Not much to mention this week.
In Final Fantasy XIV I am reaching main quests level 50, which I believe are the highest level quests in the base game, so shouldn’t be too much left in my free trial.
Played some more of Tiny Lands, reached world 8 so only about 25 or so levels remaining.
Played some Judgment too. It’s nice to play a brawler after playing MMO combat or cozy games.
Reached Chapter 7, some pretty interesting story stuff going on. Getting a bit tired of the side stories, most of those end up following someone or chasing someone. Both get kinda boring after a while. The stories themselves are weird and interesting, but not a big fan of gameplay for most of these.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
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On Switch 1: Still Animal Crossing NH.
On Xbox: Cyberpunk 2077. I also have it on Mac, where I assume it plays about as well as on Switch 2, but I don’t have a Switch 2, and I don’t look forward to buying CP77 a third time. Though I admit it would be easier to play it on a plane on a Switch 2 than on a MacBook. Maybe not $550 easier though.
I am looking for another cozy game like Animal Crossing for Switch 1. May go with Cozy Grove. Or one of the Story of the Season game. Looking forward to next Animal Crossing too, will be a day-1 buy.
Well, if you buy Switch 2 anyway, then it’s just $70 easier.
Still on Baten Kaitos Origins, although I didn’t progress much as it was a busy week.
Since the game is a prequel, it’s fun to see missing backstories from the original game play out here. I know what needs to happen, but I still don’t know how its gonna play out. There’s even been a massive twist that recontextualizes pretty much the whole story setup for both games.
Of course more Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, I’m still on the big grid for deviant armor. For the full set, you need to defeat all 16 difficulty levels about 3 times, meaning 48 fights against the same monster.
Wow, good luck for the grind!
It’s gonna be a busy weekend. If I do play something, it’ll probably be Hollow Knight while helping my spouse man a booth at a ren faire. I originally played it across many sessions with a lot of time between, and I missed some important things that now I have no idea where to look for them - so I’m starting over in preparation for beginning Silksong.
Been playing quite a bit of Mechwarrior Online as well… Despite its developer’s worst efforts, it’s still the best online mech combat game around.
Good luck with Hollow Knight. I have decided Silksong isn’t for me. Don’t have the skill set to play the game.
Playing Super Robot Taisen Y!
Finished Chapter 2. There’s some side missions “locked” behind requirements like “Character X has 50+ kills” and right now I’m focused on unlocking those.
When I need a break from the grind I go for the “Relic” missions which are nice and short puzzle stages where you have 3 turns and a small number of units (usually 3) to achive a goal.
No progress on Witch on the Holy Night this week, had very limited time for playing and SRTY fits my current mood better.
Do you know how may chapters it has?
According to a japanese guide there’s 7, but the number of stages in each chapter varies a LOT.
Got it. Thanks!
Does Judgment have actual detective/investigation gameplay like in Ace Attorney games? Or is that just a side gimmick?
There are some investigation parts, but they are pretty light. It’s enough to differentiate it from Yakuza / Like a Dragon games, but not enough to consider it a full detective / investigation game.
Have you played AI: The Somnium Files? I just finished it last month, and that is more like Ace Attorney, at least the investigation part, there is no court part in that.
I was very interested in The Somnium Files until I found that there is some type of time limit in game, which I dislike.
So, the game is divided in days, and there are multiple routes. Gameplay is you go to different places and do investigation (like Ace Attorney games) and then roughly once each day you enter “Somnium mode”, this has a timelimit of 6 minutes in-game time. Each action in that can take some amount of time from 1 sec to 100 sec or more, and you also get positive / negative multipliers for it. Those are the only time-limited parts, and most of the one in first half are easy enough that I didn’t fail even once.
The latter half ones are a bit tough and require some save scumming, or use of guide if you want to clear them, but I think there are only 3 or 4 of them that gave me real trouble, though it can be different for each person.
I dislike games with time limits too, and have skipped many games that have timers, but I think this one is worth a play.
Regarding FFXIV, hopefully this is good news to you, but you still have dozens of hours of free play time.
The trial goes to level 70 and includes the first two expansions!
I’ll also be playing FFXIV because of the newest patch.
But beyond that, I have Ghost of Yotei to play. It’s been good far!
Ah, cool. I thought it was base game only.
I recently saw a video of all the jobs, so was thinking about trying couple of them once I read the end of base game, but if I can play the expansion will keep going with that!
Yeah, try them all (that you have access to). It’s really fun to see how they differ.
And after the base game you’ll get to play Heavensward - which is a fan favorite story. A lot of people like it the best of all of them, even. Though I’m an Endwalker kinda guy myself.
Ahan, cool. I have already level 57 though, would the level 70 cap cause an issue for playing Heavensward?
I did unlock every single class that I could, but most of them are at level 1, with few in level 5-10. Will try a few of them in some depth later on.
