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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (1st March)

GrowingWings

  • Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin : This weird hybrid of side scrolling action RPG and farming simulator has really hooked me lately, even though I find the dungeon controls are not really up to today's standards with weird input lags and a generally wonky responsiveness. Also, man, is growing rice hard!
  • Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth: Just the usual weekend ritual of playing an ace attorney game. Probably gonna last us a few good years with the pace we are going at it.

As for Nontendo games, finally got to Code Veronica X in our RE campaign. Definitely ups the ante from the other classic entries in every way possible and I personally find that a good if sometimes frustrating thing.

Re: Reaction: Nintendo Pins Hopes On Familiar Fun With Switch 2

GrowingWings

I know a lot of people wanted something unique and quirky again since this is Nintendo, but I for one am super happy.
The Switch is the best console ever made and it is not even close.
But its age has definitely started showing with the power of its hardware.
Solution? Just make a more powerful one!
And that's it. Really no reason to fix what's not broken in the first place.
This is exactly what I have hoped would happen.

I'd also like to point out that this is what the other console companies have been doing for decades now. When was the last time Sony or MS really innovated on their home consoles? They just put stronger hardware in, pack it in some different plastic houses and in MS's case come up with some funky new name.
If they can get away with it, why not Nintendo?

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (11th January)

GrowingWings

  • Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin: Had the craving for a nice farming game and actually found the recommendation here on NL. Was not disappointed! A great, chill game to play before bed.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2: I have reached the 130 hours mark and the game is finally starting to get good... kinda? Still way too much unnecessary grind for my tastes though.
  • Sonic Generations: Completed the game in like 6 hours, trying to squeeze out some more content by going for all red stars and chaos before moving on to the main attraction, that is, Shadow Generations.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (16th November)

GrowingWings

Still trudging through Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
After 60 hours invested, unfortunately I do have to say it is a huge downgrade from XC:DE.
The lack of any and all possible QoL can be somewhat understood as it actually predates the DE of the first title, but I also dislike many of the overall design decisions that happened. Like all the mistakes of XC1 have been magnified while little to nothing has been improved. Also not a gacha fan, so they didn't really win me over with that either.
As for the story and characters, I'll have to judge after I have finished the game.

Another game I'm playing about 15 minutes every weekend is Ace Attorney Investigations, which is another letdown after previous awesome entries in the same series. This is especially true to the character models in the dialogues. Whatever happened to the artists who worked on the previous remakes?!

Overall however, I am having fun with both titles and will definitely beat them both, even if they will take a lot of time.

Re: Poll: So, Will You Be Getting Xenoblade Chronicles X For Switch?

GrowingWings

Probably eventually since it seems to be hyped to heaven and back, but for now I don't really feel the need to.
While Xenogears and XC1: DE are among two of my favourite games ever, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is already shaping to be a major letdown for me (playing through that entry rn), so my expectations of the Xenoblade series have diminished a lot.

Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Fans Are Once Again Discussing The Game's 'Censorship'

GrowingWings

The reason I think the boobslider removal is stupid because it just reinforces this whole unnecessary fetishization head space around certain body parts that should just be perfectly normal and accepted by now imho.

I say that as having no chips in the game, I hate all self insert games equally. One of the main reasons I play JRPGs instead of western ones is actually because I get fleshed out characters instead of having to make one that will act dumb and out of place all the time.

The fact that I have to make a custom character is a way bigger turnoff for me than any customization option removal could be.

Re: Poll: Sonic X Shadow Generations Is Out This Week, Will You Be Getting It?

GrowingWings

I'm very on the fence about this. The Shadow episode looks really good but the original was pretty disappointing to me in terms of difficulty, making epic boss fights trivial, thus actually taking away from the nostalgia factor instead of letting me relive the memories. I'll really have to wait for a review, especially if there are difficulty levels or if the Shadow episode is actually any challenge.

Re: Yakuza Kiwami Brings The Dragon Of Dojima To Switch For The First Time

GrowingWings

@nessisonett I guess you can play it like I usually play Resident Evil games, playing both the originals and the remakes in release order, but I'm sure 90% of the players wouldn't bother with that. (Even though Mark Hamill is awesome as Majima in the original)

So yeah, the devs certainly put new players in an awkward situation where they will either miss all the awesome references in 0 or will miss all the Nishiki backstory in Kiwami and all the Majima backstory in Kiwami 2.

Re: New Unicorn Overlord Survey Gauges Interest In Sequel

GrowingWings

@steruphan
Which is weird since some of their old games, like GrimGrimoire actually ended on a cliffhanger and even one of the galery entries pointed to a sequel. I guess that game didn't do well enough.

Anyways, I will preorder whatever Vanillaware puts out next in a heartbeat, it doesn't even need to be a UO sequel.
(I still think Aegis Rim was their best game, to be honest.)

Re: Talking Point: What Game Do You Wish You Could Forget?

GrowingWings

@KateGray
I guess I can consider myself lucky, I have already replayed the whole AA series twice as I completely forgot them for the first time, and now thinking about it, I could probably go for a 3rd, completely blind playthrough as I forgot them again.

My choice would definitely be 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. Its story compares to nothing I have ever played before and the plot twists are on a whole other level.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (September 16th)

GrowingWings

Switch: Finishing up Bioshock II Remastered (already in Minerva's Den), then hopefully starting up Bayonetta. I have already beaten it on PS3, but I want to show it to my fiancée and also refresh my memory before starting up the sequels.

PC: Some semihistorical strategy games, Europa Universalis I and Civilization VI. I will probably keep playing these two for a very long time.

Android: Dungeons of Dreadrock. It's a cute and funny little puzzle game, but the swipe controls are not at all it unfortunately.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (April 22nd)

GrowingWings

@DemonKow
Ahh, I am never rushing to finish games, quite the opposite actually - it is not rare for me to play for double the average game time because I stop to smell the roses so much. Not planning on getting all the Koroks though, that really seems like more pain than worth. Another side mission I will skip is the super long gauntlet for the upgraded Master Sword for much the same reason as the Korok collecting.

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