Been going hard on Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin.
Besides that, I’m 10-11 hours into Stella Glow on my 2DS XL, and have been playing Grim Dawn and Slay the Spire 2 co-op with my wife.
How are you finding Stranger Of Paradise? Since getting into Ninja Gaiden this past year I’ve come into contact with some more CAG players and some of them talked it up as having really great combat.
I’m enjoying it. I bounced off the game the first time I played as I was expecting maybe a more traditional Final Fantasy experience and it didn’t click with me. I’ve played a few souls-likes since and the gameplay is meshing better for me now, though it’s still difficult at times.
Combat is enjoyable, but the gear filtering and management is kind of annoying.
I’ve read it’s similar to Nioh’s gameplay but I’m not familiar with that one.
I’ve been absolutely absorbed by this game the past week, having finally pulled the trigger on it after eyeing it for a long time. It’s a 2.5D light horror roguelike, but there is so much more to it than it seems at first. Whenever I think I have a handle on it it keeps throwing new cool stuff at me, and the world building and story just keeps getting more interesting the more I play. It has a very unique vibe to it and a very distinctive and unique voice and direction.
The combat is clunky and janky yes, but you do get used to it and it gets a bit better after you start unlocking more tools, spells and weapons and start being able to actually make focused builds. The build crafting and customization is fun even when the mechanics of the combat itself is a little clunky. But this isn’t a game you play for the combat anyway, but for the exploration, the lore, the story and the world building. Which is also partly told through item descriptions, Dark Souls-style.
Honestly I really don’t want to spoil anything as the game has some interesting surprises so if you think this is your vibe I recommend just giving it a chance. It’s very cool and I can see why it’s such a beloved hidden gem. I can’t wait to see what else it has up its sleeve.
I’m almost done with Race Driver: GRID. I got all the cars, won all but the final 6 races and pretty much got my fill of the game. I soured on it a bit (mostly due to the amount of events I’m not a huge fan of) but I still like it overall. Not enough to grind for the first place on the career leaderboard though.
I won’t be writing a big summary of the experience as I already mentioned everything before (limited number of tracks, aggressive opponents, mostly fun driving model etc). What I can write however is: playing this title gave me a bit of insight into what I’m interested in in a racing game (in term of events). For GRID the end result looks like this:
Favourite events Least favourite events Touge (not even close) Destruction Derby (I’m so glad it barely exists) Touring Cars Club GT Open Wheel 24 Hours Le Mans Everything else is pretty much a toss-up depending on the event or track, varying between “this is great” and “please kill me”. It was fun but I’m kinda glad I’ll be moving to something else soon.
Still playing
losingskirmish matches to the veteran ai in Gates of Hell: Ostfront.Also randomly started a Miitopia save :D
This week I finished “Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark” (EGS freebie) and launched my first rocket in “Factorio”. Both are great games.
For Darkside Detectives, the site nicegamehints.com was really useful. It contains a lot of hints for games that help you without spoilering stuff for you. Great if you get really stuck.
Factorio was great too. I will definitely be playing more of it, but I’m taking a break to prevent burning myself out. I finished with every research unlocked and a Spidertron built. I used zero imported blueprints. But my factory was structured in such a way that it was impossible to grow much further without tearing most of it down (scaling up oil is hard!).
For now I’m playing “Far Cry: Primal” which I had in my backlog for some time. The first few hours have been fun but installing almost made me refund it. Ubisoft Connect is horrible and the service wouldn’t sent me the confirmation mail I needed. And after that the game bugged out on my high DPI display, until I figured out how to change display setting without a mouse. I’ll think twice (nay, thrice!) about buying a Ubisoft game in the future.
I’ve decided to try and play the all mainline Resident Evil games, to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Currently on RE 0, and I’ve previously beaten 2 remake, 3 remake, 4 remake, 7, 8, and 9. I’m pretty excited for 5 and 6, just to see if they’re as bad as everyone says
RE6 isn’t really that bad honestly. Sure, it’s not the greatest game in the series but as long as you keep in mind it’s an action game and learn how to play (it has a surprisingly deep combat system which isn’t explained in the game itself) there’s plenty to enjoy. This guide shows a good amount of what’s possible, if you’re curious.
Thats awesome. I’ve been trying to do this with final fantasy games. All the bitmapped games are on gameboy advance. Very convenient.
bg3. have cleared out as much of the tower as I can without getting everyone hostile like the prison and the dock and the front and the balcony. I did the inn of course and the east side of the map so now heading to the house of healing to find arebellas parents and the sick guy thing.
Reminds me I haven’t picked anything yet. Finished a game on Saturday but the following days were pretty busy for me. What to play now…
I’m trying to be responsible and work on rebuilding my homelab setup, but I made the bad decision to install the Progression Modpack for Rimworld and have been dipping into that a bit for like an hour or 2 before bed lately. I’m excited to get deeper into it!
Thinking about some time in the water with subnautica
Been distracted with playing The Sims again. Sometimes silliness is needed in this world lol
Also been diving back into Civ 6. I never played other versions of Civ and am toying with the idea of trying older versions. Any recs?
I like Civ V personally. I like the hexagons and I like the one-unit-per-tile instead of death stacks, even though the AI isn’t great at using it without community patches. I also like its visuals the most.
It also has the beloved fan mod Vox Populi, if you want to get into all that.
4 is a fan favorite but has a grid instead of hexes, so it plays a bit different. I’m also partial to 3 since that’s where I started. Each era has its own lovable jank.
Bear in mind that districts weren’t a thing until 6, so that pretty radically changes how you plan and build cities.
Thanks!! I think I’m leaning towards taking a crack at 4 :)
Factorio. Please send help, I can’t stop.
Figured it’s time to give Elden Ring: Nightreign a fair shot.
