Hello Everyone!
Didn’t get to play much this week. And haven’t really started anything new.
- Played a few levels of New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe, not much though, still on the same water world.
- Played Dragon Quest XI for couple of hours, going to continue playing that.
- Reached High Rank in Monster Hunter: World but now I am stuck at Pink Rathian, maybe I need to improve my equipment, or maybe I should cave and fire that SOS flare.
- Playing a bit of Brotato before sleep, if I am not tired. Finally cleared it once, now trying other characters and weapon combinations. A combination of guns has been working out great for me though. All guns, all different type, and focusing on increasing ranged attack.
That’s all from me, what about you guys? What have you been playing?
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Breath of the wild (I know I’m late!) then moving to super Mario sunshine and then octopath traveler :)
I’m excited to play Octopath at some point. I’m probably going to start with the second one. Heard it was better and the stories between 1 and 2 aren’t really dependent on each other.
Yeah, I have heard the same, but if you plan to play both, it might be difficult to go back. 2 is definitely much better though.
I got BotW for Christmas back in 2019 and only just finished it a few months ago lol. I was just happy to finally understand all the memes!
My 4 year old and I started playing Mario Sunshine recently, too, and it’s a lot of fun. Definitely one of the more challenging Mario games, but not as big as some made it seem. Very fun.
Did you regularly played the game for 3.5 years? Or stopped played and resumed recently?
Played it for like 30 minutes, but never found the time to dedicate to it. Then over Christmas last year I finally had the chance to dedicate to it.
Ah, nice! Any plans to play TotK any time soon? Or going to give it a gap of couple of years?
Probably get it for my birthday and then not play it for a few years. 😁 But really, I want to get it, but it’s $90 here and I just can’t justify that. I’ll probably wait a few years for it to finally drop to $70 then get it. Lol. Also, I keep telling myself I should get through my backlog of games before I buy more…
I fully support playing through the backlog before buying new games, but you also shouldn’t force yourself. When I finish a game, I go through the list of all the games I have (don’t have much bought games in my backlog, but with PS+ and NSO classic games, have quite a big library of games that I can play without paying), and see which one I feel like playing, and then start that.
Of course, sometimes you want to play a specific game, and just get it, but in general, I try to keep my buying games at minimal.
As long as you are enjoying the game, doesn’t matter when you are playing it. I still have games for 2014 on my to-play list. So, are you enjoying it?
Also, nice list of games!
CrossCode! So excited, this game makes me feel like a little kid again, back when I would just sit and do nothing but game all day, totally lost in the experience.
One of my favourite games ever, and it gets even better the further in you are. Have fun!
I recall hearing mixed things about it. Don’t remember what they were though. Glad to see people loving it here.
I think it is a relatively puzzle-focused game, which not everyone is a fan of. Basically half action RPG, half puzzle game (similar to Zelda games). I think the puzzles are incredible, complex and lots of fun to solve and the dungeons in general are super cool (especially later ones. But not everyone likes the amount of puzzles there is.
Ah, that sounds wonderful. This just moved it closer to top on my wishlist! Thanks for the info.
That’s nice to hear, the game is still on my wishlist, glad you are loving it.
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I had the exact same experience. I tried Tunic last year and I was like “nope, I’m not doing this to myself again.” It gave me the same feeling as Link’s Awakening as a kid.
So triggered.
Finishing off Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s post-game content before moving on to Future Redeemed. I’ve enjoyed the heck out of it, though I am basically ready to be done, so… that lined up pretty nicely, actually.
Oh, I had completely forgotten about Future Redeemed! I was planning to play it after TotK, but then completely forgot it’s existence. Going to get it soon.
Been a busy week, haven’t been playing a ton. Picking up a little Overcooked 2 here or there, I always loved that game but couldn’t find friends to play it with. Apparently none of them like it nearly as much as I do, so I’ve just been playing it solo. Still a fun game though!
How are you enjoying it solo, I have heard it becomes quite hectic when playing alone?
Yeah it’s a bit much one the more difficult levels. You have two chefs to control, and you switch between them (using L I believe? Hard to say without just playing lol). So if you multi task well, you can set a chef up with some stuff and start chopping, then switch to the other to focus on other tasks
Yeah, that doesn’t sound easy. 😀
Good luck!
I’m working through my first playthrough of Stray. Last save I was just about to leave the Slums for what I understand to be the final time. Going for 100% and so far don’t think I’ve missed anything.
Not exactly video games, but I’ve also been doing puzzles lately - just completed my 4th in like a week. They were 300, 300, 1000, and 1000 pieces - but the last one only had 999 pieces present 🙁 Gonna try to make the missing piece myself before I return them to the library.
