Shadow and Flame with Magik

The November 2019 Free PS Plus Games are : Nioh and Outlast 2!

Nioh 2 is coming out sometime next year so it makes sense to put the first game out for free to build interest.

Outlast 3 has been confirmed.  This probably makes sense coming out of Halloween and is more of a horror game than The Last of Us.

I have not heard much about Nioh besides it being an amazing game in the same genre as the Soulbourne games.  Outlast is a very scary game series.  I like how Outlast 2 takes place in Arizona, I wonder if it is a fake Arizona town.  I will find out on November 5th.  I might start with Outlast 2 over Nioh but I am not sure how far I will get in either game.

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Reddit seems pretty happy with the selections :

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Nioh is a $20 game now that it is part of the PlayStation Hits line.

Nioh 2 is going to be $60 and can be preordered now through the PlayStation Store.  The game will come out in 132 days.  There is also a DIgital Deluxe Edition for $80.

There are three avatars, each for 49 cents.  Okatsu, William (the main character), and Hanzo.

There is a static theme for three dollars.

A Season Pass for $25 and a Complete Edition of the game for $50.

I have the SHAREfactory theme which is free and the Yokai Static Theme that is also free that I will be using as my theme while playing the game.

There are three DLC Chapters.

Dragon of the North ($10)
Defiant Honor ($10)
Bloodshed’s End ($10)

So the Season Pass seems to be a pretty good deal at a savings of five dollars.

PSPrices states Nioh has gone as low as $15.99.

Outlast 2 is $30, and right now the PlayStation Store is offering it for $7.49, so hopefully no one buys the game at that price this week!

There is DLC for the game.  PSPrices states $7.49 is the lowest it has been.

So best way, the two games are worth $50 together or at their lowest, $24.

Nioh came out on February 7, 2017 and Outlast 2 came out on April 25, 2017 – so both games came out months apart and within 2017.

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PlayStationTrophies.org has excellent guides for both games :

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/nioh/guide/

https://www.playstationtrophies.org/game/outlast-2/guide/

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Here are the thoughts from my usual peeps :

Elle with PlayStation Access :

Adam with PlayStation Grenade :

Ben with Platinum Chasers :

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So I am pretty excited about these games!  If I take to Outlast, I might look into getting the first game but I imagine the second one will be enough for me as it is a stand alone story.

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I finally beat the first boss who is on the 10th floor of Let It Die.  I ran out of my free lives and had to buy ten additional lives for only a dollar, which seemed decent enough, so I bought my first trophy but at least I am done with that game.  I might come back to it one of these days and get the broken equipment trophy.  If I attempt that, I will just start with the first floor and work my way up.  Those dman flying drill robots really kill my buzz as they take so much of my health and I am not good with countering them. Fun game though with lots to do but I was mainly focus on getting that first boss fight under wraps.

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I also gave Deus Ex Mankind Divided a proper chance.  I wanted to get pass the helicopter section but I cannot figure out what am I supposed to do there.  Am I supposed to take out all of the enemies and then concentrate on the helicopter?  I need to look it up.  I got the trophy for doing all of the tutorials (which I did not know there was a trophy for) and then got stumped by the helicopter section.  But I stopped so I could jump into Let It Die as I knew that was going to be a longer commitment.  Apparently there is a trophy for inputting 0451 into the very first keypad so whenever I go back to the game, I might as well start over to get that trophy as I am only like 30 minutes into the game and that will go faster now that I am more familiar with the controls.  I really do like how simple the stealth takedowns are done with pressing circle and those can become death takedowns if we hold circle down.  I am going to attempt a non-lethal playthrough.  I do wish there was a simple punch option as I was standing in front of the helicopter with no way to attack it as I was all out of ammo with my stun gun.  I had picked up other guns but I cannot figure out how to switch weapons while avoiding the enemies attacking me.

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I had such big plans to end the month with Man of Medan but then I saw Rocket League was doing a Halloween event, Haunted Hallows.

Thanks to Rocket League for hosting their own video.

I have been seeing it advertised but I did not know it was a Stranger Things event.  Finding the above video, I see this is an annual event.

I earned the spider crawling animation and I plan on getting the leaf exhaustion and wood tires so I have to compete in 27 matches to earn those two items and I think I should be able to do that before the end of the event.

Then I will probably put the game away until their next event, if anything catches my eye that time around.  I am sure something will be worth a few games.  I do like how freely they are adding out pumpkins, every match has at least ten pumpkins to go towards the prize items.  I have plenty of time as the event ends on November 11.

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Once Burnout Paradise Remastered goes on sale (hopefully prior to the end of November, or I will just wait to see if it becomes the free December game) for six dollars, I am still committed to buying that game.

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Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!  Walker Dennis is going to be Spider-Man this year!