Thread 720047381

Hell is Us thread.
Only saw 1 thread so far, sluggish one that died long before reaching bump limit.
Is no one playing this game or did you all finish already?

Too busy finishing in ur mom

>>720047381 (OP)
>Hell is (You)

>>720047486
Fucking necrophiles.

I already finished it in like 3 sittings. Game's pretty good. I liked that it doesn't shy away from edgy shit. I can't remember another game that shows you the corpse of a raped mother next to her murdered kid.

>>720047929
They didn't really shy away from this kind of imagery.
The hanged boy whose bloodied bear toy you have to bring to his father.
Or the little girl with half of her arm chopped off for being born in 'enemy' family.
Quite brutal.

Whats the 4 that got added to my glyph skills?
I got it randomly? during/after the Watcher's nest portion.
I thought it was the skill to search for timeloop enemies they mention but i think thats a consumable item i put in my loadout with the other consumables?
Anyhow, im down to the lymbic forge and close to drop the game, its not that interesting and the puzzles so far have been toddler tier.
Link to the comic since i think a lot of anons haven't read it
https://www.nacongaming.com/media/wysiwyg/product_page/HellisUS/Hell_is_us_comic_book.pdf

>>720047381 (OP)
There's not much to talk about.
Lore is relatively straightforward besides some vague stuff about the origin of the whole demon shit.
Puzzles you either get or look up in a guide otherwise anons will sneer at you for being brainlet.

>>720048874
>Whats the 4 that got added to my glyph skills?
That's the active relic skill - you have 2 relic slots one passive one active, besides the defense gear.
Time loop guardian compass is reusable item you equip together with consumables.

>>720047381 (OP)
Shill it to me, anon. I've heard it's a Souls-like, but that's about it.

>>720049049
Oh yeah that makes sense, i got my first active relic on the nest too.
Thank you anon.

>>720049301
Combat is slightly souls like as in stamina bar, dangeours enemies and attacks requiring you to commit.
There it ends any similarity with a souls like.
Its an exploration puzzle-lite game with burst of fairly mediocre action, im playing in the hardest difficulty and the combat is just ok, i die more often to the fucking lock on mechanic than to the enemies.
However the vibe of the game is immaculate, you are traversing a country ravaged by a civil war and a plague of "creatures" and get to witness some really horrific shit. War crimes as far as the eye can see.

>>720049490
I see, I see. I'll give it a look when I have the time (and money)

>>720049301
Combat is vaguely souls like but anons said it's closer to 1st Nier.
There are some mechanics used from Bloodborne and Nioh too.
The main draw is exploration not combat so if you want game with good combat try looking elsewhere.
You probably got the basic setting:
You're a guy born in a isolationist vaguely eastern european country and your mother managed to smuggle you out when you were a child.
Now you're back, the civil war is in full swing and also there are fucking demons killing everyone indiscriminately if you piss them off.
Your initial goal is to reach your home town and find your parents but that changes relatively quickly and you get mixed in a lot of bad shit.

>>720047381 (OP)
i wish the player character would react to stuff the player finds out
but i guess that's not in the budget for AA games

The vast majority of puzzles should be solvable entirely within the area theyre located in. Im fine with a few that require traveling between areas but this constant back and forth between areas sucks and not knowing if I cant solve a puzzle because im a fucking idiot or if theres a piece of paper in the next area that just gives me a solution is frustrating.

>>720049301
mix of souls-ish combat (janky, lacking consequences for dying) adventure game (lot of talking to people, bringing them stuff and solving shit for them) puzzles (not too hard but requiring attention and reading comprehension) and collecting stuff (mostly battle gear but also lot of lore items)

>>720047381 (OP)
>Only saw 1 thread so far,
1 thread for every type of enemy in the game lmao

>>720050116
So 18?

>>720049607
>>720050057
Could you give me an example of the average puzzle?

>>720050049
They aren't?
Most of the 'can only be solved later' stuff are just chest keys and adventure parts where you bring items to NPCs.
Bigger puzzles like Watcher's nest or Jeljin cemetery can be solved in the same area without traveling or talking to anyone outside.

>>720050295
You get 3 photographs of a young couple
One of them together pregnant with a racing car in the background
One with the wife and the toddler now born playing with a toy car
One with the toddler now a young kid playing on a cardboard car
You line them up in wall and can see that the first 2 pictures feature cars with numbers on them so if you set them up correctly you have 4 out of the 6 needed numbers.
The third one the photo doesnt show any number on the cardboard car the kid is playing in but you can go to the basement of that house and find the car itself and see that it has an sticker with a number on it on the front.
So now you have the 6 numbers (2 in each pick) just need to set them up in the proper order which happens to be just chronologically
Thats one of the better puzzles i have found in the game and thats faint praise.

>>720047381 (OP)
Now that I've seen gameplay. It looks fun. Might play it.
I love AA jank games.
>only $50
EVEN BETTER

>>720050295
>Meet random woman who's a sex slave
>Listen to her story, mentions she was a teacher and names three or so students of hers
>Two hours later you find a random class photo
>Gift it to the woman, quest finished
Basically, you need to listen and memorize every line of dialogue and text and have a hawk's eye or you are fucked

>>720047381 (OP)
QRD on what is this game about?

