Last Game You Played

[Kyng]

RimWorld

I'm about two thirds of the way through my first year now - and I have 6 colonists. I still have my starting three; one was a prisoner who got recruited; one joined voluntarily; and one found refuge with us after fleeing from a nearby colony. And I do still have my starting three.

I'm in the process of building a greenhouse so that I can grow food year-round. However, operating the greenhouse requires Sun Lamps - which can generate the light required for plants, but which consume a massive amount of power. So I need some means of generating all that power - which is going to need lots of wind turbines (and essentially solar panels!)

[Moonface]

Pathogenic (PC)
Did the daily like I do every morning, died during it, and decided I wanted to at least get a winning run before stopping so tried doing the Recombination experiment with the Nanobot. Ended up being so overpowered I entered an Endless Run and went for the Brain boss for the first time.

Minecraft: DeceasedCraft v5.11.19 (PC)
Been enjoying this a lot since it received some major updates that made it worth jumping back into it with @ShiraNoMai. Currently we're trying to decorate and fortify our base, and I'm glad we're both playing because it would be a nightmare trying to put up walls and stuff by myself while zombies keep trying to attack me. I'll know if she reads this because I'll probably get looked at like I'm crazy but I'm starting to get a little tempted to enable the zombie animals that are locked to Apocalypse difficulty.

Slay the Spire 2 (PC)
Daily runs as usual given there isn't really much else to do except do runs for the fun of it until a new update drops, which might be a while since the developers were taking some time off recently.

Balatro (PC)
I have one challenge left to do in the game which is Jokerless, and I hate how many times I've come so close to winning only to draw bad hands repeatedly, even when I think I've set my deck up to avoid doing it!

[Mr EliteL]

Mario & Luigi Brothership

Hadn't played it for a while, pretty since I was doing the Archipelago run when I was playing Superstar Saga. Brothership is unfortunately not as good as SS and made me realise that more when I played it again today, as I was furthering some progress on in Brothership. Feels slow to play, but I'll try to continue through until the end. Not sure where I am at the moment and how much I have left. I might be 1/4 of the way, but that's just a guess.

Omega Labyrinth Life

I got this game quite a long while ago mainly because I wanted to have another game similar to Izuna and Touhou Genso Wanderer, and yes this game plays like them which I'm happy with. There is more to it than that however one being a simple flower planting side to it which is nothing really, but some stuff I should have checked beforehand too. It was on like a £20 deal though! Still, won't bother me anyway.

[Dragon Lord]

Paper Mario (NS)

Started up this game last week finally, got to right after defeating the Ninja Turtle knockoffs, and then my Switch died. Sadly found out the hard way that even if you save the game while playing, if you don't actually close the game at all and your Switch dies, NSO won't actually keep your saves so I had to start over from the beginning. Thankfully I wasn't too far into the game, but still kind of killed my interest in the game a bit so going back through what I've already played has been a very slow progress.

Pokemon Heart Gold

Been playing this on my AYN Thor and it's been an absolute blast experience the game with such higher quality screens and improved textures. Right now I'm at Goldenrod City working on my Eevee's happiness so I can evolve it into Espeon immediately, so I'll be stuck here for a while.

Elden Ring: Nightreign (PC)

Continuing my journey to try and get to Depth 5 in Deep of the Night, but it's not going too well. The closest I've gotten is Depth 4 at 4,900/6,000 points. Went on a horrid losing streak due to some horrendous teammates and am now back down in Depth 3. Think I went on like a five or six game losing streak. I can definitely see why a lot of people don't recommend trying to get to Depth 5 in random trios, because you can end up with some really, really bad teammates. Then you start playing really badly because you're trying to be too aggressive and get impatient and start making a lot more mistakes than normal.

What really sucks though is that in Depth 4, you only get 150-300 points per win, depending on the conditions of the match, but every loss is like 500-600 points. So it only takes one loss to undo 3-4 wins. But I'll continue trying to claw my way there. Getting to Depth 5 is the only thing left in the game I haven't accomplished, so I'd like to get it done and then maybe I can start pulling myself away from this game a little bit more.

Vernal Edge (PC)

This is a game I've had for quite a while on Steam, but never got around to playing it. However, I've noticed that physical copies of the game for PS4 and PS5 are starting to become more scarce, so I wanted to finally get around to trying it so I can see if it's something I'd enjoy enough to go out and get copies of it for those systems before they become too expensive/hard to find. So far it's decently fun. Nothing too ground break in the Metroidvania scene in terms of its exploration, but I do kind of enjoy that they attempted to make the combat more combo focused instead of as basic as it is most of the time in these types of games.

[Kyng]

Transport Fever 2

I'm up to 1935 in this game (started in 1850), so I'm roughly halfway to the present from where I started .

One thing I've found is that this game feels a lot 'smaller' than the original Transport Fever. City growth is quite a bit slower: at this point in the game, my largest cities have between 800 and 900 people in them - whereas in the original Transport Fever, my largest cities would've had about 3,000 people at this point in the game! With so few people, it's not a good idea to build railways connecting every city to every other city: you have to be a bit more selective with which connections you make.

