Witcher 3 - runs really well and looks amazing, then i go back to Mario Cart for some stress relief
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I think this might be the next one I sink my time into. Heard great things about the game
Yeah, all my friends call me crazy when they hear that, but I played Witcher 3 on Switch, and loved it. I think I played somewhere near 80-100 hours, the full campaign with lots of side missions and both expansions.
How far along are you?
I made it to the city, but not Skellige yet.
Ah, cool. Enjoy!
Palworld. Liking that I can chill and play at my own pace and adjust the grind. Excited to see what all is added down the road.
Not a Nintendo game
I am deep into a run of Alpha Sapphire. I swear I play games other than Pokemon (mostly newer gen Fire Emblem). XD
Heh. Nothing wrong with just playing Pokémon either. Whatever makes your happy 😀
I'm playing Octopath Traveler. Had it for absolutely ages but never got around to playing it. It's really good, but it took me a while to get used to the combat.
I have heard the combat is pretty difficult? Also who did you get in your team?
Yeah it is. The enemies have armour which can only be destroyed by certain attacks, which you may not have in your party. Also, you can't see their HP and they tend to have lots of it. As to my party, I'm not sure if this is the right approach, but I've recruited everyone and I keep on swapping them out so that I can do all the stories xD
Ah, interesting.
Do the people not in your active party also get experience?
No they don't, but you need certain characters in your party for some quests. So I always just swap them out and hope that before I have to fight the boss they'll level up enough lol. Currently stuck on 1 boss though
Still playing Nier:Automata, still on Route A. I forgot how much the side quests ask you to run back and forth the same few areas, but knowing what the game is truly about, it actually makes a lot of sense, so I'm okay with it.
I'm halfway through the second world of Mario/Rabbids Sparks of Hope and my first impression is that I preferred the first game in every single way. The battles are no longer rated in any way, so you don't need to try to play all that well, just win and move on. Most of the maps are kinda bland. No weapon upgrades, it's just cosmetics. having two characters fully voice-acted when everyone else is silent is really jarring and it's the first time I turned voice volume to 0% in a game, now I can actually enjoy the comedy more.
But the most jarring thing to me is that it seems like Ubisoft tried to make the Rabbids... cool? Thankfully the volume decrease also gets rid of the snippy one-liners, but why do they speak in the first place? Rabbids say Bwah, nothing else. And why am I picking up pieces of lore about the planets I'm on? It's Mario and Rabbids, I'm here for slapstick, not world-building! I'm not sure where to even begin about Edge...
I'll keep playing it out of curiosity, but I'm really tempted to boot up the first game again afterwards to see if it's really the game or me that changed so much.
I think I'm approaching the final boss in Narita Boy.
I'm also pretty far in Rygar on the NES on the Switch if that counts? I've never played the game before and I didn't understand the gameplay at first. After reading the instruction booklet it's a lot more fun lol.
Oh, it's on NSO? I have seen this game on arcades when I was younger, but have never played it. Could be worth giving it a try.
Where did you find the instruction booklet from?
Also, now that you have almost finished Narita boy, what are you complete impressions about the game?
It's a good little platformer. The music is great. I love the art style. Gameplay can be a little difficult at times because the controls are sensitive. There's a story and the dialogues take way too long and break the rhythm of the game a bit. Buy otherwise it's great.
The first two Paper Mario games are a lot of fun. When TTYD is released on Switch that may be the next Switch game I pick up.
Still going through P5 Tactica, on the second Kingdom of four. I do have to say I like how there are things like side quests in the game to help master mechanics that you can apply in the main story missions - makes the game more satisfying when you can do that.
Prince of Persia, it's mighty fun!
The game looks great. Really happy to see Ubisoft experimenting again and giving us something different.
That makes two of us
I seem to have reverted to my historic default of games I regularly play; Smash Ultimate, Mario Kart 8, and a rougelike. In the past, said rougelike was always Dead Cells, since it was essentially the only one in my library, but since mid-2023, I've started seriously using Steam, and through it started playing other rougelikes. Right now, my rougelike of choice is Spiritfall, which mixes platform fighter gameplay with the rougelike structure, which given my historic attachment to Smash and other rougelikes, makes it a game I was pretty much guaranteed to enjoy.
It's nice to return to some "comfort games", that is kind of why I returned to Mario Kart 8 too.
Are you looking forward to anything coming out?
I'd say the most interested I am in any upcoming game right now is probably Antonblast, a Wario Land-inspired platformer slated to release at some point this year. Was first introduced to its earliest demo by someone building a Smash Ultimate custom stage inspired by said demo, and have kept the game on my radar since then.
Just looked it up, it looks interesting. Going to keep an eye on it!