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Scared to go back to Sekiro right now, so I started looking at my backlog ( while I decide if I should grab origins on the low low), and remembered I picked up dmc: devil May cry by ninja theory ages ago for less than ten canuckistani kopeks! I’m not a graphics whore, and the game looks great, but I think between Spider-Man, Sekiro, forza horizon 4 and rdr2, the remastered last gen game is starting to show its age a bit. That minor, first world gripe aside, the game is great, very tight and intuitive controls, great sound and music, great, creepily lit interactive levels reminiscent of John Carpenter’s They Live (in purgatory, there are hidden subliminal messages under the store signs), and best of all...

an ANXIETY FREE skill progression system that lets you allocate points, remove them if you decide you don’t like your choice, and re allocate them elsewhere! You can even test the move out before heading back into the game! Every action rpg game should have this system, part of my stalling with a play through of the Witcher 3 and starting with fallout 4 is being overwhelmed with irreversible skill tree choices and regretting picking one over the other with my hard earned points. Awesome system, kudos to ninja theory!

Just finished the first level, Fun boss fight, and the new take on the devil may cry combat system is a lot of fun! Can’t believe the hate this title garnered on release.

Spoken like a TRUE wrestling game fan... ;)

Judging from the background I'd say domestic bliss.

I've got World War Z halfway downloaded, gonna leave it downloading over night and I am now off shift until Monday night, so can just leave the PS4 downloading until it's done.

Got a little time invested in World War Z, which follows the movie and not the book if anyone was wondering. It's basically a third person Left 4 Dead. So if you're a fan of Left 4 Dead you're in luck. Fortunately I love the Left 4 Dead games and will be getting the upcoming Back 4 Blood successor when it comes out.

But in the meantime, especially if you're a console player who never got to experience any of the Left 4 Dead games, you can finally have a Left 4 Dead like experience. Like Left 4 Dead, while you can play with bots, it's definitely a game meant to be played with other people. One thing my brothers and I used to do and sometimes still do is play through the Left 4 Dead games on the insane hardest difficulty, usually knowing we weren't going to survive most of the time, but just to see how far we could get or if any of us would make it to the end of the level. The game is one of those games that is still fun even if you don't survive because you always have great stories to tell and once in a while you will be that one guy who makes it out alive.

It has a lot of the same beats the Left 4 Dead games have from spawning hordes, chokepoint defense portions in levels and the typical gather a certain amount of an item to bring to an area or fix a piece of machinery to escape.
Even a lot of the special zombie types are ripped right from the Left 4 Dead special types. The swarm mechanics are pretty neat to see, where hundreds of zombies basically create human pyramids as they scramble over each other to get up walls to get at you, and you'll often be hit from multiple directions at once keeping the tension levels high.

Controls feel a bit wonky at first and you have to get used to the shooting mechanics, especially coming from Left 4 Dead where you used a mouse and a keyboard for hyper accuracy, running and gunning in this game should only be used in desperate times like when you're making that final run to the finish. Otherwise it's good to hunker down and clear out a horde before moving on. Especially with limited ammo and you want to waste as little as possible between ammo cache's.

What it doesn't have from Left 4 Dead is being able to continue to shoot your pistols when you go down and are waiting to be revived. Kinda missed that because sometimes you're down a while waiting to be picked up and in Left 4 Dead you can still fend off the hordes with your pistols.

However what WWZ has that Left 4 Dead doesn't is character classes all with their own progression trees of unlockable skills unique to each of the class types which definitely adds to the replayability of game. Also a much larger assortment of weapons complete with customization options to really help you style up your character with a customized build.

The zombies themselves are more like the infected in Left 4 Dead in that you don't need to shoot them in the head to the kill them. You can hit them anywhere and they will die and they are also fast and pretty super human like the infected instead of Resident Evil styled shambling zombies. But overall it does capture that same level of tension as Left 4 Dead does which is really what I was looking for. Once I get used to the game and all the levels it will definitely be one I try on the hardest difficulty just to see how far I can get.

I've mostly heard people liking the style and the story of it. I am going to get it on switch at some point.