Finished Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity!
There were some interesting moments in the story, specially near the end, something I never thought I’ll say about a Warriors game.
My final percentage was around 50%. I did pretty much all the side missions in first 4-5 chapters, but didn’t do any of them in the last couple of chapters. As for the “resource” missions thingies, where you just have to give resources to get some upgrade etc. I did as many of those as I could without specifically grinding for their materials. Majority of the uncompleted nodes belonged to these.
There was also post game content, which can unlock a new character, I didn’t go for that, just saw it’s video on YouTube.
Spoilers about some characters:
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The characters from future! They were a surprise, didn’t expect them to show up here. Rito one was different though. Didn’t recognise him.
Overall, liked the game, and plan to eventually play both Fire Emblem Warriors and Age of Imprisonment. Not right away though, lots of other games already in my list.
Played more of Dark Souls Remastered.
Game is going good, haven’t gotten stuck anywhere since the Bell Gargoyle boss (pretty much the only place where I was stuck). It doesn’t mean I haven’t died though. Many deaths, many lost souls, but not as much as I was expecting.
I have just reached Anor Londo. Don’t know what it means in grand scheme of things, but I think I should be nearing the half-point.
Played a tiny bit more of Mutant Mudd Collection too. Cleared 4-4 and then got stuck at 5-1. Too many moving things! A moving rock, a flying enemy, a disappearing platform!
Found out that there are also alternate/night version of all levels, where enemies are ghosts and I can’t hit them, but the rest of the level design is same. Going to try those next. Some of those will probably also be pretty difficult. The first level was pretty easy though, but that was the first level.
Didn’t really play Fire Emblem: Three Houses or Cozy Grove this week either.
I have started too many games this time, so trying to finish those I can quickly, before getting back into these.
Weird thing to say right after talking about how many games I have started, but may start Killing Floor 3 this weekend. It was given in PS+ Monthly games this month, and some of the friends are interested, so plan to give it a try over the weekend and see if we like it enough to play it for a while.
This will probably just be a weekend nights game with friends, if we do play it and end up planning to continue it.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I’m closing in on what was originally the end of Xenoblade X on the Wii U. I still have a bunch of side missions to do, but now that I have all but one character unlocked, I will probably rush to the new part of the story that gets me that last one so he can start collecting BP for his skills. I haven’t picked up any treasures in a while to save the BP for the final characters so it doesn’t become a stupid grind at the end. I need to play more though, I need to finish this so I can play Metroid Prime 4. I prefer to only play one Switch game at a time, because I really don’t like removing and inserting tiny cartridges with my gigantic hands.
…but I’ve started Metroid Prime 4 anyway. I couldn’t resist! I love hoe much you can configure your controls. I’ve spent quite a bit trying to recreate the controls of the Wii versions. I tried playing twinstick for the first Prime’s remaster, but it never felt right to me. I’ve never played the games on the GameCube, the Wii Trilogy version is all I know, so I need pointer controls! I can’t play for very long though, after about an hour my hand almost falls asleep and it’s probably because the JoyCons are so much smaller than a WiiMote. That’s fine though, Metroid is never a long game anyway, so this keeps it going for longer!
I have to say though, the game starts very, VERY slow. I thought the game would open up after the prologue, but there was more prologue with Lieutenant Tim Talksalot (who doesn’t stay with you all the time, thank GOD!). I thought the game would open up after that second prologue, but that’s when the game really wants you to get your motorcycle. That was about 2 hours of very linear gameplay that’s probably going to stop now, but I’m not going to count my Metroid babies before they hatch.
I have reached Disc 2 of Wild Arms 2. It genuinely feels like season 2 of an Anime, I did not remember every villain introduced on Disc 1 to be defeated by the end of it, leaving us with something completely different to do now. And the game finally upped the damage numbers by the end of Disc 1, it was about time I had to try a little harder!
I am same with Switch games, don’t like to close one and start another, and that’s just with the digital games 😀
As someone who has only played the Switch version, the controls felt normal to me. For Prime Remaster that is, haven’t started Prime 4 yet, but it’s good that they have added the option to configure your controls. In this day and age no game should ship without contol rebinding options.
Minor Metroid 4 spoilers.
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Yeah, the moment the game opens up is after you complete Volt Forge and get the bike.
Good news! The BP is there already! Every character gets BP even if they aren’t in the active party. But I might be thinking of something else. I know XP isn’t for the bench, but I thought everything else was.
They don’t get BP if they haven’t joined the party yet. Mia had ~100 when she joined compared to the several thousand points the early characters have by now. But I’ve prepared for that for a while. I tried to save the BP reward for Cauldros survey completion, but you need 65% for the Mia quest to pop up in the first place.
Bad news! I don’t remember as much of the game as I thought! But I’m glad we’ve all taken turns enjoying it in these weekly posts.