Casinos and Hotels
Watched your video of it last night dp (thanks for all your YT videos). Looks interesting, couldn't get any sound to work so not sure what kind of drama was going on.lol.
Harrah’s Resort–Atlantic City- Harbor setting with an Endless List of Top-Notch Resort Services
Introduction
Having a stylish harbor setting with an endless list of top-notch resort services, Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City has turned out to be the leading Atlantic City hotel. Taking pride of being the tallest structure in Atlantic City, with a whole lot of non-stop action, it prompts guests to keep extending their stay here.
District Marina of Atlantic City in New Jersey, houses Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, the flagship casino of the Harrah’s group.
Harrah’s casino has the distinction of being the first casino of the Marina district in Atlantic City. They continued to enjoy that distinction until 1985 when Trump’s Castle arrived on the scene. Now the city houses the Golden Nugget and the Borgata.
History and Ownership
⦁ In the beginning, construction of Harrah’s Atlantic City was as a joint venture of Holiday Inns and LM Walters Co.
⦁ When the construction was going on, Bill Harrah, the founder of Harrah’s Corporation died, enabling Holiday Inns to buy Harrah’s Corporation.
⦁ Originally, they wanted to publicize it as the “Holiday Inn Marina Casino.”
⦁ Before its formal opening, they renamed it as “Harrah’s Marina.”
⦁ Opened on 23 November 1980, Harrah’s opened the Harbor Tower. Its 506-room structure, and turned out as Atlantic City’s most revenue-generating casino.
⦁ Harrah’s all-suite Atrium Tower opened in 1986
⦁ Next, its Marina Tower opened.
⦁ The Atrium, Harbor and Marina towers are all sixteen storied buildings t. The Atrium Tower is linked to the Marina and Harbor towers through hallways of each floor
⦁ During 2002, Bayview Tower, comprising twenty five stories opened, together with extended gaming spaces
⦁ In 2008, The Waterfront Tower opened. Standing as tall 525 feet this is the second tallest structure in Atlantic City.
Memberships (Including VIP Services)
VIP Reservations: It allows you to access a 24/7 e-Concierge. While you are their guest, it assists you with your VIP reservations for dining, nightlife, spa, pool, golf, shows, and more!
Resort Services: Feel free to demand extra towels and housekeeping services. Get additional information about Harrah’s Resort!
Contact your e-Concierge for VIP services in no time.
VIP Line Access: Make use of your Total Connect app and VIP line access all over Harrah’s Resort. Simply flaunt your VIP Pass at the participating location and they will admit you.
Gaming
HARRAH’S RESORT Atlantic City CASINO
The casino in Harrah’s Atlantic City is rated among the most stimulating casinos of the world.
Apart from real video games, players can select any of the more than thirty eight hundred slot machines. The range of video reels, from Spiderman and Michael Jackson to “CSI” and “Pawn Stars” are there for the enjoyment of pop culture.
CASINO CREDIT
Casino credit extends the facility of getting cash from your available credit. Players need not bring big amounts of money.
Players can bet on hot, action packed Atlantic City poker for all 24 hours at Harrah’s through forty tables offering Seven Card Stud with no limit plus limited Texas Hold ‘EM poker. They extend the games as the demand keeps fluctuating depending on guests having no limit and limited games in a choice of dollar amounts. These start from $1-$2 for no limit and $2-$4 for limited Texas Hold ‘EM. In case of Seven Card Stud, bets start from $1-$5. Total Rewards players: play from Sunday to Wednesday to make an extra one dollar/ in comps.
Every day, players can enjoy the poker promotions that include gripping the Total Bad Beat progressive jackpot and Atlantic City poker tournament action. Twenty thousand in chips and $5.00 Bonus chip fee entitle you for extra two thousand chips.
Gamblers from Atlantic City may also play the horses by betting on the action from up to 18 tracks at the new Race Book.
Titan 360
Titan 360 is among the biggest and most exclusive slot machines worldwide. It looms
12 feet over the head of players and its fluctuating mechanisms provide sheer excitement.
