Played some more of Darksiders 3 and Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains. Not much to add here.

Started couple of other games. Started Tom Clancy’s The Division with friends. I played a little bit of it a while ago, and while I liked the world building and the gameplay loop, but game started feeling repititive. Now playing with friends, so hopefully won’t have that issue. Played a few missions and so far so good.

Also started Hard West on Switch 2. It’s a turn based tactics game in wild west. It has couple of interesting mechanism, like luck. Each time someone shoots at you, your luck reduces (depending on distance, cover etc), and when your luck is down the shot hits you. You can also shoot people through cover. There is also an area map, where you can do a few things (depending on the campaign)

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

    • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      For beginners I’d recommend Drainus among traditional ("non bullet hell¨) shmups and Danmaku Unlimited 3 on the easiest settings for bullet hell.

      And if you enjoy Danmaku Unlimited 3 I’d go for Crimzon Clover next, it’s one of the best games in the genre. It’s significantly harder even on Novice, but still beatable with some pratice.

    • pasdechance@jlai.luEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Oh that’s tough! I am awful at shmups, but also obsessed with them. I’ll try to suggest a few

      • Crimzon Clover has different difficulty levels and modes to mess around with
      • I didn’t have that much trouble with Cotton Fantasy (Cotton is a “cute” shmup)
      • Batsugun Special Version
      • Vimana
      • Exo-Calibre is quite easy (this is a cute’em up)

      I’ve probably only played about 30 different shmups, I can tell you that certain classics like R-Type are way harder than most shmups. Same goes for the Strikers games and Raiden too.

      If you have Steam (I don’t) take advantage of the 2 hour return window and figure out if you like horizontal or vertical (Tate) shmups, bullet hell, danmaku, or frantic styles.