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Just confirmed Xenoblade Chronicles X was preordered: scheduled to arrive Friday after what should be a great week at school.

I’ve apply my time this weekend between the two Octopaths in my life: II is still slow going and Champions of the Continent is perfect for an hour wake-me-up. I finally realized what’s wrong (sort of) with Octopath Traveler II: the battle system is so slow compared to the mobile game. A single battle in an area where I’m properly leveled for takes a couple of minutes on the Switch with every decision made having an important impact. Most of the time, I don’t want to engage my brain!

I also played an ancient game on my old Mac: Outrun 2006 Coast to Coast. I wish that were on Switch!

Finally, I got the itch to play Gradius but did not want to shell out eight bucks with XCX on the way. I played the NES version through Nintendo Switch Online and couldn’t even make it to the first boss. That knocked the wind out of my sails enough to last me until next weekend.

I put Avowed down last week after finishing up the first map- no reason, I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, but for some reason am finding it hard to pick back up again.

Been screwing around with Civilization 7 this week, dipping my toes into Pikmin 4 (still not sure how it suits me but I like its uniqueness), and playing through Final Fantasy VI on my retro handheld.

I’m replaying Pokemon sword and I’m almost done with the main game. Going to be going into the dlc fresh ( I’ve never played it before ) and after I’m done with the game I’m probably going to replay a Kirby game. Maybe forgotten land or the dream friend game

Bridge to the Turnabout is peak! Enjoy the ride :)

I am still playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 while waiting for Xenoblade Chronicles X (Thursday cannot come soon enough!). I finally managed to pull the elusive blade KOS-MOS, but I am still trying to get the 3 remaining rare blades I am missing. This gacha system is so horrible 😭

Still getting through Age of Calamity, but took a break to start Lost in Random. It’s been pretty fun. I love the Tim Burton style game, the dice and cards. We’ll see how the rest of the game goes.

On your tail! It was published on Thursday, there's a demo to try it out as well. I'm curious to play the rest of the game as well :)

It's been about 138h, but I actually finished Witcher 3 + all DLCs this week. I completed every single quest I came across, apart from the two 'Collect all Gwent cards' ones. It's been quite a ride! I'd recommend the game for it's characters, story telling and moral dilemmas. The gameplay was good too, although even on death march, it was quite easy - of course I was rich and somewhat overleveled from having done everything, so take that with a grain of salt. I finished at lvl 51 with the final quest being marked as lvl 49. Despite other claims, the Switch port was mostly good. Although, halfway through Blood and Wine, about 125h in, the game started to lag in fights with multiple opponents and never stopped doing so. I don't know what happened, even the big bandit camps didn't lag much before that.

Anyways, this weekend I'm going to start another run - this time doing a sign build! Last time I was focused on alchemy and basically only used Quen. There are so many gameplay options I never tried much and - nah, just kidding. I'm playing some Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, actually my first entry in the series, as a sort of palate cleanser and then grab a JRPG from my backlog.

I plan to continue with God of War (PS4).

For a game that is rated 18+ I've not actually had many moments where I've had to stop my kids (10+) from watching me play and they have been enjoying it with me. I'm normally quite careful but the main gameplay is just fighting creatures and puzzle solving so it's just the boss fights that give it a higher rating, well so far that's what it seems.

The story and characters are excellent and the dynamic of Kratos and Atreus is something special. Also it's a really good looking game and much better than the current gens "blurriness" that everything seems to have nowadays

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Trials and Tribulations

About your spoiler: We all do.

Playing Trails Through Daybreak II!

Almost done with the "Fragments" Chapter which was quite good. At the start it just looks like an intermission/relax/beach episode, but then things get way more serious, we finally get Quatre's backstory and also more information about the D∴G Cult.

I also really like how it fixes one of my complaints from last week.

Of course still playing Monster Hunter. So far only one monster I really don't like. Hirabami is almost constantly afloat and almost all you get to see and work with is the end of its tail. And that's by design, considering the tail can be broken 5 times in total. >.> Nu Udra is really cool though. I don't know if the octopus frame has ever been used by another monster before, but it's certainly very new and refreshing to me!

But with the random nature of grinding, I needed another game to fill short gaps in case a session ever ended early, so I started Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2. This decision may have been influenced by recent news, but I would never admit that. I was surprised that most of my muscle memory from decades ago is still intact! It also reminded me how unbelievable it is that the series every reached a point where the games were considered bad. It's such a simple concept that still works, how did they mess that up so badly?

I'm excited to jump back into Avowed. Last weekend I made it to the second map, and I have a lot of exploring to do there!