Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (15th June)

Nintendo Switch:
NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition – got endings W, F, H, I, J, L, Z, M, N, Q, R, V, S, U, X, E. Upgraded quite a lot of weapons to maximum level. I want to say that the English dub sucks. 9S's English voice is a total miscast.
Crypt of the NecroDancer – beated 4th and 5th Zones as Monk. Completed the game as Monk. Beated 1st and 2nd Zones as Mary.
BIOHAZARD REVELATIONS – leveled up to 27th or 28th level in Raid Mode. Bought some permanent upgrades in the shop. Replayed the very 1st level a lot, because of grind. Beated 7th and 8th Stages on Trench difficulty. I want to say that the English dub sucks. It's awful, and it sounds like it wasn't voiced by professional voice actors. Quint's English voice was especially awful. Sucks, 'cause Quint is one of my favourite characters in the game.
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II [Sys:Celes] – played VS Mode. Unlocked some victory demos.
Windows:
Broforce – playing in co-op with my best friend on Hard difficulty. 92% completed.
Well, for now, that's all what I've played on this week. Have a nice gaming weekend, everyone.
@JohnnyMind Juliet in the Lolipop Chainsaw remaster will have THREE different seiyûs. Yôko Hikasa, Eri Kitamura, and an undisclosed famous seiyû, whom we all love and know, said Yoshimi Yasuda. Also, I wanted to ask... Do you have Discord?

Finished The Knight Witch.
A great mix of bullet hell shooter and Metroidvania, highly recommended if you like both.

Started Hunters Legacy: Purrfect Edition after grabbing it cheap in the Eshop sale.

Also bought Clunky Hero and Unbound: World's Apart so I will have those two to play next.

Also bought a physical copy of Astro Aqua Kitty so that will go into my backlog which I can't wait to get into.

Have a great weekend everyone

I’ll be partaking in some cyberfunk of the bomb rush variety and some 2 of the Spider-man variety

After finishing Paper Mario: TTYD, started Digimon Survive. I’m in the 2nd part and progressing slowly as I usually fall asleep after 30 minutes, sooo boooring. I wonder if it gets more exciting later.

I lost the last two weekends to the flu and a bad case of tonsillitis. I've mostly recovered, but not to the point of being able to tackle the last few bits of Tiny Thor, so I'm going to play Ratchet & Clank on PS4, which I assume'll be more casual. (I've never played Ratchet & Clank before, so who knows?)

This week I will still be mostly playing

Fire Emblem Echoes

@JohnnyMind Eri Kitamura was a default voice in the XBOX 360 version, while Yôko Hikasa was a default voice in the PS3 version, lol. To have the option to switch between them, you will need to clear the game once. At least, it was a requirement in the base original versions of the game.
Oh, okay. Thanks! 😊

I finished Endless Ocean Luminous so I'm just waiting for the Direct to happen now (surely it's less than a week away because Directs have 1st party shadow drops and outside of LM1 it wouldn't make much sense to shadow drop something the same week as LM2?).

Leaning towards playing Sonic Origins while I wait considering I haven't played Sonic 3 & Knuckles in that collection yet.

With the weather over here being what it is (not great), more TTYD. Unless the upcoming Direct brings a big surprise reveal, this will be the game of the summer for me.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Final Fantasy XVI: Really enjoying my first foray into the series and the sort of fractured fairytale aspect of the story. The visuals are quite excellent and the gameplay varied enough (now I've made it to the new hideout) to keep me busy for hours at a time. It's shaping up to be one of my favorite PlayStation games.

Along with the two games I’ve mainly been playing on Switch, Apollo Justice Trilogy and Princess Peach Showtime, I’ll be playing the recently released Rocket Knight collection. Been many years since I played Rocket Knight. In the mood for so Cotton action so I throw in Cotton Fantasy. Might get a workout with Fitness Boxing 2 as well.

