Re: Kiir's Gaming Topic (Reply #185 on: February 26, 2017, 04:51:52 pm)

i was gonna wait until i beat this game before i talked about it but i was playing it in front of friends and they want to see the ending and they wont all be available again for a few months so

i played sonic boom rise of lyric. here are my thoughts copied and pasted from elsewhere because i'm very suddenly realizing i dont want to think about this game long enough to retype stuff about it.

i brought over my unplayed copy (gifted from an ex-friend i no longer speak to) to friend hangout as a semi-joke because they asked me to bring the wii u and i ended up playing through most of it for them. which i was down for, because i did genuinely want to play the game for myself since it's not very long anyways, but i just hadn't gotten around to it because i kinda didn't want to do it alone.

i honestly didn't dislike it, but i also felt absolutely zero enjoyment while playing it. never in my life has an entire game made me feel so empty. i've felt empty in sections of games but no, the entire game - all 6-8 hours i played thus far - made me feel so dead and unfeeling. i didn't even realize it until i got home and i suddenly had an epiphany about what its like to feel alive. it's such a tedious game, i feel like i lost focus somewhere at the beginning and while i remember enough of the game, it's like it's all with a blur filter on top lol. like when you cross your eyes, thats how i visually remember the game its like a bland dream that never ends. there were some nice setpieces and maybe like one or two clever jokes/lines but the game drained me of the energy to actually enjoy them.

i've actually seen an entire playthrough of this game once or twice, and literally nothing feels different when playing it myself. i'm remembering how lifeless i felt while watching the playthrough, and thats roughly how i felt while playing it. before playing, i was semi-determined to beat it 100% and i did do some sidequests while playing, but then like halfway through i just... wanted to beat the game and be done with it.

more highlights from playing sonic boom that i can remember (which im having a very hard time remembering even though i played it less than a week ago):

• i got stuck in the ground a couple times
• there's a section where you only have amy and tails and im like 99% sure you literally Cannot do amy's section because the first jump is too high to make, i spent like 20 minutes trying to do it because i was dumb and couldnt figure out tails' section
• my favourite part was approaching npcs before they could give me quests and they'd tell me off
• whenever i couldnt throw an enemy into an abyss, my fav thing to do was switch to tails and have his lil robots gang up on the enemy while i ran away
• there are a lot of things in the game that would look cooler if they werent in a sonic game. i genuinely think if this wasnt a sonic game, it would be a more acceptable game
• i'm just realizing i didnt download the patch so i could have done the knuckles jump glitch
• h uh