>>720050794
civil war on Yugoslavia but the wanton violence and hate and shit spawns evangelion angels to kill people
>we were the monsters all along
>hell is us
bravo kojimbo

>>720050295
>average
Anon...
I'll try to list a couple without spoilering too muchs.
>you get a bunch of post-it notes with stuff like N-1, P-3, A-7 on them and a note from conspiracy theorist guy about 'forbidden info' in password locked library computer, note contains hint about solving the post-it 'codes'
>there's a coffin with some legendary warrior guy and a shitload of 'keyholes', you get 4 'keys' and several articles from bunch of previous archeologists with hints + info from the tomb murals
>there's a big tomb with 4 locks with 3 'characters' on each, then there's 4 small tombs with bunch of statues you can turn and a short story on door of each one of them serving as hint to open the tomb, so you can find another hints
>there's several puzzles where you have to arrange certain pictograms according to stories you read, usually there's some info missing and you have to fill the blanks

>>720050729
>Two hours later you find a random class photo
No you don't.
You get it from the coward drunkard who let enemies hang his wife and son after you bring him the son's bear toy.
Also you're confusing normal adventure game stuff with puzzles.
There's nothing puzzling about bringing NPCs what they want.

>Get to Act 2
>Can't find the Grieving Father, the Teacher and the Violinist in the Marshes
>get a closer look at the truck near the entrance
>3 covered bodies
oh

>>720051319
The bodies were there before.
Grieving father is in his son's room clutching his son's toy (if you solved that one)
Teachers just leaves (if you gave her the photo)
So does violinist if you gave him 2 sheets of music.

>>720050340
I guess Im just stupid then. I figured that one door in jova locked with the keypad and entrance to the church were things I had to wait until later to do, but I guess Ill go back and try to figure them out. I brute forced both the white pillars puzzle and the circle with the four turning things, I had thought that the answers to those were somewhere else maybe to make myself feel better about not figuring them out lol

>>720051319
i hate that these type of games have missable stuff
your game is not gonna rope me into making a second playthrough, let me finish everything and find everything
fuck off you quebecois retards

>>720051480
the 4 turning things ("the hermit") you get the clue later on
unsure which other 2 you meant but that anon is wrong
a lot of clues you get later on for earlier puzzles and there are also some that outright unsolvable the first time you reach parts of it
Just play the game as you feel like anon

>>720051480
>circle with the four turning things,
That one can really only be solved 'properly' later.
You get photo with hints from the hermit after you giver him zoom lense from burning city.
I brute forced that one too because there wasn't too many combinations.
>I figured that one door in jova locked with the keypad
If you mean your family house basement, that can be solved imediately.
>entrance to the church were things I had to wait until later
This is a story thing, not a puzzle.
Once some shit happens, the soldiers 'leave'.

>>720050701
>I love AA jank games
Hell is Us is not bad, but I'm playing Lost Soul and I think it's better (don't guide by the reviews though, the game gets better, even more if you play it on PC and the correct dub)

>>720051662
I said most, not all.
Yes you get the Hermit puzzle zoom lens later.
But big puzzles I mentioned can be solved on site.
If you have an example of a big puzzle (not fedex shit when you bring stuff to NPCs) post away.
Lot of stuff anons call 'puzzles' are just things you need to bring to NPCs to finish good deeds, not really puzzles.

sheeeesshhh whats up my fellow boomers yall gonna buy my game fr fr?

>>720052065
>Curly hair is a zoomer invention

>>720049301
Action-adventure, like a weird sci-fi Indiana Jones. You play as a guy investigating a mysterious a civil-war-torn country with its own fictional history, religions and lore. You explore modern areas and ancient ruins, discover artifacts, and help NPCs in more traditional RPG fashion (small narrative fetch quests).

Main influence is obviously Souls (stamina and lock-on combat, intricate branching level design), but it’s not trying to be a straight copy. There are tweaks to formula and it mixes in other influences, especially Resident Evil (or more generally, point-and-click/escape room) type of progress gating/light puzzle-solving (bring item to door, matching symbols, odd mechanisms, passwords in documents, etc.), though more open-ended and spread out map-wise.

The world is semi-open (not one big world, you teleport to hub regions) and non-linear, backtrack-heavy, with a mix of larger areas, tighter dungeons and NPC hubs.

Combat is more forgiving than Souls, but also more focused on crowd control and with some novel mechanics (timing-based healing). I find it fun but downside is lack of enemy variety and no bosses, gets repetitive.

Promised slightly less guidance than modern equivalents but doesn't fully commit to the bit. Not challenging by any means unless you're brain-damaged but it's just more rooted in 90's standards than 2020's constant handholding. Expects you to explore thoroughly, pay attention to details, remember unsolved points of interest to backtrack to later, mentally map branching/slightly mazey levels. Light puzzling and dungeon crawling, don't expect deep eureka moments or really getting lost, just perhaps 10 minutes of mild confusion at times. Nothing mind-blowing but pleasant and satisfying.

