Thanks! Haven’t managed to play much but I’m in love with Pokémon Scarlet! I feel like this is a huge step forward and can only improve with future generations / DLCs just got to the part where the game opens up and I’m free to explore everything the world has to offer

Merry Christmas!

Congrats on the of Pokemon! I see you used a Tinkaton. I have absolutely loved the memes online about Tinkaton throwing rocks at Corviknight

How are you liking Harvestella so far?
Can’t say the demo caught me right away but I suspect it’s one of those games that get better and better the more things are introduced as you go. Maybe get Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin vibes from it but 3D instead of 2D combat?

Digging

2/2


Overall though it's a fantastic game! I'm 100 hours in and could easily do 100 hours more, I'm massively looking forward to seeing the conclusion of the trilogy’s story as well as challenge/Story DLCs

As well as seeing the real Nia & Melia of course!!!

Also is it just me or did this game feel more Xeno X than 1 & 2 at the beginning?! I swear for the first 30 hours I was playing an X sequel haha

1/2 Oh yes! That was the equivalent of the big Prison Island & Indol reveals for sure!


Quick Story summary I'm at the start of Chapter 6, Mio wants to go see Miyabi and Cloud Keep is the next location. Haven't done ether yet as I’m back tracking to get some Hero Ascensions first (Quests are so good, Spongy Spuds XD)

Xenobalde 3 has been everything I’d expect from a Xeno game at this point, music is incredible, vast open world, unique monsters/characters, unique stories, evolution of Blades and yet another changed up battle system (Best one yet!)

Characters take centre stage in this game I love the dynamic between them all and the Heros they meet along the way, all the emotions come through perfectly, variety in the accents (Massively bias because I’m from the UK too :P), also the amount of dialogue is staggering in this one the fact we get fully voiced cutscenes in hidden side quests and random missions most people would skip over is awesome!
The overall writing has improved massively for all scenarios, serious, sad, conflict and goofy moments have that extra bit of realism and each character shines at putting their own opinions and views on different topics. It feels like they put a lot of effort into this to make it feel more grounded.
The scene with them meeting the baby for the first time is probs one of my fav scenes in the series so far too that was truly a special moment.

Battle system is fantastic if not a little chaotic sometimes lol, I love pulling the camera down and getting “cinematic” shots while fighting, I described it to other people as in game concept art XD

Aionios is wonderful there's a staggering amount of variety in the planet and it does a great job of making you believe you're in a war but I think being a mash up of older game areas (for story reasons of course) sometimes works against it. My anticipation of revisiting the Urayan Titan was huge for the first 20 hours only to find most of it was a literal husk of it’s former self (works perfect for the story but still seeing one of my fav locations like that hurt. On the other hand Erythia Sea is a huge win with it being one of the best locations in any Xeno game imo (Maybe Cloud keep is the bright and wonderful X2/XT area I’m waiting for so watch this space XD

Hell yeah Bayonetta & Bayonetta 2 play-throughs
Awesome theme!

Yeah it's crazy how fast everything is going now
(Can't beleve 10 Years is only half a year away now )

Speaking of time how the heck is Xenobalde 3 coming out next week!? Can't wait to get my hands on it, early work finish on Friday me thinks lol

Happy Backloggiversary!
(Does not feel like a year since I last said this lol )