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What are you playing this weekend? 2024-10-04 (lemmy.world)
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Finished The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom!

Loved the game. There are some performance issues, but nothing major. And that's pretty much the only issue with the game.

It's not a very long game, but not a very short one either. Don't know exactly how long it took me (It has only been 8 days, would need to wait 2 more days for hours to show up in profile), but I think it was somewhere around 20 to 30. And while I have explored every area and done pretty much all the side-quests I have come across, I saw total accessories online and I don't even have over half of them, so there's apparently many things I am missing.

Loved the gameplay, felt like a TotK lite. Echoes are fun, though if you find some OP echo (there are a few) they can help you blaze through most enemies, but even they have some limitations. Though, you have to go out of the way to find those. Other than fighting, they also help you traverse different areas, and different echoes can help you solve problems in different ways.

There are many "duplicates" though, that is different echoes that do similar things, but this just allows you to use the one you like. There are some echoes I didn't use much, but my son liked them a lot and used them regularly.

Overall a very good game, though, I haven't played most of the 2D Zeldas so I can't stay where it stand with them.

So, just finished the game, one of the rare times where I have finished both what I am playing on PS and on Switch. Now what to start next? I have couple of options, will decide later tonight.

What about all of you? What have you been playing?

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My partner and I are playing through "Digimon Stories Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memories" in some kind of challange run similar to a Soullink in Pokemon games.

The Digimon Story games are basically just grinding, but sometimes I'm in the mood for that. Although, I prefered the older ones on DS.

Digimon have 7 different stages and many different paths to evolve from their first stage to their last one. Bacially everything can become everything. Each stage starts at level 1 and is stronger than the one before, with certain stat and level requirements to evolve. They can devolve too and that's where the grinding comes in: There is a special stat called 'ABI' that's raised by d-/evolving. If you need a certain amount of ABI, you will train your digimon, evolve it, devolve it right away and start from level 1 again. Repeat until you have enough.

During older games, you would accumulate power by doing so - you kept a certain percentage of your current stats when devolving. In the Cyber Sleuth games you don't. Each Greymon e.g. has the same base stats at the same level. ABI only slightly increases a hard cap for permanent stats you can get from a different mechanic. It's kinda tedious.

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

Cyber Sleuth has been on my wishlist for a very long time. I like the idea of Digimon, but I am not good with these kind of min-maxing in any game. Can I play the main campaign without any of this? Just playing normally with upgrading my digimons as I see fit? Like we can do in Pokémon?

Disclaimer: I haven't played any Digimon game, and only couple of Pokémon games. Let's Go Pikachu and Pokémon Sword.

[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep, there's both a normal and a hard mode - normal is quite easy. On top of that, you can get most digimon without much trouble, I just happen to like the ones that are difficult to get.

There's also a farm feature where you can level digimon passively. Due to a bug on the switch version, the ingame clock and therefore the farm continue running on standby if you don't close the game properly.

[–] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Ah cool. Thanks for the info!