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I'm not one to collect much of anything right now due to my situation, and as for games, if they on recent gen consoles, I'd rather use them as trade fodder when good deals arise. However, once i'm finally settled and I have a little extra scratch, i'd like to collect all the GUST Vita games (the Japanese releases) and make a display out of them. It just a little thing I'd like to do and look at.

Anyways, backlog stuff. I looked into how long it takes to beat Labyrinth of Refrain and it's at least a 55 hour game... and i'm 12 hours in. Woof. I'm glad I don't have anything coming out (that i'm getting day one) until the end of next month, because this is clearly a commitment.

Which means, i'm gonna play through Captain Toad Treasure Tracker first, as it takes maybe 10 hours to complete. I do have a copy of Go Vacation coming in the mail, but that's a leisure game, so I don't think i'll formally add it to my backlog?

Regardless, current goal is to finish Captain Toad and Labyrinth of Refrain before Remilore comes out on February 26. It's perfectly doable, it just depends on my workload and how distracted I get.

Yeah, it's different when it's a favourite series. I am normally NOT a collector of 'stuff', but if it's a Tales game I even *might* like, I can't possibly risk never being able to play it. Plus I hadn't realized that Hearts R actually came AFTER Xillia and has a very similar combat system (I love Xillia's combat system.) that should run just as smoothly. The looks of it are actually quite nice, so I don't really have any complaints about it on that account. So yeah, getting that one for sure.

It'll almost definitely end up on my backlog account for February as I doubt I'd be able to have a Tales game on hand and not play it.

I'm close to finished Ch. 4 of TTGH (Edit: Finished chapter 5, now) and I still really like the character design, but...unusual trend...they're introducing a lot of characters who are in their late teens (or possibly early twenties in some cases) and they all look about 30, lol. Which I like, but feels really weird when I know they're actually supposed to be kids or barely more than.

I decided to just barrel through the chapters without thinking about it, just to complete it once so I can write it off. I wonder which ending I'm gonna end up with. I was hoping for the Shiga ending, but...Kojirou (shown in spoiler) would be fine, too. Honestly, if I end up with any of the guy-character endings, it'll be nice, but the game definitely seems to lean toward girl endings, from what I've checked. We'll see!

I've spent the past few days playing and finishing the Resident Evil 2 remake. I have some complaints about how they handled certain things but overall I loved it and it made me super nostalgic. With that out of the way it should be a while before any shiny new releases distract me so I can focus on my backlog 100%... assuming I have the self control to avoid impulse buying random games.

Katgirl wrote:Ooooh! I played through Horizon and it's DLC when they first came out and really loved it! Granted I don't play a ton of open world style games so I haven't been saturated with that sort of thing. The world and story were the most interesting parts to me, plus the obvious hunting gaint robots with a bow appeal lol.

I'd love to hear your thoughts since when it first came out it was released the same week as BoTW and kind of got overshadowed so not a lot of folks talked about it/played it.

I'll definitely share my thoughts when I finish it! I've played quite a bit of it already but mostly side content, haven't really done much of the main story yet.

Hi everyone it's been a while hasn't it

My goal for this year is to not buy too many games before completing anything I already recently bought. For example, I've held off on getting Tales of Vesperia until I finished one of the games I got for my Switch (which I did). I'm going to be realistic with my backlog because I know deep down I'm most likely not going to finish anything more than a few hours on Steam or plug in my PS3 to play old unfinished games lol.

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It has been a while, Lon Lon. That's what I thought as soon as I saw your name. Welcome back! I've played 3 of the games on your to-do list and they were great, hopefully you really like them, too.

As for me...it's settled. I will NOT be finishing Tokyo Twilight within January. But I've got it figured out how (except for the weird mini-game that plays like a board game) so I know I can complete it...but the devs seem to have been in love with their strategic ghost-hunting battle system, and have included levels for the player, NPCs and the ghosts, which means you have to grind quite a lot to stay at a level to defeat the ghost at the end of each chapter. It's a pain in the keister if you don't love it as much as the devs did, and it takes quite a bit of time, so...yeah, it's gonna take me a while. Especially since you can only use 4 characters at once, so have to grind in batches if you need more of the characters. I think I'm gonna need to get everyone up 5 or so levels before I can get through chapter 6.

Honestly, a system where you have to level your characters up feels really out of place in a VN. (-__-) But at least I have the hang of it now so I CAN finish. It's just a bit of a chore.

