I really loved my initial time with Titan Souls. It was a demo of the initial four bosses at EGX Rezzed in March, before the game had released. I sat down, not knowing what to expect. I played each of the initial bosses a couple of times and was sure that I was never going to beat a single one of them. The game was impossible. But I stuck with it for a while. I focused on one boss - I think it was the cube guy. I persisted until I beat it. Then I moved onto the next boss. And the next. And the next. I beat all four of those bosses in the initial area. It was an immense sense of achievement considering my initial impression was that the game was fucking impossible and I couldn't ever beat it. It was amazing how far I had come in such little time. The progression and improvement was great.
So I bought the game on release day, excited to play more after such a great first experience, and it didn't really click. The exploration elements once you are out of that first area didn't really do anything for me, and the wide open nature of it made it easy to give up after I had banged my head against a boss a few times. "Oh, I can't beat this boss, I'll just move onto another one". I feel like it would be better as a more guided experience. If after that initial area, it put you directly into another similarly sized area and didn't give you so much freedom. It feels kinda weird criticizing a game for giving you too much freedom, but the core nature of that game is about trying one boss over and over again until you beat it. It should force me into that, rather than letting me give up and try another boss. Then give up and try another boss. Then give up again. I don't have the self-discipline to not give up!!! FORCE ME TO PLAY THE SAME LEVEL OVER AND OVER AGAIN UNTIL I BEAT IT, DAMNIT!!!
@getz: From the way Lang has been talking on Team GFB Radio, it sounds like he is doing a solo stream from home rather than a group stream from the Iron Galaxy studio. So it'll be pretty different this year.
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