CODE VEIN (tim rogers plays)
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I played CODE VEIN! I liked it. I'm sorry if it's hard to tell if I liked the game ironically or seriously, so here I will spell it out for you: I liked it.
However, much of this stream consists of me being impatient. I get impatient with the long (long!) tutorial that happens before the game starts. The game decides to teach me (exhaustively!) how to use the inventory before even letting me kill something. Later, I declare my love for this sort of tutorial: being shown the most granular aspect of the game up-front is a sure sign that it's the most complicated thing the game has got. The rest of it is simple pleasures. The game feeds you the vegetables before the dessert. I respect that.
Later in this stream I discuss at great length a friend with excellent taste in metal. He often contends that the worst feeling in the world is when you're loving a metal band you've never heard before and suddenly a guy starts singing in English words you understand.
Listen, then, to my English words in this stream while I declare that Bloodborne is like "The Swedish Stuff," and this game is basically Marilyn Manson. And that's fine! It's good.
We're all stars now, in the dope show.
This friend, coincidentally, plays maybe one video game ever two years. Anyway, he sure did 100% Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Therefore I can say that Dark Souls and Bloodborne are Certifiably Metal™ video games. Oddly, despite their well-earned reputation as the plaything of the hardcore, Souls games are pretty accessible even to the non-game-initiated.
Code Vein, meanwhile, is like Dark Souls For Video Game Likers in comparison.
I am one of those Game Likers, so I like it. The end. Like comment and subscribe etc