Spider-Man - PS4

I've heard since forever that Spide-Man for PS4 was like one of the best games for the console, and a must have!

My only Spider-Man game was Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six for Master System besides some party MARVEL's heroes in PS2 games.

I've always loved Spider-Man but concerning videogames you cannot go just for the love you have for a character. None the same I was ever curious, and when the game got a discount I got the GOTY edition.

And even if I was afraid about all the hype, I was so happy I did risk it and bought it because it is an awesome game indeed!

I'm reaching 50% of the game and I Can tell it's one of those games I install and cannot put down, and other games I was playing are right now in stand by until I finish this beauty.

And why? Because one cannot stop playing not only the main story with all of its missions and characters, but also all the available side missions that one will unlock throughout the game.

One of my favourites were the backpacks which you get right at the start. You get to find lots of backpacks around the city and get to find little things like this Spider-Man 'doll'.

And finding backpacks and other stuff in the world for side missions will also give one tokens that can be spent upgrading suit powers, web stuff, fighting moves, etc... Like a true RPG.

You also get to fight some thug criminals around the city, when the Police asks for help. You get to chase cars, stop robbers, kidnappings, etc...

And you get mini-objectives in each one of those.

I got to web one of those thugs to the post. I love this game!

One little thing you get when reaching this time in game is fast travel. Which you do selecting the possible spots to fast travel to and then the loading screen shows Spider-Man using the underground to travel around the city. And you get to see a variety of mini-scenes with Spider-Man in the middle of other people.

Other thing you get to do in the game is absorb the great graphics this game has. What a beauty to see specially in a PS4 Pro. And so the Photo Mode, so in vogue nowadays, is like a game in itself.

With selfie mode included.

After finishing the main campaign I get 3 more DLC episodes to keep going in this great videogame.

And probably yeah, one of the best for de console and this generation.

God of War III Remastered - PS4 >> The End

And an other game finished.

I know I had to put it on easy mode - the game itself told me to do so... - but none the same it was quite a ride until the final battle.

It was a good experience. I also tried playing the challenges that we unlock by finishing the game, but I could only pass one of them.

I think I'm no good at these games any more lol


Now I'm ready to see what GoW 4 is about. Bring it on!

SEGA Mega Drive mini

So yeah, I got the new SEGA Mega Drive mini.

Which means I total already 4 mini retro consoles.

About the console construction it resembles more the PS1 mini. The Nintendo mini consoles look a bit more robust.

The interface is easy to use with the games listed in a up/down scroll list (without rounding).

The main feature, to distinguish SEGA mini console from the others, is the possibility to reset the console through the controller. Even if the console have the physical reset button, if you hold START button down it will reset and re-direct you to the save screen of the game.

No more have to stand up and walk to the console to do so!

About the game list, which we already knew before, it has games for all tastes.

I can assure you I'm still Ace playing Columns!

God of War III Remastered - PS4

Only have played God of War in PSP and really enjoyed it. SO when I got my PS4 the new GoW was a must, but when I started playing it I was in shock. It was a 180º turn in what the games used to be!

So then I got the GoW III Remastered in the Hits campaign and I felt at home. It was just like the old PSP (and PS2 and 3) games. Pure hack-n-slash!

Not saying that the forth game is no good, but it takes a bit to get used to a GoW playing more like a Tomb Raider.

I cannot remember if I played the first GoW in PSP in the normal difficult level or the easy one. But here, in the third instalment I started in the normal mode but had to select the easy one after the game suggested it SOOOOOOOOOOOO many times to me.

Or the PSP games were easier even in normal mode, or this one is quite difficult.

Or even a third option... I'm getting old and can't play as well as before...

The game has some problems like the camera that is fixed over Kratos and you cannot move it with the R3, the usual behaviour of current games. And it gets me everytime I play...because I spend half of my playing sessions making Kratos dodge when I was simply trying to move the camera...

Besides that the main problem is the buttons input detection. I almost returned the game after playing like...15seconds. Because the first time you get to control Kratos ever in the game, you have to lift a tree and I almost killed my controller hitting square and it didn't do anything! I went into google and found out it is a quite disturbing bug.

But what is disturbing is that it still is there in the game even in the Remastered version of it!

I didn't return the game, but had to use a full battery controller to get through. And there are other occasion throughout the game just like that.



