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What are you playing this weekend? 2024-07-06 (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by slimerancher@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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Still playing Dragon Age: Inquisition, I am about 50 hours in, and I can see at least 20-30 hours more, maybe even 50, who knows. Still enjoying the game, so no complaints there.

Cleared the Goron Dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, got lost on my way to Zora domain. Found the way, but haven't reached it yet. Controls aren't much of an issue anymore, and didn't need any help until clearing the Goron Dungeon, though had to look up a bit because I got lost after that.

When looking up where to go next, I found out there are tons of collectables that I missed, got couple of them, but then thought I don't want to use guide to find these things, at least not in my first playthrough, and not before I have finished most of the game. So, left those, and did some exploring my own, and now getting ready to go to Zora domain.

During the week, when looking for a game to play in small bursts, resumed Swords and Soldiers, it's a 2D strategy / tower defense game. I started playing it a long time ago, but only did 15 out of 40 levels, so played some of the older levels to get the feel of it again and enjoying it now. I am at level 35 now. There are 4 campaigns, and each has 10 levels, so I am basically halfway through the last Campaign. Got a sudden difficulty spike so stuck for a bit, but plan to finally finish it now.

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

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[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Playing Senren * Banka!

Slow progress, still going through the second chapter of the "common" route.

Playing Unicorn Overlord!

I've been bouncing from game to game the past few weeks trying to find something that catches my attention and helps me relax because my usual RPGs and VNs haven't been working, I'm having a hard time focusing on them due to real life problems.

I think this one is the best candidate so far. Battles are usually short so it's good game to play in quick bursts (and you can save mid-battle in case you hit a longer one), there's plenty of story but it's fairly standard fantasy stuff so you don't need to pay too much attention.

It's a bit grindy, which could be a problem on other moments but works well right now, just going around doing short missions and unlocking more characters and sections of the map has been really fun so far.

A couple things to comment: First, as usual for a Vanillaware game it looks beautiful and it's generally well polished. I think a few menus are a bit clunky, but nothing you can't get used to after a couple hours playing.

Second, the game has an absurd amount of customization, so much that it's almost overwhelming:

  • You can have up to 10 active battle parties
  • Each battle party can have up to 5 characters, so you can have up to 50(!) characters active at once
  • There's a ridiculous amount of classes (more than 60 IIRC), all with different strenghts and weaknesses
  • Each character has multiple equipment slots, and those not only can provide status boots but also add new skills
  • You can configure the skills and its usage for each character, similar to the Gambit system in Final Fantasy 12

As you can see above, that's a LOT of stuff to fiddle with. So far I've been only doing basic stuff, balancing the parties and keeping everyone minimally equipped and it's been working, but I can see myself at some point later in the game just sitting down and spending a whole afternoon tuning everything to the max.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unicorn Overlord is on my wishlist, but have been constantly hearing about grinding in the game, which I am not a fan of, so not sure if I'll like it or not.

[–] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure if this will make sense for people who haven't played the game, but I when I say "grindy" it's less "keep repeating the same stages to gain XP/Money" and more in the lines of "there's a lot of small optional stages that look similar and you're not required to do... but probably want to because it unlocks extra portions of the map and makes life easier".

These shorts stages are somewhat repetitive so it's annoying if you try to play them at all at once, but they are optional and their compact nature make them a good option as a break between longer stages or when you only have time for a short gaming session.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, makes sense. Thanks for the info!