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Pokemon Legends: Arceus Yeah I played it early. This game isn't out yet so I'm going to put all gameplay related comments in spoilers in case anyone wants to go in completely blind. I won't talk about the story much either other than to say that it's fine. I mean, it's pretty basic for an RPG story and there's still no voice acting so you shouldn't expect much but compared to the handholding insult to your intelligence that Sw/Sh was it's practically Shakespeare. The main story took me about 17 hours to beat but the postgame/true final ending grind is going to take much, much longer so I figured I'd just post about it now. Now to discuss the gameplay. All in all, this one took me by surprise, especially considering how much I hate GameFreak lately. There is definitely room for improvement and innovation but if we think of this as the first step toward the future of the franchise then I might actually find it in my heart to get excited for Pokemon games again. With some fine-tuning and polish the next Legends game has the potential to be an all-time classic.

I got my hands on Pokemon Legends Arceus before the release date. I won't spoil anything here since it's so early, but I will say that so far...I'm enjoying it! Yeah, holy shit, a Pokemon game I'm actually having fun with. What a miracle. The last three Pokemon games I tried playing were so slow and tedious that I dropped them before ever beating the story, but I think I might just stick with this one to the end. It is a little rough around the edges in some respects, of course, and it's far from a 10 out of 10, but compared to Sword/Shield and the Diamond/Pearl remake? This is feeling much closer to what I want Pokemon to be in this day and age. So far it's feeling like a good first effort and I hope Legends becomes a spin-off series.

Aragami. I quite enjoyed it. I didn't play it pure stealth as I just want to get through some of my backlog so was happy to kill anyone that spotted me rather than restart a section. It felt fairly low budget, maybe a bit like a PS2 remake, with Sly Cooper type open levels and angular graphics. The story was fine, the "twist" was so obvious from very early on I'm not sure you could call it such but I'm happy to have played it.

Nobody Saves The World It's a very accessible dungeon crawler from the people who made the excellent Guacamelee 1 and the totally okay Guacamelee Two a few years back. It's bright and colourful, has a great soundtrack and is hitting all the right spots for me. Basically you'll play as this little....dude who is himself a little ineffective, however he's got a magic wand and that allows him to change into different characters, the normal stuff; a Knight, a Rogue, a Horse, you know, normal shit. It's not interested in making things difficult and whilst it does get a little grindy at times, it's certainly not punishing in any real way. If you die you simply fly back to the start of the dungeon and re-enter, earning even more points towards your unlocks, and damn are there a lot of things to unlocks. It's a constant rush of upgrades and increased stats. It's on Gamepass which obviously is why I tried it. Unfortunately no Switch version, which is a shame because I think this would be an absolute delight on that system.

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