After Stray I might start on New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe too. Wanna get through it before Wonder comes out.
Edit: lol just realized this is the Nintendo community and not general gaming. Oh well, at least I fit NSMBUD in there
Loved Stray, it’s a really fun game. Good luck with 100%!
I love jigsaw puzzles, the last one I got from some random shop, and I think it wasn’t original, or maybe just faulty, as the colours on the pieces didn’t exactly match the box. And all the different shades of dark gray were simple black. I just gave up on it. I want to try some nice ones.
As for Mario, yeah, I started it for the same reason. Wanted to finish it before Wonder comes out.
Civ 6 (long loading times) Tears of the Kingdom Splatoon 3 And soon Quake 2!
EDIT: I’m currently on vacation
That sounds like a fun vacation!
How’s Civ 6 on Switch? Just initial load times are long? Or every turn is slow?
Just slow turns. Since that I like to play on large maps with a lot of cities and Leaders. I’m just used to my pc that it’s quick and not taking 2+ minutes for every turn.
Ah, that might be annoying, waiting so long for each turn.
This will be my first clear weekend for a while.
I’ve been playing a BG3 campaign with my buddy when I got a few spare hours, so we’ll probably play that some this weekend.
I’ve also been playing Thronefall. Great, simple tower defense RTS kinda game.
Also been playing New Star GP. A retro style, arcadey Formula One game in a retro style similar to Virtua Racer from the devs that made Retro Bowl. It’s got a fun little career mode.
How are you liking BG3? I have mentioned it few times, but I am really excited for the game, but still haven’t gotten around to playing the Divinity: Original Sin series, so have to play that first.
Thronefall looks nice. Still in early access but Overwhelmingly Positive. I have added it to my wishlist, mainly to keep an eye on it if they ever release a console version.
How’s New Star GP? I used to love older Need for Speed games, but haven’t played a racing game in a long time, at least none that I liked. If the feel of the cars, and career mode is good, can add it to my list.
BG3 is great. So far I’m thinking it’s the best CRPG of all time. I’d recommend it over DoS 1&2, which is saying a LOT because DoS2 is amazing.
Thronefall is a great, cozy game that still scratches my RTS itch.
I think New Star is probably only going to work for specific people. It has the look of Virtua Racer, with old school arcadey car feel, in Formula One style races with a career mode based on managing your sponsorships, pit crew, and engineers, while upgrading your car. It’s absolutely nothing like NFS.
I’d recommend it if you liked games like Rush and Cruis’n USA, and Formula One.
If you’re looking for something like NFS, NFS Heat was pretty solid. Forza Horizon 5 would be another game you might enjoy. Project Cars 3 is another solid Arcadey racer. I mostly play Sim and Simcade racers, so I don’t have a lot of recommendations for arcadey racers.
Ah, thanks for the feedback and recommendations.
Yeah, from all I have seen BG 3 is much better than DoS 2, which is a lot better than DoS 1. So, since I want to play all the games, it makes sense to start from the worst game (which is still a really great game). 😀
Have you played BG1 or 2?
Oh yes! BG 1, 2, Icewindale 1 (and 2?). Played them all. Though don’t remember much of the story. Also, haven’t played anything modern. Not even Pillars of Eternity (though I did start it on PC once, but it didn’t work well on it).
Finished Trails into Reverie.
Well, that took a while, more than 90h, but I went for full completion - main game, post game dungeon, trials, daydreams, minigames, everything done.
I love the Trails series, it’s one of my favorite JRPG series ever, but it has its fair share of problems - they use the same formula for most games so it’s easy to get burned out if you play many of them in sequence, there’s a lot of cast bloat due it being a series with all games interconnected, an annoying tendency to keep trying to redeem villains, and just being too verbose at times (often because they want to use all members of that huge cast).
Why I’m talking about this? Because while I had a lot of fun with the previous game (Cold Steel 4), it also did showcase all the problems above at full strength, but Reverie does something different and provides a much necessary “break” from the usual Trails experience.
The game is split in three routes, two for protagonists of previous games (Lloyd and Rean) and one for a mysterious new masked character (“C”). This breakdown is a good shift from the usual game dynamic, lessens the issues with cast bloat since they are all spread around, and "C"s route is focused on new cast members making it a much fresher experience.
Another major change is the Reverie Corridor. Most of games in the series are heavy into sidequests, but this time the “main” game barely contains any, only a few optional extra-challenging monsters. Instead, almost all optional content takes place in this dream-like world where time flows differently and memories from the real world as hazy. Here you have access to the full cast of the game (and even some extras!), a randomly generated dungeon you can use to grind freely, a ton of minigames including series classics like Pom and Vantage Masters, and a very nice section called “Daydreams” with a lot of mini-stories showing what’s going on around with both the main cast and some familiar NPCs - very similar to the Doors from Sky 3rd.
