Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 15 of 2025)

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New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I am reading Iwakura Aria on Switch. Nothing to say at the moment because I plan to write a full review for it soon. You can find my demo impressions in the visual novel thread.
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Community Post in thread 'The Visual Novel Council | All Choices Lead To Here'

Lately I want to think up ways to utilize my Japanese more as well as practise writing, so I aim to write some demo impressions and final game reviews for VNs that I am going to play. Here's a demo impression of the JP Switch version of Iwakura Aria. The game will be localized and released on Steam and Switch in 2025.


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Last year, when I walked into this gaming store in Japan, Iwakura Aria immediately caught my eyes: the cover art is beautiful yet creepy, grim yet...
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I finished my replay of BioShock yesterday, so I'm going back and playing a bit more of my gradual replay of FFVII Rebirth - right now I'm at Costa Del Sol and I plan on playing through this whole segment right up to Gold Saucer before putting the game down for a bit and I'll give Haste a try.

 
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Finished 2 DLCs for Fenyx Rising, A New God and Myths of the Eastern Realm last week and started the 3rd one.
New God was basically a bunch more of those puzzley dungeons (shrines, if you will) from the main game, while Eastern Realm was basically a compressed version of the main game set in a different realm, two smaller maps and two main quest lines.

3rd one is actually a bit of a twist in that it's an overhead game, like Diablo or Hades or whatever. It's still mechanically the same stuff, but it remixes the skill and god powers and how they work from the game quite a bit and is instantly more interesting because of the camera perspective.
 
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Parsnip said:
Finished 2 DLCs for Fenyx Rising, A New God and Myths of the Eastern Realm last week and started the 3rd one.
New God was basically a bunch more of those puzzley dungeons (shrines, if you will) from the main game, while Eastern Realm was basically a compressed version of the main game set in a different realm, two smaller maps and two main quest lines.

3rd one is actually a bit of a twist in that it's an overhead game, like Diablo or Hades or whatever. It's still mechanically the same stuff, but it remixes the skill and god powers and how they work from the game quite a bit and is instantly more interesting because of the camera perspective.
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Hoping it goes to discount soon. That's one game I wanna try
 
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I'm still playing Pillars of Eternity 2. It's clearly an improvement over the previous game though there are some things that I prefer in the first game, like you having a party up to 6 instead 5 like you have in Deadfire.
 
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I'm on a business trip for most of this week, but I finished re-reading the Umineko Question arcs (ep 1-4) yesterday.
Even more meandering than I remember it being, but the various reveals and some of the emotional scenes still hit pretty hard. And of course so does the music.

I'm also inching closer towards the end of FF7 Rebirth (I think), but I'll really have to write more about that once I'm done with it.
 
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rough week for me, my modem got knocked out by a storm and ended up not having my home internet for 6 days

still been chipping away at Xenoblade X though, been doing lots of side stuff and just about at the point where i'll probably jump into the new story content this re-release came with at some point this week
 
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Finished Of Orcs and Men. Took less time than I thought (the last chapters were much faster than the first ones). Neat game but the jank was there. One day I'll probably give the Styx games a try
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I've been thinking about Styx games after Styx 3 announced and also wondering if I should play Orcs and Men before that. I don't own it, but seems it's actually on sale right now on a few stores... :thinking-blob:
 
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I've been thinking about Styx games after Styx 3 announced and also wondering if I should play Orcs and Men before that. I don't own it, but seems it's actually on sale right now on a few stores... :thinking-blob:
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If you decide to play it, just take into consideration it's a very janky game. It feels more like 2 separate incomplete gameplay ideas mashed together into a very simple RTwP rpg which has nothing to do with the 2 aforement ideas
I think it's still enjoyable for the sale price however
 
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