Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (10th May)

Hey everyone.
The last couple of weeks I've finished a couple of games and started a new one.
I finished Silver Axe:The Honest Elf.
A great little Metroidvania with a good little story that I enjoyed a fair bit.

Also finished Rusty Rabbit.
Put in over 40 hours and 100% it.
Great game that I highly recommend, especially if you're after a Metroidvania with a great story. Opened NG+ as well. Heaps of content. Great stuff.

Started 9 Years of Shadows, really enjoying it so far.

Also put more money down on my Switch 2 preorder and also pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077.
Can't wait to hook into my new console.
Bring in my Birthday, well, 3 days after it.
Have a great weekend everyone.

Today I'm working, and tomorrow I'll experience the Switch 2 for the first time... so I do hope to play:

• MK World
• Metroid Prime 4
• Cyberpunk 2077
• DK Bananza
• Drag 'n' Drive

Aside from these, I'll participate in the weekly ritual + full moon @ Tetris Effect Connected.

And I will also be doing some more missions of Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity in Apocalyptic mode. I'm on the side-quests level 41+, and it's already quite tough. I also want to raise a weapon for every warrior to level 30.

Happy gaming! ✌🏻🧡🎮

During the week I finished the Rayman DLC for Mario+Rabbids: Sparks of Hope. Not touched the other DLCs, because started Mario & Luigi: Brothership. I’ve just beaten the first big baddie, now doing side quests and heading for the 4th island. I’ve read so many negative critics about this game, but for now I love it.

Right now sitting on a train to York for a uni open day with my son. Tired because I made the mistake of playing Civ 6 for the entire evening last night, probably 4 hours or so. My brain just breaks when I do that, couldn’t sleep for seeing hexagons on my eyelids…. Hopefully will finish it soon and put it to bed for a while! I do love it early game but it becomes a bit of a slog later, especially going for domination victory.

Maybe I’ll squeeze a bit of mk8d as well at some point. My plan to at least get 3 stars on every cup 150cc before mk world is not progressing very well!

Reconnected the Wii U to play Wind Waker HD again.

I'll always associate the month of May with WW, since the original's EU release was in May 2003. Played it on a small, portable TV back then. To replicate the feeling, I'm playing on a 16-inch monitor. OLED actually, so the colours really pop. The sunny weather over here matches the mood perfectly.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Probably a few rounds of Splatoon 3 and Wave Race Blue Storm. I had such a good time with Wave Race 64 yesterday, that I have to play the sequel again.

Happy gaming everyone!

Eggstra Work in Splatoon 3 this weekend.

Just wrapped up Expedition 33! While I wouldn’t call it a masterpiece, I did really enjoy it. It definitely is held back by some of its AA jank but this game just has a lot of heart poured into it. Absolutely best soundtrack worthy. But with that out of the way I can finally start on Hundred Line Last Defense Academy.

@Bentleyma we had a bunch of friends over to play mk8d the last weekend, I feel for your withdrawal symptoms.

I tried to play rollercoaster tycoon 3 complete edition for the first time this weekend.... Oh my the controls for that game are so counterintuitive. It's actually close to unplayable imo just from the controls, I spent about 2 hours in the sandbox fighting with them. Just awful. Very sad because it looks and runs quite nice. Strongly unrecommend!

This week I will be mostly playing

Shining Force

Greetings fellow video game enthusiasts. I will continue enjoying Atelier Yumia. Hope everyone has a great weekend of gaming enjoyment.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons- Finished my 48th HHP vacay home this week, which would’ve filled up the entire grid had I not reused 5 plots.

Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble- Bested my No Miss challenge record by 3 stages. Would have liked to push that run farther, but I hadn’t played those stages in a good 2 months now.

Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair- Reached the 2nd class trial. Really disappointed that the sequel is regurgitating another plot line from the original.

Wingspan: Special Edition- Played the tutorial. Seems like a decent game, but I mostly bought it to recognize more birds in the wild.

