Finished Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed.
Apparently I was near the very end when I posted last week, I was expecting some kind of warning before point of no return, but they didn’t mention it. It’s possible they mentioned it when giving me the quest but I forgot about that.
Overall, really enjoyed the game, but it didn’t provide much new information about the worlds, or what happened to all the characters from first two games, though there were implied hints. I wanted more details, but as it is, even without playing it, I don’t think it would have made too much of a difference.
Apparently, there’s a hint in the end / post credit scene, that possibly connects it with Xenogear saga or Xenoblade Chronicles X, I haven’t played either so no idea, just saw it when trying to see what people thought of the ending. I think the story ended well enough, they should move to something new, but I trust the devs.
Played Guns, Gore, and Cannoli, it’s a side scrolling run and gun (like beat 'em up, but with guns), though I played it more like walk and gun.
Setting is 1920 Mafia in Zombie apocalypse, voice acting is nice, and gameplay is fun. Finished it in 2-3 days. There’s a sequel out too, where they have apparently improved a few things. Will definitely try it out (eventually).
Played quite a bit of Rise of the Tomb Raider, but didn’t make much progress as I was focusing on side content. Did the Baba Yaga DLC content (part of 20th anniversary version on PS), also explored some optional tombs and did optional side quests.
Going to start Medieval Dynasty on PS5, with a friend this weekend. I have always wanted to play some crafting / survival game, and one of my friends was interested in playing this too, and since it’s on sale right now, we decided to get it and give it a try.
No idea if I’ll actually enjoy this or not though, on paper (and videos) it looks good, so, let’s see.
Would I play this for next 3 months? or never touch it again after this weekend? Tune in next week, to find out!
So, what about all you? What have you been playing?
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I just finished playing Firewatch and Signs of Sojourner. I enjoyed both very much.
Eve online, its amazing how much more fun it is if you play to have fun rather than for the fleet
I have taken a look at it a few times, but I try to stay away from MMOs, cause if I end up liking them, I can’t afford the time sink.
I’ve got to (probably) the last “to be continued” of Great Ace Attorney collection. The twists at the end are definitely hitting the Herlock Sholmes ideal of whatever you haven’t eliminated is the truth, no matter how improbable. I’m in the middle of walking to the ice cream shop or I’d be racing to the end right now.
I’ve been so happy with the mobile Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent that I haven’t gotten out Octopath Traveler 2 for Switch again in weeks. And with XBX on the way, the itch to play through new game plus with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 with all the DLC.
And I finished my Breath of the Wild puzzle in less time than it took to get comfortable with the idea of fighting a boss. Just under 22 hours!
I’ve got to (probably) the last “to be continued” of Great Ace Attorney collection. The twists at the end are definitely hitting the Herlock Sholmes ideal of whatever you haven’t eliminated is the truth, no matter how improbable. I’m in the middle of walking to the ice cream shop or I’d be racing to the end right now.
GAA2 is so good, IMO one of the best AA games alongside AA3 and AAI2. That final case also has one of my favorite moments in the whole series.
spoiler
The final “Dance of Deduction”.
Wow, this puzzle looks so difficult. All those yellow on top, or black in left bottom, how do you deal with those? These kind of things are my biggest issue. Congratulations on completing it so quickly.
By XBX, I thought you meant Xbox Series X, and was wondering why getting Xbox is giving you itch to play Switch games. I generally abbreviate it as “XC X”: Xenoblade Chronciles X 😀
XC3 is probably my favourite game, but I don’t think I can play the whole game again. Just waiting for XC X to come out now.
My secret on puzzles is setting limits. I never put more than fifty pieces together per session. I never spend more than an hour per session. Early on, I always feel like I’m stopping before I need to. In the middle, I slot about one piece every two minutes so the hour timer exists to keep me from rage-quitting. Near the end, it gets easy, even with the nearly identical pieces since there aren’t many places left to place them. (I also save the outside borders for when I need a confidence boost, so the last pieces I put in were the entire bottom row).
Typing while walking along a six lane roadway leads to a lot of typos. The only thing I miss about Xbox is Culdcept. I bought an Xbox 360 for the sole purpose of playing it. Then I bought a second one. After red ring 2, I gave up. I’m still holding out hope for a new version of that for a Nintendo system one day.
