Your 2025 Gaming Diary

[Dcubed]

KBB is great! Very fun little score attack game (and a game that clearly laid the groundwork for Kirby & The Forgotten Land).

Would love a sequel!

[nekunando]

I've taken care of a couple more missions since taking this picture last night so I'd assume I'll be close to finishing it by the end of the week!

I'm glad I waited until I was in the mood for it rather than just playing it for the sake of it on another occasion 🙂

I do find myself travelling directly to waypoints and skipping to destination whenever possible as there's no desire to spend 10 minutes riding across the country just to reach the next bit of gameplay.

The dialogue is generally well done but I don't necessarily need to hear all the chatter between locations 😅

Like I say in the post above, I'd consider Red Dead Redemption 2 if it ever comes to a Nintendo platform. The thing is, I own it on PS4 so could easily just play it there if I really wanted to!

My experience kinda makes me wonder if I need to give LA Noire another try, though it never drops below the £22.49 sale price every few weeks.

 

[Hero-of-Time]

This was released last year but the game recently got an update that gave it trophies, which meant to had to be played. 😛

The last time I played this was back on the 360. I had a great time on it back then but sadly that hasn't been the case here.

I enjoy the early Lego games due to their lack of open world stuff but this was still a slog to get 100%. You have to playthrough the Story mode, then through Freeplay mode, then through Super Story mode (six levels back to back x 3 times) and finally the Blue Minikit hunt. You are essentially going though each of the levels 4 times. It's very tedious.

With this being one of the first licensed Lego games they still hadn't got the balance right with the stud multipliers. It takes an insane amount to buy the first couple, by which time you have pretty much finished the game. This means you have to essentially farm studs at the end of the game, instead of doing it as you play through the levels.

One thing I was happy not to see return from the 360 version was the achievement for completing the Battle of Endor without the Falcon being destroyed once. This took me so long to do and so was thrilled that they left it out of this version.

Yeah, not as good as I remember it being but I do love the Platinum trophy image. 

[Glen-i]

@Jonnas, @Nolan, the two of you are on notice...

If I don't like these games, I'm siccing that Koraidon on you.
You'll never be able to enjoy a sandwich ever again.

Edited Saturday at 03:51 PM by Glen-i

[Nolan]

@Glen-i

Worth it even if you don’t enjoy the game (I think at least the story you shall).

I am actually unbelievably happy someone is playing it after my random gushing about the game. For so long I had no one to talk to about it until I gifted it to my nephew on Steam after forcibly having him try the game on my steamdeck. I literally put in the gift message I was guilting him into playing lol. 

I really like the damn game. And the music (like a ton, like listen to it out of game). Hope you enjoy the game and also start harping on people to play a criminally overlooked game

[Glen-i]

1 hour ago, Nolan said:

I am actually unbelievably happy someone is playing it after my random gushing about the game. For so long I had no one to talk to about it until I gifted it to my nephew on Steam after forcibly having him try the game on my steamdeck. I literally put in the gift message I was guilting him into playing lol.

It's the second main reason I like these Gaming Diary threads. There's been more then a few games I've only tried because someone here sold me with a glowing post about it. The stars just happened to align, both of those games are now on sale on the eShop, and I had left over funds there from Christmas.

But yeah, Cuphead, Gravity Circuit, and Suikoden are all examples of games I've discovered and enjoyed because of someone here randomly gushing about them. Still finishing up Suikoden II, so won't be jumping into these straight away. But I'll be sure to give you a heads up once I do.

Edited yesterday at 06:57 AM by Glen-i