Jet Set Radio. Having so much fun once I got used to how floaty it can be.
I’m playing the VR version of Myst. Also recently played the The Room VR. I don’t generally play VR games (partly because they don’t seem appealing to me, and partly because I can get nauseous surprisingly fast), but I really liked these. Looking forward to Riven next.
Been emulating Fire Emblem on GBA recently. I’m a recent fan of the series, started with Three Houses, so going back and playing the older ones has been on my to-do list for awhile now. Really enjoying it so far!
I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.
Still just Animal Crossing on the Switch! If it ain’t broke…
I just finished Strange Horticulture a few days ago. It was really fun! Not too long as well. It looks like a shop sim, but it’s a puzzle game.
After that I started Two Point Hospital. I used to play Theme Hospital a lot in my youth so this hits all the right spots.
Both were recently free on Epic.
My wife, who’s a nurse at our local hospital, loves Two Point Hospital. It’s obviously horribly inaccurate but that’s the fun of it for her. I enjoyed it too but not as much as her.
Picked up the original Hollow Knight on sale a little while back. With the all the buzz around Silksong I finally booted it up, having a blast so far!
My exact experience!
Enjoy! It’s a great game. I’ve been cheating on this community and playing Silksong, it’s a great sequel. It’s one of the rare times I’d recommend buying a game when it’s still new. But definitely play Hollow Knight first, it’s such a great game.
Petition for Silksong to be considered an honorary patient gamer game, given I waited seven years to play it.
Yeah I’ve been playing Silksong too. Bouncing between that at a replay of Assassin’s Creed Origins whenever I fail on a platforming section too many times.
Sun Haven on Switch, it finally got an update to make it playable after 7 months and it’s actually quite fun when you can play it properly.
Finally jumped into No Man’s Sky.
I’ve had this game for less than a week and I’ve Jack Sparrow’ed my way into an A class freighter and i found a planet with glow orbs laying on the ground by the dozen. So i’ve got this crazy freighter and millions in credits but hardly any raw resources to build or upgrade anything.
I feel the description of this community fits me to a tee.
I’m playing Silksong.
Typically this community is for games that are more than a year old (i.e. you were patient to buy it) but I think Silksong is an exception and I’ll allow it in this community. I’m also playing it so I can’t judge too hard.
Also Silksong released at $20, which is a price point people are often waiting for older games to hit.
Regardless of semantics, Silksong is the only game I’ve played since it released.
That previous game I played through was Portal 2. I barely ever buy games on release.
Just that it was kinda funny this one time I’m playing a recent released game.
Portal 2 is awesome.
I make these posts every week, I hope to see you comment on a future post too!
no doubt
Coral Island! It’s been out a while but they had a major update recently. My farming/crafting life sim stretch continues.
I finished Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time and had a good time with it. Short, old-school feeling chill action game. Probably a must-play if you’re a fan of the show, otherwise keep an eye out for Epic giveaways or just pirate it if you think it looks cool. It’s not that long, probably 8 hours or so with some cool looking levels and the combat gets pretty fun once you start unlocking skills.
Being unable to resist my recent hyperfixation I went back and started playing through Ninja Gaiden 2 Black with the White mod installed. Still playing on Warrior to have an apples-to-apples comparison. 6 Chapters in now and it feels like a halfway point between vanilla NG2B and OG NG2 so far. Apart from a handful of fights actually being harder in this version it mostly is easier and less dense in fights. There are still places that are empty where there should be fights, I still turn the corner sometimes expecting a fight I remember and being met with silence instead. Having said that, not every omission is negative - the jellyfish bombs in Venice for example I didn’t really miss.
Also - and I can’t understate this - the game is fucking beautiful. Not only is it visually stunning with the lighting and the blood physics and textures and raytracing and 120 FPS HDR - it is also impressive from an art direction standpoint. It feels just like the original, only sharper. It looks like what the original looked like in my head when I thought back on it. Sometimes remasters or remakes lose the original identity, but here they absolutely nailed it.
So far I’m having a blast with it, even though it doesn’t quite deliver that “playable cocaine” vibe that the original was constantly feeding you.
Heard a song from Wuthering Waves, and it caught me be surprise with how good it was, so I figured I’d give the game a try.
It feels a lot like Genshin Impact, but the world and story feel better, is not Mihoyo, and the voice acting includes the main character. For a F2P experience, it’s been fun going through the initial story. To its detriment, however, there’s three different gacha currencies. Definitely not worth bothering with beyond freebie pulls. Overall, I’d recommend it, but only the free stuff.
Still making my way through Skies of Arcadia Legends. Just arrived at Yafutoma but the game is such a slog sometimes with the random encounters :(
Also chilled out and played a little bit of Beat Hazard.
