Played Darksiders 3 some more.
Figured out what happens to souls after you die, a phantom / ghost like thingy start flying near the place, you just destroy it and get back the souls. Got a new powerup, and am at a place with many enemies. Turned it off the game when I kept dying. Will get back to it this weekend.
Also played some Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains.
So the game is apparently a port of the mobile version, which basically gives you lots of XP so you level up faster, making the game much easier. Which I like, since these older RPGs can be pretty tough.
The game has random encounters, which I am not a fan of, but you get the option to “Auto Attack” which makes these fights much faster, and with increased XP, it keeps the things moving fast. There is also a “Tame” mechanic which allows you to capture different monsters, and then with “Fusion system” you can merge different monsters or items to get different monsters or upgrade your equipment. You can also summon the monsters in battle, and they can help you attack the enemy.
There are also many side-quests and puzzles, but they are quite obtuse if you aren’t used to these older games. The quests doesn’t appear as anything special, you just talk to NPCs and they talk like other NPCs but mention some problem in it, so you have to fix their problem or whatever, without any log or marker or anything. Took me a bit getting used to, and actually missed a few side-quests in the first area.
The story and the world is pretty good though, even with subpar translation and the way font formatting is.
So far, I’ll recommend it if you like older RPGs with good stories, and are willing to deal with some dated mechanics.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I think I’m closer to the end of Xenoblade X than I expected. I thought there’s be new side quests popping up in the new endgame content, but there’s been nothing, really. I finished up the Collectopedia today and then I’m off to the third part of the final chapter. After that, it’s the last few high level tyrants to finish off the map completion. It might still take a while, Part 2 took way longer than I expected. I’m curious how much of this new endgame they actually had in mind back on the Wii U. I find it hard to believe the Lao tease at the end was always meant to be what we got now. Makes me wonder if they scrapped the original plans or if they never had any to begin with.
Wild Arms 2 is beaten. In the end, I much prefer the first one. It’s mostly the story that just lost me near the end of Disk 1. The villains never really did anything interesting while they were around on Disk 1 and Disk 2 didn’t really have any villains to begin with. Your main antagonist becomes a part of space that’s eating up the world or some-such, which just doesn’t hook me. I like my villains to be less metaphysical and more mustache-twirling.
In its place, I started playing Fallout 3! I played it a good 10 years ago but never finished it, because I always stop playing Bethesda games at some point. It’s not even the game’s fault, the literal last thing I did was find a map with all vaults and I was really excited to go see them, and then I just never did. But I really like the world of Fallout, so I’m recording it now because that’s the only way I’ll ever stay motivated to finish it.