Interesting. Thanks for the tips!
There appeared a copy of The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom in my flat. I guess i have to beat it fast before it disapears again. So i will be playing that.
Put my Tales of Graces f replay on the backburner to focus on other games. Will still go through it slowly.
Playing Fantasian Neo Dimension!
Quite a lot of progress in this one. And now I can see why the second half of the game is highly divisive.
It goes from a linear story to a more open-ended game, throwing you back into the world with only 3 characters and vaguely defined goals of “go explore, find your missing friends, defeat the bad guy”. Story beats gets faily sparse with a huge focus on exploration and combat. Bosses get a huge spike in difficulty and are also very “gimmicky”, they feel designed with the idea that you’ll lose to them once to learn the boss’ trick then rebuild your party around it to try again, but I didn’t find most gimmicks interesting or fun so far.
The changes above are not necessarily bad, but one thing that absolutely sucks in the second half are the random battles. The game gets extremely anti-grinding, giving close to zero experience when fighting weaker foes, but the random battle frequency is so high you will reach that virtual “level cap” without trying… and still have to keep fighting enemies constantly for very little reward. This is both boring and frustrating, even if the feature to “batch” enemies helps mitigate the problem.
On a positive note I love the new skill tree you get, it adds an interesting customization layer to and it’s great how you can freely respec as you learn more about which skills work better for your playstyle, or simply because you need to shift your strategy for a particular boss.
Playing Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
Picked this up as a side-game for when I need a break from Fantasian, and I’m extremely impressed by it so far. Ender Lilies was already a good game and this one improves on it in almost every way with with better movement, combat, and exploration. Difficulty seems to be toned down as well, which I see as a positive but YMMV.
Also, it looks beautiful and runs flawlessly on the Switch.
A bit sad to hear about the grind in Fantasian, I am not a big fan of grinding, or random battles,
I recall while you liked Ender Lillies, you had some complaints about the game (unless I am thinking of someone else), does it fix all those issues?
A bit sad to hear about the grind in Fantasian, I am not a big fan of grinding, or random battles,
The worst part that you don’t need to grind, the game simply doesn’t give you the tools to avoid it.
There’s no mechanism to turn random battles off or reduce their frequency. There is a tool to empty your “saved” battles for a fee, but that requires you to warp to a specific town which means it’s really useful if you’re at a fast travel checkpoint.
I recall while you liked Ender Lillies, you had some complaints about the game (unless I am thinking of someone else), does it fix all those issues?
I found my old comments about Lilies and I only complained a bit about the difficulty, which souds about right from what I remember of the game, it had some brutal sections where it crossed from “challenging” into “frustrating” but other than that was excellent.
So far Magnolia has been “just right” for me on difficulty - I’ve died a lot both during exploring and bosses, but so far never got frustrated and/or had to take a break from the game due to this. If they manage to keep this balance until the end this may honestly be my favorite game of this genre in recent years.
The worst part that you don’t need to grind, the game simply doesn’t give you the tools to avoid it.
I don’t think there will be any gameplay patch for this kind of thing, so guess will have to play as it is.
Interesting about Magnolia. Favourite game of the genre is a big deal. Would wait for your next update.
I don’t think there will be any gameplay patch for this kind of thing, so guess will have to play as it is.
I’m a bit more hopeful here, they seem to be doing good post-launch support with the control fixes and major Switch performance improvements in the last patch.
Random battles and difficulty in the second half are by far the biggest and loudest complaints you’ll see for this game, so I think there’s a chance we’ll get some tweaks to this in a future patch.
Favourite game of the genre
Favorite in recent years. 😅 Which is still a big deal considering how many good games we’ve been getting in this genre.
Worth mentioning that I’m on the minority of the metroidvania fans that don’t love Hollow Knight - I’ve beaten it, think it’s a great game, and I can certainly see why people put it on on a pedestal, but it didn’t click with me as well as other games in the genre did.
I think there’s a chance we’ll get some tweaks to this in a future patch.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Favorite in recent years.
Yeah, I got that. Favourite is a favourite, even if it’s not an all-time favourite.
I quite liked Hollow Knight, didn’t finish it, but reached very near the end. I think one of the reason it’s liked so much is that it was in the initial wave of metroidvania resurgence (or so I recall), not to mention it’s a very solid game.
