Pretty much only played Fire Emblem: Three Houses this week.

I am at Chapter 16, and went with the Black Eagle’s Church route. I have figured out some gameplay and character stuff, and can think of some things I would like to do differently, but as I am playing on Normal, I don’t think the min-maxing matter too much, and most classes work fine on most characters. So have stopped worrying and just having fun with it.

The story is good, and it was interesting to see end of Part 1 and start of Part 2. Some of the plot twists were pretty obvious, but would love to play the other routes and see thing from their point of view. Also, thinking about buying the DLC after finishing the game once.

Since I am kinda smitten with Fire Emblem these days, wanted more of that, something to play in bed at night, when Switch 2 is back in the dock. Tried the mobile FE games but couldn’t get into them, so thought about Fire Emblem Warriors, but don’t want to do it while still playing Three Houses, not to mention don’t want to play another Warriors games when I never finished Hyrule Warriors.

So, resumed my playthrough of Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity, I was at last mission of Chapter 4, tried a random timed mission where I had to beat a Lynel and a Hinox, and failed the mission, apparently the game isn’t as easy as I remember.

Cleared Chapter 4 now. It’s fun to see so much new stuff showing up on map after doing the main mission.

No Judgment or Dimension Drive this week. And since FE: Three Houses is scratching my dungeon crawling itch, have officially dropped Moonlighter once again.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

  • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’ll give a counterpoint that I barely managed to finish HK and Silksong and would never try to 100% them, but I’m several hours into Nine Sols and I’m getting along just fine with the parrying mechanic. I’m honestly having more trouble with the red attacks that you can’t parry, in particular the ones that still hit if you’re standing close behind the enemy - muscle memory from other games makes me try to dodge to this position so those attacks just keep wrecking me.

    But might be one of those things that depends a lot on the person.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, I can understand that. It could be the difference between parrying and dodging. I personally never go for parrying since I have trouble getting the timing right, but I know someone who always go for parrying because of how satisfying it is to pull them off.

      That red attack (from your description) is one of the big reason I don’t like parrying, because there are always some attacks you just can’t parry and I find it difficult to quickly figure out and react to each different kind of attack. Dodging mostly works all the time.

      Maybe playing Sekiro will help with that…

      • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        So far the red/non-parryable attacks in this game all have longer wind-ups and flashier animations, so I’m not having a hard time identifying or reacting to them.