Kai Commission (Patreon)

Well the Dynasty Warriors (or in this case, Samurai Warriors) series has certainly been giving me some business lately. I confess that Hyrule Warriors was the first game in the series that I finished. (Because I love Zelda so much I would by a soccer game under that logo.) I always dismissed the Warriors series as "mindless" personally. As I never saw the point of a fighting game where you could be surrounded by a hundred enemies but they all seem reluctant to attack you and you could destroy them all in two seconds with one amazingly overpowered combo. But with HW, I think I got a feel for what the series was really about. It's not about challenging combat, it's about time management, strategy, and deciding what fires to put out when. This, in conjunction with the sexy character designs on the girls makes me feel like I should give the next DW entry a shot.

But lately I've been throwing myself at two nigh-impossible games: Castlevania 3 on the NES, and Bloodborne on the PS4. On Castlevania I'm stuck on the level where the "nothing" chases you vertically up the stage and then you have to fight your clone, he whups my ass every time. And on Bloodborne I'm stuck at the Shadows of Yarnham fight, which is basically three cheap-shotting assholes who attack you all at once. I've got half a mind to go back and pick up some Kirby game I missed, just to remind myself what it feels like to win. ><