Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st March)

This week I will be mostly grinding for Emeralds in

Sonic Advance 2

Hey everyone.

This week I finished Morkull Ragast's Rage, I enjoyed it. Not groundbreaking but still enjoyable.

I also got further in There is no Light, this game is brutal. Enjoyable but I needed to take a break.

Speaking of, I took a break from it with Rogue Legacy 2, and just like that I was hooked again. This game is excellent, I only have one boss to go.

My brand new sealed copy of Cave Story+ arrived yesterday so I'll probably get into that soon too. Never played it so I'm really looking forward to it as I've heard nothing but praise.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Tales of Arise: I'm really enjoying the comic book panel style skits, pastel like art design, and dynamic twist on the typical JRPG battle style. Shionne is a standout, prickly but for a reason (even if you don't know completely why) but the whole core crew are interesting and well done. Definitely want to play another Tales entry after this.

Just started Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon.

Fate/EXTELLA LINK – finished 3rd route and got a True End!
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II [Sys:Celes] – beaten Arcade Mode as Ogre. Played VS Mode for some time to unlock new win quotes.
Crypt of the NecroDancer – beaten Zone 5 as Chaunter.
Reigns: Game of Thrones – unlocked more characters.
Well, for now, it's all what I've played on this week. Have a nice gaming weekend, everyone.

Shadow of the Ninja Reborn - Switch
Haydee 3 - PC

Original Metroid NES and Super Mario 64.

(while guess no soccer title for Super Nintendo 🤔)

Wrapping up the last case in my last AA game, Ace Attorney Investigations 2. So sad it’s over . If I have more time, then Dragon Quest III HD-2D and Wario Land 4.

@gaga64 Nice, i’m playing sonic too! i’m playing the legendary Sonic Adventure 2 on PC…and tolerating the treasure hunt levels.

Monster Hunter wiiiiiilds! And digimon world ds! Happy gaming everyone!

I'm finishing up Cocoon, at 70% according to the pause menu. Loving everything about it, just too bad it's so short.

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, I've got the Fort Hateno, as well as the other level 80+ missions left in very hard mode to go through.

I will participate in the weekend ritual and full moon @ Tetris Effect Connected.

Have fun with your games!

✌🏻🧡🎮

I'll be playing through more Okami HD and alternating with Oddworld Soulstorm, happy gaming everyone 🤘🏻

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake is the perfect classic JRPG, I love it. Everything feels so fine and the atmosphere and music make me happy.

Happy gaming everyone!

I'm really going to be trying to wrap up Fire Emblem Engage this weekend. I've only got 2 chapters left, so it should be attainable.

I'm not sure if I'll have time this weekend, but I plan to start up Islets after, since I loved Crypt Custodian, and it's their previous game.

If I have any gaming time with my family, I picked up this hidden Overcooked-like gem called Very Very Valet on a massive sale. It was only a couple of bucks and it has a very fun, chaotic feel to it. There's a demo on the eshop and I'd encourage anyone to give it a try if they have someone to play with, before that sale ends in a few days.

It's Pokemon Go Fest Weekend! That and I'll be trying out the Bayonetta Origins Demo

Gonna complete Sonic Mania today.

Maybe also play some Bug Fables.

Definitely gonna be Monster Hunter Wilds (on PS5) for me; I must've played about 9 hours already yesterday, dang.

Also heading out shopping in a bit, so playing more Picross S+ (currently on e9, on the final stretch) whilst I'm out.

Happy gaming weekend y'all!

I was working on beating all the staff ghosts in double dash but its just not my fav thing to do. probably just gonna take a gaming break and watch some old black and white films.

Continuing with Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, completed The Last Revelation earlier in the week and now onto Chronicles.

Completed Tomb Raider: AoD and on to the last couple of levels from Chronicles on the new remastered collection. Glad I finally got to play AoD in a decent state, and looking back realise I prefer the old methodical Tomb Raider games overall to either of the reboots.

Picked up Dead Connection on Switch Arcade Archives which is fun, and might play some more X-Out: Resurfaced or Turrican. Also have a feeling to play though Strèets of Rage if I have time.

