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Go buy it right now. It's like Zelda meets journey meets Diablo with hotline Miami on the side. I played it all day after work yesterday, and literally have not been able to put it down today. This game is hard too. The good kind of hard. The kind that gave me an incredible adrenaline rush once I figured out the pattern to the first boss and finally managed to beat him. Some tips: Look everywhere. You can dash to really tiny ledges if you aren't too far from them If you're having trouble with enemies, dash around them more. The mechanic is crucial If you're having trouble seeing the aiming reticle, turn down the game brightness I am in love with this game, thank you very much to everyone who kickstarted it

Be an annoying bastard, that's how. His LP spinning attack is safe on block and doesn't look like it, so you can bait out lots of replies that will allow for full counters after you block.

same, it was really tricky picking out sources, but i got my 2 that i think will work pretty well, I'm curious to see what you've chosen.

Only 4 years? You should be more excited than ever!

I just went over the sources for the final round and damn, you're not making it easy for us These tracks are pretty quirky and mostly consist out of scales, arps and suspense devices, not the melodic content I prefer to work with. Awell, OA has the same challenge so we'll just have to make do

These days Komplete is a no-brainer starter package. However, for me, I'm not really interested in Komplete all that much--when I started out with Native-Instruments, Komplete didn't exist. I bought Kontakt 2 about 10 years ago over Gigastudio (super glad how that worked out). A year or so later, I bought Guitar Rig with the Rig Kontrol. Now it seems every year they try to tempt me with a Crossgrade price. The problem for me is that for the longest time, aside from Reaktor, nothing in Komplete really piqued my interest since most of the sample libraries were sub-par or redundant to what I already owned (having been collecting VST effects and instruments for 10 years as well). Last year I bought Reaktor 6 for like $100 bucks or something, maybe less, and that pretty well sealed the coffin for me on Komplete. Instead of Battery, I have Geist, Tremor, and a slew of acoustic drum libraries (including Addictive Drums 2). Instead of the Komplete collection of synths, I have pretty well mastered Zebra 2--I mean, presets are all great and everything, but I haven't used synth presets for a long time (except Init). When you master an instrument like Zebra, presets lose their appeal over the sound you have in your head. For fun I did buy Serum and I have owned Omnisphere for ages. So for me, no, Komplete isn't a great deal. They don't take into account that I have several of their products when they give me the crossgrade price. So I've been content, so to speak, just upgrading over the years the individual packages (when they do their summer 50% upgrade sales). For people just starting out, however, it's a no-brainer--save up, buy it.

I guess Absynth is a "your mileage may vary" type of plugin Personally, while I *DO* think it's great for sound design & eccentric textures/FX, I just feel that for basses, leads, etc., it rarely produces results I find usable. I'd like to see its extensive randomization/mutation functionality ported to other synths though - A+ implementation for that type of feature.

I think everybody has their favourite. Either because of it's quirks, or because of the feel of the art/story, or perhaps it just connects with them on some genetic level right there in the DNA. I have many, but the one that yelled out to me immediately as soon as I read the topic title: Secret of Mana. SoM was the first RPG I ever played, my dad bought it second hand from an independent games retailer innocently and ignorantly (an independent retailer of games, not a retailer of independent games- they didn't exist back then the way they do now). He came home, threw it on the table. said "there you go," or words to that effect and that, as they say, is history. Talk about dumb luck. With Dad's knowledge of the consoles we played, he could just as easily have picked up a Megadrive or Atari cartridge. Anyhoo, back on track, the game is brightly coloured with lush graphics for its time, has addictive music, great story, days of gameplay and realtime fighting. I was in love. I used to draw the characters, daydream about playing it. I dust it off regularly to replay it on my SNES. No Roms, no Virtual Console. Has to be the ol' cartridge and controller setup. The nostalgia value is completely devoid of rose tinted glasses. It's like a vintage wine. Like an old friend. That unique rush when you put it in and turn it on is unparalleled. Here we go again...

Are you sure you put this in the right forum? (Competitions?) Unless you meant for the games to compete for which gets better over time than the other games That's a really difficult question though, because it makes me think of a game I really love, Bloodborne.. which I consider one of the best games on PS4.. and it was only not as good starting out because for me it had a pretty big learning curve and wasn't a fault of the game at all. There's games like Kingdom Hearts that start out insanely boring with fetch quests on the island, and stuff like that.