Patient Gamers

I beat Evil West and Heartless & Dreadful this week. Fun games I will revisit for sure, especially Evil West. What a blast. Most fun I've ever had bashing through hordes of vampires/monsters.

That said, both had moments I'd take out if I could. Evil West had these mundane puzzle segments that just filled time in between enemy encounters, and, similarly, Heartless & Dreadful had tedious platforming segments I didn't enjoy.

Combat is king though, and combat was good in Heartless & Dreadful and awesome in Evil West.

I hope we get Evil West 2 at some point.

Currently playing through El Shaddai and it's pretty fun. I love the no HUD commitment. Your health bar is basically your armor: the more you get hit, the more pieces you lose. Same as your enemies.

You also could knock enemies down and steal their weapons, which weakens them greatly and forces you to cycle through weapons during combat encounters, which I like a lot.

I'm hoping to finish it on the weekend and start Lost Judgment afterwards, which I'm worried I may not fully enjoy.

I bought it because of the combat footage and praise for the combat system I've been seeing everywhere, but I have no interest in stealth missions, open world quests, dialogue trees or anything RPG, so IDK if combat will be enough for me to beat it and I may refund if I feel I know for sure I won't like it within the refund window.