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It was a busy week, didn't play anything for significant amount of time. Maybe an hour or so for both Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard

What about all of you? What have you been playing?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (5 children)

Finished Trails Through Daybreak II!

JRPGs usually end with an epic struggle and tons of battles, but this game does something different for its final chapter - you solve a few cases, enjoy bonding moments with your party, then go through a short dungeon with only two boss battles to close the last unsolved mystery in the game.

It's very subdued for a finale but I loved it. The last battle was particularly awesome, and the ending had some good emotional moments bringing closure to events from Daybreak 1.

Final battle spoilers


I complained a lot about this game's poor usage of the time travel gimmick, but the way you jump through time mid-battle to the an earlier confrontation with Grendel Zolga, then jump again for a quick rematch with some of Daybreak 1's bosses was really cool.

The boss being able to "break" the turn-based battle system and force you into action combat for a short time was also a neat touch, it gives it a strong sense of power as this is something no enemy did before.


Overall, I'll stick by what I said last week - this one goes on the lower tier of games in this series, but I still had a ton of fun. As a final note, Trails Beyond the Horizon just got announced today, so we're finally catching up to the japanese releases!


Playing Tevi!

Rabi-Ribi was an incredibly pleasant surprise, so I decided to play this "spiritual sucessor" from the same developer.

They clearly had a much bigger budget with this one. Visuals and animations are much more detailed, there's a proper story, plenty of fully-voiced segments including famous japanese VAs, and a more in-depth and customizable combat system.

It's more linear than Rabi-Ribi, but the same applies to pretty much every game in this genre. 😅 The only real complain I have so far is the relatively low number of saving points, I tend to play these games in short bursts and sometimes I have to keep going for longer thay I'd like before I find a proper place to stop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for being so good about using spoiler tags! I saw the words final battle and quickly scrolled away until I remembered whose comment I was reading. Truth be told, I think I’m past having time for an RPG like Trails, but I might watch someone stream it one day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think I’m past having time for an RPG like Trails, but I might watch someone stream it one day.

Probably applies to me as well (my backlog is getting absurd), but I simply can't resist certain series. 😆

This year is going to be rough on my free time, we're getting 3 Trails games (Daybreak 2, Horizon, Sky FC Remake), a Xenoblade and an Atelier.

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