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Haru Okumura
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Still on Yakuza Like a Dragon. Been doing the Sotenbori Battle Arena and Yokohama Underground before moving with the plot.
Playing Harvestella now and I'm enjoying it. Definitely not a farming/life sim if anyone is going into it looking for that though.
I thought my Pokemon itch was satisfied, but nope! I started a Pokemon Alpha Sapphire Wonderlocke since I've never beat a Wonderlocke challenge on those games before.
Also still playing Genshin Impact. : D
Also still playing Genshin Impact. : D
I picked The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt back up after putting it down for almost three years! It's curing my burn out from open world games. The combat is fun, the world feels like it's worth exploring, and the story is keeping me engaged. I love how every sidequest so far has an interesting story and lore to go with it. It makes each one feel worth playing even if they're completely optional.
The second game I'm playing is Code:Realize Future Blessings. This series deserves way more love. The writing, translation, art, and music are consistently fantastic. I rushed through the first game a bit since I wanted to see what happened next, so I want to take my time with this one.
Chaos;Head Noah is another visual novel I've spent a lot of time on recently. The protagonist is thoroughly unlikable, but the narrative itself is quite strong. It's still leagues better than the snooze-fest that is Steins;Gate though.
Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are my latest obsession. I love nearly every second I spend on these games. They're definitely too advanced for someone new to the genre, but if you're familiar with JRPGs I highly recommend them.
The last game I'm focused on at the moment is Trails From Zero! I've been eagerly awaiting this long overdue English release for quite a while. I love that Falcolm worked with the game's fan translators for this port. Companies like Nintendo would never do that. The game is your standard Trails fare. Tons of characters, fleshed out NPCs, infectious music, turn based combat, and worthwhile sidequests. I don't know if it'll dethrone Trails of Cold Steel 3 and 4 as my favorite games in the series, but we'll see.
The second game I'm playing is Code:Realize Future Blessings. This series deserves way more love. The writing, translation, art, and music are consistently fantastic. I rushed through the first game a bit since I wanted to see what happened next, so I want to take my time with this one.
Chaos;Head Noah is another visual novel I've spent a lot of time on recently. The protagonist is thoroughly unlikable, but the narrative itself is quite strong. It's still leagues better than the snooze-fest that is Steins;Gate though.
Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 are my latest obsession. I love nearly every second I spend on these games. They're definitely too advanced for someone new to the genre, but if you're familiar with JRPGs I highly recommend them.
The last game I'm focused on at the moment is Trails From Zero! I've been eagerly awaiting this long overdue English release for quite a while. I love that Falcolm worked with the game's fan translators for this port. Companies like Nintendo would never do that. The game is your standard Trails fare. Tons of characters, fleshed out NPCs, infectious music, turn based combat, and worthwhile sidequests. I don't know if it'll dethrone Trails of Cold Steel 3 and 4 as my favorite games in the series, but we'll see.
Fullmetalwwant
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Took me more than 70 hours but I managed to get the true ending for Persona 5 Royal and that was such a ride of a love game I played. I played the original game and I loved it then and loved Royal for adding a lot of new things.
Currently now, I've decided to go back and play some Resident Evil 7
Currently now, I've decided to go back and play some Resident Evil 7
nyx~
~killutora~
After letting it sit and collect dust for 6 months I finally had the time to start Horizon Forbidden West, and I'm loving it just as much as the first game! I'm also still playing Genshin Impact daily and occasionally Sky CotL.
LuchaSloth
Sloth
Vampire Survivors on Xbox Game Pass.
So, sooooo good. (Honestly the type of game that has no right to be so good, because of how simple it is).
I played for 6 hours today (two sittings) and it didn't even feel like it. That's pretty bad. Lol
So, sooooo good. (Honestly the type of game that has no right to be so good, because of how simple it is).
I played for 6 hours today (two sittings) and it didn't even feel like it. That's pretty bad. Lol
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Currently playing Ooblets because it got a physical release for the Switch. I think I played Early Access on PC, but not sure. I was pleasently surprised by new(?) hair colors and hair styles. Now my character matches my ACNH one!
It's very cute and quirky, but I don't know if it has much substance. I guess I'll find out.
It's very cute and quirky, but I don't know if it has much substance. I guess I'll find out.
Pokemon Sword. Determined to complete my Pokedex before I allow myself to buy Pokemon Scarlet. I'm having fun with it. This will be my first time ever completeing a Pokedex and I've been playing since Fire red/ Leaf green came out
Violet Witch
☽Stay Wild Moon Child☾
After buying an Xbox Series S last week I'm finally playing Rise of the Tomb Raider (this game series was basically my childhood).
Millysaurusrexjr
mariah carey is here
Pretty much the only game I've been playing lately is FFXIV. Took me a long while to get in to it but last month I started REALLY getting in to it, playing way too long every day, so now I'm playing a lot less. I'm not even that far in to the main story quest!! There's just too much to do.
I started Dark Souls Remastered and wow they’re right about it being hard. It’s forcing me to break my habit of doing an all out offensive while playing action games. You really have to play defensive if you want to get anywhere.
LuchaSloth
Sloth
I want to get into Sims 4 since it's on Game Pass...but the Xbox controls are..."iffy" to say the least.
Funny thing is...I do have Sims 4 on my PC. (What can I say...I'm strange). Lol
Funny thing is...I do have Sims 4 on my PC. (What can I say...I'm strange). Lol
After 10 years since I last played the games, I've finally returned to Halo with the Master Chief Collection.
