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[Neo3932156]

Anyone here has any thoughts about Nakwon: Last Paradise? Basically a f2p PvPvE extraction shooter with zombies and focus on melee combat.

I wasn't really thought much about it when I first saw the trailers several months ago. Then I saw people playing the closed alpha test which ended recently, now I wasn't the sort of gamers that would enjoy extraction looters gameplay loop, but there's something about this game that just appealed to me.

Unfortunately, the game F2P status and that it's made by Nexon notorious for their microtransaction does not bodes well.

 

[Velk]

Beat Dark Souls 1 for the first time the other day.

Overall I would say I only had issues with Quaelag (Spider Lava Vomit), Crystal Caves (Invisible Paths) and the Four Kings. I ended up cosplaying as a Havel Knight for the majority of the second half of the game, save vs. Nito and his gaggle of clanking fucks.

 

[Melmar]

Silent Hill f was pretty damn good. Felt like they really got what kind of story they're supposed to be telling with a Silent Hill game and I think they pulled it off.

Spoiler

Silent Hill isn't Hell; it's a Purgatory made of your own issues. You can leave once you've sorted your shit out.

Fascinating execution of that too. All three endings besides the true and UFO endings are bad.

1: The default ending. Hinako goes completely apeshit and goes on a drug fueled killing spree as her resentment of her circumstances boils over into hatred and insanity.

2: Fox Wedding. Hinako kills the part of herself that wanted to make her own choices and becomes what she thinks a wife is supposed to be based on her mother and sister: a living corpse to be used by her husband.

3: Rejecting the marriage. Hinako refuses to move on with her life and keeps clinging to a childhood friend she'd fallen out of love with. Also he's the one that drugged her with magic pills cuz he's an idiot and thought she'd have a nice chat with herself and decide what she wanted to do and instead a Silent Hill game happened.

4: True ending. Hinako comes to terms with both sides of herself: the part of her that refuses the expectations and pressures put on women in Japanese society. And the other part of her: the part that actually does love her fiance, Kotoyuki. He actually was a sweet man who tried his best to make her happy, though he was also dealing with the pressures from his own family and his fairytale romance not being perfect. They both agree to call things off for now and take some more time to learn more about themselves, each other, and who they want to be before maybe trying again in the future.

It's was all really well done and I thought the ways they used imagery and symbolism and what have you was pretty dang good.