Iron Man
The high spirits of the IRON MAN films are pooled with the groundbreaking Gamefield XD™ cabinet! The Free Spin Bonus fills up dual-screen show to plant the players in the IRON MAN costume and take them off through the action of the film.
Willy Wonka
Our third escapade, driven by Sensory Immersion 2.0 and CPU-NXT®3 technologies, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory provide an exceptional escapade. It offers several thrilling bonus rounds drawn directly from the classic motion picture.
Dining
Among the restaurants, these are the famous ones.
The Steakhouse
This restaurant offers you the best culinary experience in steaks.
Taste of the Shore
Ben and Jerry’s fantastic Ice creams will titillate your taste buds. Try also their Sack O’ Subs, Primo Pizza and their Shore Food-Court.
Seafood Restaurant- McCormick & Schmick’s
This restaurant prints their menu daily twice to incorporate new and unique ingredients into their dishes. They have an innovative approach to food.
Hotel Guestrooms
Marina Deluxe Room
The room has a refreshing tonality in furnishing and contains all the amenities that make it irresistible.
Marina Deluxe 2 Queen Beds
The Harbor and Marina Towers at Harrah’s are some of the most attractive, enticing, and relaxing rooms for a fun getaway in Atlantic City..
Harbor Deluxe
Contemporary style and graceful warmth greet the guests who choose to stay in the Harbor Deluxe rooms that you can find in the Harbor and Marina Towers.
2 Queen Beds -Harbor Deluxe
These rooms are epitomes of luxury with a generous supply of branded toiletries and comfortable bedding with 2 beds (Sealy Queen).
Bayview Premium
This is an experience of a lifetime that you will hardly forget.
The premium bay view 2 queen bedroom offers comforts far above any other room in the hotel. The Bayview Tower houses the rooms that have luxury beyond description. The attraction is a pleasant sitting area and the amazing “sleep easy” Queen beds.
The other rooms are:
Waterfront Premium
Waterfront Premium 2 Queens
Waterfront Corner Suite
Amenities
Spa
The Red Door spa offers several interesting packages that many regard as the best you can leverage in Atlantic City. They include body massages, facials, pedicures, manicures, hair artistry and makeup. You will experience total relaxation and peace of mind when you treat yourself to one of their unmatched and sophisticated packages for total comfort. They even have a special offer for Pedicures, Manicures, Body treatments, Facials and Massages for only $60.
Fitness Center
The Harrah’s fitness center has the latest and most technologically advanced equipments that offer you the ultimate experience in workouts. The center is open 24×7, 365 days a year.
| Game Info |
| Box ArtN/A |
| PlatformWin, Mac, Linux, PS Vita, PS4 |
| PublisherDevolver Digital |
| DeveloperAcid Nerve |
| Release DateQ1 2015 |
I'm on the final boss of Titan Souls, and I'm ready to throw my controller across the room.
I've died what I estimate to be about 30 times in this particular fight in developer Acid Nerve's overhead, pixel-art action game, which is really just a small fraction of the total number of times I've died over the course of the game, but I just don't feel like I'm getting anywhere. I know what I need to do, where I should theoretically be aiming my single arrow. But that doesn't seem to matter, and here comes death number 31—
Except no. Not this time. This time, there's a bright flash of white on the screen, and my opponent is the one who fell. To be honest, I'm not quite sure what happened. And, again, in the interest of honesty, this fight neatly ties a bow on top of my Titan Souls experience, places it in a proverbial, one-word nutshell: anticlimax. Despite moments of real boss-fight brilliance, Titan Souls feels like waiting for a slot machine to pop just a little bit too often, and when it does, the reward is a chance to do it all again.
To be totally honest, it doesn't seem like the titans were hurting anybody
Titan Souls doesn't do any heavy lifting to explain its premise. You start alone in a world with just one arrow and a quickly apparent goal: to kill everything you meet. This is less sociopathic than it initially sounds, because the world of Titan Souls is mostly empty, a set of ruins that should feel very familiar in its top-down perspective to anyone with a history in eight- and 16-bit adventure games, especially the Zelda series.
