Hello Everyone!
Another week without me playing too much.
- Playing and enjoying New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. The game is super fun, but can be a bit tough sometimes, or maybe I am just not good at platformers. I am at 2nd boss, would try to clear it and the 3rd area.
- Finished Carto, loved the game. Some of the puzzles require you to think a bit, and there’s one puzzle near the end that I couldn’t figure out. Saw a YouTube video, and cleared the puzzle, but still can’t figure out the logic behind it. Other than that, there are some secrets that I didn’t get, I may go for them, not sure yet.
- Back to Monster Hunter: World, cleared couple of missions. Going to keep at it.
Now that I have finished Carto, going to start another smaller game, not sure which one yet, have a few lined up, will go through my list and decide.
What about you guys? What have you been playing? And what are you planning to play over the weekend?
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Regarding Super Mario Bros Ultimate, If you think it’s hard in the 2nd world wait till you get down the way. Especially the hidden levels and the star levels. But the game is very fun regardless.
This weekend I am off for vacation and left the Switch home so I am not playing anything
Not hard in general, but there was a certain portion in world 2 where I lost about 4 lives.
Vacations are great, stay away from screens, and have lots of fun!
I just picked up Mario + Rabbids. Just got to world 2 after beating Rabbid Donkey Kong and boy was that a difficulty spike. I’ve always been a big fan of Fire Emblem, and this is very fun with all the movement options and such.
Does anyone know how the sequel holds up? Obviously not a masterclass in terms of story, but very very fun gameplay.
That game was so much fun. Haven’t played the sequel yet.
I would compare it more with X-Com than Fire Emblem. Technically, they are very similar, but in my mind, they are very different games.
As for the sequel, I haven’t played it myself yet, but have heard great things about it. I loved the first one, and from what I have seen second one improves on it a lot.
Ah I never played XCOM. But from what I’ve seen they do look really similar.
If you like Mario+Rabbids, and don’t mind playing umm… a “rugged” version of it, without Mario characters, and some base-building mechanics included, check out XCom 2. They also a released a Marvel: Midnight Suns, which I think is more approachable than XCom 2, though I haven’t played that yet.
Building my Eevee team in Scarlett ;)
Catch’em all!
I’m falling deep into the Pikmin nostalgia hole. Bought Pikmin 1 and 2, played the crap out of them. Beat 3 two days before Pikmin 4 dropped, now my girlfriend and eye are casually taking turns (‘2 player’s mode’) working out way through that. I’m usually the type to like difficult and challenging games, but something about the chillness of this new one has got me in a good way.
Wow, nice! I am glad you are enjoying Pikmin! I should show it to my wife too, it looks like a kind of game she might enjoy.
3 is the best for an active 2 player experience (at least as far as the story goes). The multiplayer battle modes are good in both
Okay, will show her that. Thanks for the info!
Still side questing/shrine hunting in TotK. Didn’t play as much as usual this week, it’s been a bit busy preparing for a vacation I’m taking next week, so I probably won’t play much next week either. Any tips on how to beat lynels?
Pikmin 4. Had to get it after playing the demo. Fun and relaxing and very well suited for quick sessions… then I saw Octopath Traveller 2 was on sale and now I’m 10 hours deep into that…
Ah, didn’t know Octopath Traveller 2 was on sale, maybe that’s why so many people are playing it this week. How are you enjoying it?
I’m liking it overall. The story being 8 separate ones, one for each character, makes it so they are somewhat limited in their depth. It could also do with some QoL stuff compared to like Bravely Default 2 (what’s up with those weird jrpg titles?)… auto-battles would’ve been much appreciated with how grind-y it gets. The atmosphere and graphics are great though. It’s like how I remember rpg’s from the 90s to be
Haha, JRPG titles are often like that.
Glad you are enjoying it.
Still on Trails into Reverie.
Long game is long, but I got some good progress this week. Reached the final chaper, did the whole intial section and I’m now free to explore Crossbell while preparing for what I assume is the final dungeon.
However, there’s a ton of extra content that I want to clear before moving on, so I’m now rotating between:
- Going to all locations marked as “NEW” on Crossbell for the extra bosses/events
- Playing the remaining Daydreams
- Doing runs of Stratum 4 of the Reverie Corridor to unlock the missing Daydreams/Minigames/Bonus Characters
- Occasionally playing minigames - Pom Pom Party is addictive, but besides that there’s some minigames that include additional story bits like the one about the Tyrfing S
But I think I’ll finally be able to beat the game during this next week. Which would be good because I got two VNs coming from Play-Asia and looking at the tracking information they should arrive soon.