I have been playing a lot of Hello Kitty Island Adventure and Sn0 on PC, but still found time to finish Cat Quest 3 on Switch this week.
It's a bit different to the earlier entries, but mostly in positive ways. It felt a little more tightly designed, was shorter but still packed a lot in.
I'm currently playing Grid Autosport. Once I finish my current season I can enter the Legends tournament, so I think I'm close to the end of this game.

Playing Golf Story - such a relaxing and funny game.

Balancing that with Ducktales remastered on the Wii U, which copied the stress of the NES-like difficulty of the original perfectly... sigh

... I knew I had forgot to do something yesterday.

Just started the campaign in Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron for the DS, so I'll be putting time into it. Console-wise, I'll be playing Brilliant Diamond. Finally got a shiny Shinx so I'm building a good team around it (now Luxray).

@Shiryu
You abandoned us, friend! 😉
I enjoy reading what all the NL personalities are playing each weekend, but your update in particular is like a safety checklist of Switch games I better get to or I’ll regret it! Our tastes in games really seem to overlap a lot. But I’ll survive the weekend somehow. 😂. Enjoy your time off!

Quite a bit of Mirror’s Edge. So much so that I picked up Catalyst so I can do that after I beat the OG.

As for me, I’ll keep going in Freedom Wars Remastered. I’ve worked off 100,000 years of my prison sentence, so I’m 1/10th of the way to freedom! It’s been fun grappling around, rescuing people, sniping baddies, and sawing off robot parts with my trusty chainsword.
I’ve got to hurry though, with Suikoden I&II Remastered coming next week and Xenoblade Chronicles X just 2 weeks after that. I think these 3 games alone could occupy me for a year, and yet, here comes Switch Deux! The backlog crush has never felt crushier.

Wishing everyone a winning weekend! 🕹👾

@Teksette next weekend update is gonna be a good one, except on my wallet.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2

I have racked up 200 hours in this game - an amount of time I’ve never spent on a single game in a continual manner without getting burned out. In terms of story, I’m roughly fifty percent through the main campaign. My goal is to have every side quest and trophy mopped up that doesn’t relate to main missions before I push onward to the end of the game.

In the last ten hours, my Henry has crawled in manure to search for a man, has built pyramids out of human remains, been so drunk that someone stole his shoes in the middle of the town square, helped a young man from being bullied by villagers, and went down to the depths of hell (almost literally) to stop demons from coming out of the pitts and killing livestock. It resulted in me in losing my entire clothing and weapons, and killing a man who lost his mind to darkness and his mission.

If that doesn’t sound appealing to you, just know that I’m considered to be the Dark Lord who has the nickname Sourdough. I’m quite literally the epitome of a Jack of all Trades. I’m not to be trifled with.

I’m also patiently waiting for Suikoden 1 and 2 Remastered.

I'm playing Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven.

I never played the original Romancing SaGa 2, nor the original Romancing SaGa 1, nor Minstrel Song or any other related game. The only other SaGa I played before was The Final Fantasy Legend. So my thoughts are based only on what I see in this version.

Overall, I'm enjoying the game. I enjoy the open-endedness of the exploration and the freedom to complete the quests in the order of your choosing.
For the most part, it seems to be mostly an RPG made out of nothing but sidequests. There is literally no main questline at all - rather, some of the sidequests just so happen to lead to one of the Seven as a boss, and that's considered progress when you beat them.

It's certainly unique to have an RPG with no actual main character. Instead, the main character keeps changing, because the game can seemingly arbitrarily decide that there's been a 150+ year time skip in between sidequests. I don't know what causes the timeskips to occur, but it seems to happen whenever the game feels like you've accomplished "enough" things in the current era. I guess the emperor just decided to forget about doing any more work for the rest of their natural life? Even when there were more things to do?

