Call of Dutty WWII - PS4 >> After 3 missions

So I've already completed the first 3 missions in the solo campaign for Call of Duty WWII.

And I have some war stories to report...

I feel like I've seen the horrors of war first hand. From smashing a Nazi solder's head with a helmet in order to escape to see a brother in arms falling in front of me decapitated... Big bloody WOW

Usually it takes me an hour, an hour and half to complete each mission. And when I end I'm all sweating because I can feel the stress like I was there!

Specially when I cannot get the grenades on the spot and throw them and they hit some wall and come back at me...

Like in Mission 3 one has to throw a signal grenade to call for aerial support...yep. I've ended failing the mission many times because 'Friendly fire will not be tolerated' only because I can't throw the grenade lol

This game is like watching a documentary but being able to actually participate in it.

Bloodborne - PS4 >> The first Boss encounter

And just like that I faced my first boss ever in Bloodborne and won the fight!

AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT!

I still cannot believe it!

Cannot get the stupid smile off my face!

Just yesterday I was reading some opinions about the game and found this one here from Games In Focus and it's just like what I was trying to explain in my last post about the game.

I've always was kinda 'afraid' of the so called hardcore-ultra-difficult-games that needed lots of try-and-error hours spent. But maybe it was all just because I've never found a game like Bloodborne before.

The game was pushing me to it, and the moment I started it I was addicted. I'm day-dreaming about it throughout my day! But not addicted to that degree to which I cannot play anything else, but that's a story for an other post.

The thing is that I knew I'd die a lot. And I did, to the extent I thought I'd be killing the same enemies for the rest of my game-life.

Until yesterday.

When I've tried to take the gamepad and tried to put into action all the things I've been listening to in the videos I've been watching about the game. Mainly is to think outside the box the games for the past decades have put the gamers into.

We got a bit numb.

Not that I'm saying that games like Dragon Quest or Ni No Kuni are not great, because they are! But those are in a category of their own.

But I know that even if I loved the Tomb Raider reboot, and the way they deal with the new scheme of context-actions, it kinda helps you out in many ways that ends up numbing you to other games. Specially to games that a mere enemy right at the beginning of the game kills you with a couple of strikes.

We are not ready to think outside the box any more.

So that's what I've tried yesterday, like I said. I've tried to have fun, and simply let it go.

And so I ended up in the right place. Right where I knew I'd find a boss but, also thanks to the notes other gamers leave behind in the game (I thank the PS+ subscription just for that) I entered the fight ready to try it no matter what.

And when I knew it, I beat the Cleric Beast, the first boss of the game, like it was nothing.

But it was. It was a big deal!

It finally made me realize, that yep, I'll keep dying a lot, like I did just next because I fell from a great high and didn't see the couple of enemies just right behind me, but I just have to keep on dancing.

But that's the game! And that's the fun of it.

I just have to do it. To have fun with it. And waltz.

Bloodborne - PS4

There are just a few games that burn themselves onto your skin like a tattoo you'll forever display with pride.


Those games are like your favourite books, TV shows or films.

Bloodborne is one of those.

I knew Bloodborne was a Souls game. So I was not quite 'turned' to go and buy it. But then I could not stop looking at the game. So I did it. And finally bought the Hit version of it.

And I got prepared to die.

And I died, and keep on dying a lot.

But I don't mind. I just keep on coming back and playing the same enemies over and over again.

Why!? Because next time I'll advance a bit more and the moment you manage to discover a new short-cut, you win that battle you've been losing for the past 10 or more tries, you feel like on top of the world!

And the Bloodborne world is a beauty.

The details are infinite like you get lost in them each time you pass by.

And Bloodborne is the only game nowadays that made me watch more videos on YouTube besides the walk-through kind.

I've been watching many dissertations, thesis and other philosophical videos about the game than every other game before. It also helps that I didn't have YouTube or even the internet when I used to play other consoles...So yeah!

And why I watch the videos!? Because they remind me of the old times when we used to discuss the games for the games. And that can only happen because the game appeals to a more adult audience but also a kind of different hardcore gamers, besides the FPS hardcore gamers. It's a mix from the old days Arcade gamers that tried to pass those platform/RPGs games that ate our coins like the Cookie Monster.

I've seen people caring for the game like I've seen in a long time.

And I'm in love with the game. That much that I don't mind being killed all the time and even just watching other people playing.