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What are you playing this weekend? 2023-09-23 (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by slimerancher@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world

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Well, this is one of the rare weeks where I am not playing anything on Nintendo consoles (well, just Switch, in my case).

Finished Remnant: From the Ashes. Really liked the game, and they say Remnant 2 is even better. So, adding that to my wishlist.

After finishing Remnant, I was feeling like playing some action oriented game, so instead of going back to my paused games, started going through my backlog to see what clicks and ended up starting Ghost of Tsushima. It's a really good game. Visuals are fantastic, game looks absolutely stunning. Combat is fluid. And on PS5, there are no loading screens. Not when starting the game, or when fast traveling. Feels nice.

What about all of you? What have you guys been playing? And what are you planning to start next?

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[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm American and on vacation in Japan. The dollar is so strong currently that it's about $35 per game (or less if you get tax free ones) rather than $60/70. I haven't played them yet, but I grabbed Splatoon 3, Mario 3D World, and Mario Kart 8 (which I own for Wii U but at this price... I can justify it lol). I'm excited to play on the plane ride home!

Besides that, just "finished" Pikmin (platinums everywhere, and 100% everything I can think of). It was really good! Much more content than other Pikmin games.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol, I almost deleted the comment thinking it's spam. Felt like those "earn from home" ads. 😀

That's really good. Did you also get some Japan-only stuff? Any collectables etc? Just curious.

Congratulations on finishing Pikmin! Which one are you going to start first?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha I re read it and I can see that! I'm not spam or selling stuff I swear!

A bunch of non-game collectables. A dope Zelda shirt, some stuff in the Pokemon Center in Osaka (my long time favorite mug for home is this tiny Pikachu one from there like a decade ago and I got another one that's similar!), and wild colored joycons (I had one full die on the plane ride over). Even the plastic part with the strap on it are fun colors, and from Nintendo themselves! They're purple with yellow, orange with green.

Good question! I'm not sure yet. I really don't know anything about Splatoon. It has a solo mode I assume? Mario kart will come in waves for me I think

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Hey, if you want to sell any of that cool stuff, I won't mind. 😀 That's a nice list of stuff, and those JoyCon sound pretty cool!

Good luck!

[–] freebread@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, I loved game hunting in Japan. If you haven't, I'd recommend grabbing some Japan exclusive physicals like Super Robot Wars series, Okami, Final Fantasy & Ace Attorney. There are also a lot of Limited Run releases that have a Japanese/Asia region physical that are tens to hundreds of dollars less than the North American versions.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooooo Super Robot Wars would be dope, good call. Any suggestions on stores to find stuff like that?

[–] freebread@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I went to probably every store in Akihabara hahahah. Super Potato is the most iconic chain, not sure what part of Japan you are in.

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Kinda all over the place. Blasphemous 2, Sea of Stars, and Halls of Torment.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice list!

Is Halls of Torment like Vampire Survivors?

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yep. Very solid take on the genre.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ahan, cool. Will keep an eye on it, in case it comes to console some day.

[–] Hyggyldy@sffa.community 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, sorry, I don't think I realized I was on /c/Nintendo. Though it's always hard to know what past me was thinking, hahaha.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

lol, we don't mind. This thread isn't limited to just Nintendo console, as you can see, in my post I talk about Ghost of Tsushima.

[–] fuggadihere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wish to finish Blasphemous for once 🥲🥲🥲

[–] dijonson@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Nice!! I’ll join you. I bounced off it the first time I tried to play, but picked it up again with the sequel coming out and am now pretty close to the end! At least it seems that way (my map is at like 85%).

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How are you liking it? Got stuck somewhere, or just taking a long time?

