Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (December 2nd)

I'll be playing Steamworld Build, I can't wait!!

This week has seen my Switch library further enriched by Taiko Drum 'n' Fun which predictably ate most of the funds but after some pondering over the remains I also relieved the wishlist of the charming and agile Double Cross - and it's also the one going on the weekend whim menu between the aforesaid two, much for the additional merit of being eleven times smaller in size. Other Switch whims, besides the usual array of JRPGs (Xenoblade(s) and First Departure, RF5 and Portia, Marie and Fuga) and roguelites (Undermine and Rogue Legacy, Hades and Little Noah, possibly Ship of Fools and Road Redemption), may come to include titles like Neighborville, One's Justice, Dying Light, Lichtspeer and Bioshock 2 with some odds of BotW, AC2 and Carto. Having poked around some PS1 Diablo on Vita yesterday could also inspire more progress to make in Diablo 2 and Torchlight 2 as well.

Steam Deck, in the light of that last part, may likewise see some OG Torchlight (although I have yet to find a fully satisfactory controller layout for it), but I expect most of its sessions to be dedicated to Just Cause 3 (where I'm already working on the biggest island plus some of the DLC) with possible elbow-ins from the other usual suspects like Horizon, Final Fantasies, XCX, maybe some Dishonored and Hand of Fate on top... and then I recently grabbed the first Queen's Quest from a giveaway at the publisher's site, so if the installation behaves, I might finally tend to it so I can finally binge on to the second entry that's been awaiting its hour on Switch for ages.

The rest? More Eternia, Neptunia and God Eater on Vita; more Pokemon, Endless Frontier and Fantasy Life on 3DS; more NFS, Genshin and Avengers on PS4. This is also where I'd report adding some mobile MHA to the backlog, but Ultra Impact birdflipped me with complaints of "low device security" (who knows, maybe the money Bamco paid someone to code this buffoonery could have kept Tales of Crestoria afloat at least until its second anniversary instead🙄) and The Strongest Hero, on top of being an action game with the proverbial pseudobuttons (I'd frankly welcome it on Switch over Ultra Rumble, but my apathy towards battle royales does make this a biased take) is reportedly almost 10 Gb by now. Although it seems I might actually have room for three months from now, the late February Dissidia Opera Omnia just scheduled its curtain fall to. With all the story content thankfully destined for YouTube afterwards, but press F for Lunafreya's only current playable incarnation in the west nonetheless.

Trying to get to Christmas Day in Persona 5 Royal at the same time as Christmas Day in real life so I can explode with glee.

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1: Underground is starting this weekend so I’ll be playing that a lot tomorrow.
Beyond that I’m trying to 100% complete Wario Land 3 and PowerWash Simulator

No idea, but I have a few candidates.

Arkham Asylum since the release of the trilogy has got me interested in the series again.

Gotham Knights, for the same reason. Just in a Batman mood.

Might start a replay of TOTK to get a more objective view on the game.

Pikmin 4. Got 100% on the 1st 4 areas, now doing what comes next and failing badly.
This is my first Pikmin game, and I like it so much that I bought Pikmin 3. I wonder if 1-2 are worth it after 3-4.
And a bit of Tetris 99, Picross, Theathrythm.

Persona 5 Royal. Put it down just after beating Madarame’s palace so I remembered where I was, only meant to take a short break but it’s been 6 months. Wish I’d kept going with it though because the story’s now at the point where it’s hard to put down, enjoyed my time with it before but now it’s really addictive. Only took 35 hours to get to that stage but there you go

Tears of the Kingdom. 120 hours in, been spending most of that time exploring, doing shrines and side quests/adventures. Got the fourth sage, so decided that this weekend is the time to push the story forwards.

Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince proved to be a pretty big dud, so I'm not wasting time on that one anymore, Returnal was great and I did get a lot of mileage out of it past week but I can't get past the 3rd area and combined with the oppressive atmosphere the game has I really just needed something a bit more chill.

Right now I'm casually playing Tekken 2 which I found out was a free download on the PS Store (for some reason). I'm a Tekken 3 baby and that game had some pretty big gameplay feel improvements compared to 2 so it's always been a bit tough going back, but playing it for a bit now I have gained a bit of a newfound respect for the game. It's a bit jank but many of the moves the characters are known for are still there, the game does have an awesome soundtrack and a this weird vibe going for it that I kinda enjoy. I'm prolly gonna try unlock all the hidden fighters and in the meanwhile try to figure out something else to play.

