Before talking about what I played this week, I think I forgot to mention a game I played couple of weeks ago.
After finishing Judgment, and seeing that Dark Souls (next game in my list) isn’t on sale yet, I started Bioshock Infinite. I had played the first Bioshock but never got around to playing Infinite.
The visuals felt like late PS3 games, specially the camera and movement, but it didn’t feel that jarring, specially after couple of mins of playing it, didn’t notice that again during the whole game.
The game was beautiful, the gameplay and shooting was fun. And the story was “Bioshocky”. As someone who didn’t like the first Bioshock too much (I blame Rapture for that, just not my kind of place), I loved Bishock Infinite.
There are some lore elements that connects it to the first game, so you’ll enjoy the background story more if you know that, but you can easily play it without that. Not a very long game too, I think took somewhere between 10-15 hours.
Highly recommended to those who like shooters and haven’t played it yet.
Now to this week!
Finally started Dark Souls Remastered have been meaning to play it for the last few months but always end up starting something else.
I have said this about soulslike games before, but the game isn’t that tough. You just have to be deliberate about your actions, and can’t just button mash through everything. Also, the game doesn’t tell you half the things, you have to experiment to figure those things out, and you die, many times, but you also die in other games, I have died many times in Ratchet & Clank and they aren’t considered that difficult. Oh and just to be clear, it’s by no definition an easy game, but I think the difficulty is over-hyped.
Anyways, have been playing only Dark Souls since I got it, the only place where I got stuck was the Bell Gargoyle boss, died more than a dozen times, then my friend suggested to go to another area first before coming back to boss, so doing that and leveling up, and getting a better weapon / equipment made killing the boss much easier.
Have taken care of pretty much all the surface stuff now and have entered Blightdown. Ended last session when I reached the bottom, got poisoned and died with over 12K souls! Let’s hope I can reach it when I play next.
Didn’t really play anything else. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity and Cozy Grove all are on temporary hiatus.
Played a bit of Mutant Mudd Collection, mainly in bite sized times, which are usually reserved for Picross. Each “world” has 4 levels, I think I was in 2-1 before, and have reached 4-4 now. I can only see 5 worlds in the current screen, but no idea how many screens this hub world has.
The disappearing platforms are the most annoying aspect yet, but I think that’s only because they removed the limit of 5 mins from each level. I play slowly killing everything, so take more than that sometimes, even when I do clear it before that, it’s only because I don’t have to worry about any time limit, I doubt I would have cleared them if I had to try to go fast so that I can reach end before time.
Having fun with it. It’s pretty good for those small-breaks.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
Bioshock is unfinished business for me! I remember seeing the first one at a friend’s house back in the day and playing a bit. I loved it at the time. I then got the collection on Steam for cheap, maybe on a Humble Bundle. I played very little of the first one (remasterd) but never gave it enough time to get to the exciting parts. And I think I tried a bit of Infinite. I just don’t play games on Steam that much, since the computer is at my desk where I also work, and I’d rather be gaming on the couch with my Switch. But anyway, I am constantly thinking I should get back into those games every time I see them mentioned!
I finished the main story in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. The content update couldn’t have come at a better time! I was still doing some post-game content anyway. I think I’m mostly done with actual new content, so I’m replaying some missions to try and get the Aside Quests and any materials for side quests that I’m missing. As with the main games in the series, it’s a pain to find all the Korok seeds, but at least now I got a thing where I can see their location on the map. And I need a few of those as materials for some quests. I think I’ll definitely go for 100% if I can make it before Metroid Prime 4 arrives next week! Although this is the kind of game that’s been fun to come back to after a while and play a few missions.
It’s a long weekend for me, so hopefully I’ll have more time for gaming. I’ll probably get back to some Nintendo 64 games on the Analogue 3D!
I’ll highly recommend playing Bioshock series, but I can understand not wanting to play on PC cause that’s your work place. I have the same issue, which is why I still haven’t finished Shadow Tactics: Blades of Shogun, even though I started it in Jan, and really enjoy playing it.
I played the next story mission in Age of Calamity after making the post. Without giving any spoilers these are the missions where you fight the bosses in divine beasts.
It was pretty interesting.
I also had a long weekend, but some work stuff came up and long weekend got postponed and then some other stuff came up, so I’ll have no free time on weekend either. sigh