I have been under the weather, so haven’t played much.

Still in the 2nd last area of Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains, the story took some weird turn. Everyone is going along with it though, so hopefully they will explain it later.

Dropped Tom Clancy’s The Division. My friends, with whom I started this game, dropped it a while ago, I wanted to complete it, but got tired of the grind, and then dying from the boss again and again.

At higher level, you die very easily, and enemies keep getting spongier, which means when playing alone, if you have to change cover during a boss fight it’s very easy to die. That combined with not feeling well, just annoyed me too much so decided to quit.

No updates on Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed and Pokémon Pokopia this week.

  • Goudewup@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    I picked up Hades on sale a while ago, it sat in my library for a while but now that I actually started playing it I am hooked! I’m already eyeing Hades 2 once I’ve completed the story of 1.

      • Goudewup@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        I have all the weapons unlocked and escaped with 1 or 2 heat with some. Favourite would be the shield, least favourite the sword… I just can’t get a run to the surface with the sword without dying along the way

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    9 days ago

    Tried the Tomodachi Life demo and I found it to be quite entertaining. Will probably get the physical copy in the next few days.

    Also got Kirby Air Riders and looking forward to giving it a try.

  • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
    2·
    10 days ago

    Got hooked into the Tomodachi Life train. It brings the kind of non-involvement and casual play I need right now.

      • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        it has a weird, very japanese sense of humour, but very enjoyable. I don’t enjoy making random miis, but the game has a “assisted” mii creastion tool that makes that less of a pain.

        You can get very fun dialogues by inserting not-so-random prompts. And you can make things “happen” but also just watch while doing other stuff. I find it so far very enjoyable, and not very repetitive.

        I’ve seen it being compared to The Sims, Animal Crossing or Pokopia. It’s much more hands off than the first, and you do barely any interactivity in contrast to AC or Pokopia. Kinda like a movie you make an interaction every once in a while.

          • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
            2·
            8 days ago

            Bad things: the game does not allow me to share the pictures, or video captures. I understand the reason but not being able to (easily) share funny interactions with my bf is something I definitely don’t fancy.

              • Brunacho@feddit.clEnglish
                2·
                8 days ago

                It is perfect for a game like this but I guess the freedom you have in prompts that may make your miis say questionable stuff which might work as comedy as in the picture that follows but also may be seen as discrimination when out of context.

                It's Rupaul so it's fine

                Example, RuPaul mii saying "I was just thinking about homophobia too!"

  • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 days ago

    Finished Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian!

    Wonderful game. After the underwhelming Atelier Yumia last year I’m happy to see Gust haven’t lost their touch.

    This game does a much better job than most entries in this series in balancing between a main story to drive the game and the feel-good, slice-of-life vibes that they are known for. The battle system is great, the alchemy system is great, and I really liked the new cast - in particular the main duo of Rias and Slade.

    If they ever make a follow-up to this one my biggest request would be more work on the “store management” part of the game. The one they had here is serviceable, but as a huge fan of Recettear I’d love to see a game that manages to scratch the same itch, and the Atelier series looks like a really good fit for this.

    Haven’t played anything after finishing Atelier, but will try to get some gaming time in the weekend.

    Edit: MTG update, ended up spending most of the weekend giving my old commander decks a big tune-up for the first time in many, many years. Not the biggest fan of this format but playing with the Premodern/Prefire decks I mentioned last week seems to have lit a fire in my playgroup for all types of games, and commander makes for a good change of pace.