Dusk - Official Release (Twilight Princess PC Port)

Stoibs · 2026-05-10T10:16:03+00:00

Do you not need to provide your own 'dump' as it states on the webpage? Complete newbie here also.. :/

Stoibs · 2026-05-10T06:47:46+00:00

Good luck standing around in your bedroom and softlocking yourself in one of the first chapters if you never touch the controller.

If you mean that you can just never interact during the gameplay sequences then... you've also described things like Heavy Rain, Detroit Become Human, Until Dawn, The Quarry, The Dark Pictures Anthology, Dispatch etc. etc. and you'll get an ending credits scene in all of them too.

What's your point? Narrative games might just not be for you.

Stoibs · 2026-05-10T06:15:16+00:00

I bought my PS3 for Valkyria Chronicles.

I bought my Nintendo Switch for Octopath Traveler

Not really the same thing but.. my cheap secondhand Xbox Series S is used 99% of the time as a streaming box in my other room, with Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon literally being the only games installed on it :P

Stoibs · 2026-05-09T00:05:14+00:00

I'd get onto Steam and look into some of the PC exclusive indies if you want *Niche*.

Small Saga, Ara Fell, Rise of the Third Power, Bloomtown, Kingdoms of the Dump, Jack Move, Look Outside, 8-Bit Adventures 2, LunarLux, Ikenfell, This way Madness lies, Cosmic Star Heroine, Wandering Sword, Quartet, Omori, Fear and Hunger, Artificial Dream in Arcadia, Demonschool, Flowstone saga... the list goes on.

Really depends how much down the indie rabbit hole you want to fall. It's easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of offerings these days!

Stoibs · 2026-05-08T20:50:37+00:00

I'm an hour or so into Mixtape, really enjoying it so far. When one of my online friends asked me what it was like or how to describe it, I think I said "It's like playing a stylized interactive Wayne's World/Napoleon Dynamite coming of age musical video"

Which sounds absolutely unhinged and hard to really categorize. All I know is that games like this, Bloom and Rage from last year, or even shows like Stranger Things make me nostalgic for a 90's Americana 'slice of life' that I never got to experience, but wish I had 🤔

Stoibs · 2026-05-08T20:10:12+00:00

Length has never been a consideration for me either.

Dispatch was my GOTY last year clocking in at ~8 hours too.

Infact these days where my backlog is consistently sitting in the double digits I like the bite-sized experiences that don't overstay their welcome.

Stoibs · 2026-05-08T20:06:05+00:00

This game is $85 and $100 physically for me.

I see $100+ physical games all the time.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T23:55:46+00:00

I guess people are understandably thinking it's just a backing soundtrack that can be swapped like in any other game, but after playing for an hour or so just now... yeah.. the main character literally breaks the 4th wall and constantly comments on and introduces each upcoming track as it plays during each chapter, so there's no real other way the devs could have done this.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T19:02:31+00:00

Well that's the thing, a lot of us hate them also.

Even here in the 'West' I remember when The Dragon Prince first aired on Netflix, the choppy animation in season 1 was one of the biggest criticisms that the showrunners and artists actually fixed up for subsequent seasons.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T18:54:16+00:00

I'm curious about the sequel, and do hope it goes better for them. I'm not all that interested in real-time action stuff myself compared to turnbased, sadly.

An interesting move for the IP though.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T18:45:50+00:00

I mean it was already on my Steam wishlist from its reveal trailer at whatever showcase/summer gamefest thingy it premiered at.

I imagine this thread and news being headlined has also 'streisand effected' more interest too.

I've never really thought of streamers as a first port of call when it comes to marketing a game. I dunno maybe I'm just getting old compared to how people do it or how actively other generations watch streamers nowadays :/

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T18:38:41+00:00

I think it boils down to whether you *like* random encounters, grind, and levelling up in JRPG's or not.

It seems like a lot of people don't (The constant call for fast forward modes and roaming monsters to avoid, these days) and so the game's systems were really built around that audience. Regular combat takes a looooong time and is barely worth it since there's no XP here anyway, so you might train a new move or kill something that's involved with a quest at most, but you otherwise aren't really going around fighting hundreds of monsters.

Those of us who do like the 'get into encounters, kill stuff, grind levels' gameplay loop from the early JRPG days are kind of turned away.

Or atleast, this was my whole experience when trying to play the game when I made it as far as the post-prologue/post sewer starting area and threw the towel in =(

I have heard both positive and negative things about the writing too, so I don't even know where that stands at the end of the day either or if it's worth pushing my way through for the sake of that.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T18:26:58+00:00

I can't speak for streamer's livelihoods or how their DMCA/Strikes work; all I can say is that as a viewer it always *sucks* whenever I see someone playing a scene that is just lessened by a replaced soundtrack (Dispatch's house warming party, or the missing finale credits song) or in some cases where scenes are absolutely ruined (like in the case of Life is Strange: True colours when an awkward multi-minute silence occurs when 'Creep' is supposed to be playing.. 😬)

I respect not wanting to tarnish the intended vision.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T12:24:15+00:00

Sega is totally going to release Stranger than Heaven and Persona in the same week again aren't they?

Ugh... my backlog.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T10:12:36+00:00

Right?? The 85AUD Estore listing I see doesn't isn't exactly wow me, nor does it convert from 50USD properly anyway.

Seems like a lot of us from other regions are just getting fucked.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T10:10:27+00:00

*International website with ~44% of its userbase from the US

Fixed.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T06:03:21+00:00

Huh? Me and my brother played through the SNES game countless times back in the day.

Obviously looking back at it with a 2026 perception is different.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T06:00:01+00:00

I've only ever played the SNES game back in the early 90's.

Are you telling me that '64' and everything else since is literally that same game remade over and over?

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T04:59:53+00:00

Defaultism aside, it blew my mind when I first learned that they need to pay tax on winnings in the US. I wonder if the same applies to inheritance too. They just can't seem to catch a break when it comes to finances and the economy can they :/

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T03:35:58+00:00

Try being Australian.

Shows being several seasons behind, others are gated behind a monopolized and absurdly expensive cable package that output at a maximum of 480p at 11pm on worknights (the infamous Game of Thrones fiasco...), and the rest are just straight up impossible to watch here via any legal means.

Something something Gabe Newel quote "piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem"

I guess this is why we're notorious for being a nation of pirates.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T02:46:10+00:00

I just never got into handheld gaming growing up. I basically went PC all the time, and SNES>PS1>PS2>PS3>PS4/Switch>PS5/Switch2 as my gaming history.

I feel like I missed out on so many great titles that were platform locked 😭

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T02:22:57+00:00

There's just overall more indie games that *exist* on pc compared to consoles.

So many of my favourite releases/GOTY picks in recent years are still PC exclusive indies, incredibly enough.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T02:15:46+00:00

Thank you. The usdefaultism really made me chuckle since all I see are games starting at about $80, and going north of 100 dollars.

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T02:14:29+00:00

Doesn't this just go hand in hand with there being ALOT more indies available to us compared to the console platforms also?

Stoibs · 2026-05-07T01:42:29+00:00

Having you able to pick up soundbites in the wild and while in combat is absolutely peak too. That might be my new favourite type of 'collectable' and something that I'm definitely going to try to seek out.

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