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Rayman 2. Loved this game as a kid.

I’m planning on buying “Is This Seat Taken?” For Switch. It’s a cute little puzzle game that my fifth-grader has been asking for. Winter Break from school is a great time for this sort of purchase.

I might also get the Capcom version of Picross.

Slow progress on Xenoblade X. But that's fine, I still boot up the game to get my 300 material tickets per day to lessen the grind for the level 60 Skells. I didn't think the jump from level 50 to 60 was going to be that great, but just looking at the raw defense of the default armor tells a different story. I'm level 59 right now, soon everything will die...

That being said, I'm past what was the ending of the Wii U version. I forgot exactly what it was, but I'm mad all over again that they thought it was a good idea to end the game there. You finally get some answers, but then they change the questions! Curious to see where this goes now.

Still playing Metroid Prime 4. I'll withhold any comments until I'm done, just to be sure I've seen the whole picture. As it stands, it's en route to become my least favorite Metroid game, barring the NES and GameBoy games on account of their age, and I don't want to say that too lightly. Let's see where else this goes first.

Title Update 4 for Monster Hunter Wilds is here and the Switch Axe got some unexpected buffs. Being able to dodge-cancel the charge of the Full Release Slash is huge! They added Gogmazios as the game's first Elder Dragon. (Editor's Note: Its definitely not the game's first Elder Dragon) It starts out as a normal fight, has an interesting interlude and then goes to shit in its third phase. Packing away your weapon and repeatedly shooting it with what is basically a slingshot is just not fun, especially when the ground keeps exploding while you have to look up!

But I'm super motivated to play again regardless, because they added a way to boost lower rank armor to endgame levels. My set has been stagnant for more than half a year and now I can finally work on that again!

Finished Dragon Quest IX. The gameplay has been fun but I didn't really pay much attention to the story/dialogues.

Started playing Dragon Quest IV. I will see if I enjoy it as much.

@slimerancher@lemmy.world congrats on finishing Dark Souls!

For me the last weekend was crazy busy and slowed down gaming progress, and also meant no time for Super Robot Taisen Y again. 🙁

Finished Islets!

Really fun and cute game. It's on the short side, the in-game clock unfortunately counts the time I left it on "sleep" so it's hard to give accurate numbers but probably took me 8h or so.

One surprise was the difficulty, from the visuals I was expecting an easy game but most bosses took me a few tries to defeat and I died quite a few times while transversing the map. It's still a chill game though, you don't lose any progress when you die, save games are plentiful, and you are constantly opening shortcuts so getting back to the spot you died is usually quick.

I also like the upgrade system, besides the mandatory story upgrades you're constantly finding smaller upgrades that give you three options each time, so you have a lot of flexibility on what to prioritize. The fact that these are very abundant (looks like there's 60 of these overall) helps keep a constant sense of progression.

Playing Crypt Custodian!

Another metroidvania from the same developer as Islets, but with a top-down perspective reminiscent of old-school Zelda games. The game stars a cat who ends up having to work as a janitor in the afterlife, using his trusty broom to beat down monsters and clean up dirt everywhere.

The mood is more melancholic than Islets, but still on the "cute" side. It has an equipment system similar to Hollow Knight with "upgrade slots" where each equipment uses a certain number of them, but slots are very plentyful which gives you more options on how to assign things

Still fairly early in this one, just defeated the second boss.

Playing Witch on the Holy Night!

Both parts of Chapter 5 were amazing battles, really impressed by how much they got me hyped. Felt like the "mid-game climax", and also got the main POV characters (Aoko and Shizuki) working together at last.

Just started Chapter 6 and it looks like this one will be a more chill chapter showing how things settled after that battle.

Replaying Kirby and the forgotten land. The dlc will be new for me to play. But I’m unsure if I will begin my game this weekend, I might wait till Christmas is around the corner so it feels better to play through the game. My family is too busy to hangout after we exchange gifts so I need to do something fun on that day

Finished up Harvestella.

Overall, I really like the game. The farming and combat are both somewhat simple and the story does start out generic. However, then it speedruns a complete JRPG story within a single chapter and then throws another 5 chapters at you. The characters are fun, the world is interesting and I felt engaged throughout. Even did some more farming after I already bought everything until I hit the money cap at 999,999.

Finished Pokemon Legends Arceus!

My initial impression stands. The first area was some of thr best Pokemon I ever played. Afterwards the entire thing kind of fell apart. Too many repeated Pokemon per area; most things didn't even reach half my level and fhe story never hooked me. The final fight against the hidden antagonist, I guess, was somewhat challanging, but I don't think the battle system is all that fun. Sometimes, you defeat a Pokemon and the next one just gets 4 turns in before you move again (even using my fast moves!). But still, I really enjoyed that initial catching of Pokemon and think it's woth trying.

Just yesterday, I started Shin Megami Tensei V Vengence.

I love the original SMT V, it's one of my favorite Switch games. Having played some more SMT games since then, it does show some cracks, but I'm still having a great time and enjoy the new stuff. It's probably best coming of Persona and I still prefer it over SMT 3 Nocturne, which I think is somewhat uncommon. (Although that's mostly due to Nocturnes save system. On the highest difficulty, not being able to save for sometimes hours at a time really does suck when you could die from a single random encouter at any time. At full health. Without getting a turn in.)