I am playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 on PC. I think I will beat it this month.
I have done it. I finished Kingdom Come Deliverance. It was a great game. Starting out as a whelp inexperienced in everything the world had to offer. Getting my ass handed to me in the beginning in fights that seemed like they should be easy. Failing all types of checks to slowly getting better and becoming better at everything. Partly due to leveling up, but also still requiring some amount of skill or strategy to actually succeed especially in fighting.
I found the story to be fantastic and also very bold (the ending). I completed a decent amount of side/minor quest that were fun and added to the immersion of the world and most of the time didn't feel tedious. Also just exploring the world riding a horse was fun as well.
I would definitely recommend this game and definitely plan to play the sequel in the future.
Game I will definitely finish this month is Kingdom Come Deliverance. Just going to mainline it now since I've been doing so much exploring that it has extended my time in the game. So I plan to start Clair Obscur at the developers predict it is a 30ish hour game. So I will double that for me.
Well still didn't finish Kingdom Come Deliverance, but that's okay. I did finish a bunch of book and tv shows instead this month. I will probably just mainline the game to get it done. I still do enjoy playing it, but side quest as well as just exploring are making this a long game for me. Approaching 90 hours as it is and just a little past the half way point. Main reason to finish at this point is so I can play Clair Obscur.
Still working on finishing up Kingdom Come Deliverance. When I finish I am not sure what I will pick up. Maybe Fez.
Still working on Kingdom Come Deliverance 1. It's been great, but I am going through it slowly. Distracted by reading books and watching shows on my free time. All enjoyable. Will continue working on it.
For the month of February I will be playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance. I never knew that this was a story based game until trailers came out for the sequel. I'm already a few hours in and have been playing every free moment I can get.
Originally I was going to try to play original FF VII, but I just didn't get hooked in again, so that's on hiatus or possibly alternate to play during the month. Monster Hunter Wilds is also on my radar, but I will wait for review to see how performance is for PC systems similar to mine. The beta was bugged out and I was not able to play do to missing textures.
I was able to finish the main story of Grand Theft Auto IV. I found the story to be pretty grounded and enjoyable, granted I had to suspend the impact of the game play aspect. The struggles of an immigrant trying to make his way in Liberty City and the choices he had to make along the way had me wanting to play from story beat to story beat.
I did occasionally just go off the rails and do the crazy stuff you can do in a GTA game just to see what was possible and that was fun. I will say that the music in the game when driving around was varied and enjoyable. I did restore the removed tracks when I found out the selection was missing some and that greatly improved the choices of music playing. Even the talk radio stuff was humorous to me.
I will say the weakest part of the game for me in 2025 is the actual game play itself. It just felt so clunky sometimes. Walking, running, unarmed combat, shooting, hiding in cover and driving were not the worst I've ever experienced, but definitely towards the bottom considering other games of the time as well as games that are out now.
All in all I would definitely still recommend a play through of this game for its story and I am glad that I did.
For this month I will be playing GTA IV. I have never played a GTA game passed 2 I think and wanted to experience a story from this franchise. I asked around and was told IV was the most grounded story while being excellent. I have a feeling I will finish this early on in January so I will probably try to work on a game I've previously started like Control. I will also be probably playing Tears of the Kingdom because I finally got it as a gift, but I don't expect to finish it until February I think playing it only at home on the weekend.
I did complete Atelier Ryza Ever Darkness and the Secret Hideout. It was overall an enjoyable but average game to play. The story was much more light hearted which is what I expected going into it. While I did like it over all, I felt the middle part of the game felt sluggish and found myself not immediately reaching to play the game and decided to instead read a book or watch tv. When I finally got closer to the end of the game I found myself drawn in again and was able to get through it relatively quickly. The alchemy part was fun at first, but then I just didn't care about it and made what was necessary to either level up alchemist level or have strong enough item/weapons/armor to finish the game. I didn't really experiment with that system as much; might just not be my thing.
The music was fine, but I probably won't be recalling any melodies or tunes from this one.
The battle system was actually a lot of fun for me. Not having to technically worry about issuing commands to other party members unless I wanted to was nice. So I mainly just stuck to playing Ryza for battles, but did feel hamfisted into a certain party group/composition early on to the end of game. Could be because I didn't want to mess with the alchemy stuff too much after a certain point so that might be on me. I don't know if the Atelier games are for me after this. The new one coming out (Yumia) does look interesting, but I highly doubt I will be playing the rest of the Ryza trilogy.
Well my goal this month is to just finish Atelier Ryza Ever Darkness and the Secret Hideout. Don't think I will plan on finishing else this month. Might try to play a campaign of Total War Shogun 2 to completion and call that a beat since I've always wanted to and never have.
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I don't think I will finish Clair Obscur in time. But will continue to play it until I beat it. The game has been fantastic the whole way through for me so far.