Finished Yoshi and the Mysterious Book!
Well, at least the credits rolled, there is post game content but the little bit of what I have played, requires much more skill. I still have all the stuff I left in the previous levels though, have to go back and complete that at least.
Going to keep playing and try to complete the encyclopedia as much as I can, not sure I’ll be to get everything, specially the post-game ones. Will probably put it aside as primary game and just play it here and there for completion. Have been itching for a JRPG so will probably start one now.
Finished Onimusha: Warlords!
It wasn’t a long game, maybe 5-6 hours total, and if remove all the unskippable scenes that I had to see multiple times cause I died on the boss, it would’ve ended even sooner.
The game has many similarities with the early Resident Evil games so looked up the details and apparently the original idea of the game was “Ninja Resident Evil”. Though, fortunately the puzzles in this game aren’t as convoluted, and there are very few of those around.
Loved the game, even with the dated elements, the game is fun to play. I’ll recommend it to action game fans, if they have some patient for older elements like fixed camera, saving at fixed places, and unskippable scenes.
Started Owlboy on Switch. It has been on my wishlist for a long time, so decided to get it on latest sale. I’ll mainly be focusing on Switch 2 games for next few months (Yoshi, Star Fox, Splatoon Raiders), but when kids are hogging that, need something on Switch to play too.
I have just started it and played less than an hour, so can’t really say much about it, but the graphics and gameplay looks interesting.
Played more of Fallout 4.
After reaching the Diamond City the game seems to have slowed down. Since it’s the biggest city around, there’s a lots to do here and the surrounding, but this means the “exploring the wilderness” feel has dimmed down a bit.
Also played some Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Arc Raiders, not much to mention here.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
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More 13 Sentinels.
It has been a slow week in terms of gaming, I only did a bit of story. The story segments and the battle segments are mostly independant of each other, so you can do whichever for the most part.
Even though there are 13 characters, each with their own perspective and and during different times within the overall story, the game does a great job to interest you in at least one of the other characters during any given perspective. You’re free to switch after each mini episode, but I tend to follow a single character until there’s a progression lock.
Currently at 31% battle and 20% story completion.
Started God Eater 3.
Monster Hunter Wilds has been announced for Switch 2 and with the last direct being as great as it was, I’ll get one eventually. But until then, we wanted to play something similar to cratch the itch.
The game throws a lot of progression systems at you, which I like. The monster are a lot less thightly desgined, but still fun. Thus far, the game is quite easy .
I’m on the FFVII Rebirth train; Gold Saucer on the rear view, I’m just puttering around looking for Zonai Towers. Eventually, this game will drive me to finish Tears of the Kingdom. The local public library has the switch 2 edition for check out, so might as well borrow the upgrade that way.
Enjoyed the Lord of the Rings Adventure Book game with my wife and my youngest. It’s a fairly simple, fun, cooperative game that plays through the Lord of the Rings experience one chapter at a time (with some compression).
I ran tween D&D again. We are still in the lesson learning part of the game, so yesterday’s lesson was how during a battle, your attention should be on the threats of the combat to your allies.
Finished another Picross E+ DLC. I’m avoiding buying another while I have so many games open right now, but nothing joyfully passes the time like a podcast and a Picross.
Tomorrow I’m driving far to a fellow teacher friend’s house to celebrate the start of summer. I’m bringing my favorite board game Fog of Love.
It will be FF7 Rebirth for me. I just finished all the exploration and side missions in the first area today :)
FF7 seems to be community favourite this week!
I checked out the Starfox demo. Holy hell. It looks absolutely beautiful and plays amazingly well. I had neither high nor low expectations for this game but I might have to get it.
Have you played the original?
Oh yes. I was an N64 kid in the 90s and Starfox was the first game I had. Played the shit out of it. The new one so far feels very faithful to the original while being an improvement in every way.
Finished Minishoot’ Adventures!
Great little game, just wish it was longer. I know ~7h is not bad for a cheap indie, but I was having a lot of fun and it left me wanting more. Would purchase a sequel Day 1.
Playing Horizon Chase Turbo!
I got this alongside all DLCs when they announced the game was going to be delisted.
It’s an old-school arcade racer, developed by a brazilian team and heavily inspired by the SNES game Top Gear. It also has a few interesting expansions, a “Summer Vibes” homage to Out Run, and “Senna Forever” referencing Super Monaco GP while also bringing a career mode based on Ayrton Senna, a brazilian F1 pilot from the 80s and 90s. Finally there’s a free “Rookie Series” with easier gameplay for those starting in the genre.
