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Playing Witch on the Holy Night!

Minimal progress this week, hoping to go back to it during the weekend.

Playing CrossCode!

Reached Chapter 6.

I love the puzzles, in particular the temples which remind me of old PS1 RPGs like Wild Arms. They can get really tricky too, there was a couple spots where I ended up stuck and had to take a look at a guide. But overall they are my favorite parts of the game.

Combat is fun and fast paced, though I feel the amount of damage you take from enemies is way too high for a game where battles can get really chaotic. I'm having a much harder time against groups of regular mobs than bosses, mainly because there's too much going on on the screen and I often don't even notice how much damage I'm taking, or get hit with potshots coming from the edges of the screen while focusing on a bigger enemy.

The plataforming parts definitely suck. They're finicky, you'll miss jumps you should have suceeded from time to time, walking on ledges is a pain, but the biggest problem is that the 2D graphics don't do a really good job at showing height - so, so many moments where you go "sure, I can obviously jump in that direction" but it's actually on a different height. Also, some plataforming puzzles require you to go through 3+ screens and missing a single jump means a lot of wasted time.

I also played a bit of the Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter Demo and was very impressed with it - it looks and plays good, and feels like it preserves most of the charm of the original. But I'm going to keep this one on the backlog until the full game is out since I'm planning on replaying it.