Atmosphere, art direction, environmental storytelling, worldbuilding and attention to details all great, but a bit tonally inconsistent. And you can feel it's made on a smaller AA budget. Made by former art director from Deus Ex HR/MD.

>>720051770
Nah not the basement that puzzle was straightforward. I mean the locked gate on the outskirts of jova with ruins behind it

>>720052416
>I mean the locked gate on the outskirts of jova with ruins behind it
Also story progress related, can't be missed.

>>720047381 (OP)
>Is no one playing this game or did you all finish already?
I would be playing it if the PC was a hot chick or giving me the ability to build a hot chick. Seriously, that's it.

>>720052372
That's pretty spot on summary.

i think it's pretty fuckin' cool so far but i am dying here with all these unfinished side quests that are pretty clearly on some kind of timer but also seem like i will have to find the item i need somewhere else
when do i generally lock myself out of things?

also what are you boys rocking, i got terror polearm and rage greatsword right now

>>720052795
>when do i generally lock myself out of things?
1st act ends when you insert the first, blue keystone where it belongs.
Try to solve as much NPC quests as you can, but some like freeing the dog can be only finished in act 2.

>>720052795
Only ones on a timer are the obvious ones with NPC in danger, but don't stress too much.
Simply traveling to another region won't brick quests, I think.
The one guy who needs pills, you only find them later.
But generally, if you do find a requested item, try to bring it back asap. And always check back with npcs to see if they move around.
Major triggers are when you reach the end of a large dungeon and grab the dungeon mcguffin, it'll be obvious when you reach those points.

>>720052795
terror polearm too, the terror glyph that creates explosive area you can trigger manually is awesome + normal 'soul arrow' glyph for sniping those unreachable snipers
rage hatchets, once you slap shield on + berserk? glyph - the one that nullifies stagger you can literally button mash and win against anything but a big crowd all around you

>>720050660
don't forget the pictures have different frames and the pins on the wall have outlines

Ooooh wait he's a sociopath wielding emotions as weapons I get it
Very subtle

>>720052795
There's a lot you can solve before act1 ends so I'll list what you can only solve later or much much later so you don't stress about it like I did:
woman locked in underground ruins near trenches in 1st area
big tower reachable from the trenches area
hermit - photo lense
free the dog - !!! solve as soon as act 2 starts !!!
bring more mead to drunk soldier after giving him half full bottle
bring pills and radio to two abandoned ON soldiers in marsh ruins
save priest in ropes
save small girl who's living in attic near a tree house
interactable elephant toy in 2nd floor of some house
keypad locked OMSIF site with ruins in swamp
door with 5 symbols in corridors under the Jova city
Try to solve everything else before using the blue key, you'll know which one.
Hope that's everything.

>>720050882
umm akshually one of the 8 clans literally worships the devil and is the reason why the demons invade

>>720052921
>>720053439
aight thanks, that eases the autism a little

>>720054287
wew, nearly all of those were ones i was hung up on

>>720052795
rage axes with stagger immunity glyph + damage reduction neutral glyph
ecstasy polearm with all the aoe glyphs
health and stamina restore on enemy kill and protection on max health defensive gear
aoe stun active relic and increased melee damage done and taken passive relic
i don't bother with consumes as of now

Belletete you lying fuck you promised me reddit ARG-tier puzzles, there's not even a secret ending
there are no reddit puzzles, only 4chan puzzles (50 IQ max)

>>720054329
Teaar worshipers only started one calamity, the 4th one.

>>720047381 (OP)
I did buy it and I've played the tutorial zone but to be honest Silksong is my priority at the moment.

>>720054085
Are you talking about fat fuck interrogator?
MC barely shows any emotions and sure as hell doesn't use them as a weapon.

>>720055502
embarrassing

>>720052795
>>720054287
You forgot:
strange looking chest key in big stone snake area
6 digit code to Eternity computer in Watcher's nest
also pair of the doable quests has to be done in certain order so no one dies
first bring pills to sick woman in small refugee camp in stone snake area
only after that give ON truck car key to guy asking for them, otherwise the woman dies
Good luck.
One more fuckable quest warning:
As soon as you get 4 flares in half destroyed city DON'T immediately try to help bunch of refugees asking you for clearing out parking lot before you hand out all of the flares to people hiding around the city.

>explore queen tower
>hundreds of walkers in every room
>implied the sheer volume is because that's where she conducted mass killings
>implied they're all emanation of genocide victims
>your way of bringing them peace is to.................
>genocide them all again
the messaging/tone is this game lol
imagine a game where you're exploring ruins of auschwitz and fighting hundreds of jewish ghosts by spinning around with dual blades doing tony hawk finishing moves and then critics praise you for making a deep "war is bad" commentary

>>720056064
you can get the doggo to join rebecca at the lake apparently, but only if you free doggo before freeing the uncle?

