Played some Judgment, have reached Chapter 8.
I am getting a bit tired of the chase and following parts, they were fun in the beginning, but pretty much every side story end up with chasing or following someone. The stories themselves are still interesting (most of the times, but when you have to run after the same "hat" 3rd time, that too starts to become a bit annoying) so continuing with those for now.
The Keihin Gang has also become a bit of an annoyance, I have already beaten most of their leaders, but after every little while the threat level increase to 100% with tons of enemies attacking wherever I go.
Even with these, the game is still fun, at worst I'll just skip the side content and stick to the main story.
Started Fire Emblem: Three Houses on Switch 2.
I first started it a while back, but got anxiety with all the relationship stuff that I am messing it up and won't be able to recruit anyone, so dropped the game. Started it again now, and am now following the guide for the monastery part. Though now I am realising there was no need for it. You can only have 10 units on one map, even with adjucants, you can't have more than 15 units even on the biggest map, with around 12-13 on normal one, so there was no point to get worries about it.
I have reached Chapter 6, and loving the gameplay. I have sided with Black Eagles, will probably replay to play through all house stories.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
Full Metal Schoolgirl for Switch 2. Work’s been frustrating so the premise sounded intriguing
Heh, the game give very mixed vibes to me, but it looks like something that can be mindless fun. Would love to hear how you liked the game, once you have played it some more.
It’s definitely a mixed vibes game :)
I think it’s decent as a roguelite shooter. But it’s a bit slow and you have to spend some time playing to appreciate it. For example I saw some reviews complaining that there are only four ranged and three melee weapons. Which is true but completely disregards how different the variants of each can be. For example there are normal grenade launchers but there also are launchers that shoot large plasma balls that remain where they land for a short time and do damage over time, there are launchers that shoot sticky timed explosives, etc., and then among those, some will shoot one at a time, some will shoot a whole set of bombs in one burst, some will shoot smaller projectiles but really really fast…
The melee weapons are a bit unbalanced though. Simply because the axe, the stereotypical slow heavy hitter weapon, can generally kill normal enemies in one hit and the other melee weapons, while not weak on paper, can’t do that. So quite often the axe is just the most convenient.
They did a good job making us use both ranged and melee weapons though with the energy system, and in addition we also have a drone with one out of several support functions, a shield, and dash, and dodge, and a super move for each weapon. So overall there is good variety in combat.
They did make some puzzling decisions too where it sometimes feels like they don’t understand the genre they picked. For a roguelite, the individual runs can be too long. If we beat a boss, we get a shortcut to that level, but as a consumable that can be used only once. At the same time the upgrades between runs take a lot of materials so skipping a few floors might not even pay off in the end. And if we die we lose some of the materials we collected, too (this can be eliminated with some upgrades relatively early, but who does this in a roguelite…) And the biggest one is just the price. For a roguelite it’s fairly expensive.
The setting is pretty far out too. For me a huge plus just because it’s not the same as every other game I’ve been playing recently. I play so many fantasy games that playing a cyborg who live streams shooting up a company in a dystopian future feels really fresh.
Thanks for the detailed response.
I didn't realise it's a roguelike, thought it's just plain old dungeon crawling (except with climbing tower, instead of descending the dungeon). Will keep it on my list for now, may give it a try sometime on a deep sale, somewhere down the road.