Reached the final level of Star Fox, but got stuck at a fight with Star Wolf. Dunno how many times I have tried, just can’t kill them all, before all my companions are gone, and my ship explodes. May abandon the campaign and “git gud” by playing from start.
Finally reached a big town in Monster Hunter Stories. Not sure if it’s the first such city or the only such city though. I like the feeling of when your characters enter the first big town after leaving their village in JRPGs.
I have also unlocked “Channeling”, it allows you to let a monstie “inhert” trait or moves of another monstie. The monstie you inherit from is gone forever though. I haven’t experimented much with it, but it can allow you to power up your monsties. No proper fusing unlocked yet.
Also faced some boss monsters, who don’t follow the usual of two attacks of one type and then switching to another. Their pattern is also repeatable, but it also means you have to guess it the first few attacks, which means it ends up all being luck. Not a fan of this. Though the combat isn’t much difficult so haven’t had too much of a problem because of it.
It is making me want to play proper Monster Hunter though. I may end up starting MH: Rise or MH: Wilds after finishing this.
On PS side, spent most of my time playing Earth Defense Force 5. Just got the “5% main campaign done” trophy, when I am about halfway through the game. The way game counts missions is that each mission has 20 “check boxes” for 5 difficulty levels with 4 different classes. Since I am playing on normal (2nd difficulty, 3 are unlocked from start, and I guess you unlock last 2 after finishing the game) with just one class, I only get 2 check marks out of 20. So, only after crossing mission 50 or so did I get that trophy. I don’t really care about trophies, but it’s kinda annoying when you finish the game only have a 5% completion trophy, better to get no trophy in that case :grinning:
Going to pause Fallout 4 for a while, started Red Dead Redemption 2 instead. The start of the game, specially the first chapter, is really slow. With the way the game is hyped I was kinda disappointed.
My main issue is with “realism” in the game. All actions have long animations, even looting requires so much time, the character will bend down and check the downed enemy and then stand back up. Or when looting a room, you will have to press the button to open cabinet, which your character will do, then press another button to “Take” and most of the time your character is covering the view so you don’t even know what you are taking, and when you get “you already have maximum amount of this item”, you have no idea what item it is talking about.
The first chapter is more of a tutorial, so hopefully things will speed up after that, but feels a bit annoying right now.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
Finished Stray!
“Play as a cat doing cat things” is a genre I’d like to see more, both this and Little Kitty, Big City were very fun to play.
I also enjoyed the worldbuilding, it managed to create a memorable world despite the short 5h-ish playtime, yet was very disappointed with the main collectables - I loved the idea of them being memories of the old world, but most are just one image and a short dialogue about it that don’t add much to the lore.
But overall I was satisfied with what I got here.
Finished Xenoblade Chronicles: Future Connected!
The announcement of the new game got me in the mood for some Xenoblade, and I remembered I had never played the expansion that came with the XC1 DE.
It’s a nice Melia-focused story where she got to showcase some of the character development she got over the main game. One thing that’s really awkward is how you have 4 playable characters and only 3 party slots, feels like they should’ve expanded the party so you could use everyone, or maybe turn the new characters into a “dual character” similar to the Yumsmith hero in XC3.
I think it’s the weakest of the 3 “expansions” available for the main games, but still rather good. Wouldn’t recommend buying the DE just for it, but if you already have it it’s a nice extra.
Playing Ariana and the Elder Codex!
I found this channel on Youtube with a guy that has tastes really similar to my own, and he gave this game a lot of praise. Since I was in the mood for more 2D platform games I decided to take a chance and try it.
Compile Heart/Idea Factory are quite inconsistent in quality, you get some gems like Mary Skelter 1/2 mixed with a lot of crappy games, but at least the early impressions of this one are good. Artwork is gorgeous, gameplay is good (though not as polished as the top-tier 2D plataformers) and it runs fairly well even on the Switch 1.
Finised the first “book”, which I assume was the tutorial area.
Playing Fate/Stay Night!
Slow progress on this game but I moved past in the prologue into Shiro’s story. And I already miss the Rin/Archer banter.
I also have Ariana and the Elder Codex in my wishlist, as well as some of the other Compile Hearts games, but as you said they are very inconsistent.
The channel looks interesting though, will check out some of their videos.