Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 33 of 2025)

[Cacher]

New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I am locked in Reverse Collapse. Just past 86 hours, going through a major late-game battle at the moment. Huge map, tons of enemies, lots of great fun. Story is getting better and better, and I read somewhere that the absolute climax of the story is still yet to come. This game can probably hold me for 2-3 weeks more.

 

[Nebulys]

Finally finished Donkey Kong Bananza, so I’ve started playing No Sleep for Kaname Date: from AI The Somnium Files and loving it so far.

Still early on, though.

Also slowly playing through Super Mario World on my Analogue Pocket.

 

[edin]

I think I'm about halfway through Bananza. Want to finish that and write up my review this week. Beyond that, working on reviews for Heretic + Hexen, hunter x hunter, some more switch 2 back compat testing, subnautica iOS, and playing more Daemon x Machina / Story of Seasons I think. I picked up Ooo and a few other indies on Steam. I'll get to them later in the week.

 

[curi0usBystander]

Finished Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, and now I'm doing the remaining post game content.

 

[Cacher]

Finished the battle. It took me 4-5 hours including trials and errors. Also saw the map preview of the next stage.... you must be kidding me I am scared

 

[Ascheroth]

Been a while since I last did an update. So this is gonna be for the last couple weeks.
Star Rail: Story finale for Part 1 of Amphoreus was fantastic. Really, really, really good stuff and I'm very excited for the next update (next week already
). Fate event was a stinker though. Such a bizarre fumble,

Zenless: Really strong main story chapter and a very fun summer event. The vibes are immaculate. Might be my overall favorite patch since the beginning of the game. Let's hope the trajectory stays.

Genshin: Also a summer update - and for the first time ever, both the area and story are PERMANENT. They are learning
. Also great vibes and a super good story, with both wholesome vacation vibes and wholesome emotional gutpunches (I cried). It's wild to think it's centered on lore and character backgrounds from the beginning of the entire game. Also had a prelude chapter for the upcoming new region, which was pretty good too. The game's firing on all cylinders.

Kingdom Hearts 3: Almost done with it. I've had an enjoyable time with it overall, but I don't think I'll be there for Kingdom Hearts 4.

 

[Ascheroth]

And that's Kingdom Hearts 3 wrapped up! Still have the DLC to do technically, but I'm not sure I care tbh.
I've been wanting to play this game forever after really liking KH1 and 2 on the PS2 and it took forever to actually get here with waiting until it got a PC port (and came to Steam) and getting through all the other games inbetween, but I've done it now.
And have come to the conclusion that I don't really like the direction this series is going. The story is convoluted and poorly paced with lots of the game being inconsequental themepark filler (the Disney worlds) and the story itself is spread out over way too many games and other media, of varying quality. Ironically though the moment-to-moment gameplay in those "filler" worlds was what was actually fun, I found myself checking out more often than not during the long story cutscenes, especially at the end.
I'm gonna consider this a nice wrap-up (maybe I'll eventually do the DLC, dunno yet), but I'm very much not interested in any follow-up projects at this point tbh.

 

[Arc]

It's fine. I paid $40 and probably got my money's worth, but you can wait until it's $20 or hits Game Pass.

I've also been playing the Battlefield 6 beta and Honkai Star Rail.

 

[Mivey]

Decided go back to Hades. Great game t hat I kinda a forgot about, has been installed on the Deck pretty much since I got it. Took me a couple hours to really delve back, but managed to actually finish my first run after about 5 hours. Hoping to finish this up this week.

Continuing to make progress with Lunar 1. The heroes reached the magical city if Vane, which is of course a literal flying city. I love how cliched this game is and with so much care put into each map. It reminds me a lot of Trails, with all the bespoke dialogue for every NPC.

In addition, also making my way through Star Wars Jedi Surivor. Performance can be rough, but the game is good enough that I can deal with it. And it's luckily not a constant issue. It's a nice sequel if you enjoyed the previous title, just overall more refined, bigger and a nice focus on exploration.

 

[Parsnip]

I need to get back into Hades at some point. Or rather start over, I ultimately didn't get super far. Enjoyed it, but I think something else just took my focus and then I never went back.

Anyways, finished washing the 2 dogs couple of days ago.


Installed Crime Scene Cleaner just now as my next game.
Might also finally play Persona 5 fairly soon since I grabbed the bumble rumble.

 

[Kvik]

I'm playing RGG Gaiden. Ever since I've finished Yakuza 3, I had to take long breaks between game since the onset of burnout always come without warning. I finished Judgement in January, but as I started this game and saw the rate of the random encounters, I feel like shelving the game immediately, lol.

I thought to start Reverse Collapse while I'm flushing the burnout from Gaiden away, and I enjoyed it a lot. There's a lot of lore and I haven't had the chance to look through the documents, but the stages, wew. I'm only at stage 6 or something and already struggling to get S rank, lol. Maybe I should learn to let go and be happy with A rank.

