Topic: Games you've recently beat

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy

Hmm. That's hard to say. The parts I love about it I love as much as I did when I first played it, and I do plan on gushing over those when I write about it. The music, atmosphere, platforming controls, hub area, and level variety are all still wonderful. In terms of visuals, the game always looked good on the Wii, and apparently all it needed to look almost like a modern Switch game was a simple resolution bump. And Nintendo does a (mostly) excellent job adapting the Wii's pointer controls to a system that lacks that functionality. The game also does an excellent job of distributing bosses throughout the game, and it has an interesting suite of power-ups, which were mostly missing from the other 3D Mario games.

On the other hand, months of training myself to see and analyze flaws has made me a bit less forgiving toward certain aspects of the game. They're certainly not game-breaking, but certain types of levels just suck, which seems to a sort of tradition with 3D Mario games, lol. These levels often have you controlling the game via motion controls, and it's Wii-era absurdity at its worst. I shouldn't be almost turning my controller upside down trying to turn my character. There are also times when the constant gravity manipulation confuses the controls, and, once in a great while, the lack of free camera movement in most levels becomes a bit of an issue.

I still need to replay Super Mario 3D World this year on Switch to be fully informed, but it's still head-and-shoulders above every other 3D platformer I've played to date.

@jdv95 Congrats! Persona 5 is a beast of a game. I can only imagine how long my Royal playthrough will end up taking me, considering I only really play it on Saturdays.

Yeah, I have Strikers preordered. Really looking forward to that.

@Ralizah thank you !
and yeah you are gonna have atleast half a year worth of persona 5

been thinking about starting up trails of cold steel 1 but it's also a massive game story wise,meaning i won't have it done before strikers comes out so i think i'll just wait after i'm done with strikers . i don't realy want to mix the 2 since i might leave one for the other if i do that.

Chicken Little PS2 just now.
It was quick, only took 3 days to finish (approximate 3 hours in a day)
But it was also damn hard for Final Boss section and the last act.
The game was very linear, no revisitable places.
I felt regret to purchase Chicken Little PS2 as both movie and game version wasn't really good.
Well... At least the mini games are accessible.

@Anti-Matter Really? Man, who'd have thought that Chicken Little on PS2 doesnt hold up in 2021. That's just crazy.

@RogerRoger lol

That sounds more similar to Super Mario 3D World. In that game, you have multiple playable characters, and to properly 100% it, you have to beat every level with every character. Which means playing the game 5x over. Levels are short, but that's still a solid chunk of time!

This is probably the only time I'll bother replaying SMG again as Luigi, but the game is fun enough that it's not a big deal. Now that I've fully completed my Mario file, I'll just play a star or two every day until I collect all 120 and unlock the final world.

I never used to be this much of a completionist!

@Ralizah Eek, the motion controlled levels are something I'm dreading returning to. Am I right in remembering one where Mario"s balanced on top of a ball and the Wii remote had to be held upright? The water-slide-suspended-over-nothingness levels are especially annoying. I'm not sure I'll bother with the Luigi run-through again, but whenever I replay Galaxy 2 (either on the Wii or if Nintendo decide to remaster it for the Switch) I'll get all the green stars. The secret level in that is monstrous!

@RogerRoger
I haven't checked yet as i have spent 4 hours to finish the last part of Chicken Little PS2.
I saw there are 6 Mini games and the Cheat code (i have no idea the codes) but later i will check tonight.

I have a plan to consider Chicken Little Ace in Action PS2 version as from what i watched from Youtube, it seems the game was Mission based on different planets so i guess the places were revisitable after finished current places.

@mookysam Yeah, the ball balancing levels and manta ray surfing levels are both motion controlled, and they're both awful.

The motion controls in Mario Odyssey are one of the only major blemishes on that game as well.

And the motion controlled platform in that one shrine in BotW is almost inarguably the worst thing in that game

Hey, I'm starting to notice a theme!

