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Test & welcome board / This forum is still going? I'm impressed.
« Last post by Rowan on Yesterday at 09:35:47 AM »Long long LONG time no see folks. I'm honestly shocked to see this forum still here. What a throwback.
...If only they could combine the best of both worlds...Well that was a quick callback. Luigi's Mansion 3 is the best of both worlds as far as the series goes. Luigi and friends get invited to an all-expenses-paid vacation at a glamorous mega-hotel and have a great time! I mean, it only lasts for a few minutes before the ghosts spring their trap and capture everyone except Luigi, but it was fun while it lasted. E. Gadd shows up and sets up a mobile-operations center in the parking garage and helps Luigi get on his feet. The controls this time are slightly less good than Dark Moon's (in my opinion), but they are very good nonetheless, and there were no times where I was fighting with the controls to do what I wanted. The game feels a bit faster and more action-y, so it doesn't drag on like the first two games could, but the spookiness is also at its lowest point in the series, often going for goofy ghosts instead of intimidating ones. The hotel is huge, though, and features very few interruptions compared to the first two titles. If you get a call from E. Gadd, he usually keeps it brief and doesn't force you to go back to the lab (usually!), and if you want to just drop in and check your collection or make some upgrades, there's a quick-shop option to save time! Great for keeping you in the moment and not making you retread old ground too much. The game is absolutely stuffed with puzzles and explorable places, and it's always a good time. There's a part where you get a circular saw and just go Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the environment, which is pretty cool. I can't neglect to talk about the graphics. This game looks so good. Not even "good for a Switch game", but actually good. Nintendo has some sort of dark knowledge of how to make their games look like graphical miracles while the competition struggles to make their games look even passable on the same hardware. I still don't get it. Anyway, excellent game, really masters the Luigi's Mansion formula, I still wish they'd bring back the classic ghost designs.
what was your paper about?The effects of rhythm-based music games on rhythmic achievement in music students. I had two groups - one group played Guitar Hero, another played Beat Saber. I hypothesized that the group playing Beat Saber would achieve greater post-test results than the group playing Guitar Hero due to BS being in virtual reality, potentially leading to higher states of “flow” (which is, like, a whole thing).