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?
Just reading about it, I'm motivated to get back to Three Houses, too. I also went with the Black Eagles initially, although that was a compromise. I was in favour of joining the Golden Deer and my partner wanted the Blue Lions - both of us had the Black Eagles in second place. Never did the other routes.
Just a heads-up, you might want to keep at least two save files. While there are only three houses, there are more routes. If you do all routes back to back, you probably don't want to play the first half of a diverging route twice.
Got any favourites already? Personally, I really enjoyed Hubert and Bernadette. Oh, and Ferdinand, too! The Black Eagles have so many standouts, I almost can't imagine liking the other houses as much.
After mentioning it a few weeks ago, I've started Harvestella.
The game combines dungeon crawling and farming, with quite a bit of story in between. Everything runs on a daily timer with unlimited days, I think. Most actions consume stamina, which can be recovered by eating.
The farming is quite simple thus far. Your basic ploughing, planting, watering and harvesting. You can build a few machines to mill wheat etc. and you can also raise animals, but I've not yet played around with these much. There's also a big list of achievements, like growing X amount of Y, and every few achievements, you unlock some new things.
The dungeon crawling is quite nice, too. And I found myself spending way more time in there, but this might change once my farm grows. You get a basic attack and a jumping button, that it at the beginning. Over time, you get more jobs and unlock special abilities, movement skills and passives. But overall, I think the combat system will remain quite chill. Something I got surprised by is the actual structure of dungeons: It somehow reminds me of Etrian Odyssey games. You've got your FOEs to work around (strong monsters to avoid) and points of interest you can interact with, that will either do you some good, some bad or both. You can unlock shortcuts, repair paths, collect stuff and find hidden treasures. Not challenging, but overall quite fun. (Mind you, I'm still at the beginning)
The writing is promising, but I can't say much about it yet. However, I initially started the game because I got it recommended for its strong character writing.
Thanks for the heads up, found a "spoiler-free" guide on when the route splits, so will make a separate save before that.
As for the characters, pretty much all of them are very interesting, don't think I can choose one favourite. Bernadetta is most interesting, though her backstory is pretty sad. Linhardt is most like me, except even lazier, and much more talented.
I think Harvestella has a ton of flaws, but I had a good time with that game. The worldbuilding was particularly impressive, I really want more games in that setting,