>>720056073
>your way of bringing them peace is to.................
>genocide them all again
???
Where did you get this from?
Hollow walkers are just spawns from time loops, time loops are created by barbaric acts and strong negative emotions.
There's no connection between hollow walkers and souls of dead people.

>>720055776
Your posts?
Sure.

I just got the game on a sale, but I only have my steam deck with me. Any chance it'll run on this?

>>720050295
this is an average "puzzle"
the plaque reads
>"To the North and to the South. The way will be revealed."

Streamer Bait

I already settled this.

The worst thing for a game of this type, isnt strictly to "filter" normies, but also lack enough substance to attract enthusiasts.

If you want some idea of what I mean. Read this:
Reposting my response to a post from a past thread
>>719855305
>The puzzles overall are not very hard... they're just standard Resident Evil type puzzles and never go beyond that. I was expecting some big brain shit like Outer Wilds but it was just password/code puzzles over and over. It was a good game overall but, but not amazing.
Basically why I dropped my hype on the game, for once a reviewer put it perfectly. Theres like zero interactivity with any of the puzzles. Its the effective equivalent of just pressing buttons in a correct order at every turn. No depth, No substance, No developments. Additional factors cannot be added to complicate something so fundamentally mechanically simple. Hence they can only stack how much you have to remember to press or so.

Which is Ironic, because Outer Wilds itself isnt very interactive, but its enviroment is very dynamic, so the game is about understanding how to find the order in the chaos basically. How to become "one" with the environment and flow with it. Not against it. Virtually every single outer wilds puzzle can be explained by this virtue.

And it is why, despite not having direct interactivity where the player can manipulate, effect, and change things naturally, logically as a direct course of an ACTION rather than "input".

The enviroment still gets to be interactive on its own, and engage you the player, and you engage it (Quantum stuff, Photographing. Its a feedback relationship, you need it to exist as something dynamic before you can stablize it without even interacting directly)

Why 33 year cycles?
How could ancient scholars create the Eminus Shroud device and how could Eye 'swallow' it?
Why the device caused the Eye to start calamities when, originally Eye had emotion calming influence?
Did I miss some lore scrolls or is there a lot of shit unexplaqined?
Why didn't they bring long poles into time loops, or throw the prisms into the center instead of sacrificing hundreds before they came up with owls?

>>720057062
the puzzle is realizing it's not the lit ones but the opposite, fun little moment because you encountered those before in a different context

>>720050139
>18
the game itself even contradicts you, shill faggot

>>720057136
What does this have to do with Dark Souls?

>>720055505
>>720055830
Thank you for posting those. Because so far i had only seen clips like >>720057062 and thought the game was for me but the visual effects in those first two clips are total deal breakers.

>>720057136
>this shit again
Anon, you're comparing apples and fucking bricks.
Hell is Us in not a game where the whole artificial universe with all of it's laws is specifically build to accommodate those types of puzzles.
It's relatively normal world, well, except for the demons.

>>720057438
5 hollow walkers (humanoid, jumpy shooter, bulky humanoid, guy with 2 wings that can scramble your drone)
1 giant hollow walker - looks like really big version of humanoid but has several attacks the small one doesn't
12 different 'emotion drone' types that spawn with normal enemies, each has different appearance and attack patterns
Tell me more about enemy variety you ignorant fucking retard.

>>720057754
*forgot the guy with long arms that attacks by kicking forward

also boss battles have shooter towers, and towers generating spinning walls etc. though the later are more of an obstacles than enemies

This game requires brain power and has no coomerbait within it. Its DOA for /v/.

>>720057752
If you werent retarded, youd realize that nobody, especially not me, ever talks about pushing switches in tomb raider, if you were even less retarded, youd realise that Outer Wilds has those exact same type of "input puzzles" I was talking about.
And if you were even less retarded than that, I wouldnt have to spoonfeed not only any of these facts, but the synthesis of these facts into something coherent, directed, and indicative of an emergent mind.

This applies just aswell to every subhumanly retarded "person" responding to my post with "B-BUT DEY NOT DA AXACT SAME CANT COMPARE THINGS THAT ARE DIFFERENT EVEN DOE DAT DE VERY DEFINITION OF COMPARISON OR ELSE THERED LOGICALLY BE NOTHING TO COMPARE DUE TO SAME!"

>>720057438
that trophy is for basic enemies
advanced ones that attack in connected pairs have other 4 trophies: All the Rage, Buzz Killer, Fear no Evil, Good Grief
each is for 3 types of enemies
at least it's easy to spot who did and didn't play the game

>>720057754
>>720058292
cope harder faggot, the game itself says it clear as day. "ALL 5 hollow walker variants"
>b-but the colored balls are enemies too!!!
>don't forget about the bosses!!!!!
shill harder lmfao

>>720052065
thats jensen's voice too

>>720058221
>coherent

>>720058345
>different enemies don't count as enemy variety!

>>720058345
Keep being ignorant retard, it's no skin of my nose.

