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What are you playing this weekend? 2025-05-30

Last weekend before Switch 2 release! How many of you have pre-ordered? Hope you all get it on launch day or as soon after it as possible!

Started Chatper 9 of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition but got stuck, I was at recommended level, but you can't use Skells during the fight, and it's kinda tough one. I also went with characters with low class levels, so grinding a bit to level up.

Finished The Surge!

The game took a bit getting into, but once I did, it was a really enjoyable game. The games isn't too difficult, and while I died more than a dozen (more than a couple dozen) but they all felt my faults, like I knew what to do, just wasn't skilled enough to do that. If there was an easy mode, I would've switched to that and just finished the game, but as it is, took 3 days to finally beat it.

Started Marvel's Midnight Suns. I am only at the beginning and have done just the first mission after creating the character, so not much to say, but it feels really good for now. As a turn based tactics game, it would've been perfect on the Switch.

What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?

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  • Started Chatper 9 of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition but got stuck, I was at recommended level, but you can’t use Skells during the fight, and it’s kinda tough one. I also went with characters with low class levels, so grinding a bit to level up.

    I think that's one of the hardest boss fights in the main story. Had to burn a couple consumable items to get past it.

    Playing Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land

    It's a good game and I'm having a lot of fun playing it, but feels more like a new RPG series from Gust than than an Atelier game.

    It lacks the relaxing, happy vibes that those games are known for, with a darker mood and heavier storyline. Alchemy is taboo, its pratictioners are shunned and hated, there's some dangerous-looking villains around, the main characters all seem to have some sad backstory.

    So if you played Ryza or Sophie and want more of that wholesome feel this is probably not the game for you, but if you love the complex crafting systems from those games and want something with more meat in the story then take a look at this one.

    Talking about gameplay, I have one criticism and one concern. The criticism is the battle system - at least on normal is way too easy and feels like you can beat most battles just spamming buttons. I did warm up to it as more systems were added, but most battles are so short that you don't really use them very often. Also, you level up ridiculously fast - I'm almost at Level 50 and looking at the map I'm barely a third into the game.

    The concern is that this game may get really repetitive over time. Exploration has been fun, but I just finished the first main area and feel like I've seen all the game has to offer in that aspect - and there's three more big areas to explore.

    On the positive side, crafting continues to be great (though I still prefer the system from the Mysterious games), there's a really neat "Base Building" system that I'm sure will have people spending dozens of hours designing their perfect home, and the mystery on the main plot has me intrigued - it has some cool "Atelier Dusk" vibes as you investigate the causes or a large-scale alchemy-related disaster that destroyed a country in the past.

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