I finished all the DLC bundles first, and while the game as a whole has been a big nostagia trip for me the Senna DLC hit me the hardest - I have a lot of memories watching his races when I was a kid, and despite being a non-licensed F1 game they did a marvelous job capturing that age of the sport. The teams and tracks are “fictional” but you can easily recognize the references, plus there’s a lot of key moments of his career depicted in-game.
I’ve also started the “main” game, but this one will take a while, looks like it has more than 100 races!
Playing Witch on the Holy Night!
Back to this after a bunch of distractions. Finished chapters 8, 8.5 and 9.
I think 5-10 hours is a good spot for a game like this, and game ending with wanting you more is better than overstaying the welcome, but yeah, I understand the feeling.
As for Horizon Chase Turbo, I loved the game, but it has lots of rubber banding, specially after the first couple of cities. @[email protected]
Horizon Chase Turbo is great. I got the physical version and really enjoyed it. The music by Barry Leitch is incredible. I used to play Top Gear on the SNES a lot, a friend used to have it. It’s definitely made with lots of love and respect for the original Top Gear (it was massive in Brazil!). Barry Leitch also wrote the music for the SNES game, and he pays homage to some tunes in Horizon Chase. Now I feel like going back to playing it 😁
Horizon Chase Turbo 2 I only got digital on Switch. I don’t think there was a physical release at all. Unfortunately, it didn’t come out in a great state and didn’t manage to hook me as much as the first one. I think it never got an update to fix some of its issues, I never went back to playing it. Unfortunately, the studio Aquiris was acquired by Epic and apparently everyone was put to work on Fortnite stuff (not sure if this is true, but read it on the community discord).
Earlier today, I managed to crash Yoshi’s Mysterious Book Club. In the exploding chestnut stage, I just scooped one up out of the water and the game froze. It never happened again after a reset though, so I assume it was a very rare accident. Still in Chapter 4, I just haven’t played as much because
I really got into Visions of Mana this week. The game flows so much better in its second half! Having a real villain definitely helps, so does finally having access to all elements as a mage. There haven’t been any large open areas lately to slow me down and there were finally some larger indoor areas that have been sorely missing so far. And each of them had two bosses, which have been my favorite part of the game! Though one of them glitched out somehow, making me unable to cast my spells. It wasn’t Silence, I was able to swap characters and tell my mage to cast their spells remotely, but when I controlled them nothing would happen! So that’s two games that broke this week…
Fallout 3 breaks a lot, being a Bethesda game, so I’m not counting that for a triple! I finished the main story of the Point Lookout DLC and I can’t say I liked it. The location is great though, and I’m looking forward to exploring the corners I haven’t been to yet before going home to D.C…
So, in other words, it’s only thanks to Bethesda that you don’t have 3 games breaking on you 😀
I see so much praise for Visions of Mana, but I can’t get through the first two hours of it. So many cut scenes and so little game play. The cut scenes are too long even when I skip them, I can’t imagine actually reading those long dialogues.
Still Banjo-Tooie on NSO. My commitment to finish it without any guides gets tested stronger and stronger as I make progress.
Nice! How far along are you? Good look!
A quarter to third finished, I think. I’m at Terrydactyland, having gotten around half of the Jiggyies and all of the Notes in all previous levels.
Oh, I haven’t played it so no idea what later part of the message means. Quarter to third is a good number though.
My daughter started playing Cult of the Lamb, and pulled me in for co-op. I’ve heard good things about it, but hadn’t tried it until now. It’s a fun little game so far, but we’ve barely gotten into it.
I finished Bubsy 4D and moved on to Yooka-Replaylee. Initially Yooka-Replaylee hadn’t hooked me that much, but I’m having fun just now. It looks so good on the Switch 2 with the latest updates. I’ll (try to) finish it before Star Fox comes out. I played the Star Fox demo and it looks amazing, it’ll be my main game once it comes out on the 25th.
I got NieR: Automata The End of YoRHa Edition for the Switch after so many recommendations (and seeing it was low stock where I buy my games). I only played for a bit over an hour and enjoyed it. But it’s going to my backlog. I’ll save it for when I can give my full attention to it and not have to play it along 6 months or a year.
On the retro front, I’m playing Rockman & Forte for Super Famicom.
I am also looking forward to Star Fox, haven’t played the demo yet though, will try it just before the game releases so that I can continue right away if I like it.
How does NieR: Automata looks and plays on Switch? It’s on my list of games to play soon, but I am not sure if I should get it on PS or Switch.
Finished Chapter Two of Final Fantasy VII: Remake Intergrade, which was somewhat more interesting than Chapter One.
Nice! Have you played the original FF7?