>>720058221
>retard speak instead of argument
Good job idiot.
Explain how those games are similar, with similar boundaries based on the setting.
Go ahead faggot.
You can surely do better than copypaste the same old tired bullshit.

>>720051174
>You get it from the coward drunkard who let enemies hang his wife and son after you bring him the son's bear toy.
Sounds kinda similar (minus the drunkenness) to Stockpile Thomas from Demon's Souls

>>720058221
retard

Does the game tell you if you failed an undiscovered good deed?

Its really funny going online and seeing people obsessively look for answers to puzzles only for them to just be missing info that the game gives you later.
This game is like one giant autism test to see if you can leave a puzzle unsolved after encountering it

>dungeon has a timeloop
>find amine prism in same dungeon
>doesn't match
everytime man

>>720054712
>aight thanks, that eases the autism a little
frankly just google "missable hell is us shit"
It doesnt really spoil anything and covers you advancing the story before having done the handful of missable conversations/ good deeds

Things like not giving an npc the keys of a truck until you have done 2 good deeds for people in his camps cause once he has the truck keys the people on his camp leave with him
I dont think thats an spoiler and it prevents you from missing these 2 good deeds
you do you

>>720060371
>forge dungeon
>timeloop
>a prism
>the timeloop guardian detector is pointing through a closed door i dont have the rods for yet
NUKE QUEBEC

Luv me dog
Luv me cars
Luv me smokes
'Ate me neighbour
'Ate demons
'Ate Sabs (not racist, just don't loike em)
Simple as

>>720047381 (OP)
secret GOTY
plebs will miss out

Game needed a vivid depiction of a rape. Maybe in a timeloop.

>>720062552
The game already goes much further than most other games considering all the dead kids, implied aftermath scenes and there being a literal comfort woman.

>>720062160
GOTY? No.
But this year's Lies of P? Yeah sure.

i have a feeling this game didn't sell enough

>>720064080
It's not a big budget game so it probably doesn't need as much as normal but yeah probably not the best sales. Very unfortunate release timing on the same week as Silksong. Hopefully it spreads more through word of mouth through people playing it.

>>720047381 (OP)
>souls-like combat
coward ass devs, hope it flops.
Cronos mogs it

>>720064367
more like nioh

okay i give up
where the fuck do i find milk?

>>720064691
>Nioh most popular tag: souls-like
what a retard you are

>>720064752
the old guy sitting in a cellar in senedra forest has a spotlight shining at his cow

whoa like a sociopath?

>>720064934
>running around everywhere expecting to find a bottle lying around
>they even gave you the bottles to hang on to
well i feel foolish

>>720064916
Souls combat is slow and rewards being a defensive rollsloper.
Nioh combat is fast and rewards you for being aggressive. Therefore this is Nioh-like combat.

it's not a soulslike
fuck that retarded term

>>720064080
>>720064219
Initial sales are probably in the middle but the game has legs. It will be brought up at end of the year, when it goes on sale, or added to Game Pass and PS+.

>>720065608
based. the combat reminds me more of the original nier.

>had to look up the 33 Car location
Forgive me...Zanzibart...

The rare western european eurojank

>>720065272
That milk quest is there to pretty much hammer into the player. One: Remember the shit that you see since it may be relevant to something later
Two: Not every quest has the answer in the same zone where you get the quest.
I had a small laugh when I realized even the old guy's dialogue scenes has jugs of milk in it, but I never paid attention to when I first spoke with him.

what is producing this light?

did ESLs make this game?

Maybe I'm autistic but the worldbuilding makes no sense. The timeline is kinda piss, supposedly the ancient hadeans switched to monotheism at the drop of a hat in 3000BC or some shit. Then in 400AD there's a religious protestant-esque schism, which with 400AD technology would go nowhere. The way people write these ancient scrolls sounds way too close to modern speech, regardless if using the new language or the old. It makes it sound extremely artificial and not organic compared to how real speech evolved.

>death stranding artstyle
>RE puzzles
>evil within 2 rpg mechanics
and they pair it with a shitty rollslop combat? What a sick joke

>>720067391
fuck you're retarded

>>720067391
you just say words without thinking huh

>>720067185
your drone is scanning them so you can read it why would it translate it into ye olde english instead of modern english so you could understand

>>720067947
Yeah finna dab on those heretics nigga, finna cap they ass namsayin. niggas turned up on the wrong turf namsayin nigga, gon cap dem sabiniggas senpai

>>720049607
If you're going to compare this to NieR 1 it better have some damn good music

>>720057136
Why do you insist on making outer wilds posters look so fucking retarded

>>720068753
talking about combat you fucking tard

>>720050295
match the symbols
basically 99% of "puzzles" in this game

>>720068753
NTA but I actually do quite like the music in this. It's very subdued and doesn't stand out but it's very good ambience.

henlo frens. Is this game polished or more of the janky variety of action rpg?

>>720068753
You're in luck, Hell is Us OST is some damn good music.

is there any point to full clear an area? cba searching for stragglers

>>720070368
cheevo

>>720050295
do you like rods?

