Recent content by Johnny Novgorod

Picked up Death's Door because it's the next game by the studio that made Titan Souls, and happily is often name-dropped next to stuff like Tunic and other indie Zelda-likes. It's all very charming and delightful so far and the level design is remarkable. Gameplaywise it's a bit on the simple...

Just finished my fourth playthrough of Titan Souls and popped by second rarest Platinum, with a completion rate of 2.06%, just behind Fall Guys (1.95%). Neat! My first impressions of the game were that it was a little rough around the edges for something so demanding in terms of precision, and...

Just completed a Hard Mode + Iron Mode (one life) >20 minute any% speedrun of Titan Souls and I'm spent. I wasn't even shooting for the speedrun until I realized it was 18 minutes 40 seconds and could probably fit in the last two bosses. Now I have to choose between beating the remaining bosses...

I mean either we do a comedy ending where zombies are embraced as part of everyday life (Shaun, Fido, Warm Bodies) or a cure is improbably developed (WWZ, that one Elliot Page movie). 28 Years Later implies it wasn't all that hard to contain the zombie pandemic to Britain, although you'd think...

Titan Souls. I don't think watching the boss fight vids is as fun as the Dark Souls ones, since the fight itself is typically just a lot of running around the arena until you get a lucky shot in, all usually within like a minute. If it takes longer it's probably to pop some cumbersome trophy...

28 Years Later A weird, folksy coming of age melo set against the zombie post apocalypse. It's a far better sequel to 28 Days Later than the 2007 cash grab, and a far more interesting legacy sequel than Trainspotting's for that matter. It's also very... gamey, for lack of a better word. Like...

Preparing for 28 Years Later, naturally by rewatching Paul W.S. Anderson's seminal underrated kino Resident Evil Apocalypse (2004). It takes the Nemesis over 400 minigun rounds, plus an RPG, to wipe out a platoon of 13 people who're just kinda standing in front of him, none of whom think of...

Warfare A remarkably authentic, tense (and eventually, intense) retelling of a group of soldiers pinned down in a house during the Battle of Ramadi in Iraq, 2006. Gnarly stuff.

Picked up Titan Souls. Bought it 5 years ago, came out 10 years ago. Never actually played it. It's top-down Shadow of the Colossus. You have a single hit point, a single bow and a single arrow (that you can recall by holding down a button) and that's about it for mechanics. Bosses have a...

Finished We Love Katamari REROLL. Of all the Katamaris I've played - so Forever, Damacy and Damacy REROLLED - this was the simplest to beat and/or Platinum. For one thing, you only need to roll up something like 70% of the collection. And half the levels don't even give you a time limit; they...

The Phoenician Scheme Wes Anderson's latest extravaganza, in which he marathons through a stageplay with the expediency of someone who's been told to wrap it the fuck up. He's been more or less on the same sped-up theatre of the absurd wavelength since Grand Hotel Budapest and it's business as...

Uncommon Valor A very boomer action adventure war movie. Gene Hackman gets fed up with those bozos in Washington and decides to lead a group of ragtag Vietnam vets on a super-off-the-books mission to save his kid and a group of POWs from a Laos prison camp. Dirty Dozen meets Rambo II, directed...

Bought it. My question to anybody who has played it is whether RE3 Remake is also worth the $9.99 (never played OG Nemesis).