3MR was one of the formats I was really worried wouldn't be continued on Second Wind, so I'm really happy you are resurrecting it. And it's a nice forum for diverse voices and perspectives.

I love the format, but I'd like a scoring system

@@massimobolandrini9294 Never! We hate scores :)

@@massimobolandrini9294out of curiosity, what would a scoring system do for you that a “here’s some good things, here’s some things I had problems with” doesn’t?

@@TenikoGames Thanks for asking. Just a personal preferenze I guess. Since it's a short format, I would appreciate a scoring system that would sum up your opinion. Also a list of pros and cons would do that or a mark of excellence (like the essential or reccomended tag that Eurogamer used to have for some games ).

It's the crab cycle.

@@tach5884 THERE IS ONLY ONE STEP, AND IT IS CRAB

Return? No, Return is monke. WE ADVANCE TO CRAB!

Evolve to Crab you mean? I personally can't wait for the "Return to Monke" soulslike.

@@BloodyCaesar Wouldn't that be Black Myth? That Son Wukong game from China that's coming out soonish?

Kinda like Wall-E.

time for crab

"There's cosmetics, allowing you to dress in a maid outfit or cosplay as legally distinct Mr. Krabs, among other things. Also, there's an Among Us impostor plushie as a shell."

@@diegosaez4885 TAKE MY MONEY

literally lol'd in my office looking at the tiny crab walking it around right side up... thx game. 😂

It's odd he faced stutters. Only had a few dips at 1440p and no issues at 1080p. My machine many would call a relic too.

​@@DirranProductionsCould be driver issues

@@alexkaplan6581 that'd be weird though, my system hasn't gotten driver updates in a minute; and it ran fine.

Dew it.

Do it

Alright. I can't find any gun runs. A promise is a promise. :}

Great spot 🤩 - I loved Going Under so will defo put this on my GamePass to-do list

Been following aggro since pineapple got me onto Going Under

Was looking for this comment. Steam dumpster diving baybeee

OH you have NO idea. Heh heh heh

Well excuse you, some of us like being depressed

I remember his video where he played Clash: Artifacts of Chaos. That one ended up not being quite a Soulslike, but a very good game nonetheless. Colorful and imaginative. Coincedentally there's a fighting style in that game called Crab Stance.

If you're not being betrayed by the camera, are you even having a soulslike experience?

Yeah, my experience has been wonderful barring the glitches. I've played most of the game so far on PS5 and the amount of bugs and performance issues borders on unplayable at times. It's a great game that's held back by a lack of optimization and I really hope the dev team are able to remedy that soon.

@@A-Spoto I'm not too surprised at the issues with the PS5 version, because I think when I watched IronPineapple's play of the demo it was, at the time, only on Steam. Either way, there wasn't a PlayStation version in the works. I'm not sure if there was a mention of it coming to Xbox either at the time.

Sponsor Block will skip intros and ads for you.

It's okay, the game didn't miss that one! There's a rainbow-themed cosmetic called 'rainbow crabitalism' that you can pick up that I probably spent a disproportionate amount of time laughing at when I first saw it.

Nah. Becuase even tough you manage to finish dark souls. You still doesn't know the story until watch vaatividya anyway.

With the Balance, Capsize and Hook mechanics, basically yes.

One of the abilities you get lets you get a critical hit on a capsized enemy and literally says to "attack their weak point for massive damage", so yes

Especially rainbow mantis shrimps that're martial arts masters with teleporting pressure point blows like Hit from DBZ, lol

@calebcrumlish1670 definitely need to download this soon!

I don't think it did, Aggro Crab is an established studio.

@@Oscar97o weird. It looks so similar to that game. But I guess hermit crabs looking for shells isn’t that uncommon of a mechanic

Can I get a "yee claw!"

If you want to start with an actual Dark Souls game, 3 is probably your best bet. Enemies, weapons, and flask usage are all sped up and closer to Bloodborne in terms of speed (maybe not as fast as Sekiro enemies). They're still slower than Bloodborne enemies though, but it's a much smoother experience than the first 2 Souls games or Demon's Souls. I've honestly never gotten far in Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2, or Demon's Souls, but I've completed Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3, and Elden Ring.

I'm about 4 hours in and haven't encountered any slowdown personally - might depend on the setup. I'm playing on a ryzen 9 3900x, rtx 3080 and 32 gigs 3.2 ghz DDR. and on an SSD of course.