>>720069841
it's polished

>>720069841
>henlo frens

fuck off back to reddiit

>>720069841
you type like a fag

>>720069936
its okay

>>720066680
I got filtered cuz I thought you're not supposed to feed cow milk to a baby so I was looking for a preggo woman instead, but then I remembered the cow and I felt like a genius

>>720070627
Imagine using reddiit spacing as you tell someone to go back to reddiit.
You turbo nigger.

>>720071180
reddit spacing is something redditors came up with

>>720071265
exactly

>>720072003
comfy kino

>>720072003
I was leaning towards purchasing this game but your cozy screenshots have sealed the deal.

>>720072003
top left is my favorite area so far

>>720070581
lel

>>720070581
holy crap I totally missed the drone translations this entire time

>>720070674
It's okay, you don't listen to a lot of electronic music.

>>720072003
This game kind of reminds me of Death Stranding in it just has this cool dilapidated vibe in the world.

>>720070581
to be fair you are about to use 4 of those rods in the dungeon you were in when you took that screenshot

>>720047381 (OP)
played the demo a while back, it sucked

>>720070581
bet you don't even know where the holes are
stop hoarding

>>720072003
i fuarking love techno shit in ancient ruins

Is there any way to unfuck the "tracked" achievements? I beat the game already.

>>720077090
What are you talking about?

>>720077837
I have done all deeds and collected all drone skills and have more than 5 glyphs lmao, it seems bugged as fuck.

>>720077945
Oh, no clue then.

>>720070653
and you think calling it out makes you straight? lmao, self-awareness check failed

>>720069841
If the definition of unpolished is: Surge, Lords Of the Fallen, Mortal Shell, or even Lies Of P. Then yes. This is very polished.

>>720072290
comf

>>720081115
gb2reddit

People said this game is short but I'm 30 hours in and I'm still in chapter 1

For some reason I am really enjoying this game a lot, like I have Silksong but I've been more interested in finishing this first.

The combat is so basic but the world, atmosphere, and the areas + level design are keeping me engaged for some reason. It's just an oddly interesting game. I do wish they had more attack variety, like heavies or running/rolling attacks to at least spice up combat a tiny bit.

Anyone know what the best weapon types are? I have just been using the rage greatsword and an ecstasy regular sword, seems pretty good. I tried the axes but they just feel so weak and the polearm seems kinda shit.

let's go all enlist in the UN Peacekeeping!

>>720085474
ONinvolved in peace

Looks like Nioh, how is it?

>>720083532
speedrunners i guess

>>720086751
like nioh with more focus on worldbuilding

>>720088978
Cool, I'll grab when it's on sale; might have to wait awhile if they don't separate the hollow skin from deluxe/upgrade, since I want that too.

>>720049607
Hmm as child who was smuggled out of an eastern European country on the brink of war this might hit hard.

>Near the end of the game
>Have closed all time loops except the first one in Senedra
>I have two anime prisons and it won't accept them
Ok.

I like it from an hour or so I played. But I had to finish SMT5 beforehand

>>720072003
So why didn't anyone just fly a helicopter to the top of the ancient tower that they were trying to get into for centuries?

>>720090906
Hollow Eagles

>>720090906
I am assuming the only tech that makes it in is strictly regulated, and only OMSIF has shit that's actually current in 1992. Although they do mention an Airfield, but I'm not sure how that would work.

nice try plebs

Yeah except there's a good deed I failed because the guys in Talju fucked off before I was done, fuck you.

I didn't even realize it was out yet. Their marketing team sucks balls.

>>720060371
Do as many side quests as you can and open everything you can, don't leave it for later.
There are spare prisms in the game, there's even a spare book for limbic blacksmith guy.
After finishing everything and closing every time loop I ended up with 7 spares.
>>720061538
It's the armory door isn't it?

>>720066196
Well, it's either that or luck.
I spent like an hour combing through Jova twice, looking at every car, thinking maybe your father drove with it elsewhere and then I just found it near some random ruins in swamp by accident.

>every single major puzzle is either 1. find a key, or 2. match the symbols
>get to the FINAL PUZZLE of the game which takes up THE ENTIRETY OF ACT 3
>it's fucking matching the key symbols with the keyholes
>final lines of dialogue are unironically fucking "Where are we going?" "Home... we're going home."
This is one of the worst games I've ever finished.

>>720070581
>here's the key for chest in the forest area
>anon thinks it's a puzzle
not sure if retarded or just pretending

>>720083532
Finished and platted in 50 hours.
Used guide after ending to hunt down 5 pieces of missing research material and to finish one good deed I had problem with.

>>720090256
>>720100474

>>720090906
Remember the note from soldier about his commander breaking in ancient tomb?
For plebs it was literally forbidden by law and what exactly would gubmint guys do if they got in?
Die to hollow walkers?

>>720100742
>every single major puzzle is either 1. find a key, or 2. match the symbols
Don't be a retard.
Getting key for a lock is not a puzzle.
Neither is bringing item to an NPC waiting for it.
And calling Jeljin cemetery puzzle or Warcher's nest one 'just matching symbols' is disingenuous as fuck.

