Lordhippos
Pokémon Master
Elden Ring
I completed my first run of Elden Ring, Malenia was a pain but I had to get some more DPS and change a couple of things around to kill her. Might be a spicy opinion, but I prefer the combat of Sekiro, Elden Ring wins in terms of atmosphere and exploration though, and presumably build diversity, I just enjoyed the fast paced parry combat of the Samurai. I'm considering doing a couple more runs on NG+ mode with different builds.
Granblue Relink
I completed the main campaign on Granblue Relink. For anyone who has yet to play this game, I recommend playing the campaign on hard mode, and picking your 4 characters to focus on for the duration of the campaign. I did the campaign and all of the side missions I could in about 15 hours.
I'd say this was very good, and for me, the main campaign was better than Tales of Arise (which I didn't finish). The game has some really nice locations, the upgrade system is deep and interesting, and the combat was generally pretty fun, if a little flashy (anime style moves going off all over the place). My only real complaint is that I prefer the Jpn audio, and they talk a lot during combat, so can't really read the subs whilst fighting very easily, and the odd move would one shot me, but I think I hadn't boosted my HP by enough.
You can change up your party later but there is some grinding for materials and things needed. Post-campaign game is a bit like Monster Hunter I think, where you have missions to do and you get scores on them, and rewards for completing them. I'm going to do these for a bit until I've had enough, I'm not going to try and get the top rank on them all.
Persona 3 Reload
I've just started this, being familiar with 4 and 5 much of this I'm used to already, but I think the remake of this game has been good so far, and the updated graphics look good to me. I love all the stupid comments you can make in the conversation options, and wish more games gave you more agency with how you react to what people say.
Stellar Blade
This is another thing to add to my watch list, coming in April, this looks like a really interesting and fun game. Kind of like Nier crossed with Bayonetta.
I completed my first run of Elden Ring, Malenia was a pain but I had to get some more DPS and change a couple of things around to kill her. Might be a spicy opinion, but I prefer the combat of Sekiro, Elden Ring wins in terms of atmosphere and exploration though, and presumably build diversity, I just enjoyed the fast paced parry combat of the Samurai. I'm considering doing a couple more runs on NG+ mode with different builds.
Granblue Relink
I completed the main campaign on Granblue Relink. For anyone who has yet to play this game, I recommend playing the campaign on hard mode, and picking your 4 characters to focus on for the duration of the campaign. I did the campaign and all of the side missions I could in about 15 hours.
I'd say this was very good, and for me, the main campaign was better than Tales of Arise (which I didn't finish). The game has some really nice locations, the upgrade system is deep and interesting, and the combat was generally pretty fun, if a little flashy (anime style moves going off all over the place). My only real complaint is that I prefer the Jpn audio, and they talk a lot during combat, so can't really read the subs whilst fighting very easily, and the odd move would one shot me, but I think I hadn't boosted my HP by enough.
You can change up your party later but there is some grinding for materials and things needed. Post-campaign game is a bit like Monster Hunter I think, where you have missions to do and you get scores on them, and rewards for completing them. I'm going to do these for a bit until I've had enough, I'm not going to try and get the top rank on them all.
Persona 3 Reload
I've just started this, being familiar with 4 and 5 much of this I'm used to already, but I think the remake of this game has been good so far, and the updated graphics look good to me. I love all the stupid comments you can make in the conversation options, and wish more games gave you more agency with how you react to what people say.
Stellar Blade
This is another thing to add to my watch list, coming in April, this looks like a really interesting and fun game. Kind of like Nier crossed with Bayonetta.