What are you currently playing? V4

Well I finally got my Switch back from my brother and he erased my data. So i'm slowly grinding my way back in "CTR: Nitro Fueled", and "Pokemon Sword". Maybe i'll play some "Super Mario 3D All Stars", "Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom", "Sonic Forces", and "Super Monkey Ball: Banana Mania" as well.

It's more funny than annoying really.
 
Been playing SMT V Vengeance for the past few days, just finished the new law route. Vengeance's plot is leagues ahead of vanilla SMT V's, every main character actually feels like a character rather than a poor rehash of Nocturne's storytelling. V might actually be one of my favourite MegaTen games now lol.

Feeling quite burnt out, so the other routes will have to wait
 
I finished playing Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn for the first time. I played the remastered version, but with the classic graphics, and it was quite fun for an old RTS game, though the campaign was way overtuned on the casual difficulty. The AI cheated with resources in the campaign, and I had to resort to cheating in resources as well via a mod to keep up and not get worn out in a war of attrition, though I didn't use any cheats that the AI itself didn't do.

Of the two factions, I prefer GDI over Nod. Mammoth Tanks are an awesome lategame unit and Grenadiers are a great early-game infantry unit, and I had trouble exploiting Nod's unique units to their fullest potential, especially their Flamethrowers which usually ended up doing more damage to me than my enemies.
 
I finished Pokemon Legends Arceus last night. To my liking at least. I didn't get true 100% but I completed the Hisui Pokedex and caught the isekai-ing jerkass... I mean Arceus. That's good enough for me honestly. I've seen lots of claims of this being the 'best Pokemon game ever'. For me though... I'm sorry I can't sit here and state that. I really can't. What I will say though... is this is probably the most fun and most addicting Pokemon game I've played in a very long time. But best Pokemon game ever? Sorry but for me I can't really state or claim that. This is the very first (and probably only unless Z-A is similar) Pokemon game I actually caught lots of Pokemon in and completed a Pokedex. I get that's part of the 'story' obviously and part of the game and how you get to the 'true' end (Arceus) and all that... but that changes nothing. I've never done something like this in a Pokemon game. Ever. That says something. It shocked me with how many and much death references were in this game too. Probably the darkest official Pokemon game since Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness. Love that. The action stuff was super fun too. Frustrating at times and Dark Souls-like at times (bad thing btw) but perseverance always wins out in the end. The parts that I felt were a little too frustrating was the Avalugg boss, the Genies (Tornadus, etc.) and the Arceus boss. But it didn't ruin my overall experience. Overall... yeah everyone was right about this game. I just can't say it's the best Pokemon game ever made. The game that's stood out the most that I've played this year? Definitely. Though that's not saying much considering everything I've played this year though. Still though. We'll see how long that lasts though with some certain games coming up in my backlog.

Next up for me... I have to KILL CHAOS. lol. It's the meme game? I guess? Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. I get it's a Dark Souls-like game. That's why I'm playing it on Easy and all idiotic comments and complaints about that will be ignored. You play it your way and I'll play it mine.
 
I've been enjoying Final Fantasy XIV too much because its newest expansion Dawntrail came out about a couple weeks ago, and I went from playing through the story, to levelling my crafting and gathering classes to max level, to trying to max level one combat class of each role (Dark Knight, Red Mage, Bard, Reaper, White Mage in that order for anyone curious) and enjoying all the end-game grinding that comes with all of that. I'm gonna be able to play the new raids just barely before I'll be away for a couple weeks, and the whole feeling of being around for that Day 1 experience has been fantastic.

I've been enjoying playing a bit of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes as well, since I was able to play the first game with keyboard and mouse controls I thought I'd do the same for the sequel, though I'm honestly unsure if I'll finish it, just because I've already finished the game and know I love it. There are other games I've been meaning to play like Dark Souls (which was gifted to me by a lovely soul), Gyakuten Live (which I've been meaning to play for months now), VVVVVV, and The Messenger. I think I'm out of my gaming slump now, haha.
 
I'm trying hard mode on Dragon Quest 11. Or as it's called 'Super Strong Monsters'. It's currently pummeling me.

But I'm endlessly entertained by the selfie feature.

[PokeCommunity.com] What are you currently playing? V4
 
Not technically currently playing it, and I usually don't like to give up video games, but I am seriously DONE with Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes.

