I’m finishing Xenoblade Chronicles X. I finished the original Wii U story, which was alright but

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A bit disappointed it ended on a cliffhanger and the unexplained stuff was the thing I was most interested in.

I’m now doing a few of the remaining side quests and I might try fighting some higher level tyrants before continuing with the new chapter.

I tried a couple of roguelikes, it’s a genre I haven’t played much so I was curious to try it:

I tried Hades. The story is probably good, but I just can’t stand the gameplay. I didn’t find the combat to be particularly engaging, it’s too button mashy and none of the weapons feel good to use. I consistently get to Elysium in 25-30 minutes, then die at the boss and end up having to redo everything just for an attempt at fighting them.

Similarly for One Step From Eden, it takes me almost an hour to reach the final boss, for which I’m not ready since it takes so long to get to it. I do prefer the gameplay of this one, there’s more variety in the bosses and there seem to be more options for builds, although I haven’t had success in deviating from the one strategy I found.

I didn’t really find the gameplay of either interesting enough to justify the grind, so I have dropped them.