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Elden Ring I'm on a roll with finishing long overdue games! I rushed the last few bosses with some summoned help just so I could at least wrap up my first playthrough. At least now I can remove the game from the backlog category at the top of my Steam library and move it to my achievement hunting category, where it won't be taunting me every time I open Steam. Not gonna jump into NG+ as I don't really feel like sinking dozens of hours into it right now. Besides, there's still a chunk of map that I haven't uncovered to the north and a few optional bosses I haven't done so I still have some stuff to do before NG+ anyway. Maybe I'll pick it back up once they announce some DLC or if/when that ray-tracing update manifests itself. Beyond that, it's honestly been too long for me to write any kind of extended thoughts about the game. It was great but at some point I just kinda bounced off of it. Not even sure why, tbh. First time it happens since the original Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. And at the time I had yet to beat any of these games so it wasn't exactly the same thing. Weird, can't say I've had that problem. Maybe a brightness issue on your end? the only times when things were too dark to see, there were flashlight blocks I could move to see what I was doing, so I assumed it was deliberate in those instances.

Smaller doesn't sound bad to me. At this point I almost feel like I have too much Yakuza to get through. That's a very good problem to have, don't get me wrong. But at my usual speed, I can spend close to 100 hours on each of these games and from what I've heard 5 starts to suffer from bloat so as far as I'm concerned it's a good thing that they knew to scale things back a bit. That being said, I really hope they're working on some kind of rerelease for those Samurai-era games. I wanna play them so bad... edit: Oh yeah, I finished Lego Builder's Journey as well. It's alright. As a tech showcase for ray-tracing it's incredible. @TheMightyEthanwasn't kidding when he said it was the best looking game he'd ever seen. But as a puzzle game I found it kinda lacking. All the levels are either obvious as shit or "I have literally no idea what you want from me" with basically nothing in-between. It's cute and short, though, so I don't regret the 10$ I spent on it.

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Yakuza 3 is definitely the low point of the series. I still wouldn't say 4 is as good as 0 or Kiwami 2, but it never felt like a total slog for me to get through like 3 did at least. Some think 5 is the best one. I wouldn't go that far but it probably is the best one that isn't 0 or 7. Yakuza 6 is divisive because it's a lot smaller in scope and less ambitious than 5 but I thought it was fine. I could see it being disappointing if you had just come off 5 and were waiting years for 6 to come out since it goes from 5 playable characters back to just Kiryu but it didn't really bother me.