Never heard of it, looked it up and apparently it just came out on the 14th. That’s not even a full week till wednesday.

It’s been about 138h, but I actually finished Witcher 3 + all DLCs this week. I completed every single quest I came across, apart from the two ‘Collect all Gwent cards’ ones. It’s been quite a ride! I’d recommend the game for it’s characters, story telling and moral dilemmas. The gameplay was good too, although even on death march, it was quite easy - of course I was rich and somewhat overleveled from having done everything, so take that with a grain of salt. I finished at lvl 51 with the final quest being marked as lvl 49. Despite other claims, the Switch port was mostly good. Although, halfway through Blood and Wine, about 125h in, the game started to lag in fights with multiple opponents and never stopped doing so. I don’t know what happened, even the big bandit camps didn’t lag much before that.

Anyways, this weekend I’m going to start another run - this time doing a sign build! Last time I was focused on alchemy and basically only used Quen. There are so many gameplay options I never tried much and - nah, just kidding. I’m playing some Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, actually my first entry in the series, as a sort of palate cleanser and then grab a JRPG from my backlog.

Sunbreak? Yes. Not only did my playtime at least double with the DLC, the game is also really easy before that point. Monster Hunter has three difficulty rankings for quests: Low Rank, High Rank and Master Rank - the last one being the DLC. You get new monsters - inlcuding armor sets, a whole new post game, new upgrade mechanics, new maps…

Yep and its probably gonna stay that way. You can apparently still see differences in voting behaviour, happiness and life expectancy between both sides of the Roman Limes wall.

I can attest to many of the other games mentioned, but I haven’t seen Radiant Historia Perfect Chronolgy mentioned yet. It’s my favorite game on the 3DS. It does feature time travel as a mechanic and has unique battle mechanics.

If you’re up for SRPGs too (S meaning strategy), I wholeheartedly recommend Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 1 + 2. The first one is overall a bit better.

To mix it up - I just finished Witcher 3 (Hearts of Stone)! It’s been the best content in the game so far.

Now, I’m playing Witcher 3 (Blood and Wine). Of course, I got to the new map and immediately started collecting all side quests there.

I keep repeating myself like a broken record, but I’m still on Witcher 3!

I’ve made a lost of progress since last time, completing the remaining main story starting from one of the first main quests in Skellige. Apparently it does go by quite fast if you’ve done literally every side quest available to that point.

This week I’ll get into Heart of Stone. I’ve done the frog prince fight already and I gotta say: It’s been such a massive improvement in terms of boss fights, you start to wonder why they have been so bland before.

Also, once again after doing every quest I found, it was kinda funny to fully upgrade the Runewright out of pocket - I’ve heard people complain about that one.

The ending of Future Redeemed links the games to:

As for future games, I think they confirmed moving away from the combat formula, which implies moving away from the Klaus story. But it could be something new set in world as shown at the end of XB 3.

Anyways, still on Witcher 3. It’s a never ending game, but I didn’t play much at all these past to weeks. I did continue the main story, but only by 1 or 2 quests. I just got the mask from Yen in Skellige.

This weekend, I’ve got a lot of time so there will be much more progress, I think

I admit I’m not big on gwent and especially not horse racing. However, I really enjoy learning about different creatures, their lore and how to dispose of them. The game is great at introducing new ones every few quests. There are some great moral questions in there, too!

But at the end of the day, I just like long RPGs. The feeling of getting lost in a vast world is one of my favorite things in games. Tweaking a build over months, slowly diving into more and more mechanics. I don’t play much else, honestly, and only one at a time.

To be fair, that’s 70h over the course of 2 months already. And I’ve still got a big chunk of the main story and 2 DLCs in front on me. Sadly, life’s been quite busy.

Future Redeemed is one of my favorite experiences in recent times, after loving every title before that. I hope you enjoy it just as much! I’m always itching to replay all 3 games + their DLCs.