>>720101248
With how often the game loves to just throw random locks at you on the path through the main quest it sure loves to act like locks are puzzles
And the cemetery is just symbol matching, you put the symbol in and input the numbers they said under the symbol, unless you mean the statues to each crypt which were so unambiguous that they may as well say "hey retard set the statues like this to get inside"
This game loves to jerk itself off about how it won't hold your hand then it never trusts you to actually figure anything out by yourself, it's embarrassing

>>720101471
>it sure loves to act like locks are puzzles
So the game 'acts' like locks are puzzles?
Could you try to stop acting like a retard and projecting on inanimate objects?
>This game loves to jerk itself off about how it won't hold your hand
Aaand another projection.
Why are you faggots like that?
You got one message about not getting quest markers and map and being free to go wherever you want.
It does exactly that yet every faggot goes 'OMG I'AM SUCH A BRAINIAC BECAUSE I CORRECTLY MATCHED CLEARLY LABELED KEY WITH PROPER CHEST TEH PUZZLES SUCK'.

>>720101864
>whining about projection
What are you the fucking dev lmao
The game was abysmal, the puzzles are laughably retard-proof, fucking RE has better puzzles
Don't get so bent out of shape because a symbol matching puzzle that a bird could solve got the better of you and not someone else, it's fine

>>720047381 (OP)
when a new game comes out I usually look at footage from various different people and think "do I see anything I might like about this?". Tainted Grail had me on the fence for months and I ended up getting it because theres better character building than Skyrim (which I despise with a passion). Looking at Hell is Us much less I'm already thinking "eh whatever" because it's the most lukewarm video game I've seen in a while. There are higher chances I'd pick up and play Bleak Faith: Forsaken than this because it has some semblance of soul and originality.

goty

Once I've beaten silksong I was going to either pick this up or chronos. Any anons played both, which is better?

>>720102990
no lmoa

>>720100790
retard he was talking about the game giving you 5000 rods

>>720105802
what else then

>>720086751
>Looks like Nioh, how is it?
There is only one (1) thing on the game that is "like nioh"
You have a Ki Pulse for health, instead of stamina like in nioh.
Read the thread, the game is not that combat focused and the combat is fairly janky with probably the worst lock on system ever put to a game

>>720106197
E33

>>720108791
what makes it good?

>>720101060
Yeah because the glowies researching the monsters were clearly respecting the rule of law throughout the game.

Nobody bought it on Xbox because a lot of the achievements are still "rare/diamond' level and only like 4-5% of players have gotten them so far. Some of them don' t feel super hard to me, like I've gotten two achievements that only 4% of players on Xbox have.

>>720102106
>There are higher chances I'd pick up and play Bleak Faith: Forsaken than this because it has some semblance of soul and originality.
I would say that Bleak Faith was less original than this but it was a better experience overall because even that had more enemy variety and it didn't have its exploration so bogged down by combat with the same few enemies over and over again.

>>720109189
Some of the achievements are definitely broken.

>>720108841
it just feels like a throwback to a time when jrpgs are always a great time and I always looked forward to one releasing
i jumped in again for NG+ 2 because I read there's a secret comic relief weapon you can get

>>720109369
and this is my current time in Hell is Us and I'm enjoying it so far

>>720109369
>>720109483
these two UE5 games run really well for me

the music here is cool

>>720109369
based

>>720109635
my card usually gives me headaches on UE 5 games
So far this one has gone well, i was crashing on an specific cutscene that i had to skip and watch on youtube and has crashed a couple times on the burning city, i assume the particles and shit of the fire are making my card act up
so im gonna lower the graphics settings while im in that zone and see if it helps

>>720112458
I've only had one crash in Hell Is Us thankfully.

>>720108841
it's soulful and slaps ubishit across the face

>Game gives a warning about my video card drivers causing issues and nagging me to update them every time I launch
>Ignore it and don't update them
>Game runs fine

>>720114585
kek

>>720114585
nice

Dungeon Prison Room: This multi-floor prison room is both a puzzle and combat challenge, with strategic exploration and timing.

Layout:
>Three floors, each with two wings.
>Each wing contains four pressure plates labeled A1–F4 and prison cells, each linked to one of the six levers at the bottom of the room.
>Navigation is non-linear: debris blocks some staircases and paths, requiring ladders, connecting routes, and floor holes to reach all plates.

Levers:
>Six levers at the bottom, each with a unique symbol.
>Unlocking a lever is timed: players must activate the correct plates and return to the bottom before the timer expires.
>Only three levers are required to progress; the other three open optional treasure rooms, indicated by the same symbol.

Pressure Plates & Mechanics:
>Plates are labeled A1–F4.
>Markings show which plates unlock a lever, e.g., “Moon symbol opens with B2, C4, F1.”
>Stepping on a plate costs half your health, adding risk to each activation.
>Some plates unlock all prison cells in a wing, releasing enemies.

