Topic: 🍁 PUSH SQUARE GAME CLUB 🍁 | November | The Plucky Squire ⚔️

Lovely afternoon, friendos everywhere. ^^
I have started CoL and as I expected to happen on my revisit of this lovely adventure, I’m absolutely in love with this presentation and dialogue. It is peak adorable. The novelty of a game being spoken entirely in rhymes is one that still speaks to me, pun intended. ^^

As a small disclaimer, screenshots past a certain point in the story will not be shared. You’ll know it when you get there. For now enjoy these lovely Early looks at the game. xD

I was going to try Star Ocean 5 before it leaves PS extra but I don't think I'll have enough time so I might re-play this instead as I've been getting a bit of an RPG itch the past few days.

@HallowMoonshadow that’s unfortunate to hear it’s leaving the service soon. I haven’t gotten it, but I have 6 and was hooked on that thanks to the demo.

Well guys hopefully you’re enjoying Child of Light.
I’m curious if anyone reach that one scene and how they feel. It was a huge moment for me.
I hope you’re not getting lost. That happened to me a lot on my previous two playthroughs.
Don’t worry too much about how you upgrade your characters. You won’t be punished too much for it.

I hadn't played Child of Light since last weekend as I've been busy with BioShock 2. But now I've been playing too much BioShock, so I figured I needed a break from that game and played some more Child of Light today. I'm still enjoying the game, but I do find the amount of party members a bit unnecessary as the game is really short for an RPG. So there's no need for this many members. I think the first three (including the protagonist) are enough.

I'm also glad that I'm playing on Casual as I don't really feel like being challenged with this game. It's basically something I want to play whenever I just want to relax.

Started CoL but just barely scratched the surface for a few minutes before I had to run to a real world commitment. I liked the art style and the fairy tale feeling. I’m not sure about the rhyming — it does make the dialogue and narration confusing sometimes. In their effort to find a rhyme it makes the statement less clear. But I’m sure I’ll get used to it.

@Th3solution Thanks pal, doing ok. Taking some time to touch some grass as the kids say 👍 take care

@Bob_Salat Awesome, my friend. Touch grass before is gone because “touch snow” doesn’t sound nearly as therapeutic. 😄

I've not made much progress with Child Of Light due to finally having to go back to work (I'm absolutely knackered).

I've got to the well which I believe is Chapter 4?

The fact that Aurora's model is 3D compared to everyone else being 2D is kinda taking me out a little compared to when I played it all those years ago (2017 says my trophies!).

Gotta be honest I'm not quite as charmed with it as I was before either. Honestly I'm not quite sure if I'll carry on with it... I'll see how I feel come the weekend.

So I just finished Child of Light and I thought it was a fantastic experience! It definitely scratched the RPG itch I had, but it left me wanting to play a much longer RPG now.

I thought the turn-based gameplay was really fun but like I mentioned earlier, there were too many party members and some of them felt redundant in terms of what they bring to the table. I also have to say that the game's difficulty curve was just about right. I think it was during chapter 6 or 7 when I encountered a fairly challenging boss fight, but after that I got a new party member who was an absolute beast and helped me defeat most bosses with ease (the game's rhyming is starting to rub off on me lol). So fortunately, the game never became too difficult for me.

The game didn't feel too long either. I think it took me 12 hours or so to finish it. Also, there were so many different environments in the game and it made it truly feel like you were on an adventure across the entire realm.

The music was absolutely exceptional. I especially loved the boss fight music:

Some really epic stuff!

All in all, great game and I'm really glad to have finally experienced it. It's too bad they never made a sequel though.

@LtSarge goddamn, was just about to post a few things I was typing out in a doc, one of ‘em was a response to your earlier CoL comment (that I agreed with), the other was in regards to people’s interests to the new extra additions, but I’ll leave that for later a bit to drop a quick word saying congrats!! I’d say this was fast, but the game is short and glad you liked it. It’s definitely a game I’m sad never got a sequel.

@Yousef- Thanks mate! I don't think it was that fast though considering it almost took me two weeks to finish it. But I did play other games, like BioShock 2 during a chunk of that time, which is why it took me longer. I probably could've finished it last week if I wanted to.

It's funny, because I've noticed that I now play games after I come home from work more than before. I remember a period when I didn't want to play anything until the weekend because I was just so tired from work. I've come home each day this week and immediately starting up Child of Light because I wanted something relaxing to play. It makes me think back to university when I would come home from a lecture and immediately play some Persona 4 Golden. I think it's great that I'm experiencing a stronger urge to play video games now.

@LtSarge I’m currently in that former stage, but hope I’ll eventually get the latter where I find the energy to play more. Since I’m in a def awkward position where I have the desire, but not the energy.

@Th3solution Ah yes indeed, the grass is currently rather soggy in the north of England 😂

So I was gonna make a bigger post here but since third Sunday isn’t really that far and there’s nothing really stopping me from sneaking a quick small in-between post here goes. I I’ll be adding The Plucky Squire to the game club list. It’s a fairly popular games and it releases on the 17th of September so we can actually play it pretty soon. Far Cry 5 was on my mind too, but it’s not a game I know much about. Is it another long Ubisoft open world game? If so it might be an unorthodox addition so I won’t bold it. But curious how others feel and what games they’d like to add. The list was posted in an article two days ago. I was gonna save this for the ping but I was already gonna mention this more than once so yeah.

First time in the club and late to the party but I'll join and download Child of Light

@Khwarezm89 hello and welcome my friend. Great to have you onboard. Would you like to be added to the ping list? It’ll make it easier for you to know what’s going and what’s being played.
Enjoy Child of Light!

@Yousef- Both of those seem like reasonable additions. We don’t know how well received APS will be, but people seem high on it. Far Cry is a franchise I’ve just never gotten into, but people seem to like them. My understanding is they seem to be classic Ubi open world collectathons but with the first person shooter approach. They keep churning them out so they must be well liked. I had a discussion with someone on here once about the best jumping in point for a series newcomer and I seem to recall that there isn’t really any prerequisites to enjoying any of the games as they each essentially stand alone. If memory serves, I think someone said FC5 was a pretty good onboarding game in the series. HLTB shows it to be around a 30 hr commitment to do the mid-tier “main + extra” playthrough, which is the barometer I typically use to guesstimate game length (although inevitably my personal play time is longer).

What caught my eye was Night in the Woods which is a game I’ve oft times considered buying and it was announced as a new PS+ Extra game. I’d nominate that for next month.

@Yousef- that would be great. Thank you

@Th3solution suggestions added. Thanks a lot. 👍
Should I count the night in the woods as a vote as well?

@Khwarezm89 Added to the ping list, welcome to the club! 👍