This keeps the main story very tight and focused while also having a lot of fun optional content, and gives you freedom to decide if and when to focus on each. I don’t expect this to become the norm for future games in the series, but I enjoyed this structure a lot and I hope they do use something like this time to time to avoid burnout from the usual formula.
Finally, on the story, this is an epilogue for both Zero+Azure and Cold Steel 1-4, so obviously not a game for someone starting the series. It does a much better job story-wise then CS4 IMO, in particular in the Crossbell section - it’s still the weakest of the three routes largely due to it just rethreading old plot lines, but it fixes a lot of the things that bothered in the last two games. Rean’s route is a nice epilogue that touches on the impact of the last game’s events in Erebonia, and "C"s route is just great fun with a cast of anti-heroes.
And now the wait for the next game begins. Really looking forward to see the Calvard arc.
Started Grisaia Phantom Trigger 5.5 to 08.
Phantom Trigger is the 4th game in the Grisaia series, with the three first games (Fruit, Labyrinth and Eden) being available as a bundle as well on the Switch. This last game was released as a bunch of 2-5h “Episodes”, and this is second half of that game.
The original Grisaia games have a very interesting structure. The “Common” route of Fruit is 70% of the story and it’s full slice-of-life comedy, but once it splits into the individual routes for each heroine it gets crazy dark as you learn their backstories. Labyrinth shifts into having the main story being dark (it’s the MC’s backstory) with “lighter” after-stories for each heroine. Finally Eden goes towards a more action-focused story, but I wasn’t a big fan of it, and one of the main reasons is that most of the cast was just regular girls, so having they become involved in a spy conspiracy didn’t really work for me, it was just too hard to believe.
Phantom Trigger is more action-focused, much like Eden, but it fixes the above problem by stating from the beginning that the cast is part of “school of assassin” of sorts. It takes place in the same universe as the earlier games, but so far has been a completely independent story with a brand-new cast.
The first five episodes were focused on introducing the cast.
- 01: Introduction of the initial cast (Shiori, Haruto, Rena, Tohka, Chris and Murasaki) and premise.
- 02: Rena’s backstory, adds Maki.
- 03: Tohka’s backstory, adds Gumi.
- 04: Chris’ backstory, adds Taiga.
- 05: Murasaki’s backstory, adds Yuuki.
I only had time to start 5.5 for now, but it seems to be centered on Shiori, the focus character of the first episode - a new “civilian” teacher that just joined this school. Looks like this chapter will be about how she is adapting to the her new school and students, but I’ll talk more about it next week.
As for my overall impression of the story, a redditor once described Phantom Trigger as “pretty cozy comfort food reading”, and I think that’s an accurate description. It doesn’t do anything special or amazing, but it’s been consistently fun and entertaining.
Nice, that Reverie game structure sounds interesting, but I am generally not a fan of grinding just for grinding sake, so not sure if I’ll like that part, but rest sounds good. I just hope I can finish rest of the Trails series by the time Calvard Arc is finished (the localized version). If only they release Trails in the Sky on Switch, I’ll done with the Liberl and Crossbell arc in just a few months.
Grisaia is one of the VNs that you recommended me! I haven’t started it yet, but I have saved the list, though with the amount of games that I have in my backlog and to-play list, it might be a while before I get to them. Interesting to read about it, and the “pretty cozy comfort food reading” sounds good, making me interested.
It’s not quite “grinding just for grinding sake” because going through dungeon is also what unlocks the optional stuff like Trials, Daydreams and Minigames. But asides from the first visit you’re not required to go through it at all.
Honestly, I’m probably gonna crack away at some more Triangle Strategy. Crazy underrated.
I loved that game! Not many games make me want to playthrough all the stories but this this one’s writing was so delightful.
The game looks great. I have heard that there is lots of talking, and few maps which you keep playing on. What do you think about that?
Been playing through a lot of Oracle of Seasons, I love 2D Zelda so I’ve been enjoying it a lot. The puzzles require a bit of thinking but are easy to complete. The season changing mechanic is also pretty cool. Currently on the 5th dungeon, Unicorn’s Cave. I think that places me around somewhere halfway through the game?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is always fun to sit down and play for a bit. Love the series, ever since playing Double Dash as a kid.
