It was a busy week, didn’t play anything for significant amount of time. Maybe an hour or so for both Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
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I know this is arguably not Nintendo, but I’m playing the new remaster of the classic PS1 & PC game Croc: Legend of the Gobbos that just came out. I have the Nintendo Switch physical Collector’s Edition pre-ordered which comes with an awesome statue of Croc, but I haven’t received it yet and double-dipped on PC due to having played it with the keyboard on my childhood PC back in the day.
Wow, you must really love the game. 😀
(These weekly threads aren’t limited to Nintendo only, for instance, I am playing Dragon Age on PS5. I also mention whatever I am playing on Steam etc.)
After a perfunctory amount of Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent, I jumped straight into Xenoblade Chronicles X for a few hours. After my weekend walk to the ice cream place, I’m about to jump back in.
It’s so neat to see scenes and pictures I remember from playing way back in the Wii U days. I ran into a one creature that made me think “oh, I remember that guy from almost a decade ago!” Moments later, I was thinking, “oh, he’s running straight for me!”
I still don’t like the combat bar: the change to the Xenoblade 2/3 style double diamonds for arts was a genius UI move. But I can forgive a lot with the memories this game is resurfacing.
Maybe I should stop messing around and start chapter 5’s story mission instead of just wandering throughout Mira. Or not. Either way is a rewarding weekend play.
Ender Lillies. Great game so far. The sequel is meant to be better. Need to finish this first
I think Lilies has a better mood/setting than its sequel, but Magnolia is absolutely fantastic and improves on almost everything else - and Lilies was already a damn good game. I finished it earlier this year and left a spoiler-free mini-review in one of these threads.
One thing worth mentioning if you’re coming from Lilies is that Magnolia is significantly easier on “Normal” difficulty, so if you prefer more challenging games you’ll probably want to up the difficulty.
I’ve been playing Wasteland: Remastered (a remaster of the original Wasteland, from 1988). I’ll probably play through 2 and 3 afterward.
Been digging star wars outlaws lately. So probably that and some Xenoblade 3. But also very tempted to get dragon quest 2 hd 2d
Finally tried Balatro!
I needed an Internet free game to play on my flight this week.
If you’re A fan of roguelike deck builders. You should definitely give it a shot!
Finished Trails Through Daybreak II!
JRPGs usually end with an epic struggle and tons of battles, but this game does something different for its final chapter - you solve a few cases, enjoy bonding moments with your party, then go through a short dungeon with only two boss battles to close the last unsolved mystery in the game.
It’s very subdued for a finale but I loved it. The last battle was particularly awesome, and the ending had some good emotional moments bringing closure to events from Daybreak 1.
Final battle spoilers
I complained a lot about this game’s poor usage of the time travel gimmick, but the way you jump through time mid-battle to the an earlier confrontation with Grendel Zolga, then jump again for a quick rematch with some of Daybreak 1’s bosses was really cool.
The boss being able to “break” the turn-based battle system and force you into action combat for a short time was also a neat touch, it gives it a strong sense of power as this is something no enemy did before.
Overall, I’ll stick by what I said last week - this one goes on the lower tier of games in this series, but I still had a ton of fun. As a final note, Trails Beyond the Horizon just got announced today, so we’re finally catching up to the japanese releases!
Playing Tevi!
Rabi-Ribi was an incredibly pleasant surprise, so I decided to play this “spiritual sucessor” from the same developer.
They clearly had a much bigger budget with this one. Visuals and animations are much more detailed, there’s a proper story, plenty of fully-voiced segments including famous japanese VAs, and a more in-depth and customizable combat system.
It’s more linear than Rabi-Ribi, but the same applies to pretty much every game in this genre. 😅 The only real complain I have so far is the relatively low number of saving points, I tend to play these games in short bursts and sometimes I have to keep going for longer thay I’d like before I find a proper place to stop.
I need to get back to Trails game. Was playing the Trails in the Sky SC, when got stuck on the boss, and they announced the remakes, so just dropped those. Maybe I should start with Trails from Zero. Since they are available on console, would be easier to play them.
The main issue with playing these games out of order is that you get some spoilers from previous arcs. As an example, there’s a character storyline from Sky 2+3 that is finished in Zero.
But if you’re OK with that I’d go for it, I played the games up to CS3 that way (Sky 1/2 -> CS 1/2/3 -> Sky 3 -> Zero/Azure) and I don’t think it hurt my enjoyment of the series.
Just keep in mind that the later games in CS storyline (3/4/Reverie) ramp up the connections to Zero/Azure, which is why I paused after CS3 to go back and catch up on the older games.
The main issue with playing these games out of order is that you get some spoilers from previous arcs.
That’s the main reason I haven’t played them yet. I really loved the first one, but my ability (or maybe willingness) to play older games is going down. I guess I should wait for the remake.
Assassin’s Creed 2. Replaying it after a long time. Still just as much funi
Any plans to play shadows?
Nope.
lol. Any reasons?
I don’t like RPG assassin’s creed games. Too bloated for my tastes.
I thought Shadows was like old style AC game. It isn’t?
Only a few mechanics. Gameplay loop is more akin to newer games.
Ah, didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
Stardew Valley. Doing a 1.6 run on Switch for the first time, trying to hit perfection in 2 years.
What’s perfection?