So, as a bottom line, the game has a few puzzles that get you to think a bit more, but in general is just 'go-and-hit-them!' game, very nice to play after a tough work day.

Sinking City - PS4

I saw the box at my local store and got intrigued by it.

Searched the YouTube, like we all do nowadays, and got not that good reviews...like in Vampyr case I got cold feet and didn't buy it right away.

But then I got to think...as in Vampyr example I saw not so good reviews but I eventually got the game and it turned out to be my favourite so far in PS4, so why not risk here as well and get Sinking City and don't care about the reviews!?

And so I did just that.

I just started the game so I just played the tutorial part of it that works as the first case we get to investigate in Oakmont with our PI Charles Reed.

The title sinking city to which you travel in order to find what is happening with you and all the weird visions you get lately of freak monsters and the ocean swallowing you up.

Yep this is one of those games you have a huge map (which is offered as a poster with the Day One Edition I got) that makes you jog a lot to go from place to place. Just like I did in Vampyr, but here at least we get little help with the fast travel system (but that takes you to load screen which takes more time than those in Bloodborne...).

And the map will be one of your best friend because the cases and side quests are not quite marked there and showing in the HUD like in other games automatically...you have to pin the evidences and the places you should go on the map by yourself.

The clue states an address and you have to find it in the map. Some may say this gets boring, but since I like the Wally books I don't mind, it actually plays like a little game inside the game. And it also makes you start to know the huge map by doing so.

The world you get into is just like this...octopus and other sea creatures all around you.

The world is mesmerizing. And I simply just get lost in details.

But as the world is very interesting with parts of the city already sank where you can only go by boat and others where the NPCs still can live their tortuous lifes, there are some problems, mainly decisions made by the dev team, for sure, where you can travel the city from west to east or north to south and you will investigate buildings that inside are just the same as the others you visited before on the other side of the city.

They re-utilised too many textures...I got confused just now when I travelled to an other part of the city I've never been before (I just started playing the game!) and when I entered the house I thought I was Reed on one of those trips and was seeing the first house I visited just before...but nops...it was an other one but exactly the same textures inside...

Not the perfect thing to do in an open world, which is so reach from the outside. It seems the dev team only got time to make the city outsides and the rest used the same textures to cut time.

But I can live with this. Even if it gets you confused sometimes.

But the combat system is a pain...you get to shoot monsters (yep...they truly exist outside Reed's visions) but you get a couple of guns at the start which have no effect on monsters you get to find right at the beginning. And that's because you get to craft your own bullets (the coin in the city) from stuff you find around the world, but you can only carry a couple of them.

So, if the bullets are scarce and not quite effective against the monsters it's almost certain you kinda get stuck like I am right at the beginning on some side quests, because I still have to find the shotguns and stuff.

It might feel easier in the PC because...mouse! But in a PS4 controller is quite off...

The lucky thing is that the difficult level in this game separates the investigation level from the combat level. So you can set the investigation part for hard and combat for easy.

Sorry...but that's what I'm doing...

Besides this dev decisions about the gameplay, the most pain I find is the load screens which take too much time for what we are used nowadays.

That and the fact that opening the map, an action you do the most throughout the game, kinda freezes for a a bit the game and won't load immediately the map menu.

But since the game came out just now, hope there will be a patch to fix some of these problems in the near future. That's what happens with almost every single game in modern times...

But don't think after reading last paragraphs the game sucks and wonder why I still said to start off that I like the game. Because I do like it!

There is something about the game that pulls you in and makes you want to wonder the city as Reed and find about all the cases and side quests you get to investigate.

The mechanics make you go the day wishing you can return to Oakmont and see what the world has more to show you. More of Reed's visions and more looking for clues and try to make some sense of them and try that way to find the answer to the crimes and visions.



See you in Oakmont.

Vampyr - PS4 >> The End

And that's the moment I reach the final of one of my favourite games ever.

After beating the final boss in Vampyr we get to the last chapter of the story where we tighten the final straws and see which of the 4 different finals we get, based upon our choices during the game.

It seems there are 2 bad endings and 2 good ones. I got the best one from those 2 good finals.

Vampyr was one of those games that after playing it I got the feeling of not knowing what play next, knowing them won't be as good as it was.

