Nothing significant this week, afraid my mindset just isn't ideal for gaming right now.

But I've been re-playing a bit Etrian Odyssey III, had forgotten how great this game is. Unlikely to play it through to the end, but it's been a good time sink to help deal with stress/anxiety.

I'd also like to mention that I absolutely love the new super-smug portrait they added for the Princess/Sovereign class in the Switch version.

I’m playing Batman Arkham Asylum.

Back into No Man's Sky after a long break.

As a Zelda fan, I'm going to experience the CDi games via Arzette which was released recently.

Just picked up an oled switch after a couple year hiatus and purchased Mario Wonder. I’m also enjoying the Mario Strikers demo. Any other recs for me?

Playing video games? I'm over here playing with my pets.

Image description: screenshot from the 3DS game Nintendogs + Cats. The image features a Yorkshire Terrier puppy, a grey tabby kitten, and a calico kitten. The dog is standing on its hind legs, front paws at the camera, wearing a blue collar with a white pattern. The two cats are a little further back, gracefully walking on the wooden floor. There are some furniture items in the background, with sunlight streaming in from a window.

I got about45 minutes into Persona 5 Royal (so almost through the intro!), but I don't think I'll be going much further with that one. I'm still playing Platinum otherwise, and debating a Fire Emblem run soon, just because it's been a little while.

Finished return to monkey Island, played some we love katamari, then started Mario rpg

The Splatoon 3 splatfest! I’m on team Saturday.

Nes Pinball on my RP4P thanks to another user somewhere on here, also still just been setting it up and will most likely put some more time into ocarina of time, never beat that one as a kid

Team Fortress 2

I just finished playing Tunic, by way of booking up on the internet some of the last puzzles because my head was starting to hurt. Now it's all a matter about what to start next: I have to choose between Pentiment on my PC or Ori and the Will of Wisps on the Switch.

I ended up playing Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons. I finished the game in one sitting, so it's not too long. I owed @slimerancher@lemmy.world a short review of this game from a few months ago!

Last time I played this game I had recently been playing Streets of Rage 4 and TMNT: Shredder's Revenge, I think I was expecting it to be like those games, but it's a different thing. I did enjoy it much more this time around. I was also playing solo, whereas last time it was co-op.

They really went for replayability with this one. The order in which you play the initial 4 stages affects the whole run, since stages will be different depending on the order you play them, which is interesting. Now that I finished the game in a certain order, I do feel like doing another run in a different order. The upgrades at the end of each stage do help, making it easier to face harder stages as you advance.

The different characters are also essential to the gameplay, as is the case in many Beat 'em ups. My playthrough was with Billy and Jimmy, and to me, Billy sucks compared to other characters. I mostly used him while recovering Jimmy's energy in the background. I already started a new run with Jimmy and Uncle Martin, who is amazing and super strong. You can unlock new characters as you collect tokens when you finish the game. I've unlocked Abobo, which should be fun to play! The tagging system adds some fun with the energy management between your two characters, and can also affect the gameplay more depending on the upgrades you choose.

The big defect I still find is how sometimes you get unlucky, and you've been doing great all stage and with one trap or succession of enemies you get your entire life bar taken out. It's like a loop of bad things happening to your character you can't stop (or maybe I haven't learned how to break this). But this happened maybe twice or three times.

Overall, a fun beat 'em up, I'm definitely going to play some more and unlock more characters, and it's a fun one for co-op too.

Still playing Paper Mario. I am at chapter 7 now. The way story is divided, I guess there would be total of 8 or 9 chapters.

Also played Mario vs Donkey Kong demo and really liked it. I was planning to get it day 1, but want to finish Paper Mario before switching to another game. So maybe in a week or two.