Buying the Nintendo Switch was long overdue, because I’ve been playing my brother’s since 2018-ish. Not only have I completed two games on it (Xenoblade 2 and Octopath Traveler) but I’ve also identified at least five other JRPGs I could play on it.
“Identified” doesn’t mean I’m actually playing those games, though. Heh heh. Naturally I’m playing Picross S3, S4, S5 and S6 and Picross Lord of Nazarick. First I worked my way through all the Color Picross sections and now I’m doing the Mega Picross sections. All without hints or auto-correction. I feel so hardcore, not gonna lie 😀 I’d almost go so far as to say the cost of the Switch was worth it for Picross alone. I’ve been trying other nonogram games like Hana’s Story on Android, but nothing beats the slickness of Jupiter’s Picross games.
Well enough about that. I’ve gushed enough about Picross over the years. In other Switch news, I also started The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and made it some way into the second case. Ace Attorney fans, please don’t take offence but I’m not enjoying this game AT ALL. There is just too much talking, too much blatant perjury, too much frustration when all the characters overlook the most blatant evidence… I want to spoil, but I will save it for its own post once I finish the second case and have more to discuss. My bro tells me the final payoff is incredible, but I don’t know if I can hold on that long.
Other games I’m eyeing: Ys VIII and Dragon Quest XI. The former I want to buy a Pro Controller before tackling for real. The latter, sometimes I want to play it, sometimes I really don’t want to touch a DQ game ever again. I have the same mix of complicated feelings towards Triangle Strategy. It sounds good, but I’ve gone off I’m taking a break from SRPGs in recently so I can’t bring myself to hit that button and start it. Especially since according to rumor, it takes 2 hours for the first battle to take place. What is this I don’t even…
In any case, dabbling with other RPGs is just my way of marking time until Xenoblade Chronicles 3 comes out on July 29th. I dutifully watched the trailer Nintendo released, but honestly they had me at “Xenoblade.” There needs to be a setting for Nintendo to send all Xenoblade games to my Switch automatically and debit my account instead of releasing promos and trailers when I’ve already made up my mind.
BTW, speaking of promos, I also downloaded the demos for Oninaki and Monark from the EU eShop. I don’t care much for the latter, but I remember being curious about Oninaki when it was first announced. Then, nothing. I didn’t even know it was out. Did it flop? Am I just out of the loop? Anyway, a demo costs nothing but time to play so I’ll check them out… eventually.
I haven’t forgotten my list of games to play in the first half of 2022 either. This month I’m supposed to be playing FFXIII and Tokyo Xanadu eX+, but I haven’t even touched the PC folders they’re in. The hold up is actually Undernauts, which I feel like I’ve played enough of, but which I can’t let go of at the same time. So it’s not being played and it’s not letting other games get played either, what a sinful game. IIRC the problem was the game’s story interrupted my exploring flow with some quest about saving a girl I don’t care about, and my interest hasn’t recovered since.
While I screw up the courage to continue or drop Undernauts for sure, I’ll be catching up with Genshin Impact and exploring more of the Chasm. I quite enjoyed the lore update this time. Genshin has some good stories here and there, scattered through the endless talking. It should be a great game for people who pick it up… in 2025. <_< The Chasm is great though, and I still haven’t tackled Enkanomiya so that should keep me busy for a couple of days.
But really all the above is mostly lies and the only games I really really want to play are Picross and Xenoblade 3. Everything else… we’ll see.