[–] fuggadihere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No I liked it a lot. I got stuck for a bot and then work happened. Want to pick it up again

[–] Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completed the story part of the Pokémon Teal Mask DLC and mostly completed its pokedex as well (just need one other version exclusive and one trade evo... I hate trade evos...), so I will probably mostly be going back to finally finish Tears of the Kingdom or playing my PC strategy RPGs, with small checks for raids featuring those last two pokémon every so often. I started one of those strategy RPGs last night, Symphony of War. Billed itself as more of a Fire Emblem clone but actually pulls more from Langrisser, IMO. Just advertises with the Fire Emblem name for recognition, probably. Anyone else here know Langrisser? Picked the remakes of 1 and 2 up on the eShop a couple years back but I admit I didn't get too far in it. Might be another thing to look at going back to after TotK.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Congratulations on finishing Pokémon and the Pokédex..

I haven't played Langrisser, though I was interested in it when they announced the remake of 1 & 2. Never got around to it though, and since the genre is now going through the revival and there are so many new games coming out, probably won't really get around to play the older remakes (remasters?).

[–] hoodlem@hoodlem.me 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More DW11 for me. Can’t get enough. 😊

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Haha, cool! I paused the game again. Just not getting enough uninterrupted time to play it. Mostly playing games that I can close anywhere I want.

Hope to get back to it after GoT though.

[–] heyfluxay@artemis.camp 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Apparently only Fzero 99.

I tell myself I’ll stop and play something else, yet I keep launching it….

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hehe, it's an addicting game. What's your record? I haven't touched it in few days, but I was still in 50s when I played last.

[–] heyfluxay@artemis.camp 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought getting a win would lessen things, I think it will only fuel more, hah!

Do you mean rack? I’m almost ready to move out of class A.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Nice!

[–] sdcSpade@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since I've finished Caligula Effect 2, I started the Baten Kaitos Remaster today! The plan is to beat the first one, use Super Mario Bros. Wonder as an interlude, and then jump into Baten Kaitos Origins. Which would have been fine, as I expected to play Baten Kaitos normally, without trying to complete it. But alas, the game has in-game achievements so... "Ah shit, here we go again!". And the 300% game speed option does NOT affect card evolutions, so I'll have to let the game idle until my shampoo has been in my inventory for 336 hours because that's normal, right? That's what normal games ask normal players to do, right?

But there's one more amazing thing I need to share. So the remaster only has the original Japanese voice acting, not the hillarious English one. But apparently, the opening cutscene before the title screen is English in both versions anyway. Except the overall quality in the Japanese version is better than the English one? How did that happen? Why did the developers of the Japanese version hire English voice actors for that intro, despite all the same characters being voiced in Japanese in the actual game? And if that was so important to them, why were they fine with the localizers getting their voice actors from the bargain bin instead? It's all so bizarre!

I also started playing We Love Katamari Reroll as my B-Game on the side. Not much to say about it yet, but I wish there was an easy way to see all the stages with target times for their 'good' endings and what's still to collect in them.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did you like Caligual Effect?

Heh, that is an interesting way to do things. Could be some publisher / marketing thing. They probably made the full game, but then someone decided making the opening cutscene in English would attract more people or something. Or maybe they changed the plans. Would be interesting to know what actually happened.

So, there's an actual achievement which require you to leave your shampoo in your inventory for 336 hours? Or just trying to show the outrageous nature of achievements?

[–] sdcSpade@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The achievement is to have all Magnus (cards) in your collection. Some cards evolve over time, like fresh green bananas that deal damage becoming regular bananas that heal and later spotty bananas that deal damage again. The shampoo card is one that, in its description, says you should try using it for two weeks. And they mean that literally. If you have that card for 336 hours, it transforms into a card called 'Splendid Hair'. It's not even a useful card, it just also unlocks the last few tracks in the music collection for some reason. It's legendary in how stupid it is.

And yes, there are 100% speedruns of the game that take slightly over two weeks!

Caligula was okay. I enjoyed the plot of the first one more, but the sequel was a lot easier to complete all sidequests in. For the record, the first game had over 500 NPCs each with a quest and most of them were roaming around certain areas, whereas the sequel has far less and you can easily look up where they are.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, that's a weird achievement. At least this means I wouldn't have to worry about achievements, I either go for all, or don't care about any of them.

Wow, 500 NPC, and each with a quest? That seems like another game which I won't be trying to 100%