Still playing Paper Mario . Finished Chapter 1, currently in Chapter 2. Let’s see how much further I can get over this weekend.
Also playing some Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, trying to get all the trophies. Only playing it once a while, so it is going to take a long while.
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
Still playing Nier:Automata, still on Route A. I forgot how much the side quests ask you to run back and forth the same few areas, but knowing what the game is truly about, it actually makes a lot of sense, so I’m okay with it.
I’m halfway through the second world of Mario/Rabbids Sparks of Hope and my first impression is that I preferred the first game in every single way. The battles are no longer rated in any way, so you don’t need to try to play all that well, just win and move on. Most of the maps are kinda bland. No weapon upgrades, it’s just cosmetics. having two characters fully voice-acted when everyone else is silent is really jarring and it’s the first time I turned voice volume to 0% in a game, now I can actually enjoy the comedy more.
But the most jarring thing to me is that it seems like Ubisoft tried to make the Rabbids… cool? Thankfully the volume decrease also gets rid of the snippy one-liners, but why do they speak in the first place? Rabbids say Bwah, nothing else. And why am I picking up pieces of lore about the planets I’m on? It’s Mario and Rabbids, I’m here for slapstick, not world-building! I’m not sure where to even begin about Edge…
I’ll keep playing it out of curiosity, but I’m really tempted to boot up the first game again afterwards to see if it’s really the game or me that changed so much.
You in the second half of second world of second Mario+Rabbids game!
I haven’t played Sparks of Hope yet, or have seen reviews of anyone who have played it, but the general impression I got was that game has improved in every way, so it’s interesting to hear it’s actually completely opposite.
If you do go back to the first game, I would love hear what you thought about that.