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
Under Night In-Birth II: [Sys:Celes] - 1-2 at locals. Bracket was stacked, I was going to lose to both of those players either way, but I feel like I choked a lot harder than I should’ve.
Super Mario Party Jamboree - Just for shits and giggles, local attempted to run a bracket for this. Started an hour and a half behind schedule, and apparently this game is even slower than previous Mario Parties already were. Took several hours to finish two games and make top 6, lose the tiebreak to not make finals, and get to go home as my consolation prize. Those two games were pretty wild though, stole game 1 through Chance Time and for game 2 we all held onto Boo Bells for the entire game, loaded guns pointed at each other waiting to see who will fire the first shot.
Skullgirls, Vampire Savior - Tonight’s locals are gonna be a Halloween themed bracket, so I’m getting back on my SG grind and derusting a bit for VSav.
Riichi Mahjong - Walked a friend through some basic lessons via Clubhouse Games. Don’t know how much of it they fully understood just yet though.
Also finally finished that big secret project I’ve had in the works, planning to publish something this weekend~
I had forgotten about Clubhouse Games. Felt too expensive for card games, but didn’t really look into them much.
Good luck with your SG / VSav brackets!