Eve online, its amazing how much more fun it is if you play to have fun rather than for the fleet
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I have taken a look at it a few times, but I try to stay away from MMOs, cause if I end up liking them, I can't afford the time sink.
I’ve got to (probably) the last “to be continued” of Great Ace Attorney collection. The twists at the end are definitely hitting the Herlock Sholmes ideal of whatever you haven’t eliminated is the truth, no matter how improbable. I’m in the middle of walking to the ice cream shop or I’d be racing to the end right now.
I’ve been so happy with the mobile Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent that I haven’t gotten out Octopath Traveler 2 for Switch again in weeks. And with XBX on the way, the itch to play through new game plus with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 with all the DLC.
And I finished my Breath of the Wild puzzle in less time than it took to get comfortable with the idea of fighting a boss. Just under 22 hours!
I’ve got to (probably) the last “to be continued” of Great Ace Attorney collection. The twists at the end are definitely hitting the Herlock Sholmes ideal of whatever you haven’t eliminated is the truth, no matter how improbable. I’m in the middle of walking to the ice cream shop or I’d be racing to the end right now.
GAA2 is so good, IMO one of the best AA games alongside AA3 and AAI2. That final case also has one of my favorite moments in the whole series.
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The final "Dance of Deduction".
Wow, this puzzle looks so difficult. All those yellow on top, or black in left bottom, how do you deal with those? These kind of things are my biggest issue. Congratulations on completing it so quickly.
By XBX, I thought you meant Xbox Series X, and was wondering why getting Xbox is giving you itch to play Switch games. I generally abbreviate it as "XC X": Xenoblade Chronciles X 😀
XC3 is probably my favourite game, but I don't think I can play the whole game again. Just waiting for XC X to come out now.
My secret on puzzles is setting limits. I never put more than fifty pieces together per session. I never spend more than an hour per session. Early on, I always feel like I’m stopping before I need to. In the middle, I slot about one piece every two minutes so the hour timer exists to keep me from rage-quitting. Near the end, it gets easy, even with the nearly identical pieces since there aren’t many places left to place them. (I also save the outside borders for when I need a confidence boost, so the last pieces I put in were the entire bottom row).
Typing while walking along a six lane roadway leads to a lot of typos. The only thing I miss about Xbox is Culdcept. I bought an Xbox 360 for the sole purpose of playing it. Then I bought a second one. After red ring 2, I gave up. I’m still holding out hope for a new version of that for a Nintendo system one day.
Interesting. Thanks for the tips!
There appeared a copy of The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom in my flat. I guess i have to beat it fast before it disapears again. So i will be playing that.
Hehe, good luck!
The ending of Future Redeemed links the games to:
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Xeno Saga - My best guess is a remake of those three games, maybe packaged as one. I'd love it, since I'm only missing Saga.
As for future games, I think they confirmed moving away from the combat formula, which implies moving away from the Klaus story. But it could be something new set in world as shown at the end of XB 3.
Anyways, still on Witcher 3. It's a never ending game, but I didn't play much at all these past to weeks. I did continue the main story, but only by 1 or 2 quests. I just got the mask from Yen in Skellige.
This weekend, I've got a lot of time so there will be much more progress, I think
Yeah, I think thry mentioned that Klaus' story has finished. Can't wait tomsee their next game.
Hehe, Witcher 3 is pretty long! Enjoy!
I've been 'playing' the Monster Hunter Wilds Benchmark for 2 hours today to find the right settings balance. The demo ran fine last year, but seeing the actual FPS, I just had to do some tweaking. I'm ready for the game in three weeks, I just need to make sure to finish
Lightning Returns first. I have four enemies left to hunt to extinction, it doesn't take as long as I expected. I'm also reaching the point where I can't upgrade my abilities anymore. They really want you to play New Game Plus Hard Mode to get even stronger: Unique accessories get replaced by better versions when you get duplicates and weapon upgrades aren't even available until then. I'm tempted, but I got monsters to hunt next month.
I'm near the end of the second part of Brothership. The desert island sucked, but I'm still enjoying the game. I need to hurry up a bit though, last week I got extremely excited for Xenoblade X out of nowhere. I wasn't a huge fan of the game when it was new, but Xenoblade 2 and 3 made me appreciate what it was a bit more in hindsight and I've been wanting to try it again for a long time. I've had faith in a Switch port and I'm glad I waited.
I've also been playing Wario Land 2. I've played it once before a long time ago, I don't think it's as good as the first one, but it's interestingly weird in its own right.
What did you think about Monster Hunter Wilds? I was previously thinking about getting it on launch, but probably won't get it anytime soon. Still excited about the game.
It seems you have been playing Lightning Returns for a while, glad to see you reaching the end.
