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MAaaaaaaaaaarioooo ;)

SO and I started a new farm on Stardew Valley so we’ll most likely be playing that all weekend

I checked in on the Gorons and explored all over Death Mountain in TOTK. Gonna take a break before heading down to see what’s going on in Kakariko Village.

Planning on playing something new to me like checks notes Assassin’s Creed 2. 😛

Ive never played any game in the series but heard a random podcaster talk about his appreciation of the series recently (in spite of his lackluster feelings about AC Mirage). It got me excited to give the series a try. Never really new how well-researched they were, but it seems like they do a pretty great job recreating the worlds from the different time periods. Renaissance Florence has been fun to jump around in anyway.

As a patient gamer, I'm focused on Spirit Farer. I was lost wandering the sea for a little while there, after setting the game down and coming back to it, but I just found a bit I had been missing and seem to be on my way again.

...I already 100%ed Mario Wonder. It only took a little over 2 days. So I guess I'll have to find something else to play...

Got all the shrines (both surface and sky) in TotK and am finally on the last content. Should finish it within the next few days, hopefully this weekend. Apparently there were some missions in the Depths that should be main story missions because Josha won't help you advance in the main story until these missions are done, but they're labeled side missions so I put them off. Annoying. I just want to fight the final boss!

I've been playing some of the old snes and game boy games that you get with NSO

Ι have been playing super Mario wonder and I have to say it's one of the funest games I've ever played. But I am now playing splatoon 3 as a splatfest is coming around.

Definitely Splatoon. Supporting Big Man this Splatfest!

Ideally, I need to play some F-ZERO 99 and try to unlock Fire Field and White Land II, but that isn't going to happen any time soon.

I had a good attempt yesterday at trying to get to Fire Field though, don't think it helps that the people I'm going against have more experience (I'm an A+ Blue Falcon player at level 31 I believe).

Really wanna buy Dave the Diver, but still need to get myself together and finish Tears of the Kingdom

not on my switch but almost definitely celeste, i want to unlock the c sides as fast as possible and on the switch maybe some persona 5 or totk i dunno

Alan Wake 2.

Just started, can’t really judge, but so far so good.

I finally finished Pikmin 4 with 99% completion. I know exactly the 1% I'm missing, but I'm not sure when/if I'll ever go back and finish that. The ending felt quite like a chore, which was a shame.

I am definitely playing more Mario Wonder this weekend and maybe try out Sonic Superstars 1 player mode since I've only played co-op so far.

Big post this time, since I'm combining updates from the last two weeks and I've been getting good progress - had to take two 16h trips last week which gave me a lot of use of my Switch.

Finished Anonymous;Code!

A sci-fi visual novel with great presentation and interesting themes. It's fairly short, fast-paced and action-packed, making this a good starting point for players players new to this genre.

However, it lacks some of the emotional depth that makes the games in this series shine. There's very little slice-of-life content which helps the pacing, but at the same time it makes the characters feel underdeveloped - even the protagonists suffer from that, in particular when compared to protagonists from older games in this series like Takumi from Chaos;Head or Okabe from Steins;Game.

But despite these flaws it's still an excellent VN that I can easily recommend to others.

Finished Master Detective Archives: Rain Code!

It's very clear from the start that this a game from the same people who did the Danganronpa series. The designs use a similar style, the cast is very colorful and unique, and it's a dark mystery story revolving around murder investigations. But it does change things enough to stand on its own and not be just "Danganronpa 4".

In this game you play an amnesiac member of the World Detective Agency (WDO) - an organization of super-powered detectives - which after a bumpy train ride arrives at Kanai Ward - an isolated region under control of a corporation where there's been constant rain for many years, and is tasked to work with other detectives in finding out the secrets of this region.

My favorite thing about this this game is the overall "mood" of Kanai Ward. The constant darkness and rain, tall buildings with neon lights, all this combined with the excellent OST does a really great job in creating the oppressive feeling of a dystopian city under corporate rule.

The first half of each case is an investigative segment where you talk to people and collect clues, followed by something called "Mystery Labyrinth" - a surreal dungeon created from the mystery itself that the MC is able to access thanks to a supernatural entity called Shinigami that aids him. There's several minigames involved in exploring this labyrinth, the main one being the "Reasoning Death Match", a RPG battle-like segment where you have do dodge the enemies attacks until you can find the right statement to "counter". I found it a lot more fun than the class trials from Danganronpa, and while the first dungeon is kinda bland, with you spending a lot of time running through a corridor, they keep changing and improving the formula for the subsequent dungeons making them way more interesting to explore.

Overall I had a ton of fun with this game and I'm hoping to see we'll see more of this series in the future.

Started Witch on the Holy Night!

AKA "Mahoutsukai no Yoru" or "Mahoyo". I believe this is the first VN from Nasu Kinoko (Tsukihime, Fate Series) to get an official english release.

So far I'm impressed. This is another VN with exceptional presentation, but while A;C shined on the technical aspects, with animated characters and cool interface details, this one just keeps throwing you a non-stop stream of beautiful artwork.

I've only started it so I can't comment much on the story, but I'm already hooked thanks the protagonist - Aoko is the type of strong, confident and sarcastic female lead that I always enjoy reading. I'll try to comment more about the plot of this game next week, assuming I don't get stuck playing Mario Wonder - I got home yesterday from my trip to find my physical copy waiting for me.

I was going to save Mario Wonder for in between Baten Kaitos 1 and 2 but I'm weak. It's now my B-game in place of Katamari, I'm sorry King of all Cosmos.

I'm in the endgame of Baten Kaitos now. Which means the big grind is cpming up to finish the collection and do all the SP Combos, which I always neglect because, like many things in the game, they are just so weirdly useless. Especially for how hard they can be to pull off naturally.

I'm through a big chunk of Beyond Good and Evil now, too. I'm not in as much love anymore and that's thanks to all the stealth sections. Though the fact that the camera controls on the Steam version just don't like controllers is the biggest contributor to that.
Edit: BG&E is beaten. The end really brought everything back to what I liked in the beginning! Now I'll join the others in waiting for the sequel. It'll be out soon, right? .........right?