Anyways, I’m still on Witcher 3. Currently about 70h in and the main story just sent me to Skellige. After I’ve heard the story will soon pick up its pace, I decided to do a lot of side-questing. That was some 20h ago and now I’ve done almost every quest I could find in Velen, Novigrad and Skellige - excluding a few level 30+ ones and some I can’t do right now. I’m guessing it will be another month or two to finish, DLCs included. Just on time for Xenoblade X!

Dunno, to my parents all consoles did look like cardboard boxes in the shop. What did clue them in, however, was the big number written behind the name.

Still on my first Witcher 3 run on Switch.

Everything from 3 times a day to once every 3 days is normal. It depends on how much you eat, how much of it your body can absorb, your fiber intake and some genetic variance too.

Your intestines aren’t a conveyor belt, things don’t constantly move. There are multiple muscles acting as a valve between different sections. Based on the factors above your body decides when to push stuff to the next section including the exit.

Still on Witcher 3, just finished the Bloody Baron arc which has been great! Looking forward to more.

Probably won’t play anything else anytine soon, the game is massive.

Monolith is pretty much the only reason I’ve already decided on getting their next console - it would be strange for Nintendo to not want them. It may be more niche over here, but JRPGs are the (one of the?) biggest genre in Japan.

So, I’ve started the Witcher 3 last week and will continue playing. I just arrived on the second map - Velen or something like that.

It’s certainly not the generational masterpiece everyone made it out to be. In fact it is really janky. Luckily, it’s just the kind of jank I was raised on and enjoy - games like Gothic and Risen.

My two biggest gripes are combat and dialogues. Combat just doesn’t feel good, in fact I never played Witcher 3 until now because the combat in Witcher 2 was that bad. Luckily, the open world structure lends itself more to the Witcher power fantasy of optimizing combat out of the game by over-prepping (mind you, I’ve played both games on the hardest difficulty). As for dialogues, what’s there is actually good. It’s just that almost nobody talkes to you.

In conclusion, it’s fun. There are no deal breakers, yet judging by the first area, it does not surpass its inspiration. However, I’m expecting things to get much more interesting later on since everyone was going on about the quality of the side quests. I did everything and so far they were quite basic.

Performance problems aside (menus take ages to load in), I like the game quite a bit. There is just so much stuff: 120 characters, two additional fighting systems for special events, a card game, a bayblade minigame, a castle/town upgrade system and probably much more - I’m not even halfway done. The combat is quite auto-attack heavy and therefore simple, but keep in mind I’m olaying with double MP cost for all abilities (one of the additional challanges to tweak your own difficulty, like the ones in Dragon Quest XI).

As for the EXP thing, there are a few things that happened to align for me. EXP works like this:

• Each level requires 1000 EXP.
• You get EXP based on level difference between you and your enemies. There is a maximum value of EXP a single enemy can give to usually prevent what happened to me - I think it’s about 1000 for most enemies.
• If you get say 3000 EXP, that’s 3 level ups. Remaining EXP does not get adjusted upon each level up. That’s great since you can recruit 120 characters and if you miss someone at first, it does not take long to catch up if you want to use them.
• You fight with 6 charaters. EXP is split between them, meaning you get more EXP per character if only e.g. 2 of them survive.

Now, what actually happened to me is: I fought a unique mini-boss encounter with 5 enemies. I was overall underleveled and got wiped twice. The third time however, I won with only my weakest character still standing - he was 8 level below my team average. He got about 1200 EXP for the level difference * 5 enemies * 6, since only he survived, resulting in about 35 level ups.

Eiyuden Chronicles

Despite playing on the highest difficulty with all extra challanges, it’s quite chill right now. Due to some quirks in how EXP works, one of my characters shot up 35 levels in a single fight. While he is lvl 55, everyone else - including my enemies - are around lvl 28.

Become a bad programmer and be thankful you won’t have to further maintain your code instead!