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What video games are you playing now?

Hades: Defeated Extreme Hades an extra two times with Sword of Arthur and Bow of Chiron, it's clearly not a fluke and I'm just better than Hades, Lord of the Dead, even fighting at his full strength. Which is pretty cool.

Stardew Valley: More Ginger Island content. Turned in 3 "full specimens" to Professor Snail (even though two of them are just single-item specimens), so now I'm just waiting for artefact spots to develop on the western side of the island to get snake spines from. Speaking of the western side, I also completed the chain of trades for the pirate's wife, and gotten her husband's necklace for her. Did a bit more bonding with Leo, he taught me how to say "let's play" in parrot! With a nut count of 101, I've officially gained access to Qi's Nut Room, where Mr. Qi makes absolutely unreasonable requests of you. Why does everything about Qi suck? He sends you on a massive fetch-quest for access to a shitty casino, asks you to go 100 floors down Skull Cavern in a single run and then insults you for using more than 10 staircases, and then he has an entire room dedicated to making such inane requests as "find and grow 500 of my god damn beans within a month" or "Do the Skull Cavern thing again but this time everything's going to kick your fucking ass". Anyway, I might do some Qi stuff, at least the less openly antagonistic stuff, since I do at least wanna get an Infinity Blade, 'cause that seems kinda cool, but I wanna do it with as little pain as possible. So who knows how it's actually gonna go.
 
Now am on the Roof in Plants Vs. Zombies and aiming trying hard to aim the Grounded achievement.

In HeartGold, leaving Pok'emon at the daycare to level them up and am training my Eevee to evolve him into either Espeon or Umbreon before unlocking the next 3 gyms.
 
Stiiiiiiill playing through Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Almost done with the game, just finishing up some sidequest chains before I go into the final dungeon.

Also picked up Splatoon 3 and enjoying it so far. I've mostly been playing it in multiplayer, because I don't want to complete any singleplayer story until I finish Octo Expansion. So I'm planning on going back to Splatoon campaigns when I'm done with Xenoblade.

I'm also finishing up a HeartGold nuzlocke I started months ago, I've got about two more gyms to go I think.

Also continuing to play Monster Hunter Rise and Fall Guys on and off with friends when I get the chance.
 
Stardew Valley: Leo's decided to move to the valley so that he can be around people and other kids and start the next stage of his life. I also got around to building the resort, too. So now that's there. I also tried doing one of Qi's Unreasonable Requests, but it turns out Junimo Kart fucking sucks so I'm not doing that.

Hades: Ran through the last 3 weapons, so now I've officially defeated Extreme Hades with all 6 weapons in a row, no deaths. Truly I am better than the gods.
 
Digimon Survive, up to part 11 of the Truth route.
It definitely feels like Truth works best last rather than second. Ryo and Shuuji saving Saki and Miu in the Amusement Park has special meaning if you've played Harmony and Wrath, for instance.
Some of the dialogue did get a bit meta when people talked about how fortunate it is everyone survived and if they hadn't things wouldn't have gone so well, but this way they feel like they're on the way to a good outcome.

Truth was a big difficulty spike as the challenge skyrocketed. After a nasty battle in Part 10 that left only Wargreymon alive and forced him to kite the enemy to win I finally pulled out the stat enhancers, chose my 20 best Digimon, and divided them between them (I know a lot of people like to give then all to Agumon but I thought having one unstoppable unit would be less interesting).

Lopmon and Kunemon have caught up to most of my other main characters (Agumon is quite a bit ahead of everyone else, though). Both are pretty good; Lopmon's Cherubimon form is a great healer that can do pretty decent damage as well, while BanchoStingmon being typeless makes him useful on just about every map.
 
Stardew Valley: Did all of the Pirate Cove nut collection, being the one in the middle of the star pond, the three from darts, and the five from the mermaid song. And now that I've purchased the fark obelisk next to the island farmhouse I've officially purchased every island upgrade, so now any further nuts are just sent straight to Qi for the tiniest of headstarts on Qi gems, assuming I ever actually earn any myself.

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Lopmon and Kunemon have caught up to most of my other main characters (Agumon is quite a bit ahead of everyone else, though). Both are pretty good; Lopmon's Cherubimon form is a great healer that can do pretty decent damage as well, while BanchoStingmon being typeless makes him useful on just about every map.
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Yeah those two are actually really good. It takes them a hot minute to catch up to the rest of the squad, especially if you don't give them growth crystals to speed them along. But once they're in ballpark they're actually really useful. They can inflict some very nasty status on the enemy and their distance is very good.
 
About to head back to Digimon Survive after a long pause.

Heading straight for the truthful route. I've seen some people mention that you should do the other routes first for all the evolutions and because there's a difficulty spike later in truthful, but I can't man. I know what would be waiting for me in Wrathful and I can't do the whole Ryo and Shuuji dying again, or anyone else. Need my happy ending before I can really be satisfied.

Update since I don't wanna double post:
God I almost started crying when we actually saved Ryo. It really seemed like he was about to die again for a second and I started seriously worrying that I'd done something wrong.

