The “Mechs And Mutated Fish” Edition

Greetings all!

Hope you’re enjoying a Christmas with an appropriate degree of merriment.

Me, I’m not.

Side-by-side slices of various game screenshots. From left to right: Dredge, Wild Hearts, Armored Core 6, Wo Long.

Because theRPS 2023 Advent Calendaris wrong.

It’swrong, I tell you!

Trust me,The Last SpellandAgainst The Stormare both phenomenal games as well.

Wild Hearts image showing a Hunter in the Roller Karakuri vehicle.

Thankfully, I was able to get things into a workable state.

They also play a huge part in combat.

In most other aspects, Wild Hearts barely deviates at all from the standard Monster Hunter formula.

A conversation with a character in Dredge’s Pale Reach DLC

Dredge

I absolutely adore shape-based inventory systems.Adorethem.

It was one of my favourite things aboutMight And Magic VIback in the day.

And I’m so glad I did!

A Battle Flag placed in a bamboo forest at night in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty.

I couldn’t stop smiling through my playthrough.

The discordant bubbling tones that notify you when you’ve caught a rare and grotesquely fish.

Dredge is a wonderful game that deserves its place in everyone’s Steam library.

I daresay I’m in for a nasty surprise.

The sheer scale is what did it, I think.

I mean, obviously the combat is terrific.

Particularly once I’d perfected my build.

No puny little automatic rifles or machine guns for me.

Give me huge melee blades and some shoulder bazookas, just.

But what really makes AC6 stick in my mind is the spectacle.