Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (5th October)

Finished Unsighted.
Awesome game, absolutely loved it.

Also finished Saviourless a great action platformer with some great hand drawn artwork.

Finished Dex Enhanced Edition.
Amazing game, highly recommended.

Finished Gunbrella from my copy of the Doinksoft Collection
What an excellent game, really enjoyed it.

Finished Yars Rising after my copy arrived.
Great game, loved the Atari retro hacking mini games.

My copy of Grime arrived from Super Rare Games so I've started that, really enjoying it so far.

Have a great weekend everyone.

Lunar Sega CD

Ocarina 3D Master Quest

PC Engine shooters

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom.
Now doing side quests and going for the 7th dungeon. Probably finishing this weekend. I would be happy with some twist after credits, like the possibility to play the whole game as Link with modified story and dungeons to adapt to Link-style battles, but maybe I’m expecting too much. Pokémon Gold/Silver won’t repeat anymore.

Even though being sick sucks, I’m enjoying the fact that I can play Echos of Wisdom and Jedi Survivor all day between fever dreams.

I'm currently playing...

Switch: Star Wars Hunters and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD

PS5: Hell Divers 2 and Warhammer Space Marine 2

This week I will be mostly playing

Echoes of Wisdom

After a long break (according to my save file, the last time I played was January) I'm back on Tears of the Kingdom. After beating all the shrines and a good number of the side quests/adventures last year, I got distracted with a few other games in my backlog in the intervening months, all of which I've thoroughly enjoyed, but decided that now is the time to introduce Ganondorf to the pointy end of a sacred blade.

Finishing off Broken Sword Reforged, and also planning to start Divinity 2…. I’ve been missing CRPGs since Baldurs 3, and I hear that DOS2 from Larian is pretty great!

Playing Sparks of Hope, doing Beacon Beach side quests. I'm also playing Persona 3 Portable on Steam, where I am exploring Tartarus for the first time. Last of all, I am doing Book I of Fire Emblem Heroes on Lunatic.

I’ll be 100%ing Echoes of Wisdom this weekend. This game gave me sparks of hope that Zelda games can return to form again.

I’ll be continuing my playthrough of Echoes. I plan on just walking from east to west of the map, and since it only moves one frame per hour, it will take me all weekend just to traverse this distance and do nothing else.

I finally beat FF9 and started Echoes of Wisdom! It’s great so far, but the first dungeon was still a little bland, and the echoes are already difficult to sift through.

@Eduard_Brenton
I hope you get well soon! I wonder if playing games can actually help to overcome a disease faster.

I am training in Fire Emblem Engage, so I can continue with the story missions. It is surprisingly fun.

Happy gaming everyone!

The Witcher 3 on Switch and Baldur’s Gate 3 & Life is Strange 2 on PS5.

Still playing Pikmin 4 despite thinking I was almost done weeks ago.

But the thing that’s taking over my life is Balatro, now it’s available on iOS. I had 2 free months of Apple Arcade so I activated that so I can play it in my phone and iPad. It’s so horrendously addictive, I have to forceably stop myself from playing. Yet to beat a run but have been close.

Finally it's the weekend. This week has been... eventful for me, so I'll be playing some games that are calming and relaxing - mostly!

• Super Mario Odyssey
• The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• Pokémon Ultra Moon
• Cars 3: Driven to Win
• Animal Crossing New Horizons

Fresh off a tangible Switch splurge (partly motivated by the uncertainty of more game investments over the next fortnight or two, with an expected bit of extra income on the one hand and other expenses like renewing my annual Additio and the now quarterly PS+ subs on the other), Princess Zelda is definitely looking to be the belle of the ball this weekend, but I'd be a liar to deny the hope to engage the other new recruits from Lego Star Wars, Hogwarts Legacy, XIII and We Need to Go Deeper to Hero's Hour, Dust & Neon, Summum Aeterna and Soulvars as well. Naturally [for a backlog glutton like myself], a range of other playthroughs frequenting such weekend plans (Xenoblades and RFs, Isaac and NMS, Terraria and Carto, BotW and Bioshock 2, AC2 and FFXII, Yonder and GTA Trilogy) retain their own odds of filling a session or two, and the same goes for some usual suspects courtesy of Deck (Disney Infinity, Dishonored, Ar Tonelico and/or Watch Dogs), dual screen stuff (Endless Frontier, Unwound Future, Valentia and/or EOU) and Sonyland (Eternia, God Eater, NFS 2015 and/or Tokyo Jungle).

Sewaddle Community Day in Pokémon Go. Caught me a bunch of shinies, including a shiny Shadow Entei.

Skyrim as usual. I can just shut my brain off and lose myself in the game.
Maybe F-Zero 99? Haven't played it since it came out but I've been thinking of replaying it.

I returned to my long abandoned farm on Stardew Valley expecting to not have a clue what I was doing... and I didn't. But after a few in-game days , I've got back into the swing of things. Autumn is approaching so I'll be preparing for that .