And I was a bit orphan of what to really play and enjoy myself until I got to know Sinking City. Which I'll address in the next post.

But for now, just go and get Vampyr and play it!

Vampyr - PS4 >> Final Boss

And I'm approaching the end of Vampyr game and I cannot tell you enough what a great journey it has been.

I got to the final boss yesterday and beat it on the first try!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

I'm around level 30, mainly because I've completed all main quest tasks and all the side quests and never turned a NPC into a vampire or killed them.

But even if I could have reached a higher level it doesn't matter because I have encountered other bosses than seamed more difficult to beat. And why so!? The level or the powers you have are important, for sure, but it's the strategy you use that decides it all.

You have to know the enemy to use the best elements into your favour.

That's why, even if the final boss are in fact two bosses you can beat them if you have beaten the previous ones.

First you have to fight Harriet Jones who transformed into something similar to her daughter with that crazy Gadget arm.

Then you face your *mother* the Red Queen, the manifestation of the mother of all vampires which seems to take this form every now-and-then.

If you define a strategy and keep with it, without trying to accelerate hits and using too much power attacks, you can win easily.


But if you were expecting to end the game here, you still have a couple more dialogues to go to try and understand the reaction of Lady Ashbury before.


I haven't enjoy so much playing a game and discovering its story in a long time, maybe since I've finished Breath of Fire IV for de original PlayStation.

Days Gone - PS4 >> OST

Well, the other day I got for the first time the Official PlayStation Magazine, now that I have a PS4 I'm back to videgames spotlight. That and both articles about the new Star Wars videgame and the news about PS5 specs.

Still to read both articles but I already listen to the free OST sample for the Days Gone videgame, released a couple of months ago.

I only read/watched bad reviews about the game, saying it's repetitive and that doesn't bring anything new to what other games have brought before. No breakthrough stuff.
But as we all know, the easy way we have now with YouTubes and Blogs, we get to right and talk about everything and everyone has an opinion and likes to give it (that's what I'm doing here lol).

Sooooo, I don't know if the reviews are correct or not, because it's quite subjective, like books and songs. Most might not like it, a few might love it.

That makes me still have some doubts about the game but not about the OST. Because it's good!

Most triple A games nowadays have even bigger budgets than Hollywood films so it's only normal to get OST as goods as those from the films scores.

The free CD with the magazine is just a sample, that is, it only has 6 tracks. But it was enough to make me really like it.

I'll let you try it and see for yourself. Try it here.

Vampyr - PS4 >> Killing Mary

I think I just reached the middle of the game. I started chapter 4 in the game, right after having to kill an other boss. But only this time the boss was Jonathan own sister, Mary, whom he bites right at the beginning of the game.

Each passing hour I play I love this game even more. Really, what was I afraid before buying the game!? lol

I tried fighting Mary but the couple first times I couldn't pass the few strikes, so I went a did some other side quests and evolved so I was around 20 XP level when I tried again fighting Mary and did it. Just have to keep moving, and biting here and there to have enough blood power to use some better vampire tricks and...be patient. She will fall to her knees...

And that's a great scene. The dialogue between brother and sister is something that kept resonating into my memory since then. So sad...

But then Jonathan go and visit Lady Ashbury and he seems a bit happier to share his pain with her. And that's the start for a new chapter in the game where you discover something about Lady Ashbury...she adopted a girl, a mortal girl, that knows all about her being a vampire.

This game is a surprise on every corner.

Sorry, now I shall go back and play a bit more.

Bloodborne - PS4 >> The Father Gascoigne encounter

In a world connected with Internet is quite impossible to play Bloodborne and not know Father Gascoigne right from the start, from that moment you make the first search.

And he is only the second boss in the game!

But he's like the image of the difficult of the game. It's like, like written and said everywhere, if you can beat him, you can beat anything from then on.

Don't know yet if that's quite so, but for sure after defeating him I got to the next two lamps in a row without much difficult...But have yet to face other boss. Only then I can see if Father Gascoigne was truly the top of them or not.

I think it took me like half a dozen times to beat him and after that, for sure, I screamed like my team had just won the championship. Because that's what this game gives you. It gives you that accomplish feeling for you have studied the enemy right and used your resources to defeat the enemy like you were a professional. Even if you are not a hardcore gamer.

People who gets this love the Souls Games. Like I do.