Still playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, nothing more to say about it. Though, while the game is still fun, I think my stamina for 50+ hours games has gone really down. I am about 65 hours in. I think I can do 10 or so more hours without much issue, hopefully I’ll be near the end by then.
Played some more of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Cleared the first temple, and now clearing the second temple, I am quite sure I have cleared more than half of it. Should reach the third temple over the weekend.
One interesting thing is, Ocarina of Time has interesting dungeons and kinda meh overworld, which is opposite of BotW and TotK.
I also started couple of “side-games”. Horizon Chase Turbo a no nonsense arcade racing game, it’s just race after race, without any other shenanigans. I have only played the first area, so not sure if I will keep liking it, but for now I am enjoying it.
Also started Golf Story. This has been on my wishlist since Switch’s launch year. A lite-RPG / golf game. I am not really a big golf fan, but I am enjoying it in this game.
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
Finished Unicorn Overlord!
What an amazing game. The storyline lacks depth, but everything else shines - gameplay is great, the amount of customization you have is staggering, the visuals and soundtrack are beautiful, and the world is big and full of places to explore.
I was also extremely impressed on how polished and optimized the Switch version is. Loading screens are non-existent, everything is clean, fast and fluid.
Can’t recommend this one enough, it’s a must-play for strategy game fans.
Playing The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak!
Another arc with a new cast and location is something this series desperately needed after all those games in the Cold Steel saga and I’m glad this day has finally arrived. I’m still early in the game, finished the Prologue and early into Chapter 1, but I can already see why people say so many good things about this one.
Van is an excellent main character. He’s smart, experienced, and I like how he’s more morally “gray”, willing go get his hands dirty if necessary - the whole idea of having the main characters working on shadier jobs is a nice contrast to the previous games. I’m less thrilled about Agnes, she feels too much like a “generic main heroine”, but she does a good job as the audience surrogate and I expect she’ll get more development during the game.
One thing I’m finding surprisingly enjoyable is the “dual” battle system - when you meet an enemy you start in a “action” style battle, and you can at any time press a button to transition to turn-based. The idea is that you can use the “action” part of the battle to stun the enemies and get an advantage, but when fighting weaker enemies you can often finish the battle without going into turn-based, which makes this a really nice time-saving/QOL feature.
Prologue Spoilers
Also, Van gets a goddamn Kamen Rider-style transformation. Impossible for me to not get crazy hyped after that.
Thanks for the recommendations!
As for trails, just read first paragraph to see you like it, going to skip the rest until I get to this one 😀
Oh, I really enjoyed Horizon Chase Turbo, really fun. I used to play Top Gear on the SNES and it brought back memories. The music is amazing! Horizon Chase Turbo 2 on the other hand is absolutely crap on Switch (and from what I’ve heard, not much better on PC or other consoles). The Brazilian studio that developed it, Aquiris, was acquired by Epic and it all went downhill from there :( The first one is still awesome though and I still prefer it to the (broken) second one.
I got bored of Perfect Dark. I was having so much fun, but I definitely lost it at some point. Hopefully I’ll pick it up again some time soon so I can finish it.
I’m playing a new Story Mode run of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, it’s just such a fun game! I haven’t finished it with all the characters yet.
I also played some Gravity Circuit, which is super cool but also a bit hard? I think because I’m getting old, but I need to be in a certain mood to enjoy it.
Oh, didn’t know that about studio or Horizon Chase Turbo 2. Well, I can at least enjoy this one.
Shredder’s Revenge is really good. Do you play solo or co-op?
I’ve been playing solo this time around, but I finished the story on co-op previously. Been doing some survival mode too!
One interesting thing is, Ocarina of Time has interesting dungeons and kinda meh overworld, which is opposite of BotW and TotK.
OoT has sidequests, there just isn’t a quest log to track them. I’d list a few but I don’t want to spoil them. Finding them just takes a deeper level of exploration than most of the quests in BotW/TotK.
