Recent content by DJMayes

They were given in the back of the booklet, with a caption saying something like "somewhere in the world, you might encounter these symbols!" and no further context. I remember feeling so, so smart after translating the messages on a piece of paper - sadly the internet has probably ended that...

Still remember learning Braille for the sake of a Pokemon game. Good times.

No I've got it wrong there - you need to be in act III for the upgrade.

If you haven't already, make sure you get the remaining fleas and the flea caravan to its final destination. You'll get an upgrade to make everything remaining much easier.

Did you fight the Act II final boss whilst infected before getting the Witch Crest? There's a secret ending attached to that.

Agreed on both counts. It was very early in the year so easy to forget by the end but nothing that has come since matched it for me.

I'm having the opposite problem - I never played the original Hollow Knight, but bought Silksong recently and fell in love with the game. I figured I should buy and play the original. I'm finding the platforming really frustrating due to the lack of momentum the character has in comparison as...

For me it's the cadence of some of the longer verse lines, like "life down here is just a strange illusion" - it feels incredibly jarring compared to the studio version.

It's one of the songs that's actively worse live because Bruce either can't or won't sing it the same way he did in the studio version.

Loved the first two albums - didn't realise she was coming out with a third!

You've mischaracterised my point completely here - I don't want "more metal stuff", I'd actually prefer less. This album feels like it has abandoned all of the experiments in favour of 8-9 by-the-books power metal songs, and I think it suffers for it. Circus Of Doom did this as well, but I felt...

The new Battle Beast album, Steelbound, is out. There's plenty to like here (Here We Are being my personal highlight) but I feel (and seem to be the only one, judging by reviews) that this represents a bit of a low point for the band. Their older albums had a lot of variation, which I was a big...

If you were to rank Iron Maidens top 10 most boring songs, all ten of them would come from The X Factor.

There's no comparison to me - TXF is a terrible album, the worst they've ever done by a significant margin. I don't think that's on Blaze either; I quite like VXI and I enjoy the bits of his solo work I've listened to. Outside of 2-3 tracks, TXF is just flat out boring.

Halestorm's new album came out recently - big fan of this one. It feels like it has a lot more going on than usual, and they've decided to actually put the guitar solos into the album here instead of only playing them live!