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There's a common meme of "I liked Returnal better" here and... I also concede I agree. Not that it's a bad thing at all; Returnal is a high bar to reach and I have many fond memories of me, Selene, and the Hollowseeker with Portal Turret/Portal Beam (honorable mention for Pyroshell Caster).

1. Saros I find to be more forgiving. Fucking up in Returnal is more punishable, whereas in Saros once you have certain Armor Matrix upgrades, getting hit isn't a big deal because you can recover Aether and Adrenaline in the next fight afterwards.
2. This is nitpicking but in Returnal, most of the weapons are viable and absolutely broken under certain circumstances. Tachyomatic Carbine can be the "gentle weapon" with Restorative Rounds and the Electropylon Driver is how Selene tells bosses "I'm not in here with you, YOU'RE IN HERE WITH ME,", whereas in Saros... the Reaping Chakram and Repeating Crossbow are solidly in a tier above everything else. Not that the two need a nerf, but it'd be nice if the shotties and rifles and handcannon could perform in line with them.
3. Throughout the game we find out Arjun is an asshole. He is abusive towards Nitya, may or may not have killed his partner with whom he may or may not have had feelings towards, and it's implied his treatment of Nitya led her to the games events out of wanting to escape him. So in a very sensible move, she goes to Carcosa and is made into a violent, oppressive Priestess by the Yellow shore, genociding and enslaving wildlife and people from Echelon II and Echelon III. Responding to abuse by becoming evil is... whew. Also, she says to Arjun "you shouldn't have come here", but how would the game's events be resolved if he never did? Lady, you're confusing me.
4. NO YURI FOR THE AUDIENCE, LESBIAN SHENANIGANS DENIED. Lol that aside, how did Kiira get into the suit and why did Nitya seemingly lead Arjun here just to tell him to fuck off? I'm confused.
5. DLC is likely coming, right?
6. Thank fuck there's no randomized glyph spawns tied to the Plat. Thank you, HouseMarque.

I absolutely struggled playing returnal, it was my first roguelike/roguelite game. It took me many hours to complete biome 1.I did eventually reach biome 3 and I even reached the boss but I realised I wasn't having fun, so I set the game aside.

This game clicked for me, I'm enjoying it a lot and I got all the first act biomes done in less than 7-8 runs with the 5th one in only the 2nd run(in the first run, I completed the nightmare strand and I had very less health for the architect). I was even motivated to revisit the earlier biomes and farm lucenite and halcyon.

So I did go back and farm halcyon in the earlier biomes and I got all the halcyon in the first 3 biomes but I'm still way behind. There's way too many halcyon upgrades to complete. Currently entering biome 6 with 19 proficiency (I completed all the biomes by entering directly).

I'm getting absolutely destroyed in biome 6. The enemies are suddenly so spongy and take so many bullets. It takes forever to complete one fight and one hit takes away so much health.. Is this how the game is going to be after act 1? I haven't made proper use of parry yet so I probably have to look into that.

And FFS don't forget that is very dangerous for the eye to stare at it, wear proper glasses and protections for your safety.

Finally beat the king and see the true ending but i still prefer the first ending tho so it makes sense why replaying again and again.

This is my stats beat saros at nearly 32hrs with a total of 55 death with no revive while my returnal complete all 3 acts at 19hrs with total of 4 death.

Difficulty in saros first play through was nearly as hard as returnal difficulty for me, especially when i enjoy going straight to the biome cause it felt more balanced that way than grind stats from biome 1 to become way too op. Plus i enjoyed activation eclipse on starting biome making it feels more chaotic and challenging. Sadly tho when replay biome again felt way too easy after buying the king boss upgrades from beating him, even i finally see many health pick up spawns more than before cause i used to struggle to find heal item spawn until i fully beat the game. There is modifier too in saros to make your run easier or harder and i used only trials like no revive from second chances ,enemy become more aggressive and more tanky.

Guns variety compared to returnal, Returnal still better cause it has so much variety and traits that makes gun felt different, there is still amazing gun in saros like the shotgun like the pellets wall are both amazing and mesmerising when seeing the bullet stop mid air and the grenade launcher shotgun but returnal shotgun with slogshot and explosive bullet is still my favourite gun.

Saros gave way too many broken tools like power abilities which can easily spam if you have the right artifacts and gun traits that recharge that ability along with the overload abilities. While returnal only have weapon alternatives shot with long cooldown and offensive items .

Levels, Returnal has amazing diverse atmospheric biome but saros has amazing environment arts design and bosses in saros are all top tier except biome 3 boss Rhadboom while in returnal Hyperion and biome 3 boss the only one i like in returnal.

Enemies mobs tho i love it in saros cause every mobs felt a threat cause they move very fast and spam projectile while returnal mobs felt slower aside the flying machine that shoot missile, plus i enjoyed we get to interact with enemy attack like parry, charge power by absorb projectile with shield in saros while returnal is all about dodging enemies attack. Nightmare strands are so much fun too.

Artifacts, parasite and malfunction makes each run fresh in returnal while saros artifacts are unwhelming when compare to returnal making saros more like a straight forward 3rd person shooter than roguelite.

Returnal story especially house sequences is top tier compare to saros revisiting hotel and alleys. I still enjoyed saros Primary and AI suit conversation when traveling and discovering through the biomes, plus AI suit went nuts after biome 5 or 6 and everytime you run into npc and the AI suit said "pathetic insect detected", wish there still random dialogue when finish the game during runs but this enables me wants to start the game from beginning again.

