What are you playing...Thursday

[dorchadas]

There was a good response to the last similar post, so maybe it's time for another one! I wanted to post this yesterday, but I got distracted.

I just recently finished Momodora: Requiem Under the Moonlight, an extremely cute pixel-art metroidvania I heard about from a Dark Souls podcast, if that tells you what kind of game it is. It seems like it's geared to challenge runs--there are extra drops for beating bosses without taking damage--but I went through on Normal difficulty and had a great time.

Last night I started ゼルダの伝説:ふしぎの木の実 (大地の章) (Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons), which isn't quite as charming as I found Link's Awakening when I first played it last November, but I'm only like an hour in. It still has time to win me over. I do like the way the seasons change and I haven't even gotten the ability to manipulate them yet!

I also loaded up Warcraft III for the first time in half a decade and I'm having a hard time resisting replaying it, though I did do a couple matches against one computer. It just got a new patch, much to my surprise, and people are still playing DotA. Some things never change.

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[lassarina]

I just finished Magical Starsign, a rather silly DS JRPG. I'm blitzing through the tail end of side content in FF14 before the next expansion drops (TWO WEEKS I'M SO EXCITED). Meanwhile, a bunch of phone games, and also Persona 5, where I'm about to hit the third Palace.

[dorchadas]

FFXIV is the one MMO that makes me regret swearing off MMOS, especially with what I've seen is coming in Stormblood. Kugane looks incredible.

I looked up the plot of Magical Starsign and it looks like everyone is named after food and also there are space pirates? That sounds like a great game, honestly!

[lassarina]

FFXIV is amazing. I don't play MMOs as a general rule, but XIV owns me. The community on my server is so good and the game in general is just so kind and friendly and I love it to bits forever.

Magical Starsign is a game with a lot of great ideas that aren't implemented well, unfortunately. I had a ramble on the topic (no spoilers.). There are space pirate otters and everyone is named after food, but also the battle system is painfully slow, and it's extremely silly, even by JRPG standards.

[dorchadas]

Your description of the pace of battle reminds me of the best part of emulation as opposed to playing on original hardware--an increase emulation speed key. The hours I've saved...

It does sound like a fun game to play while doing something else, though.

[ninetydegrees]

Currently playing a ridiculously simple (but cute) mobile game called Pocket Plants, and Pokémon Go because I don't have the spoons to play anything else. I'm very, very tempted by RiME, though.

[dorchadas]

One of the YouTubers I watch did an hour of RiME gameplay. It looks really pretty, but seems a bit undirected. At least, it seemed like the way to find out what to do was to poke everything and rearrange the glowing rocks because that's how these sort of games work.

Have you tried Magikarp Jump? I downloaded it when it came out, but haven't opened it yet.

[ninetydegrees]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to watch some let's play before I decide do buy it or not.

Have heard of it but it doesn't seem like it's my kind of games. :)