Mr Party Hat

Xenoblade X just got a surprise Switch 2 edition. Do I buy that, or pick up DQ7 and carry on my demo progress? Never played X, so could do with some advice.

My Xenoblade rankings, if it matters, are 3 > 1 > stubbing your toe > 2.

Play
Spiderman 2. This is just more of the first game: stunning visuals, over-complicated fights, and aggressively boring side content. It's hard to accept that the team who made Ratchet and Clank also designed the side quests in this. I've knocked it down to easy so that I can mainline the story without having to upgrade my skills (the side quests grant upgrade materials). Surely a sign that something's broken in the game's design.

Venba. A lovely little game where you play as an Indian family living in Canada, telling their story through food. Will make you want to invest in a lot of kitchen gadgets.

Want
I played the (3-hour) demo for Dragon Quest 7 and loved it. But I also saw that Xenoblade X just got a Switch 2 upgrade, and I've never played that either. So now I can't decide which huge JRPG I want.

Bin
High on Life 2. Jesus.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Ugh.

Small Prophets - the new project from Mackenzie Crook - is incredible. If you enjoyed Detectorists, give it a watch. The whole thing's on iPlayer.

I can't believe I've played a JRPG that Alastor hasn't. I spent about 100 hours on Dark Chronicle back in the day.

The vibes in the opening town are superb. And I spent so long building my forest village.

Lord of the Rings Online, Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2, Battlefield 6, Undertale with a CRT filter, South of Midnight.