This week I will be mostly playing

Pokémon X
Raimi Spider-Man 2

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 for me ❤️

Was going to be Batman Arkham Asylum but seeing as that game has problems on Switch (from what I gather City is the only 1 of the trilogy that runs well on Switch), I'm leaning towards Pikmin 2. Also some Splatoon 3 for playing more of the new season.

Timing things such that I'm prepared for the Game Awards and if Nintendo decides to go the "Nintendo Switch has Games" route at that event instead of actually announcing stuff, I'd probably then start TotK.

Just finished chronos:before the ashes and the touryst this week. So gonna start risen while traveling this week.

It's my birthday this weekend, so I will be spending most of my time with friends and family. Having said that, I do plan on finally starting Sonic Superstars this weekend, although I’m not sure how much time I’ll actually get to play it.

Fast RMX. Since getting the OLED a few weeks back, I've been keeping an eye out for earlier games that I haven't played yet. This one holds up really well. The F-Zero and Wipeout influences are obvious, but it adds some flavour of its own with the phase switching mechanic.

It's on sale right now.

Good chance I'll finish up the first chapter of Dragon Quest Builders on the Switch, and continue my playthrough of Diablo IV on the Series X. Will probably also squeeze some more time into Atari 50 too.

Playing Tears of the Kingdom. I've done the Wind Temple, which was typically an old school Zelda temple. Now reached the Fire Temple.
I managed to do some exploration in between, but so far really getting into the story. I'm affraid we'll be following the princess quite a lot, reminds me of Skyward Sword in that matter.

I’ll be continuing Super Mario Bros. Wonder. I should be able to finish the game on Sunday since I’ll be busy today and will only be able to play it for a few hours.

BG3…. GOTY 😉

Loving this so much, despite putting it off for so long due to the incorrect assumption it wouldn’t ’be for me’

So rich and diverse, things finally starting to click as well after a ropey start

The hilarious thing is that Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince is no where near the top 10 games people are playing this weekend because 1) the team saw Pokemon SV and said "challenge accepted", ultimately creating a game that looks and performs worse 2) Barely any marketing, not even sending out review codes to game websites 3) Limited distribution in the West

But hey, now they can complain again that DQM doesn't sell in the West and they can spend the next 10 years not localizing any DQM games.

I finally got around to Star Ocean The Second Story R! About 6 hours in, and absolutely love it. I haven’t found it as easy as the reviews made it out to be (I’ve found dodging a bit tricky), but the combat is amazing. The story isn’t amazing, nor very thought provoking, but does nothing wrong. Characters are cool. The only thing is, I don’t really understand the Private Action system. You have to interrupt the flow of the game going into a seperate mode to see certain story sequences. Why aren’t they just integrated normally? I feel like there’s a way to make it flow better.

On PS5 i will be playing some more Exoprimal, I've put 4 hours into it so far and whilst at first I liked the gameplay loop it's now getting tiresome. The same enemies, locations and missions over and over and by my calculations it will take around 30 hours to complete the story, I may not make it lol.

On Switch I will be playing the new Dragon Quest Monsters, which so far has been quite good but man those graphics are shocking and performance is not great either, it makes Pokémon Violet look good. I will also be playing Mario RPG, such a fun and great game.

Symphony of the Night

I picked up Enter the Gungeon while.on sale this past week. Gonna boot that up and give it a go

Corpse Party (2021) – replaying 4th Chapter to trigger Naomi and Seiko's Kiss scene, 'cause I haven't seen it before.
BLAZBLUE CROSS TAG BATTLE – played V.S. Mode with Blake Belladonna and various characters to see her special interactions, and to listen her seiyû, Yû Shimamura(current Zelda's seiyû).
For now, that's all what I've played on this week. I'll edit comment for the updates, like last time, I think. Have a nice gaming week, everyone.
Update #1:
Corpse Party (2021) – replayed 4th Chapter and triggered Naomi and Seiko's Kiss scene. Now, I conquered(100%) the game, probably. Also, I've replayed extra chapters 4 and 7. I wanted to listen and see my favourite characters one more time.
Persona4 The ULTIMAX ULTRA SUPLEX HOLD – played VS Mode.
BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION Special Edition – played VS Mode.
Update #2:
Tales of Vesperia REMASTER – completed one more secret mission. Came to oasis town in the desert.
Update #3:
Tales of Vesperia REMASTER – I'm in Yormgen now.
Persona4 The ULTIMAX ULTRA SUPLEX HOLD – played VS Mode as Margaret. I want to see all of her win quotes.

