Obligatory What the Hell is Joe Playing or Planning to Play

January 06, 2025

We'll see...

What am I currently playing:

Iesabel
A not-Diablo game that is most certainly not Diablo. It's weird because this one scratches that particular itch, but does so in an irksome, ham-fisted manner. For instance, you have to occasionally go to great lengths to reposition yourself just to destroy a barrel. Targeting is wonky, walking is a slow process, and even the story is kinda weird. You start out as one of four chosen warriors foreseen by a shaman, but your carriage is destroyed en route and your partners are murdered. The shaman who foresaw your coming apparently didn't foresee this event and now believes you murdered your friends to swipe equipment off their corpses. Not exactly a Danny Torrence, this one...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Continuing my replay. I'm currently inside Jabu-Jabu. After all these years, I still love this one. Yes, its camera is sometimes a pain in my ass, but the game hits so many high notes despite that tiny hiccup.

Resident Evil (remake)
I'm trying yet again, this time on PC instead of GameCube. Thank every god ever that it finally has a moderate difficulty setting. See, that wasn't so hard, was it Capcom?

Tembo the Badass Elephant
As predicted, I'm having fun with this silly take on mascot platformers. There's a good balance of cautious play, destruction, and exploration, with a touch of old-school "to hell with any sense of realism." I dig it so far...

On the horizon:

All of my review projects, including that weird Swarm one EmP sent me.

Camp Sunshine

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening remake

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D

Outlast

Paper Sorcerer

Quake II

The Witcher 2

Velvet Assassin

Continue Wild Arms Alter Code: F

Ys: The Oath in Felghana

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honestgamer - January 10, 2025 (06:06 AM)
That's a pretty nice mix of games! Are you playing the new Oath in Felghana that just hit this week, or an older version?

JoeTheDestroyer - January 12, 2025 (06:25 PM)
I have the older version. I wouldn't mind getting the rerelease one of these days, though.

overdrive - January 17, 2025 (09:10 AM)
Fun Fact: The Jabu-Jabu dungeon is the only one I don't overly like from Ocarina. Pretty much every other one: either top-notch or great for its location in the game (ie: the first two weren't awesome, but they were great as far as introducing Zelda fans to the 3D nature of the game. But Jabu-Jabu just sort of annoyed me, which probably was made worse by how great the first second-world dungeon was.

JoeTheDestroyer - January 19, 2025 (04:13 AM)
Iesabel down. I also pulled my PS2 out of the closet and started playing some stuff. On top of that, I'm tempted to replay SMT: Persona on PSP.

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	honestgamer - January 10, 2025 (06:06 AM) That's a pretty nice mix of games! Are you playing the new Oath in Felghana that just hit this week, or an older version?
	JoeTheDestroyer - January 12, 2025 (06:25 PM) I have the older version. I wouldn't mind getting the rerelease one of these days, though.
	overdrive - January 17, 2025 (09:10 AM) Fun Fact: The Jabu-Jabu dungeon is the only one I don't overly like from Ocarina. Pretty much every other one: either top-notch or great for its location in the game (ie: the first two weren't awesome, but they were great as far as introducing Zelda fans to the 3D nature of the game. But Jabu-Jabu just sort of annoyed me, which probably was made worse by how great the first second-world dungeon was.
	JoeTheDestroyer - January 19, 2025 (04:13 AM) Iesabel down. I also pulled my PS2 out of the closet and started playing some stuff. On top of that, I'm tempted to replay SMT: Persona on PSP.

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