an afternoon (not literally but still):
- There are once again objects without collisions and plenty of places where you can randomly phase through when walking.
- I found a few spots where you can get stuck, sometimes in the open.
- Lighting in the club stage feels messed up (everything is super dark except for blown out "lights" that don't give any... well, light).
- The skybox of the first stage looks completely misaligned (maybe this one was intentional, I don't know - still doesn't look great).

As much as I like this title it kinda depresses me. I'm someone who takes pride in their work and spends a lot of time on even the smallest details so seeing something with this many simple and easily fixable issues being released as a finished product (and a paid one at that!) pains me on a personal level.
I realise this game is intended to exude the grungy "I don't care" and "everything is screwed" energy but that should not spill into the technical aspects in my opinion. There should be SOME bar of quality there.

I'm still glad it was created and had fun with both base game and DLC but man...

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

<< Project Wingman? Now we're talking! >>

[–] Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yup! Started playing about two weeks ago, became an instant favourite and now I crave more.