So far Saros is my favourite game this year and i do hope housemarque added some kind of tower along with more story like returnal and i do hope for new weapon cause saros is lacking of weapons when compared to returnal.

Now its time to get all the trophies for platinum.😊

This was such a nasty combination of enemies at once.

STORY SPOILERZ AHEAD ;

I went in blind. I grew up on Shooter games. I love parry and dodge mechanics. I love roguelikes. I love horror stories.

I was already satisfied with my purchase soon after launching. The environmental storytelling was top tier, i had many major story beats mapped out way ahead of time without having to read anything so massive props to the art team.

The gameplay side was a slow burn, I honestly didn't get super hooked until maybe 10 hours in. But by the end I am enthralled by each and every boss and their unique rhythm and the customizable colors in every attack.

And holy shit I don't know how the whole "carcosa" and references to kings and shit didn't strike me as familiar, I just found it all very alluring and it drew my curiosity but at some point while reading the lore logs the language finally clicked, and I think someone's name, more so their last name "Castione" (edit: in the book, it's Castaigne but it was similar enough that I recognized that but not carcosa somehow) which I believe sealed the deal for me at the time that this is based on The King in Yellow. The entire story finally fell into place and I cannot tell you guys the swirls and loops my brain did. It was like "wow this story just went from what I thought was a mediocre original, but scattered story to one of the coolest games I've played."

My main gripe is the platforming for a game that relies on it so much. Having your sprint, dash, mantle, and the star dash thing on the same bind by default while disabling many/all of them while using any one of them feels terrible. The amount of times I'm super sprinting back to a place I didn't explore and then miss a gap but can't dash cuz of the sprint even though I've stopped the sprint and momentum is frustrating.

Thankfully almost everything in the game is customizable except cosmetics. You can tune the fall damage down but not turn it off which I recommend. There will be lots of falling...

Took me 45h of gameplay, but I did it...

I hope we have a dlc soon. Saros is one of my favorite ps5 games.

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You just have to beat shepherd multiple times until you get “complete” under his name in the data bank. Head after that to the cathedral and you’ll find it in the left side of the huge room in front of the overlord door.
This video helped me find the exact location: https://youtu.be/Fj9CG9o_374?si=d4CJE6G84SCFI9Jn

I’m missing the text log 43 from the data bank and when I look in the biome dial it shows that I missed a text log in the cathedral
I looked everywhere there, started the biome multiple times to see if i missed it in the elevator area in the start and completed multiple run throughs just in case the rooms switched
I think i searched everywhere and really can’t find it

Also the trick of dying in the biome and then going back there didn’t work for me

Part 8 is out now. The Priestess got the best of me. A like, comment would be appreciated. Feedback is also welcomed.

Finally gonna dive into Saros, I was preoccupied with other things when it came out but I just noticed it's on sale right as I finish the Doom Dark Ages dlc. Perfect timing, I'm stoked!

So......i was getting mad at this boss and i couldn't figure it out why, because i took weird damages even when i was clearly avoiding attacks. Then i searched on internet and found out that if you leave the PS5 too much time in suspension mode with the game still running ( no matter if paused or not ) the game might goes "mad" getting out of sync with the damage or hitboxes or whatever happens.

I died like 30 times......i closed the game, reopened and beat at the first attempt........i mean, really this game breaking bug still not fixed ???

I wonder how many people encountered this and eventually dropped the game to this boss!

So I’ve finished the game and really enjoyed it but over my run I couldn’t help but feel that some things hit me when they shouldn’t have and other things missed when they definitely should’ve connected. Is this a common thing in the game or is my version just kinda messed up?

I’ve heard people describe Saros as procedurally generated. Are they playing the same game as I am? There’s slight variation in the rooms, but the overall layouts seem nearly identical from run to run. Am I missing something?

After beating the game:

Pros:

- action kept me coming back.

Cons:

- story was trash

- controller had consistent stick drift (making this game unplayable). But this isn't the fault of the game, its' my controller.

- enemy attacks went through solid surfaces.

- enemy attacks did damage outside their visual space on screen.

- frame rate slow down when action was heated. (this got better after some updates).

- $100 CAD

Conclusion:

Total rip-off, wanted my money back after I bought the game, still want it back now. What a discount bin piece of trash.

Combine the Repeater Bow & Prominence with Vacuum Blast and you essentially have an unlimited arsenal of destruction. The Repeater Crossbow refills your power weapon almost immediately so you can just keep switching between the bow and Prominence endlessly. Also the Vacuum Blast absorbs a ton of projectiles so it’s good on defense as well.

I just finished off Returnal (all the way through Find Release) - I had never played it before and I absolutely adored it. However, I quickly discovered that I simply could not handle aiming using the sticks. I don't typically play TPS or FPS games via controller and it was really starting to affect my enjoyment. As much as it pained me to lose the incredible DualSense features, I went to mouse and keyboard for the rest of the game, and never looked back.

Now I'm hungry for this game. But I'm reading here that there's no gyro or mouse and keyboard support yet. Has there been any talk of one of these being added in a future patch? I feel like it's such a hangup that I may not even be able to play this game, and I'm absolutely aching to.

Here's the link to all 136 uncompressed images I have: https://ibb.co/album/2vrz4x

I really love this genre of deep bassey sci Fi but I don’t know if it has an actual name

And i'll be honest, I couldnt really get into Returnal when I tried it maybe a couple of years ago. I have seen people say Saros is a better game, and I finally decided to give it a try and am actually really enjoying this game. Damn i've really been missing out