A bit early to tell. There’s a lot of things being set up in all three routes, so the payoff will say how this game will end up in my ranking.

But I will say it’s looking very promising so far.

Playing Trails Beyond the Horizon!

Currently on Act 3, Van Route 4. The end of the previous act was a very interesting surprise and a great character moment.

Fully focused on Horizon so no progress on other games.

why not just upgrade to Switch 2

I will pick one up eventually, but right now it’s being held back by the combo of “only Bananza as an exclusive I care about”, “high console price”, “high SD Express price” and “game key carts”.

Besides Bananza the only Switch 2 games I have in my wishlist are “Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave” (no release date yet) and “The Adventures of Elliot” (June). All recently announced ports fall into “if I cared about those I’d already own a PS5”.

$450 for the Switch 2 is pricy, adding another $200 if I simply want to have the same 1TB I have on the Switch 1 makes it sting a lot more. Simply letting me use my current SD card for my existing Switch 1 library would’ve been a huge deal.

Game keys make everything much worse - I refuse to buy those as a game collector, so for a lot of games I’d end up picking up the Switch 1 version anyway (this includes Trails Beyond the Horizon) or wait for a heavily discounted digital (meaning I wouldn’t be playing them for 1-2 years). And it also adds to the storage problem too.

Playing Trails Beyond the Horizon!

Quite a bit of progress, I’m on the latter half of Act 2 having just finished the second part of the Rean route.

Seems like the route splits aren’t quite like Reverie, with Van’s side taking most of the playtime (I’d say his team gets 50-60% of the game), but despite their reduced playtime the other two routes have been far more interesting. The end of latest Rean section brought a major reveal that has me extremely interested in direction the story is going alongside a long-waited battle where they nailed both custscenes and challenge.

One thing I haven’t commented before is the quality of the Switch 1 version, which has some really odd problems - it keeps going back and forth between “this looks pretty good” and “extremely low-res and blurry” very abruptly and all the time. It’s very distracting, and given how much worse it looks than Daybreak 1/2 (which AFAIK runs on the same engine) I think something is wrong in this port.

Fully focused on Horizon so no progress on other games.

My wishlist is kinda empty for “major” releases right now.

If I get a Switch 2 I’m interested in the new Fire Emblem (plus Bananza which is already out), and maybe Adventures of Elliot depending on the reviews. Other than that I only have the two games from Falcom (Kyoto Xanadu and Trails in the Sky 2) and the new Professor Layton game.

Of all of these I think only Adventures of Elliot has a release date and it’s only in June!

Mario Tennis is not my cup of tea.

I’ve tried DQ games before but I almost never liked them enough to finish, 5 being the main exception. So while I might give 7 a shot it’s probably a “pick it up with a big discount” situation.

Wow, it’s friday already? This week flew by so fast, was really busy with my new job.

Playing Trails Beyond the Horizon!

Finished Act 1, and looks like from Act 2 onwards we’ll get a split storyline between Van, Rean and Kevin.

I went with Rean’s route first, and this section has them arriving at Basel, learning the lay of the land then going into a mock battle against the Republic’s new mech, the beautiful Excalibur.

Van’s route will be next.

Playing Super Robot Wars Y!

DLC2 has arrived so it’s time to get back to this game.

This DLC includes Steel Jeeg which got a LOT of love in the animation department, plus an alternate universe Getter Robo and Da Garn from the Brave Series.

So far this DLC has been on the easy side, I guess it isn’t balanced for endgame units with Level 99+ and tons of upgrades, but I’m having fun. Curious if the new storyline will be as interesting as the one from DLC1.

With two of my favorite series to keep my busy and a lot to do at work I didn’t get any progress on Hades 2 or Witch on the Holy Night.

Thankfully there’s no major game release I’m interested this month and we have an extended holiday coming soon (Carnival!) so I hope I’ll be able to go back to these games soon.

I like it a lot. It was clearly developed by Falcom’s “B-Team” but has a lot of heart.

It’s a mix of Ys-style action gameplay (though not as polished), current-world setting with supernatural elements like Persona, and Trails-style sidequesting. Cast is great, story is classic anime-style “superpowered high-schoolers fighting monsters” and they fully embrace it, I love how they even replay the game opening at the beginning of each chapter as it if was a new “Episode”.

The OST is amazing.

Excited for Kyoto Xanado (I love the previous game), and good to get a release date for the Aventures of Elliot.

Not much else for me though. Tons of ports of games I don’t care enough or I’d already own a PS5.

Yes! And in two weeks we have an extended holiday here in Brazil for me to play like crazy.

AdHoc absolutely deserves the beating they’re taking. Even if they had no way to prevent the censorship they should’ve announced this a long time ago.

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Playing Hades 2!