Now I've finsihed Alien Isolation, I am in the mood for more horror. I started over with Outlast 2 last night but the drop in quality compared to AI is rather jarring. I'll stick with it though, as I had fun with in the past , before getting stuck.

I'm going to tackle one from the backlog but probably not till during the week. I'm thinking one of Valkyria Chronicles of Xcom 2. I have never played either of them and I'm not really much of a tactical RPG guy. I quite liked Battalion Wars on Wii though. Am I right in saying Valkyria Chronicles is similar to that?

Still going through persona 5 and loving it! Despite being on the 11th I’m sure I still got at least 12 more hours left lol.

I also just wanted to log onto stardew to wait for the update but goodness, I can’t! I just can’t wait anymore im addicted again help!

@Jhena thanks. It’s definitely a good distraction from feeling ill. Enjoy your gaming time.

While I love this website, I have been trying to avoid news of EoW. What a great game! Now: back to the game…

Happy gaming everyone!

Today I played PS4 games on my PS5 machine. 😊
1. YouTubers Life 2
2. Horse Club Adventures

I have reached Golden Rank in YouTubers Life 2 after I accumulated more than 500K subscribers and get raised to 12th position.
Still need to work hard until I reach Platinum Rank and reach number 1 YouTuber.
Also, I met with PewDiePie in the game as I thought I will miss him by playing the game on PS5 machine because the first time I played on PS4 machine, I met him in Spring season, but on PS5 machine, I met him in Summer season so I assumed every special events with famous YouTubers will be encounter soon or later randomly.

I actually don’t know what to play. I started Echoes, but after two dungeons I’m not feeling it. I’m not sure whether that’s the game or just how I am right now. Maybe I’ll revisit Trails in the Sky. It gets some flack for being generic in some respects, but I think the characters and world are actually top-notch despite initially seeming very typical.

Still plugging away at Epic Mickey and Zelda Echoes. I was slow with Zelda at first because I’ve felt underpowered with having few hearts and just now upgrading my energy once, but I should pick up the pace now in the Jabul Waters region. I want to beat Epic Mickey by Halloween and Zelda Echoes by Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

And now that it’s October, I’ve started my annual playthrough of Luigi’s Mansion games. This year, I’ll be playing all three games. I started with the first game on the first day and I should easily beat that in the next day or two, especially since I don’t care about the ending this time. Then I’ll move on to replaying Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD again and then 3. I’ve had to play the remake of the first game on 3DS. Too bad they didn’t remaster that game again for Switch or even just ported the original like they did with Pikmin 1 and 2. Would’ve been nice having all three on Switch…

Oh, and there's a special Salmon Run in Splatoon 3 at Marooner's Bay. Should be a fun challenge, especially if I can fight the Triumvirate at high tide there. Key word, "if".

I recently started playing Maneater again, because nothing screams spooky season, quite like going around and eating people as a shark. I will also be playing Pokemon Go, with Sewaddle being featured as this weekend’s community day Pokemon.

Been playing some arcade racing games on my PS3 Super Slim, from the days when Sony actually sold budget hardware. MotorStorm: Pacific Rift, Ridge Racer 7, Need for Speed: the Run, Daytona, it's been interesting going through my old purchases back over 10 years ago and the games still look quite good to me.

As it's October I think time for some Castlevania staring with the NES / Famicom game on Switch. Great that the Switch has so many of the classic Castlevania games now available in collections.

This weekend I am planning to finish The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. I’ve gotta say - this might be one of my favorite entries in this storied franchise. It’s not without its faults, but the things it does well is exceptional.

As of right now, I have a total of 16/20 hearts, acquired 115/127 echoes, 18/20 stamps, unlocked all five accessory slots, a handful of costumes, and completed five main dungeons, the last of which was the Lanayru Temple. I won’t lie - it was rather challenging. I’m now off to the Faron Wetlands and hoping I can get a 100% completion rate in the next couple of days.

I love how there is a blend of traditional top down design with influences from its modern counterparts, BoTW and ToTK respectively. It’s astounding how there is a new found sense of verticality and puzzle solving in a 2D—sort of 3D—space. Moreover, proper dungeons are back, but there are a plethora of ways to solve them, thus creating a sense of fulfillment when completing puzzles in inventive and creative ways. And yet, despite all of these tools, you can’t break the game (at least I don’t think you can) so it keeps things constructed linearly, with a priority on its narrative.

There are some areas where I think the game falters a bit, mainly regarding its extensive echo system. Similar to how you hold right on the D-Pad to select a handful of weapons in BoTW, you do the same with the echoes you obtain. And there are a lot of echoes. I mean A LOT (over a hundred). You can sort them by most used, but you have to use different ones in varying regions and sometimes infrequently, so they aren’t typically the first selection when you open up the menu. This ultimately breaks the immersion and slows down the gameplay to a screeching halt.

Another area I would like to see improved on is logging information about items obtained. I would prefer to have an overview of how many chests, hearts, and caves are in each particular region. That has always been my issue with TLoZ games. I hate missing things and yet it’s inevitable due to naturally playing the game and getting sidetracked by other activities. Granted, there is an option to see how many collectibles you have in totality, but it isn’t that resourceful.

