Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 46 of 2025)

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New week, new thread! What are you playing?

In preparation for the upcoming 1st anniversary of Girls' Frontline 2, I have been putting a lot of time into it. After reading through the great event story, I turn my focus onto the roguelike mode. This is my favorite gameplay mode in the game despite the fact that it takes nearly an hour to complete 1 run. Like most roguelike games out there, players need to go through a map to collect modifiers in order to beat the final boss. The mode is easy but satisfying to play through, and some relatively "useless" characters can still shine thanks to the modifiers. For example, some mobility-based characters have niche usages in normal endgame, but in this roguelike mode, there's a upgrade path which allows characters to deal damage by just running and stopping near the enemies. It's very amusing to watch these high mobility characters just wandering around the map and everything near the pathway explodes to death.

Apart from GFL2, I have also returned to Reverse Collapse and completed a few stages in NG+. Very satisfying to obliterate everything thanks to the continued progression from the first playthrough. Also played Harvestella a bit. Just started Chapter 3B.
 
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I started the Onimusha 1 remaster which is pretty nice, despite playing like Resident Evil with swords it doesn't feel oppressive or scary which I appreciate and it's very clear it's an early PS2 game.
I also started Clair Obscur Expedition 33 which after a very serious and sombre prologue quickly turned into a typical lighthearted and quirky JRPG despite still being about inevitable death, horrors of the past and all that. I really like it.
Earlier in the week I played through Xanadu Next which was a huge surprise for me despite being on my wishlist for ages. It's so good.
 
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Now that I've finished Silksong I put some more time into Silent Hill f. I'm actually enjoying the gameplay much more now (11 hours in) than I did earlier. I'm just not that much of a survival horror guy, and now that I have enough resources so that I can think "I hope there are more enemies so I can use up my current weapon and get the one back there before moving on" rather than "Oh no another enemy I have to run from" I'm enjoying myself much more. Sue me :P

I also started playing Last Command on the Steam Deck. Very unique game, quite challenging at the default difficulty.
 
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On the weekend I've reached the point of no return in Cyberpunk 2077, and cleared my first ending of the game: The Tower

It is also the ending of the Phantom Liberty expansion, and what an ending it was.

Having played a lot of VNs over the years, I suppose you can categorically call it a "bad ending", but after thinking about it a bit more overnight, I'm beginning to think that it is actually closer to the "true ending". The decisions V has made throughout the expansion ultimately lead up to the one of the most bittersweet, yet also poignant, ending I've had the pleasure to play.

As the player, it may be difficult to accept such an ending, especially considering the experiences and the connections V has made, but based on the dialogue choices alone, I think they have come to terms with their decisions and made peace with it. The writing here is powerful, too, and I feel the VAs has done an excellent job conveying the emotions during the finale.
 
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I started Othercide. Digging it so far but only a few hours in.
It's visually quite striking in the Sin City kind of way, works very well.

Blizniak said:
Earlier in the week I played through Xanadu Next which was a huge surprise for me despite being on my wishlist for ages. It's so good.
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Kvik said:
On the weekend I've reached the point of no return in Cyberpunk 2077, and cleared my first ending of the game: The Tower

It is also the ending of the Phantom Liberty expansion, and what an ending it was.

Having played a lot of VNs over the years, I suppose you can categorically call it a "bad ending", but after thinking about it a bit more overnight, I'm beginning to think that it is actually closer to the "true ending". The decisions V has made throughout the expansion ultimately lead up to the one of the most bittersweet, yet also poignant, ending I've had the pleasure to play.

As the player, it may be difficult to accept such an ending, especially considering the experiences and the connections V has made, but based on the dialogue choices alone, I think they have come to terms with their decisions and made peace with it. The writing here is powerful, too, and I feel the VAs has done an excellent job conveying the emotions during the finale.
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I thought that ending was presented more negative than it was; and I figured it was the best of them all, in the end.
Some more thoughts in spoilers:
Something the game is unlikely to acknowledge, but my V was a multimillionaire by the end (I assume most people ended their games with tons of money in the bank), so I dont think she would really need cyberware for a good life (although its a bit unclear how much worth a million even has in that world, the prices were all over the place).
She wasnt a struggling nobody anymore. She lost people, but we also only saw shock reactions ... most of these relations could be repaired in some way over time, especially when telling them "hey, I was in a coma for 2 years" (and, crucially, V couldve just let people know beforehand what she's about to do...).
But I'm sure CDPR did it this way to balance out the endings, so its not all positive - "hey, we found a solution, V will live without consequences". I think they deliberately didnt want good/bad/whatever ending categories.

And a final takeaway, I dont know if it was from this ending/Phantom Liberty specifically, but V had really grown on my as a character, more than most video game characters I remember; in a way that I cared about her fate, and didnt want the game to be over.
 
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I'm trying something new where I make a big list of games I started but never finished and try to tackle those to distract me from the FOMO for new releases. I finished Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster over the weekend which was a great time. I'm now playing Dynasty Warriors Origins (I was only on Chapter 2) and reading Muv-Luv (still very early on). :heroblob:
 
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