Thanks :]

I'm guessing the three games you played were Vesperia, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and London Detective Mysteria? I'm holding off on XC2 for now because it's not a huge priority, I enjoyed the Torna DLC though and have the codes for the main game so once I finish other stuff I'll get around to getting it. London Detective Mysteria kind of slipped my radar even though I was excited about its localization lol I'm glad people are happy with it though.

Vesperia and KH3 are higher up on my priority list (played the 360 version so very long ago but never finished it) and I'll pick one up by the end of the week (probably KH3 to avoid getting spoiled first). Both of those plus the occasional FFXIV here and there will keep me very busy

I can't believe I'll be playing Kingdom Hearts 3 later today. Totally wild to think that KH2 came out... 13 years ago? And I'm really behind and haven't played any of the non-numbered titles so that's the last KH that I played. o:
Just absolutely crazy. Is it really out? Or is it an elaborate joke I'm not in on yet?

The summary video that Ryume linked earlier in the thread was super well done and all (Thank you again for linking it!), but I think I'll be watching it a second time because I still didn't really absorb all of that. There's just so much!
Also my little sister has never played a KH game in her life so maybe we'll watch it together so she can play KH3, haha.

Sorry Ni No Kuni II, I'll have to come back to you. I barely progressed at all and now it's getting pushed aside for a little while.
That said, I really enjoyed what I played, so I will be coming back to it!


Best of luck to everyone else embarking on the Kingdom Hearts Train today.


Edit: I played a little more than three hours straight oh KH3 and it's lovely. I had so many chills all throughout the opening. The music was so good! And the game is absolutely gorgeous and it feels like it used to. I haven't played since KH2, so it was really nice to come back to everything feeling so familiar. And the narrative is still goofy, silly, and yet still somehow mesmerizing. I'm suckered in all over again. Of course, I've only just started, so.

Now I'm just fending off spoilers like mad.

*Pouts at my unmovable thumb*

Well, I was able to take my splint off today, and I can *kinda* play Captain Toad (it's thankfully a very patient game), but it's still a bit of a trial. Gotten through a few stages, hopefully I can finish it in a day or so.

Edit: NEVERMIND. After playing a handful of stages, i'm really not enjoying myself very much. Guess i'm giving up on this one.

Yeah, those are the ones, Lon Lon

So, I got 'Farm Together' today, but as I don't think it's the type of game you 'finish', it doesn't really seem like a backlog game. Kind of like Animal Crossing isn't really a game you play to finish. Right? Well, I haven't tried Farm Together yet, so I don't know....it juuuuust finished downloading.

Meanwhile, what were my January games? Um, darned if I can remember! (EDIT: Sadly, I had to go back a few pages in this thread to figure out what they were. )
So, I should stop replaying SoS1 and get back to grinding away at TTGH, and maybe try Farm Together and see what it is like, now. February is going to be a very tumultuous month IRL, but I can't tell yet if it'll be a very quiet kind of tumultuous, or a crazy busy kind. I suspect it's going to be a stomach-knotting kind of month, and I don't yet know what that will mean for gaming progress. Feeling more like replaying old favourites than new games, atm.

Hope everyone's January started the year off well and that February will continue an upward trend.

AFTER TRYING FARM TOGETHER EDIT: So, nice looking game. Plays VERY much like a mobile game, so not really my think...I don't like games that work on a real-time clock. It's meant to be played for a few minutes and then left alone for a few hours, like app-style games...which I'm just not crazy about. But I bet my sister will LOVE it.

Been a while; Kingdom Hearts 3 had consumed my waking hours, but it's done; I just beat it. The gameplay is pretty fun and (spoilering just in case) Well, now that it's done, guess I'll focus on the last two cases of Darkside Detective I have left before diving back into Assassin's Creed Odyssey again.

Edit: I'm heavily debating dropping Odyssey. I wasn't a fan of the Assassin's Creed series for some reasons (stealth, releasing a game every year), but I thought the RPG elements of Odyssey would help give it another chance for me (This is like my 3rd or 4th try to get into the series with the last one I played being Black Flag). It's also gigantic with so many things to do, so it's daunting and I heard there are certain things that need to be finished for the best ending, and that just adds anxiety to me. I know it's not the distance of time I put between it and other games; I've been trying for a month with this game.