Nonetheless, the complaints I have are minor compared to the overall experience. I’ve said this many times before, but Nintendo has a way of making you, the player, regardless of age—I’m 34-years-old—feel pure unadulterated joy, and feel like a kid discovering magic for the first time. I initially thought I wouldn’t enjoy Echoes of Wisdom, but has surpassed all of my expectations. I hope this is the beginning of a new foundation for future TLoZ games.

Beat Mr Mosquito and Secret Agent Clank on Ps5 last week, including the platinum for Mosquito. Also beat Mega Man III on Switch/NSO.

Currently playing The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice.

The plan is to start something for spooky month after. Maybe the original Ps2 Silent Hill 2 Director’s Cut or Luigi’s Mansion 3 on Switch.

Super Mario Maker 2.

Story mode. (completed a few levels already)

Genshin Impact and Echoes of Wisdom for me. But that won’t come until tomorrow. Gonna be driving back home with my girlfriend from a wedding. We could be looking at a 12-hour drive, give or take.

I already finished Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. I've also beaten Epic Mickey and finally finished Immortals: Fenyx Rising, so I have an open vacancy. I'll probably go back and play The Plucky Squire, finally.

I'm planning to record my next playthrough today for my YouTube channel, Nintentrovert (shameless plug!) which will probably be Super Mario Galaxy. Yesterday, I just recorded a full playthrough of Sonic Mania and raged trying to get the chaos emeralds and beat the final boss lol, so that will be coming out next week.

Ooh!!! I’m on Echoes of Wisdom like everyone else!!

Though I like to imagine that you all are keeping up with my ongoing efforts to become a fan of Outer Wilds and there are updates. I played it for like 3 hours! It was fun, and I got genuinely emotional the first time I took off from the planet.

But then the frustration set in. I’m not the best with games that don’t provide a lot of direction, but also (and maybe this is just the Switch Version?) it’s so glitchy!!! Every time the game threatens to be fun something stupid happens, and it’s really killing some of the fun :/

It seems like Nintendo is kind of making the world into Hong Kong. Like sending people to indie dev's houses to threaten them into deleting their work, getting videos deleted, threatening people's jobs who Nintendo hates. And like gamers are just taking it. Like I read about people in Hong Kong just avoiding the news as security measures are put in place. Sept 2 2024 Nintendo introduced a whole bunch of their new security measures, saying that programming mods or showing a video of a modded game is illegal. I guess all this is one way of preparing the way for a new console. Why would gamers support all this crap? I don't know.
Edit: I'll leave it to the experts on whether Nintendo is guilty of coercion, conspiracy related to coercion, anti-competitive practices, etc.
Also, I've been playing TOTK, EoW, Victory Heat Rally(love this game, but really hope it gets an option to unlock the frame rate, I tried it with lossless scaling and it looks stunning at 240fps), UFO 50 (competing with wipeout phantom edition for my GOTY), Tiny Glade (Alex's Digital Foundry video got me into this awesome little gem made by 2 programmers/artists), The Legend of Santa (lovely game I found out about due to the Nintendolife article!), Minishoot Adventures (awesome twin stick RPG, sort of), Bzzzt (brilliant presentation, gameplay, everything), Beyond Galaxyland (incredibly beautiful rpg, I love it!), Tangledeep, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (amazing puzzling game that runs smoother than melted butter), Pampas and Selene (awesome Pixel art game), Forza Polpo (I can only play this awesome Jumping Flash! style game for about 1 minute before an incorrect "security handshake" between an old version of Unreal engine and windows causes the game to crash, but it seems super good), Jumping Flash! 1 and 2 (it blows my mind seeing these run at 240fps on my sweet laptop, huge thank you to the Duckstation gods! Well Duckstation gets them up to 60fps, then lossless scaling quads it up to 240fps), Parking Garage Rally Circuit (this cute racer just feels almost perfect), and Lunar Lancer (brand new free Gameboy game, it's a good shoot em up!). Among other things I've been enjoying Mr Sujano and Not Your Friend on youtube.
Have fun and take good care everyone!

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I'm on a lovely repeat binge while I'm waiting for the new Dragon Age.

Switch: Sidequests/adventures in TotK.
Series X: BG3, started a second playthrough as a Bard this time.
PS5: Alan Wake 2, The final draft (ng+).

Recently finished:
Shattered Space DLC. Enjoyed everything it had to offer. There are some things I wished would have been there but nothing to complain about. If you liked the base game I'm sure you will like Shattered Space as well.

I also played the Metaphor demo and it seems great!

Enjoy your weekend!

I recently started Persona 5 Royal so I'll be diving more into that 😁 I actually watched the anime first lol so I know a great deal of the plot already. That may actually be a good thing though, as it's such a big commitment of a game that I'd want to know if it's my cup of tea or not. Suffice to say, I'm very excited to play through it 🙂

I finished Portrait of Ruin recently and am so proud - my child self relied solely on cheats, you see 😜 mind you, there's a little extra post game stuff I can play around with, so I think I will.