I was annoyed by the guy my first run and saw his death coming, but he was honestly just really freaked out and unable to accept reality, not actually a bad person. He deserves a real chance.

Now for Shuuji... I hear that if you save Ryo you're pretty much guaranteed to save Shuuji as well, but better try to get my affinity with him up in case.
 
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Picked up Breath of Fire 3 again after a break. Took care of the events in Eden, meeting a now-adult Teepo, who agrees with Myria. After wandering around for longer than necessary in Ryu's mind and seeing what the others think Ryu stands his ground and disagrees with Teepo, prompting him to sic a boss after his "brother". Ryu effortlessly defeats it with Kyrie, as it's an Undead, thus saving precious AP and time. Teepo takes the form of the Dragon Lord, forcing Ryu, Nina, and Garr to battle him. The party is victorious though Teepo's dying breath is his desire to return to the life he, Rei, and Ryu once had, while further feeling that the Brood are monsters, before fading away forever. A melancholy time as Ryu's mission to find his "family" has ended, with one still with him and one no longer alive. The party returns to the desert outside of Myria's space station to restock on supplies. Ryu is Level 49, Nina is Level 47, Garr is Level 41, Rei and Momo are both Level 38, and Peco is Level 30.
 
Throughout my crybaby-ass jobless months of both feeling inadequate and missing my college acquaintances since graduation hiatus I've been playing Fossil Fighters, and as of now I'm playing through Fossil Fighters Champions. Good god, why the fuck didn't I get these games while I was younger? These games are legitimately some shining hidden gems within the DS library, and until now I missed out.
Granted I'm still amidst a 'paleontology/dinosaurs' phase, which probably helps my current obsession with them, but still.
 
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Final Fantasy X-2: Partway through Chapter 2, with a decent amount of chapter 2 sidequests done as well (I didn't realise there were sidequests in different places when I was doing Chapter 1 so I probably missed some). Currently searching for Leblanc Syndicate goons so we can steal some uniforms and sneak into the chateau. I feel like I'm kiiiiinda figuring out how to get good results from this battle system, especially now that the girls are really starting to build good sets of options with their Dresspheres.

Horizon Zero Dawn: I've mostly been sweeping through quests and exploration on the northern path that the main questlines follow before planning to start moving east to, again, follow the Seeker at the Gates main quest. I also did the first cauldron, which was a super cool setpiece and also means that I can now override shit like Bellowbacks and Sawtooths, which is just incredible, really. Overall game's actually really good. Like, I got it because it was cheap and I'd heard people say it was good. But yeah, it's good.
 
Still playing Breath of Fire 3. I'm mostly grinding for levels and abusing the Master system with my mutant onion, Peco. I've maxed out on all the Masters in the game, acquiring all their skills, except Ladon, who is always the last one to be obtained (as you need every Dragon Gene to even summon him, much less apprentice under him). Plus he has the harshest stat penalties (-6 on both HP and AP, so you basically don't gain any HP or AP when you apprentice under him) but some of the best skills in the game like Aura. So I apprenticed both Ryu and Peco under him, and mainly using Peco to grind the necessary levels to get his skills, since he's the lowest leveled right now. In preparation for getting Ryu under Ladon I used Giotto as his Master until he reached Level 50 (as Giotto boosts HP and AP, but lowers all other stats), especially since after Level 50 a character's stat growth starts tapering off. As a result of training under Giotto Ryu now has over 300 HP and about 240 AP, which should be enough to tide him over. Peco, on the other hand, already has amazing HP growth so even the -6 in HP doesn't hurt him too much (he still gains at least 3 HP per level, except for one time where he gained a whopping 9 HP even under Ladon, which means he would've gained 15 HP if not apprenticed to the Dragon God). Anyway, I also shuffled around Nina's Master to Deis instead of Emitai, as Deis offers more stat buffs to more areas like Agility, and Nina already has bad HP and Defense growth anyway so the penalties aren't as bad (and nothing that stat-boosting items like Life Shards and Proteins can't fix, and they're easy to farm). Anyway, Ryu is Level 50, Nina is Level 48, Garr is Level 43, Rei and Momo are both Level 40, and Peco is Level 38.
 
Finished Digimon Survive, though I didn't complete Mugen Recollection.. Fun game but with a few flaws that may be the result of it's production troubles.

Continuing the theme, I've started Digimon Cyber Sleuth Complete. It feels a lot closer to a standard JRPG than any of the other monster collecting games I've played. It will be interesting to see where it goes.
 
Final Fantasy X-2: Finished chapter 2, so now I'm doing some chapter 3 sidequests before moving on to the main quests. Or, well, trying to anyway. 'Cause Yojimbo is... Yojimbo's just terrible. The fight itself feels like it should be possible with a bit of fiddling with strategies, but the fact that you need to trudge through so much of the preceding mission with the tourists before you can take another crack at it is just demoralising, because for some reason they decided to prevent you from saving during the mission.

