What are you playing this weekend? 2025-06-27
What are you playing this weekend? 2025-06-27
Finished chapter 11 of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition
Chapter 11 story spoiler
They tried to redeem him! I knew they would! He killed last of the species, this is the super-villain stuff. Maybe I am too old for these things...
Played more Marvel's Midnight Suns and Ghost of Tsushima, but nothing new to add about either of them.
Also, just got my switch 2, so will be trying out Mario Kart World over the weekend.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
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Finished Never 7: The End of Infinity (part of the Ever 17/Never 7 Double Pack)!
Decent for its age. It's romance/mystery focused but adds some interesting sci-fi ideas in the final stretch.
Its biggest problem is that all "main" routes follow the same basic formula, so they get very repetitive after a while. Two characters (Yuka and Izumi) also get "secondary" routes that changes things a bit, but neither adds anything important to the main plot and I think I'd have been happier with the game if had skipped those.
Finished The Mummy Demastered!
I can't recommend this one due to some terrible design choices.
Plataforming sections gets very frustrating due to infinite respawning enemies that can knock you down. Health not recovering on save spots (forcing you to "farm" nearby enemies/objects to recover) is a stupid time waster. There's also the death mechanic, which didn't bother me too much but I have heard from others that can lead you to situations where it's almost impossible to continue, since when you die you lose all your powerups until you defeat your "corpse" - which can be quite far from your last save.
It's a shame, because the visuals are great, the soundtrack is amazing, and it generally feels good to play.
Playing Ever 17: The Out of Infinity (part of the Ever 17/Never 7 Double Pack)!
Well, this one has a much stronger start than Never 7, and seems to be more in line with Uchikoshi's later works. The cast is trapped in an underwater amusement park after a disaster, and has to try to figure out how to escape from there alive.
Very hyped to see where this goes.
Playing Momodora: Moonlit Farewell!
Now this is a great metroidvania. There's some minor annoyances (slow initial movement, fast travel takes a while to unlock), but nothing that significantly affected my enjoyment of the game.
I love its pixel art and animations, the soundtrack is good, and both exploration and combat feel great. One thing I should mention is that this is fairly linear for a metroidvania, which can bother some people.
The Mummy Demastered has been on my wishlist, so sad to hear about the issues.
Momodora sounds good, but aren't there like tons of Momodora games?
The Mummy Demastered has been on my wishlist, so sad to hear about the issues.
It's not a horrible game or anything, but there's so many amazing metroidvanias nowadays that it's hard to think of reasons to recommend it over other options.
Momodora sounds good, but aren’t there like tons of Momodora games?
Not really, when people talk about Momodora they're usually talking about this game and the previous one, Momodora: Reverie Under the Moonlight.
There's three more games, but they're are simpler, very short games (1-2h) from early in the developer's career, with the first two being free on Itch.
Well, The Mummy Demastered is a small game, so may end up playing it anyway.
About Momodora, looked it up on Wikipedia, and Reverie Under the Moon is the perquel, but the Moonlit Farewell is the final game in the series and is sequel to the third game. Should I play rest of them too? I think I started the first one long time ago.
Mummy Demastered is a small game
I can give you more short (~5h or so) metroidvania recommendations if you're interested in that kind of game.
Should I play rest of them too?
I only played the last two Momodoras and didn't feel the need to go back to the older ones for the rest of the story. I'd suggest playing Reverie first anyway since it's a prequel and generally seen as the best one.