Dragon's Dogma coming to PC

Now this is an awesome video game. I hope it gets ported. Dragon's Dogma is an action adventure game where players will battle against fantastical creatures in a sandbox world. I haven't played it in a long time but the experience was truly one of a kind, fighting against undead, goblins, bandits, ogres, trolls, and dragons. The best part of this game is the open world feel of exploring a mystical world full of mysteries and surprises, and fighting in amazing boss fights.

Mage against drake

The player is accompanied by pawns. Pawns are basically your team mates that join you in your battles. There four in total, including you and your personally created pawn. The two others are created from some other world or other players. Some are by default, other are more unique.

Story wise, its basically about defeating a dragon. Or is it? As you play the story develops into some more than a dragon hunt. Its about deciding the fate those around you, the world and more. It may seem that one play through is not enough to complete in the world's quests, story and mysteries.

The game has decent play through time which can get longer if the player explores more of the world.  The world map may seem small but only shows the surface of the world. There are hidden dungeons, secret areas, shortcuts and optional bosses to find.

A New Game+ feature is available that allows the player to try new decisions and taking miss opportunities. There is more side quests but only if the you follow up from your earlier mission. It may lead to surprising developments like finding out what happen to certain characters and unlocking secret equipment.

I never got the expansion, Dark Arisen. Maybe this PC port will have the expansion included. If you like fantasy action adventure, huge boss fights and mysteries, check it out.

My Thoughts on: Bloodborne

Ok, I got the game about two months ago. I have played Dark Souls so I imagined it to be like it and.. it was. Difficult, but surprisingly your character moves faster. The character start choice is just like Dark Souls except you do not get a start item in the beginning. The last character choice in the list was ridiculous, low stats. Who would bother with such a difficult start, and why put it there.

Whats new is the introduction of firearms and blood tinge trait. They kind of remind me of magic attacks in Dark Souls but faster where my character doesn't do the magic pose. Blood tinge basically is the trait that determines your firearm damage.

There are shields in the game but does not help much especially in boss fights. Parrying has been removed and replaced with stunning which is done by shooting the enemy while it attacks and hopefully it connects. The other method is to do a sneak charge attack behind the enemy.

The trick weapons are cool. They can transform into different kind of weapon. An axe transforms into a poleaxe. A cane transform into a whip. A saw sword extends it blade. There are more but its more fun to try them yourselves. I prefer Ludwig's sword. A silver sword transforms into a great sword.

Visually the game looks great. The victorian era setting looks very convincing. The bad side is that the enemies look great too. Allow me to list the scary bits. Creepy howling and screaming. Check. Deformities. Check. Extra amount of grotesque. Check. Later in the game the enemies just get weirder and more deformed, or formed with limbs, skulls, and eyeballs.

I haven't finish the game. I just reached the nightmare of mentis. I got tired of the difficulty of the game so I'm taking a break from it. I hate the frenzy effect. Once it reaches full bar, instance lost of most of your health. Hopefully I can bring myself to finish the game.

My Thoughts on: Grow Home

Grow Home is game where players control a robot to help grow a star plant from the ground to the stars. I think the goal is to keep growing the plant until it reaches the robot's space ship. The game was made by Ubisoft and developed using the Unity engine.

The reason why I mention Grow Home is that the game got voted for free in Playstation Store and since I subscribed for the Playstation Plus, I got the game for free. So far the game has been a fun. At first, the game setting seems to be on a small island. Do a little exploring, find the star plant,  and help it grow. Then the start plant starts to grow and rise higher in to the sky. Next thing, I find myself on a small floating island, looking at the colossal size of the start plant that I help grow.

I find myself climbing up and down the gigantic star plant, gliding in the air using a flower, help the star plant grow and see how high the plant grows. So far, I managed to get halfway, I think. This is the kind of game where you should take your time and enjoy the scenery. The view from where you the star plant has stop growing to where the you started is an amazing view. The distance should impress anybody. It make me wonder the view would like from space. Yes, it can grow up to space. So it suggests.