@Zeroo Even from the trailer you could tell the frame rate wasn’t very good. But I’m surprised to hear that it looks worse than Scarlet and Violet because graphically the game actually looked pretty good, in my opinion.

Regarding the marketing though, that’s really unfortunate for anyone that was hoping it would do well so they would release more of Dragon Quest Monsters’ games outside of Japan. It really does seem like they just want an excuse to not localize it. Just like how Bandai Namco treated Klonoa last year, except this time Square Enix actually bothered to release a physical version in the US.

I am currently replaying Tears of the Kingdom for the first time in a few months after giving up on it and I have been enjoying it more the second time around than the first and have been able to complete more shrines and get more hearts. I'm also playing Barton Lynch Pro Surfing, New Super Lucky's Tale and Ikenfell.

@UltimateOtaku91 I whole heartedly agree about Super Mario RPG, it’s such a fantastic game! It’s easily my personal favorite game of 2023.

I can just imagine how blown away I’m going to be by the remake of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door if Super Mario RPG impressed me that much!

Roots of Pacha, fantastic so far!

I'm playing Tears of the Kingdom and still can't believe how good it is. Just perfectly crafted for my taste and gameplay style. I'm also enjoying the hell out of Breath of the Wild. So fun to explore in that game and come across korok puzzles I don't remember, shrines I sometimes remember, etc. I'm also having fun with Get a Grip Chip, Mario RPG, Mario Wonder, Mario Maker 2, Fzero 99, Tetris 99, Worms WMD, Warioware (get it together and move it), Advance Wars 1+2, Switch Sports, Ring Fit Adventure, Doom (more new free download able levels), Quake (same, Spiritworld, or whatever it's called), and Give me toilet paper!
I've also been really loving the Steam Deck OLED. First game I played was Kingdom Eighties and it runs locked at 90fps. It looks astonishing. I also played Dirt Rally, Tinykin, Rocket League, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Trackmania Stadium (wish Trackmania would come to Switch!), and Doom 1993 and they all run at a lovely 90fps! I messed with Doom 2016, Wreckfest, and Descenders and could get them up to 90fps, but Descenders has some pacing or other issue similar to Kingdom New Lands so it always has chop and stutter. I played Wreckfest at 90, 76, and many other frame rates down to 18 and even 10fps. So fun to be able to choose a frame rate! The OLED Deck is the nicest system I've ever owned. I hope Nintendo can bring similar quality to Super Switch 2, but with variable refresh rate! It would be OK also if Nintendo uses a higher hz screen like 120hz (like my phone has that I'm typing this on!). This OLED Deck kinda stresses me out since I love to play as many games as possible on Switch, but I'll want to buy multiplatform games only on Steam now so I can have 90 glorious frames per second (I don't care that AAA mega 100GB download games don't run at 90fps on Deck, I play lighter games for higher smoothness). If Nintendo releases a system that can play Tears of the Kingdom at 90fps I'll swear off all other systems, lol!

I'll probably play Cook, Serve, Delicious 3?! on Switch and Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 1 on Vita because I never finished it.

@TheImperfectInsider Yeah Thousand Year Door is definitely going to be day one if it's on par with this Remake. Hopefully Nintendo continues with these style of remakes instead of basic ports.

I bought the Rare Replay collection last week, so lots of Jet Force Gemini and Conker (dipping into the other games for achievements, of course)

On Switch still working on finishing the Dragon Quest Monsters 3 and Star ocean demos.

On PC, Nick all stars 2 and lethal company with friends.
As well as the rest of my steam backlog for games I bought but haven't touched yet.

I’m probably a third of the way through Mother 3 - I’ve never played it before and I absolutely love it. I’m at one of those old-school hard RPG spots where I keep getting killed and it’s obvious I’ll need to grind and get some better items. Meanwhile I’ll be watching the tracking as castlevania advance collection slowly makes its way to my house.