Yeah, I found a few, though I am sure I missed a lot more.
Beat chapter 5 in Paper Mario. One of the new bosses added in the remake has opened up and I’ll just try it soon. I probably won’t win yet, but I’m curious.
Finished the main story of Yakuza Kiwami 2. The final battle ends with a quick time event that, if you lose, kills you. I wish I hadn’t found out about that, but XBox controller inputs always take an extra second to process in my brain because they’re so backwards. At least the fight is fun, so it wasn’t too bad doing it twice. The hardest fight was the pen-pen-penultimate boss, some nameless guy who had no right being that tough. Now to clean up some leftover side content, which isn’t too daunting. This should be the first time I finish the Completion List, the previous games both had something to make it stupid, but this one is very realistic.
I also dug out Wild Arms again for a third playthrough. It’s been over a decade since I last played it. That’s a series that could do with an HD Collection.
I don’t remember the fight, but I do remember getting annoyed with some quick-time event in the end of some Yakuza game, this must be that.
I have heard a lot about Wild Arms, but never played it, would take a look if they release some updated version with QoL improvements 😀
Still on my honor mode run of Baldurs gate 3, still in Act I. Doing this will 100% the achievements… So I need to!
Without spoiling anything, is honor mode just hard-mode, or are there any other changes too?
It’s the same game and no major changes to the story, but bosses have some legendary actions, it’s more difficult to find things, long rests cost double, no save scumming, everything is more expensive etc. What i’ve found is accidentally failing a roll has caused some real problems for me down the line, the thing that can really screw you over is a bad roll rather than a tricky combat.
I’m probably playing some Ship Of Fools with the wife and some DBD if I get the time.
Tried Once Human and got ssooo bored before I got too far past the initial area realizing it just was not going to be the game for me
Golf story
Sounds interesting. I always liked all of the early Mario sports games (except soccer just never enjoyed it) mostly tennis, not mostly because of the extra flavor they added with the minivans and powerups and such.
Is it straight up golf?
Interesting set of games. How is Ship of Fools for playing with non or casual gamer?
Well, there’s a story, and you have some quests like things, not a full blown RPG, but a bit like that. Though, most of the those quests are going somewhere to talk to someone, who then tell you to hit something or some area with your golf ball. Completing the quest gives you XP which lets you level up and improve your stats.
Once you clear an area you can play the main course there, but these aren’t normal golf courses, each area has it’s own gimmick or obstacle, for instance one area has lots of water, but you can target specific area in water and bounce your ball on the back of turtle to give it a boost.
I’ve been playing 7 Days to Die, the experimental 1.0! It’s been a fun but challenging experience. I’ve logged about 72 hours now (I had some play time before starting on the Experimental 1.0). I plan on playing Spirittea again on Xbox because they dropped the Fishing Update finally (Microsoft took their sweet time in evaluating the update).
Ahan, interesting. The game is old, didn’t know it was still getting updates. Though, it’s not a genre I am a fan of, so never really kept track of it.
It is an old game, but The Fun Pimps have been working on it the whole time; the old console version was the only one that wasn’t getting updates because the studio that maintained it went under. It’s still surprising for me, even, that the 1.0 is releasing on July 25th.
I’ve been playing Indivisible, a Metroidvania RPG. Pretty fun, a few great characters, some moderately challenging platforming sections, but—it’s gone on a little long. Not counting a Larian game, this must be the longest indie RPG I’ve ever played when you factor in the repeated backtracking.
I’m at the end, so I should finish it up this week. Next up is Baldur’s Gate 3, finally (but that’s for Xbox).
Indivisible has been on my wishlist since they first announced it. How long to beat puts it around 18.5 hours for main quest, and 28 or so for completion, which is much less than something like Hollow Knight, but a lot longer than something Ori and Will of the Wisps.
Good luck with Baldur’s Gate 3, you are welcome to post about it here too. This weekly thread is for all kind of games on any platform.
