Hello everyone. Sorry I forgot to post this last week. I had family visiting me and my mind was occupied. Then I meant to post it on Monday and forgot again, so I just said “ah fuck it” and wait until today. Anyway, this week I continued with my playthrough of Pokémon Omega Ruby. I have finished getting all the gym badges, but instead of marching straight to the elite 4 I am doing some clean up while powerleveling my newly caught Bagon (now a Shelgon) in to Salamence, which is one of my favorite pokemon all time. I also finally resumed my Elden Ring seamless co-op playthrough with my brother. We are fully ensconced in the DLC, and have beaten the Dancing Lion and Rellana. I hope you all have a good week!
Finished getting the last Nioh 2 achievement, had to go all the way to NG+4 to get good enough gear to beat the challenge mission on NG+2. Was a pretty fun time, but the way that builds don’t really even exist until NG+ is completely ludicrous. Add on that Graces don’t even exist until NG+3, never mind that the good ones are all NG+4, and you have a good difficulty curve where yeah you keep pace while it ramps up, but it means that the VAST majority of players will never have to engage with it at all, which is odd. It is extremely funny for the challenge mission to have back to back fights with Otakemaru and then Otakemaru: Now With Pants!
Also playing some Warframe, not really going to engage with Plague Star because fuck me that mission is boring. It is telling, I think, that the only time DE allows farming of built forma is by playing a mode that everyone hates. The new 6-person no matchmaking mode is something I will never play so I’m pretty disappointed in that. Pretty much done all the grinds I’m interested in, so probably going to pick up Citrine Prime and Narin when they come out, and then drop it for a while.
I cannot imagine getting to new game plus 4 in nioh 2. A game I spent like 60 hours just finishing the regular game, and was exhausted by the end of the dlc stuff.
It wasn’t that bad, going up an NG+ cycle just requires beating 20 missions and then the final boss of the base game. You can also just catwalk/suppa all the way to the end of most missions (with the caveat that higher NG+ cycles start to have more spirit foxes around that nullify invisibility so you have to be more careful), so it’s pretty quick. You do get to fun scenarios like the start of NG+4 where if you fight Gozuki you get like 1.2 billion amrita and can immediately level 30 times.
E: I’m around 100 hours but that’s including two partial coop campaigns, probably closer to 80 on my main solo character.