I used to be so damn hype around Halo back in the day, it was the one series I was REALLY good at, the only mulitplayer game I've ever sank a significant amount of time into (probably because I was surprisingly good at it, heard that glorious "Kilimanjaro" from the announcer always made me giggle) and the first series after Pokemon that really got me morbidly obsessed with the lore. Halo 4 came out and killed that because...Well, I just didn't think it was very good at all. If that was the direction they were going in, I was no longer interested in it...And moved onto Monster Hunter as my new obsession.
Currently played through 1, 2 and 3, returning with heroic difficulty (and I've still got it *fist pump*. Legendary was always tedious and crap...Not doing that again) and moved onto the game that killed it all, Halo 4 and...Well, it's still nowhere near as good as what came before it, it's alright. Still a bloody good looking game, which I thought so back in the day too but coming off of Halo 3 there is just a ridiculous amount of difference in visuals really highlighting how much they managed to squeeze out of that generations hardware towards the end of its life span (granted, I recall it being on 2 discs).
Many of my issues still remain.
- Halo doesn't need a run button, it ain't CoD.
- Too many of the guns feel like the same thing. Other than one or two notable examples like the needler or energy sword, it all just feels like "here's the human assault rifle", "here's the covenant assault rifle", here's the "promethean assault rifle". It all just feels like the same few guns with a different skin, as opposed to previous games where everything felt unique. I would go out of my way for the Covenant Carbine but here, I'll just pick up whatever the 'faction' equivalent is because there's not really any difference.
- Vehicles feel worse to use.
- Armour abilities are pretty naff.
- Drones and brutes are gone, written out because of gameplay conflicts...But still there narratively, so, what? Simultaneously despite removing stuff, it feels like 343 didn't have enough faith in their own creations and had to bring the elites back as an enemy. The elites are iconic, I get it, but I bet most Halo fans who haven't touched the series in years won't remember that elites are only enemies for about half of Halo 2 and not at all in Halo 3. They're THAT iconic for the series that I forgot they weren't actually enemies for most and all of Halo 2 and 3 at all.
But it's alright. I'm not hating my time with it this time around. I'm appreciating that yea, the promethean designs are pretty cool. The narrative doesn't feel ham fisted to keep Master Chief in and the gunplay is actually still solid. I recall them adding ironsights in this one but they clearly didn't, I'm happy I was wrong as Halo doesn't need ironsights, good ol' DOOM style hip fire is part of why I love it.
Needless to say, after a decade away from this series that I fell out of love with, I'm looking forward to getting Halo 4 and Reach out of the way (probably won't touch ODST. Never liked it even back then) so that I can move onto Guardians and Infinite for some Halo action I haven't seen before....I'm even kind of looking forward to the multiplayer and I'm not really a multiplayer guy these days.
Is Halo my mid life crisis? Cheaper than a sports car I 'spose.
I used to be so damn hype around Halo back in the day, it was the one series I was REALLY good at, the only mulitplayer game I've ever sank a significant amount of time into (probably because I was surprisingly good at it, heard that glorious "Kilimanjaro" from the announcer always made me giggle) and the first series after Pokemon that really got me morbidly obsessed with the lore. Halo 4 came out and killed that because...Well, I just didn't think it was very good at all. If that was the direction they were going in, I was no longer interested in it...And moved onto Monster Hunter as my new obsession.
Currently played through 1, 2 and 3, returning with heroic difficulty (and I've still got it *fist pump*. Legendary was always tedious and crap...Not doing that again) and moved onto the game that killed it all, Halo 4 and...Well, it's still nowhere near as good as what came before it, it's alright. Still a bloody good looking game, which I thought so back in the day too but coming off of Halo 3 there is just a ridiculous amount of difference in visuals really highlighting how much they managed to squeeze out of that generations hardware towards the end of its life span (granted, I recall it being on 2 discs).
Many of my issues still remain.
- Halo doesn't need a run button, it ain't CoD.
- Too many of the guns feel like the same thing. Other than one or two notable examples like the needler or energy sword, it all just feels like "here's the human assault rifle", "here's the covenant assault rifle", here's the "promethean assault rifle". It all just feels like the same few guns with a different skin, as opposed to previous games where everything felt unique. I would go out of my way for the Covenant Carbine but here, I'll just pick up whatever the 'faction' equivalent is because there's not really any difference.
- Vehicles feel worse to use.
- Armour abilities are pretty naff.
- Drones and brutes are gone, written out because of gameplay conflicts...But still there narratively, so, what? Simultaneously despite removing stuff, it feels like 343 didn't have enough faith in their own creations and had to bring the elites back as an enemy. The elites are iconic, I get it, but I bet most Halo fans who haven't touched the series in years won't remember that elites are only enemies for about half of Halo 2 and not at all in Halo 3. They're THAT iconic for the series that I forgot they weren't actually enemies for most and all of Halo 2 and 3 at all.
But it's alright. I'm not hating my time with it this time around. I'm appreciating that yea, the promethean designs are pretty cool. The narrative doesn't feel ham fisted to keep Master Chief in and the gunplay is actually still solid. I recall them adding ironsights in this one but they clearly didn't, I'm happy I was wrong as Halo doesn't need ironsights, good ol' DOOM style hip fire is part of why I love it.
Needless to say, after a decade away from this series that I fell out of love with, I'm looking forward to getting Halo 4 and Reach out of the way (probably won't touch ODST. Never liked it even back then) so that I can move onto Guardians and Infinite for some Halo action I haven't seen before....I'm even kind of looking forward to the multiplayer and I'm not really a multiplayer guy these days.
Is Halo my mid life crisis? Cheaper than a sports car I 'spose.
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