I won’t be gaming much this weekend. My one year anniversary with my wife is Sunday, so we are going to enjoy the weekend together alone since our kiddo is gone. Next weekend I have a surprise trip planned for us, so that’s should be a blast.

Whenever I get the chance I’ll probably be playing Octopath Traveler II. It’s one of my favorite games released this year. Originally, I played it on the Switch and finished every story except for two characters. I picked it up on the PS5 because it was on sale. My goal is to play it to completion and earn the platinum trophy.

I also completed Lies of P — an absolute masterpiece, in my opinion. The final (optional) boss, Nameless Puppet, was a pain in my rear end for a hot minute. I readjusted my level(s) and killed him on the first attempt. I said it last week, but I think it stands toe to toe with Bloodborne.

Right now, I’m chipping away at NG+. I’m halfway through my second play through and I restarted it yesterday. I never immediately replay a game after I beat it, so that’s a testament to how much I adore LoP. I’m hoping to get the Platinum trophy on my third playthrough (I’m dreading the final boss fight already). I had one trophy glitch(?) on me only because I performed a very minimal task correctly, but out of order.

And I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but that post credits scene was fantastic. I’m definitely excited for the future of this franchise, which is undoubtedly getting a sequel. The stories available to tell are endless.

SPLATOON CHILL SEASON 2023 OUT LESSS GOO
All weekend I’m gonna be playing the new stages and weapons (I got level 30 the other day), participating in big run a barnacle and dime (looks awesome, although I don’t want my rank as Profreshional to go down) and playing all the glorious new features splatoon 3 has. Also I bought Portal: The Companion Collection and have been playing through Portal 2, which is an excellent masterpiece so far (on chapter 3). Might play a bit of Super Mario Bros Wonder with my dad too

Family matters will continue to deny me much playing time, and have me fondly remembering the days when we were all younger, healthier, and relatively carefree!

I did cave last week and pick up Rogue Legacy 2 on sale, so, time permitting, I’ll squeeze a little of that in. Physical copies of Super Mario RPG, Batman Arkham Trilogy, Akka Argh, Gimmick!, and Double Dragon Collection all arrived recently like a mini backlog tsunami, but they’ll all go unplayed for now.

Wishing everyone a happy weekend! 🕹👾

@Morsel what’s 3 like?
I’m really enjoying 4 but I fear that going back at this point might not be as fun?

I thought would try the Arkham games on Switch though was going to wait, City seems good, preferable to the PS4 version of Return as I prefer the original look of the game, and the 30fps seems mostly stable.

Knight is very compromised though, I feel they have really tried, but even with the reduction in texture and image resolution, reduced geometry and effects, the framerate is nowhere near the target 30fps most of the time. Origins should have been the 3rd game here for me, even if its not part of the Rocksteady trilogy, technically. Still worth it for Asylum and City for me though, I'm looking forward to replaying on the OLED.

@kennycottam I haven’t started 3 yet, first I’ll finish 4 and I’ll take a break before starting 3. But my friend who recommended 4 is sure I’ll love 3 too.

Tears of the freaking kingdom. Already a little fatigued maybe 15 hours in, I think because I spent so much time on BOTW and it is more of the same. I am enjoying it, but suspect I’ll rest it after a while and then come back to it after playing something else.

Picked up Disco Elysium in the sale but doubt I’ll play it yet.

Maybe a bit of mk8 deluxe with the kids, too.

I have 3 games in my backlog that have been there for a while that I feel bad for never finishing.
Xbox: Shadow of Tomb Raider
Switch: Metroid Dread and TotK
PS5: Nothing
Might pick up something new next week if they run any Game Awards sales.

I am playing Souldiers, because I hate myself. Game crashes at about a third of the save/check points, gross difficulty, clunky controls (dodge and sprint are the SAME button) but the game sure is pretty...uggghhhh

I am enjoying the newest Advent Calendar game for the Switch. So far I have played 2 games and both have been well done. I would advise getting the newest game, as, so far it is better than the one from last year.

The Case of the Golden Idol for me, thanks to finally going on sale. Wonderful game, basically Obra Dinn in Flash but with a steadier, more bite-sized progression

Mostly Mario games with Mario Kart 8 and Wonder. Will throw in Double Dragon Advance as well.

Tears of the kingdom, steamworld build and coral island also restarted Jade Empire.

