PWB October: BOO

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007 First Light is just what I wanted. Great to look at, well acted, well written, and just a really enjoyable romp. I'm not sure how much replayability it'll have, but for now it's a lot of fun.

Diablo 4. I've bounced off this about 3 times, but I got the itch last week and, for some reason, I've stuck with it this time. The worldbuilding is second-to-none (Blizzard innit), and it's always satisfying crunching hundreds of enemies to death in one glorious AOE fireball. I just wish it let me play how I want to; slowly. It really betrays its live-service roots. It's desperate to get you to max level and CONSUMING CONTENT, rather than taking it slow and exploring this stunning(ly ugly) world they've created. I don't care about the latest 'season', I want to wander around the starting zone. I've already dodged two free max-level upgrades the game tried to present me with.

DQ 7 Reimagined. I played the demo (the first 3 hours) of this months ago, and had almost forgotten the plot, so figured it was time to pick up the full game. It's a very cosy game. The way the story is structured, with each zone being standalone little tales, makes it feel like playing a Sunday-morning cartoon. And for a top-down game, the graphics are frequently stunning, especially the character models in the cutscenes.

Want
WoW Forever. GTA 6. Ocarina of Time. November is going to be an all-time month.

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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave - which is brilliant but also comically large. I've put hours and hours into it and I still haven't completed part one of the game with even one of the game's four main characters. It's a really great game though with lots and lots to do and I can see myself chipping away at this for months.

Final Fantasy XIV - also so large it's just an ongoing background project really. One of the few MMOs that doesn't care at all about getting you to endgame so you can just potter through most of it at your own speed. It incentivises players to revisit older content so there's always someone around to run dungeons with, or you can do pretty much all of it solo these days. A really fantastic game (and I'm a couple of hundred hours into the "free trial", so a very cheap and accessible title to get into, too).

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I'd like to play the Witcher 3 remaster but it seems to have come in a bit hot so I'm going to give it a couple of weeks and some patches to sort itself out.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out in a few days, I'm waiting for reviews but if it's good then a bit of arcadey pod racing could be a good way to spend some time. I still want to get Zero Company too but Fire Emblem is meeting all my turn-based strategy needs for now.

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I still don't give a monkeys about GTA 6 and I'll probably just hide away playing Zelda or something while everyone else goes on about it.

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The amount of GOTY tier games released in succession in the last few weeks is frankly ridiculous, I didn't have to buy them all Day 1 but I couldn't help it, FOMO baby!

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave - I still have issues with this, mainly the gap between actual map fights, but on the whole this is probably the best Switch 2 only game I've played…but it's also a huge game like Gar said, so rather than try to gorge myself on it non stop I've been pacing myself and I think it's making me appreciate it much more than I would.

Trails in the Sky: 2nd Chapter - I was going to try playing this and Fire Emblem somewhat alternately but I've only beat the prologue on this so far, I usually play a Trails game non stop until I beat it but with Fire Emblem out on the same day I knew that as much as I love Trails I'd be thinking of Fire Emblem non stop if I put that back so I'm trying to wait until I can give this the time it deserves by giving Fire Emblem the time it deserves.

I was so sure this would be my easy GOTY but Fire Emblem really is quite good, if they remade Trails SC (my fave game in the series) as well as they did Trails FC (Trails 1st is in my opinion, the best example of a remake of any game I've played I think?) then it still might be, but we'll see. @_@

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve - Fucking hell this just came out globally today and it's yet another banger, I am not entirely surprised as AC7 was excellent and this is a series that nailed the formula first try way back on PS1 so I'm glad to see this review so well. I wouldn't have started this today but I think a mission based jet simulator is a nice palette cleanser for 2 massive RPGs, and I just wanted to blow up planes.

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A bit too many FPV cutscenes of a typically confusing AC story but it's really good, it looks freaking gorgeous, flying atop the clouds greets you with a Realm of Heaven, a landscape of rolling cotton, then you fly through them and the water droplets condense on the screen uuuuuwwaaaaa

As I said, the formula hasn't really changed, you fly and shoot missiles at far away blinking red targets until there's a big orange ball at the end of the wispy line of smoke. AC7's strength was actually in it's mission variety though, so I don't expect this to be any different.

insert a whole load of horror games here, Resi, Alan Wake hopefully, Fatal Frame…etc

Want
I only needed to play up to the first boss of the new Castlevania: Belmont's Curse to now I'm getting it, this is why I didn't buy the Prince of Persia metroidvania as well, I knew I was going to possibly get this.

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Outrun 2006, Space Invaders Extreme, Zelda Four Swords GC Mario Kart Wii but mostly I am finally playing Paper Mario Thousand Year Door.

I am loving the Retroid Pocket Nova.

Want
A bit of time to set up playing Steam games on my Nova so that I can play Trails in the Sky SC.