No change from my side.
Playing Trails in the Sky: SC as my main game, made quite a headway in chapter two, should be nearing the end of it, but still couple of side quests remaining. It’s still early game though, so going to take me couple of months.
Played a little bit of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout, game has opened quite a bit, still enjoying it, but not much to say about it yet.
Dust: An Elysian Tale, turned out to be a much smaller game than I expected. I think I played 3-4 hours of it, and according to saves, I am at around 45%. Don’t know how it calculates the percentage, it’s possible I may end the game even before 100%, let’s see.
Couple of thing I found interesting in the game. You can find either equipment or their blueprint as a loot. If you find blueprint, you need looted material to craft it. You can also buy the material, but in start shops only have 4-5 materials, so you have to first sell at least one of each material before it will start getting stocked in shops.
Another interesting thing is leveling up stats. There are 4 different stats. Attack, Defense, “Magic” and Health. And your max stat can’t be more than 4 level higher than your lowest stat. So you can’t just put everything in attack or defense.
My one big complaint is saves though, you can only save at specific points, and while save points are abundant, there are certain parts where you can die easily and once you do you have to load a previous save.
It’s a decade old game though, so I guess this can be forgiven.
That’s all from me, what about all of you? What have you been playing
Playing Harvestella!
On my previous post I mentioned a lot of problems with this game, and while I still think all of those are valid criticisms the game has grown a lot on me. This is partially due to the game opening up significanty during Chapter 3, with plenty of new characters (which also means more jobs for you to experiment with), more cities, more quests, and a ton of things to do in the farm.
But the main draw of the game for me has been the the worldbuilding and the story. While the game’s world is not that big, there’s a lot of care in making each region feel unique and alive, I love how many sidequests are connected forming a small storyline for a specific NPC. The main plot also has some surprising twists that are keeping me hooked, plus the OST is amazing, Go Shiina did a fantastic job once again.
As play this I keep thinking of the original Nier for the PS3/360 - both are game with deep flaws, hard to recommend blindly, but that also offer a great payoff if you can get past those flaws.
Nice to hear that. I like how the game looks and want to play it.
Nier is next on my list. Planning to play Nier: Replicant on PS after I am done with Dust: An Elysian Tale and Batman: Arkham Knight (going to start it after Dust). Looking forward to playing it.