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What Are You Playing? Omega October 2024
What are you up to this month? Have any games in mind for the future? Let us know in the comments below!
My plans to complete Black Myth: Wukong in a timely fashion have backfired, with various other things vying for my time instead. Was gonna knuckle down and finish it this week, but between the latest Steam Fest and me having to be away from my computer for six days starting tomorrow, it just won't happen at this time. I've got Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom to consider, too, and Diablo IV's Vessel of Hatred expansion starting next Monday. Kinda annoyed, but I only have myself to blame: the opportunities were there if I wanted to take them.
In addition, I need to consider if I care enough about Dragon Age: The Veilguard to pick that up later this month. I played Origins ages ago, and I really enjoyed the game, but that's as far as I've gone in the series. It might be a major title in regards to reviewing, or it might flame out spectacularly; I'll play it by ear and figure it out another day.
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I've been playing Echoes of Wisdom and it's been OK so far. The summoning system makes combat more interesting for me (although I've maybe gotten a bit too stuck on the "just drop a bunch of sea urchins" strategy) and of course I've also been building bridges and ladders out of beds to reach most places. It feels very similar to Zelda games like Link to the Past and Minish Cap, although it's slightly more focused on exploration, which is something I enjoy in video games.
My biggest complaint is that the two main bosses I've beaten so far took an arbitrarily high number of hits to bring down - but maybe I'm used to Zelda bosses who have specific vulnerability windows and communicate more clearly to the player how far they've progressed in the fight. In my experience, each boss in Echoes had two phases (that I could tell) and the second phase both times felt incredibly grindy, with the same pattern playing out over a dozen times even though I hit them multiple times during their vulnerability window (of course, this could just be because I'm notoriously terrible at boss fights, but this was different from my usual suckage). I have hope it'll get better because there was an optional dungeon boss whose pattern I found a lot more rewarding once I figured out what I needed to do.
I'm not very far into the game, so we'll see how it plays out from here.
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