Captain Morton's Notes

I love Endless legend, though in some respects maybe not for the reasons I'm supposed to. Hey look, screenshots that I took. I'm right professional, me. Endless Legend is a strategy game in the vein of Civilisation, and as such you'd imagine it was meant to be played like a strategy game in the vein of Civilisation. I don't do that, though granted I also don't play Civilisation like a strategy game in the vein of Civilisation. I play Endless Legend more like cult medieval sim Mount and Blade, but with a clear end-game. I'll create a world of a specific size depending on how long I want my empire's story to last, with anomalies set to high so I can easily get a fuckton of resources, and I role play as one of the many fantastic factions in a quest for some form of world domination. In my brief experience with Civilisation I did the same, and very much enjoyed the single game I played in it. I can still remember the story beats of my Japanese empire, and the l...

Fucking good innit. Dark Souls 3 definitely fits the moniker of a "Best Of" collection, with a lot of returning mechanics, armours and weapons, and lots of callbacks in the environments and NPC interactions. But I'm an unabashed lover of fanservice, and 3 does it so god-damn well. And I've borrowed some screenshots from Videogamer. Cheers.   I created my character, a lady called Leona because she looks like a female Leon S. Kennedy. The character creator is basically Bloodborne's, though later experimentation with copying a character over (by screenshotting the sliders and copying them) shows that it isn't identical, which I found interesting. Even accounting for the fact that some sliders have been flipped right to left (a slider which went Wide/Thin might be Thin/Wide etc.), proportions aren't identical and the lighting engine is less flattering than it was in Bloodborne. The biggest, and obviously most important, issue with Dark Souls 3 is it's hair...

"This isn't Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII." Yeah, it aint. And here's a spoiler: Next week won't be either. And that's for 3 reasons: because LR:FFXII has gone all weird, because I'm currently playing Dark Souls 3 and will be for some time and I replayed Dark Souls mere hours before 3 unlocked on steam. And to elaborate on that first reason: I've managed to be so good at videogames that I've finished all the main quests in little more than 5 in-game days of the 13 it allocates, leaving me with nothing to do but power through as many side quests as possible before the end of time. And frankly, I'm more enticed by the concept of being brutally mutilated countless times by the beautiful mistress that is Dark Souls. Many still hold Dark Souls as the pinnacle of the series, even against the original Demon's Souls, and the recent Bloodborne. It was my entry point into the series, and unlike many before me who have taken many repeated trie...

Twilight Princess is the best Zelda game, and by extension, the HD version of Twilight Princess is the best Zelda game now. The End kids, now go to sleep. Oh, right, CONTENT . You're probably thinking that such a lofty claim comes from a place of nostalgia, in the same way pretty much any Zelda fan will believe in their heart, weather they're vocal about it or not, that the first Zelda game they played was the best Zelda game. Like how  Dr Who fans will always hold a soft spot for the first iteration of The Doctor they saw, "Their  Doctor". In that same vein, many Zelda fans hold Ocarina of Time as "Their Zelda", and hold it up on a pedestal as the gold standard for Zelda games. But my first Zelda game was Phantom Hourglass. I do love PH to death, and I can't think of a better entry point to the series for a 10 year old child, but it's way too child-friendly for me to consider it anything more than my own personal gem. I picked up Twilight Princess o...