This week I've been punishing audacious employees in Have a Nice Death The game is shockingly fun and my favourite purchase out of the last four. I'm looking forward to so many more hours of corporate restructuring via legendary scythe.

I have also been faithfully fulling my contract with Death in Death's Gambit: Afterlife by washing his feet with the blood of his enemies. It's such a fun not-so-soulslike and I'm absolutely loving it. I heard on SwitchUp that its original release was filled with problems which later got patched and improved. Truly a gem I'm glad I came late to the party for.

I've also been diligently handing out beat-downs in Metroid Dread and Crash Team Racing: Nitro fuelled. The fun truly never ends with these two wondrous games.

On a less pleasant note, I got Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (a game I finished once on my PSPgo) and it was a lot less fulfilling to play than my prior nostalgia for it led me to believe. It's still good enough though, so things are not too terrible on that front

Besides the regular games, I started this weekend on Monster Hunter Stories (Switch). I did play 2 on the Switch, but not the original.

Sega Saturn games

@Ooyah I wanted to say: I love that chapter! And then thought that I thought I pretty much love them all!

(And Kate was right, I remember Boggly woods being awful, but had great fun this time! What was your experience? )

@JohnnyMind Yeah. It reminds me of ATLUS's Catherine (including Full Body), where every Catherine have different seiyûs to choose from, lol.

@Lightsiyd okè, you sold me and I'm looking into have a nice death now! 😂Have fun this weekend!

I'm at my boyfriend this weekend, so more Pokemon Sword for me! Having a great time, and since I'm going to Scotland in a few weeks it feels like a proper preperation for my trip! 😂🤎 At gym 7 now so we're nearing the main games conclusion and the obvious villains ain't that obvious this time! Truly a bit engaged what'll happen!

When I get home it's on with Paper Mario TTYD, What a game! In chapter 5 and I forgot so many of the jokes and plot twists that it actually feels like playing it fresh all over again! 🤎🥰

Right now I'm most excited about Castlevania ReVamped. Super fun metroidvania makeover for NES Castlevania with fast and fun controls. Also been playing Blue Revolver, Sky, mini Doom 2 (love this sidescrolling doom game!), Rocket League (as always), Majora's Mask, BOTW, Metroid (awesome SNES conversion by infidelity), Mario Kart Arcade DX GP, Blue Prince (great demo, can't wait to play more), Parodius, wipeout HD, GT1, GT2, GT5, Mario Kart 64 remade, and Simon's Quest Revamped.
Also just started playing Nightdive's remake of System Shock. It is awesome. It's cool to finally play one of the games I'd never touched from Hardcore Gaming 101's 200 best games book(also, I strongly object to that book not even mentioning wipEout!). Hopefully another volume comes out making up for mistakes like the wipeout omission while adding mostly new best games from the past 8 or 9 years. I'd definitely put wipeout HD, Omega Collection, Phantom Edition, BOTW, TOTK, Kingdom New Lands, and Rocket League in the new best games book.
Oh, I'm also still playing Mario 64 coop dx. It's always interesting to see what people have created for public games anyone can join. One day it was Little Big Planet music with Boykisser character. Yesterday it was the beautiful day and night cycle with a dice roll mapped to up on dpad that might give you moon jump, or a big bully, or some other random buff or nerf (plus there was a burp button and poop button that made the poo emoji and killed your character). I don't know how to create these wild variations, but it's fun to see what others make (and hear the often great music they've loaded in for the match).
Lastly, I'm drinking a new houjicha from a different tea supplier that has strange and good flavors. And a live Marco Polo by Wednesday Campanella is song of the week.
Happy gaming!

Away on holiday for a few nights this afternoon so unlikely to get to more Star Ocean Second Story R. Loaded up the Switch with some multiplayer games since the weather forecast looks...well British. So maybe a bit of Mario Wonder, my partner mentioned Warioware so might go back to that. We've been playing Phogs on PS5 so that'll have to wait til we get back. The verbal abuse the NPCs get when they don't give us pets...have a good weekend folks!

