Played out some 4-5 hours more of Dragon Age: Inquisition, there are still 3-4 areas I haven’t even started exploring, so this is going to take a few months more.
Also played a few hours of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Some spoilers if you haven’t played the game. If your client doesn’t auto-hide them, you should skip next 3 paragraphs.
Ocarina of Time spoilers
Cleared the Zora area, was a bit lost on how to get to the stone, but figured it out after running around for a bit. Got stuck in the dungeon though, couldn’t figure out how to proceed. There were couple of switches but needed to put something on it or the door closes. Had to look it up that you have to talk to the Princess multiple times. Since majority of NPC don’t change their dialogue, I didn’t bother talking to her again after hearing her dialogue.
So, cleared the dungeon, got stuck again at finding “Ocarina of Time”, then finally got the master sword, and found out that BotW wasn’t the first time when Link slept for years, apparently it’s a thing he do. Alo, Link got bigger! I didn’t know about that, so that was surprising.
Now, I am again stuck at Karakiro Village, since the Sheik told me to go there, but can’t figure out what to do. Impa was supposed to be at graveyard, but can’t find it there. And have tried most buildings in the village and there isn’t anything directing me where to go. There is obviously something under the well, but my bomb can’t destroy it yet, so will come back to it later. Well, I am not stuck enough yet to look up what to do, going to see if I missed anything. Maybe will figure something out.
I was also playing Swords and Soldiers in small bursts. Finished it. It was a fun little game, and I’ll recommend it if you like the genre. I have heard that second game is better in every way, so have added it to my wishlist. Sad to see that the studio has closed though.
Phew that went for a while 😀
So, what have you been playing lately? Or any game that you would like to recommend?
It Takes Two with my husband :) We went to dinner yesterday but for our anniversary weekend just will be chill day with our game!
Congratulations on your anniversary!
Over the past few weeks:
- Did the final battle(s) in LoZ OoT. Not actually that easy - for the first part, I thought I was dealing damage, but it was going on literally forever. As a recurring theme for me, I had to read how I was meant to progress.
spoiler
Turns out hitting the energy balls back at him isn’t enough! Got to shoot him and run and hit him. But if you’d already raided the all pots below for magic top-up and hearts, you’re going to run out of magic before you can beat him…
The final final battle seemed hard, but was easy enough once I turned off z-targeting.
- Started playing LoZ ALttP, but I just couldn’t really get into it. I loved Link’s Awakening (GB version), but maybe I’m just not in the mood for 2D Zelda right now.
- I bought Need for Speed Paradise City on sale before. It’s alright for a while, but you often end up doing a race and then immediately driving the same race in reverse, so it’s a bit repetitive. Also the city environment is quite industrial, which is maybe the point, but I usually miss the turns because it’s mostly a grey blur. Unlocked the fastest motorbike. It’s fast.
- Bought Skyward Sword HD, mainly for my son. Too early to say much about it, but there’s this move where you point your sword at the sky to charge it, and it’s quite difficult to actually hold the joy con in the right position for the game to recognise it. It’s kinda annoying.
Edit: also did a run through of pokemon blue (emulated, with random battles turned off) because it’s so quick. It’s one of my all-time top games, and I still play it every now just to enjoy it again
That’s a nice list.
I am still in Forest Temple, so not going to look at that spoiler (and thanks for using the spoiler tag).
Link to the Past was probably the first Zelda game I ever saw / played. Didn’t even know what Zelda was back then. I am using played very generously here, cause I probably didn’t even play an hour of it, but it has caused some kind of nostalgia for that kind of games. Still, no reason to force a game if you aren’t in the mood for it.
I am not much of a racing games fan, but I just started Horizon Chase Turbo yesterday. It’s plain racing without any other nonsense. It’s pretty easy though (at least in the start, where I am), so great for me, but not sure if racing game veterans will like it or not.
For what it’s worth, being stuck in Kakariko is the reason I bought the player’s guide in 1998. I knew what I was looking for and where it’s supposed to be, I just didn’t understand what to do. 😅 But I was also twelve
I’ve mostly played more Yakuza Kiwami 2. I thought the whole Korean Mafia bit was just a side story at first, but it’s been the main focus for a while and completely pushed the main antagonist out of the picture. But that whole thing has concluded now and I think I’m nearing the climax soon.
I don’t know what I am looking for 😀 I have gotten couple of things from Kakariko, but nothing that obviously tells me this is what I was there for. If I don’t find anything soon, I am just going to go ahead, and see if I get stuck somewhere for not getting that thing.
I went 20 years without getting spoiled on ocarina of time… Then I got a 3DS started playing it and my friend spoiled it for me. I dropped it and haven’t touched it since. I think I’ll finally play it again tho.
That sounds super annoying.
It’s still a good game though, and worth it to play at least once.
Playing Unicorn Overlord!
The addiction is real, can’t stop playing this one.
Just finished the third continent and now trying to choose the main character’s partner, with the childhood friend priestess and the flirty dark elf as the two main candidates.
Been crushing the game fairly easily which makes me think I overdid with grinding, but I just can’t avoid it due to the “kingdom building” aspect of the game - I NEED to rebuild every single town before moving forward.
Hopefully I can finish this one soon because my copy of “Trails Through Daybreak” is arriving next week and it’ll be difficult to resist playing that one.
Hehe, I can understand the need to rebuild everything before moving on. How many continents are there total?
Once I finish Dragon Age, I am thinking about finally starting Trails in the Sky SC, don’t think they are going to announce any console port anytime soon, and I want to play rest of the series, so would just go ahead and get it on PC. Then I can catch up in next 10 years or so 😀
How many continents are there total?
Unless the game pulls up some surprise hidden continent thing, there should be five total. And since I had a lot of free time yesterday I’m almost done with the 4th one now.
I am thinking about finally starting Trails in the Sky SC
Didn’t remember you had already finished FC!
Hope you enjoy SC, I think it’s one of the best in the series.
I finished it a long time ago. Was thinking about starting SC but then they announced Switch ports of Zero and Azure and I started waiting in hopes of Trails in the Sky port. Finally giving up on porta and planning to play on PC.
I didn’t have that willpower. 😀 I remember I was planning on playing something else between FC and SC, but had to change my plans…
FC ending
…due to that goddamn cliffhanger ending.
Haha, well, it was more lack of funds, and not wanting to play on PC that stopped me, but let’s attribute it to my willpower, that sounds much cooler.
