Had a pretty busy week, didn’t really play much.

Finished Dust: An Elysian Tale, it was somewhere around 60% at the end. The game isn’t great, at least from today’s standard, but it’s still not a bad game.

Also, while it has metroidvania elements, you don’t really need to go back for anything, other than collectibles. So, not a metroidvania, as far as I am concerned. On plus side, not much backtracking!

Started Batman: Arkham Knight, it has been on my backlog for a long time, played it for an hour or so, but couldn’t get into it, so dropped it.

Biggest issue I believe is that I was in a mood for a beat 'em up-ish game, and I remembered Batman’s combat from Arkham Asylum and City, but I guess I had forgotten that otherwise it’s a pretty slow game. You have to hide, and slowly and methodically take down enemies, then all the detective parts with problem solving.

Another issue was the Batmobile, I couldn’t get hang of it. In one of the starting mission you have to get it on some rooftop to power up something, my car fell down 4-5 times. It was so frustrating. Not to mention the Riddler challenge.

Didn’t get to play Trails in the Sky: SC or Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout this week. I wasn’t expecting it, but had a slight hope to finish them before Mario + Luigi Brothership release, but that doesn’t seem even a remote possibility now. Which means I won’t be getting Mario + Luigi on launch.

That’s all from me, what about all of you? What have you been playing

  • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    27 days ago

    Finished Harvestella!

    I’ll stand by what I said last week - this is a very flawed game with major questionable design decisions and technical problems, but it also has a ton of good things including great story, worldbuilding and OST. Even the “farming” part also ended up being way more fun than I expected.

    It’s hard to recommend this game because not everyone will be able to tolerate those flaws, but there is a very shiny gem hiding behing those problems.

    Playing My Girlfriend is a Mermaid!?!

    I liked The Fox Awaits Me and its sequels quite a bit, so I decided to track down a copy of this older VN from the same developer.

    So far it’s kinda mid. :/ The main draw for me in VNs are the characters and dialogue, but the main heroine is way too shy and quiet, constantly speaking in brief sentences, and despite the MC being prone to long monologues he somehow managed to stay uninteresting so far.

    But I’m still early in the game, so let’s hope it improves.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      27 days ago

      I think I watched some K-drama with similar title as My Girlfriend is a Mermaid, though now that I think about it, I could be mixing different titles together.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    27 days ago

    I finished Inscryption last week, and have already posted a few times in various threads about how great it was.

    I highly recommend it, and it’s free on Gamepass, if you’re a subscriber there.

    But now I need a new suggestion. I was thinking about doing some rounds of the endless mode because I didn’t get to check that out yet, but I’d rather jump into something new. I like to progress quickly, because I don’t have time to grind, and I love wacky surprises like Inscryption had, IYKYK.

    I’ll keep checking this to see what everyone else is up to!

    Good luck, have fun, everyone!

    EDIT: Just realized this was the Nintendo group, so sorry about the Gamepass mention. I’m on Xbox and Switch, so I follow both.

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      27 days ago

      In our weekly thread, we don’t care about the platform. It’s for talking about anything and everything we are playing.

      I didn’t mention them in my post this week, but I have previously mentioned that I was playing Dust: An Elysian Tale on PS5 and that I got it as PS+ monthly game, also playing Tales in the Sky: SC on PC.

  • picandocodigo@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    What? The weekend’s already here? Where did the week go? I need to look at my backlog and choose some games!

    I remember Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition for Wii U was amazing. One of the few games that did really good use of the Game Pad, I had a lot of fun with it. I was tempted to get the collection for Switch, I assume it looks way better than on Wii U (which wasn’t really an issue for me). But I don’t know if I’d play all three of them from scratch…