Edit: just bought Black College Football Experience because it has my mom’s alma mater in it. I don’t even LIKE American Football and I am enjoying this game.

A fairly quiet weekend for me, the calm before the busy storm of next weekend. On the slate are:

• Super Mario Bros. Wonder - I'm partway through W-6. My goal is to clear the main game this weekend, then go back and tie up loose ends in a few levels. Not to mention I haven't started on the special world yet....
• Ys: The Oath In Felghana (PC) - I'll be starting this shortly for the first time as I continue my gradual Ys story path playthrough - outlined on Digital Emelas. People usually rank this one highly for a reason, right? Edit: Pretty fun ARPG so far. The plot isn't much to write home about yet, but the gameplay and mechanics are as fun as Ys Origin (Which makes sense since both use the same engine).

In the tabletop game department, my D&D group is attempting to meet tomorrow afternoon/evening. We've been on hiatus due to schedule conflicts, so we're overdue.

Happy gaming!

More Astlibra if I have the time. Planning on finishing up Sam and Max Save the Earth and move on to the sequal.

After some Black Friday shopping I managed to get a few games I’ll be playing through on sale, mainly so far the Resident Evil 4 remake and Control Ultimate Edition, both of which are phenomenal games. On my switch I’ll slowly but surely keep playing Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney trilogy, and maybe some among us seeing that they added an indie crossover. Happy weekend everyone!

I finished Paper Mario (N64) on NSO this week. I’ll definitely pick up the Super Mario RPG remake at some point (ideally on sale or used for >30% off. I try to only pay full price for games I buy day 1)

I was wanting to try another RPG with a more serious story and looked into a bunch of them.

While it has some darker themes (and is much much longer) than what I typically play, I was interested in Persona 5 Royal and physical copies were on sale for $25 USD so I picked that up to try. I am intrigued by it so far though and am curious to see where it goes after the first tutorial palace.

Finished Detective Pikachu Returns (it was fine, some cute interactions with Pokémon) and Sonic Forces (meh) on Switch this past week. This weekend I'm devoting myself to Pikmin 4, now moving on to the 4th area. Also on Switch I just beat the first boss and got my first Star Piece in Super Mario RPG. Otherwise, I'm getting ready to play Miles Morales with my partner over Christmas by revisiting Spider-Man Remastered on the Steam Deck.

Have a good time gaming, everyone!

Disney Speedstorm: The new season featuring Frozen has started and I'm back at the game.
I actually came back during the last hours of the Aladdin season and managed to unlock Aladdin himself and Steamboat Mickey.
Thanks to some adjustments to the prices since my purchase of Belle in the Aladdin season and some progress I did on it and its events, I was able to unlock Randall, Bo Peep as soon as I booted up the Frozen season, in which I've already unlocked Kristoff, Olaf, Beast, Jack Sparrow, Mike Wazoski, Jumba and some Frozen pit crew.

WarioWare: Get It Together!: I found a second hand copy yesterday. This is a game that I never see offered around here, you have to go to another state (1 hour away) to find it.
I've played it before since my nephew has it as well, but I decided to start from zero. And please, don't ask me to Move It! I'm not ready yet.
Speaking of WarioWare...

Tetris 99: I'm also playing this to unlock the WarioWare: Move It! theme. Then it will be a wait for the Super Mario Bros. Wonder one.
Also for anyone who missed it the first time, they're offering the WarioWare: Get It Together! theme for only 1 ticket. Afterwards it'll be the usual 30.

@Grumblevolcano I've been playing a lot of Asylum and I haven't run into any issues at all yet...

Well, if at any point I stop playing Splatoon 3 for its Big Run, I'm dedicating my time to Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I played it in 2019 I think, but I've been going through the series, and since I'm playing on New Game Plus, the game isn't interrupting me every 5 minutes to shove tutorial down my throat. I played Torna before this one, so I have a basic grasp of the gameplay here, though I do miss the vanguard switch mechanic.

I finished Metal Gear Solid last night. Overall good game with some hiccups here and there. With that said, I'm starting up 2 games tonight. Super Mario RPG + Dead Space Remake. I'll also continue my P5T playthrough. Good weekend lined up for sure.

Also, a small part of me wants to buy arkham trilogy but I'm already full of games this weekend. Decisions Decisions...

Been playing Skyrim: AE and Arkham Asylum on Steam with a Switch controller. Haven’t been playing the Switch much as of late other than the occasional match of Smash.

