For now I'm still playing Hollow Knight. The game is pretty long.
Really? I don't recall it being a particular slog when I played. Though I didn't go for "true" ending, and I did enjoy myself for pretty much the whole time, so maybe it just seemed less long to me.
tl;dr hollow knight's really good. I enjoyed it despite some frustrating sections, but for what it is a 12 hour game would have been enough for me. the 30 hours felt kind of overblown
I finished Chasm. It took just under 15 hours. This game is pretty much a love letter to SotN, except the game creates a new map/seed for each playthrough so you'll never get to memorize the layout. This keeps the exploration from getting quite as stale. But there are so many similarities to SotN: same types of items, creatures/drops, stats, even an ever changing little image that represents your save file. You can definitely tell SotN was the biggest influence on this game. Despite all my farming, I don't think I got 3/4th of the items. I 100%ed the map but there were still some important things I didn't find. Secrets are hidden well I guess. There's even one door that that takes two keys and I never found the second key, so I don't even know what was in there. I will definitely play this game again.
[pc] trails in the sky duology/trilogy: in progress
Great trilogy. You should also check out the Crossbell duology once you finish that. I could hook you up with English versions of those games.
At the rate I'm going, XSEED will finish official English versions of the Crossbell duology before I finish Sky Third.
Re Zelda
I basically haven't played any of the 3D Zeldas yet, but I watched a good bit of Twilight Princess, and that's currently the one I'm most interested in playing.
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ahh finished shantae half-genie hero 100%. that was a pretty fun game, think i'll have to check out pirate's curse now
the only other shantae game i've played is the first one
Doesn't Risky's Revenge come before Half-Genie Hero, story-wise?
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I have such a big backlog at this point that I haven't been as worried about completing stuff, unfortunately it's almost out of a sense of obligation so I am sometimes concerned that's not a particularly healthy way to approach a hobby. I guess I get slightly guilty because some of these are games I'd otherwise likely put in more time into for full completion.
Ah, the big backlog problem.
I try not to think too hard about it, try to tell myself not to bother making lists even though I inevitably do. Because making lists sorta reminds me "you have this other thing that you meant to do", which detracts from getting lost in one game and enjoying it itself.
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I wish they at least named it Octapath so I woulnd't have to think of octopuses every time I hear the name
I think of Splatoon every time I hear the name, instead.
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just beat dkc3. man the endgame kinda sucks. the boss fight in the submarine is terrible and all you get for collecting everything is a cutscene...
DKC3 didn't impress me much; DKC2 on the other hand did.
tl;dr hollow knight's really good. I enjoyed it despite some frustrating sections, but for what it is a 12 hour game would have been enough for me. the 30 hours felt kind of overblown
What's the trick for getting through fungal gardens? I haven't had any trouble in this game until I got to this part. It's like the difficulty went from 0 to 100 instantly. Am I missing some kind of upgrade? I went to fungal gardens after getting dash.
tl;dr hollow knight's really good. I enjoyed it despite some frustrating sections, but for what it is a 12 hour game would have been enough for me. the 30 hours felt kind of overblown
What's the trick for getting through fungal gardens? I haven't had any trouble in this game until I got to this part. It's like the difficulty went from 0 to 100 instantly. Am I missing some kind of upgrade? I went to fungal gardens after getting dash.
tl;dr hollow knight's really good. I enjoyed it despite some frustrating sections, but for what it is a 12 hour game would have been enough for me. the 30 hours felt kind of overblown
What's the trick for getting through fungal gardens? I haven't had any trouble in this game until I got to this part. It's like the difficulty went from 0 to 100 instantly. Am I missing some kind of upgrade? I went to fungal gardens after getting dash.
Have you learned that you can bounce off the mushrooms with a downward aerial attack? The game seems to think that's obvious but I was stuck for a good few hours with no obvious way to progress until I looked it up and learned that dair attacks are even a thing in that game.