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Game: Ys X Nordics
I started playing it during this past June. Didn't continue.After having enjoyed the game Ys IX: Monstrum Nox, I tried playing this one, with one son, since it was published as supporting couch coop.
Unfortunately, the couch coop support was kind of buggy and we had a difficult time coordinating our movements. Looks like this support was tacked on by a fan of the series (and it was removed from a later edition of the game). -
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Game: Ys IX: Monstrum Nox
Played during April-May this year.
I wanted to play this with my son but ended up playing it by myself.It's the first JPRG I seriously played. I wasn't familiar with the previous games in the YS series. But luckily the game doesn't assume any familiarity and the plot is self-contained.
At first I disliked it, but then it grew on me to the point I went ahead and played it to get to all the subplots and some of the extra bonuses.
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Game: 80 days.
Played it yesterday.
I should have really liked it. I like Jon Ingold's IF games, and his Ink authoring system.
I did like the concept at first, Verne's Around the world in 80 Days taking place in a steampunk world that never was, with multiple kinds of flying machines and cars and robots.But the sub-plots didn't gel for me, conversations during trips were oddly for information gathering only, and after a while it felt boring and repetitive.
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Game: Elden Ring.
Played yesterday.Well, I knew this game isn't for me. My eye-hand coordination is... lacking. I can get by with stealth games and with button smashing fight games, but not when exact timing is necessary. And I get discouraged if I die a lot.
I tried this game only due to FOMO, to see what's it about and get it out my system, since it's so massively hyped online. -
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Game: Disco Elysium.
Played during late August-September.This is one of the best computer games I've ever played, even if a flawed one. Hugely original, both in concept, execution, and world building. I explain it to people as: "It's a detective story set in a fantasy world that's eerily similar to Eastern Europe after the wall fell."
The game was produced by an Estonian company. It's decidedly not American.