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What are you playing this weekend? 2024-08-02 (self.nintendo)

submitted 3 months ago by slimerancher to c/nintendo

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Not much change from last week. Playing:

Borderlands 3 , my main PS game. It is really fun, story isn't anything extraordinary but the gameplay is very enjoyable, so enjoying that. May go for a platinum, but not sure yet, depends if I am feeling same by the time I finish the game.

Horizon Chase Turbo is still in my "currently playing" list but no progress this week.

Hades is my primary switch game right now. It was going pretty good but now I am stuck at boss of region 3. In my last run, I was pretty OP and reached the boss with all my health and lives intact, still couldn't kill it.

This is what I don't like about roguelikes, if you die you have to start all over again, and you don't always get great runs. Hades is pretty good in this regard as no run feel too bad, and you progressively get better and better, but still, getting stuck somewhere and then play the whole game to reach there just to die again and again can become annoying, and most of the times I don't even reach that boss in the perfect condition.

Valkyria Chronicles, same as Horizon Chase Turbo, still playing it, but not progress this week.

What about all of you? What have you been playing?

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[–] Phelpssan 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Playing The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak!

This may sound kinda random, but one of my hobbies is mixing cocktails.

Why am I saying this? Because it's fun seeing the adult cast of this game going out for drinks and actually recognizing what they are asking for 😄. Van's sweet tooth definitely affects his taste for alcohol since he keeps asking for cocoa drinks like Alexander or Grasshopper.

Anyway, back to the game, I'm now on Chapter 5.

Chapter 4 and the Intermission were a huge boost in my interest in the playable cast. I've gotten very curious about Risette's backstory, and Aaron's chat with Van during the intermission was excellent and gave me a much better view on him. Also, Judith who was one of my favorite characters so far has officially joined the party.

The story escalated really quick after that, and right now I've reached a section where you can align with different factions depending on your choices during the game. I experiented a bit with the options I had available and they all seemed fairly similar in structure, but liked the idea overall.

Faction choices

I ended up going with Heiyue. Felt more appropriate for Van to cooperate with a "gray" faction, plus I really liked the scene/backstory between Rixia and Judith.

Really curious how the scenes with Ouroboros go, it's a choice I most definitely did not expect to see but sadly I didn't have enough alignment with Chaos to try that one.

[–] slimerancher 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Heh. The drinks look interesting.

[–] Phelpssan 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Alexander is really good, one of my favorites. I prefer to make it with Brandy/Cognac like the recipe I linked, but you can also make it with Gin for a different, stronger flavor.

Grasshopper looks and tastes like chocolate mint ice cream. If you like that flavor enough to want an alcoholic version then go for it.

[–] slimerancher 2 points 3 months ago

Well I am strictly non-alcoholic, so they aren't for me. Even without that, I am very picky about my food / drinks. Not that I don't like to try new stuff, I just rarely like the things outside of my set taste.

That being said, Chocolate Mint ice cream is my favourite.