Edit: Also just found out there’s a free book with the backstories of two of the new characters. It’s available in-game and also on the official website. I just finished converting it to MOBI so I can read this more confortably on the Kindle, which honestly sounds like it was worth the effort since it turned out to be even longer than I expected, almost 100 pages!
Husband plays Tears of the Kingdom while I’m at work, farming resoures and fighting. I take over in the evenings to do the questing and puzzles that he doesn’t like.
Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes. Fun game, good port, and harder than I remembered.
Also putting more time in TOTK, Diablo 4, and WoW.
Wow, so many games. I didn’t know about Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes, but looked up some details on launch, and now planning to play it someday.
How far along are you in TotK and Diablo 4? Finished the campaign in Diablo? And who are you playing as?
Also, how’s the WoW community these days? I was under the impression that it’s pretty much over now.
CoH is one of those games that isn’t quite a “recommended to everyone” game but it’s one that I think many will really like. It’s also only $15 right now, so not a huge investment if you don’t like it. Kinda weird there haven’t been many similar games made (I was aware of like 2).
Completed the Diablo 4 campaign. Loved the story (lots of good stories in the side quests too) and the ending cinematic was one of the best they’ve ever done. First play through was a chain lightning Sorcerer and now trying a werewolf Druid on Season 1. Have also played Necromancer and a little bit of Barbarian.
WoW’s community is kinda toxic sometimes in group stuff. Population wise, it still has plenty of people. The latest expansion, Dragonflight, is one of their best expansions. Having a lot of fun with it.
Still playing Smite but it crashes on modes that aren’t assault
Is that a known issue? Or just something with your game?
Maybe you can try contacting the devs, maybe there’s some workaround in the works.
I sent a feedback message because I’m on switch and this didn’t happen as often on pc
I just got The Guardian Legend in NES and I’m excited to try beating it on original hardware. Holy moley I love this game.
On Game Boy I just started playing Fortified Zone, because I always thought it looked really good and also because the gameplay reminds me of The Guardian Legend. XD
I’ve been playing Pikmin 4, it’s chill and fun. I probably won’t get back to TotK until I’ve finished Pikmin 4. I might play some Sonic here and there too, and I’ve been wanting to get back into Smash Ultimate for some time now.
I received Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons physical yesterday. I only booted it up to download the update and have a quick 5/10 minutes play, so it’s ready for the weekend. I’m looking forward to playing that one with my girlfriend!
How good are you in Smash Ultimate? If you are somewhere between not good to bad, we can have a few challenges sometimes 😀
Double Dragon Gaiden looks pretty good. I am glad the beat 'em ups are coming back. It’s one of my favourite genre.
I’m probably as good as in Mario Kart. I think I’m good when I play with friends, but then I play online and get my ass handed to me 😆 I haven’t paid for Nintendo Online for about two years now, but I could get back to it for some Smash and Mario Kart online!
I love beat 'em ups too. I have a decent beat 'em up collection for Switch now! Both classic collections and modern ones.
Haha, I am pretty much same. Good enough with friends and family, really bad globally.
As for online, I don’t play much online either (maybe once or twice a year), so don’t get it specifically for me. But if you do ever get it, we can try couple of matches sometimes.
@picandocodigo What are your favorite Beat ‘em Ups…I played Streets of Rage 4, have River City Girl, but I’m trying to find games that last for more than 3-4 hours.
These are some of my favourites off the top of my head:
- Fight N’ Rage, probably the one I’ve played the most on my Switch after SoR4.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, amazing game. I’d recommend the Cowabunga Collection as well, the best titles in the collection are beat 'em ups.
- Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
- Capcom Beat 'em Up Bundle has some amazing games. I just wish there was a legal way to play Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
I played River City Girls 1 and got the sequel but haven’t gotten much into it yet.
Nice list!
I have played TMNT and Scott Pilgrim from the list. Haven’t gotten the Capcom Beat’em Up Bundle yet, but played so much of it in olden days.
Fight’N Rage is already on my wishlist (my wish list is so long I don’t even remember half the games on it. Searched “Fight” in it, and found it already there), will check it soon.
If you prefer physical games, there’s a new version of Fight N’ Rage coming out soon which will hopefully be easier to get than the Limited Run Games one: https://www.play-asia.com/fightn-rage/13/70g31v
Don’t care about physical games. Digital FTW!
Probably random games on the SNES console or maybe getting back into ToK
I read it as “getting back to Tik Tok”.
Have you finished Tears of the Kingdom?
Not even close to finishing
Haha, good. Enjoy!
Just picked up Moonlighter yesterday and already deeply addicted to the thrill of running my store
Moonlighter is a fun game, but for some reason I wasn’t able to get into it. I don’t like roguelikes, maybe that’s why.
The game-play loop is fun though, glad you are enjoying it.
BG3 early access, want to get familiar with the mechanics before next week’s release.
