I am just now about to turn on the Switch for the first time this weekend to play some Huntdown.
What about you? What have all of you been playing?
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Finished return to monkey Island, played some we love katamari, then started Mario rpg
Nothing significant this week, afraid my mindset just isn’t ideal for gaming right now.
But I’ve been re-playing a bit Etrian Odyssey III, had forgotten how great this game is. Unlikely to play it through to the end, but it’s been a good time sink to help deal with stress/anxiety.
I’d also like to mention that I absolutely love the new super-smug portrait they added for the Princess/Sovereign class in the Switch version.
Good luck with your stress/anxiety, hope you feel better soon!
Feeling a little better already, thanks. Even got enough motivation to start a new game. 😅
I just finished playing Tunic, by way of booking up on the internet some of the last puzzles because my head was starting to hurt. Now it’s all a matter about what to start next: I have to choose between Pentiment on my PC or Ori and the Will of Wisps on the Switch.
Pentiment might be coming to Switch too.
How did you like Tunic?
It was really fun and up until the endgame it stroke that perfect balance between difficulty and reward. There’s a definitive “oh shit!” moment when you start to see what it’s really all about and I hadn’t had One of those in a while
I got about45 minutes into Persona 5 Royal (so almost through the intro!), but I don’t think I’ll be going much further with that one. I’m still playing Platinum otherwise, and debating a Fire Emblem run soon, just because it’s been a little while.
What didn’t you like about Persona?
I don’t feel like I played it enough to give it a full or fair assessment, so this is just “at first glance”:
The biggest issue I had with it was getting a firehose of gameplay tutorials only to be provided very little opportunity for gameplay. I felt like I was frequently darting from cut scene to cut scene, and while I love story this was so start and stop as to be frustrating. The pacing was just…off.
I also admittedly didn’t care for the brief glimpses of characterization that I got, especially the “every adult character is a completely miserable human being” which was just draining. The protagonist not getting much characterization is less an issue because player characters are often blank slate. It really was overwhelmingly the side cast, and most were NPCs.
It is possible that I will pick this game up again at some point and completely fall in love with it. The art style is beautiful and there is a quality to it of playing through an anime. Maybe if I liked the story more or any of the characters had grabbed me I’d be more excited. Sometimes it’s just about timing, you know?
I have yet to play Persona 5 but that cut scene to cut scene thing sounds like a Persona game.
The gameplay, once you get to it, is supposed to be pretty good, so, I would recommend you to give it a fair try, once you are in the mood.
The brief snippets of gameplay I got to experience weren’t half bad. It’s not one I would necessarily discourage other people from trying and I might even recommend looking into it depending on what I knew about their tastes.
Objectively, I don’t think what I experienced (limited as it was) was a bad game. I think it was a frustratingly paced intro to a game with potential. How much potential, I don’t know. I’ve heard mixed things.
You’ll have to let me know what you think if you give it a play through.
Sure, will do.
Team Fortress 2
Haven’t seen anyone mention TF2 in a long time. How’s the game now? Is community still strong?
Strong as ever, a lot of bots in casual servers which is very sad but I play on uncletopia servers because they are like casual but without bots and random crits
Ah, cool. That’s nice to hear.
As a Zelda fan, I’m going to experience the CDi games via Arzette which was released recently.
Oooh, didn’t know about CDi games, and it seems Arzette is a spiritual successor to those games.
Would love to hear your thoughts about these games.
I’ve only watched gameplay videos about CD-i games. So far Arzette is charming and fun. It has metroidvania elements with linear areas you explore.