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As you explore the starting temple you'll find rooms with giant sleeping creatures — which, to be totally honest, don't seem like they were hurting anybody — and wake them up (by shooting them with your arrow) and then kill them (also by shooting them with your arrow).
Comparisons to games like Shadow of the Colossus and its giant bosses are unavoidable, which Titan Souls seems to be satisfied with, given the lack of any real info or context. Even the titans you come across are an opaque sort of mystery — some kind of text appears at the bottom of each encounter, but it's complete gibberish in all but two encounters I came across.
Titan Souls' limited vocabulary stretches to its basic mechanics as well. You have one arrow, which you fire by holding a button long enough to nock it; the longer you hold the button, the farther your arrow will fly. You can retrieve the arrow by walking over it, or you can hold the fire button to pull it back to you with force — which can kill as effectively as a direct attack. You can also roll, and holding the roll button down lets you run just a little faster than usual.
And ... that's about it, honestly. There's a world to explore, but it's mostly empty, absent a few rudimentary puzzle bits here and there — and, admittedly, a few neat secrets that reveal optional additional titans. But there's no progression, no growth outside your own skills. It's just you and your arrow. Instead, Titan Souls lives and dies in the fights with titans themselves, and, in turn, the emotional work you may need to perform to die over and over and over again while confronting them.
Each boss has an achingly video game-y weakpoint that will almost always be immediately apparent, whether it's the orange-ish brain in the center of a gelatinous mass or the pink butt of an abominable snowman. For most bosses, defeating them is a simple matter of hitting that weak spot, which is easier said than done. It takes time to aim an arrow, and while you're drawing down, you're stuck in place. Add to that the tendency of every titan to move rather actively in a way that will kill you instantly — in addition to whatever other attacks they're throwing out, which are also usually fatal — and it can be a real pain to put the pieces together.
You'll notice here I'm not using the word 'challenging,' because I'm not really sure that challenge is the right word. For many bosses, I knew what I needed to do to beat them almost immediately. I'm not just talking about what spot to hit, either. Rather, I knew what their behavior patterns and attacks would be, and I knew what kind of position I needed to be in to kill them. The trick was getting in that position.
As it turns out, I almost always accomplished this by figuring out a specific part of the room to stand in when I woke the titan that would put me in a nearly immediate position to hit its weak point within seconds of the fight starting.
After a few bosses, this didn't feel like a challenge, it felt like a war with a random number generator, waiting for exactly the perfect attempt to make my shot, and it was far faster to die to the boss and start it over than try to avoid a few minutes of attacks to have another perfect shot.
It wasn't always this way, of course. On some titans, I never died at all, firing blind, miracle shots within seconds of the encounter's beginning. This bled out any real sense of achievement. Dying over and over again waiting for the right chance felt like a war of attrition; nailing a perfect, lucky shot felt like, well, luck.
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Where's the fun in that?
But there are some encounters in Titan Souls that present a sense of exploration and discovery that the rest of the game fails to deliver.
In one such fight, an enemy shoots off blobs of poison that turn to gas when they hit the walls of the combat area. While the blobs will kill you instantly, the gas poisons you more slowly, distorting the screen and making combat slightly more difficult — until you're poisoned a second time, which seemed to make my character faster and easier to control. A third dose killed me, because of course it did.
This was one of my favorite moments in the game, in part because I had to spend more time looking for an opening, which created an extended sense of tension. There are a few fights like this, which require not just pattern recognition but give and take. Solving these little mysteries provided me with a real sense of success. This feels especially ironic given how it violates the very strong core demands Titan Souls makes elsewhere regarding machine-like precision and trial and error.
Wrap Up:
Titan Souls finds its best moments when its willing to spare the rod
There's a kind of satisfaction to be had in beating Titan Souls' meat grinder, but I only found a feeling of triumph at those points where it stepped away from its die-hard tendencies. In a game that usually kills so quickly, Acid Nerve finds its best moments when its willing to spare the rod, even if it's just for a few minutes.
Titan Souls was reviewed using a pre-release Steam copy provided by Devolver Digital. You can find additional information about Polygon's ethics policy here.
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