¡Recently, Abandoned; Games!

Frame of Mind (Steam)

The concept is right up my alley, a surreal black and white first-person puzzle game that violates real world rules of space and logic, so you have to adapt to a completely different logic. Or so I hear, because the lack of an invert look option makes it unplayable to me. Is there something about Unity that makes this hard? It's at least the third Unity project thingy I've tried without that option. You can't make a game without that option. You just can't.

Anyway, it's actually a free game, so if it sounds interesting, go to Steam and get it.

So you're up for the challenge of adapting to new laws of physics but you can't handle an inverted Y axis?

RadicalRex Is it Slave of God?

Yes! Thank you! It is so awesome.

Recently abandoned: Daemon X Machina (the current free game on EGS)

A manga-style mech game in the vein of Armored Core (which I haven't played so can't make any comparisons). I really like the visual style, the upbeat music in the hub, and I thought the character creator was great too. Sadly, gameplay seems to be really bare bones, with what feels like the same "circle-strafe-fly around and hold the trigger while the auto aim destroys random objects in the distance" over and over again in 2-minute missions. I've only finished 7 or 8 missions, but I looked up a review and it said that's a persistent issue over the entire game, and probably its downfall.

What makes it worse is dialogue and cutscenes. Like, in a single 2-minute mission I get an intro cutscene, an outro cutscene, a mid-level cutscene and several interruptions of text dialogue. And all of it is just endless, stupid, empty blather. At least let me just blow up stuff dammit! Now thankfully you can skip all of that via start button, however what you can't skip is them blathering BS all the fucking time during gameplay. Please let me just shoot stuff, without asinine dialogue by asinine characters all the time. All the time they spent writing all that would have been much better used for creating a little more varied gameplay.

Is this a common thing among more recent Japanese games? It's the third one I've played after Gunvolt and Mighty No. 9 where people are constantly talking meaningless shit while you're playing. I don't care SHUT THE FUCK UP! It's really grating in this game, without it I'd have tried longer to see if gameplay gets more interesting, but it's so annoying I just gave up on it.

The Norwood Suite?

I'm not assuming you are thinking of anything by Blendo Games, are you?

Yes, that's it, thanks! I had visions of Tales From Off-Peak City but clearly The Norwood Suite was the title that was tugging at my memory because it exactly fits the pattern of "The [something] [socializing place]".

Just abandoned Eastward (Switch) it's a lovely looking game with a good soundtrack but I found myself just getting bored. I'm near the end (in the penultimate dungeon I think) but I just want it to be over. The dungeon I'm in is massive apparently and I'm at the point where some of the time based puzzles were talking me 4 or 5 goes to get right which is really frustrating so into the abandoned pile it goes.

Think I'm done with Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Me and a friend had been playing through the levelling quests, just a few hours once a week.

But we've reached the Shadow of Revan expansion and it's basically all personal single player phases, which has basically ruined it for us. There are other, much better single player games I can spend time playing.

Zippy well, I completed CoJ: Gunslinger and enjoyed it. Though some duels were annoying, but overall I liked the setting and atmosphere. My nostalgia might have played a role in that as I loved western movies a s a kid. I am of the opinion that the floaty controls in duels were there on purpose. You know, how duels are hard in real life too. 
As a side-note the game was free on Steam a while ago.

2nd game is also great, have the third but never tried. I know it got slated, but I wanted a Cartel/BB style game!
As for Gunslinger, never finished but seem to remember I enjoyed my time with it.

Persona 4 Golden is close to being dropped. I loved it until the first boss which I’ve read the guide.. I’ve done exactly what was asked. Now I either go back a week for the second time to try and beef myself up or I just drop it. Having a bastard hard boss at the start when they don’t prep you for the boss is pretty unfair.

Persona 5 Royal:

While I love the setting and story, the gameplay balance is all over the place. I do not want to up the difficulty to max just so I dont one shot stuff and sleep through bosses. Max difficulty really should not influence xp and money gained..

Basicly, whenever I gain anything to help me out in combat all I do is ignore it. Fact I can spent money on summoning a 99 demon due to accidently clicking on a box and getting dlc persona's further trivalizes everything. I am aroind the 55 hour mark and knowing I am not even half way there has burned me out.

Is the prototype thing real? I thought they made BotW to be the complete opposite of SS because people didn't like it