I'm 9 hours into the original Paper Mario via NSO at the moment. Due to the art style, it's really easy to forget you're playing an N64 game. It's aged well.

Still also dipping in and out of Def Jam Vendetta on the Gamecube every now and again.

Super Mario 64.

Many ‘mysteries’ (I refuse to use walkthrough cheat).

Right now trying to figure out how to attain last stars in a few earlier levels.

More tears of the Kingdom, found all the ice keese wings I needed for my desert armour and a bunch of shrines and quests along the way, so heading back down south to the desert, via a bunch more shrines and quests no doubt.

Once I’ve done the desert phenomenon I think I’ll rest the game for a while and play something else, although I doubt I’ll get there this weekend.

Many of the usual suspects fancied for this weekend's available gaming sessions, be it NMS/Isaac/RFs/MHRise/RE0/Portia/BotW/Carto on Switch, GTAV, FFs, Payback, Watch Dogs, Horizon and Ar Tonelico on Deck or Xenoblade series and the other Xenos across both. Other Switch titles from P3P, Potion Permit, Tribes of Midgard, Fuga and Langrisser to Ori, Ocean's Heart, Borderlands 2 and Minstrel Song are potential candidates as well, and the other platforms add their own from Persona Revelations (starting 3 doesn't mean giving up on the binge queue itself), God Eater and Eternia on Vita to Fantasy Life and Ever Oasis on 3DS to NFS15, IaF and [still being used as a floor mop by the very first boss in] Bloodborne.

I'm continuing my playthrough of Batman Arkham City, and now that I've finished the main campaign, I'm enjoying it a bit more already. Working through the side quests feels like you've got a bit more freedom. Still way too much talking in my opinion, but I guess I would feel differently about that if I was a Batman fan XD

I've reached the (first) "final boss" in Just Shapes and Beats, which I'm enjoying a lot, it's not really a rythm game per say, but it's quite fun with the dance/party music, and I adore how they've made a story mode and there's even Amiibo support.

I will continue playing through the NSO GameBoy Mega Man games, after beating #3 yesterday.

And some more Tetris 99 and Tears of the Kingdom, because, well, I just don't get enough of these XD

@Lightsiyd I have Have a Nice Death sitting in my backlog, really happy to read your positive comment about it, since I never heard this game mentioned anywhere really.

Happy gaming!! 🧡

Graduation parties, yard work, and keeping the friggin’ ants out of my old house notwithstanding, I’ll continue to guide Gonzales, er, I mean Mario, through his pro wrestling career in Paper Mario: TTYD. Also, Alain and his many friends are waiting patiently for me to resume our conquest in Unicorn Overlord after a totally stalled couple of weeks.

Wishing everyone a fun weekend! 🕹 🐜

OlliOlli World & Borderlands 3

@garfreek @Yalloo

Have a Nice Death is awesome if you like challenges and don't have a problem with Rougelite. If you enjoyed Dead Cells you're in for a lovely game. Happy gaming!! 😁♥︎

Pikmin 2 from last year's Pikmin 1+2 double pack is getting the backlog treatment this weekend, after I finished Pokken Tournament DX earlier in the week.

Already beat Pikmin 1 when I got the pack last year, started Pikmin 2 but never got around to finishing it.

I've been playing through Persona 5 Tactica and I am very close to the end. I am on the 4th kingdom, and to be honest, this game should've ended at the 3rd. That one's ending was one of the best scenes in the entire Persona 5 series, and would've made a perfect end to the game. However, with this kingdom, nothing interesting, asset reuse, and the obligatory Persona god (and the worst one yet). I swear, I love Atlus but sometimes they frustrate me.

Got Planet of Lana on sale, and it is good. Beautiful visuals. Stitch is still my favorite chill game. WRC 10 and Rocket League.

Happy gaming everyone!

I'll continue digging into the Capcom Fighting Collection that I got on sale a few days ago.