I finally beat Xenoblade Chronicles X… after 150 hours in. What an amazing game and conclusion to the story.
Now I’m just at 99% … just need to beat the Telethia and unlock some level 60 skells and special weapons and I’m done for good. Next comes the Castlevania Dominus collection

Got 1000GS in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered on the XSX. Playing through Asura’s Wrath and its DLC on Ps3 atm.
Almost done so I’ll play God of War on Ps3 after.
Switch is benched atm till the Switch 2 releases.

Clair Obscur on Xbox and Oracle of Ages again for a replay on Switch.

I finally, finally just reached S-rank in F-Zero 99 after 18 months and 17 wins under my belt, so I feel I can step away from it a bit more now going forward.

Other than a few rounds of Splatoon 3, I'm going to get started on Paradise Killer, and... finally decide whether to pick up Hundred Line digitally or find a place to import it from (suggestions welcome 😊)

Good afternoon.
This weekend I played PS3 and PS4 games as I did machine maintenance and updated their machines as well. 🤠

PS3
1. Pac-Man and The Ghostly Adventures 2
2. Sly Cooper Collection (Sly Cooper 2)
3. Ratchet & Clank HD Trilogy (R&C 2)

PS4
1. LEGO CITY UNDERCOVER
2. Harvest Moon Mad Dash

I don't have anything super big going on at the moment. I'll probably pick at some games that I started up weeks ago. I made it to the final stage in a run of Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate. I absolutely adore it's roguelike take on chess, so I may try a few more plays of it. I also made it to stage 3 of Thumper. I'm really enjoying it, but I'm expecting it to get insanely hard. 30XX may be my most likely thing to play if I get a good chunk of time in to play something. And I want to continue some more River City Girls 2 if I get some time to play in co-op with my wife.

At least I beat Prodeus and Kaze and the Wild Masks this week. They were good games (especially Prodeus), and it was good to finish them, since I had started about 6 games at once a few weeks ago.

Nothing this weekend I'm rewatching The Sacred Blacksmith one of my all time favourite Animes ^__^

I'm poking through the early parts of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim after finally figuring out how the Rememberance sections are supposed to be played. I'm still dabbling with I Am Setsuna, which became more enjoyable when I realized the battle system is really not sophisticated and there's not much point in fiddling with anything. That may end up being relegated to a background process, as I failed to put my copy of Xenoblade Chronicles X in a location I couldn't see it every time I swapped carts and am going to get lost in that in all likelihood.

Trying to lean into a weekend of being unproductive. Glad for the rest.

EDIT: There is only XCX now. Free will is an illusion.

Happy gaming everyone!

Just started replaying Bioshock Infinite as I never actually finished it & am surprised it still holds up so well as it is now 12 years old.
The story, the gameplay & graphics are all great.. good times!

Rounding up the game waiting for my switch 2 pre-order.

I've just started playing Tunic, which I'm finding a bit frustrating. The difficulty isn't a problem since it's fairly generous with shortcuts and I'm learning enemy patterns, but revealing certain mechanics through manual pages has annoyed a few times.

Most recently I got stuck in the entrance to the Forest Fortress since I had no idea I could pray at the metal things to activate them. I hadn't found the page and don't think I could even leave the area to find it. I had to use a guide to learn the mechanic, which isn't something I like to have to do. Puzzling out mechanics is a nice idea, but locking something so fundamental behind a missable page rather than hinting at it or through experimentation is annoying.

I like pretty much everything else about the game, so I'm sure it'll grow on me more as I learn the remaining mechanics.

Halo: Spartan Strike (Windows Phone) - In the final stretch now. Then deletion and onto the next game in my dwindling pile of WP games.

For the first time in a while I have a small handful of games on half.
I'm a couple of hours into citizen sleeper 2, I enjoyed it but went a few weeks without playing it. Might have to restart now.
Echoes of Wisdom I'm about 25 hours into, needed a break after a while, now I think I'll just wait for the switch 2 update.
Expedition 33, this is likey my goty. I don't really know if anything will touch it. I'm only 15 hours in so that could change but so far this is my priority.
I also want to pick up blue Prince. It's meant to be good.
Also there's doom on the horizon but with the switch around the corner and I'm still trudging through Expedition I don't know if I'll get to it anytime soon.

