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  • I've been playing Hollow Knight the last couple of days. Sadly I'm now at a point where the bossfights are getting too hard. I'll keep trying though.

    • Good luck my friend. Hollow Knight is a special one, but those bosses can be punishing. A few of them took me separate sessions over a few days, which is a frustrating way to play games for me, but it's such a rewarding experience otherwise. I recently rewatched my recording of beating one of the bosses and I was fumbling so bad, I could see my own desperation in the way I was playing.

      Apparently there's a secret phase for the final boss that I was more than happy to experience via YouTube. I was perfectly satisfied with just rolling the credits.

    • Hollow Knight is the greatest game of all time for me. I replayed it recently and it was such a different experience for me to move through confidently and quickly when I had a grasp of combat from the beginning. It took me months to finish it the first time because of getting lost and not knowing where to go next.

      Some generic (no spoiler) tips:

      • go in another direction and come back to the boss later if that's possible. If a boss is way too difficult then there may be an upgrade you haven't gotten yet.
      • take your time. It is more important to save your health rather than rushing to get a hit in. Sometimes it's worth going to a boss and not hitting him at all and just focus on learning movement, patterns and figuring out where the openings are.
      • play around with your charms and get the best setup you need to help with the boss fight.
      • try to avoid attacks by running into the gap in projectiles rather than relying on dashes all the time.
      • if you're coming to thinking of quitting the game based on difficulty, then there's no shame in watching a boss guide video on YouTube. Or space it out with a secondary game so you can play something else and come back later.

      • Thanks for the tips. I'm at such an early stage that I can't even dash yet. It's an ability that comes later right? Or am I missing something?

  • Still having lots of fun playing Diablo 4 Season 4. Got a necromancer and a barbarian to 100. Now, I'm leveling up a sorcerer.

  • I am finally completely finished with We Happy Few, DLCs and all. It was a lot better and more fun that I really thought it would be, especially story-wise. The characters are surprisingly complex and gray while still be likeable. Sally and Ollie's stories were great. They weren't as long as Arthur's, and they didn't have as many side quests (that I could find), but it was still a good time. With differences in encounters between the main characters and going through the same areas, it kind of felt like playing the B story in Resident Evil 2. As for the DLCs, They Came From Below gives the game a fun little sci-fi twist. I liked seeing more of Roger and James. Lightbearer was surprisingly super short, and I wasn't expecting to hear Neil Newbon. We All Fall Down was by far the best DLC. It was pretty heavy, but did wrap up the ultimate fate of Wellington Wells pretty nicely. Also have to add that the music is so fun. I actually sat through the entirety of the credits each time because there were some great jams. Right now I'm dabbling around in Sandbox and Survival mode while I try to figure out what game to play next.

  • Just beat Catherine Full Body last night. There are a lot of things I like about the game, and some things I both like and dislike. It's really more of a "this is the main character's story and you're mostly along for the ride" than it is a narrative experience where you choose every move the protagonist makes.

    Because of that, I think how you feel about the story will be determined by your own stance on relationships and the morality of them, hedonism, marriage, and things like that. For me, I felt familiarity with my experience watching Breaking Bad in its painful spectation of characters who make questionable decisions and their creation of damning consequences.

    Easy mode treated the puzzles well, just takes away the time pressure of the blocks falling away (save for the boss battles where you're being chased). I ended up quite enjoying the puzzles! In the end, I don't know if I'd recommend the game. If you're interested in games doing something neat and novel with the topic of relationships then I think you'll find value in it.

  • Knights of the Old Republic 2 :3 I'm doing a blaster Jedi run. It's pretty neat, actually :3 I think I'll play the first game next. Kinda want to get back into City of Heroes if this laptop runs it well and maybe only if I can acquire at least one adventure-buddy-critter to play it with 🤔 🤷

    • I did that with the first KoTOR a year ago! It was more difficult than using a saber for sure, you really get the impression they didn't really think anyone would want to main blasters. How is it in the second one?

      • There are mods for the first to make it more blaster-friendly! The impression I get is that blasters are much more effective in t he second game and are, it's claimed (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1606481748), viable even for Hard playthroughs.

        I'm playing on Normal; it's mostly reasonably easy. Paying a bit more attention to keeping my defences in order would probably serve me well but I've not hit any walls or anything like that.

  • I probably have about 3-4 hours remaining on Tales of Xillia on the PS3. I've really enjoyed this one (this is my 4th or 5th Tales game, AFAIR). Hoping to finish before the week (weekend?) is up.

  • Still playing Dark Souls 2.

    I also started playing Grapple Dog for something casual/relaxing.

  • Selaco, and everyone who is interested in first person shooter should try it out. Its just a really really well made GZDoom based Boomer Shooter.

    the first chapter is released and stuff will be added later during the Early Access phase, but I trust them to deliver.

  • I've been getting back into Guild Wars 2 lately! Nobara Linux has made the game run the smoothest it's even been, and ReShade has it looking even better.

    • Always a great game to get back into. Or get into in the first place.

      The latest patch was kind of disappointing and I hope they do tweak some of the issues, but I'm still looking forward to the new expansion reveal tomorrow. The teasers were pretty neat so far.

  • Played a lot of Wuthering Waves since it launched. It's a tricky one because it has a lot of flaws and weaknesses, but at the same time the core is actually really solid.

    The combat feels amazing, and that really is the big selling point here. Parries and perfect dodges feel great, the bosses have fun movesets and the pace is fast and fluid with lots of tech like animation cancelling and character swapping. The character gameplay design is also excellent, with each character having a unique feel and playstyle, and a unique way of building and using the Forte gauge.

    I wish the main story wasn't complete garbage, but hey ho. At least there is a skip button. Even the good characters (like Aalto and Encore) feel out of place and too goofy in a supposedly post-apocalyptic setting. Funny enough some unvoiced side quests have been better than the main story by a long shot (I'm thinking of Eternal Concert, for example).

    Also the localisation is insultingly bad and it definitely seems like Kuro actually disregards the importance of non-chinese regions to the point of not employing a single foreign language speaker even to their localisation team. Even their announcements are worse translations than Google translate, and it's the same for all languages. You'd think they'd at least care about the JP translation. Puzzling and almost offensive.

    Still, the game is mechanically satisfying enough to have me hooked for now. And it's free (and very F2P friendly at the moment).

  • Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door quite a lot. Also getting back into Minecraft and Euro Truck SImulator 2. And of course, Cassette Beasts.

  • A lot more World of Warcraft Remix mode for me.

    Apart from my "main", a druid, I've now also leveled a priest and warrior to 70. I didn't enjoy playing the priest at all, and just spent all the event currency once I hit max level and won't touch that character again. The warrior was actually fine, and I'm still playing a bit here and there at max level. On my druid I'm still clearing all the raids once per day, it's still generally fun, but I've switched to tanking for a change of pace.

  • Just started The Forest and Stardew Valley. Was looking for something like minecraft, but with flavor

  • I picked up Star Wars Rogue Squadron and it has been great fun and very nostalgic to play on the Steam Deck. I was looking for a modern alternative and picked up Everspace, which I like, but am finding it incredibly difficult to get good at so far.

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