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Finished Red Dead Redemption 2. The game finally caught my interest in the last 20-25%. Started to care about the story and some of the characters. It was also nice to play the epilogues, it connects the game with Red Dead Redemption 1. There are also some very cinematic moments in the game, enjoyed those too.

Overall, not a bad game, just not for me. I recall loving the first game when I played it on PS3, so maybe it's just me who has changed.


Didn't play too much of Splatoon Raiders, but I think I am nearing the end. Most of the may have been revealed, so there shouldn't be too much of the game left. Also, changed my main tank from Speed to Power. It has the better combination of gadgets that I want.


Played some more Final Fantasy XII - The Zodiac Age. I am finally in mid game. Got access to second license board, and spent over an hour agonizing over which combination of classes to go with, and that's when you can reset them (almost) anytime, imagine how long it would take me decide if the choices were permanent.

Happy with most of the combinations. One characters has Melee + Melee combination, most of the others are Melee + Magic, and 2 are Magic + Magic. So both set of parties have one pure mage, and two melee users with magic for healing or certain cases where it is required.

Currently at a boss which applies tons of debuff for my whole team, and I don't have any magic to dispel that. The last shopkeeper was selling Esuna (magic to remove all debuffs from a character) but I was tight on money and hadn't had a need for that yet, so didn't' buy it, will probably have to go back and get it. The boss isn't too difficult but when your characters can't even hit it, or do any damage, or case any spell, you can't really do anything no matter how easy the boss is otherwise.


Started Hogwarts Legacy on PS5. Objectively, the game is probably not as good as RDR2 (they are so different that we shouldn't even compare) but going from a slow game like that I instantly fell in love with character movement of Hogwarts Legacy and how fast everything is in the game. The game isn't bad, but I think I wouldn't have liked it as much I did if I hadn't played it right after RDR2. Not to mention as a Harry Potter fan it's great to see a modern game in Hogwarts and the wizarding world.

The game has it's bugs though. Around 4-5 hours in, it refused to start the next main mission, and turned out it's a known bug, you have to start this mission right after finishing the previous one, without doing anything else in-between, otherwise it has a chance of getting stuck. Only solutions are loading a previous save or restarting the game from start. I almost gave up then, cause while you can get to that mission in around an hour and half if you only do the main missions, I had spent hours exploring, solving puzzles and collecting stuff. Didn't want to do all that again.

Eventually decided to load a previous save from couple of hours ago and play again. Hope there isn't anything like that further in the game, I am saving before and after every main mission just to be safe though.


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

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[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I have played Shovel Knight and loved the game. Mina didn't attract me when I first saw it but with the praise it has been getting, plan to get it some day.

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

One thing I really loved about Shovel Knight was the DLC in which you played as different characters with abilities that completely changed the feel of the game. I hope they do something similar for Mina!

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, they released most of those characters after I had played the game so didn't play them, but have been meaning to go back and try them for some time now.

The company isn't in that great shape from what I can gather, so not sure if they can afford to do that this time around. Will be cool if they do it though.

[-] OmegaMouse@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Something about exploring the same areas with a fresh take on it really appealed to me. Plague Knight was my favourite!

I hadn't heard that about the company. I hope they've done well from Mina, because they're a really talented bunch of devs.

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

I hadn’t heard that about the company. I hope they’ve done well from Mina, because they’re a really talented bunch of devs.

I am not sure of the current status but things had reached the point where Mina was their do or die game. Hopefully it was successful enough to help them stay afloat.

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