Nintendo

I hope to pickup RPG after the holidays. I’ve been on a bit of a switch break since finishing Wonder.

I need to get back into Sea of Stars.

I got my hands on Super Mario Bros. Wonder on Wednesday, going in pretty much blind, and have been having great fun with it so far. I especially like the options you're given to play with, whether that's the easy mode characters of Nabbit and the Yoshis, the badges to augment your movement options with, the expert badges to actively hinder yourself with, or putting the talking flowers in German for no good reason. Only real criticism I've got of the game thus far is that worlds ending without bosses feels anticlimactic - I get that people didn't like how samey and/or easy most of the boss fights were in the New Super Mario Bros. games, but in my eyes, it's definitely a more climactic closure to a world to crush Koopaling #5, even if the boss fight is very easy, than to just be given the Big Wonder Seed in a house.

Once I'm done with Wonder, or possibly before, I might replay Kirby Triple Deluxe. I've been doing a few 3DS replays lately with New Super Mario Bros. 2 (beat all the levels and got all the star coins) and A Link Between Worlds (reached Lorule and felled the Theives' Hideout; haven't touched it since), and the mood has struck me to play Triple Deluxe again recently. Whether I actually act on this thought, we will see.

Metal Gear Solid 3. Finding it much harder and different to 1+2 but I'm liking the story and the relationships Snake has with his team.

Been playing Monster Ranche Ultra Kaiju. For some reason I’m too stupid to figure out why my monster combination calculator isn’t giving me the results in game it says it should and I’m becoming frustrated with it though.

Finished Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

Absolutely amazing game, my favorite 2D Mario since the SNES era. Must-play for anyone who enjoys platform games.

Playing Radiant Silvergun.

I've been slowly progressing on Story Mode/Very Easy, which is still pretty damn hard. Made to what I think is the last boss yesterday, so hopefull I'll be able to at least clear this one at least on the lowest difficulty soon.

This is a fairly old game, originally released for the Saturn, but it's said to be one of the best of this genre - and the more I play, the more I think it deserves all the praise it gets. There's so much variety in stages and interesting boss designs that I just keep restarting every time I get a game over to see more.

Story mode also has a nice progression system where you can keep your powerups and get more lives after restarting, which makes it much easier for people not experienced in bullet hell games to move forward and see more of the game.

Im playing Arise and it's the kind of game I don't want to rush, just chilling a bit.

I'm also on Super Mario Wonder and it's pretty fun, even in co-op, especially for someone who's not into gaming, it's a pretty easy game if your goal is just to finish it.

I've had to fill out Divorce Papers this week... in Baten Kaitos. I made a screenshot, in case this sounds too ridiculous. Divorce Papaers + John Hancock's Pen gives you Consolation Pay, which sells for a lot of money. Money is never really an issue in this game, but I guess if you really wanted to grind it, you could repeatedly fill out divorce papers? I wonder if any Combo ideas during the brainstorming were shot down at all at this point...

But I'm also done with SP Combos! My card collection now sits at 1017/1022 and yes, one of the missing cards is still the two-week one. My in-game time is past 336 hours though, so I just have to catch up on the lost menu time, however much that is. The others are two cards that I got through the combos that, unfortunately, both change shapes after 24 hours twice, so I'll need another 48 hours. But I'll take those into New Game Minus with me if they're the last ones missing. Even if their timer does reset, I'll lose 24 hours at worst and that's not a big deal when I have to beat the game again, essentially. So now I'm grinding some endgame weapon cards until my Shampoo finally changes. It should be soon...

Edit:
I got it! My hair has never looked more splendid. I also forgot this card unlocks the last pieces of music, so there's technically two achievements tied to this nonsense. That means I can start New Game Minus, which is probably not going to be too difficult until I'm back in the endgame if I really get to keep all of my cards.

Too little free time this weekend but I am playing some splatoon since there's a splatfest going on. Have to help out my fellow hugers.

How's ace attorney by the way? I bought the trilogy a couple of years with a discount, but I have never touched it.

I was originally playing Mario RPG, then Sunday I saw GTA V for PS5 was on sale at Gamestop for $20 with $5 off for ordering online and picking it up in-store. I've been avoiding it for 10 years because I already played it on PS3 and refused to buy it again. Waiting worked out, because I remember very little about the story missions and 60fps is a great upgrade.