Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 52 of 2025)

[Cacher]

WEEK 52! What are you playing?

Continuing Super Robot Wars V. Just cleared Scenario 28 (/52), so slightly less than halfway to go. The story is great. It has to be a lot of work to consolidate the stories of all these mecha shows into three timelines with convincing background story. There are also some story branches (as expected from a SRW game), and after some considerations, I decided to aim for going through all Cross Ange stages in this playthrough because I have fresh memories on the show.

I'm also reading the event story of Girls' Frontline 2. This is a long one so it should take me a few days to finish. Also trying to get through some high difficulty stages. Fun stuff.

I usually start reading a visual novel around Christmas, but looking at what's on my plate... I will focus on these first.

 

[edin]

Inazuma, Cast n chill, rogue trader, (redacted), (redacted), deep rock galactic survivor, and wrapping up kcd2 this week.

 

[curi0usBystander]

Dragon Quest II HD-2D: Finished the game, did the post game and got the True ending. Honestly I liked it.

After all these years I've finally started Kingdom Hearts III, finished the first world. So far I'm gonna say that the pacing of cutscenes has gotten worse.

 

[Ascheroth]

Played through the new Star Rail story. Unfortunately wasn't the biggest fan of it.

Played more Another Crab's Treasure and while fun I also think I've kinda gotten my fill?
So I've been browsing through my library.
Booted up Steelrising again now that I have a new graphics card, unfortunately it still runs like ass while not looking particularly good. Dropped again.
Played a bit of Monster Hunter Stories again. Still really like it. Just super charming and fun. Definitely need to properly get back to it.
But Hi-Fi Rush jumped out at me and I think I wanna prioritize that.

 

[Stevey]

Been playing Farthest Frontier and Blood: Refreshed Supply.

 

[Mivey]

In the Final Chapter of Trails in the Sky 1st. Feels quite a bit longer than I recall from the original, You get a better sense for Grancel as a location, which ironically mostly just highlights how absolutely tiny it is. Of course Liberl is supposed to be a small country, but like, there are some villages in later games that aren't far off in terms of real estate to Grancel. The location is super beautiful, though.


Also nearing the end of Metroid Prime 2, which I'm playing to get caught up on the games in preparation for Beyond. MP2 is mostly a re-run of the first game, but still surprisingly fun despite that. A few bad boss fights aside (Spider Guardian), it's way more entertaining than it has a right to, given how much of a copy of the first game it often is.

 

[DrShrapnel]

I’ve been playing Banishers Ghosts of New Eden, and it’s one of the first times where I’m interested in a game’s dialogue.

 

[lashman]

I’ve been playing Banishers Ghosts of New Eden, and it’s one of the first times where I’m interested in a game’s dialogue.

DONTNOD are pretty good with that, yes

 

[Durante]

I wanted to play some western ARPG over the holidays. Originally I was planning on Avowed, but since the update for that was delayed I decided on Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

I'm having a great time with it so far, honestly. Walk around, take everything not nailed down, cheese enemies far too high level for you with magic, perform silly side quests for silly characters, you know the drill.
Perhaps paradoxically, it feels good to be back to playing an action RPG that is not focused on providing the most balanced and visceral combat experience.

The beginning is super grimdark and I was afraid it would stay that way consistently, but once you get to the main game it gets more varied. Still trying really hard to be grim, but not overwhelmingly so IMHO.

 

[edin]

I wanted to play some western ARPG over the holidays. Originally I was planning on Avowed, but since the update for that was delayed I decided on Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

I'm having a great time with it so far, honestly. Walk around, take everything not nailed down, cheese enemies far too high level for you with magic, perform silly side quests for silly characters, you know the drill.
Perhaps paradoxically, it feels good to be back to playing an action RPG that is not focused on providing the most balanced and visceral combat experience.

The beginning is super grimdark and I was afraid it would stay that way consistently, but once you get to the main game it gets more varied. Still trying really hard to be grim, but not overwhelmingly so IMHO.

Did you run into many progression issues or other bugs? I heard the latest major update/DLC was a bit unstable so I've been holding off on playing. I got it a few months ago.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I finished Powerwash Simulator 2! Like its predecessor the sequel is a fun game that put me in some kind of zen state, it's perfect to play while listening to music or a podcast.