The Coronavirus pandemic seems like the perfect time to be knee-deep in two big chunky RPG’s at once, which is exactly where I plan to be for the next few days at least.

Playing Final Fantasy X and going deep enough into the superbosses and dark aeons and such that I need to do some extra farming with 4x combat/overworld speed turned on, I’m running into a similar issue. Too much loot, too many things that seeeeeeeem like they’re going to be useful, too few things that actually are…

For example: Is this copy of “Nanban Greaves” better than the other three I’ve already picked up in the last 20 minutes? Well, let’s see: Its rarity color is different, although that’s not always an indicator of quality. And its level is a little higher, although that doesn’t automatically translate into more defense.…

Sonic Forces is one of PS+’s free games this month, and despite the reviews, I’m enjoying it? Like it’s not as good as Sonic Colors, it’s kinda basic, but it’s also nowhere near the jank of past 3D Sonics either. Thoroughly acceptable platformer with a nice self-aware cheesiness, and it allows you to create your own…

My favorite game lately has been “read what I said I might play last week and see how very wrong I was.”

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As someone who played a LOT of Nioh, the best advice I can give to new and returning players is this: ignore all equipment for like, the first 20 hours. The growth curve of the game is exponential, with a looooong lead-in, to the point where it is entirely possible to complete a first-playthrough with the equipment…

Still bored out of my mind waiting for Animal Crossing... Nintendo should release it a week early to help keep everyone inside...

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While I found the first Nioh game fun enough, I’m likely to skip Nioh 2, at least while it’s full price. Inventory management is probably my least favorite thing to do in video games, and I’ve been playing a lot games lately that suffer from the same kind of inventory management fatigue, including one of the games…

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Murder By Numbers, a mash-up of Picross with a detective visual novel, has its hooks deep in me. Picross is an addictive puzzle format, though I wish it came with an “Undo” button that kept track of my move history, because things can get pretty hairy when you move to 15x15 grids.

I’d say, if you’re focusing on length of play (to last 2 weeks+), Persona 5 Royal wins by a wide margin. No matter what mini-games and side activities FFVII Remake could potentially possess, Persona 5 Royal will have exponentially more to do, for good and for bad (as it wears on a bit near the end of its run time).

After sporadically watching The Witcher over the last couple of months while folding laundry, I thought I’d revisit Wild Hunt a bit. And loot drops have become the worst aspect of modern game design. They’re kind of an unavoidable consequence the length and complexity of modern games, but it‘s really difficult to get…

Happy Weekend everyone!

This week’s been pretty brisk with wrapping up the main story of Pokemon Sword and finally catching a legendary. Also finally went back to the nursery and oh boy did they have a shitload of eggs waiting for me ...

I wish I could put down Breath Of The Wild and start working on my growing backlog of shorter games. I’m 40 hours deep and have tackled two divine beasts, but I can’t bring myself to play anything else.

I’ve been staring at my switch for weeks now waiting for Animal Crossing to come out. I can’t wait two more weeks... It’s killing me. Anyway, I started playing Sonic Forces because it was free on ps+ this month. It’s not great... The gameplay is ok but it controls terribly. The writing is so insanely bad I seriously…

It’s been more of Greedfall this week. A mixed bag of stuff.
Love the setting and design, hate the weird colonial stuff. (see an inquisitor strangle a native islander while your party has a native in there? Ignore the murder and carry on? sure thing!)
The weapon and armour design is great although it could be more…

Planning to finish off Lair of the Clockwork God this weekend. I just reached the part that is [SPOILERS INCOMING] a game within a game. It’s been a fun, if kinda glitchy, ride so far.