Saturday Morning Gaming: Herding Cats (Or Sorting Them, Anyway)

veronica d says:

I finally got my hands on a ps5, and good golly it’s nice. I’m still playing Genshin, and the difference in quality between the ps4 version and the ps5 version is enormous. Graphics are better. I don’t get frame drops, even inside the cities, where in the past I’d drop frames very often. The biggest difference is that load times are nearly instant. For the ps4 version, you’d actually spawn in quite fast, but the world could take up to 10 seconds to fully spawn. That means you’d be running around a world of bad textures and no NPCs/enemies for several seconds waiting for stuff to load. Even just running around the open world, you run around just to have enemies spawn in around you, as you can move faster than the game loads assets. The ps5 has none of that.

I’m also playing Kena: Bridge of Spirits, which is a 3rd person action hack-and-slash with “Disney-esque” animation. I guess the company that produced it was actually an animation studio before they decided to make a game. I’m loving it. The world is engaging. The character is really cool and sweet. I adore her. The puzzles and platforming parts are really good. So far I’ve only had to “cheat” on one puzzle, and after seeing the solution I was kicking myself because I’d managed to figure out the exact same puzzle trick recently in Genshin. Somehow my brain didn’t make the same connection this time. (It was one of those “do things in a certain order depending on subtle environmental clues” puzzles. I missed the clues.) The boss fights are great. They’re actually quite hard — honestly one of them was too hard for me, so I dropped difficulty for it, which was disappointing and I hope I don’t need to do that again. But still, it’s a very engaging game. If you like hack-and-slash platformer, puzzlers, I’d recommend you check it out.

I guess technically it’s an “indie game,” but it doesn’t feel like one.Report