Heavensward back in the day was 50 - 60 level content, and Stormblood after that was 60 - 70 level.
If anything you’ll be a bit overleveled as you go through that stuff. But that’s no biggie since the dungeons and whatnot are dialed in to your gear’s iLevel more than your base level.
Ahan, ok. Thanks for the info.
A little more Xenoblade X, a little more Wild Arms 2. Nothing worth mentioning, really.
Monster Hunter Wilds though… I did beat Omega on my first attempt after researching its weird mechanics and for some reason it invigorated me. I haven’t wanted to play the game this much in months. Maybe I’ll actually make a noticeable dent in my wish list for once! I also need to get onto that 9-star quest train to get better charms. I haven’t done a single one yet because Tempered Seregios gave me trouble three months ago and Monster Hunter is a game that very quickly makes me doubt my own abilities.
Congratulations on beating Omega and good luck with 9-star quests!
Do you try to complete all armour or only the ones that you like? For weapons, I believe you pretty much have to upgrade through whole tree, right?
Collecting armor is my main goal in Monster Hunter. It’s just more work in Wilds because you get access to what was previously considered male and female variants of the armor and they each tend to have Alpha and Beta variants, so I essentially have to make every set four times now. Compared to that, weapons are nothing worth mentioning. In fact, I couldn’t even answer your question off the top of my head! But you usually get to jump the line for each major weapon variant, it just takes more or rarer materials than upgrading.
Interesting. Thanks for the info.
Based on recommendations from here, I picked up the Trails in the Sky Chapter 1 demo. My wife finds the dialogue dated and cliché. Me too, but in a good way. It’s refreshingly old-fashioned. The game is kinda okay, too. With Octopath Traveler Zero around the corner, I probably won’t pick it up after the demo ends.
Planning to buy it day-1?
Yes? I only want it on a game card. I also want it for Switch 2. But if the upgrade is free like I heard, it should work fine.
But if I get busy in early December, it could just as easily be forgotten until Summer of next year. I still haven’t bought Ghost Trick of Switch, and it was one of my favorite game experiences of all time (up there with Katamari and Super Mario Galaxy for wow-factor).
Good luck!
I’m on disc 3 of Final Fantasy 9. Hopefully I’ll focus on finishing it before jumping to other games.
Oooh, interesting. Have you played it before or playing it for the first time?
I’ve played the first disc multiple times. I like it but I always get distracted when playing long games.
It is the last FF game I like. FFX has no exploration. FF6 is my all time favourite.
Have you ever heard of the FFVI randomized Beyond Chaos? A lot of my YouTube time is devoted to watching 2-Tone Tony play with randomized sprites, battle abilities, and items. He makes up stories to go with the randomness, too. For example, when a character rolled up with the “Engulf” command, the story became about how that person was secretly a ZoneEater trying to stop herself from eating everything in the world.
For a shortened feel of it, here’s a link to a bingo seed (where he only plays until the Narshe snowfields fight): Final Fantasy VI Beyond Chaos BINGO
Thanks. But I like the original FF6 the way it is.
Ahan, interesting.
It took me months (I’ve had a lot of other stuff on), but I finally beat FF7 Rebirth the other day! Really enjoyed it - the combat system is great and I loved exploring the backstories for each character. Some parts felt quite filler-y, but were generally still fun to play/watch.
I’ve just started Tunic. The way in which various aspects of the game are revealed through the instruction manual is so clever. Can’t wait to finish work and play some more!
Taking months to finish a game is pretty normal for me. Most RPGs very easily take 3 months or more, and that is even without other stuff 😀
It doesn’t help that I’m a bit of a completionist (at least to the point of doing the majority of the side quests, and ignoring the ones I felt were tedious)
I have realised I will never be able to play all the games I want, so have stopped worrying about achieving 100% completeness or getting Platinum or even completing the main game. I have dropped 10+ games this year, would never have done that just 4-5 years ago.
That’s a good way to do things. I guess I have a mentality of ‘I paid for this, so I want to make the most of it’, though that doesn’t necessarily mean 100%ing a game, just playing it until I’m satisfied. In that respect calling myself a completionist isn’t quite accurate - I’ll just play through all of the significant content and avoid any filler. The recent Spiderman games are some of the few that I’ve actually 100%'d, because I found all the content to be fun and not a waste of time.
It’s rare that I’ve dropped a game, as I tend to be quite particular about the games I pick up; but I totally agree that if you’re not enjoying a game it’s better to just drop it and move on to something else. Digimon Cyber Sleuth for example - I got about 10 hours in and lost interest. Not sure if I’ll go back!
Yeah, everyone is different, as long as you are having fun, it’s good. I platinumed all 3 Spider-man games, they are pretty good. Also did the Platinum for Ghost of Tsushima, but that was only because a friend of mine also started playing around the same time so we would talk about it a bit, otherwise with the open-world design, I was about to skip all the side activities around half-way through the game.
