Topic: Games You Recently Beat?

Forgot to mention, I also finished Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass. The new courses are really nice and I like the Tour courses too.

Finally beat Resident Evil 2 (N64) B scenario as well! What an awesome game!!!

Unicorn Overlord. I really enjoyed the combat systems, especially when the AI tries to bait you. I'm mostly grinding units at this point.

Super Mario Bros. Wonder
My second playthrough. Still a great game, for mostly relaxed fun. Incredible how many people work on a 2D platformer nowadays. It was worth it.

I beat all of Mario Wonder, except for the last section of the final final challenge. God that invisibility badge sucks.

I beat FFVII (1997 version.) After all the hype around Rebirth I felt like revisiting this. It's a good time. When I played it in the 90's I got all the way to Sephiroth's final form and wasn't able to beat it, but this time I didn't have much trouble with it.

@wollywoo
Congratulations on beating Mario Wonder and Final Fantasy VII! The bonus level in Wonder is challenging. I hope you will succeed, should you decide to try again.

Yeah, the invisibility badge is pure-troll. And that last section is set up in such a way that it is basically automatic if you do it a certain way but if you don't play the exact arbitrary way Nintendo expects you to, it is basically random... and having that section be after 3 long slightly tedious sections without a checkpoint just makes it worse. I did beat it, but it's bad game design in my opinion. Granted, the majority of Wonder is excellent game design and that level is optional, so it is mostly forgiveable.... unless they bring the invisible badge to mario maker 3 in which case whoever invented that badge should be punished.

I hadn't bought it for myself as I already had one, but I was lucky enough to stumble across a Pikmin amiibo, and I knew my brother wanted it, so I snatched it up (he doesn't collect amiibo, but there was a handful that he wanted).

@FishyS Hmm, now I'm curious to know what the "automatic" way is... but on the other hand, I've moved on and given up on this and I don't know if I have the patience to go through all the ten or however many other stages again...

In other news, I just beat Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Wow, great game! It was so fun all the way through. Very challenging but generally not frustrating, although it has the usual Metroidvania frustration of "there's one path somewhere in this giant world where I can progress, but where is it" and "huh, I'll skip this part because I don't have the right powerup yet... (an hour later) oops, I guess I can actually do it."

The controls feel really good and the boss fights are magnificent and ridiculously over-the-top (very anime.) The teleportation power in particular feels amazing to pull off, especially if you can use it cleverly in combat. The music is also great (apparently they got some Iranian composers to get an authentic Persian feel.)

Speaking of Persian feel - the game makes interesting use of Persian mythology, and occasionally real historical figures like King Darius. It's not going to be used in schools anytime soon, but it's neat to see the connections. It lends a certain weight to things that you wouldn't get from a totally-made-up world. I wish more games would use material from mythology beyond Greek and Norse gods. I wonder what modern-day Zoroastrians would make of the religious references to Ahura Mazda, Athra, Angra Mainyu and so on.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe + Booster Courses
I love to play through this game from time to time. Now I can play a little more courses.

Super Mario Odyssey
My fourth or even fifth playthrough. It is a fun game after all and a minimalist run, does not take much time at all.

FF6. I Have to say, I enjoyed IV much more, and 7 and 9 are still tied for first for me. VI was absolutely great up until the World of Ruin. Then I heavily relied on a guide, boosted my exp to x4, along with my magic points to learn spells faster. It was far to open ended, and way too many miss-able items and characters. Combat was ok, and I liked the characters enough, but seriously; halfway through I was ready for the game to end. The one thing I'll say that never got old was Kefkas laugh. It even made me start to chuckle. All and all, I'm glad I got it off my gaming bucket list, but it's low on the FF totem pole for me. I'll eventually play V at some point, especially when it hits a sale.

@NintendoByNature Kefka is one of my all time favorite video game villains. And that final battle against him so epic.

Yoshi's Crafted World
Another playthrough of this awesome game. Every level looks different and has something new in store. 100% is a challenge. The horror clowns level is a little too much horror though for a Yoshi game.

The Legend Of Zelda Tears Of The Kingdom
Wanted to see the secret ending today and did so. Still loving the ending. The bossfight is extremely cool. And saving Zelda and seeing her happy and relieved almost makes me cry with happiness. Dear Ganondorf, a true king is someone, who strives for everlasting peace. Watching the secret ending was worth it.

I decided to give Xenoblade Chronicles 3 another chance. Seems like I overreacted a bit, when I dropped it. The next time you see me ranting again, about a game being too dark and stuff, please feel free to tell me, to take a break and come back later to the game, when I feel more like it. Only if you want to, of course.

@Tasuki yea he's definitely up there. That fight takes alot outta you. That's for sure.

Unicorn Overlord and River City Saga Three Kingdoms.

Princess Peach Showtime!
100% finished. Propably the most relaxing 100%, I ever accomplished. Did not even have to use the internet. But I do not mind it, since I expected a relaxing experience and since I do not think, all games have to be challenging.

Furthermore, I did not feel, like the game was explicitly targeted at girls. Felt like the good Nintendo, Disney and even Kingdom Hearts stuff.

This is simply a game to feel good vibes and to be entertained. I had a great time.

I like how the music player does not have every track on repeat, but has a repeat option. Makes it easy to listen
through all the tracks. The music is good and atmospheric.

We should have a poll, which costume is the favourite. To be honest, I am not so sure yet, since they are all lovely.

Edit: I will try now to get at least one Princess Peach Showtime! themed spirit, in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

I haven't seen them all yet, but the cow-spotted version of her normal pink dress is up there in pure adorableness.

Definitely a relaxing game but also with some challenge. In terms of finding collectables, it was definitely harder than e.g. Mario Wonder. Granted Wonder was also super relaxed to 100% except for the last special world level.

@FishyS
I will check out the cow dress later.

Uff, yeah the last level in Super Mario Wonder is hard. But I love the last badge you get, for completing it. A playthrough with that badge would be so much fun.

Taking a break from Unicorn Overlord, been on a bit of a shmup bender.

Vostok Inc
I'm usually not much for cookie-clickers. But this particular blend of Asteroid-clone with a cookie-clicker lite aspect...hey, it speaks to me. First played it years ago, got 80%-ish through it. Set it aside, forgot the gameplay loop. Started a fresh run, somehow landed on 60 hours played (WTH?) and I'm not necessarily mad about it.

7/10 - The very definition of "make number go up" because it's the core of the gameplay loop.

Deathsmiles
Not my favorite Cave experience (Dangun Feveron and Guwange share that title for me), but this bullet hell doesn't disappoint. Until you reach that final boss. Straight cheeseball bull****tery from that final boss, my friends. Basically burn your bombs in quick succession or perish.

8/10 - A solid horizontal shmup from the house of shmup royalty.

I beat Persona 3 Reload a few days ago. In my eyes, it's truly the best out of the main three Persona games. The story is actually well written, and the characters don't fall too hard into the anime tropes that Persona 4 and 5 tend to fall into. The main characters all actually get development during the plot instead of their arcs being sidelined into social links as well. Tartarus was refined heavily- to the point where it feels like they actually put a ton of care into it this time around. All the blocks feel more unique- and on top of that, they mix up the floors with different features that weren't in the base game at all.

The ending is one I can't stop thinking about. Only gripe I think I had with the game was the OST- with it feeling far weaker than the original in many different aspects.