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What are you playing this weekend? 2023-07-15 (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hello Everyone!

I finally finished The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Took about 90 hours, and still have a lot left to do, but wanted to find out the full story, so finished the main quest. I liked the story a lot more than BotW. If you have already finished it, what did you think about the story? (without giving away any spoilers). Going to keep playing this as my primary game for a while though, while also thinking about which game to start next.

Secondary games:

  • Finished Marvel's Avengers. Nothing new to say about it. It could've been a very good game, if not for Live Service elements.
  • Almost finished Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge. I am at stage 14, so just couple of them left. Will check the trophies after finishing the game and see if I want to platinum it. Only playing it with my kid, so going a bit slowly.
  • Started The Order 1886, it's a very small games, 4-5 hours at most, but didn't get much time to play after starting it, would try to finish it. The games holds up really well visually and gameplay vise.
  • I have committed to Monster Hunter: World now. Going to finish it, no matter how long it takes. Until now, I was only playing it with friends, but would try to do some optional stuff solo too, now that TotK is finished.

That's all for now. What about all of you? What are you playing? And what do you plan to play next? And how are you enjoying them?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you played the rest of the series?

I did, and it's a good thing because CS4 and Reverie depend a lot on you having played both Zero/Azure and CS1-3. Not a lot of Sky connections on the recent games though, just a few returning characters.

And I want to play the whole series from start, so not playing any of the later games until I have finished Trails in the Sky ๐Ÿ˜€

I'm one of the renegades that don't think playing in order is truly necessary. Sky has only one plotline that gets carried into Zero/Azure and CS1-2 is mostly self-contained, so it's perfectly fine IMO to play these out of order. Yeah, you lose some references and gets some spoilers, but nothing that will ruin the fun from the older games if you play them later.

In fact, I believe I went Sky 1-2 -> CS 1-3 -> Sky 3 -> Zero/Azure -> CS4 -> Reverie, and the only time I truly felt "yeah, I should have played the earlier games first" was during the Crossbell section of CS3.

How are you enjoying the game?

The beginning was kinda mid because it starts with Lloyd's route in Crossbell and that part feels like we're just rethreading the plot of recent games, but gets much better once you open the other two routes. C's route being an all-new cast is really great in making the game feel "fresh", so much that I wish the game started with that one instead of having us go through the early sections of Lloyd's and Rean's route first.

It also has a very strong "Sky 3rd" feel, which is good because I think that game is really underrated. The Reverie Corridor is almost Phantasma 2.0, and each of the main routes seems more streamlined than the average game with this series, with less sidequesting and more focus on the main story.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About playing things in order, that's just something with me. I like to play, read, watch series in the order they are released (whenever possible). So, unless the Sky 2 and 3 become unplayable due to some reason or become so dated I can't get myself to play them, I would really want to start with those.

Thanks for the detailed response. Much appreciated!

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with Sky 2+3 (I think 2 is one of the best games in the whole series), and playing them in order is better - I just disagree with a good part of the fanbase for that series that thinks it's not just "better" but the "only way" to play the series.

Trying to force this huge time commitment on potential players is a dissevice to the series, games like Zero+Azure are amazing and worth playing even as standalone RPGs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I understand that. Most of the people I have talked to, tell me to just start with Cold Steel, but I am stubbornly set on playing all the game in the series.