I have never played any Wario Land game, I wonder which ones are available on Switch and give one of them a try.
I have no idea what to expect from Wilds because I didn't play World, which is very different stylistically from the older games and Rise. But I didn't seen anything fundamentally wrong with it, so I took two weeks off for release anyway.
My playtime in Lightning Returns is only at about 50 hours, it just seems much longer because I've been playing it for months.
Xenoblade X is out on Switch on 20 March. Will you give it a go?
Definitely! Love the series, and looking forward to XC X. May not get it on launch, depending on what I am playing at the time, but plan to get it as soon as possible.
Put my Tales of Graces f replay on the backburner to focus on other games. Will still go through it slowly.
Playing Fantasian Neo Dimension!
Quite a lot of progress in this one. And now I can see why the second half of the game is highly divisive.
It goes from a linear story to a more open-ended game, throwing you back into the world with only 3 characters and vaguely defined goals of "go explore, find your missing friends, defeat the bad guy". Story beats gets faily sparse with a huge focus on exploration and combat. Bosses get a huge spike in difficulty and are also very "gimmicky", they feel designed with the idea that you'll lose to them once to learn the boss' trick then rebuild your party around it to try again, but I didn't find most gimmicks interesting or fun so far.
The changes above are not necessarily bad, but one thing that absolutely sucks in the second half are the random battles. The game gets extremely anti-grinding, giving close to zero experience when fighting weaker foes, but the random battle frequency is so high you will reach that virtual "level cap" without trying... and still have to keep fighting enemies constantly for very little reward. This is both boring and frustrating, even if the feature to "batch" enemies helps mitigate the problem.
On a positive note I love the new skill tree you get, it adds an interesting customization layer to and it's great how you can freely respec as you learn more about which skills work better for your playstyle, or simply because you need to shift your strategy for a particular boss.
Playing Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist
Picked this up as a side-game for when I need a break from Fantasian, and I'm extremely impressed by it so far. Ender Lilies was already a good game and this one improves on it in almost every way with with better movement, combat, and exploration. Difficulty seems to be toned down as well, which I see as a positive but YMMV.
Also, it looks beautiful and runs flawlessly on the Switch.
A bit sad to hear about the grind in Fantasian, I am not a big fan of grinding, or random battles,
I recall while you liked Ender Lillies, you had some complaints about the game (unless I am thinking of someone else), does it fix all those issues?
A bit sad to hear about the grind in Fantasian, I am not a big fan of grinding, or random battles,
The worst part that you don't need to grind, the game simply doesn't give you the tools to avoid it.
There's no mechanism to turn random battles off or reduce their frequency. There is a tool to empty your "saved" battles for a fee, but that requires you to warp to a specific town which means it's really useful if you're at a fast travel checkpoint.
I recall while you liked Ender Lillies, you had some complaints about the game (unless I am thinking of someone else), does it fix all those issues?
I found my old comments about Lilies and I only complained a bit about the difficulty, which souds about right from what I remember of the game, it had some brutal sections where it crossed from "challenging" into "frustrating" but other than that was excellent.
So far Magnolia has been "just right" for me on difficulty - I've died a lot both during exploring and bosses, but so far never got frustrated and/or had to take a break from the game due to this. If they manage to keep this balance until the end this may honestly be my favorite game of this genre in recent years.
The worst part that you don’t need to grind, the game simply doesn’t give you the tools to avoid it.
I don't think there will be any gameplay patch for this kind of thing, so guess will have to play as it is.
Interesting about Magnolia. Favourite game of the genre is a big deal. Would wait for your next update.
I don’t think there will be any gameplay patch for this kind of thing, so guess will have to play as it is.
I'm a bit more hopeful here, they seem to be doing good post-launch support with the control fixes and major Switch performance improvements in the last patch.
Random battles and difficulty in the second half are by far the biggest and loudest complaints you'll see for this game, so I think there's a chance we'll get some tweaks to this in a future patch.
Favourite game of the genre
Favorite in recent years. 😅 Which is still a big deal considering how many good games we've been getting in this genre.
Worth mentioning that I'm on the minority of the metroidvania fans that don't love Hollow Knight - I've beaten it, think it's a great game, and I can certainly see why people put it on on a pedestal, but it didn't click with me as well as other games in the genre did.
I think there’s a chance we’ll get some tweaks to this in a future patch.
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Favorite in recent years.
Yeah, I got that. Favourite is a favourite, even if it's not an all-time favourite.
I quite liked Hollow Knight, didn't finish it, but reached very near the end. I think one of the reason it's liked so much is that it was in the initial wave of metroidvania resurgence (or so I recall), not to mention it's a very solid game.