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SB Recommends PlayStation 4 Games
Recommended
Bloodborne
sleepysmiles: I’m very pleased at the difficulty of this game. It seems like a natural step up from Dark Souls and not an arbitrary one. It’s pleasantly surprising how the simple removal of your block button adds so much tension to each encounter
wourme: I was sold on Bloodborne the moment I encountered my first student. I still like Demon’s and Dark 1 better, but I’m glad I don’t have to choose and can simply play them all.
zeno: i’m pretty comfortable with declaring bloodborne the best game i’ve ever played, but it’s interesting how so little of the music does much of anything for me.
Doolittle: Bloodborne is the PS4 game if you liked an iota of Dark Souls.
The Last Guardian
Ni Go Zero Ichi: I don't even know what to fucking make of this game. It's got a few moments of classic Ueda brilliance (primarily in the last ~20% of this dozen-hour experience) buried underneath looming trash heaps of ill-conceived level design, monotonous video-gamey environments, poor controls and a barely-functioning game engine. It's so well-intentioned yet the bulk of the experience falls so painfully flat. For (sometimes) better and (often) worse, it's Ueda's purest homage yet to his beloved Another World.
Persona 5 (also on: PS3)
booji: …or don't. Persona team continues to prove that while they want to engage with “issues”, they will almost always do it in a clumsy and bordering-on-reprehensible way. So don't expect any nuanced takes on the existence of women, sexual assault, or LGBT people. Really expect the opposite of that. The presentation is good though.