Switch 2 is here! Well, not mine, but in general. Should be getting mine soon though. How many of you have gotten it already? And how are you liking it so far?
Finished Chatper 9 of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition ! I was expecting this to happen in the story, it was kinda predictable. Still, interesting to see.
Got the flight module after that, and now I can fly everywhere! Completed FrontNav of Noctilum, and now just running around doing affinity missions so that I can be couple of levels above the recommended level to start the next chapter.
Played a good amount of Marvel’s Midnight Suns. It seems to me that I am spending lots of time in the Abbey, instead of doing the fighting. Not that abbey parts are boring. It’s interesting to see the super-hero drama. There’s tons of dialogue. I think I am on day 7 or 8, so not too long in grand scheme of things but haven’t heard a single repeated line, IIRC.
Trying to most of the side missions before continuing with the main missions, so this will probably take a long while to finish. I am around level 7 now, and have unlocked lots of abbey areas.
Characters unlocked
I have unlocked Spider-man, and the next main mission is with Dead Pool, and I am assuming will unlock him. Also have some locked missions with some other new characters like Morbius.
Also started Ghost of Tsushima.
I originally played it a while back on PS+ Extra, but then my sub expired when I was just about 10-15 hours in. So bought it on on-going sale and downloaded it when I was near the end of The Surge, but when I finished it, I didn’t want to start another melee action game right away, so went with Marvel’s Midnight Suns.
Then my kid started playing Ghost of Tsushima Legends (MP part of the game), and I saw him playing it and got the itch to play it myself. And here I am.
I am apparently in the start of Act 2, but was hadn’t done any main mission yet and was clearing the first area, so continued with that and have completely liberated the firs area now. Going to start on the main mission in second area now.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
Yeah, flying around your skell is pretty fun and speeds up taking care of the small stuff.
Well, Switch is my favourite console, and I just wanted a faster Switch with Switch 2, so don’t really have any reason to not buy it.
I never finished Atelier Ryza, but didn’t it have a similar theme about people frowning upon Alchemy and an old kingdom getting destroyed because of it?
Me too, but I’d rather wait a bit to see if there will be hardware-related headaches on this first batch of consoles. And while the extra processing power would be nice (see my comments on the Switch 1 struggling with Yumia), it’s not like there’s any games I really want to play for that platform right now.
There was a plot point about an old kingdom self-destructing due to the abusing alchemy, but it didn’t reflect much in the present - alchemy was mostly forgotten, Empel and Ryza weren’t subject to heavy discrimination and so on. They also didn’t focus much of the story around it, it’s more about Ryza and friends growing into adulthood.
In this game almost everyone treats Yumia’s with suspicion and/or disdain at first, like a criminal who is “allowed” to use her skills because they need her for the expedition. The plot is almost entirely around the exploration of a kingdom similar to the one mentioned in Ryza, except this time we are going much deeper in detail in their misdeeds and abuses. Plus, the main villains of this game are people related to that kingdom that continue to abuse alchemy to this day, and almost every single party member has a tragedy in their backstory related to alchemy.
Yeah, for most people, unless they want MK: World, there isn’t much need to upgrade right away. I have various justifications for getting Switch 2, but it drills down to a simple thing, I want to get it. 😀
Agreed about Ryza part. Yumia sound much darker.