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Video Games General

Playing through the demo for Echoes of Aincrad. So far its covering the tutorial/prologue which appropriately takes place in the beta test. There is definitely an appreciation for detail from the devs, they are clearly fans. The menu is in fact the in game SAO menu complete with logout button, which you can't actually use but I like that they added it solely to take it away later when the main plot actually starts. At the end of the starting tutorial dungeon you fight Illfang, which is a little weird since he's the floor boss, not a dungeon one, but yeah, i'm guessing they will justify it somehow. Also, he decidedly was not using a Nodachi, though he also wasn't using a Tulwar but that might just be the devs not knowing what a Tulwar looks like.

So far I'm having fun. While I actually like Kirito as a character (and man does the anime do a poor job with his internal monologue), its nice playing someone who isn't him and can see the Beater/Black Swordsman from the outside when the time comes.
 
Finished vanilla Atomic Heart and onto the first of the DLC.

Dewdrop, fittingly for possibly being the final boss if you don't take a certain route, is challenging, but not exactly difficult. Fast bastard though, and smaller than the Hog-7, which made it slightly more difficult to hit. Apparently, when it's not firing its laser or it hasn't exposed its tentacles during the second phase, it's invulnerable to damage? I didn't noticem but that's what a couple places say.

Left, and then both the Twins, are appropriately cinematic considering they're the intended actual final boss. Kinda easy though, since it seems like you really only need to worry about killing one of the girls to win the fight.

The BEA-D Colossus is the first boss of the Annihilation Instinct DLC, or at least the first one I've seen, and compared to every other boss so far is a son of a bitch. Three phases, waves of enemies after each one, the boss likes to belly flop on top of you, it has an AOE slam attack, it can throw out area denial mines, and there's no checkpoint at all, so if you die you have to start from the beginning. It just feels like an unfair spike in difficulty? I dunno.

Also, I love that some variation of Resident Evil and Bioshock are taking place in this 'verse.
 
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