I started AA Spirit of Justice the other day as well 🙂 not sure how I feel about the new gimmick (I took embarrassingly long to find the contradictions in my first use of it in case 1!!) but I'll probably get used to it.

I have dabbled with the demo for Metaphor: ReFantazio on XBox too. I can already tell I'm going to absolutely love this game but I'm struggling to find the time to play that as well haha.

Happy gaming all 🙂

Being October I thought I would take up a spooky game and in this case I chose Darkwood on Switch.

It's great so far, uncovering the map and finding more resources to make your situation better and better is pretty addictive.

I have slightly more free time this weekend, so I've been digging into my backlog a bit and playing:
Ruku's Heart Balloon (if you like SameGame, it's one of two clones I know of on the Switch---it's adorable and the awful translation just makes it even better);
A couple of ACA titles in Circus Charlie and Twinkle Star Sprites (both great games and long-time favorites of mine that I'm happy to have on Switch);
The second route (of four) in Princess Closet. Honestly, I hadn't anticipated how refreshing I'd find an otome where the main character is a whole adult and everyone just has jobs (I'm playing this one alongside another otome where they are just normal adults, Him, the Smile & Bloom, alternating routes back and forth.)

@Eduard_Brenton

without knowing what you are going through, I wish you a speedy and definitive recovery ✌️

@-wc- it’s nothing serious, but thanks. Have an enjoyable weekend.

Maybe Grounded, maybe Echoes. Life feels rather unfun lately, and games haven’t been bringing me the usual joy.

Wishing everyone a doldrum-free weekend. 😑🕹

@Freek how is the Doinksoft collection? Gato roboto is the only game in it I’ve played a bit and it just didn’t hold my attention very long.

Yesterday I finished Echoes of Wisdom but I’ll probably go back and finish up some of the side quests. I enjoyed it. I’ll also throw in some splatoon to try and get thru the catalog a bit and Fzero 99 to attempt the satellaview stages. These new stages they’ve added to 99 are so tough. I’ve yet to complete the Ace cup. I always make it to big blue 2 and rank out. These are so cool to have tho and I’ll keep trying.

@Croctopus I hear you. I beat Luigi’s mansion 2 for the first time a few weeks ago. The first game is my favorite of the trilogy followed by 3 then 2. Maybe the next console is right upon us and will have GameCube support via the online service and they are saving games like Luigi’s mansion and wind waker for that.

Fate/stay night REMASTERED – got Tiger Stamp 14. Finished Fate route! Unlocked Unlimited Blade Works route.
OGRE TALE – completed Main Mission 03. Unlocked side missions. Currently playing as Ran Onigashima only.
Vampire Savior -The Lord of Vampire- – completed the game without using continues as Gallon! Completed the game with using continue once as Zabel Zarock.
Phantom Breaker Battlegrounds Overdrive – cleared stages 3, 4, 5 on Hard difficulty as Mikoto. Leveled up Mikoto to 74th level.
UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II [Sys:Celes] – played Ranked. Played against some Gordeau player 7 times in a row. Lost 1st battle, I understood their tactic, and won the next 6 battles, lol. But, they leaved the game when I won 6th time in a row, so my victory wasn't registered, sadly. Seems like I made them rage quit, lol.
Update #1:
Nintendo Switch:
Phantom Breaker Battlegrounds Overdrive – cleared stages 6 and 7 on Hard difficulty as Mikoto. Cleared the game on Hard difficulty! It's my first game that I've beated on Hard difficulty without any legal cheats like time rewind and save states. Leveled up Mikoto to... 81th(?) level. Unlocked Shiro Mikoto and L. Cleared stage 1 on Easy difficulty as Shiro Mikoto and L. Leveled up Shiro Mikoto to 6th level, and L to 5th level.
BLAZBLUE CENTRALFICTION Special Edition – played VS Mode as Es. I'm planning to see all characters' win quotes by myself, so it's why I'm playing VS Mode. I've seen all of Es's win quotes. And yeah, it's worth mentioning that in BBCF every character has unique win quotes! I haven't seen anything like this in other FGs. Started playing VS mode as Nu-13.
Windows:
Garō: Mark of the Wolves – beated the game as Grant. Got new personal high score – 802500.
Team Fortress 2 – played with my best friend.
Well, for now, it's all what I've played on this week. Have a nice gaming weekend, everyone.

Playing:
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
Such a great game, I’m only about 35% thru but it’s definitely a banger!

KILL KNIGHT!!!
I must be the only one playing this gem. If you like Twin Stick Shooters, u owe it to yourself to play this game. It’s brutal, challenging but really fun and addicting , it’s not even on the weekend poll it’s that slept on, it runs great on Switch too!

On Series X:
Now that I’m done with Dead Space Remake time to get back to RDR2 and October seems like a good time to start Elden Ring or Dying Light 2 up again.

