Finished Hogwarts Legacy. There wasn’t as much left as I thought, at least not for the main missions.

I didn’t completely finish the game though, after completing the main story, it gives you a final mission “The House Cup”. It has level requirement of 34. I was at level 30. Checked the details and it’s basically the ending cinematic. Didn’t want to spend 2-3 hours grinding to level up just to watch that. So as far as I am concerned, the game is completed.

I also completed all the quest lines for other students. There are some missions in villages and other areas that I didn’t do. Did some of them, just not all of them. As for collectibles, I probably collected less than half.

For me, it was a fun game, loved playing the story missions and learning the spells. Collectibles were also fun in the start but there were just too may of them. Looking forward to what they do with the sequel.

Nothing major in Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age. Played some more of the story. Not much new here.

Same with Fire Emblem Three Houses, continued with the main story. I am not sure about which class to choose for Dimitri. He started with Lance, but he gets access to unique class “Lord” which uses sword. This isn’t much of an issue, excpet I already have 2 sword users, and wanted to have a wide variety of characters. I was originally aiming for taking him to Grand Knight via Paladin, but leveled up his sword and switched to Lord this week. Hopefully it’ll be fun.

Started Grand Theft Auto IV on PS3. I randomly came upon a used copy in a shop, and since I have never played it and some of my friends claim it as the best GTA, bought it. Though to be honest, I was more interested in booting up my PS3 again then playing GTA.

The game was very dark on my TV, had to move Brightness and Contrast to 70-80% to clearly see what’s going on. I also tried Street Fighter 4 just to see if it’s PS3 with TV issue or the game issue, and it is definitely the game issue. Anyway, works well enough with Brightness and Contrast turned high.

I am still in the very start. Maybe done 5-6 missions total. It holds up pretty well, though there are some dated elements, specially the combat and shooting. The car handling is kinda funny, they seem very bouncy. Overall, having fun, but not sure yet how long I’ll play.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

    • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Atri is the best one for those not very familiar with VNs. Not too long, great production, very interesting setting and cast. There’s a Switch version too, but for some bizarre reason it’s only available in the Japanese eShop even though it has english language support.

      But my personal favorite is the original Grisaia Trilogy, specially the first game. Incredibly fun cast, and a very unusual story structure - the first 2/3 of the game is a “common” route with hilarious slice-of-life comedy, followed by your choice of a character-specific storyline - all of which get incredibly dark.

      It’s a monster of a VN though. I’m a fast reader and the first game alone took me 50h, and this package has the three main games plus a ton of side-content. Also, the original release of this game was an eroge, and while the explicit scenes were removed in modern releases there’s still plenty of sexual content in dialogues which may or may not be OK with you.

      • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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        10 days ago

        Thanks, will check them out.

        Current plan is to give Stiens;Gate another try, since I already own it on PS3. On Switch side have Raging Loop on wishlist, plan to get it on next sale.

        • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 days ago

          Current plan is to give Stiens;Gate another try, since I already own it on PS3.

          It’s a great game, but I’ll give you a quick warning: You will need a guide to get to the final/true ending.

          Most of the endings are fairly obvious decisions at the end of a chapter, but the final/true ending is hidden behind a bunch of message responses during the game with nothing that clearly signals “you’re on the right path”.

          It’s absolutely worth it though. One of the most satisfying endings I’ve seen.

          On Switch side have Raging Loop on wishlist, plan to get it on next sale.

          This one should be a much simpler to complete, there’s a handy in-game flowcharts helps you explore and go back and forth to try different choices very easily.

          • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
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            10 days ago

            So, do I need to lookup the guide before starting the game, or should do a blind run first and then use the guide to go for true ending? I am guessing I won’t have to replay the whole game or anything?

            • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              10 days ago

              So, do I need to lookup the guide before starting the game, or should do a blind run first and then use the guide to go for true ending?

              I’d suggest a blind run first.

              I am guessing I won’t have to replay the whole game or anything?

              Depending on your choices may need start from the beginning… but you can have the game automatically fast forward through dialogue you’ve already read on previous playthroughs ,so getting to the true ending will be quite fast.