The inheritance system has interesting implications for the gameplay mechanics, such as passing down previously- learned skills and all that, but in a worldbuilding sense, it does feel a bit contrived.
It certainly doesn't feel like such a huge timeskip has occurred when all of the towns have the exact same layout with the exact same NPCs saying the exact same dialogue as they did 150 years ago. Kids cheering that their town is now monster-free and they can now play outside... even though their town has been monster free for over 150 years, so what the heck are they still celebrating like that for?
Every NPC in the game gets replaced with an identical "descendent" so that you don't lose access to sidequests and such... it really doesn't feel like any real history is occurring at all.

Occasionally they do do something interesting with this though - once I failed to get around to helping an ally nation before a timeskip, and in the next era, they had been overtaken by enemy soldiers, and the questline changed to liberating them. That was kinda cool. I don't know how many quests work this way though - for the most part, they all seem to patiently wait for me, no matter how many hundreds of years pass.

Maybe this was easier to suspend disbelief for this kind of thing back when it was a 1993 pixel game? In such a detailed fully-3D modern RPG, details that don't make sense like this are harder to overlook.

From a gameplay perspective, this game is pretty fun and it's nice to explore dungeons and do quests and stuff, and I like the simple turn based battles. But presentation-wise, it feels like there's a lot missing to make this world feel fully-realised and make sense. Because as it stands, it just plainly doesn't make sense.

Still having a good time overall though.

We're beginning what should be a beautiful Saturday, but a sore back is likely to keep me indoors. And winter returns tomorrow. So ...

I've been playing Civilization VI for the past week. That's correct, VI. It has been in my backlog for years. Just finished my first run, which I lost after nearly 375 turns, thanks to a silly decision to spread Rastafari to a hostile city. I'll try again this weekend, Jah bless.

I've also had Super Box Delivery downloaded on my PS4 for a week, and I want to crack that open in the next couple of days.

I'm also still having fun with gold stake runs on Balatro, and other games in the mix include Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons, Tetris Ultimate on the 3DS, Splatoon and some random GameBoy titles to fill in 20 minutes or so here and there.

Happy gaming, everyone!

I picked up two new games recently, Okami HD and the Disney Classic Games Collection, so this weekend I'm intending to make a start on Amaterasu's adventure while knocking out a few levels of SNES Aladdin here and there. This week's news has also put me in a bit of a Pokemon mood, so if I have time I might boot up New Snap or Legends Arceus and try to make some progress on those 'dexes.

Portal 2, just reached what I assume is the second part of the game. Loving it.

I also finished Fairune 2 on 3DS which I enjoyed as a modern retro diversion although did find some puzzles a little obtuse to my modern sensibilities

My physical copy of Bakeru has turned up, so I'll be getting stuck into that. The spiritual successor to the N64s Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon 🙌 😃

FINALLY! It’s all about Monster Hunter Wilds rn after keeping myself far away from all of Capcoms spoiler centric trailers & presentations over the past year. Everything is refreshing!

On xbox- wwe 2k24
Alone in the Dark I'm nearly done with the 4th chapter and next chapter is the final. I think I'm going to power through and try to finish tonight/ tomorrow.

On switch- DQIII HD2D to be honest, I'm not enjoying this one anymore. I'm just trying to roll credits since I've invested so much time. I've turned down the difficulty to easy to avoid any severe grinding. I think I'm in the final 5 or so hours of this one too, and I can't wait to be able to move on.

Once again my game time hasn't been as much as I'd like this week and going into the weekend. I finally wrapped up DKC Returns HD a few days ago. Great game! To mix it up a bit I'm now going to start Ace Combat 7 (Switch) from the backlog list. I barely had a chance with it, so it hasn't fully "clicked" with me yet. Once I get the opportunity to get a long form play session I'm sure I'll get hooked. I definitely see the potential for it to be amazing! As long as I can stay away from Snowrunner (Switch) I should be able to dig deep into AC7.

Out of left field I started thinking about Red Faction Guerrilla Remastered (Switch) again so I re-downloaded it. I beat it back in 2022 but back then I didn't know I cheesed the game. What I mean is I wasn't aware those OP'd (or game breaking) various backpacks (especially the invisibility one) weren't originally supposed to be in the campaign. Apparently one of the last updates the developers added them into the campaign from the multiplayer so players can just wreak havoc. I didn't learn that till I was just about to beat the game so since then it's been bugging me that I never actually legitimately beat the game I actually cheesed it. I'm thinking about giving it another go without those game breaking devices. We'll see it will interrupt the backlog quest but I remember the campaign being so damn fun...then again I was using those backpacks and just wreaking havoc.

