I played some Titanfall 2. Pretty cool game. I think if I had played it before playing Doom 2016 I might've gone nuts over it, but as is, its a really solid FPS campaign so far. I never hated COD campaigns (though I've not played one in more than a decade) but its easy to see why a lot of people don't like them or especially that entire era of FPS compared to the movement in a game like this.
I'm currently playing Triangle Strategy, which is an absolutely amazing game. The story, the characters, the gameplay, the music, the pacing (once the story gets going) are top notch. I knew I'd like it but I didn't expect that level of quality. I'm around chapter 14 and it's been a wild ride so far.
I feel like I'm losing momentum, though, as Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection is winking at me from the shelf. Never played an AC before and I'm super curious about Black Flag so I'll probably boot it up this weekend and give TS a break (I'll definitely complete it this year though).
On the side, I'm starting to pick up traditional 2d fighting games. I grew up playing Tekken and Soul Calibur, then I played a bit of Smash Ultimate casually when I got my Switch but I'd never played any 2d fighters (the transition from Tekken to online Smash was ROUGH). Now I'm dabbling into several ones to get a feel for the genre (and also get the basics of those games down in case a friend comes and wants to play) so I'm juggling between Samurai Shodown, King of Fighters XIII Global Match, DBFZ, and Under-Night In-birth II Sys Celes (I also have a few more like Fantasy Strike and BBTAG). The plan is then to pick a "main fighting game" into which I'll dive deeper, and UNI2 seems like the best candidate (even though KOFXIII looks and feels wonderful... and I'd like to try some characters in Smash...).
I just beat Street Fighter II on the SNES Classic. I wasn't even trying to, I just wanted to play Street Fighter after Mortal Kombat put me in a classic arcade fighting mood, and I have Street Fighter II on the SNES classic. Um, good job me I guess. Really, I wasn't planning to complete this one.
Just got Bayonetta 3. Only about an hour in, but it's a good time so far.
Of all games, that's the game I've most wanted a demo or trial of because I can't even slightly guess whether I would love it or absolutely despise the combat.
I'm currently focusing on clearing my backlog on Playstation devices and so far this week I have:
Finally finished and platinumed Scars Above - Some people tend to dislike it for the clunky combat and bad animations or facial features but I actually adore that game. Love a whacky alien story.
The Walking Dead: Michonne - Not as good as the other Telltale TWD titles but still enjoyable and rather short
One Piece: World Seeker - Man. I was really excited to start a One Piece journey but World Seeker ain't it. The combat is just clunky and while the story references a movie a lot because of the Dyna stones it's just bad...
@Tyranexx lol granted, I'm doing 2x exp in the pixel remaster, but yea. It's really early on in the game no? Now you have me wondering if I'm mistaken and imagined it all 😂. I sort of just stumbled upon that forest by ancient while doing sabins section.
@NintendoByNature The 2x XP is probably it; I had to do some grinding more than once, don't recall doing much of it quite that early though. It was more in the second half.
Currently playing: Pokemon Scarlet DLC, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Switch)
@Tyranexx yea could be. That exp boost is a godsend honestly. I don't have much time as it is these days, so any way to shorten grading is a massive win in my books.
@NintendoByNature@Tyranexx Its been awhile since I played that game but isnt that one of the branching paths that you can play in any order? If so that would explain why its earlier in the game for some people and not others.
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Playing Persona 3 Reload on Xbox/Windows. This is my first time playing through the game in full (having got about 5-10 hours into FES before dropping it), and I must say it's doing a good job relieving some of the issues I had going back to FES having started with 4 and then 5. I'm falling in love with this setting and its characters, and it's great to see this world brought to the standard that 5 established. That said, it's still a near-two decade old game at its core, and it still shows it in a few ways. Although combat feels as good as P5R, the dungeon(s) and social sim elements are relatively lacking.
Overall I'm expecting that I will enjoy this as much as 4, but not nearly as much as 5.
Lumines: Remastered on Switch. I need to practice this a bit more as it seems to take ages to play a game despite levelling up pretty slowly - I've only managed to get to about Level 22 or 23 but its taken me around 20-30m each game. I feel like I've been doing quite well and playing for ages then glance at the level and its at like 4 or 5! I'm not sure what the criteria is for levelling up - could be score, number of cleared blocks, something else? 🤷♀️ I think my problem is I'm playing it like Tetris and trying to build up blocks and clear with a chain, rather than just clear stuff as quickly as possible.
Hot Wheels Unleashed Series X. This looks great - the detail in the track is really good and the vehicles legit look like the toys they are representing. It's surprisingly unforgiving on Normal difficulty from what I've played so far. Falling of the track almost always results in finishing last and the physics takes a bit of getting used to - Top-heavy vehicles have a tendency to tip over if you take a corner too fast for example. The microtransactions are pushed pretty heavily as it encourages you to basically collect everything (much like real life Hot Wheels I guess), but I think it is possible to play just fine without spending any more actual cash as you can win 'blind boxes' in game which give you new vehicles. I think I must've bought the Ultimate Edition or something as I seem to have access to some DC superhero stuff and also Looney Tunes content too which I doubt was in the base game.
Zelda: Wind Waker HD for the first time ever, since I remember ragequitting the GC version as a child at the very beginning of forsaken fortress due to the stealth gameplay.
Zelda: Phantom Hourglass as a replay.
Zelda: Tri Force Heroes with 2 friends locally, which is a blast.
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