Topic: What Game(s) are You Currently Playing?

After finishing Donkey Kong Bananza, I went back to Mario Kart World. Been playing Free Roam mode and made quite a bit of progress. I'm getting closer to finding every question panel and I'm getting as much P-switches and Peach medallions as I can find. Also been playing online races, and the competition is getting tougher for me. The highest ratings I got for both regular races and Knockout Tour were about 8100.

More Disney Speedstorm. Progressing through the Alice in Wonderland golden pass quite well, already more than half-way through it. Currently, made it to tier 28, the highest tier is 50. As for Alice, she is currently leveled up to 31, she's turning into a pretty fast racer. Also, unlocked Baloo tonight.

Nothing really significant, I kind of got lazy playing Happy Tree Friends: Deadeye Derby, (Mobile) also because third boss is WAY too hard for me to battle with only half of the upgrades and the stage obstacles are annoying, so I kinda gave up on it. I do wanna complete it at some point but the microtransactions and grinding in that are annoying. Still playing Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage! (Mobile), and after some time, I’ve now FC’d 150 songs on Master! Very proud of myself for that one, and I think Master is super addicting lol.

However, I started a new game yesterday called Acecraft: Sky Hero (Mobile). Ive heard of this maybe since June through short ads, & didn’t think much about it, but I decided to give it a shot out of curiosity and I really liked the look of it, and it’s really fun! In the game you play as a pilot and fight off rouges of enemies in the sky using your aircraft and getting special abilities and ammunition through each wave. This got compared to Cuphead, mainly through them both having gunplay, & the biggest of all, a 1930s rubberhose style, but I think it’s not really that similar to it!

The gameplay is very addicting, distinct and is a rougelike, and I heard someone described it as being more akin to a bullet hell game (think Touhou). The gameplay is very easy to learn, and the gameplay is a bit fast too; all you have to do is move your pilot around to shoot and dodge some enemies.

For a mobile game, they put in a really good amount of effort into the animation and art style! They could’ve gone the cheap route like what some mobile developers do, but they didn’t! Like Cuphead, Acecraft replicates the 1930s cartoon style so perfectly in both the look and movement. The character designs for the enemies are creative (as well as the way they attack) and the animal pilots look charming and adorable, but I especially like their little animations on the main menu. It’s so good, especially since I like older cartoons. Only issue I have is the microtransactions. While the game did give me a lot of goodies and gacha tickets already, the gacha mechanic makes it hard to get better pilots and upgrades, which will be vital to later stages, and the upgrade requirements seem a bit annoying, but I like it so far. And a fun fact, did you know this game has Tom & Jerry as pilots? I only found this out when I was downloading it! Very cool that this game will likely have more collaborations with older cartoon series in the future.

Making great progress on the Disney Speedstorm golden pass, made it to tier 41 tonight. Only 9 more tiers to go before the golden pass is done. As for Alice, she's now at level 36, making her my highest level racer so far.

I finally decided on Season One "Search & Recover" DLC in Snowrunner (Switch). After I did the Season 9 "Renew & Rebuild" which is dealing with the aftermath of wildfires, I wanted to get back to a "snow" setting so I can bust out the chain tires again. I've only been able to put in a short time with it, and I can already tell this one will be another pain in the @ss. Bring it on nature, you wild b#tch!

I'm also slowly getting through Captain Toad's Treasure Tracker (Switch). On Episode 3 now. I'm really enjoying the game but not fully sure I'll get the Mario Odyssey DLC. We'll see.

I started playing YIIK I.IV, which is a massive update/retry of controversial indie RPG YIIK: A Postmodern Adventure. Like it has a bunch of new stuff even early on, including an entirely different combat system. It's pretty wild.

So far I'm not sure entirely how to feel, but...its already clear one of their decisions is they will put as many interesting visuals in this game as humanly possible. How much is too much? Maybe never! Put in all the visuals. Every visual we can.

Completed the Alice in Wonderland golden pass in Disney Speedstorm this morning. I've played a few battle passes for a few F2P games over the years, Disney Speedstorm had the best progression. Unlike the one I did in Paladins, it didn't feel like a chore and completed it in two weeks. I collected all 50 tiers, and can enjoy the rest of the season.

Also, Alice is now a level 41 racer. She's not only my first four star racer, but now my fastest racer in the game. I unlocked her best suit and car design from the pass.