@Stormcloudlive I’ve actually been interested in these games lately. I did read about how the controls are cumbersome so I went with the classic game. It still is clunky I think but they added touch controls so I dunno if it’s much better or not.

This weekend I’ll be taking the moms out to dinner near this place on the lake. I rented a golf cart so we’ll drive all over the park and hopefully enjoy the nice weather. I’m sure I’ll play some hello kitty island adventure a bit and I’ve recently returned to Overwatch on the X and it’s good to be back playing mystery heroes again.

More XCX, focus on the story and then clear up a bunch of segment recon while trying to level up enough for some side quests. I think I missed some limited time segments so 100% looks to be impossible.

I've just been playing Lunar 1 on Lunar Remastered Collection (Switch).

My kids are playing Ganbare Goemon 3 (Super Famicom) and Encore Mode on Sonic Mania (Switch)

Primarily focusing on Genshin Impact this weekend. The new version just came out, so I want to play through the Story Quest for the new character, Escoffier, as well as take part in the flagship event.

Might hold off on the new chapter of the Archon Quest, though, since I play it in the English Dub, and Erika Harlacher, who voices Venti, has apparently said that she will be returning to voicing the character soon. So I want to get the best experience possible given the circumstances.

But maybe once I take care of the more time-sensitive stuff in Genshin, I might go back to playing more Xenoblade Chronicles X. That being said, I've been itching to take up Stellar Blade or Astro Bot (both for the PS5) again, so there's always that, as well.

Croc was a childhood favourite game of mine. ...and the recent release of the Croc remaster reminded me that I never actually played Croc 2.

So with a Croc 2 original PlayStation disc, I played through it.

I have to say, it was quite fun, though it feels rather unpolished compared to its contemporaries such as Spyro or Banjo.

I did not like the lives system in the game, and some levels (especially Roger Red Ant) felt unnecessarily punishing due to the way lives work. I'm also not a fan of the need to grind crystals to buy jellies from the shop, it felt a bit unnecessary.

I got all the golden Gobbo statues and jigsaw pieces, and saw the extremely underwhelming secret ending. Literally upon grabbing the final collectible, the credits comes up with a message saying "congratulations you got 100% in Croc 2" and that's all that happens. ... bleh. At least the regular ending was fine.

Also I played Croc 2 on my PlayStation 2 Slim, which has a bizarre effect of messing up the sound effects on occasion. Gobbo voices sound like Dantini cackles, Croc makes door creaking or crystal sound effects when attacking, sometimes the shopkeeper's voice replaces the footsteps noise.... it was all very silly. Apparently this issue only occurs when playing on a PS2 Slim specifically - a PS2 fat, PS3, or PS1 plays the game just fine. Weird stuff.

Anyways. Croc 2 was good, so hopefully they remaster Croc 2 too! And then release them both in a bundle with the Game Boy Color games included too for good measure?

Unless I’m playing something with my kids, I’m not touching my switch until I get a S2. Playing oblivion mainly but a couple other backlog games to finish in next couple weeks on my steamdeck before I spend the summer playing my new switch.

I've been a bit out of it for the past couple of weeks - a lot of projects (trying to write a first novel, learning Japanese) and work. I haven't really felt the need to game and I've been so meh about Switch 2 and the whole Game-Key card thing that I haven't felt motivated to even pull out my Switch... even though I got three games delivered from LimitedRun this week that I wasn't expecting. ANYWAY, if I do game this weekend, might try out one of those; or fire up my Sega Saturn; or start 'Clair Obscur' on my PS5 - I finally got my hands on a physical copy. Have a great weekend!

So many games all but untouched in my backlog, so many great new games or good stuff on sale in the eshop...so I started another playthrough of Skyrim. Moulding myself into a sneaky thief type as I've not tried it before, and remembering how easily you can lose a couple of hours just walking around or hunting bandits.

Been waiting almost fourteen years for the next Elder Scrolls game, dunno what everyone's complaining about with Silksong..

Gonna be out and about this weekend so probably just some Freedom Planet 2 and other fun, lighter titles. Have a great one everybody.

