King's Field IV

Nightreign made me sad, duskblood looks far worse...this is like a safe space and kinda makes me think Miyazaki maybe made things worse by trying to duct tape Resident Evil vibes to a wonderful ecosystem for cash.

CrossCode, it was very discounted on Steam. I didn’t progressed much, but I’m loving it so far.

Stardew Valley Expanded. Never played it to completion but I think it's perfect rn because I've been so overstimulated recently.

I've got three games going on:

• Paper Mario (N64) for a gaming book club sort of thing, but I was intent on finishing the Paper Mario and Mario RPG series anyway. The N64-ness took a bit of getting used to but it's a great game, most of the series' DNA is in there already.

• Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS) for on the go, but I must admit I'm a little stuck in one of the first dungeons - bit embarrassing!

• Forza Horizon 6 (XSX) on the big telly. Super cheesy writing and the game just showers you with supercars, but it's fun ticking off the events and collectables. Looks gorgeous!

I'm playing Ori and the Will of the Wisps. It has a 90% discount in Steam right now and it's been on my wishlist for a long time.

It's a beautiful game to look at. It runs great on the Steam Deck. The only issue I had was that it's quite dark for the OLED screen, but I've turned up the brightness and now it's good.

I find it quite challenging to play though, but that's part of the fun. If you like metroidvania games, I do recommend it, especially at its current price.

I just wrapped up the main game of Resident Evil: Village. Hated fighting those lurching, weaving lycan bastards, loved how it was basically a love letter to the classic Universal horror monsters. I'll probably start Shadows of Rose tomorrow.

I've also gotten 2 or 3 endings now in the infamous MyHouse.wad Doom II map. It's a trip. Great story, great atmosphere, and even with my limited knowledge of Doom wads, I can tell they used some pretty crazy tricks to make this work. Somehow this was the more frightening of the two, lol.

Coffee Quake 2, a collection of 132 player-created Quake maps, each with an expected play time of about five minutes- roughly the length of a coffee break.

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/coffee-quake-2-double-shot.213/

The maps' brevity keeps things feeling fresh. There's some unevenness but I can say this much for even the weakest inclusions: They're short.

The first Coffee Quake is also good fun.

The Witcher 3 remastered, that most of us got for free at the end of September.

It was hard not to dive back in that world.

My friend convinced me to try playing through Kingdom Hearts, so after spending way to long trying to understand the numbering convention I'm playing Kingdom Hearts I.5

Valheim 1.0 update, has been a long time coming and super worth it!

The Witcher 3 Remastered. What a game. I love it like i played it the first time. Although it has some weird bugs.

Looked through my game catalog for scary games to play this month and found Signalis. I'm guessing it was a ps+ game at some point because I don't remember purchasing it. I've gotten through the first few areas and I'm enjoying it so far. Not really that scary but the atmosphere is still creepy. It has glowing reviews so I'm hoping it lives to to them.

Started another playthrough of the first Control. Just walking around blasting stuff with the melee push and watching how all the individual items react never gets old.

Started Dishonored 2. What a blast, love it.

I love the level design, although it sometimes breaks my brain. Story is decent, all in all a pleasant experience.

I've gone back to Ocarina of Time. Hoping this is the playthrough where I finally beat it

Lots of Cyberpunk 2077 this week. I've been mostly driving around and doing side missions/gigs so I didn't make much progress with the main story. I did however finish the parade and the intro (rescue) section of Phantom Liberty to unlock Dogtown and make sure I won't lock myself from the expansion in case I decide to play it later.

As fun as the game is I feel myself drawn to any and all non-combat activities, which are somewhat limited in this game. Maybe I'll do a photography tour of the map for a bit?

I come back to anno 117 like a failed teetotaller. I've had a problem with just restarting each world because "it's by challenging enough now" or "I want to see what it'd be like to start from..." Or I just lose my thread by expanding too fast. I think this time will be different but I'm going to commit to only playing on the weekends and not in my free periods.

It's still so time consuming and the pirates are designed awfully, but I think the game is gonna rehab it's image a bit over the coming years

Oh and I started playing braid to distract from an earache. So good! So challenging. One of the most nostalgic games for me because my dad brought it for me and himself when he first got a steam account; was transitioning me into pc gaming instead of playstation gaming. Thanks dad.

Couldn't get very far with it as a kid I think but it was swag. Looking back, it's kind of cool how you can just tell if a game is crisp and good quality. I was instantly bonded with it. Also a bit of a connoisseur with videogames now, like I only play arty graphics instead of flashy graphics stuff.

This week:

• Strange Brigade - really fun shooter/puzzler with beautiful voice acting.
• Venetica - simple but fun quest based gameplay, with a nice story.

Nitroglycerine. Cool concept, but it needs better controller support to play on the Steam Deck.

God of war hardest difficulty (whyyyyyy). Also a bit of Roblox and look outside

Pokemon Picross on my newly hacked 3ds. It's quite amazing puzzle game but instead of doing random figure you dot out a pixel art of pokemon, so once you done the puzzle you get a picture of a pokemon and then also get that pokemon and use the ability to help with the puzzle. I'm genuinely happy when i found a copy of it online, without it this game is officially unavailable everywhere. Kinda make a very strong point for game preservation.

I also started playing a bit of Ever Oasis, it feels like animal crossing with combat? Idk, still haven't grasp what it is about, only spend half hour with it.

Just finished Assassin's Creed Directors Cut after getting it free or cheap from somewhere. Was nice to revisit something I'd originally played (and abandoned) many years ago.

I've since played a few of the others and was nice to contrast both the pureness of the original and the enhancements of the later.

Got another mastery achievement in Hitman. Just three or four left now I think.

I’m also playing some Oblivion again. Started a new playthrough, it’s been probably a year since I’ve touched the game so I thought I’d pick it up again. It’s been fun. I missed this game.

Hogwarts Legacy is surprisingly good! Been playing this for the past week.