Finished up Xenoblade 2's DLC Torna the Golden Country during the week. Thoroughly enjoyed it so now playing the Yuffie DLC for FF VII Remake on PS5 to take advantage of the new OLED TV.

On the Switch front, I've dipped my toes into Toem and currently running a Mario Kart gauntlet with my partner. Running through all 96 tracks, changing character at the end of every 4 races. The 1st week she opened up a 15-9 lead and after week 2 she's pulled ahead by 31-17. Need one hell of a comeback on the Expansion Pass tracks...happy weekend everyone!

Played some Crawl with friends Friday night. The run really went the distance. I think it took us an hour and a half.

Anyway, today is cleaning and decorating my house for the holidays, and tomorrow will be cleaning and decorating my grandpa's house, so I'm not sure how much game time I'll have. Hopefully a few minutes to catch up on Theatrythm DLC.

Just beat Persona 5 Tactica and man, what a joy ride that was. The story started out slow, but when it found it's stride, the story definitely hit all the feels and was the beautiful continuation of the phantom thieves I wanted. As for the gameplay and combat, it was fun from the get go, but only got better the later the game got and the more persona's I crafted. By the end I was smiling like a kid as my Skull/Michael combination blasted everything into oblivion.

Am currently playing Fire Emblem Three Hopes. I've beaten every mainline FE game released in NA and also every spin off except for this title. Decided I'd finally give the spin off 3H warriors game a try and it's been fun so far.

This weekend I'll be finishing up Final Fantasy III. I'm 10 hours in and I just reached the crystal tower which I think is pretty close to the end of the game. Looking forward to finding out why everyone hates this dungeon so much 😂

I also picked up Bayonetta 3 which I'll be starting after I finish FF3. Last weekend I actually replayed Bayonetta 2 to prepare myself for the third game and it was just as good as I remembered lol.

So I’ve finished the Yo-kai Watch trilogy now. I could go back for 100 % or something, or start on Blasters, but I think I’m going to stick with Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe on Switch for now. I beat the original with 200 % completion, probably more than once, but I figured I might as well do it again for the extra content. I haven’t played a lot of Kirby in a while, so it’s nice to go back to it.

Just finished up with the Mario RPG Remake and am now knee-deep into Astral Ascent. AA is so damn good.

Asylum is as good as I remember

This past week I finished Super Mario RPG and Metal Gear Solid

Started up Metal Gear Solid 2 : Sons of Liberty

And I’m still playing through Sea of Stars

Kind of jumping between Arkham City and Captain Toad, might try and return to the playthrough I had going of Wind Waker since neither is a long game.

I bought the Evercade Cartridge Duke Nukem Collections 1 and 2 for my Hyper Mega Tech Super Pocket this week.

Unfortunately I can't really recommend the former as Duke Nukem 3D Total Meltdown has serious audio issues (at least on the Super Pocket - I can't speak for the Evercade models as I haven't tried it on those - it does seem like the Super Pocket has a different OS from the Evercade models so maybe it's a Super Pocket issue).

The issue seems to be when the game tries to play background atmosphere and music tracks from the CD rom (it's basically a PlayStation One game being emulated and that often played background sound and music directly from the CD rom, just a like regular CD player), as it often fails (and there's even really annoying "clipping" sounds from time to time).

I do recommend the second Duke Nukem collection though as there so far hasn't been any issues with the games whatsoever. And Duke Nukem Advance (originally a Gameboy Advance game as the the title would imply) and Time to Kill (originally a PSOne game) are both pretty good and enjoyable games that are nice to have on a handheld (Land of the Babes haven't got the best rep I know - but I haven't really looked into that yet, so I can't say if it's worth playing).

Dragon Quest Monsters for me. Starts off slow, but gets progressively better as it goes on.

Mario Wonder, Ghost Trick and Splatoon 3! New splatoon season is great!

@Zuljaras how are you finding Gotham Knights? I got it because it's free on PSPlus but was bored after an hour. I didn't know if it had a slow start and if it's worth sticking with it?

I'm playing The Legend of Zelda for NES and Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Switch - Super Mario RPG, Batman: Arkham Asylum

PS5 - Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name

The Legend of Zelda
Pokémon Yellow
Super Mario Bros. 3

Smurfs Karts for the trophies

Star Ocean the second story R.