I finished up Dragon Quest III HD-2D this morning. Some of the battles got the brain ticking over and were proper squeaky bum time on occasion! Don't know if I'm in a massive rush for the I & II remakes as I like a bit more story/character in my games but for what was there, I quite enjoyed my first foray into the DQ series. Maybe XI one day?

Xenoblade Chronicles X is sitting there ready to go but I might be sneaking in a short indie game like Neva as a pallet cleanser before diving into another time sink.

Getting towards the end of Split Fiction with my partner. Will be sad when it's over as we've really enjoyed the games those guys make. She bought me the Apollo Justice trilogy for my birthday too so look forward to diving in at some point.

Happy weekend when it comes folks!

@Yalloo not Metroid Prime 4 ???

I'm trying to finish Baldur's gate 3 this week end. Finally. I started it on release day 🤣

@Oldstalk Of course MP4!! I've updated my post 😉

@jfp Thank you! I sure hope so too 😃

Finished sin and punishment(n64) legitimately on easy. Really good game, and such a good feeling as well, to do it genuinely.

It was a super-busy week at work, so I had virtually zero gaming time. And of course, what happened last night? I stayed up far too long playing Civ VI. The rest of the weekend looks busy too, so I'm almost done. And then I have to travel for business Monday through Wednesday, so no gaming then. Everyone please beat an extra level or boss for me!

Happy gaming!

mario kart tour. guaranteed to get the final badge (30 1st place wins in tier 99) and I dont want to jinx it but Im like 450th out of 1000 ppl so I might finally get my meowser acr badge. then I'll focus on getting the 20 characters Im missing but man such an underrated gem.

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD

Metroid. But it’ll be a coin toss will decide which system (and subsequently which Metroid) I travel with this weekend. Heads is Switch Lite. Tails is 3DS XL.

Just finished (standard) Cat Quest III this morning, but I'm probably not going to jump into New Game+ or Mew Game yet. I'll start up either Tunic or Wildermyth today.

A lot of gaming with my partner and my siblings this week. Super Mario Party Jamboree, Guilty Gear Strive and some F-Zero-X, great fun.

For solo gaming, continuing my playthrough of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness and the Secret Hideout. Still fun, spent much of my time doing side quests and alchemy, with a minor amount of main story progression thrown in! About 20 hours into it now.

Made significant progress in going through the DLC story for The House in Fata Morgana: A Requiem for Innocence. Into Part 2 of this prequel story. One touching scene and the accompanying music had me in some tears at one point, this visual novel just keeps getting to me.

I'm also a couple hours into Alan Wake Remastered. The introduction scenes and storytelling had me hooked immediately, even if not my usual genre in terms of gameplay. Struggling a little with combat, but getting through it slowly so far.

@Grumblevolcano there’s nothing that is limited time or missable. Don’t worry. Play to your heart’s content.

This weekend's whims are spread among the familiar time sinks (Xenoblades and Ateliers, Rune Factories and Personas, Castlevanias and Zeldas, survivors and warriors) and another motley bunch of moods ranging from Langrisser, Momodora and Windbound to Downwell, Crisis Core and Assassin's Creed 2. Some NSO stuff like Yoshi's Island and Zero Mission is possible, too. Other itches include a general racing one looking to translate into varied sessions like Wreckfest, Super Mario Kart, NFS2015/Payback, Grid 2, Gran Turismo PSP and even its eponymous progenitor (which I put on Deck instead of Vita for lack of confidence in how many buttons a home console simcade might require), and then another whim even led me to install God of War Collection at long last. A nerd's mind works in mysterious ways.

I’ve been feeling burnout with gaming over the last two weeks. I also won’t be playing much of anything this weekend — I’ll be out of town, so it might be a good refresher. And I haven’t got to play much of anything throughout the week, so progress has been minimum in the games I have been playing.

To start, I finished Act 3 in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I’m officially at the end game, and now that the entire map is opened up, I’ll be doing all of the optional content before completing the game. My opinion hasn’t changed — it’s an absolute masterpiece. I would like to go for the platinum trophy, but I’m not sure yet due to the excessive amount of games I want to play that are out right now.

