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What are you playing this weekend? 2025-05-23

Finished both Chapter 7 and 8 in Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition.

Doing the available side and affinity quests and Heart-to-Hearts now. I meet the requirements for Chapter 9, but am same level as recommended level (Level 33), and I prefer to couple of levels higher than the recommended level, so may do more surveying, after completing the available side quests.

Beat the boss in The Surge using the difficult way and got the better version of the weapon.

Went to next area, cleared that, went back to second area (3rd visit now! And I think the last required one), then went to next area, did some stuff, and now at the next boss!

I think it's the second last boss, but I can be wrong. Would be trying to beat this boss, and reach the final boss over the weekend, let's hope I don't get stuck.

I couldn't play PlanetSide 2 over the weekend, so during the week, just took out some time to give it a try.

I use Linux, and I had already looked it up, it runs without any issue on Linux (using Steam Proton). So, started the game, it asked me to create an account first, something I find pretty annoying, but since I was on computer, it wasn't too big of a deal, made an account, verified the account, and then tried to run it again.

Got the Live play NOT_ENTITLED error, some people mentioned that if you install game in non-default location you get that, things like that, finally turned out, you get that when installing from Steam, so first have to download from site and sign in, after that it will work fine with steam.

So, downloaded the setup file from the site, but while I use Proton, I don't have wine installed, and didn't want to install it either, so tried running it with Proton for a bit, but it didn't work, so I just gave up.

Will give it a try, if it comes to console one day. Otherwise, don't care about it anymore.

Also played some Streets of Rage 4 . What a great game. Even better than Shredder's Revenge, IMO. Played solo, have the reached the last stage, if the map on loading screen is to be believed.

Will play again with my kid.

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

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I’ve gone back in time. Finally playing Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga. I skipped this franchise when I was younger because I didn’t think it looked as cool as Legend of the Seven Stars. The battle mechanics are actually better than that game. Hopefully I’ll get to all of the games.
- I just noticed the game is in NSO, will wait you final verdict and then give it a try some day.
  
  I’ve gone full iPhone for all the retro stuff. Along with a backbone remote.

Finished Xenoblade X!
The extra content from the DE went into a very different direction than I expected. It was cool having a new area to explore, though not having the minimap available during that part sucked.

About the final battle... not much to comment because Ares 90 did its thing and one-shotted the boss. 😆

Also, I seriously can't believe that they didn't give you a certain character back even as post-game bonus.
Playing Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
Not sure it was a good idea to start another big open-world JRPG after 90h of Xenoblade X, but here we are.
Yumia is a cutie, and it's pissing me off seeing some of the NPCs discriminating against her due to alchemy having a bad name in this world. Which is also a surprising plot point since these games tend to be all positive and wholesome, though I don't imagine this negativity will last long.
I'm still early in the game (just cleared the lighthouse) so I'll refer to my comments from the the demo for more impressions.
- Ooh, cool, though not going to read the spoilers yet. Will get back to them after finishing the game, so maybe in a few months 😀
  I really liked Atelier Ryza, but it wasn't what I was expecting. How is the gameplay of Yumia compared to Ryza?
  
  How is the gameplay of Yumia compared to Ryza?
  It's way more open-world, clearly taking inspiration from BOTW and similar games. Battle system is similar to Ryza's but even more fast-paced, and also includes more action elements like positioning and dodges.
  Definitely recommend the Demo if you want to have an idea what the game is like.
  
  Ditto on the spoilers. I’m saving the post to come back and read it later.

Street of Rage 4 is so good! I finished it a bunch of times and still find it fun to play. Last week we did a run online with my cousin, we got up to the last boss and didn't finish it, but we'll pick up where we left off next time.
I've been playing Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. I had started it way back when it came out, but started a new save file. I'm hyped about Age of Imprisonment, it'll hopefully look great and have no performance issues on the Switch 2. Not sure if I'm going to finish it, I finished the first one on Wii U and then the Definitive Edition on Switch (the adventure and other things, too much content to 100%!). I'm enjoying it, but mostly thinking how good it'd be on better hardware 😅
- Still trying to get through Age of Calamity myself. Will hopefully be the next game I finish. I’m one of those people that likes leveling up equipment and trying to 100% stuff, but sometimes burn myself out in the process.
  
  I went into it thinking "I'm definitely not going to 100% it". But while playing, it kind of encourages you to do all the side stuff, level up and get the not completely necessary but nice to have things 😅 I think it has no chance if I don't finish it before getting Mario Kart World 👀
- I played a ton of Age of Calamity, but didn't finish it either. It was my fun Warriors game, so enjoyed my time with it though.
  
  It is fun though 😆 It has more story than BotW which is entertaining at times. And it's not too stressful and fun to progress and get more powerful characters and weapons and such.
  
  sigh Just noticed I said "fun", when I meant to write "first"!

Finished my trading for the school year, so it has been a busy gaming weekend. Started Friday night with some Xenoblade Chronicles X. I finally passed level 50, so I treated myself to three new level 50 skells. I should probably watch some class videos to better understand the systems involved, but for now, I’m just finishing some affinity missions and basic missions before starting chapter 12. I was surprised by the chapter requirements:

I headed over to my friend’s place for board games yesterday. I played Jaipur which is most notable because I hadn’t played it since March 2nd, 2017 as my friend and I were waiting to buy the Nintendo Switch at a midnight launch. That was my first win of the day.
We played Penguin Party, a simple shedding game where placing penguins cards in a pyramid shape leads to more limited placement possibilities (ending with my elimination in all four rounds).
We broke out the massive game On Mars, spent a good hour learning it, another forty-five struggling to finish the first turn just to prove to ourselves that we understood the rules, then put it away since another player had arrived and On Mars only allowed for four players.
With five, we played The Crew, one of my recent favorites. It is a trick-taking game like Spades, but it is cooperative. Each round has missions (like one player can’t take any tricks or one player must take all of the threes in each suit by the end of the round). In all, we played sixteen rounds with ten wins, six losses. Hooray! (We discussed a new game that is out called “The Gang” where you are cooperatively playing Texas Hold-Em. I look forward to trying it one day, maybe at Dice Tower East this July).
We played Quacks of Quedlinburg, a bag-building, push your luck game. I played the most conservatively I’ve ever played in the game and got a well-deserved last place. I think that game is wonderful, too.
We ended the day with Cabo. I managed to pull off a final round Kamikaze, giving everyone fifty points and taking the win by forty-five in all. I may never play so lucky a game of Cabo again!
Octopath Traveler Champions of the Continent has been draining my battery as usual. I spent four hours playing through story content this morning! I’m having a blast running into Octopath Traveler II characters and remembering why I prefer the mobile game (parties of eight make so much more sense in a game called Octopath!).
- lol, you started with a win in Jaipur so expected today is going to be a day full of wins! 😀
  I just started Chapter 9, and got beaten up pretty bad. It has a fight where you can't use a Skell. So, just grinding by doing random stuff.

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