(With that being said, I can't help but think that, in this game, 'person' is a somewhat abstract notion. It doesn't mean those cities literally only only have 900 people in: that wouldn't be much of a city . Rather, I think of them as "units of population", each of which represents multiple actual people!)

[Moonface]

Paper Mario (NS)
Started up this game last week finally, got to right after defeating the Ninja Turtle knockoffs, and then my Switch died. Sadly found out the hard way that even if you save the game while playing, if you don't actually close the game at all and your Switch dies, NSO won't actually keep your saves so I had to start over from the beginning. Thankfully I wasn't too far into the game, but still kind of killed my interest in the game a bit so going back through what I've already played has been a very slow progress.

This makes so little sense to me considering NSO games can be played offline for up to 7 days before you have to reverify your membership, and being offline means your saves aren't being kept on the NSO service or even communicating with it.


Slay the Spire 2 (PC)
It has been a long time since a daily run was so utterly shit it made me ALT + F4 the game. Tried it last night in co-op with Shira, we died within like 3 floors. Tried again, did a little better, but the whole time I was plagued with the gripe I have with the daily which is the card rewards were just awful. Single player this morning didn't fare much better.

Balatro (PC)
Trying to beat the Orange stake on the red deck, but haven't managed to get a good build going yet. Gave up for now when I skipped a blind for a free polygraphic Joker only for it to be hit with the Orange stake condition of only lasting for 5 rounds before it poofs.

Pathogenic (PC)
Did a few more experimental runs to get the achievements for them.

Minecraft: All The Mods 10 (PC)
Haven't played this mod pack in a long while but wanted to go back to it while I wait for DeceasedCraft to get its next update. Been trying to work through a new mod that was added called NeoVitae but I'm currently stumped at how to get a good source of blood going for the higher tier rituals. Anything I've tried so far causes the blood to run out faster than I can replenish it which then makes the ritual get cancelled. >.<

[Dragon Lord]

Yeah, I don't get it either. Thankfully I wasn't too far into the game, so it didn't take long to get back to where I was.

Elden Ring: Nightreign (PC)

Continue to be stuck in Depth 4 hell. I'll go on a great run of 4-5 wins in a row, but then get one loss and all of the progress is just instantly gone. Kind of mad at myself for my last game tonight, which resulted in a loss. It was against Dreglord, who I am very good at fighting, and my teammates kept dying (I hadn't died at all). He had about 50% health remaining in phase 2, which I can no-hit pretty reliably, but instead of just focusing on fighting him and slowly getting the win, I didn't want to leave my teammates down just to sit there and watch for 5-10 minutes. So I kept trying to revive them, but unless you're playing Guardian or Revenant, who both have Ults that can instantly revive from 3-bars, it's nearly impossible to revive two teammates on your own while dealing with boss aggro. Which eventually resulted in me taking my eye off of the boss at the wrong moment and that snowballed into me finally going down for the first time in the fight. Our Revenant had a Wending Grace (revives you if you're holding it and the entire team goes down), but seemingly didn't have their Ult charged and ended up dying immediately again.

If I had just ignored my teammates and just focused on fighting the boss, I could have easily beaten him and got us the win. But instead I wanted to be a "good teammate" and try to get them up so they could actually play the game. Very dumb decision on my part for two reason:

1) As I mentioned, I'm capable of flawlessly fighting this boss and I could have pulled out the win on my own, even if it would have been a bit of a slog.

2) They both repeatedly died multiple times right after being revived, so I should have been smart and knew that even if I got them back up, they'd just both immediately die again.

After this experience, I'm definitely just going to leave my teammates on the ground next time it's against a boss I'm really good at fighting and I know I can win without them after they've both died repeatedly. Sometimes being a "bad teammate" is the best thing you can do for the team. If I ever want to reach Depth 5, I need to stop risking runs like that just to try and make sure everyone can be involved in the fight.

Paper Mario (NSO)

I'm in Dry Dry Desert now, still pretty early in the game. Really not sure if I'm liking this game so far though. How long it takes to level up and how much of a slog battles can be at times really eats away at the enjoyment. I really don't like how the game works with damage either. Like the game gives you almost no incentive to increase anything other than HP on level ups, because when everything only does 1-4 damage to you, just pumping your HP can be the only thing you need to do to trivialize the entire game. Maybe later in the game things hit harder and that's where you want more FP/BP to spam specials/have better badges equipped, but so far the game just seems like there's no point in anything other than HP and just being too bulky for anything to even threaten you.

I'll of course wait until I'm through most of the game before forming solid judgements on anything, but if the early parts of the game are anything to go by, I don't think I'm going to hold this game too highly by the end of it.

Pokemon HeartGold

Haven't been doing anything in this game except for giving Eevee haircuts every day to get that happiness up. I will not leave GoldenRod city until I have a level 6 Espeon.