Still Playing Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout as my primary game. I think I should be in the later half of the story, not sure though. Pretty much just playing this now, so should be able to finish it soon-ish.

One exception though, with all the Donkey Kong drops, I started Donkey Kong Country 2 (NSO SNES) again. And I don’t know what issue I had last time, but this time I was able to clear the first area pretty easily. Died couple of times in last level, but other than that it was pretty simple. I didn’t find all the secrets though. Only 2 DK tokens, though got most of the KONG letters, not sure about other secrets, but I am sure I missed some.

Stopped playing at first level of the second area / world. The lava one. Only started it on impulse and may play it a bit here or there, but will return to it seriously only after finishing Atelier Ryza. I really enjoyed playing it though, hope difficulty won’t spike too much as the game progresses.

What about all of you? What have you been playing?

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Working my way through the Mario and Luigi series on my replay tour before I start Brothership

    Currently playing through Bowsers Inside Story

    • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Heh, cool. I am just about to finish S 4, just 5 or so puzzles remaining, then just Colour and Extra. Everything else is done.

  • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Finished Qualia: The Path of Promise!

    Feels to me like the developer could not quite figure out what they wanted to do with this VN and just tried adding a bit of everything, but the end result is a very average game with nothing really strong or memorable.

    It spends most of its runtime on the romance, but the chemistry between the two leads is not strong enough to carry the game, and while there are some interesting twists and themes those aren’t explored properly.

    There’s one neat feature at least: You can enable two languages at the same time, which can be useful for people learning japanese. I’ve seen VNs before where you can switch between languages with a button, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like this.

    Playing If My Heart Had Wings!

    Resumed this game after Qualia, but didn’t get much progress this week. It’s quite good so far, I really like the way it’s deailing with the theme of disabilities and the overall relaxing slice-of-life feel of the story.

    Playing Under Defeat!

    Current side-game, a classic G-Rev shooter. Really hard, and the heli controls can take a while to get used to, but what a great game. Unfortunately only available in Japan right now, so you either have to get it from the japanese eShop or import the physical version.

      • Phelpssan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        No Vampire Hunter this week?

        Vampire Survivor? No, I ended up taking a break this week.

        imported the physical?

        For this particular game I got the physical version from amazon.co.jp. I’ve been buying a lot from there, because there’s a few interesting games that only get physical releases on Japan/Asia, but also because a lot of Switch games are multi-language and for less popular games it’s often easier or cheaper for me to get them from that site.

        Forgot to mention on the post above but IIRC Under Defeat is getting a western release sometime in 2025, no need to import it unless you’re like me and can’t wait.

        Do you have a Japanese e-shop account

        I also do have an account there. 😀

        It got it because of a VN I was really interested that for some reason is only available in Japan digitally, but I’ve also used it to redeem free codes with extra stuff on some physical games I bought from there.

  • Brownian Motion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    To be honest, whilst I will do my daily ACNH routine, I will be consuming all the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle content I can.

      • Brownian Motion@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        So far it’s been amazing. Its like being in an Indiana movie, and still being in control. Plus you get to beat up baddies! There is also SO MUCH content (and I have only traveled to two locations!). Totally engaging.

        You can expect Indiana dry/wry humor and all. It is all there.

        IMO worth every $. (I’m a PC gamer first, it’s a shame it wont come out on PS5 until next year, not that I have one. It will never come out on Switch, there is no way it could handle it).

        DL from Steam was 100GB+

        • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          That’s great to hear. I am looking forward to it. Not a big fan of first person view in the game, but Fallout won me over when they went from isometric to first person, so going to give it a proper shot too.

          And yeah, it will never come to Switch, but if it’s coming to Series S, it may be able to come to Switch 2, but only time will tell.

          I am very patient gamer though, so one year delay (for PS5) doesn’t mean much to me, I am still playing games from 2015 (just finished 2014 with Metro Redux couple of months back)