Secondly, I’m playing The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak on my Switch. I played the game originally on the PS5 at launch but put the game aside during the third chapter because I got busy with life. I figured I’d be able to complete it if I play it portably since I’ve been traveling a lot more than usual as of late. I’m currently halfway through chapter 2 and it’s just as brilliant as I remember.

Lastly, I preordered Doom: The Dark Ages. The reviews have been great, and the prior two games are some of my favorite FPS’s to date. This new entry looks absolutely wild, with an interesting departure from its predecessors. This should be a nice palate cleanser from the depressing narrative of Clair Obscur, and the meaty RPG that is the Trails series. It’s time to turn off my brain and rip and tear.

The battery is knackered on the Switch so it's staying docked and... resting until the Switch 2 comes out. O_O

Mostly playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (only had time for a couple hours so far so finally a chance to really get cracking this afternoon, nicely timed for this ultrawide patch) along with bits of Balatro, Golf+, Walkabout Mini Golf and Cluedo.

Not really fancying anything too expansive since i'll be dropping everything on June 5th...

I’ve been having a blast with my Steam Deck this week. I got Sonic X Shadow Generations running on it at 60 fps, and I got all achievements in Cuphead on it last night. This weekend, I’ll maybe play more Shadow Generations (or Sonic Gens, depending on how I feel), or I’ll try out Nier Automata for the first time on the Deck. I have it on Switch, but I got it again on Steam to test out the Deck’s power.

On Switch, I would like to start a new game, like Xenoblade DE.

WELP. I was deep in to Act 2 when I decided to give up (due to difficulty plus my lack of grind) but the positive discourse online made me come back & FINISH the amazing game Clair Obscure: Expedtion 33. WHAT. A GAME. AND. ENDING! If you have a way of experiencing it I beg you to check it out because you won’t be disappointed. The acting & story alone are generational.

Clair is hard to follow up. I dipped my toes into the Oblivion Remaster but didn’t find the combat or world compelling enough to continue my play through currently. One day! Instead i went deep into the mystery that Indy is presented. Indiana Jones & the Great Circle has been interesting so far! And exploring the Vatican whilst a new pope got announced was surreal

I'll be continuing Laika Aged Through Blood (Switch). Last weekend I was able to get a real good long session with it. The game is so amazing and should really get more attention. Depending on how much time I get this weekend maybe I could wrap it up. I'm so slow at these type of games so I ain't holding my breath. I got some really good advice last weekend about taking my time it so that's what I'm doing

If I can finish up Laika I'm really leaning towards finishing my second playthrough of Red Faction Guerrilla Remastered (Switch) before I move onto my 'on deck' game in the backlog which is Red Dead Redemption (Switch). The idea of trying to tackle two big open world games is starting to feel very overwhelming. We'll see what I end up doing.

I’ve been really addicted to Lunar: Silver Story in the Lunar Remastered Collection. So I will definitely be playing that. Also putting in time for Fatal Fury City of the Wolves.

I’m battling a cold for the past few days. This virus has mocked all the chicken soup and extra rest I’ve thrown at it, and it’s put a damper on my game time. I stopped on Chapter 12 of Xenoblade Chronicles X: DE and I haven’t even updated my Switch to vers 20 yet! It’s starting to get angry at me - it won’t update my news channel or let me see friends’ online status anymore. 😅

Anyway, the plan this weekend is to get over this cold and catch up on things. Hopefully do some dust-up missions to power up my characters and skells a bit more and give that Ch 12 boss battle another shot. We’re running out of time before Switch Deux!

Wishing all the NL moms out there a very Happy Mother’s Day! 🕹❤️

Busting out the Sega CD this weekend for some fun on Sewer Shark.

fallout new vegas
mario and Luigi superstar saga+bowser's minions-during the week I was watching my favorite nintendo youtuber play mario and Luigi and know I'm hooked on playing it.

@Shiryu
It’s funny you mentioned it - I met Pharsis the Everqueen just last night, but it was not intentional and it was exceedingly brief. She showed me the door immediately, actually. 😅
I won’t be calling on her again anytime soon!