I’m playing Crimson Shroud, of course. The hot new 3DS exclusive. It’s a real treat. Like playing one of those role-playing game books, but with a more video game-style battle system.

OK, I admit, I might be a bit late to the party on this one. But I’m enjoying it. Glad I picked it up before the 3DS shop died.

Can’t wait for xenoblade X to come out but I want to get games finished first so I am glad it’s coming out in a few weeks.

Fantasian neo dimension - I am almost done with the game. At the final boss now. I think 😂. There is that optional dungeon which requires a metric ton of grinding that I think I might skip because it will require me to do New game plus and I don’t have that much time 😂. I hate new game pluses. I never do them and there no point in doing that for a long rpg.

Bravely default on 3ds - still on chapter 4. Progress is slow because I hate this game and battle system 😂

Chaos head Noah - not made any progress but I should soon. Still on the second chapter

Card en ciel - should make progress on it too after playing the demo and transferring it to the full game.

I had a busy work week AND now have a busy weekend. Mostly the good busy, all culminating in a concert tomorrow night. Taking Monday off to help recover - my first weekday off since New Years. The tradeoff is not much gaming until Monday. I mostly played Fire Emblem: Three Houses this week (36 hours in; on chapter 12 Blue Lions) and hardly played Kirby: Planet Robobot (World 2). FE:TH now has me hooked after the last two chapters. Still not sure what to think about some characters' motivations and a personality switch....

Go Tour Unova in Pokemon Go is this weekend too, so I may try to get in on a little of the free content.

Happy gaming!

Had my friend over and we finally finished Emio - only to discover there's post-game content, pleasant surprise!

When I'm on my own: Skyward Sword HD, I love that game and wish more people would try it.

With the new month's arguable main (and peculiarly synchronous) Switch events drawing ever closer, the first March weekend is predictably beckoning with more time to spend in their respective franchises which I'm just as predictably inclined to greedily put on on the same session menu with other series like Tales/Persona/RF/Castlevania and a typical handful of other options from Little Noah, Cannoli, Carto, Echoes of Wisdom and AC2 to Theatrhythm, Hogwarts Legacy, Mudrunner, Borderlands 2 and Saints Row 4. RE3R plans over on PS4 may also lead to more progress in RE0 on Switch and RE2R Claire B route on the laptop, too (and while I'm firing the latter up anyway, I might even turn to another disappointingly Deck-allergic playthrough in Grid 2). Of course, the same kind of rational free time planning is also rarely quenched without adding a few more handheld items to the queue - be it FFXIII, Horizon and Death Stranding on Deck, Fantasy Life, Endless Frontier and Valentia on 3DS or Gravity Rush, Neptunia and Gran Turismo on Vita.😅

More Brothership for me when I can. Still on the Brrrrning Sea, on Slipperglide(?) Island. MAYBE I should have tried to help Chilliam first, but I love the snow (shame we might not get anymore where I'm at, but it's early Match, so who can say?). Still really enjoying my time with the game.

I tried playing Armoured Core: Last Raven on my ps2 last/this week, but it turns out this game apparently cheats, so it might not be the best introduction to the Armoured Core series. Oh well, still need a ps3 for the original ps1 game and my copy of For Answer.

Happy Weekend and God Bless!

