[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

The second game has a secret dungeon that is unlocked by collecting all Djinns in both games. No Djinn is missable within their own game, but this obviously doesn't apply across games. You can miss 1 Djinn of each element in the first game and the second one will give you an opportunity to encounter them there to help you out, but that's the end of the leeway.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

New year, new games. I accidentally managed to do a triple-finish, so I really had to think about this.

I finally finished Baten Kaitos' New Game Minus! All Achievements gotten! The game finally got hard, actually. I expected the hardest part to be the fight against three antagonists at the same time. One of them gets two attacks per turn and the game forces the weakest character into your party, so it's technically a 4 on 2 fight. Oh, and you have to do it twice in a row. I thought once that was over with, the rest would be easy, but no, the final boss actually smeared the floor with me pretty hard. I actually had to adapt my decks for the first time. I ended up putting two characters on offense only and loaded up my fastest character with light element armor and the best healing items to revive the attackers who would inevitably die to anything. That strategy even worked first try!

I'll probably replace the Switch-slot with Mario and Rabbids Spark of Hope. I was going to tackle Baten Kaitos Origins next, but maybe I should take a break after everything...

I completed all Challenge Maps in Arkham Origins, too. I still insist that the game is not as bad as people say, but I cannot overlook the amount of glitches. I'm looking forward to my first playthrough of Arkham Knight eventually, but first...

The PC slot has been replaced with Nier:Automata a few days ago. I already beat the game a few years ago, but that was when I was still unemployed, so I wasn't playing a legit copy. Now I'm going after the achievements on Steam because the game is definitely worth buying.

I've also beaten Shantae on the GameBoy. I'm glad I saved all the overworld collectibles until the end, when you can just fly everywhere. That made it much less of a headache. The ending got a bit confusing though. No spoilers, but you're dropped into a tense and dangerous situation, only to find it's not at all dangerous and after five minutes of having zero clue as to what to do had to look up a walkthrough. I'm not replacing this one, three games was a mistake, but the Shantae journey will continue eventually.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 6 points 11 months ago

It doesn't help that the games you constantly see ads for are the dumbest, most brain-dead crap imaginable. I'm sure there are decent games for phones, but they don't seem to invest in advertising.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I've made little progress in Baten Kaitos' New Game Minus. Skipping past all cutscenes and dialogues and still being able to oneshot every boss is just not particularly interesting. The game truly starts when enemy encounters start to outspeed me, I guess.

This week, I also got my new PC up and running. And so I do what anyone with a beefy new PC would do: Play an older game I could have played on my old PC whenever I wanted to! I've been playing Batman: Arkham Origins. I've played the game and its predecessors on console already, but for completion's sake I'm doing them again on Steam before eventually playing Arkham Knight for the first time, which would not have run on my old PC, at least not well. I love this series. Origins isn't very well received, but I think it's underrated. It definitely has flaws, but it doesn't deserve that much hate. But to be honest, all it takes to make me happy is a set of Predator Maps with a varied group of playable characters. It's just a shame that, unlike the previous Arkham titles, I can't really complete the game. Some achievements are linked to a long-defunct online mode. It's been restored by the community, but I really don't care about it.

I also want to eventually get into the Shantae series. I've played one of them on the Wii U (Pirate's Curse, I believe?), so I've gone back to the very beginning and started Shantae on the Game Boy! The spritework and animations are quite impressive for Nintendo's old handheld brick, though I've run into some issues differentiating between foreground and background objects. The number of times I've fallen through a platform that was actually in the background is too damn high! I've only made it to the second town because I stopped to grind the money necessary to get some expensive items that unlock new moves. I'm sure I would get the money eventually, but armed with just the hair whip alone I find the game difficult in a way that's not fun.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Don't panic, but you might be a robot.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Wenn das ein Wohngebiet ist und das Auto einem Bewohner gehört, dann sollte es Lerneffekt genug sein, dass an dem Tag der Müll nicht mitgenommen werden konnte. Besonders, wenn es ein Mehrfamilienhaus ist, damit wirklich alle Mieter sauer auf den einen sind.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Sounds good either way to me.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Sie sagen 'doch nicht', ich höre 'noch nicht'.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I think the biggest mistake the show did was making it so clear who's a Skrull and who's real so early on. A secret invasion like this needs paranoia and hopelessness and I just didn't feel that.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At this point, I feel like they need to triple down on the guest characters and tracks. Tracks bases on Zelda, F-Zero, Excitebike and Animal Crossing in this game prove that it works and they're certainly more interesting than "Beach Track #12". Not to mention the roster being able to replace some of its nonsensical characters with actual ones.

[-] sdcSpade@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Im Frühling werde ich weiterhin Maske tragen, meine Pollenallergie erreicht da maximal 10% Intensität und das ist einfach nur geil. An's ofte Händewaschen hab ich mich mittlerweile gewöhnt und fühle mich sogar eklig wenn ich es mal vergesse.

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