Discussion What are you currently playing? (Week 30 of 2025)

[Cacher]

New week, new thread! What are you playing?

I am addicted to Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery. It is very polished with great balancing (which is a surprise considering that the two Girls' Frontline games from the same developer can be pretty janky at times...). I really enjoy that it has varied stages: a stage where you kill every enemy in broad daylight; another stage taking place in the dark, so your party can sneak to a location as close as possible to your enemies before pulling the trigger. And then there're also puzzle-like stages where it is a must to sneak past every enemy. With superb level designs, strategies change drastically between stages.. The game demands you to keep your mind sharp at anytime. This is not a relaxing game to play, but the satisfaction after going through each stage is immense.

Simply fascinating. I love it.

 

[curi0usBystander]

More Balatro (failed) runs.
Also in card games Kingdom Hearts: Re CoM (from the Remix collection). I still think that the game worked better in the 2D plane of the GBA and moving the game to a 3D plane was a mistake, since combat takes slightly longer, but it's a short(ish) game so i guess it's fine.

 

[Stevey]

Still playing Diablo 2 and the Oblivion Remaster

 

[Nebulys]

Started Donkey Kong Bananza on the Switch 2. I'm a couple of hours in and got to sublevel 300, and I'm loving it so far - feels like an extremely high quality platformer. Not quite a landmark title like Super Mario Odyssey, but it's as good as (if not better than) Astro Bot.

I'm also going to start The Legend of Zelda (NES) on my Analogue Pocket later today.

 

[Panda Pedinte]

I started playing Pokémon Violet and it has been a nice surprise as the last Pokémon game I played to completion was Pokémon Gold. I think the change to 3D is interesting as I like seeing the pokemons walking around everywhere. So far the story is a nice change from the other games of the series I've played as you are enrolled to a school and can take some classes and rise your bond with other characters.

Now the bad, the landscape is fucking ugly. Holy shit Gamefreak it looks so bare and I wasnt expecting anything incredible so my expectations were already low because I know the Switch limitations, even though I'm playing through emulation.

Another game that I'm playing is Ender Magnolia. I didn't play the previous game so it's all nee for me, the idea behinf the main character being just a kid that needs the homunculae to attack for them just makes sense in this universe. I'm not that far into the game yet, just beat the boss from the forest but I'm liking everything in this game.