Monster Hunter Wilds, which has been kind of a kick in the teeth. As someone who plays with friends from the top, this game is a far cry from the ease and simplicity of, say MHR or MH4U. In those games, you just join a lobby and get to it.
Wilds returns to Worlds absolutely mindbogglingly ridiculous hurdles. I hate it. You can't just play together like normal people. You have to do solo play homework between every fight, and the most efficient thing to do is just fight the stupid thing yourself, and all gang up on whoever is furthest behind.
Because you can't join your friend if you haven't watched the cutscenes for the current battle.
They make Nintendo look like the industry standard for multiplayer.
Even worse is figuring out which of the five ways of adding friends you need to do. Lobby up? Squad up? Add as friends or followers? Environmental link? Link party?
Environmental link let's your walk around together in the world (a la expeditions), but you can't do quests. Lobby let's you see each other in town and see quests on the board. Link party members get automatically invited to quests (but can only join if they've done their homework...). Being friends just makes it easier to join all the other stuff. And you squads are like your clans.
It's such a nightmare in a game that's already a nightmare of menus. It's all been made especially noticeable because we've got a first time hunter along for the ride. Just listening to ourselves try to explain what he has to do has been... eye-opening.

World of tanks console-week 4 or 5? challenges
elder scrolls oblivion
jedi fallen order

• Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin : This weird hybrid of side scrolling action RPG and farming simulator has really hooked me lately, even though I find the dungeon controls are not really up to today's standards with weird input lags and a generally wonky responsiveness. Also, man, is growing rice hard!
• Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: Just the usual weekend ritual of playing an ace attorney game. Probably gonna last us a few good years with the pace we are going at it.

As for Nontendo games, finally got to Code Veronica X in our RE campaign. Definitely ups the ante from the other classic entries in every way possible and I personally find that a good if sometimes frustrating thing.

continuing my adventure on paper mario ttyd, such a good story and so fun, just got mrs meowz. dabbling in mario party jamboree and animal crossing too 😸

@Logicfire Loved that game! However, the map system was a total B!TCH!

Still playing Hades myself. Just rolled the credits this morning so I am seeing if the game still has longevity beyond that in terms of the story before determining if I want to move on to something else. It has been a great time though.

Pokemon Violet

Got the urge to play some Xenoblade this weekend, so I’m going through my New Game ++’s for both 1 and 2. At some point I’d love to go through 3 again, but as it stands I still have no urge to go through it.

In the mood for some lighter, more session-based Faire, so I'm playing Fire Emblem Engage, which is every bit as absurd as I've been told, but I'm having fun with it. Return of the weapon triangle!

Happy gaming everyone!

I haven't done one of these in a while. Since last time, I've finished Sonic X Shadow Generations really enjoyed that game one of my favorite Sonic games.

After that I played Super Mario Odyssey for the first time, while I own some Mario games I'm not the biggest Mario fan (there's nothing wrong with Mario I can give or take his games) I enjoyed Mario Odyssey it surprised me in some cases especially the soundtrack. Finished the story and got some extra moons might get the rest some other time. I saw The Super Mario Movie on Netflix I haven't seen yet so I might watch that later in the week.

What I'm playing now, I have got Echoes of Wisdom and Paper Mario TTYD yet to play but I've decided to return to Tears of the Kingdom after a 6 month hiatus to at least get the remaining shrines and beat the story. The other stuff I'll do after I've done all that.

World of Warcraft like always, and I updated Turok so I gave that a spin too.

@Dpishere There's a sorta "eplilogue" story of reuniting all the God's in the Hades house. It will take a long while because you have to essentially finish/max out each individual boon giving God's relationship with gifting the fruits and drinks. Also there's all the other character story lines (like with Thanatos, Achilles, Dusa, etc.) requiring the same method of giving fruits and drinks. If you really enjoy doing runs (especially with Heat levels) it can be really fun but it will be a sh#t load of runs.

Still currently playing Farmagia really enjoying this game quite challenging as well and funny as hell too.

Im playing Monster Hunter World as well the Nergigante fight was what had me stop playing but I'm doing some side quests and getting stronger and having alot more fun than I ever had with this game. MH4U was the only other one I played and I reeeaaallly liked it. I bought it for 5 bucks on the 3ds eshop at the time and got tons of fun from it. Part of the reason I didn't like World at first was its music wasn't as good as MH4U but I'm enjoying World alot right now

@Ganner Ah so it essentially just gives you extra motivation to continue playing and challenging yourself. That's about what I expected. Luckily the game is pretty fun.

Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection (Switch) - Will be playing plenty of X-Men and Marvel Super Heroes this weekend. Didn’t play them much back in the 90s so nice to have them now. Pretty fun fighting games.

Visions of Mana (PS5) - Just started Chapter 5. Really enjoying the Elemental class system. Clearing up side quests and backtracking to previous areas now that the game world is more opened up.

Wii Sports Resort.
Specifically, the "fly around in a plane using WiiMotionPlus™ and find the targets hidden around the island" game (forgot the name of it)

On Nintendo Switch:

• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury: World 7

On Steam:

• Samurai Shodown: online matches against a friend
• Team Sonic Racing: Adventure, World 3

Last night I stayed up til 3am trying to knockout Ace Attorney Investigations Collection before February ended to keep my one visual novel game a month in 2025 streak alive. Still need to look into why Feb was shorted a couple days. 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim kicked off the VN streak in Jan. And now that it’s March, I am finally going to dive into my copy of Danganronpa Decadence to continue the trend.

I have yet to tire of my Animal Crossing: New Horizons revival. My AC quirk is that I don’t like skipping days, so when I picked it back up I had to reset my Switch clock back to July 15, 2021. It’s now October 17th on my isle and I am hoping to closeout 2021 before putting it aside once more.

I beat the final EX stage in Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble earlier this week. Thoroughly enjoyed it and will continue to play until I clear the season rewards in about 5 months. I’ll use that time to chip away at the EX missions, but I am satisfied after 100%-ing the regular stages.

Also gave Splatoon 3 a little extra love to complete my Tableturf Battle card set. Still need to hit Lv 30 in that mode for the special emote, but the Lv 3 CPUs are cheating RNG ***** and I grow tired of waiting all game for the one card I need in my deck to drop on the last turn (or not at all). I will likely only play during special events from now on.

I should finish Live A Live sometime this week. And there’s always a chance I may start working on the Sunbreak DLC for Monster Hunter Rise in earnest. Been holding off on moving past MR1, but I do so love a nice casual 4-5 hour long exploration mission with no fear of failure as I grind.

Microsoft Wordament (Android) - Dailies and Adventure mode still.

Halo: Spartan Assault (Windows Phone) - Took some time off last week, back to the grind!

Microsoft Minesweeper (Windows Phone) - Also need to get back into this as well.

Just returned from weekend chaperoning a band trip, so I think it's a lot of cozy gaming. Rune Factory 3 has been my go to. Loving the Switch port.

Still playing Ace Attorney Investigations Collection, I am still going through the fifth case. It's good so far, which is nice. I've also been playing Pokémon Moon, where I finished with the Second Grand Trial, and also evolved my Stufful and Chansey. I'm now thinking of starting The Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky on Steam, which I'll do later today. Last of all, I've continued Fire Emblem Heroes, where I'm doing a few Paralogues on higher difficulties.

I'm finally free from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, so I'm smashing Shantae and the Seven Sirens currently. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is technically in play, I'm just not ready yet. Soon. Turok 1 might be my retro play.

MK8LX with the family. Maybe some GOLDENEYE as well (my kids prefer it to PD!). TBH, I picked up some PS5 games on sale. ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY had been on my wishlist for a while so I grabbed that. But a game called WANTED: DEAD popped up in an "Underated Hack 'N Slash" video I was watching. Did some research and it's basically DEVIL'S THIRD 2 (DEVIL'S FOURTH?)! Now, I recognize how janky the aiming is in that game, but I loved everything else. I also discovered that Itagaki supervised the making of SAMURAI JACK: BATTLE THROUGH TIME. I slept on that one and now it's delisted with copies running $100.00 USD+ used. So I bought WANTED:DEAD. It feels like the Valhalla team's attempt at a SUDA 51 game. I like it!

Still playing just guilty Gear, bouncing back and forth between switch and steam deck if the switch player pools dry up, although I tend to always lean towards my switch. May load up Bakeru now that my English version arrived, but it may have to wait.

Still working on OOT 3D. I finally caught the Hylian Loach! LOL. so now on to the final dungeon!

Playing the same game anyone with a PS5 is playing...