So far the highlights have been Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition (basically all the 5 iterations of SF II in one package) and Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire (as it's by far the best of the Darkstalkers games imo).

The good thing about this collection is that there is a number of QoL improvements added to it; high scores are saved automatically when you quit the games; there's an extra very, very easy (zero star) difficulty compared to the original arcade roms.

And last but not least you can assign Supers, Specials, EX, combo etc. to a single button making it much easier (and enjoyable) for fighting game noobs like me.

An old high school buddy is moving across the country and he quit his job a month prior so we have been playing some of our old favorites on PC. Between that and me trying to finish a project i started a couple of years ago(a graphic novel i have been making for my Sig) i haven’t touched my Switch. But i am very excited for Moonstone Island, which releases on Wednesday. My partner will be buying it too, and while i am in for Kate, she is playing because it combines a couple of her favorite genres, and i haven’t seen her this excited for a game in some time.
Anyways, not much Switch stuff to talk about for this weekend, i’ll keep at SaGa Scarlet Grace when i have time and i still have to find time for those game boy Mega Mans. I should at least go through the good one. I have been itching for Resident Evil lately and might play through 4-6 and the Revelations games for the umpteenth (wth kinda word is that anyways?) time.
My eyes still suck.
Take care of each other and happy week!

(Good luck to Gavin on finishing Dark Souls!)

Thought it might finally be time to boot up Skyrim. Got as far as entering a village on a cart and then suddenly having to make decisions on character creation. I wasn’t ready!

I shall get back to it later…

Ice Age Village (Windows Phone) - My comfort game of nearly each day.

Microsoft Bingo (Windows Phone) - Also still playing daily at this point.

@Vyacheslav333 Quint is annoying in English. Not sure if you are aware, but Revelations 2 has a Raid mode with more characters, weapons, levels, upgrades, etc.

Breath of the Wild mostly and some Vigor here and there.

Dividing my time mostly between two games. The first is Dragon Age: Inquisition, where I'm in the infamous Hinterlands. I'm getting myself ready before The Veilguard arrives, so I've also been watching videos on the series' lore, which is very interesting and rich! I definitely recommend.

The second game is Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, where I'm only in Chapter 2 so far. I've been enjoying it, even though I think I still haven't reached its best part and at this point I wouldn't rank it as my favorite Paper Mario.

I just bought AI: The Somnium Files on sale as I loved the Zero Escape series, and this game looks similar enough in terms of puzzles and atmosphere. I might give it a go still this weekend.

Otherwise, I hope to finally finish the third case in Spirit of Justice and finish God of War on the Steam Deck.

Good gaming, everyone! : )

This week, I preordered Sonic X Shadow Generations on my Xbox One and Switch. In preparation for that, I’ve been playing Sonic Adventure on my Xbox. I finished Big’s story yesterday, and finished Sonic’s story the day before. I’ll maybe go through Tails’s or Amy’s story this weekend.

I also would like to make more progress in SMT: Nocturne this weekend to prep myself for Vengeance. In between those two games, I’ll maybe play some Shovel Knight to chill out.

@Diogmites Yeah, I know. I am REV1 fanboy. I've seen that a lot of players prefers REV1's Raid Mode over REV2's Raid Mode. However, I've seen Reddit users preferring REV2's RM over REV1's RM... Doesn't matter, anyway.

@shgamer What's about War-Zard?

@Zuljaras goodluck with the tough battles in hollow knight you need it 😜

@Vyacheslav333 Red Earth, you mean? I haven't played it much yet, but I plan to go back to it at some point (not sure it's really my style).

Last week, I went to my local Gamestop and sold a TON of older manga that I had picked up in thrift stores for dirt cheap prices over the years. I sold so much, that I had put my local Gamestop store as #1 in all of Canada for having manga sold to them. I ended up getting over $400 in in-store credit (in which I used most on eshop credit), and went on a massive eshop buying spree.

