What are you playing this weekend? 2023-12-24

curiousPJ, 5 months ago

Wrapping up everything that is left to do on my first run through Xenoblade 3. All unique monsters get. All but one colony max affinity get. All X gems get. Not maxing out hero levels.

Then post-game stuff and start future redeemed DLC.

slimerancher, 5 months ago

Oooh nice! Getting max affinity in some of the colonies can take some effort.

Cornucopiaofplenty, 5 months ago

Just restarted my 100hr Xenoblade Chronicles 2 file which had got to endgame but not finished as I’d completely forgotten everything about it! Realised it had been 5.5 years since I last played 💀 No idea about the characters, story, gameplay, battling, various menus and inventories, map, etc… Thought it was better to just start again and enjoy it once more!

picandocodigo, 5 months ago

Oh, I’ve been there. I played Xenoblade 2 and stopped for a while. When I came back I had forgotten absolutely everything, and I wasn’t enjoying it enough to start over. So I ended up selling it 🙈

bamp, 5 months ago

I’ve had an absolute blast with My Time At Sandrock. Didn’t play My Time At Portia, so I went in with 0 knowledge and 0 expectations, and it’s been so much fun. Quite cozy and casual, but with such a great gameplay loop, diverse mechanics and minigames, and an unexpectedly super fun story and characters. I’ve been told I’m only in Act 2, and I’m nearing 200 hours.

slimerancher, 5 months ago

Are you playing it on Switch? How are the loading times? I loved My Time at Portia, but got tired of the loading times. Initial load was very long, and then loading when going in your house also took time.

bamp, 4 months ago

Oops, sorry for the late response. I’m playing it on PC, and haven’t had any issues with load times. No idea about Switch, I’m afraid.

slimerancher, 4 months ago

Ah, no worries.

Phelpssan, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Played a bit of Theatrhythm Final Bar Line!

Went back to clear the last DLC (FF16) on Expert and Ultimate. With this I achieved my main goal for this game - while there’s still the Supreme (“Extra Hard”) difficulty left to do I’m not sure I want to try beating it.

Current Stats: Expert: 523/523, Ultimate: 523/523, Supreme: 16/232, Cards: 1225/1225, Level 99: 104/104, Quests: 100%.

Playing Persona 5 Tactica!

One thing that really impressed me when I played P5 Strikers earlier this year was its strong story, it felt like a proper sequel to P5, not just a spin-off. Unfortunately, this is not the case for P5 Tactica - while the story is still decent, it’s more in line with other spin-offs like Persona Q, a side story focused on the new characters (in this case, Erina and Toshiro) where the Phantom Thieves are along for the ride.

That being said, I’m having fun with this one. It’s very much a “light” tactical game, asides from some puzzle-like optional quests the game has been quite easy, but it’s nice and polished and has interesting mechanics.

The battles are on the short side, you only use three characters at the same time and they’re usually over in a 5-8 turns, which makes it a good game for short gaming sessions. Performance on the Switch has been solid overall, the only thing I have to complain are mildy annoying loading times when starting a stage (~10-12s).

Spoiler for late-game mechanics, nothing story-relatedLate-game stages expand to four characters at the same time, though the 4th slot is fixed and is a character with modified mechanics compared to the main cast.

I just finished Mission 45 and I believe I’m on the final stretch, expect to finish this one either today or tomorrow.

Contramuffin, 5 months ago

Been working through ToTK. Been trying to ignore the main quest because there’s still too many things to do before I can progress!

Bonesince1997, 5 months ago

Backpack Hero still draws me in! The performance of the game could use to be better in town, but otherwise I’m addicted.

Zephyr_anthes, 5 months ago

Bought Tears day one. Been busy all year. Finally unwrapped the plastic seal this morning. I’ve avoided all spoilers so far. And the opening cutscene tells me I’m in for a heck of a time.

picandocodigo, 5 months ago

You’re in for an adventure! I got it day one too, and decided to stop playing at 100 hours since it was taking most of my free time 😅 I’ll get back to it and finish it at some point, I think I’m not even halfway through the main quest.

Garbanzo, 5 months ago

My four year old is getting Super Mario Bros Wonder for Christmas and I’m so excited. I had her play the demo at Target a few weeks ago and she really liked it and played it surprisingly well. She insisted on going back a few times. I’ll have to remember to film her opening it in case we get a Nintendo SIXTY FOUUUR!! reaction.

Bonesince1997, 5 months ago

Wonderful!

picandocodigo, 5 months ago

That’s awesome :) What was her reaction?

Garbanzo, 5 months ago

Nothing very dramatic. She’s pretty happy to have the game at home now. My brother got her the Lego Super Mario starter set with Peach and that was a bigger hit than the game.

RagnarokOnline, 5 months ago

Was on a Don’t Starve kick, but thinking about doing some Stardew Valley because it’s such a cozy game

treefrog, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

I finished Rogue Heroes this last week so not really sure yet.

Picked up grindstone and undertale on sale, haven’t played either before and enjoying both so far.

Tuesday I’ll play Super Mario Wonder with my son. But I’m trying to save that for father son time so it’s been a slow burn.

CosmicSploogeDrizzle, 5 months ago

@slimerancher I’m officially endorsing this one and pinning it.