Recent Switch Purchases:
KILL KNIGHT
Astral Ascent
Pizza Tower
Ace Combat 7
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1+2

Strains on Deck🥴
Fruit Loopz
Death Bubba
Organic Comatose
Permanent Marker

@OorWullie
KILL KNIGHT might just be up your alley!
Stardew Valley I’ve had it for years, still haven’t played it. The legs on this game are insane the way ppl continue to talk about the experience , at some point I will have to give this game a proper chance!

Have a great weekend everyone!

@Eduard_Brenton

you as well!

(ps - channel looks great, and I'm actually inspired to do some 'whacking even though I've never posted a video in my life 😂 subbed 👍)

My modem took a dive this week and on the exact same day that Moonstone Island’s update went live. I was on cell data for a couple days while i replaced it.
I got a mushroom barn now though, so all is right.
Besides Moonstone Island and UFO 50, i haven’t been doing much video gaming.
UFO50 is sweet. I don’t see it boppin’ Moonstone from its podium, but it will for sure rank somewhere in my top 5 of the year. Devil Blade Reboot and Marvel vs Capcom Collection are a couple other favorites.
Mostly though, it’s been DnD.
I bought some cute, pink dice with lil charm bunniez in them. Unfortunately, they are weighted wrong, and a few turn up with the same results nearly every time. The d20 comes up 16. These could be a DM’s tool (heh) or play-aid, or maybe i will make a magic item with limited charges that makes use of the dice. I just wana use ‘em. Cuz bunniez.
That’s me for this week, take care and game well!
(PS Might check out Kill Knight)

Zelda! I’m currently loving its approach and enjoying the puzzles. I’ve always been a top down fan vs the 3D games so this may easily sit in my top 5 experiences for the franchise when it’s all said and done. A bit past the halfway point!

I’ll be doing some achievement hunting as the Noise in Pizza Tower. I was able to do the Halloween event and nab the exclusive skins for both Noise and Peppino, so I believe I now have all of the costumes!

I went back to Sonic Frontiers and tried to wrap up the Final Horizon before Sonic x Shadow Generations comes out in a few weeks. I like playing as the other characters, but I may prefer the base ending a bit more. I’m at the King’s trial right now. 🫠 I’d like to beat Sonic Adventure 2 before Shadow Gens comes out as well.

And still making my way through Shredder’s Revenge as Mondo Gecko, with the new soundtrack

@Teksetter Here’s hoping your blues go away!

Undecided as I finished Echoes of Wisdom earlier in the week. Maybe F-Zero X to try and unlock the X cup (I have it unlocked on Wii VC but not NSO).

Over the past week I have been playing

Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Ary and the Secret of Seasons
New Pokemon Snap
Super Mario 3D World
A Hat In Time

It's a spooky month, Luigi's Mansion 3 has been sitting in my backlog for 3 years now, I'm taking the plunge.

I'll be able to finally play astrobot next week so I don't really want to start another game right now, so surely I'll play some runs of my fav rogues. Would be this the time I reach the nuclear throne? Who knows!
Happy gaming everyone!

always Blue Archive. Things are Kinda quiet now as they just announced the next chapter in volume 1 getting released in parts, with part one coming up. so while I'm frying a dumb chicken the size of Godzilla, I've been looking for other games to play.
Legend Clover on the side as well.

I have been playing more of Project Sekai: Colorful Stage. Basically it's Project Diva on mobile. It's nice to play a game like that which has so much nostalgia to it's sound track, and is even making vocaloid versions of other great non-vocaloid songs like Hello, World by Bump of Chicken. Who knows... they might even get Shin Takara Jima by Sakanaction in there one day. That song seems to still be considered meme worthy enough on JP internet to add to the game. Oh, and it's also got a story mode too, which is more about the artists who try realizing their dreams with the help of Hatsune Miku, kinda like in real live without the cute multi-dimensional time-traveling robot girl. Either way, it looks like they are going to give Miku 100 different personalities depending on the "Sekai" world the story is told from, not that I'd know since I'm too addicted to the arcade portion of the game. Now if only I could run the game on an emulator instead of being forced to use my phone to play.....

Also finished the Senran Kagura event in Brown Dust II and it was.... kinda disappointing. Sure I did get a wash of nostalgia from it, but the majority of the event felt like it was stuck in one room and while the characters were as I remembered them to be, even Homura being an absolute meat head who can't stop trying to surpass Kid Goku, the story felt more like a showcase as to what Senran Kagura was than a passionate addition to it's legacy. At least we got to see Justia naked pixel sprite towards the end. lol

I know I said I'd play Punishing Grey Raven many weeks back, but I didn't do that due to my plamo build at the time. But now that Black Rock Shooter is out, I am feeling compelled to actually try it.

Finally I've been playing a game that feels like it's leaning into the kusoge territory called StarLusts....... yeah.... If Legend Clover is reminiscent of a tasteful classic eroge that can become a cultural icon like Fate, StarLusts is the what you think when you see a P-hub "hot singles in your area" ad, if not these really fake feeling H-games. Dunno what possessed me to play to other than adventure and boredom. Even I know it was gonna be bad, and the messy character designs and unfocused animations aren't helping matters. Definitely gonna delete it by next week...

