nohypers

I've just been playing games on my phone at the moment as it's all I seem to have time for. I've finishes

Monument Valley 2
Lara Croft GO
Hitman GO

I managed to get all these for free (Hitman GO is still free). Monument Valley 2 was great but I think the first was better. Maybe just because it felt fresher the first time

Lara Croft GO was surprisingly enjoyable. A pretty simple puzzler but worth a go.

Along the same lines Hitman GO was ok. I didn't enjoy as much as Lara Croft GO and found it less challenging

I beat Doom.

Oh and I beat Mega Man X on the SNES classic on stream tonight. First time ever. Gotten up to the last boss so many times and fail. Not tonight though.

i finished The First Tree on PC. only last around 2 hours and was pretty dull overall.

thinking about playing Gone Home next

I finished Gone Home. Only about 2 hours long but very enjoyable and lots of 90s feels

Can't really play too much with my hand in a splint at the moment (broken finger from hockey) but last weekend I was going through a box of old gaming gear looking for my next Star Wars Play Time game and found my old NES with the NES Advantage, an arcade stick for the NES. I could grip the stick in my left, splinted hand between my thumb and the splint and use my right hand on the other buttons.

So over that last week I played, for the first time, the OG Legend Of Zelda! It's still a bloody fun game! Very hard in places but it rewards exploration by upgrading items to make things easier. Not gonna lie, I had to look up a guide every now and then to help me, especially the last dungeon when I ran out of keys.

I saw some of the part 1 clip and was laughing when you were counting the screens as you went down only to discover its a infinite loop thing. brought back some great memories from playing it myself on the NES all those years ago.

hope the hand isnt too bad and recovers quickly

Finishes a few games recently

D4 - Dark dreams don't Die (PC). Not sure wtf is going on here but I liked it. it ends on a cliff hanger but apparently they aren't going to ever do the sequel.

Streets of Kamurocho (PC). Released by sega as a freebie it was only available to download for 2 days. Its only 1/2hr long and is essentially a level of streets of rage 2 with Yakuza characters

3 out of 10 (PC). This is free on EPIC and contains 5 episodes (approx 40 mins each). It's a sitcom based on a game development company. I enjoyed the humor and mini games. Given it's free give the first episode a go and see what you think.

Kentucky Route Zero (Switch). I mean it's supposed to be good but to be honest I didn't really get into it (or get it). I liked that it had a very different visual style, but I just didn't get sucked into the story.

Finished the story side of Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity yesterday. I had a great time playing it but I felt a bit misled by the idea that this is a prequel. It kind of is but also isn't because of time travel. It exists in a separate time line to Breath Of The Wild. I didn't realise that until about three quarters of the way through. It does kinda negate the big emotions I was feeling when the Calamity emerged and Hyrule Castle fell and the next missions were about the Champions. I legit did not want to play those missions because I thought the Champions were going to die but then stuff happens to change the timeline and they don't.

This doesn't take away from how fun it is. I really enjoyed ripping through massive hordes of enemies and while I got a bit tired of trying to learn new characters, they were each unique and played in a way different from others. And being able to control the Divine Beasts is so cool. Probably won't 100%, even though I want to try to, but with Vahalla to go back to and Cyberpunk coming out Thursday I don't think I'll have the time.

As much as I love Zelda games and the amount of time I put into the original Hyrule Warriors, I'm skipping Age of Calamity (at least for now).

Those Warriors games are a huge time sink if you want to unlock all the shit, and I have too much other stuff I want to play.