A small thoughts thread: what are you playing and how is it going?

Well, I found the birthplace. I actually went to the area before but didn't walk over the exact spot because there were platforms! Also I might now have the right Charm with me then, ugh.

I know how to get the good ending now but the fight seems very Megaman X8 final boss to me, where you have to fight Sigma THEN fight Lumine in his heavenly area form. So it's annoying that I always have to fight the Hollow Knight first before fighting the final boss, ugh. I'm OK to put down the game for the while cuz I just looked up the ending.

Except there were the two dlc campaigns that I didn't see. I thought I had to download it but noooooooo! The trigger was finding them in breakable walls which were there from the get-go. And I missed them!

Grim Troupe, I'm not completing cuz there's two mutually unique endings. Godmaster is tough boss fights. Yeeeeeah, I'll beat the good ending boss first.

I'm secretly terrified of Silksong now. Hollow Knight is tough as heck but I saw it through. I'm afraid Silksong will be harder.

Anybody play Silksong?

Oh, just for completeness sake, I did beat the final boss and got the good ending.

Fighting the boss beforehand actually became fun. Unbreakable Strength, Mark of Pride, Quick Slash just had me slapping him around with no regard for my health, since it refills up again with the final boss.

Final boss also sorta became fun. Beat him a second time because I thought the first time was a fluke, haha.

Anyway, done with Hollow Knight.
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Played King of Cards, the King Knight campaign of Shovel Knight, from Treasure Trove. Am already in the final stage but I need to get the other sub weapons.

I sorta hate his mechanic but when I check reviews online about it, people rate it high? Weird.

Anyway, once I beat it, I'll do the versus game with my fave character Baz. Then on to Mina the Hollower.

Finished King of Cards. Platforming is so tough and I really had to readjust from playing Hollow Knight, haha.

I actually beat it once, played Shovel Knight Showdown, then beat the final boss again, just to tell myself that it wasn't a fluke. I HATE fighting over bottomless pits, haha

Review on best story for me,
Specter of Torment - loved the tragic twist
Plague of Shadows - cute love story
Shovel of Hope - also a love story of sorts but Shovel guy had no personality in the game compared to Plague Knight so Plague is higher
King of Cards - he's a funny jerk. The ending with him alone was kinda sad tho.



Showdown is harder than just thought. And where are the controls or movesets? There wasn't any in game I could find (is there?) And there's not list in gamefaqs. I missed doing most of the special attacks.

Baz wasn't unlocked so I did Polar Knight. I spammed his rolling snowball.

Didn't check how to unlock Baz so played Specter Knight. He's cool except still short hops. Unlocked Phantom Striker.

Finally looked up how to get Baz. I need to finish the game with no continues! Reize's storyline is related to Baz and unlocking him is linked to Phantom so finished the game again with him. Nice big jump. Didn't know how to do his lightning stuff. Unlocked Dark Reize.

Dark Reize jumped high and moved fast, pretty cool! Great boomerang stuff too since very long distance. Finally beat the haunted mirror without continuing so finally got Baz! Also got regular Reize.

Finished game with Baz. Big jump, ok whip length if slow ish. Funky ball roll. He stole his costume from Mr Hat so worked in the store to pay for it. Unlocked Mr Hat.

Played Reize for the Baz interaction. Reize, dumb naive kid that he is, thought Baz was cool and wanted him as a teacher, haha. Funny but a meaningful interaction on Baz's side. Also, high jump with double jump flip! Great boomerang too. I guess Reize and Dark Reize are my faves, for speed, jumping and projectiles.

Anyway, done with Showdown and the Treasure Trove in general.

Playing Ace Attorney and Sonic Frontiers next. Whew.

Still on the elite grind. I do enjoy just... flying. Cruising through solar systems, even the occasional planet landings. I just stepped up from an adder to a cobra mark 3, cost me a million to just get some "slightly better than the factory default" components in. But it already has deeper fuel tanks, twice the storage, more weapons... I'm a ways off having a better hyperjump distance... but it's literally just money to get there. Might even save my pennies and get one of the newfangled SCO cruise drives, just to see what the fuss is about.

I'm also starting to do salvage missions. Black boxes mostly, cause there's no planetfalls involved, but I also invested in a scarab to make those easier too. I'm not looking forward to damaging my new ships paint job by taking it into combat... but it's a thing that will happen and bounties pay well.

Just a follow up to say, yeeeeah, I pressed pause while playing Shovel Knight Showdown and, yeeeeeah, the move list was there, haha.

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Finished the first case of Apollo Justice, the Turnabout Tr-mp. Ugh, it took me forever to realize that the second controller let's you turn the evidence item around. Cuz it wasn't in the listed instructions! Haha

Anyway, Ace Attorney is pretty great. I'm annoyed that the game makes me think it's a dating sim or something, haha.

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Anybody here playing Mina the Hollower? I was soooooo mad a while ago because it doesn't appear in the PS5 store in the location I'm in. Whaaaaaat?!?! Doesn't Yacht Club want my money?

Friend is using his account and will try playing it live tomorrow. I was so p-ssed off cuz I wanted to play it today! Played Apollo Justice instead, haha

I love the Ace Attorney series, played all of the officially translated ones, even the Miles spinoff. Though I'm not including the fighting games, I think Phoenix was just an assist anyway.

I'm playing Starfield on my XBX and Baldur's Gate 3 on my PS5.

I'm still plugging away at elite. Just spent 1.5 mil upgrading my power plant, distributor, and shift drive. I went a little nuts (which happens sometimes when the bank account has seven digits part the decimal.) and splurged on one of those new overcharged shift drive.

And holy jive, they are fun. They greatly reduce the in system transit time... if you don't mind having your ride skittering all over.