Thank you for asking me about Pokotopia. I “finished” it today and I’m really mad about it. First, it was an almost perfect formula for me. It was a Dragon Quest Builders sequel without all that pesky fighting. But I made the mistake of Spring Break: I poured time into it. Instead of playing a little or even an hour each day, I spent five hours plus for a week fulfilling main missions and moving the story forward. The problem is that the main story is not the point of the game, so when I’d completed the story, I felt done and unsatisfied.

To anyone else playing, I recommend devoting yourself to whatever you find in it that it fun. For me, it was paving roads. I don’t think I had a more enjoyable three hour period than when I put yellow stone flooring throughout the town. When I mentioned it to my wife, she commented that “of course you love the infrastructure parts”.

Dollar to hour enjoyed ratio was excellent, but I should have known better and paced myself on the game. There’s more to it, though. As soon as the credits were done, I found a new Pokémon.

Most of my “gaming” is getting the next season in my Kahoot! Challenge for my 7th grade students. This season will be based on softball and baseball, and programming the excel spreadsheet to take in Kahoot data and spit out a baseball box score has occupied a joyful majority of my leisure time. The spreadsheet is getting so big that between mass copying formulas, I had time to write into my favorite thread on Lemmy.

Thanks!

I broke down and bought it digitally Sunday. Through great willpower I have only played an hour during my spring break.

Thank you for the in-depth comments on Pokotopia. The more I read, the more it sounds like Dragon Quest Builders without the fighting. I can’t wait until I relax a little about not having a physical card so I can buy it for my wife (and me, honestly).

On my way back from GameStop. I went to pick up Pokotopia, but I didn’t realize it was a game-key-card only. My system is still full from the digital edition of FFVII Remake, so I guess I’ll work toward finishing that.

I’m looking forward to wrapping up Little Rocket Lab this week. I’m in my county’s Spring Break, so I’m off school while my kids are still in. Let’s hope I ca recharge enough for the sprint to standardized testing season.

My secret is pacing myself. I never work on the puzzle for longer than an hour at a time (or fifty pieces connected per session). It keeps me from being frustrated or from feeling overwhelmed.

I’d love to hear you expand on that

The series tends to frustrate me because every game does something exceptionally well and is the worst in the series in some other way.

What’s the issue with each 1, 2, and 3?

@slimerancher@lemmy.world is this the type of discussion that is allowed or should be in its own thread?

I still haven’t finished! But I did just buy a TOTK 1000-piece puzzle. I wish us both luck!

I get recommended a video on why FFX and FFXIII are both corridors, but one works and the other doesn’t. I’ve been feeling like the remake is one long beautiful corridor as I play through it. It definitely feels larger than 1997’s Midgar.

Could you explain that? RDR is not my type of game, so I have no idea what you mean by impossible. Is the urge to start fresh just so exciting that starting over is a must?

It’s been a busy week and I’ve spent a lot of time dreaming of Little Rocket Lab while grading papers. I’ve hit the point in the game where there are no easy factory lines and the advanced assembly plants are a requirement for everything. The urge to start over is so strong because of that organizational instinct in my mind to keep a neat and efficient island. But my messy layout of conveyor belts is charming enough that I keep at it, delivering research materials and unlocking new items slowly.

I’m so glad I bought it!

As always, I’m playing Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent.

Final Fantasy VII Remake is on hold because I’m still mad about getting trounced twice in a battle. It’ll be a while before FF pulls me back since I am in handheld mode as my knitting spouse binges through West Wing for the first time.

Oh! I’m running a 2nd session of a D&D one-shot today, too! Maybe we’ll get to the end this time?

There’s a Dragon Quest Collab going on in Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent that has me hunting metal slimes.

FFVII Remake is still the primary game in the Switch 2. I really dig the quality of life upgrades in the help menus (“once you go here, you can’t go back” warnings, for example). I’ve hit the level of difficulty where I’m not happy with the fighting system anymore, so I might drop down to easy.

But my greatest purchase this month has been Little Rocket Lab, an automation/town building game. It’s cute and easy enough to share with my youngest, but if I play it in the living room, my wife complains about how the way I lay out conveyor belts drives her crazy. I think I’ll go play more now!

I was so excited when I saw this from the State of Play, but wasn’t sure we’d get it on Switch 2. I just watched a long play of Order of Eclessia, so I’m in the metroidvania mindset!

Is Another Eden that game that has Frog from Chrono Trigger as a character? I heard about it with a FFIX crossover, but I can’t split my mobile time between it and Octopath.

I still can’t shake the feeling that this is just a Mega Man Legends type game (I mean as a 3D Mega Man).

This art style looks so amazing. It’s really makes my mind boggle as to how long I’ve been watching the style of anime change. It took me a little bit to realize that the game was mimicking the style as it’s own thing, not some forgotten licensed anime from before most players were born.

I waited to watch all day, carefully avoiding Lemmy and the rest of the internet…

Only to have the most amazing spoiler as the Culdcept Discord community gets news of the first new game in ten years! That and FFVII Rebirth are probably my day one purchases.

I feel like downvoting your situation. Sorry you lost progress, but happy you get to play it again!

I think I’ve hit the point in the hype cycle where I’m done watching its trailers. Like the Marvel Cinematic Universe, I know I’m going to see it. I don’t want to repeat anything and feel like I’m rewatching something.

I somehow remembered that FFVII was out yesterday and dropped everything to go to GameStop and buy it. Part way there, my son looked up that it was a game-key card only so we turned around and I bought it on the eShop.

I played through Chapter One, sharing the experience with my wife (her comment: “you’re okay with all this cursing?”). I was really excited by all the “make this game not a chore” options available. Oh, and it’s beautiful.

My highlight this weekend was playing Ace Attorney Investigations. I’m approaching where I dropped the ROM translation from sevenish years ago (maybe more!).

Thinking back, I’ve been playing translations of this game for twenty-five years. I remember when the first Phoenix Wright was rereleased on DS in Japan, it was the first thing I requested from my partner. It was so neat that they were releasing it in Japanese and English so I would have to import it from America to enjoy the series.