I beat 2 quick games this week: Mario Kart Double Dash!! on the GameCube and Fragrant Story and Papaya's Path on Switch. Mario Kart me and the wife had a blast playing together. I turtle shelled my way to victory. Fragrant Story and Papaya's Path was quite the fun little SRPG. Got it for free and gave it a whirl. Only about 10 hrs long, story was bad, but the gameplay was surprisingly fun.

Should have a friend over today, not a clue what we'll play, maybe Mario Kart. Let's see where my nose leads me~

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - Just completed the Hyrule Castle dungeon. It feels like the game has opened up more so I'm gonna do some exploring and look for sidequests before I tackle the next objective. So far, it's been a pleasant experience and the difficulty is just right for me.

Trials of Mana (Remake) - Right at the beginning of Chapter III so it's time to head to Snow Hamlet Alrant. I would like to progress enough to get the second job change but I don't think I'll make that far this weekend.[/strong]

Final Fantasy IX - Made it to Dark City Treno with Dagger, Steiner and Marcus. Curious to see how this segment of the story goes and how long until they get reunited with the main party.

I'm housesitting without my PS5, which means no Quidditch, no Granblue Fantasy Relink, and no Warhammer. It also means I can't fire up the Metaphor demo to get an early start. It also means I won't be home for Metaphor's launch, which will leave me with even less time for it before Dragon Age comes out... At least I'm not planning to get anything else until February.

What I did bring is my Switch, and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and I'm really excited to continue. I'm headed to Gerudo Town to see what Ganon's minions are up to in the desert. Probably no good, but I try not to pre-judge!

I'm going to get into the following...

Fire Emblem: Three Houses
Early days but I'm getting used to the game loop and my students of the Golden Deer. Manuella has my heart, and I will do all the things necessary to have her lol. This game will be my main focus as I need to make bigger headway.

F-Zero 99
After this latest update, I have NO choice but to fire it up, especially as a run up to F-Zero GP Legend and F-Zero Climax. I think it's safe to say that Nintendo finally acknowledges F-Zero's importance to its fans.

I started with more than six hours of Balatro last night. I'm working my way up the ladder toward Gold stake on the Checkerboard deck now, having hit Gold on two others. I also unlocked three more jokers on the way to Completionist.

It's a beautiful weekend here, and there's playoff baseball in this house, so that may be it. I probably need to get away from this Balatro addiction for a couple of days!

Persona 5 Royal trying to get going with the third semester, but the game is so long and adult responsibilities are the worst. My daughter is also committed to Breath of the Wild so access to that is spotty. Maybe some Vampire Survivors with my youngest.

Happy gaming everyone!

Caravan SandWitch

Game freaking rocks. I downloaded it on an absolute whim, I saw the trailer on the eshop, thought it looked pretty cool and decided to try it. It has some jank but I'm loving this game.

Mostly just finishing off the final chapters of octopath 2. Got 3 more to go. Then comes the very difficult post game stuff. Ugh.

I just bought voice of cards the forsaken maiden since it was on sale. Loved the first game, so hopefully the this one is just as good or even better but I won’t be playing it as much yet.

Going to buy Alan wake remaster(since it’s on sale) which will be my Halloween game lol. My friend and I are going to play it together since we promised we would. I heard the switch version was terrible but the patches seemed to have fixed most problems now.

For non Nintendo systems, maybe drakengard 3 again. Lol

My retro fix this week comes from Moon Shuttle on Arcade Archives, so I'll be playing that along with Stitch, Forza Horizon 4 and Yakuza: Like A Dragon.

I'm also playing a bit of Blood Omen:Legacy of Kain. Since it's basically Zelda with vampires, I'm holding off Ecoes of Wisdom for now. But I'm really looking forward to getting that soon.

Still making my way through Echoes of Wisdom, which I'm absolutely loving. The kids have now started on it, too - their first Zelda game.

Elsewhere, I picked up Wrestlemania X8 on the Cube for a few quid in CEX today, completing the set of WWE games on the purple box. It's a bare bones experience, but I'll be firing it up this evening for nostalgia's sake.

And, finally, my wife was talking about how she loved Streets of Rage as a kid, so we've introduced our son to it and had a good session last night.

@-wc- thanks, I really appreciate it. You should definitely start ‘whacking, it’s a lot of fun. I’ve been meaning to get back to it and this could be the inspiration I’ve needed!

Ace Attorney Investigations and TMNT Shredders Revenge.

Call of duty Ghost on wii u. I was nostalgic of playing cod with the wii remote and wanted to play the last two cods with wii remote control.

After some busy weeks moving to London, I’ve had a bit of time this week to not only play some games but remember to write this comment!

Switch: still on The Minish Cap - finally completed the bit I was stuck on… only to get stuck on the puzzle two puzzles on… but we persevere!

