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Wasn’t this a Ubi-title back in the day?

He'll probably have developed a symbiotic relationship with TBC by know. Maybe he'll attack his opponents by coughing on them.

That. Good game. Horrible reheated and botched story. Disastrous hidden object game sequences. God knows why Polygon put it at the bottom of the Metroid list. I mean, how on Earth can you put it below a bloody demo? Or Samus Returns for that matter?

General tip: when you are hitting enemies and they deflect your hits, this means your posture is being broken. One of my mates went absolutely ballistic that he was hitting an enemy furiously while getting deflected, only for him to get punished as soon as he let up, feeling it to be unfair. It's completely fair; stop hitting yourself.

Play the first 'level'. Confront each enemy and just use deflects. You need to get the timing down, because I've noticed a lot of people hitting block when they are hit, when you should be blocking when the enemy prepares to hit. Rule of thumb: hit block when the sword is raised up/backwards and you should be good. When you start to shift that timing, you might be surprised in how early you can hit L1/LB. Once you've got that down, head down to Hirata Estate and get fucked up by axe wielders. Having the difference between those two types of enemies click, will help immensely. As for resurrections: feel free to use them at any time. What counts for Dragonrot is dying and reloading at the last idol. When you use up one, take note that you'll have to defeat some enemies to get the second one to unlock. (Which means the second one is basically unavailable during bosses/mist generals.)

So after opening up a lot of routes, I finally tried tackling LB and... In other news, I’m completely in love with this game. It’s so much more accessible than other From games and it doesn’t punish you for just roaming around. I genuinely can “relax” by doing a deflect lap through old areas to train, knowing that there’s always an escape ready should I screw up. Everything about this is wonderful. From insane enemy designs to beautiful architecture and level design. I think it’s From’s best game yet and one that’ll easily pierce my personal top 5.

The announcement itself during the presentation was weird. As if Apple really didn’t give a rat’s arse about games beyond it being popular in the App Store. Hell, they even snuck a “games are for kids” thing in there. The sizzle reel was completely flat. Without knowing what the games are about or how they’d play, it was just a weird curated set of pretty pictures. Which is exactly not how to promote games. Even Sony knows that. I actually felt a bit sorry for Sakaguchi. Guy deserves better.

That looks delicious.

So basically a dedicated portable version and a dedicated console version. God knows why they make the 'powerful' remark.

So I killed LB.

The health-at-deathblow skill is soooo good. Eases up the tension a bit. Also did some exploring...

Oh wow. That’s completely different to what happened in my game.