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
I finished the desert dungeon in Echoes of Wisdom. I liked it! I thought the water dungeon was kinda boring, so I was a little worried. The list of echoes is getting a little full though. I wish I could blacklist some of them so they don’t clog up the list.
Most of my time was spent starting Lightning Returns. It says a lot about Final Fantasy XIII’s lack of popularity that I haven’t even heard about the third game in the trilogy being very reminiscent of Majora’s Mask of all games! I really should have heard about that…
The biggest difference is that you don’t live through a 3-day cycle multiple times but a 13-day cycle ONCE. You get one chance and if you fail, you lose. I have read that you don’t need nearly that much time for the main quest, but I’m a completionist at heart, so I’m still constantly on edge. They tell you very early on that you can’t save everyone, but so far I like the game enough to plan for a New Game Plus with a 100% guide to make the game eat those words! With some side quests being very specific about their time, this will probably be a lot like that time I used a guide for Final Fantasy 9 to race to the final dungeon in under 12 hours to get Excalibur II while staying on level 1 and getting all missables to create the perfect starting point for a 100% completion (which admittedly ended as soon as I got to that point because that was the most interesting part of it).
I also like that the combat is its own beast and not a rehash of the past, like XIII-2 was. It still feels very challenging though. Unless an enemy is exceptionally weak, you really have to pay attention.
I’m also very close to finishing Wild Arms. I know now why that nostalgia is not the reason why I didn’t enjoy it as much as I remember. The game expects you to explore. Nobody really tells you where to go and what to do and when I play a game for the first time, that’s perfectly fine. I don’t explore a game the second time around, though. At that point, I prefer having a brief guide nearby to make sure I don’t miss anything and so I came into this game with false expectations, mostly because I really didn’t remember nearly as much about it as I thought.
The desire to start a new game of Civ V haunts me every day. I said once a month! Just one more week of patience…
The huge list of echoes that you have to scroll through in a single line looking for the right one is pretty annoying. It was same kind of problem when you wanted to attach something to an arrow in TotK.
Near the end, I switched to pressing + and choosing echo from there. In most cases it was easier to do that then go through one long line.
Never played Lighting Returns or Majora’s Mask. Though I don’t like time limits, so I probably won’t have enjoyed it much.
Hehe. Good luck waiting one more week for Civ V! Which expansions are you using btw? Or just playing the base game?
I have everything for Civ V. Old Civs tend to go on sale for 90% and less, so there was no reason to pick and choose.