PS5: finally completed the first runthrough of Sifu (that final boss is tough!) after replaying all the levels to bring my age down

When my weekend starts, I'll continue being completely absorbed in the world of Snowrunner (Switch). I've made so much progress, yet it still feels there so MUCH I have to do! I recently felt so accomplished just getting one load of long logs across 2 maps, yet I still have more log deliveries needed to finish the job. Can't wait to get back at it! This freaking game is quickly becoming a strong contender for my 2024 GOTY. I've said before I'm sticking to the base game (no DLC's) for everything because I don't want to cheese it. I want to earn those accomplishments!

My backlog is so pissed off at me right now. I had a good rhythm going getting through it but once Snowrunner unexpectedly clicked they got put on ice.

I am 45 hours in to Visions of Mana on PS5. I just reached chapter 8, which is closer to the end.

I have played LoZ: Echoes of Wisdom for about two hours, but will not fully get into it until I finish Visions. So far, I really like it.

Also, I played a little bit of Onion Assault on switch, which I had forgotten to finish. It's a blatant rip-off of Super Mario Bros. 2, which imo is a good thing.

I really want to play Victory Heat Rally, which just released on Steam, but I'm going to wait for Switch or PS5 version. There's too much to play right now anyway.

This is the town of Greenhorne. People are peacefully chilling about and just minding their own business. Then along comes a time-traveling-scientist-turned-evil-wizard who calls himself the Dark Lord, Dr. Andonuts, and suddenly the town’s residents have no faces. Oh no! Who can put a stop to this madness?

Enter Aoi Asahina (Energetic Pop Star, formerly Warrior), our brave heroine. Formerly the Ultimate Swimming Pro at Hope’s Peak Academy and best known for her boundless love of donuts, she has since decided to take up a new occupation: defeating Dark Lords. Shortly after beginning her adventure, she meets three fellow adventurers with the same goal: Revali (Stubborn Mage), the stuck-up but highly skilled Champion of the Rito; Wreck-It Ralph (Kind Chef), the “bad guy” with big fists who’s really not so bad a guy; and Captain Underpants (Airheaded Thief), the…superhero of toilet humor who doesn’t really seem to know what he’s doing.

The party has met many memorable characters on their journey thus far. This includes King Dedede, his daughter Princess Peach, her fiancé Prince Farquaad and her true love interest Aladdin. It also includes a mysterious but powerful Great Sage named Sans, and a loyal steed named Yoshi who follows our protagonists to the edge of the earth.

Recently, the Dark Lord took the liberty to separate Aoi from the rest of her party, forcing her to find a new occupation and new friends. These new friends, of course, are just as colorful as the old ones: Miles Edgeworth (Cool Scientist), a highly skilled prosecutor eager to put the Dark Lord behind bars; Ribbon (Kind Imp), a fairy from Ripple Star seeking the lost Crystal Shards; and Peter Pan (Laid-back Cleric), the Boy Who Never Grew Up himself who loves nothing more than putting old codfishes in their place.

Will Dr. Andonuts have his way? Will Aoi and her friends put a stop to his havoc? Will the team ever reunite? Who is Sans, the mysterious Great Sage? Find out in the next episode of Miitopia!

almost done with one peice odyssey still have to finish up some side quests and collect the lock chests and hopefully this game gets a sequel.

On Steam:

• Nier Automata: great game! Bye Bye EXCELENT second boss!

On Switch:

• Smash Bros Ultimate: playing adventure mode

Sadly nobody is playing Beyond Good and Evil anniversary...

@Ganner Hey, Ganner, I picked up SnowRunner. I haven't gotten to it yet because something else is sucking up all my free time, but I'm looking forward to hitting the (off)road.

Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and F Zero 99. 😃

Echoes of Wisdom, which will probably be my answer for the next few weeks as I slowly play through the game. Absolutely loving it!

Fun seeing both the poll and the comments feature a lot of gamers returning to Tears of the Kingdom thanks to all this Zelda fever!

Same here for me! I returned to Tears of the Kingdom back in September, and I don't think I'll stop again until I give Ganondorf a proper greeting 😏

• Just completed the Safe of Fire, so now I'm finally prepared to take on the massive Gerudo Desert! Excited to embark on the journey so I'm stockpiling fresh meals, zonai devices, and heat resistance beforehand.
• Exploring more caves this week because I'm so close to completing the Mystic set! Pretty excited to go crazy with dyes and mix it in with other pieces to create lots of new fashion sets.
• Yesterday I went through a marathon session exploring the Depths. I felt like a fantasy cartographer, fighting, flying, riding and climbing my way through the massive caverns as I discover more Lightroots and expand more of the map little by little.
• Also made a point to complete some extra Side Quests / Adventures. Completing one of the Goddess quests was extremely fulfilling, being one of the first times I really chased down a dragon and made a point to ride it all the way up from the Depths seamlessly to the Surface. Such a subtle but incredible experience and feat of engineering that no other game can offer.

Angry Birds Trilogy (3DS) - Playing the Halloween levels.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss (Vita) - Canoeing along the underground lake is very serene.

Free Slots Fun Factory (Windows Phone) - I've resorted to YT vids as I can't get the game to run.

