Hey y’all! What have you been playing this week? I played a bunch of the recent Talos principle remake. It was cool! The story hits differently with the way the world is with AI but I still thought it was enjoyable. Now I’m starting up the sequel!
Blue Prince and Massive Chalice
I’ve been pretty busy over the last couple of weeks, so gaming has been very sparse… But, the other day I picked up “The Slormancer” which is an ARPG created by a team of two indie developers.
I absolutely love it so far! Plays fantastic on the Steam Deck too (and really almost feels like it was made for the OLED Deck). I only have three and a half hours so far in it, but it’s very much giving me “Just one last round” vibes, which are my favorite kinds of games.
AC: Shadows, still enjoying it after ~28 hours. Couldn’t finish Valhalla due to it just having too much of everything, let’s see if this one’s different. Also, started playing Doom Dark Ages, seems fun!
I’m just at the beginning of Act 3 of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I’ve dragged my feet doing a lot of side content and playing slowly because I sort of don’t want this game to end. For once I wish this was a standard 100-hour JRPG fare and not as relatively short as it is at probably half that.
The game is very good. What else can be said at this point. There are minor niggles and nitpicks and occasionally some AA-ness rears its head but it’s overall one of the best games I’ve ever played so far. The story is amazing, the presentation is beautiful and the turn-based combat with QTEs and parries is super fun. The boss fights are cinematic and challenging in an almost Souls-like fashion. All the characters have distinct play styles and fun synergies.
It’s also an unabashedly French game and I’m really enjoying immersing myself in that to the max by using the French VAs.
Tempest Rising, the new modern command & conquer game. I really like it, and struggled for weeks how to beat the computer in skirmish on hard as GDF.
Turns out i hadnt realized the huge value of comms…
I’ve been playing Xenoblade Chronicles X.
The combat is pretty fun. It’s a bit more complex than the other two Xenoblade games I played (1 and 2), as there are more support skills you can use and overdrive requires a bit of planning. Enemies also have breakable parts, which add a bit of decision making during combat, although it does still feel a bit passive as there aren’t many enemy mechanics to interact with.
Very minor progression spoiler
I have unlocked the Skell after ~30 hours and it was pretty underwhelming. Grounded combat feels more fun and it’s pretty disappointing that you can’t customize much of the mech’s aesthetics apart from color (and I’m not a huge fan of the designs).
The main story is fine and the sidequests are pretty good. They are very short, but they have interesting stories. The “affinity” quests feel like they are the focus of the game instead of the main story.
The current Diablo 4 season and I just finished little nightmares, so now I have started Hogwarts legacy
Dusted off Raft and started a new playthrough. For all it’s upolished and unforgiving nature, it’s a good game.
Mainly Guild Wars 2, but Leafblower Revolution recently introduced fishing, so my GW2 time has taken a small hit while I explore this tomfoolery :D
The Sinking City Remastered was released last week, so I’ve been playing that. I’m having a lot of fun with the newly added photo mode.
Played through DOOM: The Dark Ages. It’s good, and I already wrote a wall of text elsewhere in the comments. The second half of the story is pretty bad, even for Doom standards. I wanna do another playthrough, where I change some of the difficulty sliders.
Core keeper, Webfishing, Helldivers 2, and powerwashing simulator. I’ve been in a very chill gaming mood aside from the hectic fire fights of helldivers.
Diablo 4 season 8
I’m on a fire emblem warriors (3ds) kick.
Doom The Dark Ages, Space Marine 2, CoD: BO6.
