I finally decided to dedicate my time to Three Houses. I like so much of this game but at the same time I just can’t wait for it to end. I have 5 chapters left, which means I only have to run around that monastery 5 more times! Great story, great characters, good (but maybe slightly bloated) systems, but repetitive battles, maps, and enemies. I’m on a mission now and hope to have this done in a couple weeks to check it off the backlog.
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Very curious to see how you feel about the end and learn which path you chose : )
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I went Golden Deer. I’m sure I’ll never get around to a new game + but I really want to know what happened with Dimitri…
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I went Crimson Flower. Too hard to resist Edelgard!
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Just finished Inscryption. Excellent, though less inviting of repeat plays than most Slay-the-Spire-alikes.
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I’ve been mostly playing a Switch game called Rise Eterna lately. It’s essentially an old-school Fire Emblem type of game without the permadeath and a slightly more interesting skill tree. The dialogue is better than I expected from a game of this caliber too. I bought it on a sale. It’s fine, but I don’t know why I’m playing this when the most recent Mercenaries Saga games are better and I’m not far along with them.
Finished another switch game, Under Leaves, with my son last week as well. It’s a sort of find the hidden objects game with beautiful nature/animal settings (he’s 6). Not sure what to try with him next on the platform…
Heard of Dark Deity? It is also a decent “Fire Emblem of old” clone, out on Steam and on Switch…you need a bit of patience on the switch with the unusually long load times but aside from that a nice “old-school” FE
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I finished ani I enjoyed the story all the way through, more so for the characters than the actual plot, though that was fine as well. I could have gone off the rails after the second to last battle, which took a very Final Fantasy-esque turn down the cyberpunk rabbit hole, but that straightened back out for the final battle.
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I agree with this–the characters were what made it interesting for me all the way through. I keep wanting to do another playthrough adding the DLC and going a different path, but it’s such a huge time commitment…
Agreed. It was half-finished in my backlog for so long it is a miracle I even finished. I want to try a different path but the odds of that happening are nil.
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Same here, especially with FE: Engage releasing in January. Though from a plot POV that game appears to be more on-rails and traditional.
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Definitely does not seem like an Obsidian game.
I’ve got a wall with Marvel Snap and think I’m probably done. I think the game is clever but I don’t feel the incentive to play any more and even though there are plenty of cards to try out and deck themes to build, the game is feeling very static. It’s still definitely worth a try for any who may be interested; it just didn’t have the legs for me.
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DEFCON, in which a three-way nuclear war left Los Angeles unscathed and the east coast an irradiated wasteland. Truly the darkest timeline.
If anyone wants a game, let me know, I only just restarted playing this and it’s atrocious fun.
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Omg I LOVE that game. I’m in for one - is it async?
Real time only! Goes up to six players.
Was afraid of that. Hopefully we can get one going even with the time difference? I’m EST
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Absolutely!
Are you still playing this? I finished it tonight, and while I don’t think it will quite dethrone Disco Elysium as my favorite piece of interactive fiction of all time, it’s close. Such a wonderful little thing, and I’m grateful for it being on Game Pass. Was the perfect way to pass a few nights with my girlfriend working night shifts. I think if you have any interest at all in medieval/renaissance (Reformation-era, really) europe, you basically have to play it.
The song that plays over the final “scene” is I think the most beautiful thing I have ever heard in a game.
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