This has been a pretty chill week, TBH. Maybe more exciting things will happen next week.

This weekend, when I can, I'll be playing TTYD. On Chapter 7, at the X-naut fortress, with a few braincells gone because of a certain Bob-omb. If the TV's taken, I'll either be on my 2ds with Partners in Time (which I need to beat before playing Brothership) or maybe Team Kirby Clash, or even on my Switch for Kirby and the Forgotten Land. Have a good weekend!

Edit: my brother's started playing Fossil Fighters: Champions for when he's not playing Fortnite and Rocket League on our Xbox Series S. I find that interesting.

Metroid Prime 4

@JohnnyMind That's too many games for a weekend. You may have "gaming a.d.d"

EoW and evil within 2.

@TYRANACLES
I also have Gato Roboto from Signature Edition.
Gunbrella is excellent and imo a better game than Gato Roboto.

I'm yet to play Demon Throttle but it looks excellent.
Worth the price alone just for Gunbrella imo.

I’m playing Zelda Toki no ocarina ura GC (Ocarina of time master quest Japanese Gamecube version)

Just Zelda for me. You don’t need to guess which one!

Iron Meat with my partner. A really solid Contra-like, similar to Blazing Chrome. A lot of fun, but I highly recommend playing on Hard.

@JohnnyMind Always appreciate your weekly gaming blog! Thanks for sharing as always.

@BANJO exactly my plans! Except I’m hoping to complete chapter of Emio at some point too? We’ll see…

Space Marine II
For the Emperor!!

@Rainz Kill Knight looks good , Id enjoy it. I'll add it to the wishlist. Stardew Valley is quality stuff. Such a well made game. You can lose many hours to it.

Epic Mickey Rebrushed, Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection , Helldivers II….all on PC.

@JohnnyMind But the question of the article was, what are you playing this weekend October 5th...

@JohnnyMind I also love your way of doing it man it inspired me to do mine the way I do it.

Well here we go with another stunning WAYP. Been a nice and awesome week around here. Most of the week was just the usual games like Dawntrail and Plucky Squire. Most of the weekend when not working was taken up by The Legend of Zelda Echoes of Wisdom and more Astro Bot. Zelda is absolutely honestly a GOTY contender I can’t think of a more fun and exciting and soothing game I’ve played this year than this one it’s genuinely one of a kind and absolutely worth it. And much the same can be said of Astro Bot that game continues to be a fun and surprising time all the way around. Rest of the weekend I’m thinking will be more Zelda and starting that Silent Hill 2 Remake as I do have the deluxe early access. Never played a Silent Hill before so pretty excited. Otherwise I’m thinking this week is mostly gonna consist of some Ace Attorney, Trails Through Daybreak, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, Paper Mario, Bakeru, Dawntrail, Astro Bot, Emio, Star Wars Outlaws and Visions of Mana and Plucky Squire. Gonna focus on trying to beat Dawntrail this week but also fitting in some Dragon Ball Sparking Zero (proud sponser of the Damian Priest/Finn Balor match at WWE Bad Blood) since I also got the deluxe early access on that too. Preordered the Sonic X Shadow Generations Deluxe Edition this week so pretty hype and happy about that. Did a preorder for the Collector’s Edition of Metaphor Refantazio on Amazon so it’ll come a little after the game comes out but that’s fine because I have plans with the most awesome person ever in the world when that comes out so I don’t mind one bit. Also got some PSN money that I think I’m gonna use to preorder Slitterhead Deluxe Edition and save some for when Ys X: Nordics comes out I’m very excited for that. Only wrestling thing I wanna mention this week is the amazing WWE Bad Blood. From the start with CM Punk and Drew in HIAC to the main event of Cody and Roman VS the New Bloodline it was a solid and beautiful 9/10 PLE. Absolutely amazing minus the Rhea and Liv and Nia and Bayley match. But that says how strong the other 3 were to make up for it. Anime of the week gotta go to Nokotan. Yep only got one anime this week as I skipped normal anime night to go on a early morning walk with a friend and cook Deviled Eggs as from the FFXIV cookbook. Absolutely excellent time all around. 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, Weapon Wheel, Aetheryte Radio and Remap Radio. As always yall stay safe, be extremely incredible to each other. Have a totally incredible weekend and of course Happy Gaming.

@JohnnyMind I wasn't singling you out, your list was just the one I saw first.

God of War: Ragnarök, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Yes it's a Nintendo website, but it's ridiculous that you can only select Nintendo games in the voting thing. Presumably the majority of Switch owners play other games too.

Echoes of Wisdom and Final Fantasy XVI for me

@Burning_Spear Nice! Be careful if it clicks with you you're gonna really make Balatro jealous.

Whenever you give it a go keep in mind the beginning 'tutorial' portion can be a slog and confusing. The overall early game can be tough too. I apparently made it a lot harder for myself because I was using the crappiest vehicle choices and tactics but the game does a horrible job at helping you understand it all. I had fun but there was some moments in that beginning map where I felt like I'm over my head.