Over the past week I’ve tried the Nintendo mobile Mario/Fire Emblem/Animal Crossing games and they feel transparently predatory and the whole time I’m playing them I’m just wishing I had a 3DS instead to play Awakening or New Leaf or something.
Of the three I only have Animal Crossing still installed but I think that’s mostly because it satisfies my dreams of settling down and getting to focus on just being nice to ppl and doing creative stuff.
i was like mildly but persistently fascinated by the mobile fire emblem game for a really long time and now i occasionally check in to see what characters were added recently and it is eerily reminiscent of facebook stalking an ex to confirm that they’re still on their bullshit
I really think that the Mario Kart one is going to bomb because progression is so closely tied to competing with other people, like, i can’t get enough points to get enough stars to unlock the next cup because the other people are TOO DANG GOOD
It’s very frustrating.
if you need a mobile nintendo game (I don’t recommend needing any mobile games) I’d suggest the cygames partnership gacha Dragalia Lost because cygames are obsessed with making sure no users ever have to spend money by constantly giving absurd amounts of free resources (the opposite of FEH) and making most microtransactions too expensive to be worth the purchase.
the main downside of DL for me is that the characters are so polite to each other that it makes all dialogue exchanges miserable. You would think characters showing emotional intelligence would be a positive but it honestly just makes conversations take three times as long (this also makes my own pursuit of understanding feel Extremely Seen). On the upside the music is very catchy.
Home theme:
Summoning theme:
Greatwyrm boss fight:
And there’s an option to turn off the vocals in the songs if that’s a dealbreaker.
Tower Of Guns is an FPS roguelike with a very small number of guns, randomly-selected throwaway narratives, and okay shooting. Glad I got it on PS+ a while back. One of the loading prompts claims it was made during a three-day game jam, so I gave it a bit more leeway.
Dragon’s Dogma is still kicking my ass but I decided to take a different story mission and I didn’t outright die. Now I’m in a big city and paralyzed by too-much-to-do.
The spiritual sequel to this, Mothergunship, is much better than tower of guns. The key thing is that you get to build your guns from parts that you bring with you or that you find in the levels, and they can be utterly ridiculous. I was obsessed with this for a while, it’s a lot of fun.
That sounds rad, and more in line with what I was hoping for
witcher 2 looks 300% better if you turn bloom off
had to be done. it was right there
lol owned
Beat Monster World 4. There some frustrating bits where i decided to save scum, but overall a very pleasant experience
i picked up timespinner on switch today. it’s a metroidvania w/ nice pixel art & one of the npcs is a tall jacked butch lady. goty
if you overclock the Playstation cpu 240% Legend of Mana runs at 60fps but other stuff also happens, also my computer isn’t fast enough to do this and also runahead 3 frames without dropping frames if you wiggle the controller fast, these scrolling jpeg backgrounds are too much for modern science
Another day off from work, another dive into Dreams.
I’m guessing they must have done a pirate themed game jam or something, given how many pirate levels have popped up.
i love Legend of Mana dearly, but i’ve never actually completed it (i always hit this point where suddenly i no longer know where the game wants me to go to progress). but this summer i think i want to just use a walkthrough and make it finally happen.
anyway, how’s it look in 60fps??
Legend of Mana is amazing for being a game I dearly loved the time I played through it, and then when I tried to again a few years later, I couldn’t summon the interest. Really loved that first time though!
i also love legend of mana
i also really hate the stupid murder mystery quests
it might be the best attempt at combining rpgs and beat em ups though?
You can really slap OOT around once you get the groove of it. The gotta master the stick swirl insta-spin to really wreck shit in that game.
When I played it last I had good time selectively disabling the Z targeting to mess up enemy patterns.
Started playing Falcom’s “Trails in the Sky” and man is it JRPG traditional so far. Granted I only played it long enough to get controls, video modes working and get to the first dungeon. I really like the 3D with 2D characters thing. And yeah I dunno it feels very falcom, everything is fast as fuck, it has separate fast forward modes for walking and combat when you need to be even faster. I just really want a jump button.
Plot wise I hear you should start with 1, so I did. hope I made the right choice.
After a couple disastrous landing attempts in Elite Dangerous where I collided with planet surfaces at high speeds, I didn’t feel very safe continuing my current route with only 18% hull integrity. So I redirected to Sacaqawea Station in a very nervous state and managed to safely get to a repair bay. Also cashed in $33 million credits worth of exploration data, with even more first discoveries than before. Also I found a system discovered by a username that I recognized from a forum I used to frequent over 20 years ago.
I’ve finally left the Inner Orion Spur, the section of the galaxy containing Sol and the current populated “bubble” of civilized space! This marks the half-way point of my journey.
