Finished The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!
Loved the game. There are some performance issues, but nothing major. And that’s pretty much the only issue with the game.
It’s not a very long game, but not a very short one either. Don’t know exactly how long it took me (It has only been 8 days, would need to wait 2 more days for hours to show up in profile), but I think it was somewhere around 20 to 30. And while I have explored every area and done pretty much all the side-quests I have come across, I saw total accessories online and I don’t even have over half of them, so there’s apparently many things I am missing.
Loved the gameplay, felt like a TotK lite. Echoes are fun, though if you find some OP echo (there are a few) they can help you blaze through most enemies, but even they have some limitations. Though, you have to go out of the way to find those. Other than fighting, they also help you traverse different areas, and different echoes can help you solve problems in different ways.
There are many “duplicates” though, that is different echoes that do similar things, but this just allows you to use the one you like. There are some echoes I didn’t use much, but my son liked them a lot and used them regularly.
Overall a very good game, though, I haven’t played most of the 2D Zeldas so I can’t stay where it stand with them.
So, just finished the game, one of the rare times where I have finished both what I am playing on PS and on Switch. Now what to start next? I have couple of options, will decide later tonight.
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
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Started playing the Silent Hill 2 remake on Sunday. As a big fan of the original, I think they did a phenomenal job. Combat is harder, but that’s a pretty low bar.
Glad to hear. I am not a survivour horror fan myself, but some of my friends were a bit skeptical after the first trailer.
My partner and I are playing through “Digimon Stories Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memories” in some kind of challange run similar to a Soullink in Pokemon games.
The Digimon Story games are basically just grinding, but sometimes I’m in the mood for that. Although, I prefered the older ones on DS.
Digimon have 7 different stages and many different paths to evolve from their first stage to their last one. Bacially everything can become everything. Each stage starts at level 1 and is stronger than the one before, with certain stat and level requirements to evolve. They can devolve too and that’s where the grinding comes in: There is a special stat called ‘ABI’ that’s raised by d-/evolving. If you need a certain amount of ABI, you will train your digimon, evolve it, devolve it right away and start from level 1 again. Repeat until you have enough.
During older games, you would accumulate power by doing so - you kept a certain percentage of your current stats when devolving. In the Cyber Sleuth games you don’t. Each Greymon e.g. has the same base stats at the same level. ABI only slightly increases a hard cap for permanent stats you can get from a different mechanic. It’s kinda tedious.
Cyber Sleuth has been on my wishlist for a very long time. I like the idea of Digimon, but I am not good with these kind of min-maxing in any game. Can I play the main campaign without any of this? Just playing normally with upgrading my digimons as I see fit? Like we can do in Pokémon?
Disclaimer: I haven’t played any Digimon game, and only couple of Pokémon games. Let’s Go Pikachu and Pokémon Sword.
Yep, there’s both a normal and a hard mode - normal is quite easy. On top of that, you can get most digimon without much trouble, I just happen to like the ones that are difficult to get.
There’s also a farm feature where you can level digimon passively. Due to a bug on the switch version, the ingame clock and therefore the farm continue running on standby if you don’t close the game properly.
Ah cool. Thanks for the info!
Finished Ginka!
Overall a good VN. Ginka was a great character and I loved seeing all the different sides of her, there were some good twists, and even a nice epilogue showing a bit of the character’s lives after the ending.
Finished The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!
While I still prefer more “traditional” Zelda games, this was a blast to play. The developers seem to be experimenting with a middle ground between the old-school games and more open-world entries like BOTW, and I think they did a really good job here.
There’s a few annoyances that could be improved in a sequel, like the lack of good rewards for exploration/puzzles and some clunkiness in the combat, but nothing major.
And since this is a topic a lot of people ask, the performance problems are definitely noticeable and I would have preferred the game to stick to a locked 30FPS, but again it didn’t hurt my enjoyment of the game.
Since I finished Zelda 5min ago I haven’t yet decided what I’ll play next. 😅
Leaning towards towards another VN, in which case Emio: The Smiling Man or Atri: My Dear Moments (link to the Japanese eShop) are the strongest candidates.
Heh, I was same yesterday, made a post soon after finished the game.
I agree with lack of good awards. By the end, I didn’t care about 20 more Rupees, or another monster part. They need to better awards.
Those vn seem good. I will try with steam version on PC.
Whew, Nintendo price mark up a lot.
If you like VNs check my comment history, I play a lot of these and post my opinions on these weekly threads.
I play Pokémon violet.
But the excitement i feel while playing, as on gameboy, or gba, is good.
I feel like the game isn’t so polished.
Twilight Survivors on Android. Not much to say about. It is Vampire Survivors with 3D graphics and a dash mechanic. The characters are slightly more varied but there are way less of them. The only ads I have seen are 100% optional, you have to go out of your way to view them. When you do, you receive currency you can use to buy the paid DLC, which I honestly think is incredibly fair. If you enjoy Survivors-Likes, this one is perfectly fine, but it doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel
Don’t play much on mobile, but that ad system sounds very fair. Just going to download it to support it!
That’s awesome! Normally I wouldn’t talk up a game like this with ads and such, but according to one of their updates, they added them after fans requested it as a way to get the DLC outside of real money. They actually seem to understand and listen. I can support the fuck out of that
That’s nice. I just played it once and the game is fun. Going to keep it around when I am bored and don’t have anything else to do 😀
I’m glad you enjoyed it. It should get me by while I wait on Halls of Torment
I didn’t have much time to play this week, but I’ve been really enjoying The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. I don’t know how it compares to other 2D Zeldas yet, but I’m really liking it so far. I agree on the performance issues, they’re not too major. My only complaint would be there’s a lot of reading on this game. Not that I don’t enjoy reading, but there’s so much story being told by conversations with the characters… It feels like a lot at times. I’ll keep playing on the weekend.
As I mentioned on the other post, I just ordered the Patrick Star Game, so I’ll probably get it some time next week.
Heh, yeah, there can be lot of talking in the start, but I don’t think it’s that much when you are out exploring, and very little when in dungeons.
I wasn’t that interested in Patrick Star Game (never saw SpongeBob as kid, so no nostalgia), but I just watched the trailer and it looks fun. Will see your opinion and then decide if I want to add it to my wishlist or not.