@shonenjump86
I preordered the upcoming Space Adventure Cobra game earlier this week. I think it’s a Sept release on Switch. It’s a run & gun side-scroller and hopefully decent! Definitely not a license I expected to see these days. Will you be picking it up?

Inching ever closer on Avowed. I've almost fully explored the 4th map and wrapped up most of the side quests. I'll have to pop back to the 1st area to turn in some maps, but I think I can see the end from here.

Not as close on Xenoblade Chronicles X, but I did wrap chapter 6 after ten hours of affinity quests and MP grinding. Next is the Skell, so I'll probably hold off for a bit. It totally transforms exploration, so I'll stay on foot for a while longer. Until I've had my fill.

Lil bit of Fashion Dreamer. It thankfully has less of the live service BS that makes games homework. No daily log ins, no daily missions. And yet, I'm still motivated to log in, see what lookit mail I've got, and design a couple of fits.

Windblown is possible. We just unlocked the new area. F-Zero X is mostly guaranteed. We've been having fun clearing Half Pipe with every character in 1st and 2nd place. And we just started a kind of Mario Kart marathon, starting with Mario Kart 64 last week, so up next may just be some Mario Kart Double Dash.

Still playing Ocarina on 3DS, despite receiving another Switch OLED this week.

My hope is to wrap up the main campaign in Spring Cleaning 2025 today; I only need to do the Snooze Room level before I can watch the end credits. A crazy game I've played on/off the last two weeks as time allowed. Most of my day off yesterday was spent on the dreaded Kitchen level. I still need to do the oven and fridge cleaning DLC soon.

Thankfully, games I recommend more exist.

• Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (Switch) - Just wrapped up the funny business at Manoza and had some fun with the Mod Rod, so back to Linebeckburg to visit Linebeck...and maybe procure my fifth orb? Four orbs, 64 Mini Medals, and a party that ranges from Level 31-34.
• Fuga: Melodies of Steel (Switch) - Loved the demo and bought the full game while it was on sale. I'm currently right before the Chapter 4 boss. So far the plot is interesting, can surprisingly take some dark turns, and I like a lot of the characters. This is a mostly linear strategy RPG where some kids in a war-torn world commandeer a mysterious, ancient tank in order to rescue their families from the Berman Empire after their village is attacked. The Fuga series - it's a trilogy, with the third game releasing on the 29th of this month - is by CyberConnect2 and is set in their Little Tail Bronx universe. The same one as Solatorobo: Red the Hunter and Tail Concerto.
• Pokemon Go - Pawmi Community Day is tomorrow. I hope to participate a little, but I'm not sure how much since it's Mother's Day in the US....Plus it's not a shiny I'm particularly excited for.

Have a great weekend, and Happy Mother's Day to all the moms who read this!

Happy Mother’s Day to everyone!

As for my gaming. Still the usual.

Xenoblade chronicles X on switch - still haven’t made much progress. There is a lot of mechanics in that game. Lol

Bravely default 1 on 3ds - made some progress in chapter 5. Still fighting the optional bosses and I have finally got a killer attack combo to beat most bosses with ease. I just want to complete this game. It’s not a great game at all lol.

Drakengard 1 on my retroid - making some progress on getting the last 2 endings. It’s getting even crazier story wise. One of the darkest games I’ve played for sure. But I am liking it.

Might start portal 2 this weekend but who knows lol

Happy gaming everyone!

Pokémon Go in person. It's Dynamax Suicune weekend, continuing tomorrow, and we also have Pawmi Community Day tomorrow, hopefully with a less absurd (temporary) evolution requirement than the default of 100 Pawmi Candy + Walk 25km with Pawmo as your buddy.

Still Hundred Line, got a bit under 30 endings left to go. Want to get it wrapped up soon.

Original Metroid NES.

Still trying to find my way with that.

Operation shave away at the backlog before Switch 2 continues. I’m playing between Astral Ascent, Darkest Dungeon 2, Neon White and attempting some arcade runs on Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, mainly Alpha 3.
I saw the ending of Shotgun Cop Man yesterday, now it’s time to clean up the level checklists.

