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Oof, this year's summer sale got me good and might not be done. Gonna lump my Switch buys in since that's running concurrently.

Games for me:

  • Saviors of Sapphire Wings/Strangers of Sword City - Hoping this one scratches my JRPG/Etrian Odyssey itch. Mary Skelter couldn't keep my attention beyond one sitting.
  • Chernobylite - The Waypoint crew's brief stint with this game has me more interested than Fallout 4 being $7.99. Plus getting a bit nighttime drunk and delving into a game that'll probably scare me shitless sounds like a good time!
  • Norco - Couldn't help myself with the glowing praise for it on the interwebs. I'm sure Citizen Sleeper's not far behind this one!
  • Cat Quest II - Should be a good mindless time couch co-oping with friends over.
  • Black Book - Thought this would be just for me, but 30min in and I realize my wife would enjoy taking this journey with me.
  • UNSIGHTED - The moment the time limit triggered on this game, I died and lost 4 hours to my remaining time. Immediately chickened out, but I want to get back to this one!

Games for the family (mainly the almost 3 yr old)

  • Unpacking (First thing he did was put absolutely everything on the floor, cackling the whole time, this was a good buy!)
  • Forager (Maybe a little violent, but it's been scratching my base-building itch I didn't realize I had. I think starting him on his own file and letting him at it will avoid good deal of combat.)
  • KeyWe (This was getting hard for me and a friend after only a handful of levels, but with no time limit, I think he'll enjoy the letter-specific levels at least.)
  • Toem (Haven't pulled this out yet, but hopefully the characters pull him in!)
  • Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon (Haven't pulled this one out, this one might be more for me lol)
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If you're interested in Rogue Legacy, skip the first game entirely and pick up Rogue Legacy 2. One of the games' devs, during the development of the second game, basically stated something along the lines of "I don't play the first game anymore, there's no point". Personally, I couldn't finish the first game, didn't like it; with the sequel, I'm on New Game +2 and still trucking along!

A few other quick hits:

Florence is a sweet, bite-sized experience about a young woman falling in love and how it affects her life. It might be a bit artsy fartsy, but it makes good use of the touch screen (read: mobile) interface to connect you with the story.

Baba is You might possibly be the smartest puzzle game ever made. It's also maddeningly difficult. It's box pushing puzzles to the nth degree if the boxes were words or objects and you could use the words to make phrases that change how things work. Tangibly inelegant coding, if you will.

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I opened up the Do Not Sell My information form, but stopped when I saw it. The form asks for your name and e-mail? Why do they need it when I didn't have to give it when I made my account in the first place? It kinda feels like when you request to be taken off a call list, which leads to being put on 5 other call lists. So I didn't fill out the form. Leaving it as is, they're selling an anonymous person's info rather than info directly tied to me (though I can think of a few ways they can put 2 and 2 together and identify me anyway).

I should read the new Terms of Use and Privacy Policy though....

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Disclaimer: Though I played DL daily since launch, I stopped playing since the Monster Hunter event back in February. Still, I looked up a bunch of this stuff for accuracy or current meta; there are waaaay too many systems in this game!

First off, your Might level only goes so far when it comes to surviving the late- to end-game quests. A personal example for me was when I was trying to crack the High Midgardsormr's Trials. Just stacking all your fire on these trials is enough to get through the Prelude and Standard difficulties, but getting through the Expert and Master difficulties really requires understanding these quests. I could get my fav flame adventurer Rena to +6000 Might but having no stun resist meant she often dropped within the first two attacks. The guides online, though a little dated, are very informative on what heroes, weapons, and wyrmprints work well for the different end-game quests. BUT! Might level is a hard check rando groups do anyway so the number is still important!

That all said, if you wanna raise your Might level, the obvious place to start is maxing out your adventurers, weapons, and wyrmprints. Do the Daily Events to get the leveling mats from the chests and spend them! Unbinding your stuff is trickier though, esp. if that requires using your more limited Testaments, Stones, Ingots, and Keys, so make sure you're set on the loadout you have (hot tip: max Resounding Rendition is strong and general enough that it will never leave your party). If you have amplifying and fortifying stones, you can add these to your favorites as well; each stone gives a +1 to Str or HP respectively, +100 max each stat. The shop has useful items for sale in monthly quantities: unbinding items can be obtained by trading in Void Leaves from Void Battles, and amplifying and fortifying stones can be obtained by trading in Astral Shards from Astral Raids.

