I think I’m going to check out more of River City Girls 2 which I restarted last weekend. It got an update which makes it way more playable, I hadn’t played for months, but the input lag was excruciating before. Maybe some Mario Wonder which I haven’t played in a while (and still need to finish!).
What about you? What have all of you been playing?
Old school, Terranigma. Finally got around to it. Was never released in my region.
Just looked it up, looks pretty good. Would be cool if it ends up in NSO.
Finished Paper Mario!
The game was really fun. When starting it, I was afraid that game might feel a bit dated, but other than not able to save anywhere (which didn’t effect me much because of save states), I didn’t had any issue with it. Excited for thousand year doors now!
Currently playing Lichtspeer: Double Speer Edition. Following my this year’s resolution of focusing on games that have been on my wishlist for a while, I checked the games in my list and noticed Lichtspeer was on discount for $1.something, so got it. It’s a fun little game, which gets pretty difficult, but restart takes just a second, so it’s not a big deal. I am on second last level I think, and things are getting pretty insane. I don’t think I would be able to play it on higher level difficulties.
Also playing Jotun: Valhalla Edition. Same story as above, except I had it on PS+, so playing it on my PS5. The game wasn’t too difficult but the last boss is giving me tough time. Hopefully will be able to beat it soon.
These were smaller, in-between games. I wanted to start Octopath Traveller this week, but it just got de-listed from eShop. Apparently they are changing publishers. Was thinking about downloading demo and trying it, before buying it in a week or so. I guess I’ll have to wait a little bit for that.
I got “A Void Hope” by Elden Pixels. It’s a puzzle platformer. I’m enjoying it so far. The game’s vibe reminds me of “Stranger Things”
Finished Crymachina!
As I mentioned on my previous comment this game has a lot of flaws, and I don’t know if I can call it good or recommend it - but it does have its fair share of charms too.
They did a really good job in making me care about the main characters and see them as a “family” - seeing Leben geting gradually closer to the others and Enoa’s growth over the game was great. The character designs are interesting, the OST is solid. The plot is a bit of a mess, with a LOT of crazy twists, but I still enjoyed it.
Combat is fun and flashy, and I never got bored of it while going through the main game. That being said, there’s a lot of extra content that I didn’t do, and I think that if I tried to go for full completion the repetitiveness would end up wearing me out.
Also, a minor thing, but I’m really annoyed that I didn’t realize before the endgame that you can equip the same gear to all three characters. Spent quite some time trying to find good setups without overlaps. :/
Playing Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights.
This “metroidvania” game has a very melancholic mood in all aspects - visuals, music and storyline. You play as a little girl who apparently is the last survivor of a line of priestesses, who goes purifying monsters in ravaged land while being protected by the spirits of dead warriors.
I always associate darker visuals and styles with Dark Souls so I was worried it would be another game going towards that direction, but this one is a lot less stressful to play - it can be fairly challenging and I already died quite a few times, but there’s zero penalty for that.
There’s some really good QOL features too - I like how a fast travel is unlocked less than 1h into the game, and I love that the map indicates if there are missing still missing items in a room. This is a particularly big deal because some of the rooms are huge and can take a long time to explore.
Anyway, so far I’m enjoying this one.
Have you played Crystar? If yes, how do you compare the two games. And if not, why not?
I have heard lots of good things about Ender Lilies, and now that it’s getting a sequel soon, I think I should try to play it too.
Have you played Crystar? If yes, how do you compare the two games. And if not, why not?
No I haven’t, and it’s because I had never heard of Crystar before - I only learned Crymachina had a “spiritual prequel” when someone on Mastodon asked me this exact same question.
Anyway, I have Crystar on my radar now, but from what I’m seeing it doesn’t share the sci-fi setting which is a bummer to me, that was one of the things that drew my attention to Crymachina.
I have heard lots of good things about Ender Lilies, and now that it’s getting a sequel soon, I think I should try to play it too.
Spoiler for next week’s post: It’s a really good game, but the difficulty spikes brutally on the second half of the game and it gets quite frustrating at times.
Ah, it’s spiritual sequel, I thought it was a direct sequel.
Well, I won’t be playing it so soon, so you can take your time with it 😀
Still slowly making my way through Sparks of Hope. I’m almost done with the third world and it’s been my favorite one yet. Having enemies that don’t trigger reaction abilities finally forced me to switch up my party a bit. Mario and Luigi’s hair trigger abilities have been really good in the first game, so I was really surprised to see them getting buffed to an absurd degree in the sequel! I don’t think the game expected me to focus all my skill points into that tree, but I know what I want.
I recently completed Nier: Automata. I’ve beaten the game before, but didn’t complete it. Granted, ‘completion’ refers to just the Steam achievements and 100% sub quest completion, I don’t need every in-game metric to be maxed out, especially fishing.
So with that slot opened up, I will finally play Batman: Arkham Knight for the first time. It wasn’t the game I planned to play next, but hearing about the failure of the Suicide Squad kinda put me in the mood for it. To be honest, I’m… kinda nervous. I love the other Arkham games (even Origins) and I didn’t have a PC strong enough to run Arkham Knight until a few months ago, so I’ve always had an excuse not to play it. And now I can finally play it… I really can’t describe why I’m nervous about it. It’s like seeing an old friend again for the first time in many years. A good kind of nervous, I guess.
