Massive Rat War

 Well my Sunday was filled with mainly not game related stuff but the one thing I did manage to do was finish A Plague Tale: Innocence.  Like I said in the previous post, it's not a bad game but it doesn't have enough good ideas to support its length.  There was about 16 chapters total with the first 6 and the last 2 being sort of cool and then everything in between feeling like a bunch of stupid padding.  They could have very easily cut the game down to about 10 chapters and it would have been a perfect length but instead it really does start to feel like a slog by the end.  

 Spoilers ahead if you care for some reason

One thing I did find quite interesting though is that in the last few moments of the game you get to actually control the rats and you have to sic them on dudes like little diseased Pikmin.  You spend maybe 2 chapters of the game using this power to get through some guards only for the entire thing to climax in what I can only describe as a rat war with a priest.  I was sort of worried that the game would do that really annoying thing of just having you fight goons while a cutscene happens in the background and you just win when enough of them are dead but there's a full on hilarious boss battle with giant rat towers and it was actually quite the spectacle.  I'm glad that I stuck with it to the end but I'm also glad that I didn't have to pay for it. 6/10 I guess.

Before I wrote this article I actually loaded up a game called Ghost Runner, a sort of Hotline Miami via Mirrors Edge that's kind of fun.  I got half way through a stage though when a spinning platform bugged out when I landed on it and angled itself at about 45 degrees.  When I respawned I could still land on the platform but it was clipping through the wall I was supposed to run along and when I tried to do the wall run I'd get knocked off and fall to my death.  I tried to exit the game and reload my save thinking I could go from the checkpoint but when the game loaded in I was at the start of the stage and upon seeing that I promptly quit the game and it might be a good few days before I drum up the will to play it again.  

Tomorrow I'm hoping will be a bit of a MegaTen day.  I'm working in the office which means I'll be lugging my Switch down with me to play some SMT V in my lunch break and when I get home I'll be firing up the PS1 version of Persona 2 (Innocent Sin) for the Stream!  I'll be back tomorrow to report how many times I got my ass kicked by demons