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?
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Had some slower weeks, I’m still on Harvestella. By now, I’ve done pretty much everything except playing the main story past the ‘tutorial phase’ of getting all fairies. I’ve finished most companion stories and really like them, but they aren’t as good as other people hyped them up to be. They often start in a generic way, but not all of them continue like that. There are some good twists and turns and one of them especially dropped a major hint about the upcoming story which got me pretty hyped!
Also played more Pokémon Legends: Arceus. I started the third area this week and still enjoy my journey. However, as so often in these write-ups, I went overboard at the beginning and now a lot of things are kinda trivial. I spent so much time in the first area, I left with a team around Lv 50, mostly filled with alpha Pokémon. The other areas are still fun, there is just no sense of danger anymore. In addition, I think there are too many shared Pokémon between the areas. Since I’ve fully researched them already the first time around, I find myself running past half the things in the newer areas, which is just less fun. But no point in catching a hundred more Starly or Bidoof.
To keep things a bit more fresh, I shelve my entire team each time I reach a new area - excluding my starter.
You’re playing some really good classics there @[email protected]. You’re right, Dark Souls is not that hard, but it’s a game that requires you to play carefully and slowly learn enemy positioning and attacks.
Weekend ended up being really busy so I didn’t have the time for a good Nine Sols session, so the status for that game is still “at the last boss but need to sit down and practice”.
Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!
I played a lot of missions this week, but story progress was slow becaused DLC1 got released and I decided it was time to get the bundle. This first DLC comes with Big O, Bryger and goddamn Kamen Rider Double, and since buying the bundle also gives you extra missions to recruit the protagonists of two older games (Iori+Amari from SRTX and Saizo+Sagiri from SRTT) I had a ton of new content to play.
The DLC honestly feels overpriced for what it brings, but I’m having a good time with it. They did a much better job integrating the DLC in the main game compared to the previous game (SRT30), there’s a lot more interactions with characters from other series, plus a new side-plot with a common enemy focused on the units included in this pack.
Playing Super Mario Galaxy 2!
Reached World 5. I have enough stars to proceed to the next world but want to explore more before doing that. “Prankster Comet” challenge levels are getting quite hard, so I might avoid those at least until I finish the main game.
Finished Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk!
This is a very short (~30min) VN, but it’s quite unique and disturbing. You play as the “voice in the head” of a mentally ill girl who is trying her best to do a simple task: Buy milk and get back home. There’s only two endings, one if she manages to complete her task and another where she fails, and it largely depends on how nice or mean you are to her during the path to the store.
This bundle also comes with the sequel game which I plan on playing soon. It’s longer but not by much (people say it’s ~90min total with 5 endings), and I’m quite curious about it.
Probably not worth it at full price, but I got it on sale for $2 and so far it’s been an interesting experience.
Yeah, still have tons of classics in my wishlist, not all of them great but still games I want to try.
Benefits of being a patient gamer, there will probably be a version of game with all DLC included by the time I get to it, and it will be going on deep sales. 😁
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk sounds interesting, but as you say, also disturbing.
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
Triangle Strategy. Just finished for the third ending. Will start again for the 4th and final ending. Best game I have played in a while. This might be my first hard mode run.
I love that game! Although I only did Frederica’s ending. It’s the morally correct one, I think, excluding the true ending, of course. I wish we had more games in that style, but there’s only this and Disgea - which dropped the ball with it’s 6 entry. Everything else on Switch is a remaster of some kind.
Anyway, hard more is weird. I’ve started on hard mode, but eventually turned it down. For some battles, you just retry them and collect EXP until you effectively play on a lower difficulty anyway. There just isn’t enough side content to do instead. Curious to see what you think if you decide on trying it.
So by the time the 2nd play through is over, you are maxed out in level for the main people you play. So the level grinding you mentioned isn’t really there. Maybe some gold grinding to get further in the skill tree, but that should be limited given my play through count. Unless you really want to get everyone to max level, but that is simple, as doing any move will raise your level by one.
I did the Frederica ending first. It was idealistic. Then Roland’s… which was my least favorite. Then Benedict’s which was good. But each have their own drawbacks, thus, the golden ending. I’m looking forward to seeing how it turns out.
At this point I am stuck on the first level. It’s very difficult, and is apparently one of the hardest missions in the game on hard, new game plus. On normal new game plus, it was still easy. Hopefully I can get through it on hard, but the strategies seem to involve breaking the AI and using Quietus, which I hadn’t needed to do before this. We’ll see if I can make it work.
I didn’t even know there was a New Game option, I never play those and always start fresh instead. However, it does sound interesting in this case!
Nice. Good luck!
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