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Playing... Picross S5?!

Not exactly the kind of game people would expect me to be playing given my posting history, but I do enjoy those games and often use them as a palate cleanser when a need a break from my usual RPGs/VNs.

Current status: Picross 150/150, Mega Picross 140/150, Color Picross: 10/30, Clip Picross: 0/150, Extra: 0/5.

I won't necessarily wait until I finish this one before starting another game, in particular because I have an extended 4-day holiday which is helping me relax and get my head back in a good state for gaming, but I'll tell you how things went next week.

Prince of Persia, it's mighty fun!

I think I'm approaching the final boss in Narita Boy.

I'm also pretty far in Rygar on the NES on the Switch if that counts? I've never played the game before and I didn't understand the gameplay at first. After reading the instruction booklet it's a lot more fun lol.

I finished Hogwarts legacy, which was a "meh" 6/10 by my taste.

Now I'm playing Dave the Diver and I'm enjoying it a lot, definitely is more than meets the eyes.. and the cinematic videos are great 😅🐠

I seem to have reverted to my historic default of games I regularly play; Smash Ultimate, Mario Kart 8, and a rougelike. In the past, said rougelike was always Dead Cells, since it was essentially the only one in my library, but since mid-2023, I've started seriously using Steam, and through it started playing other rougelikes. Right now, my rougelike of choice is Spiritfall, which mixes platform fighter gameplay with the rougelike structure, which given my historic attachment to Smash and other rougelikes, makes it a game I was pretty much guaranteed to enjoy.

The first two Paper Mario games are a lot of fun. When TTYD is released on Switch that may be the next Switch game I pick up.

Still going through P5 Tactica, on the second Kingdom of four. I do have to say I like how there are things like side quests in the game to help master mechanics that you can apply in the main story missions - makes the game more satisfying when you can do that.

I am deep into a run of Alpha Sapphire. I swear I play games other than Pokemon (mostly newer gen Fire Emblem). XD

Witcher 3 - runs really well and looks amazing, then i go back to Mario Cart for some stress relief

Still playing Nier:Automata, still on Route A. I forgot how much the side quests ask you to run back and forth the same few areas, but knowing what the game is truly about, it actually makes a lot of sense, so I'm okay with it.

I'm halfway through the second world of Mario/Rabbids Sparks of Hope and my first impression is that I preferred the first game in every single way. The battles are no longer rated in any way, so you don't need to try to play all that well, just win and move on. Most of the maps are kinda bland. No weapon upgrades, it's just cosmetics. having two characters fully voice-acted when everyone else is silent is really jarring and it's the first time I turned voice volume to 0% in a game, now I can actually enjoy the comedy more.

But the most jarring thing to me is that it seems like Ubisoft tried to make the Rabbids... cool? Thankfully the volume decrease also gets rid of the snippy one-liners, but why do they speak in the first place? Rabbids say Bwah, nothing else. And why am I picking up pieces of lore about the planets I'm on? It's Mario and Rabbids, I'm here for slapstick, not world-building! I'm not sure where to even begin about Edge...

I'll keep playing it out of curiosity, but I'm really tempted to boot up the first game again afterwards to see if it's really the game or me that changed so much.

I'm playing Octopath Traveler. Had it for absolutely ages but never got around to playing it. It's really good, but it took me a while to get used to the combat.

Palworld. Liking that I can chill and play at my own pace and adjust the grind. Excited to see what all is added down the road.