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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You know. It’s Winter now in my coral island playtru and i don’t want my barn animals to get a cold. So i take a break from playing
Heh. Keep those animals warm!
How do you compare it with other farm games? If you have played any.
I try, i don’t have a heater yet T_T
I really like it! I mean, it’s still in early access, much of the content is still in pogress. Bugfixes come regular and the discord server is helpfull.
It does every farming stuff and it’s neat. The diving and cleaning the ocean stuff is nice. Pretty relaxing. I really like the Characterdesign and artwork. The Characters are diverse and the variety of bachelor/ettes is huge.
I am waiting for the marriage Update!
Didn’t know about diving and cleaning the ocean. That’s nice. Will add it to my “games to keep an eye on” list. Hopefully, it would come over to Switch when it officially launches.
Got the Sonic Origins collection as a gift and beat the first Sonic for the first time ever, som I’m going to keep rolling with that.
Also jumped into this weekend’s Splatfest but I think after 300 hours I’ve had my fill of Splatoon 🤷🏻♂️
Nice! I remember we beat Sonic 2, but don’t recall if we ever beat the first one. Good luck with the rest of the games!
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.
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).
Dave the diver and melatonin, a chill week indeed
I heard Dave the Diver is coming to Switch too, hope they release it soon.
Just looked up Melatonin, the games is beautiful! I am not a big fan of rhythm games, but with Overwhelming Positive, assist features, and beautiful art style, this seems like worth a try. Going to add it to my list!
I got a little burnt out on TotK so I decided on playing a little bit of Persona 5 as an in-between game and got completely hooked on that instead. Even though I usually don’t really enjoy turn-based combat. Super cool game, I can definitely recommend it
Haha, you chose a wrong game for playing “a little bit”. Are you playing Royal or the basic version? Enjoy your next 100 hours!
Royal, found it at a pretty good discount some time ago. Though I don’t know the difference between that and base game. Thanks!
Well, there are many QoL features, and there is an extra semester at the end of the game. The fans of the game says, Royal is definitive edition to play.
Splatoon 3 for the splatfest, probably
What’s the next splatfest?
The theme is “what’s most important in life”.
I have no hopes for Love, so, Fame or Money, let’s see which one wins.
Played Dragon Quest XI for a couple of hours
Yay!
Played a few levels of New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
It’s still in my queue :-)
I’ll be playing more Dragon Quest XI, some raiding in Pokémon Violet and Scarlet, and maybe some Super Mario
Yeah, love the “Story so far” feature of DQ XI, it helped trigger my memory of everything that was going on. I am currently in the “medal college” area. Well, near that, but that overall area. How far ahead are you from that? 😀
Back to Super Mario? Starting from start?
Back to Super Mario? Starting from start?
You know I am so hooked on DQ XI I am not playing anything else right now. I play for about an hour before I go to sleep. I am past the “medal college” area :-).
Ah nice. I have also cleared that area. Also cleared all the available side quests, and now am in the snow lands.
I mentioned the reason why it’s taking me so much time in this week’s weekly post. Basically, I am playing on PS5, and the fact that you can’t just save anywhere is causing the delay. Wishing that I had started it on Switch.
I finished the PSP versions of Trails in the Sky 1 & 2, then watched a summary of 3rd recently. Now I’m playing Trails from Zero on Switch and I can’t put it down. I’ve already earmarked the money for Azure.
Oooh! I had forgotten about the PSP versions! It won’t have things like making game fast, but it can be a good way to play the game handheld! I wonder if I can buy those for Vita now.
I would have much preferred to play the vita versions, but I left my vita at the foreign in-laws’ and haven’t had a chance for a trip back there. Whenever I get it back, I think I’m going to eventually replay the Sky games there. I miss my vita. :(
I just looked it up, the Vita version was Japan only.
That happens to be where my in laws live. But either way, I believe there are English patches if you’re willing to hack your device.
