Topic: Pure Xbox Game Club - On Indefinite Hiatus

@ralphdibny good choice for sure. Personally I am not voting for it as I actually finished the game this weekend but happy to share my thoughts regarding it!

@dmcc0 that is a very common comment to the way they decided to incorporate the classic tomb raider experience. It does not bother me as they are very easy to find with the audio clue and for sure are my favourite part of the game.

Hellblade 2 for me!

@Balta666 Yeah, I'd agree with it being my favourite part of the game. From what I've read Shadow seems to be more focused on tombs and a bit different from 2013 and Rise, so should be more up my street even though it didn't review quite as well as them. I've added 2013 to the wish list too as it's been years since I played it (on a Steam with an pretty ancient PC) and would prefer to have them all in one place.

BTW the Achievement for completing all the optional tombs still tracks even if you complete them after finishing the main story - I guess it still counts as a single playthrough.

@balta666 here's my votes, I'm already more than halfway thru hellblade 2, so no hellblade 2 vote from my end 🫠

the quarry
evil west
jusant

@Ricky-Spanish cool, voted added!

Evil West is my vote.

@NintendoByNature @DoomGuy_117 both votes added! Thanks

@Balta666 I'll drop my vote for hellblade if it ends up being a tie so you can go with evil west. Other people may still vote tho!

I'll be giving this game a go tonight. Been a busy couple days for me, but I should be free to at least get an hour under my belt this evening.

Played for a good 45 min last night. I liked that you have melee attacks. Always welcomed in any games that have "horror-elements." It's not overly frightening but still. The gunplay feels nice, and it's great that you have unlimited ammo. The game looks and plays great, writing is "ok" thus far. But only gripe is when there's too many enemies at once, and some require you to do a parry like kick before they hit you, to stun them. Wouldn't be an issue if there wasn't 4 enemies coming at you at once and you need to dodge and parry multiple ones. I also don't know if you can actually lock on to an enemy? Has anyone figured this out?

Finished Hellblade 2 yesterday.

Good timing for a new game. Will hop on Evil West tonight.

@DoomGuy_117 good deal. I just got done with hellblade 2. I'll be interested to hear your impressions on evil west.

@NintendoByNature Was not able to hop on last night. I'll give my thoughs tomorrow. I can squeeze in about an hour before the Acolyte drops tonight.

Have a great day!

Oh so have had kept an eye on this thread and might a have suggestion for next month

@NintendoByNature Yikes. This is a rough go after Hellblade.

I’m getting used to the combat but I am just not really feeling the controls, acting, animations, or anything lol.

I’m going to try and play more tomorrow and decide if I want to move on or not.

@DoomGuy_117 which part do you dislike? I'm not crazy about the multiple enemies and having to parry a specific character while you're being attacked from different directions.

@NintendoByNature I don't mind that as I am a big fan of the combat in Mad Max and the Batman Arkham series.

It just moves a bit wonky. It kind of reminds me of Shadow Warrior 3 (played on Gamepass) being a "Doom Like" game. It moved way to fast and was just platformer and then place of multiple enemies to kill and the rince and repeat.

I am going to put a solid 90 mins in tonight as see if i can get into it. Happy it's on Gamepass and finally tried it. Been on my list to play a while.

Just might not be for me.

Ok, Thousand year door is on the rear mirror and I can start Evil West.
First impression is that goddam the cinematics are cool as heck!!
Gameplay wise is a bit stiff though and I was not expecting it to be melee focused.