I picked up 20XX, 30XX, Flynn Son of Crimson, Carrion, TMNT Cowabunga Collection, Outer Wilds, Prince of Persia The Lost Crown, Paradise Killer, Kaze and the Wild Masks, Solar Ash, Easy Come Easy Golf, Powerslave Exhumed and Animal Well. I also picked up Pikmin 4 physically from Gamestop, and I have some money left over to buy Cat Quest 3 and Steamworld Heist 2 in August.

So I'll be playing Pikmin 4 today, as well as some Splatoon 3 this weekend. I've gotten addicted to and proficient with the Explosher, and im having an absolute blast.

Recently beat Paper Mario TTYD and loved it.

I'm actually replaying Redemption Reapers on new game+ hard mode. It's great cos literally everything carries over, but the enemies lvl still scales to yours and has slight hard mode stat inflation. The game is certainly special to me, cos rarely do I do 2nd playthroughs in anything that isn't named Fire Emblem or old school Pokemon games. RR is going down as an all time fav.

As for mobile gaming, in the downtime in town, work, etc I've uh, decided to go play some fan made games, most notably Fire Emblem the Last Promise. I can really feel the love that went into the game. Has that classic and fun gameplay/combat that I can't deny I've missed from the GBA era a bit and liking generally everything about it so far. The story is a bit Shadow the Edgeh- lord, but that just makes me nostalgic for my childhood when everything was like that lol!

Happy weekend gaming everyone!

@Vyacheslav333 Revelations 1 is my favorite RE game, so i can dig it!

@shgamer Oh. Understood.
@Diogmites 🙂🤝

Jim Norman hittin' the nail on the head with the wishlist feels, haha. There's also the added dilemma of alternately getting a physical copy instead.

I'll continue to play fallout 4. This game is taking over my life. there is just so much to see and do.

I just got Another Crab's Treasure on Steam Deck since the Switch version apparently has notable performance issues. So hopefully I'll be starting that.

MK8 booster pack , MK live on terrace , Devious Dungeon 2 , Endless o luminous and Victor Vran ( cheap on jp eshop )

I recently stumbled across a game called Hydroneer and jesus christ is it addicting. Janky as hell, but I'm having such a good time.
Aside from that, I'll be continuing my Dark Souls Remastered playthrough on stream

I just finished Chapter 3 in TTYD, and I am blown away by how good it was. I’m seeing why people love this game so much, and Chapter 4 is already amazing. I have high expectations for the rest of the game.

Happy Father’s Day to everyone!

Trying to finish Persona 5 Royal (114 hours in). Oh my god! This game's story is so boring and long winded compared to Persona 4 Golden.

The first half is great (absolutely love it), but then somewhere during the summer months and leading up to most of october-half of november, is just so boring, it almost makes me resent the game. November 18 now - right before going up against a boss, and based on the story development - I think it's gonna pick up again (I hope so!).

I have new games:

• Splatoon 3 (+ DLC)
• Fire Emblem Engage (+ DLC)
• Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
• Enter the Gungeon
• Balatro
• Easy Come Easy Golf

And....I cannot stop playing Easy Come Easy Golf and Balatro.....!!! So much Fun!

I´ll try to begin the story mode in Splatoon 3 (I´ve never played a Splatoon game before). And make more one stage in Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze (i only played stage 1 and 2, first island). Engage will wait for now.

@Zuljaras game looks cute but we're no more deceived as the game is tough as hell😂... Carry on brave warrior 💪🏼

I’ll be playing Super Mario RPG on Switch. I’ve played the SNES version once before on Wii U, but it’s been quite a few years since then. It’s fun and unique; there isn’t really another game quite like it, even though it spawned no shortage of sequels. Currently have two Star Pieces and a party of Mario, Mallow and Geno. The remake’s pretty faithful to the original from what I remember, though as I said, it has been a while.