 

[Cacher]

I thought to start Reverse Collapse while I'm flushing the burnout from Gaiden away, and I enjoyed it a lot. There's a lot of lore and I haven't had the chance to look through the documents, but the stages, wew. I'm only at stage 6 or something and already struggling to get S rank, lol. Maybe I should learn to let go and be happy with A rank.

Yeah, S rank requirements are strict on most maps. I managed to reach S rank on every map so far but I definitely saved&loaded for a lot of times for maximum efficiency.

Ch2 is where the real fun begins. in a lot of ways... Have fun!

 

[curi0usBystander]

Finished Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix, and now I'm doing the remaining post game content.

And done:

I think It's the first (and probably only time) I've bothered 100% the Gummi missions, making it the first time i've fully 100% the game.

I guess I'll move to Birth By Sleep next, but I don't have great memories of that game. But I won't jump straight into it. I'll go back to Balatro for a few days (at least) before jumping in.

 

[STHX]

It seems summer is becoming the season where while searching for some old games (which won't make the room too hot) I suddenly wake up one day and end up playing for the first time a long running series I somehow ignored for years. Last summer it was Assassin's Creed (which ended with me playing the first, ACII, AC:B, AC:R and AC:O until I found something better to do than fighting Ubisoft Connect). And well, this summer there is finally one less person in the industry who never touched Call of Duty
During the last week I played in full the campaigns of the first CoD, the expansion United Offensive, CoD2 and the first Modern Warfare (original). There isn't much to say about these titles as I'm super late to the party, but while I obviously prefer different types of games I absolutely understand the appeal. The "AAA quality" is as high as it gets for their age, the missions are ultra linear but their "script" is still well made (but the fact doors are a CoD protagonist's worse enemy will never not make me laugh). The jump in quality between MW and its predecessors however is mindblowing if played one after the other, it's no wonder future CoDs took way more inspiration from it
Playing those games on a modern OS was easier than I thought. Launch commands for the first CoD were enough to run it at proper resolutions, and CoD2 has a fan patch. MW ran without problems even without me using any extra patch (there is one but I wanted to see if it really needed one). I also tried playing World at War but alt-tabbing during the game hanged up on my whole pc its black screen forcing a restart and that's kinda one of the things that make me lose all interests in touching a game

 

[Cacher]

It seems summer is becoming the season where while searching for some old games (which won't make the room too hot) I suddenly wake up one day and end up playing for the first time a long running series I somehow ignored for years. Last summer it was Assassin's Creed (which ended with me playing the first, ACII, AC:B, AC:R and AC:O until I found something better to do than fighting Ubisoft Connect). And well, this summer there is finally one less person in the industry who never touched Call of Duty
During the last week I played in full the campaigns of the first CoD, the expansion United Offensive, CoD2 and the first Modern Warfare (original). There isn't much to say about these titles as I'm super late to the party, but while I obviously prefer different types of games I absolutely understand the appeal. The "AAA quality" is as high as it gets for their age, the missions are ultra linear but their "script" is still well made (but the fact doors are a CoD protagonist's worse enemy will never not make me laugh). The jump in quality between MW and its predecessors however is mindblowing if played one after the other, it's no wonder future CoDs took way more inspiration from it
Playing those games on a modern OS was easier than I thought. Launch commands for the first CoD were enough to run it at proper resolutions, and CoD2 has a fan patch. MW ran without problems even without me using any extra patch (there is one but I wanted to see if it really needed one). I also tried playing World at War but alt-tabbing during the game hanged up on my whole pc its black screen forcing a restart and that's kinda one of the things that make me lose all interests in touching a game

Very nice. Modern Warfare 1 was mind-blowing back then. I will never forget the sniping level and the final sequence.

 

[rickyson33]

i've been playing Daybreak 2 again lately and am somewhere in the middle of act 2-a now

I don't know what it is about the Daybreak games(I remember the same thing happened with the first one) but for some reason I keep stopping playing them for a month or two at a time before coming back to them

it's happened enough times now that I don't think it's a coincidence but I can't really pinpoint a reason either, I enjoy them quite a bit while i'm playing them and do keep coming back to them, I also don't think it's general series fatigue like I might have thought if I was coming off of the Cold Steel games where I fell off the 4th one so hard I stopped playing it for a year and had to start it over from scratch because I didn't have this issue with Reverie


i'm also finally gonna get around to jumping into Expedition 33 this weekend and play them alongside each other I think, i've been waiting till after I finished Daybreak 2 to start it but I didn't think it would take this long and i'm kinda sick of waiting since I feel like there's a really good chance i'm going to be incredibly high on that game and it's been like 4 months since it came out now

 

[Stevey]

Oblivion, Diablo 2 and Quake.

Not interested in anything new at the minute.