Honestly, there is no comfortable way to use Joycons. I practically never used them, the first and only accessory I bought was an adaptor for my DualShock. I just won’t buy games that don’t work with it, just like I did with motion controlled games on the switch.

Most likely, the feature will be heavily used in early games. Just like every other forced gimmick. After about a year, I’d guess, it will be only mandatory for party games, lazy ports and 3/DS emulation - which I think this feature was kinda made for.

The megalomania and random usage of IT terms check out, but I’d be suprised if he knew all references or even words used. Dude’s too busy playing Polytopia high on ketamine.

I’m still on my Metaphor ReFantazio playthrough, and I’m still loving it! I’m currently in the main dungeon associated with the first tournament trial.

However, I just unlocked endless mana by virtue of stealing it from enemies and all resource management has been thrown out of the window, I presume. I don’t like limiting myself, but I also think JRPGs need proper resource scarcity to be good - it’s probably both the most important and most overlooked design parameter for a great dungeon.

Due to this excessive amount of MP recovery, these dungeons don’t feel tightly designed at all. Persona 5 was a lot better at this, even though the endless ammunition in Royal made it way easier. I don’t think these games should have any skills to regenerate MP.

Nope, it’s just like Persona 5 - part dungeon crawler and part social sim. If anything, it’s less social sim than P5 was. Of course, the game is still quite wordy, but that’s par for the course when playing a JRPG.

Probably spend way too much time playing Metaphor over the last week and I don’t plan on stopping. Shin Megami Tensei is one of the few franchises, along with Xenoblade and Dragon Quest, to always capture me like this. Metaphor isn’t a SMT game by name, but by heart it’s just Persona 6 - I highly recommend it.

It would be totally on brand to deliever their best direct yet, just to disappoint next week. However, I expect maybe something about Pokemon and Metroid and otherwise just listing the last big third party titles. Surely, they don’t have any new first party titles lined up, right?

It’s called story mode, but you just get a small cutscene every 10 stages to introduce the next theme - like a space station or a factory.

So, I’ve already finished the main story for Monkey Ball Banana Mania. I’m still messing with the challanges and special stages, but I’ll soon start my next big RPG: Metaphor.

As for Monkey Ball, it’s not what I’ve expected. I thought about getting some chill precision based gameplay, but it’s actually quite stressful. Kinda like I’d imagine games like Getting over it, just with really short stages. I got a bit frustrated around when the difficulty spiked, but at some point the game just clicked and grinding stages almost became akin to meditation. I can see myself returning from time to time to improve my times.

Obviously, you go to their account and calculate your own metric of worth, something like (days since register + posts + upvotes of 10 most upvoted posts). Of course, the metric should be designed to increase your own relative worth.

/s

It’s been about 138h, but I actually finished Witcher 3 + all DLCs this week. I completed every single quest I came across, apart from the two ‘Collect all Gwent cards’ ones. It’s been quite a ride! I’d recommend the game for it’s characters, story telling and moral dilemmas. The gameplay was good too, although even on death march, it was quite easy - of course I was rich and somewhat overleveled from having done everything, so take that with a grain of salt. I finished at lvl 51 with the final quest being marked as lvl 49. Despite other claims, the Switch port was mostly good. Although, halfway through Blood and Wine, about 125h in, the game started to lag in fights with multiple opponents and never stopped doing so. I don’t know what happened, even the big bandit camps didn’t lag much before that.

Anyways, this weekend I’m going to start another run - this time doing a sign build! Last time I was focused on alchemy and basically only used Quen. There are so many gameplay options I never tried much and - nah, just kidding. I’m playing some Monkey Ball: Banana Mania, actually my first entry in the series, as a sort of palate cleanser and then grab a JRPG from my backlog.

Sunbreak? Yes. Not only did my playtime at least double with the DLC, the game is also really easy before that point. Monster Hunter has three difficulty rankings for quests: Low Rank, High Rank and Master Rank - the last one being the DLC. You get new monsters - inlcuding armor sets, a whole new post game, new upgrade mechanics, new maps…

I can attest to many of the other games mentioned, but I haven’t seen Radiant Historia Perfect Chronolgy mentioned yet. It’s my favorite game on the 3DS. It does feature time travel as a mechanic and has unique battle mechanics.

If you’re up for SRPGs too (S meaning strategy), I wholeheartedly recommend Shin Megami Tensei Devil Survivor 1 + 2. The first one is overall a bit better.

To mix it up - I just finished Witcher 3 (Hearts of Stone)! It’s been the best content in the game so far.

Now, I’m playing Witcher 3 (Blood and Wine). Of course, I got to the new map and immediately started collecting all side quests there.

I keep repeating myself like a broken record, but I’m still on Witcher 3!

I’ve made a lost of progress since last time, completing the remaining main story starting from one of the first main quests in Skellige. Apparently it does go by quite fast if you’ve done literally every side quest available to that point.

This week I’ll get into Heart of Stone. I’ve done the frog prince fight already and I gotta say: It’s been such a massive improvement in terms of boss fights, you start to wonder why they have been so bland before.

Also, once again after doing every quest I found, it was kinda funny to fully upgrade the Runewright out of pocket - I’ve heard people complain about that one.

The ending of Future Redeemed links the games to:

As for future games, I think they confirmed moving away from the combat formula, which implies moving away from the Klaus story. But it could be something new set in world as shown at the end of XB 3.

Anyways, still on Witcher 3. It’s a never ending game, but I didn’t play much at all these past to weeks. I did continue the main story, but only by 1 or 2 quests. I just got the mask from Yen in Skellige.

This weekend, I’ve got a lot of time so there will be much more progress, I think

I admit I’m not big on gwent and especially not horse racing. However, I really enjoy learning about different creatures, their lore and how to dispose of them. The game is great at introducing new ones every few quests. There are some great moral questions in there, too!

But at the end of the day, I just like long RPGs. The feeling of getting lost in a vast world is one of my favorite things in games. Tweaking a build over months, slowly diving into more and more mechanics. I don’t play much else, honestly, and only one at a time.

To be fair, that’s 70h over the course of 2 months already. And I’ve still got a big chunk of the main story and 2 DLCs in front on me. Sadly, life’s been quite busy.

Future Redeemed is one of my favorite experiences in recent times, after loving every title before that. I hope you enjoy it just as much! I’m always itching to replay all 3 games + their DLCs.

Anyways, I’m still on Witcher 3. Currently about 70h in and the main story just sent me to Skellige. After I’ve heard the story will soon pick up its pace, I decided to do a lot of side-questing. That was some 20h ago and now I’ve done almost every quest I could find in Velen, Novigrad and Skellige - excluding a few level 30+ ones and some I can’t do right now. I’m guessing it will be another month or two to finish, DLCs included. Just on time for Xenoblade X!

Dunno, to my parents all consoles did look like cardboard boxes in the shop. What did clue them in, however, was the big number written behind the name.

Still on my first Witcher 3 run on Switch.