I’ll probably be playing some Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, too; still the go-to multiplayer game, and Squad Strike (Tag Team) is still king for duels. BTW, spirits 1514 through 1517 (the spirits from the first 2024 event) are now available on the Spirit Board; go grab ‘em if you haven’t already!

Picked up Doom Eternal in the recent sale but can't seem to get in to it. I've put it aside for the moment and have started Dragon Quest VIII on 3DS. I've been wanting to play it since the PS2 days so I hope it's worth the wait.

Mostly TTYD and Evil West.

@JohnnyMind Well, this morning I finished fire emblem on gba. Remember me struggling to finish it last year?? Such an amazing feeling. Thats what Ive been playing folks.

Mainly been playing WRC Generations on PS4 since picking it up in a sale a few weeks back. Best rally game I've played in a long time and still visually impresses me, even on PS4 (Switch is my only other current console at the moment).

Also picked up Vampyr on Switch, it suffers quitle badly in the visuals, but portable on the OLED it can look OK at times. It's an unusual game with some interesting design.

diablo 2 now in hell farming for better gear before facing diablo.

Waiting by the door for Amazon to drop off SMTV:V PS5 Steelbook.

Still playing TTYD and having fun.

Nearing the end of Chapter III Law Route on Tactics Ogre: Reborn as well.

Bring on that Direct!

Good morning.
This Sunday I played PS4 and PS5 games on my PS5 machine. 😊
1. Youtubers Life 2 PS4
2. Kao the Kangaroo PS5

I have reached Spring 7, year 1 for Youtubers Life 2. Still have to work to capture the Mantendo Zii rumour.

I have reached The Hungry Jungle in Kao the Kangaroo which there was a lot of Durian fruits over there.

Light gun games via Sinden and Steam Deck

I've been watching old tv series. I have lost interest in Switch, I hope some new releases or a new system can inspire me to jump back in.

For this weekend...

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Got derailed time wisely last weekend, so starting the Lanayru journey.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder
Time for world 3.

Arrest of a Stone Buddha
I felt like having a little existential hitman-ing action to shake things up.

Actraiser Renaissance
This will be my weekend retro play. Been meaning to get back to this one for a minute.

Well here we go with another excellent WAYP. Been an interesting week around here. Weekends been mostly busy with work tho I did beat Little Kitty Big City. Also got to take Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance for a ride as well. Excellent games both of those. Thinking the rest of the weekend will just be a Persona 3 Reload weekend. Gotta keep working at that game if I want to beat it by my deadline of July 21st a fitting full moon. Can’t wait to beat it and immediately throw myself hard into the Canon of Vengeance for SMTV:V. Think I’ll pick up the expansion pass for that game and a preorder of Visions of Mana while I’m at it. Otherwise I’m thinking this week is mostly gonna consist of some Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, Paper Mario, more P3R and some Guilty Gear Strive Slayer sets with a friend. Maybe some Stellar Blade and going back to FFXIV for the Yokai Watch event. Oh and giving Monster Hunter Stories on the switch a try on my day off. Been really really excited for that one. Anime of the week gotta go to Kaiju No.8, Go Go Loser Ranger, Delicious in Dungeon and Urusei Yatsura of course. Loser Ranger specifically is superb honestly. Might splash some cash and get the last 4 manga volumes of the authors previous work The Quintessential Quintuplets. Podcasts of this week gotta go to Castle Superbeast, Big Think Dimension, Into The Aether, RPGsites Tetracast,Minnmax, Jeff Gerstmann, Kit and Krysta, Last Stand Media, Easy Allies, Second Wind, Nextlander, Cultaholic Wrestling and Remap Radio. And yet we wouldn’t be done without a incredible huge lovely shoutout to my dear friend over at twitch.tv/akibread and their wonderful streams please give them a look. Here’s hoping we get ourselves a Nintendo Direct this week to go Gaga over. As always yall stay safe, be incredible to each other. Have an excellent weekend and of course Happy Gaming. Oh and Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there