Reicher07

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[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

My games that I played on Steam in 2025.
Like last year I'm going to pick my favourite 5 games from what I first played this year, listed in playtime order (no bearing on quality):

1. Umamusume: Pretty Derby
2. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
3. Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
4. Tunic
5. Beyond Citadel

One common theme of all of these games is that they were all sleeper hits for me and pretty much surpassed my expectations (I played E33 on release before it mega blew up).

So to address the domineering game in the room.
Umamusume is a very easy game to leave running in the background and I don't have a problem ok? We clear? Joking aside the game is very fun, but a good 1/3 - 1/2 of the playtime probably is the game running idle while I'm at work.

Some honourable mentions of the lesser known games would be:
- Crow Country
- Alisa
- Labyrinth of the Demon King
All small scale indie horror games that I enjoyed a lot and more people should try out.

Devil May Cry and Atelier Rorona are games I played years ago, just not on steam. Fantastic games obviously, but not the first time I played them so they don't count here.

Rogue Trader and Star Ocean 2 are a couple of games I need to get back to. Both were pretty great, but I ended up getting distracted from them, so I never finished either. Now both are sat in the infinite backlog.

To close out, looking back on these games, they're all pretty damn good to be honest. A grand majority of these games are worth looking at if any look interesting at a glance.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

Shit man. This is sad to hear. His videos with CGB and Rarran were great.

Condolences to all his family and friends.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Popular Yu-Gi-Oh! content creator Alex 'Cimo' Cimo has died aged 32 following a battle with stage 4 colon cancer

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

Getting annoyed with all Onimusha discourse being boiled down to only Issen's. The games are more than 1 (one) singular combat mechanic.

[Stormslayer -HD Remasters/Gamedev @StormslayerDev]

Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
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It's patched and updated for modern PCs, Steam Deck Compatible!

⍟ Dedicated launcher to start the game and change the config

⍟ HD resolutions

⍟ XInput support to allow the original PS2 button mapping

ENJOY!

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Thatisdiffi It's Onimusha 3 for me, but you can't go wrong with any of the first 3 games. They all have cool aspects which makes them stand out from one another.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

>think it might be the developers trying to have their cake and eat it too.
I was literally thinking of whether I should've made that remark or not.

I think they've hamstrung themselves by making the combat too sluggish and cinematic, that even if the enemies become more aggressive, parry spam will probably still be overpowered.
It's still probably going to be a good game, but it does come across as Capcom didn't really have a solid idea on what to do with the game during development.

Funnily enough one of the reasons why I never finished Onimusha 4 as a kid is because even then I didn't like the emphasis on combat. I preferred Onimusha to be samurai Resident Evil rather than samurai DMC/Beat-em up.
Though I should give the game a replay since it's been like 20 years since I last played it.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Sargon_of_Akkad @ZoomerHistorian >gives opposition leverage to pretend its a huge problem

How? Genuinely? The opposition is going to say "muh poor Sikh's?" Just like they say "muh poor Muslims?"

This is you covering for Tommy Robinson's ideology.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

Can we stop turning old adventure games into pure action games?

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@MarsSuccessor The real shame is Onimusha was never a pure action game. They were closer to adventure games with solid but basic combat.
This game feels like a bastardised Nioh more than anything to me.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Sargon_of_Akkad @ZoomerHistorian Except they will lie to your face and happily cover for each other's wrongdoings?
Just because they're a small community, doesn't mean they're now immune to their massive in-group preference.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

Played through the Onimusha Way of the Sword demo.

Honestly I'm incredibly disappointed. This game feels like if you took Nioh and turned into a "Modern Game™". It doesn't feel like what Onimusha is or "was" at all.

1st clip is general wandering
2nd clip is a group fight
3rd clip is the demo boss
4th clip is an older clip I had of Onimusha 1.

The game itself is *fine* but feels incredibly stale to me. Why "revive" a game to completely change it? Especially when Onimusha wasn't exactly the biggest name out there.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

It is cool that Fate at least does reference the name Caliburn. Though it being 2 separate swords is a shame if they wanted to be "accurate" to the myth. It does get annoying when people reference fate's interpretation as the myth itself.

The only thing I can think it could be is in the VN Shirou makes a sword while thinking of Saber, and I think that was a weaker version of Excalibur, which could be fate's idea of Caliburn? But again it's been too long since I read it.

I never bothered with FGO or anything beyond the VN. I liked the ending of the routes, and was happy to let it sit there.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

I'm not 100% sure how much they distinguish it, as I don't remember the name Caliburn popping up in the VN, but I read the VN over a decade ago so my memory is fuzzy on that.

But it's not hard to see that people may get confused when in the actual legend it's the same sword.

I'm all for gate keeping but I think that's a poor example and more used as a "gotcha" type of thing.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Ra2byou It's strange reading this thread when Caliburn and Excalibur in actual Arthurian legend is the exact same sword. Same sword, two different names.

I don't remember the name Caliburn being mentioned in the VN, but it's been a decade since I last read it.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Pirat_Nation I'm not buying a game about a black guy in Scotland.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Sargon_of_Akkad This is only going to end in violence. I don't think we'll peacefully make it to 2029 at this point.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Keir_Starmer You, and the rest of the political cretins need to lose everything. All your assets, money, power, time, freedom, everything needs to be taken away for the shit you people have done to this once glorious country.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@SuellaBraverman Your government helped create this situation to begin with. Get fucked. Your time is over.

[Reicher07 @ClockworkStatue]

@Lewis_Brackpool Not just for those officers directly involved.

The entire system needs dragging out to light. Everyone who permeated this ideology, which let a young lad drown in his own blood, needs to face full consequences.

Henry was only left to die because he had white skin.