102 hours in to Persona 5 Royal. I’m not even pausing to grind or anything! The story just keeps twisting! I feel like I’ve been one weekend’s play away from finishing for a month!

Not a lick of civics review handled. I think I made the right choice. This game is great!

Devising strategies is my weak point. That’s why I’ve been stuck in Octopath 2 for so long. Good luck!

I remember one of the first spoiler warnings I got from Danganronpa fans was avoid the soundtrack until you’ve finished the game since some track name contain spoilers on those that, um, don’t survive. Maybe that’s for other titles in the series.

Ditto @Phelpssan@lemmy.world on congratulations. It’s incredible how much a silly little visual novel that I only played because it was compared to Phoenix Wright can make you ache. Please keep us informed. Heck, maybe an ongoing reaction thread where we can relive the game with you?

Persona 5 is not as near finished as I thought! I can’t afford another ten hour weekend of playing (getting targeted Civics reviews for my 7th graders needs to happen), but I sure want to!

I don’t think this’ll be a hit for either of us, but talking about the future gives us shared connections (plus, we did just see Fox in the new Mario movie).

Wha a wonderful surprise! I love that it came out just in time for me to watch with my child before bedtime!

I’m over eighty hours. It is eating my weekends up! I need to finish so I can focus on my end-of-year stuff for school, I think.

I LOVE the Danganronpa franchise and I hope you’ll love it, too. It isn’t for everyone, but as a visual novel, it is amazingly engaging. Every entry of the game I play has a predictable pattern: chapter one takes a month, chapter two takes two weeks, chapter three and four take a weekend each, and then I’m playing every free moment until the end. The twists and turns of the stories really catch me.

I recently started watching Danganronpa fan game long plays on YouTube just to catch that feeling from when I played the first one. Heck, I bought the edition you have and never played it since I already played the whole series. I love when a series makes me a fan for life.

For my playtime, Persona 5 seems like it is about to take me into the final chapters. The day by day progress is a really neat feature that I kind of skipped over. As a teacher, my civics class is a day-to-day process, too, so it is neat to see life modeled in a game so well.

I am happily working my way through Persona 5 Royal. I don’t save much since I’m the only one who is using the Switch 2 this month, so I was shocked to see I’m approaching the fifty hour mark already. Time well spent, I feel.

You’ve brightened my day! I wish I could give you more than one upvote!

I’m still floating on the joy of playing the Wii U original, so this is probably a day one purchase. Just a week before FFVII-2 comes out for switch, though, and then then new school year means if I don’t get it in July, I might forget about it. I hope not.

That said, I really just like using my Aerospray and singe player always limits your weapon choices. I hope that the sub weapon construction means you can always select those, at least.

Already I’m sad that this isn’t a multi-player game like Salmon Run. Not that I do much online anymore.

I’ve completed the first Palace in Persona 5 Royal. This game is really great! Unfortunately for me, the local library had Kirby and the Forgotten Land for Switch 2 available for checkout, so my Persona playing machine is in the hands of my youngest.

Multiple sittings. We try to play it twice when we can meet up, but even then it’s half a year or more in the adult torture we know as scheduling.

I guess I can focus on being glad Level5 is still kicking. I’m really focused on Layton, though.

Finished FFVII Intergrade! That was much shorter than I expected, but I did put in a vintage one day, 10-hour shift into it. I also played on classic mode which made me enjoy the game a lot more. I loved not feeling the frustration of getting caught in the triangle exclamation point attacks because the game was taking care of that blocking for me.

Started Persona 5 Royal after reading the first few volumes of the manga adaptation. The presentation is so stylish that I felt I had to post again this weekend.

Finished Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade? The title is too much. Part one of the remake is done! Except I unlocked a hard mode I don’t want that is required to see certain parts of the story. I should have gone though it on easy; then I might have the interest in looking for more.

Started the Spring Season of my Microsoft Excel and Kahoot powered baseball game for my students. I printed box scores for the first four games and posted them on the lockers outside of my classroom. I am getting so much joy from the programming involved in transforming mostly random numbers into a baseball game with a story. One of these weeks, I’ll block out the names and post a box score.

Regarding Ticket to Ride Legacy: @slimerancher@lemmy.world asked about the difference between this and the original game, so I wanted to share with y’all what makes it so special. The idea of a legacy game is that choices made in the first (of twelve or so) game you play leads to different outcomes in future games. We are all railroaders looking to make money in the late 1800s but because of the time, in the first three games of the legacy, we are limited to routes from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. Over time, you expand the map as the story develops.

Writing about it this much makes me itchy to play more. I don’t want to spoil any more of it, but for those of you just wondering, there’s nothing earth-shattering behind the spoiler tag. If you are already planning on playing, don’t read it!

I think I’ll start the FFVII Interlude with Yuffie tonight!

I found out in the last edition of “what are you playing this weekend.” I’m an avoid spoilers person, but I managed to relax myself and smile. It’s neat to think of another MCU (or maybe instead of Mario, it would be the Nintendo Cinematic Galaxy?).

I was back in Pokotopia. I got to plan on a cloud island with a friend. Then our wives commented how we were playing the same game apart from each other on the same couch (as they both knitted on separate armchairs).

Played season three and four of Ticket to Ride Legacy. It’s really neat to see how the world expands after a game.

And I’m on chapter 15 of FFVII Remake. I watched a play through from ages ago that stopped here due to some copyright issues, so it’s neat to experience the last fourth or fifth of this different familiar story.

Finally, we’re just about to change over in my classroom from a basketball meta-game to a baseball-themed one. The plan is pull Kahoot scores on Wednesday and use those data points to populate six days worth of baseball games. The students drafted their teams Friday and the team captains will select their pitching rotation Monday. I’ll be posting daily standings and statistics for the students to pour over. I hope they dig it as much as they did the weekly brackets that the basketball-theme had.

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.