Ah, that’s cool. Unfortunately my in laws don’t live there. 😀
And yeah, don’t want to hack my device, not yet anyway.
I finished the all the english-released games (my mini-review of Reverie is somewhere in this thread), but I still consider Zero+Azure my favorites. Best cast overall (though Estelle is my favorite protagonist), a fantastic setting, goddamn amazing OST.
I love this duology so much, simply hearing the CSPD theme play during one of the sections in Reverie was enough to make me immediately crack as smile.
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Another thing I love about these two games is how crazy is the ramp on the final stretch. Most Trails games follow the “start slow and increase the stakes near the end” approach, but IMO this duology is where they made the best use of this plot structure.
I literally just wrapped up chapter 3 (what a development!) and can’t believe I have already been at it for over 50hrs already. My goal is to play them all for the first time by order of release, so the western arrival of the cross bell arc couldn’t have been timed more perfectly for me.
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.
This sounds like a nightmare. Same charms, repeating over and over, in a jigsaw puzzle. How do you even make that?
The last of the puzzles I just did was a Wasgij - which always does tricky things with the box art. For this one you’re shown a scene on the front of the box, then the actual puzzle is what someone in that scene would see from their perspective - so most of the puzzle isn’t actually shown, and the things that are shown are in the wrong perspective. It was interesting to do since my puzzle strategy usually relies heavily on comparing pieces to the box.
Okay, looked up Wagij, they look awesome. I want to try a few.
Just learned about Wasgij from you. And same question as I asked above. How do you even solve that? Isn’t jigsaw all about seeing the picture and then matching the piece with the picture on board and so on.
That’s my usual strategy - this was the first time I had to do it without really having a reference image. I didn’t even try to use what was visible on the box.
It ended up not being too hard. In the beginning (after the edge obviously) I progressed by sorting pieces by color. As an example, I put every single piece with even a tiny bit of purple into one pile. Then I tried to connect the pieces in just that pile - which in the case of purple ended up making me 3 or 4 distinct objects. While I didn’t know what I was making (I thought I was making a sea monster, ended up being a straw hat), the pool of pieces was low enough to make it not too hard to find connections.
Once I’d done that for all the colors that were rare enough to make that strategy useful, I was about half-way done - by which point it wasn’t too bad to figure out what sorts of pieces I needed to find to extend which sections of puzzle I already had assembled. The only truly painful part was all the pieces that were just water - which would have been hard even with a reference picture.
It can also help to sort the pieces by shape: since there are so many fewer of the non-standard shapes you have a lot fewer pieces to check when you find a missing spot that’s not going to to fit a standard piece. And you can get pretty tricky about how you spot where nonstandard pieces go: For example, two innie or two outie bits in a row on an edge mean one of them has to be nonstandard, as do a few other patterns.
The surprise is nice: The puzzle I did ended up being vaguely Christmas themed, which is something you can’t tell from the box at all.
I am very intrigued. I am going to try to get one as soon as I can.
More sidequesting/shrine hunting in TotK, in Akkala, Faron and near Lurelin Village. Mostly been dealing with the Yiga, including beating up Master Kohga twice in the depths, and at one point went through a cave looking for a shrine and ended up
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in the lower level of a labyrinth fighting gloom hands (f**k gloom hands) and a Phantom Ganon.
Currently very likely sequence breaking by
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putting together the body for the Spirit Sage before finishing all four surface temples apparently. Wanted to see what was up with the storm cloud above Faron and stumbled upon the beginning of the quest.
I would consider some of these spoilers, I would suggest you add them in spoilers tag.
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This is a spoiler.
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!
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.
I’m currently playing through Super Mario World and having a blast - it’s been decades since I played it.
I’ve been fancying trying my hand at kaizo so thought it would be best to play through the base game first.Super Mario World is fun, but I can’t even dream of playing kaizo. Would love to hear how that goes. Good luck!
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?
