I’ve been slowly finishing Xenosaga 3, I think I’m nearing the end. I’ll hold my judgement for when I actually finish it, but I mostly enjoyed the series even if I’m a bit mixed on it.

I saw Haste while scrolling through Steam and decided to try it. I was sold on it from the demo, it looks and sounds really good and the movement is a lot of fun. The full game tho was quite the disappointment. It feels incomplete like a vertical slice, more than a full release.

The main game is composed of different levels, but each of them is structured as a roguelike and you don’t keep items you buy between each level except upgrades you can buy (a la Hades). The items themselves change very little and the stages are fully randomly generated so they get repetitive very quickly. There’s also an endless mode which is more fun to play, as you keep stacking items, but it suffers from the same lack of level design.

Now I’m playing Arknights Endfield and I’m enjoying it. I hate that it’s a gacha, but it’s pretty fun. The combat isn’t the deepest but it’s enjoyable; it kinda reminds me of Xenoblade. The same goes for the base/factory building: it’s a very simple implementation of the system, but it’s fun to set it up. Storywise, the writing isn’t great and the translation is at times of dubious quality, but I wasn’t expecting much.