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01:21:02 - 01:22:01

good and i did think the music was mostly great in the same way that i really rated tetris effects i think that the difficulty of it i did struggle with because i think that the the normal difficulty makes sense up until a point and then i think becomes completely unreasonable and so i bounced on it the third level from the end of journey there's the final i think it's like it's four or five in that level four or five different skins and when you get to the last one on normal the blocks just start dropping instantly and there's like no the only way i think you can actually do it is if you have used the burst mechanics so comprehensively to keep the board clear that those blocks can drop instantly and you can just you can just sort of make it work and in general i think there is a bit of a structural a sort of like an intriguing structural note to this game that is you are almost limping from one burst to another in terms of how you

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... you know the the likes of you who have never been luminous heads over that hurdle and to really engage them and so i really commend them for doing that i think they did a great job i did like this good and i did think the music was mostly great in the same way that i really rated tetris effects i think that the difficulty of it i did struggle with because i think that the the normal difficulty makes sense up until a point and then i think becomes completely unreasonable and so i bounced on it the third level from the end of journey there's the final i think it's like it's four or five in that level four or five different skins and when you get to the last one on normal the blocks just start dropping instantly and there's like no the only way i think you can actually do it is if you have used the burst mechanics so comprehensively to keep the board clear that those blocks can drop instantly and you can just you can just sort of make it work and in general i think there is a bit of a structural a sort of like an intriguing structural note to this game that is you are almost limping from one burst to another in terms of how you know in the game and i just thought it was too unreasonable that last bit of that last level and that's when i just uninstalled it i was like actually i think that i think i am good enough ...

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01:21:12 - 01:23:13

i think that the difficulty of it i did struggle with because i think that the the normal difficulty makes sense up until a point and then i think becomes completely unreasonable and so i bounced on it the third level from the end of journey there's the final i think it's like it's four or five in that level four or five different skins and when you get to the last one on normal the blocks just start dropping instantly and there's like no the only way i think you can actually do it is if you have used the burst…

01:13:47 - 01:14:21

is luminous arise not on my list not on your list couldn't handle it hey well let's explain one fundamental difference of our luminous arise experience matthew you played the journey mode on easy and i played the journey mode on normal so that is a really key differentiator here that's on you so yeah luminous arise i played it on ps5 uh comes from enhance games and monstars ink which is the same pairing that did tetris effect a few years ago and this is a very similar deal in that it takes the classic block…

01:06:21 - 01:06:55

statements in blueprints oh right okay yeah yeah yeah here's some clues giving you vague information can you combine you know the the vagueness into like one solid truth elsewhere and yeah it's just nice i like that you have a little journey through it sometimes there are like little jokes hidden in there like sometimes people will just say like a little thing instead of having a clue and sometimes like the way he's named the characters or the professions it feels like he's like you know nodding to you know…

01:33:57 - 01:34:30

this asks you to reach at least a certain level of mastery of it before you go in i wouldn't dare hand this to just annoy me and be like off you go you've really got to just like spend about 10 minutes practicing before you actually know what you're doing so um yeah it's but it is um but it is phenomenal if you go on that journey with it so uh yes rematch matthew what's your number eight my number eight is split fiction higher on my list i knew there had to be one it had to happen eventually so my number eight…

00:58:18 - 00:58:53

a cool kind of novelty to the continuous nature of the tracks but i guess not so much that it really captured my imagination it still feels like the same game despite that and i did like the sort of it was called that slightly trippy journey from one space to another and just seeing the the world change around you as these you know they have to find a way to make all of these different you know types of geography kind of coexist basically that's cool and i did really like the knockout mode they added to it as…

02:19:40 - 02:20:11

and um yeah i kind of like the you know the the idea of asking people to get involved um but also setting expectations matthew because it does feel like uh it will really reward you if you go on this journey with it game but also it's not a journey that everyone that's going to be for everyone you know yeah absolutely absolutely i mean i just from the outset you think 200 hours like no chance but uh i don't know there is something to be said i think you could probably just play through the core story and have a…

00:56:24 - 00:56:59

particularly you know they were great on prime one remastered but yeah here like buttery smooth so good i just felt it it it felt a little bit too streamlined and frictionless and every level just feels like a massive tube coming out of quite a boring desert and i enjoyed my journeys through those tubes but the toing and throwing the art of backtracking which i think is key to metroid and masterfully done in metro prime one is uh really lacking here you go into the levels once and then you go into the levels at…

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