Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (21st March)

I'll be still playing Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition and to change the pace Mario Kart World online multiplayer. Have a quality time with your games everyone!

Greetings fellow video game enthusiasts. This weekend I will be continuing my quest to get all the ? panels Mario Kart World and Final Fantasy XVI. I mean, only in MKW, there are no ? panels in FFXVI,
AFAIK (as far as I know). I also started Dispatch. Happy gaming time everyone.

I will participate in the weekly event @ Tetris Effect Connected and that will be it for me this weekend!

Have fun gaming and enjoy your weekend! ✌🏻🧡🎮

In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment trying to clear the map, currently at 91%.
Progressing slowly with Super Mario Galaxy 2, at 22 stars.
Also playing:
Picross -LogiartGrimoire-
Hello Kitty Island Adventure (55 visitors moved in, 4 in progress)

Pokopia. Pretty sure this will keep me busy for months apart of some runs in random roguelikes. And no regrets lol. Happy gaming everyone!

good morning fellow gamers 🙂

this week I re-played an old Souls-Like: Ashen.
it is one of my favourite games because of the art style and artistic direction in general.
to be fair I have never beaten the last boss, which is notoriously hard.
maybe this time the outcome will be different...

there is, in my opinion, a great sense of discovery and wonder in this game, so I easily recommend it. furthermore it is an accessible Souls-Like, because you have always a companion (npc or real player) near you and this renders many fights more approachable.
so yes you can co-op from the start without arcane remedies like other games of the same genre.

there isn't a Switch 2 patch and Ashen often has some frame-rate issues, nevertheless I'm enjoying it.

I wish you all a great weekend full of games and peace 💙

PS5 Pro- Fatal Frame 2, Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse, Suicide Squad.

Steam Deck OLED- Hogwarts Legacy, RE Revelations 2 (Raid mode), The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky.

Switch 2- RE Revelations 2 (Raid mode), Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch 2 Edition.

I started a replay of Dynasty Warriors 8 Xtreme Legends Definitive Edition with the goal to play every story mode and dlc stage.

Beyond that I’m playing through Mega Man The Wily Wars and I’m planning on starting Resident Evil Village

Played Final Fantasy XII for two months. The hardest extra boss, Yiasmat, is defeated, and everything else from now on, will be smooth sailing. I might even beat the game this weekend, if I feel like it.

Happy gaming, everyone!

Continuing on with Mewgenics, well on my way into Act 2, been trying some of the challenges bringing the cursed items to the runs and whatnot as I understand that unlocks more stuff. This has been an exceptionally amazing game, an all time great as far as I'm concerned, I say this with full confidence.

Witcher 3
fallout 4
star trek online- just doing my daily missions.

I picked up Deadzone: Rogue this week on release. And I ask anyone who even has a smallest interest in Doom, Quake and Corridor shooters to get it. It is sublime.
Happy gaming, all is love.

I'm playing the hell out of The Last Ninja Collection. Christ, International Karate and IK+ still suck me up for hours. Can't believe it. Already finished all Last Ninja games, been playing since 2AM

Hello fellow Nintendo Lifers! This weekend I'll be spending some time around the house and our veggie garden, but I should be able to squeeze some game time in. This is what I'm currently playing:

• Tears of the Kingdom (91% overall completion) the home stretch!
• Resident Evil Requiem - 3rd playthrough on Normal Classic
• Donkey Kong Bananza
• Final Fantasy VII Remake - Chapter 17

Happy gaming!

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment: I literally have it ready to boot up but with no actual playtime so I cannot comment.

What I can comment on is 81 hours of Pokémon Legends Z-A: it was quite enjoyable. True, the visuals weren't stunning but the battle system was engaging and the story compelling, and this marked the first time I 100%ed a Pokédex thanks to the gradual introduction of new areas in which they appeared. Tepig has also been somewhat redeemed in my eyes as an excellent special attacker with a lot of heft (unusual for Fire starters) who can tank even a direct hit from a powerful Water move like Hydro Pump without fainting. That'll do, Tepig; that'll do.

Merry Springmas.
I will be continuing my Zelda & Castlevania celebrations. Currently finishing Echoes, got the fifteenth and final dojo trial and then on to finish the game having done & collected everything.
Adventure of Link is the next Zelda I shall play and may start a quest with a pal of mine, Simon. Good fellow, shame he has a dreadful curse. These two games makes me feel like I am playing a Harryhausen movie with how some of the monsters look, I have always thought a remake with a stop motion look would be amazing for both of them.

This week I will be mostly playing

Luigi’s Mansion 2 (3DS)
Catrap
Earthbound
Lara Croft Relic Run

It’s laidback for me. I’ll probably do a bit more in Animal Crossing: New Horizons than I have lately, with more island decorating and still trying to catch the elusive Barreleye late tonight that’s somehow even more elusive than the Coelacanth and the Oarfish. I still have The Disney Afternoon Collection to get around to and I want to play my Virtual Boy accessory more.

