Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!

Same update as last week, finished a few more missions but still in Chapter 6.

Playing Nine Sols!

Reached the final boss… and it’s kicking my ass. 😄 Really cool battle though, love the way they use some of the same moves your main character have.

I want to try to beat it without lowering difficulty, but I need time to sit down and have a good and long “practice session” to learn its patterns and could not do it during the week. But might be able to take that time tomorrow.

Playing Super Mario Galaxy 2!

I had finished the first game way back on the Wii, but had never played the second one properly. And what a great game, stages are very creative and unique, music is great, and despite its age still plays quite well.

One thing to notice is that these games originally made use of the pointer functionality on the Wii, which had to be adapted in the Switch port to use either use gyro controls or touchscreen. The former is a decent approximation and works well when playing docked, but both options felt somewhat clunky when playing handheld.

This game can be pretty damn hard at times, those optional “Prankster Comet” got me a few game overs already. But I’m having a blast with it, and just reached the World 3 castle.

All three metroidvania games from that developer are great. The other two are Touhou Luna Nights and Blade Chimera.

Metroid Prime

A fantastic game, and has one of the best remasters I’ve ever seen.

I think the only recent re-release of that game was for the PS4, so unless you have that console it’s probably easier to emulate the original.

I love the more “linear” first half of The Messenger, but didn’t enjoy the “metroidvania” second half nearly as much.

Still a great game though.

FYI Nine Sols has a “Story Mode” that lets you tweak damage numbers (and AFAIK only locks you out of a single achievement). Knowing that exists was one of the reasons I decided to try the game despite my PTSD from Silksong.

I ended absolutely loving it even though it was crazy hard, and haven’t lowered the difficulty yet. Though right now I’m stuck at the last boss and that may finally force me to do so. 😀

If you didn’t like Hollow Knight you probably won’t like Silksong either.

The game is good, and incredibly polished, but feels aimed at the people who 100% the first game and wanted more.

Played a lot of these in the last two years, with Ender Magnolia and Nine Sols being my favorites among them.

All-time I think I’d still go with Super Metroid, despite its age and having completed multiple playthroughs I still end up playing for hours anytime I boot it.

Honorable mentions for Rabi-Ribi (don’t let the cutesy anime artstyle fool you, this is a fantastic non-linear game with some of the best boss battles in the genre), the recent Momodora games and the Team Ladybug games (with Touhou Luna Nights being my favorite of the three).

I’ve migrated not too long ago from Win10 to Kubuntu which is very Windows-like, and the adaptation was quite easy.

However, I have to ask: Are you comfortable typing commands on a terminal or editing configuration files? I ask because while it’s gotten much easier to use Linux with just a graphical interface you’ll still bump into some annoyances here and there where you’ll Google how to fix and it will often tell you to ‘run command x in the terminal’

Was not familiar with that one, I usually track VN releases using vndb.org but they have some odd/strict standards on what qualifies as a “VN”, so I end up missing a few.

That one looks interesting, I added it to my wishlist.

Life won’t be back to normal for a while because I decided to take a risk and switch jobs after 20+ years. 😀 But it’s the “good” type of trouble.

Weird (but not bad) week in personal life where I had a lot to think about, so very limited gaming time.

Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!

Still in Chapter 6, only a did a couple of missions.

Playing Nine Sols!

Defeated Fuxi & Nuwa and reached what I think is the “point of no return” for this game. So unless I get stuck in a late-game boss I should finish this one soon. 😊

See familiar-loking kanji, confirm it’s Dodonpachi Saidaioujou.

Immediately upvote.

This site is faster, but you could already get the same information from the game page in the eShop.

Also, it doesn’t solve the biggest problem I have right now trying to get compatibility information: Delisted games. They don’t show up in the eShop nor in this new site, so I can’t tell if they have issues or not.

Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!

Reached chapter 6 and got a cool new attack for the Yz-Lunedrache. Also got to the point of the game you have to make your ending choice and went with the “B” route, which is supposed to be the harder one.

Happy that once again you can recruit the “alternate” protagonist, I finished the “Relic of Gold” missions and got Cross in my team. He seems more fun than I expected, but given how long this game is I don’t think I’ll do a second run with him as the lead.

Playing Nine Sols!

Lady Ethereal was an insanely hard boss and almost got me to finally drop from “standard” difficulty, but after a billion* attempts I managed to beat her. Incredibly fun battle though, despite all those deaths I never got frustrated. The buildup for the battle was also amazing and added a lot to the experience.

I’m really enjoying this game. Bosses are challenging but fair, exploration is rewarding, and the feeling of “growth” of your main character as you get more upgrades is great. One additional highlight is the story, there’s a lot of cool comic-book style cutscenes and plenty of dialogue with NPCs adding lore and character building.

(*) It’s a hyperbole but I died a ridiculous amount of times to this boss.

Metroid is also on S1 so I don’t see much incentive in getting a S2 for it. Kirby Air Riders looks good but it’s not the type of game that I’m usually interested in.

So far the non-S1 games I’m interested are DK (Released), Fire Emblem (2026) and Adventures of Elliot (2026), so not much incentive to get a S2 for now. Maybe later next year when more games are released?

I’m not complaining about it but it’s the #1 reason I don’t have a S2 yet (nor am considering it short-term).

So far the red/non-parryable attacks in this game all have longer wind-ups and flashier animations, so I’m not having a hard time identifying or reacting to them.

I’ll give a counterpoint that I barely managed to finish HK and Silksong and would never try to 100% them, but I’m several hours into Nine Sols and I’m getting along just fine with the parrying mechanic. I’m honestly having more trouble with the red attacks that you can’t parry, in particular the ones that still hit if you’re standing close behind the enemy - muscle memory from other games makes me try to dodge to this position so those attacks just keep wrecking me.

But might be one of those things that depends a lot on the person.

I think it’s one of those games that still isn’t compatible with Switch 2. I don’t have a Switch 2 (yet, maybe for xmas), but surely it will get fixed eventually?

According to reports I’ve seen it runs but crashes very often.

Really wish they’d patch this, I was researching the compatibility with games in my collection and this is the biggest one that’s listed as “not working”.