Enemies & Strategic Combat:
>Prison cells contain enemies. Combat is not just a threat: players have a lifesteal mechanic that allows them to regain health by defeating enemies.
>This creates strategic choices: triggering multiple cells can make the puzzle easier if you plan to regain health through combat.

Challenge:
>Players must plan routes, balance health costs, strategically use enemies to regain health, navigate blocked paths, and return to levers in time.
>The puzzle combines navigation, timing, combat, resource management, and observation, rewarding careful planning and mental mapping.

if only game had more like that

yes

So, is it worth getting at full price or should i wait for a sale?

>>720118123
wait honestly

I was too focused on clearing the area for good and finding the guardians, i didn't pay attention to not failing the 4 flare quest meanwhile i didn't have the right prism to close it anyway. Goddamnit.

>>720103510
Cronos is more like a slow paced atmospheric movie game , if you have a good pc it's worth it imo. Playing it in 4k is pretty insane. Hell is us has actual more gameplay. It also looks and performs very well tho.

>>720118123
depends on your finances

>>720118123
Barely even worth a pirate to be honest

>>720119349
please elaborate

>>720119380
Combat sucks ass, exploration feels too meandering, story is just misery porn, feels like some guys rape fantasy. If you like running around bland environments looking for a pencil to bring back to a guy you met 5 hours ago for a shitty reward, that's the game for you

>>720119517
ok thanks for proving you're retarded

>>720119517
zoom zoom

1: Players must derive a code from numbers associated with objects or documents spread across an area. Some items that seem important are actually irrelevant, while subtler details hold the key. An additional source of information, such as dialogue or environmental cues, provides guidance on how to interpret the sequence. The objects and clues also convey lore that connects to other puzzles and storytelling elements elsewhere in the game, rewarding attentive and observant players.

2: Scattered across the world are multiple cryptic notes, each containing fragments of letters and obscure handwriting. When found individually, each note seems confusing, and the player can’t immediately tell if it’s useful. As more notes are discovered over hours and across multiple regions, a pattern begins to emerge, revealing a full term. Players must also recognize that these notes are connected to another document written in the same handwriting and style, providing additional context and guidance. Term is not a real-world word, so online anagram generators won’t help. Instead, it’s a unique in-game term rooted in game lore, only referenced in dialogue or environmental details. Rewards attention to detail and engagement with the world.

3: Players may find a document related to a particular theme, with certain entries highlighted, potentially hinting at a password. Elsewhere, a password-locked computer provides no explicit hints, but environmental details like hobby-related objects or posters reference the same theme, guiding observant players to connect the two.

All of these puzzles share a few core design principles:
>Fragmented information: Clues are spread across time and space.
>Hidden logic: Not immediately obvious; requires observation, inference, or memory.
>Connection across sources: Multiple types of clues (notes, objects, environment) must be synthesized.
>Lore integration: Solutions make sense in the world’s context rather than being arbitrary.

>>720103510
Having played both, play Lost Soul Aside instead. It's the best of the three. Just stick to it until you unlock the second weapon and start doing weapon switching combos, shit's fun

Done with the game, failed 2 of the Good Deeds, the Musician and the Milk :(
I really liked it, tthe setting is very interesting, and the atmosphere of the game is top notch,but it's clear they're setting up for a DLC or sequel that I'm afraid they're not gonna get to make.

>>720119606
>>720119619
What am I wrong about? Does the combat not suck assholes dry? Does exploration not consist of you meandering around bland environments looking a toothrbrush you need to bring back to a guy on map 1 so that he can tell you how evil soldiers shoved it up his daughters little asshole and you can all cry about it? It does and you know it

>>720119752
how can one man be so right yet so wrong at the same time

>>720118123
Its not worth getting for free

>>720119936
you said this already retard

Gonna buy this game later today. What am I in for niggas?

>White country with unique ethno-religious groups, featuring no NIGGERS
>International cabal funded by "Bankers" conspires to destroy it with Moloch demons
What did they mean by this

>>720120638
a decent time

>>720119752
>Combat sucks
I really don't get this complaint. Not everything has to be outright amazing to be good and fun
>Meandering
If you are just walking around and not on the lookout for details then that's a you problem
>Bland environments
Very stupid opinion. Just because everything is drab and dreary doesn't mean there is a lack of artistry and character
>game about civil war has war atrocities
War is le bad is an over used theme. But what separates Hell is Us from the rest is that one side isn't depicted as being morally superior than the other.
The Jova sewers are perfect encapsulation of this.
>Palomists hang all Sabians in town
>Sabian grandmother escapes with baby into the underground sewers
>Sabian army comes in and systematically kills the Palomists
>Family of Palomists escape the killing and flee into the same sewers the Sab grandmother fled to
People from both sides living in fear of one another but unbeknownst to them neighbors in the sewers.

>>720120838
>>International cabal funded by "Bankers" conspires to destroy it with Moloch demons

>>720121046
The granny is a palomist, the baby was a sab (didn't feed that nigga, rest in piss)