Monster Hunter Wilds
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
my original NES cartridge games once in a while

@mcmicken ...but I might be sneaking in a short indie game like Neva as a pallet cleanser before diving into another time sink.

Neva is the perfect cleanser when in between 2 bigger games! Not too long or complicated, fun simple to understand game mechanics, amazing story and just straight up engaging.

@Teksette "Hey, theres an entrance here! What could possibly be inside this sphere... OH NO!!!" excessively stressful tyrant music plays

Been playing mario karr world kn the switch 2 experience i. Amsterdam. Just to make you jealous.

Ah yes... the weekend. Mother's Day weekend here in the States. I'm getting all my gaming out of the way before tomorrow. GameFly is canceled for now so I can focus on my immediate backlog. On tap today is...

Gunvolt Chronicles: Luminous Avenger iX 2
Long overdue. Four main stages to go before late game.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Finally, and I can't wait. Main feature.

My Boyfriend and I are playing through Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver together, man pokemon games used to be so good.

All the while we keep saying to each other "I want Switch 2!" we will certainly be playing MKW and TOTK

I've been working on my 2D Fighting Games backlog since Easter really; paving the way for the 40 € purchase of Capcom Fighting Collection 2 I will probably make this friday.

I felt slightly burned with my pre-order and purchase of the Marvel vs. Capcom collection in september, but I'm sure I'll get my money's worth in the end.

It's just going to take some time as the games play quite differently from what I'm used to (not a huge Marvel fan either - but at least I learned that the X-Men are quite OK imo).

Been playing a good amount of animal crossing lately. Had to start a new island several months back and finally got a second floor. Really hope we get some sort of upgrade or the OG version for GameCube classics.

Bioshock: Infinite (PS5) - About 2/3 done on my second playthrough in 1999 Mode. Enjoying the game even more with the higher difficulty. Can’t go into every battle guns blazing like on normal. Been a blast having to strategically plan each battle and scrounge for any items/money to help.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch) - Pretty sure I’ll never get tired of Marvel vs. Capcom 2.

I can't believe no one has ported Banjo kazooie to PC yet, it was decompiled last year.

Hello there fellow gamers;
For this weekend I´ll be playing:

• Chants of Sennaar, Xbox Series X. What an amazing puzzle game. One of the bests I´ve played, followed by Cocoon;
• South of Midnight, Xbox Series X. Finally playing this one. Great presentation and ost, with some interesting gameplay mechanics. Not quite feeling the combat though;
• Ender of Lilies: Quietus of the Knights, PS5. Decided to give it a chance, since a good friend of mine is a big fan of the franchise;
• Lords of the Fallen, PS5. Been having fun playing co-op with said friend. It got potential, we´ll see how good it gets:
• Metroid Dread, Switch. Still collecting the final upgrades and getting 100% before the Final Boss. Some of the speed booster puzzles are quite clever. Only two region maps left.
  Lot of good games to enjoy.
  Edit: I finished Chants of Sennaar with all achievements. Cannot recomend this game enough.
  Cheers everyone and happy gaming weekend to us all

Taking a break from Skyward Sword this wknd, just dipping in and out of SSBU and switch 2 trailers.

currently heading into chapter 8 on xenoblade chronicles X got through defending the city from gangilion invasion but you know something got me thinking that the mysterious alien skell that runs on black matter thats got elma so spooked about it might play a role in the sequel especially since the true mastermind behind this game events hasnt revealed himself just yet plus the plant mira isnt wat it seems as well along with why is there telethia doing on that planet which i have a feeling this game is connected to the other games.

@jolteon23 May I ask where you ordered your copy of Hundred Line from?

Really enjoying Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Thought it was gonna be too easy thus boring, but it’s not at all if you go for 100% as you go along. Getting the time trial check mark on the bonus levels is a nice little challenge.

I find the value and fun of most first party Nintendo games these days lies in going for 100%

@Teksette yes I will actually. The trailer looked pretty good. I definitely wasn’t expecting a Cobra game in this day and age but I will gladly take it.

