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Before talking about what I played this week, I think I forgot to mention a game I played couple of weeks ago.

After finishing Judgment, and seeing that Dark Souls (next game in my list) isn't on sale yet, I started Bioshock Infinite. I had played the first Bioshock but never got around to playing Infinite.

The visuals felt like late PS3 games, specially the camera and movement, but it didn't feel that jarring, specially after couple of mins of playing it, didn't notice that again during the whole game.

The game was beautiful, the gameplay and shooting was fun. And the story was "Bioshocky". As someone who didn't like the first Bioshock too much (I blame Rapture for that, just not my kind of place), I loved Bishock Infinite.

There are some lore elements that connects it to the first game, so you'll enjoy the background story more if you know that, but you can easily play it without that. Not a very long game too, I think took somewhere between 10-15 hours.

Highly recommended to those who like shooters and haven't played it yet.


Now to this week!

Finally started Dark Souls Remastered have been meaning to play it for the last few months but always end up starting something else.

I have said this about soulslike games before, but the game isn't that tough. You just have to be deliberate about your actions, and can't just button mash through everything. Also, the game doesn't tell you half the things, you have to experiment to figure those things out, and you die, many times, but you also die in other games, I have died many times in Ratchet & Clank and they aren't considered that difficult. Oh and just to be clear, it's by no definition an easy game, but I think the difficulty is over-hyped.

Anyways, have been playing only Dark Souls since I got it, the only place where I got stuck was the Bell Gargoyle boss, died more than a dozen times, then my friend suggested to go to another area first before coming back to boss, so doing that and leveling up, and getting a better weapon / equipment made killing the boss much easier.

Have taken care of pretty much all the surface stuff now and have entered Blightdown. Ended last session when I reached the bottom, got poisoned and died with over 12K souls! Let's hope I can reach it when I play next.


Didn't really play anything else. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Hyrle Warriors: Age of Calamity and Cozy Grove all are on temporary hiatus.


Played a bit of Mutant Mudd Collection, mainly in bite sized times, which are usually reserved for Picross. Each "world" has 4 levels, I think I was in 2-1 before, and have reached 4-4 now. I can only see 5 worlds in the current screen, but no idea how many screens this hub world has.

The disappearing platforms are the most annoying aspect yet, but I think that's only because they removed the limit of 5 mins from each level. I play slowly killing everything, so take more than that sometimes, even when I do clear it before that, it's only because I don't have to worry about any time limit, I doubt I would have cleared them if I had to try to go fast so that I can reach end before time.

Having fun with it. It's pretty good for those small-breaks.


What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I love that game! Although I only did Frederica's ending. It's the morally correct one, I think, excluding the true ending, of course. I wish we had more games in that style, but there's only this and Disgea - which dropped the ball with it's 6 entry. Everything else on Switch is a remaster of some kind.

Anyway, hard more is weird. I've started on hard mode, but eventually turned it down. For some battles, you just retry them and collect EXP until you effectively play on a lower difficulty anyway. There just isn't enough side content to do instead. Curious to see what you think if you decide on trying it.

[–] SauceFlexr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So by the time the 2nd play through is over, you are maxed out in level for the main people you play. So the level grinding you mentioned isn’t really there. Maybe some gold grinding to get further in the skill tree, but that should be limited given my play through count. Unless you really want to get everyone to max level, but that is simple, as doing any move will raise your level by one.

I did the Frederica ending first. It was idealistic. Then Roland’s… which was my least favorite. Then Benedict’s which was good. But each have their own drawbacks, thus, the golden ending. I’m looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

At this point I am stuck on the first level. It’s very difficult, and is apparently one of the hardest missions in the game on hard, new game plus. On normal new game plus, it was still easy. Hopefully I can get through it on hard, but the strategies seem to involve breaking the AI and using Quietus, which I hadn’t needed to do before this. We’ll see if I can make it work.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn't even know there was a New Game option, I never play those and always start fresh instead. However, it does sound interesting in this case!

[–] SauceFlexr@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I really enjoy going the new game plus route for this. Having your whole party available to you with their progress carrying over, having the ability to get the characters in your party that you couldn’t get due to lack of conviction points, seeing your conviction points, seeing your path traveled, having your encampment available from the start, and just experiencing the story from different paths is all the reasons to do it.

It would be difficult to start on hard mode, but I would just grind for the moves and characters I know work. Eredor’s provoke, Frederica’s burning chains, Julio’s TP grant move, etc. Really it would just be an optimized run, which I think is less fun (more repetitive) than continuing to level up characters and experiencing their full kits. But to each their own.