Finished Red Dead Redemption 2. The game finally caught my interest in the last 20-25%. Started to care about the story and some of the characters. It was also nice to play the epilogues, it connects the game with Red Dead Redemption 1. There are also some very cinematic moments in the game, enjoyed those too.
Overall, not a bad game, just not for me. I recall loving the first game when I played it on PS3, so maybe it’s just me who has changed.
Didn’t play too much of Splatoon Raiders, but I think I am nearing the end. Most of the may have been revealed, so there shouldn’t be too much of the game left. Also, changed my main tank from Speed to Power. It has the better combination of gadgets that I want.
Played some more Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age. I am finally in mid game. Got access to second license board, and spent over an hour agonizing over which combination of classes to go with, and that’s when you can reset them (almost) anytime, imagine how long it would take me decide if the choices were permanent.
Happy with most of the combinations. One characters has Melee + Melee combination, most of the others are Melee + Magic, and 2 are Magic + Magic. So both set of parties have one pure mage, and two melee users with magic for healing or certain cases where it is required.
Currently at a boss which applies tons of debuff for my whole team, and I don’t have any magic to dispel that. The last shopkeeper was selling Esuna (magic to remove all debuffs from a character) but I was tight on money and hadn’t had a need for that yet, so didn’t’ buy it, will probably have to go back and get it. The boss isn’t too difficult but when your characters can’t even hit it, or do any damage, or case any spell, you can’t really do anything no matter how easy the boss is otherwise.
Started Hogwarts Legacy on PS5. Objectively, the game is probably not as good as RDR2 (they are so different that we shouldn’t even compare) but going from a slow game like that I instantly fell in love with character movement of Hogwarts Legacy and how fast everything is in the game. The game isn’t bad, but I think I wouldn’t have liked it as much I did if I hadn’t played it right after RDR2. Not to mention as a Harry Potter fan it’s great to see a modern game in Hogwarts and the wizarding world.
The game has it’s bugs though. Around 4-5 hours in, it refused to start the next main mission, and turned out it’s a known bug, you have to start this mission right after finishing the previous one, without doing anything else in-between, otherwise it has a chance of getting stuck. Only solutions are loading a previous save or restarting the game from start. I almost gave up then, cause while you can get to that mission in around an hour and half if you only do the main missions, I had spent hours exploring, solving puzzles and collecting stuff. Didn’t want to do all that again.
Eventually decided to load a previous save from couple of hours ago and play again. Hope there isn’t anything like that further in the game, I am saving before and after every main mission just to be safe though.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I didn’t repeat any missions, but don’t recall any major difference in level requirements. Level difference of 1-2 levels don’t matter btw. Though as I am writing this, I do recall failing certain missions. It was mainly because of time running out, not dying, but you fail it either way. And since they let you keep the experience, I may have gotten a level or two that way.
It was only in the start though, one of the initial bosses. Haven’t had to worry about time in quite a while.
Yeah I’m about 2 levels under what they’re giving me. I did try one but got stomped haha. But in fairness it was a pretty difficult one even at the right level.
It’s not really a complaint though. I’m enjoying it! I’d just love to have more optional side paths I guess.