Horizon Zero Dawn: Reached the border fort between the Nora Sacred Lands and the Carja Sundom, but first I had to pop back into Nora territory by request of captain Balahn to find some missing men, as well as completing the last Nora hunting ground challenge I'd gotten the tool for a while ago but never actually did. While on my way to that one I also bumped into War Chief Sona who asked me to donate some Lancehorn bits and deliver some signal arrows to a sentry. Next up is finally heading into the Sundom. Probably hit up the Tallneck first, then the cauldron, and then I'll get on proper exploration and quests and stuff.
 
Finally stopped grinding for levels in Breath of Fire 3 and continued the story. After defeating the standard Capcom boss rush it was time to fight Myria. My team was very overleveled, being in the upper 40s to low 50s, and the "recommended" level to fight Myria is 42 (though I have beaten her with teammates in the 30s in the past). So, as a result of my overleveledness, and by using the Tiamat dragon form to cheat her out of her various status effect attacks, I was able to beat Myria and witnessed the end credits and song. That means Breath of Fire 3 is over, as the only thing left is to get the Master Rod and King Frog lure, which really isn't worth it. Overall, this was probably my strongest playthrough to date, especially since I maxed out on all the Masters and their skills, and had some of my characters reach Level 50+. Now maybe I should consider playing Breath of Fire 4 again. It's not my favorite game, especially with all the flaws I mentioned in another thread, but I'm still in a retro gaming and Breath of Fire mood. I'll think about it. Ryu is Level 54, Nina is Level 52, Garr is Level 49, Rei is Level 48, Momo is Level 47, and Peco is Level 45.
 
king of fighters 15: doing some edit teams before team samurai drops

kingdom hearts birth by sleep: after seeing a friend get the platnium trophy and another one play fortune street, it got me itching for some command board. (original PSP version rather than the PS4 version for nostalgia purposes)
 
In the end I did end up starting a new playthrough in Breath of Fire 4. I'm only at the start of the game, where Ryu and Nina get the password to enter the black market in Sarai so they can get sandflier parts. I've been spending time grinding for Zenny, as the first few segments of Ryu's side of the story require a decent chunk of pocket change in order to progress. I also took care of Fou-Lu's first segment. Ryu is Level 5 and Nina is Level 6.
 
Just finished Digimon Survive's truthful route.

Definitely prefer this to the Harmony route. I'm much more satisfied, though I guess that makes sense since this is supposed to be the true ending. That, and I just prefer my happy endings where people don't die, especially not kids.

This really was THE true route, actually covering the lore of the world and what the Master actually is. Really kinda crazy now in hindsight how Harmony (and probably the other ones) would hint briefly on some things but never really went into detail, and the Master kinda gets eaten and killed without us ever learning what he actually is or what he's so mad about. Not that it's a bad thing, I think it's a pretty clever way to hint at things for the truthful route. It makes you want to go back and find the stuff that was only vaguely hinted at before.

I've also loved how this route's been drilling it in that all of this is possible because everyone survived. Saving Ryo caused a chain reaction you don't see right away. He stops Shuuji from getting himself killed, allowing Shuuji to grow and help the Professor uncover the mystery of the world. They also both saved Miu and Saki in the amusement park, who both had a chance of dying in the first round depending on which route you took, which in the long would have killed other characters too.

Aoi even literally says that if even one person was lost, none of this would be possible, and it's funny because she doesn't even know how right she is.

It's also just felt more lighthearted and less depressing at the ending, with everyone looking back on their time in the world more positively than they did last time, I feel. Which makes sense, since they didn't watch any of their friends die this time. It was still hard a hard time, but not as grim as before.

Still not a fan of Shuuji after what he did in the beginning, but I am proud of Ryo. He jumped from meh to one of my favorites very quickly, and it's great seeing how much of an impact he's made after losing it and dying so quickly the first time around.

Overall I enjoyed this run much more than last time and feel better about it. Still not a game I would normally buy, but it was an enjoyable experience. Not sure I would buy again if they made another horror/grim one like this because that first run was brutal for me, but we'll see.

Would love to see more Digimon games on the Switch in the coming years. It's a fun series, I've enjoyed the games I've played so far. Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory are definitely more up my alley, but Survive was still good, especially this last run.
 
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Still playing Breath of Fire 4. I took care of the events in Chamba, gaining Ershin as a party member, before getting Cray back. After dealing with the events at the Dam and the area just past it it was time to find the Mayor so the party can use the secret route to the last known area where Nina's sister was seen. Beat Maman and now have access to the secret route to the next area. However, I backtracked a bit to the fishing area near Sarai, since I now had lures like the Deep Diver, allowing me to catch some more fish like Rainbow Trout that I couldn't catch before. After that I returned to the town of traps and now it's time to take the secret route. Ryu is Level 10, Nina is Level 11, Ershin is Level 10, and Cray is Level 10.
 
Got more achievements in PvZ and in my new HG adventure, I got to foil Team Rocket and am leaving my Slowpoke (named after Caitlin) at the daycare and switching to my Quagsire (named after Much from Bob the Builder).
 
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