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What are you playing this weekend? 2024-10-25 (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by slimerancher@lemmy.world to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
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Had a pretty busy week, didn't really play much.

Finished Dust: An Elysian Tale, it was somewhere around 60% at the end. The game isn't great, at least from today's standard, but it's still not a bad game.

Also, while it has metroidvania elements, you don't really need to go back for anything, other than collectibles. So, not a metroidvania, as far as I am concerned. On plus side, not much backtracking!

Started Batman: Arkham Knight, it has been on my backlog for a long time, played it for an hour or so, but couldn't get into it, so dropped it.

Biggest issue I believe is that I was in a mood for a beat 'em up-ish game, and I remembered Batman's combat from Arkham Asylum and City, but I guess I had forgotten that otherwise it's a pretty slow game. You have to hide, and slowly and methodically take down enemies, then all the detective parts with problem solving.

Another issue was the Batmobile, I couldn't get hang of it. In one of the starting mission you have to get it on some rooftop to power up something, my car fell down 4-5 times. It was so frustrating. Not to mention the Riddler challenge.

Didn't get to play Trails in the Sky: SC or Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout this week. I wasn't expecting it, but had a slight hope to finish them before Mario + Luigi Brothership release, but that doesn't seem even a remote possibility now. Which means I won't be getting Mario + Luigi on launch.

That's all from me, what about all of you? What have you been playing

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[โ€“] ladel 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been doing a bit of Fire Emblem Engage every evening, and it's really grown on me. The battles are challenging in a way that you really have to think about how you set everyone up at the start, consider most moves carefully, and respond when the enemy does something you don't expect. It all leads to a very satisfying result when you execute it well. I haven't played a FE game since Awakening, so I can't really compare it with more recent games and maybe I've forgotten what FE is like, but it does feel like a really well-balanced game in terms of the battle difficulty.

[โ€“] Phelpssan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A lot of people rank Engage as one of the best in the series on gameplay. I think the only recent game that gets as much praise in that aspect is Fates Conquest.