Finally got a win over the “surface” path boss! Though it seems like I’ll need to do it a few more times to progress. I also managed to unlock the remaining aspects of the weapons.

Playing Witch on the Holy Night!

About halfway through Chapter 8.

Playing Trails Beyond the Horizon!

I know I should be focused on Witch on the Holy Night, but it’s impossible for me to resist a new Trails game. And it starts hot, with the prologue having us play with the Arkride Solutions Office alongside a few surprise additions.

That alone got me so hyped I doubt I’ll be putting down this game anytime soon.

Currently in Chapter 1.2, wrapping up a few 4SPGs before I move on.

Edit: Super Robot Wars Y just announced DLC2 will be released next week with 16 new missions. I’m glad no game I’m interested is releasing anytime soon, I have a lot to catch up now.

A bit slower with games these last couple weeks since I started on a new job and I’m still adjusting to the new routine.

Playing Hades 2!

I’ve gotten used to the “underworld” path and I’m succeeding more than I fail now, even managed three wins in a row.

The “surface” path is much harder, I got to the final boss a few times but haven’t beaten him yet. I’d like to practice this path more, but I’m trying to unlock the remaining aspects of the weapons and the items I need are all from the “underworld” path so I still have to do a couple more runs there before I can move on.

Playing Witch on the Holy Night!

Slowed down a bit in Hades 2 in the last couple days and put more time on this one again. Reached Chapter 8.

Playing Earthion and R-Type Delta!

I got a couple old-style shmups in my mailbox recently. Earthion is a game from Yuzo Koshiro, the composer of classic soundtracks like Streets of Rage, and it’s a love letter to the Mega Drive/Genesis era of this genre. It’s on the easy side due to its very forgiving shield system so might be a good pick for people who don’t have much experience with these games, I got a clear on the Easy difficulty on my first attempt.

R-Type Delta is a game that is seen as one of the best in the series but only had only a PS1 release until now. I briefly tried it on an emulator a long time ago and enjoyed, so I’m happy to finally own a proper copy. First impression after a long time without playing it is “this game is hard”. It’s a very unforgiving, old-school arcade, and even on the easier “Kids” difficulty I’ve only gotten to Stage 3. But it feels like I just need a bit more practice, like learning some tricky spots where you have enemies coming from multiple directions and you need to shift the force device to the back of the ship to help.

Interesting timing for this post since I just got my copy of R-Type Delta HD.

The “Dimensions” remasters of R-Type 1 and 2 are excellent, if this keeps the same quality I’m definitely purchasing.

[Kubuntu 25.10]

Fingerprint support is weird. The hardware works after installing a driver from Dell but I could never get it to work on both login and lock screens at the same time - I get one working, the other breaks. Also, even when it works the behavior is not consistent between those screens, and also requires mouse movement or key presses before the sensor responds which is annoying.

Bluetooth support has some oddities, like the fact that some apps can properly swap my headset from “High Fidelity” and “Headset” codecs and others can’t. I’ve gotten used to doing it manually when necessary but it drove me crazy earlier on.

rclone is awesome but I really wish it had a way to set auto-mounting or auto-syncing as part of the setup. Took me quite a few attempts to get it working as I wanted.

Pretty good, running Kubuntu for a few months. Had some annoyances at first but they were all solved when I moved from LTS to 25.10.

Ah, I don’t really watch much trailers when I am sure I’ll play the game, so didn’t know about Chronos.

“Death to Chronos” is also the first thing Melinoe says when you start the game. :)

Chronos is the final boss?

I mean, the trailers all say “Death to Chronos” so I figured that was not a spoiler. But yes, he’s the final boss of the initial path (Underworld).

There are multiple paths? 😲

Yes! After a while you also unlock the option to go to the Surface path, which is much harder and has completely different areas and bosses. Adds a lot more variety to the game.

You also have to keep alternating between the two paths to unlock things as most are done as “spells” in the witch’s cauldron, and each requires ingredients from specific areas.

One neat thing are some tweaks they added to make you less susceptible to RNG when trying to get a specific ingredients - you can recruit “familiar” animals and can bring one with you each run. Each has different benefits, one of them being “higher change of finding ingredients of a specific type”. So you need seeds? Bring the Hecuba the dog familiar and he’ll find and dig them for you.

Still liking Witch on the Holy Night?

Quite a bit. I’m taking my time with it but I expect my final rating will be at least an 8 out of 10, maybe higher depending on how the second half goes.

Playing Hades 2!

Huge progress this week. Managed to beat Chronos a few times, but I’m still having trouble with the final boss on the other path.

Playing Witch on the Holy Night!

Still on Chapter 7. It’s partially due to Hades 2 eating most of my gaming time, but also because this Chapter is fairly long.