Also have been thinking about restarting FE: Three Houses lately, loved what I played during my first playthrough, but life happened and eventually began playing less and never got around to completing the game. Honestly would rather start up a new playthrough instead of trying to remember everything that had happened leading up to where I last saved.
I’ve also begun an obsession with Pikmin. Up until the demo for Pikmin 4 released I had never played any of the games, but it’s got me absolutely hooked. Unfortunately can’t afford Nintendo’s usual $60 at the moment, so I’ve been making due with 4’s demo. Definitely going to be my first purchase once I get things in order.
I have been hearing good things about Oracle of Seasons / Ages, glad you are enjoying them.
I have FE: Three Houses on pause. I love the combat, but the monastery stuff feels a bit of chore, and I was in about my 7th or 8th month, and not even close to recruiting anyone, so it kept making me feel I am missing out on stuff, and not playing properly. Still, going to get back to it once I clear a few games, as the combat was really fun.
Good luck with Pikmin, hope the things get sorted out for you soon.
Pretty hooked on pikmin 4. The gameplay loop is so satisfying 👌
Pikmin for the win! Have you played the previous entries in the series, or is Pikmin 4 your first one?
I dabbled a bit in the other ones. I think I played part 1 the most.
I’m kinda close to 100%ing pikmin 4 tho. It’s so damn good.
That’s nice! How are you enjoying the game?
Pikmin 4. I grabbed a Japanese copy at the Tokyo store last week. I only played it on the flight home.
How are you enjoying it? Have you played the previous games in the series?
I’m still only on day 2 lol.
I found Pikmin 1 and 2 ROMs and got them running on my Wii (custom lanucher). There’s Pikmin 3 deluxe too. My kids play it a lot more than I get to.
I haven’t played any TOTK in a few weeks - I’ve been distracted by other games! But I should probably play some more. Besides that I’ve been enjoying 13 Sentinels, Battlebit and a bit of Minecraft on the side.
Yeah, you should play more TotK! always more TotK!
How are you enjoying 13 Sentinels?
13 Sentinels is really great so far! The animations are beautiful. There are some slightly cringey anime tropes/fanservice at points but it’s not too bad. After the introduction the game lets you choose whether you’d prefer to advance the plot or play the Fire Emblem-esque battles. Having this choice is nice - sometimes I just want to relax with the visual novel side for example.
I’ve spent most of my little free time lately doing the daily challenges on Fallout 76. But I recently finally fired up Wolfenstein New Order that I bought like 4 years ago. Lol. I’m really enjoying it. After that, I might finally start Elden Ring which I got for Christmas.
Edit: lol. Just noticed this was the Nintendo lemmy. Thought it was general gaming. For Nintendo, my kid was just saying she wanted to play Bowser’s Fury again and maybe some Animal Crossing. ☺ I do find AC very relaxing so I might have to lay on the couch with that one soon. Or if I don’t feel like relaxing, I’ll fire up Hades again. Lol
It is Nintendo community, but we don’t mind mention of other games. I myself have mentioned Monster Hunter: World this week, and regularly mention all the games I am playing anywhere.
How are you enjoying the Fallout 76? Is the game better now? Someone mentioned that it’s fun now, so I was thinking about giving it a try sometime, specially since it available on PS+ Extra.
I played Wolfenstein New Order recently, a really good FPS. Still have the sequel to play though. I haven’t gotten around to Elden Ring yet, but from all accounts, it’s a masterpiece.
Haha, the contrast of you going from general gaming to “nintendo” gaming is so funny. From Wolfenstein and Elden Ring to Animal Crossing. Bowser’s Fury is my daughter’s favourite game, or well, you can say the Fury Browser is her favourite character. After Princess Peach that is.
Hahaha. It is pretty appropriate to see such a shift in genre, isn’t it? I think most of my hours on the Switch are definitely Mario games and Animal Crossing. And not just because of my kid. Lol. (Although I say that while she’s next to me playing AC. Haha.)
I’ve been playing FO76 since launch, and I’ve actually always found it enjoyable. But it’s definitely a much improved and in ways a very different game than launch. I highly recommend it to anyone, especially if you’ve liked fallout games in the past. It’s perfectly fine to play solo, which is pretty much how I played it for like the first year. But the events and other multi-player aspects are pretty fun, too. The first time I triggered a server wide event, I didn’t even realize what I had done until suddenly there were a dozen players around me fighting waves and waves of enemies. It was chaos and so much fun. Also, the world is quite beautiful and there’s something so peaceful about just walking around listening to Appalachia Radio. Give it a shot!
Interesting. I am currently already playing 2 games that both require lots of time, so wouldn’t start it before I can finish at least one of them, but definitely going to give it a try.
Thanks for the feedback!