Mostly same as last week, Last Ninja Collection on Switch, Tokyo Xtreme Racer qnd Dragon's Dogma 2 on PS5. Also started Alan Wake 2, not sure it rate it as high as some, but will keep going to see.

I just got my cardboard Virtual Boy, and it is awesome!
I am sure I will feel done with it after 10 hours, but I am so glad I bought this and get to try this crazy part of Nintendo history.

I have been off to a hot start in Trails Through Daybreak because it's been terribly quiet this week at home. And also hot! It hit 98°F (36.7° C) and I've been herding cats back inside on a really strange week. Pausing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door with my girls out of town on spring break.

I'm also sporadically going to be playing Deadly Premonition: Origins to try out the Citizen Kane of B-video games. I have to say, going in knowing up front it's not conventionally good is really helping shape the (very silly) experience. I say why have a top if you're not going to go over it?

Happy gaming everyone!

Pokemon: Gale of Darkness on NSO! Never had it on GC, but I am enjoying it. Found it a bit slow to start, but soon got into it. I really appreciate it for being tight and not confusing for where to go. It is like a microchosom of a bigger Pokemon game, which I worry about being overwhelmed by these days. Self contained with no trading, not too many Pokemon, no DLC etc. It won't overwhelm me. Music is fantastic too! NSO Expansion really does pay for itself, especially if you pal up with other people for the family pass.

Aside from that, I'll do my normal dipping into Kirby Super Clash (725 out of 900 quests complete now) and playing a bit more of KIRBY STAR STACKER on SNES NSO. I adore this puzzle game—matches usually last 2 minutes or less, and I always tell myself, “just one level”... but it’s never just one level.

Have a lovely weekend all.

I’ve been to Universal Studios all this week and today is our last day to wrap it up. So tomorrow will be our first day back home and away from the pup, so we’ll probably be recovering from all the hustle and bustle and just love on her. I’ll probably just play a little Pokémon fire red on the plane and that will be it. I do plan on starting to download Resident Evil Requiem and Ark Raiders tomorrow, not on my switch 2 tho.

Crimson Desert on Steam.

Finished Metroid Dread. Really enjoyed it. Not sure I’d play on hard mode, some of the bosses took me many goes to beat. Think I must have spent about 2 hours trying to beat the final boss. Can’t imagine playing on dread mode! But as I say, great game.

Might play a bit more Mario Kart World this weekend. Not sure what next in terms of ‘main game’ - something off the backlog for sure but a change of pace after Metroid.

I’ve been multitasking with my games more than usual lately, so progress has been slower but I’ve had lots of variety! I finished the main story of Legends ZA (at least to roll the credits) so now my main focus on Switch 2 will be Pokopia. I also saved enough trade credit to upgrade to a PS5 Pro, so my multi-tasking has been testing all my old games and seeing how the upgrades feel. Funny enough, Fortnite has really looked and played well on the Pro, so I’ve lost a few hours to that. Lastly, I started Ghost of Yotei, which will be my other main game alongside Pokopia for the foreseeable future. I don’t usually like bouncing between two single player games but it’s the best solution for now since I want to enjoy the new Pro but not abandon Pokopia mid playthrough. Happy gaming all!

Beat REquiem earlier this week. Yet another reason Capcom’s one of my favorite gaming outfits in the biz.

Currently tackling Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Love the spin it puts on the traditional series formula.

I'm spending most of my gaming time playing a bunch of mods that I absolutely love at 300fps on my precious old laptop. A couple days ago it once again tried to get me to update to Windows 11 and when I saw that screen after turning it on I yelled "No!" (I was scared it was going to force it). My newer, supposedly more powerful laptop is like trash to me now since it can't run Lossless Scaling with good frame pacing, and also can't run super light games like Wipeout phantom edition with perfect frame pacing (it looks terrible to me, way worse than my much weaker steam deck). I should just put Linux or windows 10 on my new laptop. Anyways, I'm amazed at the artistry and music skills of the game modding community.
I'm also loving my 3DS more than ever before! It has a display as horrible as the Brick 2's notoriously slow screen, but with all the customization, fun romhacks, homebrew, and themes, I can't get enough of it. Oh, I was incorrect last week. My 3ds can't play f zero x better than a switch 1. I was just impressed when I played time trials and saw no drops from 60fps. In full races it drops into the 50s. I'm enjoying the Mario Next hacks, Pokemetroid, Animal Crossing Welcome Luxury, and a bunch of Aleste games. When I modded my 3DS I was looking forward to being able to go beyond 300 games on my system (I've never been able to have all the digital games I bought installed at once). The app for that, 3DS Bank, hasn't worked out for me, but I'm so glad I jailbroke my system! It's super addictive and fun. I'm thinking about buying another 3ds with IPS screens.
I'm also enjoying the new PC port of Animal Crossing. I heard that Animal crossing deluxe works with it, and there's a great texture pack too, but I've just been enjoying vanilla so far. This and the space station silicon valley port are just about the only good things I know of that have come from AI.
I wish everyone peace!