Adventurers that start as a 5-star rarity typically have more Might than those that start as a 4-star rarity and are unbound to 5. More and more adventurers are getting the Mana Spiral though, basically a 6th tier of mana nodes, which changes this perception. The Dark-type Patia, a 4-star adventurer, is a good example of this.

Weapon-wise, Void weapons have a generally lower Might value than the blacksmith's weapons and are event-specific, so make sure you know what that Void weapon you're eyeing will be used for before investing. Void weapons are much easier to upgrade than 5-star blacksmith weapons, and you may even want to to consider 4-star blacksmith weapons as you make your way to 5-star blacksmith weapons and beyond.

Facilities are very important! Get those dragon shrines, slime shrines, elemental shrines and weapon huts leveled! Event facilities are equally as important, so keep an eye on any Revival events you haven't done so you can level those.

Max out your relationships with your dragons. At max level 30, they give you a Sunlight Ore; take ten of these to the shop, and she'll trade them to you for one Sunlight Stone. Also, Part Ways with any dragons you don't intend to keep. This'll give you Eldwater instead of gold, that sweet blue stuff you'll want to hit 50 mana nodes on your adventurers.

Read the Side Stories for our adventurers and dragons for Wyrmite, and save that Wyrmite for Gala events! Gala heroes tend to be some of the strongest adventurers you can have, and the 5-star drop rate is a little higher during these events that compared to other events.

In the end though, raising your Might level takes time, or time and money. It's a gacha game after all, so hit the online guides to make sure you're happy with what you're investing in to maximize your time and money. Also, if you eventually want to play end-game, try to find a good Alliance or at least a few people you can reliably play with. Getting stuck with that one rando who died immediately becomes tedious a dozen times over in one sitting!

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Absolutely love Toradora! Just threw it in my queue for a rewatch! As for some suggestions:

1) School Rumble is a ton of fun and similar in a lot of ways to Toradora.

2) Lucky Star has a slightly slower-paced feel (at least? especially? at first) in a good way.

3) Nichijou (My Ordinary Life) bounces back and forth in my top 3 all-time anime list and has much more manic energy to it.

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I have the 65" LG C7 OLED. All the responses in this thread make me more worried about burn-in, but I haven't had an issue. I'm usually somewhat militaristic with shutting off the TV when it's not in use or keeping my desktop from idling on the TV. I imagine this has helped my experience and it's become second-nature (I've always done this just to not waste electricity), but maybe adding another back-of-my-mind item to your daily routine might not be worth it.

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Mostly wanna pass my congrats to you! I was in the same position a year ago, and it's a mix of lots to no gaming depending on where you and your family are at at any given time. Somehow my son loved sleeping on me while I played Sekiro of all games at 3 months, but now wants to hit all the buttons on my controller whenever I'm in eyeshot! As with everything else with your new young'n, it's a moving target!

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I'm curious why the Mass Effect trilogy hasn't been mentioned yet. You can spend the first two games being a space paladin just to heel turn hard in the third game, fucking people over hard on the biggest decisions of their lives. I played through Paragon and Renegade paths alongside each other, but I couldn't for the life of me finish that Renegade playthrough! After learning about and caring for so many of these characters over two games, some of those Renegade options came off to me as purely spiteful actions with thinly veiled justifications, choices made just because "Fuck you I don't like you".

It may not be as visceral as other games, but Undertale's arguably one of the most evil-simulating games out there. That game's constantly whispering in your ear "But what if you just went and murdered them all? Don't you wanna see it?" even after the credits roll. I think Undertale literally tempts you, the player, to be the evil one, not the avatar on the screen.

Also, you do you, but in my eyes you're truly evil if you got Nier: Automata's Ending E and still started up a new game!

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A quick FYI, Amazon and Walmart have Switch Pro's in stock at a discount (I think $60 on Amazon? My phone says that but I can't check on my work PC to confirm), so if price is the main drawback the difference between the two is reduced for now!

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More often than not, my wife would rather watch me play a game than play one herself. A couple hundred hours in college took Spelunky out of my rotation, for example, and I would never have even gotten close to finishing La-Mulana if she wasn't so dead set on seeing things through!

Not that she doesn't play games! Recently we're trudging from town to town in Signs of the Sojourner, chatting people up through cards, and we rediscovered Slay the Spire with the 4th deck added in a few months ago.