I started the Advance Wars campaign in the remake (I started it on Wii U VC a few years back but never finished it, I restarted on Switch and am probably about to where I left off). I also resumed Metroid Prime Remastered this week after ~2 years away to collect the last 2 artifacts and do the last bosses. I got to the final boss, so I’ll do that one day soon. Needing to go back and collect artifacts (and the release of TOTK) made me not finish when it first came out, but other than that it was a great game.

Speaking of TOTK, maybe I’ll get back to that again as well. I went back to it a bit recently.

I suppose I have plenty to play in spite of not getting an invite to buy Switch 2… (and I didn’t even mention the backlog I have)

Bought Putt Putt Saves The Zoo for my little brother because I loved it as his age… and still do lol!
Mostly though, playing Palia because ELDERWOODS IS RELEASING ON TUESDAY!!! and I need to prepare. I really cannot wait!

When I'm not focusing on life, I'm alternating between Lunar Remastered Collection on Switch (still going through Silver Star Story) and Disney Dreamlight Valley on PC, the Cheshire Cat shenanigans.

Portrait of Ruin for babe. Just finished Order of Ecclesia; working my way through the Dominus Collection.

I'm probably gonna play a little bit of Side Order, but other than that... MEGA MAN!!! Expect lots of "WE GOTTA SAVE THE INJURED REPLOIDS! NOW WE JUMP INTO THE ACID TO SAVE AL AND GORDON! * gasp * JUICE! NOOOO!!! WE MISSED THEM CAUSE AXL'S BAD AT DRIVING!!!

As much as I want to delve into Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, continue Hundred Line, continue my unification of Japan in Nobunaga’s Ambition, wrap up Dynasty Warriors Origins and Black Myth — Stellar Blade has my full attention now that I’ve wrapped Ghost of Tsushima.

Knowing how I’ll spend June, July and August with Switch 2 wrapping up Stellar Blade (which is SO GOOD) before June 5th is a good goal.

I decided to start a new file in Shantae Half Genie Hero and am really enjoying it again!

Also plugging away at Xenoblade Chronicles X / 3 and a bit of Hades.

And some obligatory MK8 and Splatoon 3

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is such a masterpiece! Reminds me a tiny bit of Mario n Luigi Superstar Saga, Infinity Blade and Shadow Hearts.
It has such unique mature writing I’ve not seen in an rpg before. I mean the party members are in their 30s.
The world feels very dark and somber. Similar to how Soul Sacrifice made me feel.

This weekend, I've been playing Love Story of the Restoration, another otome set during the Bakumatsu period. It's pretty interesting in that the love interests are more varied than typical games with this setting, which mainly feature Shinsengumi members. This one has a couple of Shinsengumi, along with some other historical figures and a few OCs.

I'm still playing the same games as last week, but I've obviously made more progress. In Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, I'm on the sixth part of the third case, where I have just returned to Tangaroa's mansion as Gregory, after speaking with Tangaroa. In Trails in the Sky, I just finished investigating the orphanage and battling the Raven gang, I just need to report the quest as done. I'm about half way done with Chapter 2, so that's cool. Last of all, in Fire Emblem Heroes, I've just started Book IV Chapter 8. Happy gaming, comrades!

@jolteon23 Thanks for the info! I'm currently in Spain, so I'll check them out. 🙂

Recently finished up Windwaker on WiiU and broke out the 3DS to finally give Majora’s Mask a try.

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze: Im finishing the last world, little stuck at 6-5.
Metroid Zero Mission: my first metroid game ever, kinda cool
SMB3: this game is actually harder than DKC damn
XC3: getting into the game though the chain attack system is a little confusing, not sure if I wont pass on that game. Im suddently getting annihilated by a boss fight (that little guy) standing 0 chances

@Jack_Goetz I'm from the UK, and I've ordered an English language version of The Hundred Line from Play Asia. I've never used them before, so I'm eager to see how it goes. No update since placing the order, but it did suggest that it might take a few weeks to get here on standard shipping cost. Hopefully all goes smoothly!

@Bex_Tries Thanks, I'll give them a peep. 🙂