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@bigsocrates: I am doing most of the voices! There are a couple of characters that my friends jump in and voice, giving me the time to relax for a second. But so far, in Act 1, I'm doing voices for all the adults except Sister Illuminata & Til, and my partner is doing the voices for the children. I do have a naturally very deep voice, so it's been a bit difficult differentiating so many characters. But the majority of the nuns sound either like Mrs. Doubtfire, Broomhilde from Robin Hood: Men in Tights or a very exaggerated Monty Python character.

Part of the reason our playthrough has taken so long is that I end up workshopping the voices with my friends, so we discuss the characters in great detail while trying to decide how they should sound. Which is why it has taken us 4.5 hours just to get to the murder in act 1. Andreas had more of an accent at the start, until I decided to just do my normal voice for him.

@infantpipoc: Yeah, I really only pre-order games I know I am going to play, and plan on playing right at the release time (which is usually 9pm on the west coast of the US). The Bayonetta 3 preorder was just such a strange mishap. Like I said, I really don't even remember preordering the Gamestop copy, nor could I find a pre-order e-mail confirmation or anything. And I haven't even stepped foot in a GameStop in probably 6 years.

I don't really have too many grievances about the formatting. I definitely fell off in the back half of the club, but a new job took priority for a bit. I'm hoping to get back into a routine for next year.

I'm still playing through Pentiment, but I stream it out to some friends and have been doing the VO for it all, so it's taking a lot longer than expected. And I'm on mobile so I don't feel like typing out a ranked list for what I participated in, but I would like to come back and do that later.

The only thing I wouldn't mind, is if anyone wanted to be friends on XBL. I think seeing someone else playing the game in the club, might push me to further complete my playthrough? Could just be me,

but just in case, my gamertag is threedaysago#603 (dunno when they added #numbers since those definitely weren't there when I made my account...).

1. Tinykin (or Tinkyin if you'd prefer)- grubb and company further sold me on this during GOTY

2. Signalis- people who like this seem to REALLY like this.

I ended up with 3 copies of Bayonetta 3. Didn't realize I had pre-ordered it on Amazon in 2018 when they still offered 20% off preorders. But I also forgot (and still don't remember doing it) that I pre-ordered it off GameStop at some point last year. Bought a digital copy of it so I could play on launch day.

But that's not really what you were asking. I semi-recently bought Scarlet Nexus for full price on pc the day before it was added to PC gamepass. And there are a number of games I bought discounted without realizing they were on gamepass (recently eastward and chained echoes).

Okay upon further research, he started posting on his Instagram screens from early streams in 2020. So he's been at it for a while. But it seems like his viewers count has ballooned out of the tens range into the hundreds more recently.

@funkyverb: I don't have too many answers to your questions since I was only just introduced to his streams via giant bomb. But based on his twitch, it looks like he uploaded his first channel trailer 6 months ago but that already has footage from his streams so it must have been earlier than that.

So, I think I enjoyed this demo? Seems I might be in the minority, but I found the combat pretty fun once I got used to the controls. I agree with @therealturk that the UI is atrocious, and the tutorial only half explains most of the mechanics, but those are both things I can look past when I am actually sitting down and playing the game.

I think this game will end up being something I play, and even like, but I won't be buying it at launch for pretty much the same reasons everyone else wrote.

I'm gonna jump in on the bandwagon forming here to think Deathloop wasn't as great as initial reviewers rated it. I never got into Arkane's Prey, but I do love Dishonored 1 & 2. So obviously, the level design on Deathloop is great. And I like the pretty major map changes that occur during the different times of day. But I think I was definitely expecting something more in line with Hitman's gameplay (which obviously is a "me" thing and isn't really considered in my evaluation), and the actual product just felt a little tedious for me once I stopped making discoveries and had to actually play the game they wanted me to play. Setting up the final assassination felt way more like the end run in Outer Wilds, where I would spend the time to do exactly what they wanted and then some dumb user error would completely derail my run.

Lastly, I also did not find the powers/guns enjoyable to use. I would have preferred if they had leaned further into the rogue-like nature and just spawned me with different skills/guns to use because I never felt compelled to change my loadout too much from either a stealth-focused loadout or an action-focused one.

I have it installed and am pretty excited to check it out this weekend for the same reason @judaspete mentioned. I'll report my feelings on the demo once I do.

But tbh, I'm most excited to see how the spells look while not being horribly compressed by YouTube and other video players. Seems like a lot of particle effects are constantly popping off and it hasn't looked great in the previews I've seen.