In some ways I'm really sad I don't have the time to do this Velocity challenge. I only have perfects up to 13, but I don't game when my son is awake, and I work out either late night/mornings, so I only have about an hour or two to game (if that). Not to mention, I'm in the middle of Darangatan (and FF1, and Rainbow Moon, and God of War, etc.).
It's also harder to 'pick up and play' Velocity at the level you need for perfects. But... the game is so amazingly built to perfect. I often get 'ocd' urgings to finish games perfectly, but for Velocity it's something more than that. The game begs for it, it's designed for it. It's not my sense of completionism driving me to finish the game, but rather the purity of gameplay that is required by the games design -- you're either in zen mode and godding through it, or you're not getting perfects. The only other game that comes to mind that really had the same energy for me is Rayman Origins.
I'm not sure what I think of Darangabonaza. It's... interesting? The mysteries are too easy for me. The case game mechanics are kind of cool... but again a bit too easy. Social links bore me to death. I liked VLR because it separated puzzle gameplay (escape the room!) from the plot so the puzzles could just be... whereas if you solve a mystery the case gameplay in dangalanga just becomes 'ok, enough already'. Though it's certainly more difficult to intertwine plot and puzzles, so points for that, I suppose. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who likes P4G and/or the mystery games i've never played (like Layton) that people compared it to. I just don't know that it's for me, and I wish I didn't bite at $20.
I swear I'll finally beat God of War. Never have i started and gave up on a game so many times, which makes the beginning chapters all the more boring my sixth or seventh try.
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IRL, we just got the neighbor from hell. Day 2 and they're already calling the city for what they view as code violations rather than just dealing with us directly. Which is ridiculous given our neighborhood and how friendly everyone is, not to mention we've put more into our house and landscape than most. But they're clearly mental, breaking into tears over unrelated issues (one sentence about property lines, the next about relatives, asking my wife for hugs). Crazy land. We live a pretty stress free life, I feel like we jumped into the Twilight Zone yesterday.