Should clarify, no slowdown, nor stuttering at all. Been smooth as butter.

For the record, I'm playing on series S and I only get that kind of stuttering when moving between load zones. I never once had it affect combat or platforming

They now have an ability to restore your junk in the assist menu in the latest update and they are working on getting those areas of instances where the player can fall through or get stuck, ironed out. I have clipped into a few things and gotten stuck but I did not have a lot of junk on me, so it was not a big loss. Shell Insurance ensures you can keep your favorite shells.

@@Gigaheart Happy to hear that! I think I'll let it sit on gamepass for s while and give it another go.

@@shakyjosh3337 Gamepass doesn't have that update yet, so that's a good idea.

Oh it is very dark, don't let that cute aesthetic fool you.

I can see the logic in this comment. There's power in contrast and for more empathic people, it can feel a bit... deceiving when there's actual death and the bleakness from growing madness and poisoning of the mind and such within a game like AC'sT. There's another game out there from around 2023 that's somewhat like a Souls game, somewhat 3D adventure, and shares the more colorful world, but actual deaths are rare. No outright blood, either. It goes by name of Clash: Artifacts of Chaos. It's set in a prehistoric-feeling world inhabited by monsters, freaks, chimeras and the like, the main character is an uncannily ugly creature and martial arts hermit in his 40s or 50s (yet hardly mean, or at least not intentionally so. And when he *is* mean he has good reasons for it or realizes it quite soon afterwards), and most sapient creatures you fight (the Mercenaries) don't ever die. If you see the three-armed ugly British pale-blue monster bald cat/bat humanoid with two wonky teal eyes, colossal weird eyelashes and ears tied together like a braid in a second encounter, then that's the same character from an early fight. Same goes for the fat cannibalistic mushroom turkey man, the arrogant Southern boomerang-chucking goose woman, the rather-genuine-belief-in-the-local-queen's-justice Platybelodon humanoid, and there's many others. It's not as difficult as a Soulslike, i'd say. In gameplay it's almost more like Sifu or Absolver. You can find different fighting styles to customize your style with, and all styles have the same inputs but different animations. Easy to remember. It's not easy, but it's not shin-crushingly difficult. All set in a world with striking art direction, good writing and voice acting, and *awesome* music. Right from the get-go in the tutorial area with the second song on the soundtrack, The Boy Calls. Hope this has made Clash: AoC sound interesting to you.

It's also not just cartoon characters, it's individuals who've lost the will to live. If you take the time to think about it like one character explicitly says you should in the midgame, all the killing really sucks. I don't think it's mean-spirited in the end, just way sadder than you'd expect. Souls games are sometimes detached and unempathetic, but here you feel the suffering a lot more. I think it also balances that with enough environmental humor to cope, but its aesthetic definitely does not do what you expect it to do.

I mean you kinda do a disservice to the effort the developers did if you don't take it seriously. Being dispassionate seems more insulting tbh.

To be fair, it's well designed and plays well. Just goes to show graphics/theme aren't everything.

@@Soul-Burn Aesthetics far out strips graphics in the modern era.

Mind clarifying that?

@@BintanginTaya well at first glance, i thought this was like, a joke game, like that stupid soulslike Penguin game, when i realized It was more than that i worried people wouldnt actualy buy it or talk about it, so im glad people are taking It seriously

They limit your attacks and rolling. Far as I can tell the hammer has 2 attacks max and the fork has 4. Then there is a hard reset where you can not attack for a few moments. You can't just spam your way through. Things have weight to them. Like you can not dodge until the moment your first attack is done, even if you pressed it, as an example. You can be hit mid animation for most attacks, including parry and riposte. The same types of decision making needs to be done as in Souls games is here. Lack of stamina management does not mean lack of decision making and pressure. If you try to spam your attacks, you will struggle on some of the later bosses. You need to know when to dodge, block, and attack. Stamina bars are not necessary in games. They are a hindrance to fun. Just my personal opinion.

@@Gigaheart So the stamina bar is just hidden then?

Hey, you leave my waifu's alone.

You know that people had luxuries in the ussr right? Hell there were even video games. Game is pro worker and if that annoys you, you're what the game is lampooning so congrats. Probably not your cup of tea.