July 2024 Recap

On 08/01/2024 at 05:47 PM by daftman

Games Beaten

-Hollow Knight (PS5)

Hollow Knight is clearly a special game. It's a game about a kingdom of bugs but takes itself incredibly seriously and that mostly works. It can be tough to find and follow the lore of the game but it's not to the game's detriment. Hollow Knight plays wonderfully and serves up a challenge to match its tight controls. Sometimes that challenge can be a little much but the game is fair and death is rarely too great of an inconvenience. My gripe with the difficulty is the technically optional endgame boss rushes that are just so brutal. But even with a bit of a bloated runtime, it's a fantastic game.

Games Bought

Light month in July! The only additions I made were a couple Switch eShop purchases. I bought Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons, which is a farmed-themed Picross game based on the long-running Story of Seasons franchise, and Mechstermination Force, a 2D run-and-gun game where you fight colossal robots. Oh! I did finally get the big Destiny 2 expansion, The Final Shape (PS5).

Games Being Played

-Live A Live (Switch)

I am in the final chapter. Still working on recruiting all the characters.

-Yakuza 0 (PS4)

I had started this game early in the year and then had to shelf it due to life reasons but now I'm back in Kamurocho busting heads!

-Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons (Switch)

I have been playing a lot of this Picross game!

-Destiny 2 (PS5)

I am behind on this expansion but I am looking forward to seeing the end of this story that has been building for the last ten years.

KnightDriver

08/02/2024 at 11:32 AM

I was just reading some criticism of Destiny and Bungie in general on reddit the other day (something about layoffs and some unfair digs at Destiny). It got me thinking about Destiny 2 and whether it was done yet and what Bungie might do next. That final DLC is out, as you say, so what now?

daftman

08/02/2024 at 09:06 PM

It's very hard to imagine Destiny coming to an end, given its nature as a live service game. But yes, what next? I would say that maybe they will start up some second game to run alongside it BUT that's kind of already the case. They are making a Marathon game for Sony (who owns them now). It's some kind of multiplayer shooter, which sucks since the original Marathon games were great story-heavy games. I wish Bungie would make some self-contained, play-them-and-they're-done kind of games again.

08/03/2024 at 09:14 AM

That's a shame. Marathon would be great if done like the original ones. I'd probably just stay on the sidelines and watch if it is a online multiplayer shooter.

Cary Woodham

08/02/2024 at 05:23 PM

Piczle Cross: Story of Seasons is really good. The only reason why I like the Namco Picross S game more is just because of the characters. But I bet you'll eventually get that one, too.

08/02/2024 at 10:02 PM

I probably will get that game too sometime! There really aren't that many Picross games and I do so enjoy Picross. I went with Story of Seasons this time because it was on sale.

Super Step Contributing Writer

08/21/2024 at 01:30 AM

I'm just here to nod in approval for Yakuza 0.

08/21/2024 at 09:57 AM

Appreciated! The most surprising thing for me with this game is how much I got sucked into playing Majima's cabaret club management mini game.

08/23/2024 at 12:10 PM

Absolutely! After you've conquered disco dancing, of course. It's FRIDAY!

PixlBit