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Attached: 1 image (Continue my #FF14 stuff from https://mastodon.social/@Bigshellevent/108225653727044124) This year's Valentione outfit is Professor Layton kind of cute I love it. All screenshots will be via mobile now, because fuck twitter. (Added benefit that this really makes Reddit outraged which is always a good thing.) #ffxiv

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Attached: 1 image I said I was going to give Octopath I another go. Started with the hunter again. I'm enjoying it a lot more now that I'm in the mindset for a turn based JRPG. #OctopathTraveler

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Let's try some Narcosis. Please don't be one of those QWOP to open a door game.

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"A realistic horror unlike anything you ever experienced".

> Battery 12%

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The controls are pretty good so far, though I don't yet need to open a door. We'll see how that will go.

I'm at that start where there isna magical swimming pool that auto teleports you into the deep ocean.

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Rekt by a spider crab, the game

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As a non-diver, I can't comment on how reasonable it is that my protagonist can go for full speed knife thrust underwater, but will refuse to grab onto a cliff edge to prevent falling to his death.

Sometimes I don't think he deserves to live.

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Roflmao I swear these people dive with oxygen tanks the size of cream whipping canisters. You've walked seven step. 20% of your oxygen is gone.

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The entire Compass 1 is underwater. But look on the bright side, you get to ignore the fire safety message.

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That "slippery when wet" sign floating around nearly killed me hahahahahahaha

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Whooa what are these jars made out of? The entire enforced underwater station is crushed by the earthquake, but these jars are not just ok but also not even dislodged off their shelves.

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Ohhh it's doing that shifting environment thing, which is my favourite thing ever.

Tbh I knew my protagonist is hallucinating hardcore, when he started to see red blood coming out of squids

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I just can't get over how my protagonist is stuck under ocean, and he's so lazy that he wouldn't carry any oxygen canisters he found. 99% oxygen left? Nah just refill it to 100% then throw it away.

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I'm playing as a dude who would rather suffocate than using his hands to pull himself up by 1cm.

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Still funny every time

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I just got out into the escape subway abd

What what

What.

WHAT

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Congratulations to Protagonist, for being THE worst driver in video game history. The context is, you can't screw up this much if you planned ahead to do it.

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The physics are so... Idk, land like? As in you will burn to death if you stand on lava, but you are fine when swimming 1m away in ocean soaked in lava? The water would be 100 degrees.

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Narcosis's spider crabs is making me pro bottom-trailing.

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Ok so there are random Ocean Poppies, Ocean Bicycles, and Ocean Grandfather Clocks. The protagonist is mad af

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HOLY FUCK THE ENDING WHAT THE WHAT THE FUCKING WHAT

HOLY FUCKING FUCK

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Ok so I never ever thought I'd love a game because how entirely the controls were clumsy af, but I think it would be a worse game if it isn't. Just to be clear, it's not a diving game, it's a slow walking simulator with some clumsier combat. Somehow. It mostly worked.

However.

A lot of it is trial and errors, but with time limit. Which can get annoying, especially some stages were essentially pseudo open space. Having said that, the time limit is really generous.

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Holy shit the ending.

Look, I was expecting your usual survival horror tropes. Eldritch horror, full scale psychosis, idk protagonist is secretly a serial murderer, whatever.

What the actual ending was the ultimate adult fear. Never mind that the narrator and the protagonist are different people, this is amazing because how it's done.

It didn't even bother with the whole "weh weh you play as an awful man who felt bad for being awful". You played as a careless man, too arrogant for his own good, crashed his vehicle into his colleague, then accidentally left his colleague to die of unnecessary death.

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The narrator didn't even feel that bad, sure he's a "functional dude" who has no capacity for trauma, no momentary hallucinations, some mild remorse over his inability to follow protocol costing someone else's life, but hey he got a book deal out of it.

But really.

Dudes like him are quite possible people you work with. Now that's some psychological horror.

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Ah, so seems like Narcosis is one of that teams that made one game then just split.

But wow. Dare I say, the narrative was brilliant precisely because how mundane it is?

It's my GOTY so far.

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