68 hours of my life wasted with this slog-fest of a Kickstarter-funded mess that somehow sells at full price.

How did this game piss me off, let me count the ways:
  • Random battles where fleeing has a HIGH chance of failing, and of course when that happens, up to six enemies have their way with you with no way to defend or counter.
  • Random minigames that a few recruitable characters are locked behind, that you have to grind through multiple rounds to unlock. If I wanted to play 40+ rounds of "We have Beyblade at home," actual Beyblade exists. If I wanted to play a card game over and over, I'd book the next flight to Las Vegas. If I wanted to play a driving game where the vehicles handle like large, 18-wheel trucks, I'd play a game that actually features said 18-wheel trucks.
  • The game boasts over 100 characters. What you'll find out later is that a good number of these can't be added to your main battling party. Some of them take up a "support slot" but don't actually enter combat, and some park their fat ass in your little castle town and just run a shop there or something.
  • Maybe 10 or 15 of the characters I'd met so far were ones that I liked. Even fewer of these were party-member characters. But there are bizarre wolf people, shark people, kangaroo people, tree leaf people, and God knows what other randos are there later on in the game. And some characters are unbelieveably annoying. Including the main protagonist, which I'll get to in a moment.
  • Random parts of the game where the party splits up, or you have to control a bunch of other characters who you haven't seen for half the game. Worse is when there's a large number of "required" characters, including new ones and ones you haven't touched since you dropped them for better characters you met along the way, so you can't keep your "power" team of six intact. Then there's the tedious process of unequpping characters you have to remove from your party, re-equipping the required characters, and doing it all in reverse when the game finally decides to let you use the characters you want again.
  • There are "front line" and "back line" rows for your characters, but "back line" is almost meaningless when 85% of the enemies can directly attack the back line anyway.
  • Really restrictive limits for bag storage, especially in the early going.
  • Magic is near pointless. In general, even magic-focused characters don't do enough damage with their spells to make them worth the (surprisingly high) MP cost and casting delay. A similar problem exists with the combo moves, as the characters do more damage if they just used their normal attacks separately.
  • I can deal with random generic male JRPG protagonists. I can't deal with it when they suddenly go into "10-year-old shonen progatonist" mode for the mini-games like fake Beyblade or the weird shark land boat "racing" (actually more of a time-attack.) Seriously, why is the LEAD GENERAL of a resistance army so disinterested during actual story events, but then he's screeching, "LET'S DO THIS! I'M GONNA BE THE BEST!" during frivolous side activities/time wasters?
  • Clunky menus. Why is there a 5-10 second pause as you toggle through sub-menus with the trigger buttons? Loading screens also take an unsually large amount of time - sometimes so long I wondered if the game had crashed.
The tipping point? I had just lost one of my main party members because of "story reasons" that also saddled me with two required characters from 30 hours earlier in the game that I didn't particularly care about. Then in the next dungeon area, there was a dragon boss who has a super move that does over 450HP of damage, which is more than anyone in my party has.

So here's this massive difficulty spike when I don't have one of my best characters. At this point, there isn't a good spot for grinding for levels, and I don't want to grind anyway without all my main party members present.

So yeah, I'm done with this game and its dumb design decisions. If I ever go back, it'll be a new save file where I actually remember I have to hardcore level grind before I lose that key party member. I can't really continue with this save file since I essentially softlocked myself.

But damn, for right now, I just need a break from this thing. I haven't been this frustrated with a game since Pokemon Soul Silver, and even Soul Silver wasn't nearly as bad as this. Yes, somehow even Pokemon Shield was less of a hassle.

3/10. I guess a few of the characters have nice designs, and the game looks pretty when scenery isn't randomly cutting in and out, but that doesn't make up for the rest of this steaming pile. An exercise in tedium, quantity over quality, and jack of all trades, master of none.

On a more positive note, I'm quite enjoying the White Album dating sim and enjoying my trips through Montana in American Truck Simulator..

Wow, this post somehow got very long, lol.
 
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I asked my bf what I should play on my Switch during my vacation and he answered with Super Mario World, so I'm playing it solo for the first time (though I've beaten it with him years ago). I also had the realization that I've never finished the original Super Mario Bros, so I finally knocked that off as well as a second finish of Mega Man 7 yesterday.
 
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