Aight, let’s talk about CounterSide a little bit

I’ve ditched Xenoblade Chronicles 3 in favor of CounterSide and the occasional Genshin Impact, and just the other day I got Picross S8. Best series ever, Nintendo numbah wan! Sometime this weekend I should find the time to play the Harvestella demo. I need to check it out to inform my decision of whether to […]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on hold while I play Counterside and Genshin Impact

What the title said. I haven’t dropped Xenoblade Chronicles 3, I’ve just been too busy with real life stuff to really get stuck in. But somehow I can always make time for casual games and gacha games, because they’re just designed with the busy person in mind. Of course they’re designed to steal the time […]

100 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Climb every mountain, ford every stream (spoilers)

IIRC I finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2 around the 100-hour mark. I killed the boss, did some perfunctory extra exploration and that was it. There was a lot I didn’t like that about that game (and a lot I did), but the biggest was having the map filled in for me already so there were no […]

What I’m playing at the end of summer 2022

Summertime blues~ Let’s round up all the games I’m playing/want to play/should be playing right now. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – It came, I’m playing it and I’m taking my sweeeeet time about it. I’m supposed to be doing [important spoiler mission] right now, but it can wait while I explore vast areas of nothingness. If […]

55 hours into Xenoblade Chronicles 3, time to start spoiling!

All right, I’ve gotten the exploration bug out of my system so it’s time to progress the story. Heh, you actually believe that? Nope, what happened was I explored and explored until Xenoblade Chronicles 3 itself intervened and stopped me with a Genshin-style “Let’s explore the area ahead later.” I laughed my head off at […]