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.

Battletoads

Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos

Nintendo is trying to give PTSD to a new generation of players with these.

Crazy that the CotND team still can’t get a dev kit, they are the guys who did a Zelda crossover game that was published by Nintendo itself.

I hadn’t tried running Towerfall since getting my Switch 2. What is not working with it?

Don’t have a Switch 2 yet so I don’t know, but it’s listed in the eShop as “unsupported”: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/towerfall-switch/

I have a spreadsheet with all my games where I’ve been tracking what is still listed as having issues.

In my library, Crypt of the Necrodancer is still completely unplayable with latest firmware. Crashes during initial loading. Two firmware patches ago (before 21.0.0) it was briefly playable but you’d have to restart the Switch 2 (full power options restart) or you’d have major sound issues.

Interesting, I also have that game and I remember people commenting that one was fixed, and according to my spreadsheet was listed as “working fine” in the Nintendo website when I last checked.

At least they have it listed as unsupported again, which shows some commitment to have the proper information there: https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/crypt-of-the-necrodancer-nintendo-switch-edition-switch/

But I wish there was a changelog somewhere to make it easier to follow this. :/

Tokyo Xanadu Ex+ also moved to “compatible” with this update. Now the only game I have in my collection that is marked as “not working” on the Switch 2 is Towerfall.

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.