darksnowman

Levelled. Progressed. Thought I was within an hour of finishing it. Got over the next roadblock at a mere three retries but that's me stuck again. Need to level more. Warrior learned all her abilities so I've conformed and changed vocation to monster wrangler. Will do the same with martial artist once the last ability comes through.

Any response from the clouds you're yelling at, old man? I ask because you sound like me when I go on Pokémon Unite. As for F-Zero 99, you're stuck with whatever's in rotation and the unlocks take care of themselves based on how you race/what mode you race/both. The current three lap, 9-race world tour is fun when it comes up. I'm hoping to make it through all nine races before long...

I put her in the cat ears and tail and it still didn't take the edge off the irritation I was getting from her. I played the whole game as Adol except when the game forced me to be Karja.

The demo sold me on the gameplay and atmosphere so I was looking forward to the full-game. A tweak here and there wouldn't go a miss but overall I had a very good time with it. Fantasian's been good stuff. I imagine the controls haven't been adapted properly because it's iffy if you keep running when you go between screens—learned that the hard way when I overshot a save point on the screen beside the first boss. Otherwise it's lovely. The day it came out the Switch news page wrongly said there was a demo, but there is one now if you want to give it a go.

It'll be evergreen. Had to get Reynatis that weekend.

Fortnite came up as my first-played game of the year. With another Winterfest in the offing, it's got every chance of defending its position. It's interesting to reflect on where the spending went because I reckon it's the first year I haven't bought a Nintendo game. Demos, Game Trials and the various NSO aside, it looks like I had these on: MH Rise Ys VIII RingFit (my return to this didn't last long either, @Cube) Mario Maker 2 Shiren The Wanderer DQ Monsters Lego City Undercover OutRun Ys IX Baten Kaitos Origins (fell off it since @EEVILMURRAY wasn't playing along) Chico and the Magic Orchards TOEM Link's Awakening Theatrhythm P5 Tactica FF Legends III (need to get back to it) The New Denpa Men Portal (back on it briefly, intended to get to Portal 2 around this time of the year) Doom, Doom II, Doom + Doom II Flashback Tinykin Metal Gear Solid Metal Gear Solid 2 Splatoon 3 Reynatis Castlevania Advance Collection (for Aria of Sorrow) MK 8 DX Ys X Nordics FF VI Tetris 99 DQ III Fortnite Fantasian F-Zero 99 Looks like 14 purchases and none from the Big N! At least I think I played what I bought. Not even treading water with them. Seems like since the GBA, it's always been the year of the RPG. It's little wonder you aren't drawn to your Switch. Yeah, there's definitely a cut-off for it. One other year, I tried running it again at the end of December but it didn't update. Good to see your Switch got some play last month, @martinist

To a finish. The final boss was a feel-good encounter. I cleared out everything except some buried treasure because I couldn't be bothered revisiting earlier areas. My main gripe with it was Karja. And not because of her character (cold/annoying becomes a partner for the ages)... her voice. Looked it up after a while and it's Makoto from P5. Any wonder I found her grating. If this new thing is DLC I'd probably be up for it. About time I bought some DLC. I'd pay to partner up with Dogi for once.

I have a feeling if I already played the eShop version I would probably have skipped this release too. It's very good and would have been an all-timer if I'd played it back in the day, sharing stories and pointers offline but coming to it now... I see what it brought to the table, but that's about it. Having played all the mainline DQs that are out here now, this one would probably be middle of the pack at best. Still, glad to have got 1 & 2 off the eShop before this because... if you know, you know. Mindblowing. Should have seen it coming. But sort of wish the game had just ended instead. Same. It's a slow grind. I just went for a standard party but it stopped being effective some time ago. The tip I followed was:

I was though yet to see it out. The going got so rough I resorted to looking up some tips but that only got me so far. Looks like I'll have to grind what I have or grind new vocations to get past the current boss. You play it elsewhere?

Another great year of gaming on Switch.

I'd the Lunar game on DS. I'm not one who wheels and deals with trade-ins, but that one was so bad I took it back and got a bit off Animal Crossing: WW. Would like to try out these entries as I know it's a well-liked series.

This got a mixed 35/40 (10/9/8/8) in Famitsu. That's one more than Pico Park 2's 9/8/8/9.

Yeah, I'd be more concerned with getting the games out in as good shape as they can then layer on the tie-ins after that. I don't mind the delays/ distant release dates—it's a change from the general immediacy of what's shown in the directs. If Level5 is working on refining gameplay it's all good, imo. It's that they are making these games larger and adding in decorating modes I'm not sure about.

Revealed at Level5 Vision 2024. Some info: Concept Next Yokai Watch — a cross-media project. Holy Horror Manson. Ghost Craft RPG. Platform: secret Release date: who knows Price: fair coming soon but not that soon Theme is family. Partnering with top entertainment companies, it is their largest cross media project so far. Showcase in Spring 2025 to reveal merch and media plans.

They say it was delayed to make it more fun and give it a major content upgrade. Large open areas, climbing, swimming, ride mounts, quick change between lives. April 2025.