The Official "What Are You Playing?" Thread (Post Screens)

[Remij 5,119]

I've been playing it and it's fucking awesome.  Right up there with the RE remakes IMO.  Like, honestly, outside of technical issues due to UE, it's basically as good of a remake as one could reasonably expect.  

[madmaltese★ 2,849]

I've sort of fucked up with Wukong. I put it aside a bit over the last few days when I got up to the final boss and have played other stuff and now have lost like all muscle memory and flow of the game at the literal hardest point of the game lol

Have had like 10 attempts of so at the boss but nearly always get up to the same stage. About 20% health remaining in phase 2. Honestly losing some patience with the game but it's my bad for not just seeing it through when it was all that I was playing. Some mechanics of the final boss are ass though. 

 

Other stuff:

-More Vampire Survivors

 

-Friend gave me back my copy of GoW Ragnarok and I decided to finally check out Valhalla and was very very impressed. Probably one of the best free dlcs I've played in a long time. Especially awesome if you loved the original GoW trilogy. It is surprisingly story heavy and nearly all are call backs to the OG trilogy. 

 

-Bunch of co-op stuff: Finished WWZ, started Vermintude 2

[JonDnD 3,088]

2nd monkey boss ? Best approach for almost all wukong bosses i had was to just be aggressive 

 

Both of the last bosses are easy to learn patterns and dodge 

 

Erlang tho ...ugh 

[-GD-X★ 8,456]

53 minutes ago, madmaltese said:

I've sort of fucked up with Wukong. I put it aside a bit over the last few days when I got up to the final boss and have played other stuff and now have lost like all muscle memory and flow of the game at the literal hardest point of the game lol

Have had like 10 attempts of so at the boss but nearly always get up to the same stage. About 20% health remaining in phase 2. Honestly losing some patience with the game but it's my bad for not just seeing it through when it was all that I was playing. Some mechanics of the final boss are ass though. 

 

Other stuff:

-More Vampire Survivors

 

-Friend gave me back my copy of GoW Ragnarok and I decided to finally check out Valhalla and was very very impressed. Probably one of the best free dlcs I've played in a long time. Especially awesome if you loved the original GoW trilogy. It is surprisingly story heavy and nearly all are call backs to the OG trilogy. 

 

-Bunch of co-op stuff: Finished WWZ, started Vermintude 2

Only use mana/cloud step in phase 2. If you have the mana charging gourd, you will be fine. 

[madmaltese★ 2,849]

22 hours ago, JonDnD said:

2nd monkey boss ? Best approach for almost all wukong bosses i had was to just be aggressive 

 

Both of the last bosses are easy to learn patterns and dodge 

 

Erlang tho ...ugh 

Yeah so The Great Sage's Broken Shell. I'm fairly agressive on him, first phase easy but then the final stages he just gets a crazy move set I feel and am currently out of flow with the combat. 

 

I tried Erland a couple of times and was like yeah nope... not for now anyway lol

22 hours ago, -GD-X said:

Only use mana/cloud step in phase 2. If you have the mana charging gourd, you will be fine. 

Yeah an issue I'm having is running out of mana by that stage. I won't use any in phase 1 anymore. Will get that gourd also cause I don't have that equipped.

[-GD-X★ 8,456]

1 hour ago, madmaltese said:

Yeah so The Great Sage's Broken Shell. I'm fairly agressive on him, first phase easy but then the final stages he just gets a crazy move set I feel and am currently out of flow with the combat. 

 

I tried Erland a couple of times and was like yeah nope... not for now anyway lol

Yeah an issue I'm having is running out of mana by that stage. I won't use any in phase 1 anymore. Will get that gourd also cause I don't have that equipped.

Stand very far away in stage 1 (like as far as you can) and then start a charge attack, and start running as the 4th focus point fills up, then unleash your hit. In phase 1 of sage, you can access the 4th focus point via charge. You won’t need to use mana until phase 2.

[Twinblade★ 4,268]

As good as the SH2 remake is it absolutely showers you with resources which does decrease the tension and horror aspect. I legit have had up to 15 healing items at some points  

[madmaltese★ 2,849]

Wukong done! Thanks for the tips guys, beat him on my 3rd attempt. Changed my tactics a bit, used GD's tactic of staying super far and just using charge attack mostly in phase 1. Got through that with zero mana use. Then for phase 2 pretty much exclusively cloud step.

[-GD-X★ 8,456]

1 hour ago, madmaltese said:

Wukong done! Thanks for the tips guys, beat him on my 3rd attempt. Changed my tactics a bit, used GD's tactic of staying super far and just using charge attack mostly in phase 1. Got through that with zero mana use. Then for phase 2 pretty much exclusively cloud step.

the perfect strategy

[Twinblade★ 4,268]

Finished SH2 after 18 hours.

 

The game does get a bit exhausting towards the end, especially starting at the labryinth which I think is the worst area and could have been trimmed down quite a bit.

 

But even in most of the other areas, there's a bit too much combat and enemies you have to deal with. They started feeling like fodder I needed to get rid of so I could explore in peace. There's also some areas where its so dark, you have to struggle to make out whats going on. There's one boss fight in particular that was tricky just because of the amount of darkness (I actually saw someone on gaf who was frustrated enough that he was going to crank up the brightness just for that fight).

 

Most everything else is great. I was actually surprised that I was able to complete all of the puzzles without getting stumped. They're not difficult but still fun to solve, its really just a matter of making sure you explore as much as possible so you have all the key items required and the right amount of information from the notes scattered around.

 

The atmosphere and sound design are really good, as are the visuals. The cutscenes are all well directed and the actors do a good job, even if to this day I find the story to be quite vague and cryptic (im gonna have to look up a plot summary to help put all the pieces together).

 

So yeah its really good with the excessive combat and enemies dragging it down a bit. I would rate it a 8.0 or 8.5, im a bit torn about how I feel about which i'd go with right now.