Ah well. In the meantime, I'm playing Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Mass Effect 2

My thumb is still healing, but I am able to play slower paced games (like turn based stuff and anything that's not time sensitive).

Right now, this is my 'backlog':
Quotations because really only Labyrinth of Refrain is part of my backlog. Both Fishing Star and Go Vacation are wind down games. The main issue i'm having with Go Vacation is that some of the mini games and traversing requires rapid button mashing, and my thumb does not like that at all rn. Thankfully, Fishing Star's button controls are nice and relaxed, so i'll probably be spending more time with it currently.

So, besides those three, I have the following upcoming:

Remilore - Feb 26
Caligula Effect: Overdose - March 12
Nelke & The Legendary Alchemists - March 26

I also went through my eShop wishlist, weeding out a lot of games that I know I don't have the attention span for these days. I'm finding I want more relaxing games with a JRPG here and there. So, I have my eye on the following;

-Cinders
-Farm Together
-Marenian Tavern Story
-Waku Waku Sweets
-Forgotten Anne

I'll most likely pick them all up once funds permit. The only other eShop titles i'm looking forward to this year (so far) are VA-11 HALL-A, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remaster, My Time at Portia, Picontier, and Indivisible.

There are so many titles coming out this year, I feel like it's going to be insanity. I've narrowed down my 'must haves' to Fire Emblem, Pokemon, Atelier, and Animal Crossing for my wallet (and sanity's) sake.

I played Waku Waku Sweets on 3DS and it appears to be the same game as is now on the Switch. Just as a head's up, it is...super basic. I got it on sale, but even so, for the content it was too expensive. It's a game I wouldn't pay more than $5 for, knowing what I know now. It feels like a game for kindergarteners, to me, it's so simplified. It barely has a story, and it's almost impossible to score much less than perfect on most of the cooking portions. Of course, ymmv, but this is what the game was for me:
On the bright side, some of the cooking mechanics were neat in that some recipes require you to roll out dough and cut out shapes, some require you to pipe filling into items, to slice fruit, to ladle filling into a shell...but even with that, it gets very repetitive very fast. But for anyone who likes the simplicity and just wants something to play idly, Waku Waku Sweets might fit the bill. I just wouldn't want anyone to pay $50 for it without knowing what they're getting.

Farm Together, on the other hand, is pretty absorbing, if you like mobile app games, but you can plant and arrange however you want and keep yourself as busy as you like...make gobs of money or focus on making a beautiful farm...I like it. Though it's a bit easy to get bored...but the game runs when you're not playing so even if you don't play for long, you can always just go back later and have a bunch of tasks waiting for you. My sister loves it. I'm already getting tired of it, but that's pretty typical of me, and it's already worth the purchase since my sister can hardly tear herself away from it even when she needs to, lol. (She's always loved this type of gaming more than anything.)

I didn't like Cinders, but that's totally a 'me' thing, not a reflection upon the quality of the game, so I don't really have any especially useful info to give there

Thanks for the advice!

I wouldn't pay full price for Waku Waku Sweets. I'll wait until it's super on sale, and it will be, eventually, i'm sure. Farm Together seems like my next purchase(or maybe Forgotten Anne, they're the same price).

Cinders might be another 'wait for sale' title, but I do have my eye on it regardless.

I figured you might not really need the advice, but I got Waku Waku Sweets on half price (and it was $39.99 on the 3DS eshop) and I still regretted having spent that much on it, lol, so...well, my tastes rarely match up with others so my opinion is kind of iffy advice, but in spite of thinking it over for a while, I couldn't not mention it.

I need to compile a list of my upcoming games on my computer because even though I've mentioned them so many times in this thread, I have to go back and look them up every time to find out what they are, lol. Wintertide Miracles is the next. An otoge, and a fan disk at that, so probably quite quick to finish. I'll just have to concentrate on remembering that one thing, lol. Surely I can remember one game.

I've been flipping between Vesperia and KH3.

KH3 surprised me. The story is still a hot mess, but the gameplay and the environments are 200% improved from KH2 IMO. I always felt like that environments in that old games looked nice, but still felt empty. Now they're lush, colorful and teeming with life! I keep swinging they camera around in awe. Combat is fun, frantic and at times so crazy I honestly have no idea what's happening and just keep mashing buttons until something dies. I'm happy I'm enjoying myself with these two games.

Next up I believe are Wintertide Miracles and Trails of Cold Steel for PS4.