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?
Last week I said I missed couch multiplayer of Mario Kart. Well, I had the chance to play Mario Kart World with 2 other people that weekend. It’s so much fun! It’s a whole different experience and I wish I could do it more often. We also played some Marvel: Cosmic Invasion, something less competitive to make up for all the shells and other items in Mario Kart.
I keep playing Star Fox, already done all the routes I think. I’ve definitely been to all the stages. I also played some more challenges and battle. I think I might try to do all the challenges and get all the badges. @[email protected] do a barrel roll! I use the somersault and U-turns a lot in battles with Star Wolf. Like James McCloud once said “Never give up, trust your instincts”.
I started River City Saga: Journey to the West. I played the first two River City Saga: Three Kingdoms (Next is still on my backlog to finish) and this one goes rogue-like. It doesn’t lean as much on the roguelike part, at least I found it less annoying than other games in the genre. It’s still silly beat 'em up fun.
Finally I’m playing Denshattack! for a review, still under embargo so will just say try the demo for Nintendo Switch 2!
Thanks for the motivation. Just beat the game. 😃
Unlocked the Achievements view and can see how much there is still to do. Going to try and see if I can get to all other planets without looking up any guide.
Nice! 🎉
There are different objectives in some stages, some of them you’ll realize are for branching. You might already know this but just in Corneria, there are two routes. If you go through all the archways on the water when Falco says something like “Those make a good obstacle course”, he’ll guide you through the waterfall on the right. Otherwise you keep going straight.
Yeah, you can see some info in achievements view. Doesn’t give full details, but it does mention the alternative route and requirements.
Just for this, I’ll try the fight a few more times.
About Star Fox, are all planets different stages? If yes. I have lots of stages I have yet to visit.
Going to wait for your Denshattack review. Too many games going on to demo another 😁
Every planet on the map is a playable stage yes, and they break roughly into 3 difficulty level routes. Here’s a basic, spoiler-free diagram to help explain.
Great game.
Thanks, that’s helpful!