@RogerRoger

It has been more than a year since I first beat Dragon Quest XI S on Switch and told myself I'd come back soon to complete the post-game content. I still think I will, eventually, but it does seem like when I drop a game, I drop it hard, and almost never go back.

Managed to finish The Talos Principle yesterday. It's no Portal, but it had some great puzzles to solve. Just finished the main game though, I haven’t tried the dlc. My wife was hoping for a hilarious song at the end but alas, it was not to be.

@jdv95
Nice one, yes, I'm very curious about P5 Strikers now. Just assumed it would be a rushed spin off but previews are hinting at something well worth playing.

I finally beat Suikoden after 2 years on and off. It really was brilliant and since I got every single character, it’ll be great to revisit them in the second game eventually. Tagging @Gremio108 as I did manage to get Gremio back!!

@nessisonett Excellent work young master.

As good as it is, the second game knocks spots off it. Which characters did you use the most?

@Gremio108 I actually swapped around quite a bit, mostly due to the fact characters level up to a decent level insanely quickly and some scenarios forcing you to take some people. After I recruited Milich I took him every single time though as he was a great healer. I also took all three ninjas the one time I could, when I was against Sonya. The main party members were usually Viktor, Flik, Milich, Kai and Cleo/Kirkis. I did enjoy using Fu Su Lu early game though as he’s a massive buff tiger person.

@nessisonett Nice team. I didn't realise how good Milich is until I tried to do a playthrough using the generals in my party. Sonya is pretty good. Kwanda was a bit of a tank in a similar manner to Fu Su Lu, minus the tiger gear which automatically makes him not as good.

Viktor and Flik are solid, good job too given how much you're forced to use them.

Kai's unite is a game-changer and Cleo and Kirkis are both great archers. Rubi is a sort of uber-Kirkis, but you get him too late in the game to really get attached to him. Also he's a bit of a berk.

Try taking Clive to the little graveyard in Rockland if you haven't already, for a hint of where his story is headed in the sequel. God I could talk all day about this game.

@Gremio108 I did wonder about Clive, he came really late on and was pretty mysterious. I also probably have to mention that the guy playing dice in the castle is so unbelievably bad at dice that I maxed out my money several times. That’s the only way I had enough money to upgrade my weapons to the max.

@nessisonett I don't know where the dice guy gets all his betting money from. I can only assume he's going out at night and robbing/murdering people

@Arugula interesting, I’ve just bought the series (except for LaD and Judgement... I’ll probably get them on PS5 when they are eventually released). I do think I’ll struggle with LaD though as I’ve never clicked with turn-based games, maybe it will finally convert me though... then I can go back and try all the turn based games I couldn’t previously get on with.

@Arugula good to know, it’ll take a long old time before I get to LaD though as I’m only planning on fitting one or two Yakuza games in per year... so maybe 2025ish at the earliest I reckon.

@Arugula I think the main reason that I’ll be limiting myself to 2 per year (as well as the reason you mentioned) is the time-to-plat. They all seem like pretty big time sinks, which is fine and all but I kind of like no more than 6 or 7 100 hour+ games per year too... and even then I spread them out with shorter games in between.

@Arugula After Yakuza 4 and 5, I wouldn't have thought a new protagonist would be such a problem given how much of those games see the focus away from Kiryu.

@colonelkilgore The biggest problems with Yakuza platinums are that you need to play the entire game twice, once with all sub stories completed, and to 100% the completion list you'll also have to learn how to play Mahjong and all the weird gambling games. I guess once you've learnt them once you're set though!

@Thrillho Yeah i used to have a real problem with games which made you have more than one play through (particularly open world games that do it) but as I started doing the second play-throughs, I’ve found that they can be done surprisingly quickly... what with not having to 100% everything the second time along with the knowledge accrued during the first play-through.

In all honesty, I’d probably still rather only play through the games once each though.