No Donkey Kong Bananza this week. Took a break to catch up with some other stuff.
Finished all single player content of Ghost of Tsushima, including the main campaign, all the side activities, the DLC (Iki Island) and all of it’s side activities. Also got all the trophies! It has been a while since I went for a platinum, it was fun!
Didn’t play the Multiplayer part of the game (Legends) much. Just did a single level, and while it might have been fun if I had a few friends to play with, alone it was just okay.
There are some easter egg Armour Skins on Iki island, for different Sony franchises, that was an interesting surprise.
Looking forward to Ghost of Yotei now, though, it will probably be a few years before I get to it.
Finished AI: The Somnium Files ! Except it wasn’t the end, it was a end.
Also, couldn’t see the end cause it asked me to go back and play different route before I can view that. So, playing the second route now. Interesting to see how things would have turned out if things had been different.
I think there are 4 different routes. Haven’t looked at it in detail though.
What about all of you? What have you been playing and/or plan to play?
I have finished Bananza! At least the main game, there’s post game stuff to do now. It’s a shame I had an important endgame element spoiled for me, but it was still pretty awesome. One thing I’ve been meaning to mention but always forgot is Cranky… why does he say the same thing in every world? What an absolute waste of an iconic character! But anyway, I need to talk about the end:
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As an old school Donkey Kong fan, this was so cathartic to me.The game already acknowledged the Rare games more than any other with the fossils, but the return of K.Rool and the Kremlings was an absolute blast. And they absolutely knew what they were doing with that! I already knew that when the mine cart challenge room had the secret shortcut from DKC1 in it. I immediately jumped into the pit to see if they just put together an obligatory mine cart stage or actually researched it. I was so happy that it worked! :D
But what I was trying to get at was the K.Rool fight(s). It had everything! Fake credits, the gun (including the three phaes of straight shot, bounce shot and swirly shot), the propeller jet pack, the rigging above the boxing ring… every K.Rool fight was referenced in some way while still making it a unique fight. And just like a K.Rool fight should be, it was quite the difficulty spike and it went on forever!
I don’t want to sound like a conspiracy nut, but I was definitely in the camp of people who felt like Nintendo tried to stay away from everything Rare has established. We were lucky to keep Diddy Kong, but everything else was slowly brought back over time and it was so frustrating to watch. Sure, I liked the Returns games, but they never quite hit that spot. K.Rool in Smash was a big deal but now we’re officially back and I couldn’t be happier! And more importantly, they tied everything back to the Mario universe!
There once was a Spyro / Crash Bandicoot collab where they essentially swapped villains for a game. I would love to see DK face off with Bowser and Mario deal with K.Rool at some point! Or have them team up against an alliance of both villains!
Anyway, with all that said, I do think Odyssey is the better game, but Bananza is definitely more important to me, personally!
I also played a little more of Yakuza 3. Apparently some side quests only give you one chance to do them. Failure is basically an alternate, disappointing ending to them. I came into this game expecting to like it less than the newer, previous games (which sounds so oxymoronic when you don’t know the series), but my list of complaints just keeps growing. I don’t see myself trying too hard to complete most things in this game.
I also started playing The Witness. It’s interesting and very good at teaching you how to solve its puzzles without explaining anything, but I’m worried I’ll start seeing line-puzzles in the real world soon. It seems like that kind of game…