@Kraven first timer on the Deck and had it for about a week now. I got the 1TB OLED and it is fantastic.

It really gives me hope for what the Switch 2 can be.

So far I am loving returning to Arkham Asylum. Textures seem downgraded in handheld, but it looks great docked. Have been having a lot of fun with it. Will have to check out the other two titles soon.

I'm playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, enjoying all the new tracks and now going for 3 stars on all the 200 CC mode tracks, it's so fast. Have also beat the staff ghosts so now I have all the golden kart parts.

Also playing Ring Fit Adventure, Tetris 99 event and Kirby Mouse Attack on the DS.

Will be starting Arkham Asylum on Switch, also some more Red Dead Redemption.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Will be playing this for a while.

I have recently started my first playthrough of Elden Ring on PlayStation 5 this week, and I have been having a blast with the game. I didn't think I would like it quite as much as I do now, and it has helped me appreciate the souls-like genre a ton. I may also sprinkle in some God of War Ragnarök but I have been pretty addicted to the former. Happy gaming to everyone this weekend!

It's making me so happy to see so many people replaying Arkham Asylum. It's so good.

I booted up Arkham Knight this morning just to test it out and have kind of gotten stuck in. But I know I need to stop soon so I can play through Asylum and City again. Other than that though I might also try to get some more Persona 5 Tactica in, and maybe finally put in that copy of Double Dragon Collection I just had to have at launch. Happy gaming! ❤️

If they sell Asylum and City piecemeal, I will play those. I'm not interested in spending $60 on two functional ports and an unplayable one.

I'm playing AM2R! Been having a blast.

Forza and Starfield on Series S. These will be my go to for a while yet.
Mario RPG and Sunshine on Switch. Good clean fun.
Panzer Dragoon on the Original Xbox. Playing a heap on this and the games stand up well.
Was going to get the GameCube going but it isn't playing discs 😭

@Grumblevolcano
I've been playing Arkham Asylum, docked and undocked, and it runs well for the most part. Visuals definitely seem downgraded but overall it's still a great time just like it was back in 2009.

Well here we go with another week of WAYP. Been one crazy week this week. Update from last week I beat Sonic Superstsrs but not just that game tho we’ll get to that later. This weekend I not only saw the new Nicholas Cage movie Dream Scenario and the new Godzilla movie Godzilla Minus One but I also beat Spider-Man 2 as well. All three were superb in different ways and a great time all around. Got some nifty new joycons this week too. The Pastel Purple and Green they’re very pretty. Unfortunately this week is nothing but early morning work shifts for me like back in the summer so truthfully the only PS5 game I can say is gonna get a lot of love from me is gonna be Alan Wake II most likely on my day off. Think I’m gonna try to snag a preorder of Granblue Fantasy Versus Rising this week too. The shiny Deluxe edition so I can nab the season pass with it. With the Game Awards coming up I’ll probably check that out with friends and vote on it like today I’m thinking. Also for the rest of the weekend I’m thinking of abandoning my plans to 100% all of Super Mario Wonder for now and probably just try to beat it tonight. With luck I can say that about a lot of games this week. Pikmin 4, Pokémon Scarlet The Teal Mask so on and so forth. Excited for those Game Awards tho definitely. As for anime of the week I won’t lie I slacked a little this week so I’m only going to give credit to Spy X Family and Shangri La Frontier this week. Podcasts this week of course gotta be Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, Remap Radio, RPGsite Tetracast, Minnmax, Nextlander and Weapon Wheel. As always yall hope you have a wonderful weekend and happy gaming.

I'm about to finish the first Palace in Persona 5 Royal and I'm so excited to take Kamoshida down!! I'm also very interested to see where the story goes once he's out of the picture. This game has been a blast so far.

Seasons and Ages linked game.

This weekend I've been more in the retro mood, so I've been dipping in and out of several games, whether games on NSO or in collections like the Capcom Arcade series. I've also been tidying up my eShop wishlist as there are several games that were just "interesting" that I'll probably never play after I get through all the games that I really want to play. I've only got a few hours left, but I'm trying to decide if I want Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider and Cybershadow while they're still on sale.

@MeloMan I personally find Cyber Shadow much better. They're both great, but Cyber Shadow got me more "in the zone," if you know what I mean. That game gets crazy tough, but it feels great to play.