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Week 10 Progress
- Bad North: Jotunn Edition (XGP) – 75%
- Halo Wars 2 (XGP) – 40%
- Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore (NS) – 10%
- CASUAL – Quantum Break (XGP) – 100%
- CASUAL – Rogue Company (X)
- CASUAL – Sea of Theives (XGP)
- CASUAL – Super Mario Sunshine (NS)
SOOOOO little did I know that Bad North [it’s great, btw] was NOT the kind of game that is straightforward as far as time put into it. It’s a roguelike strategy game. The entirety of the game is battling for your life with up to four unit types on randomized islands, attempting to fend off invading brutes from another land.
I love strategy games of all types, but I’m also not a motivated roguelike player. Suffice to say, I went through 2.5 playthroughs (one complete route is around 2 hours) and I gave in when I completed 75% of the campaign, and it was obvious I lost too many units to be victorious. Painfully, dreadfully, brutally obvious. The game is great, but it has that classic Age of Empires feel of throwing your units at the enemy to do their job, and sometimes the AI pikemen decide to separate, you know, like great pikemen do. You know how that turns out.
I didn’t intend to jump back on Quantum Break, but I was so close and felt the momentum of the end coming. I had to push through this week since I had interrupted my plans to do a Community Night play of Sea of Thieves (which was a blast). In the end, Quantum Break was worth it. I’d like to play the other routes to unlock the additional cutscenes and endings…but I could also just watch them on YouTube. This game took up something like 165 GB of my hard drive and it’s far more movie than game. Easy choice.
WEEK 10 – September 29th – October 5th
LEGEND: XGP=XBOX GAME PASS, XGWG=XBOX GAMES WITH GOLD, NS=NINTENDO SWITCH, NSO=NINTENDO SWITCH ONLINE, PC=PC
*Added estimated time remaining to completion*
- Halo Wars 2 (XGP) – 5 hrs
- Night in the Woods (XGP) – 8 hrs
- Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore (NS) – 35 hrs
- CASUAL – Rogue Company (X)
- CASUAL – Super Mario Sunshine (NS)
It’s obvious that I didn’t put much time into either Halo Wars 2 or TMS this week, so that’s going to change over the next few days. HW 2 is very much a game I can complete this week, as is Night in the Woods, the indie darling of 2017. I’ve gotten so many indie classics out of the way this year…I guess I’m gonna have to buy some new ones soon (thanks, Game Pass). My casual games for the week continue, as they are a couple of the best. Now that Destiny 2 expansions were added to Game Pass, though…they’ll be on the list soon.
**At the time of writing came the announcement of the Xbox Hall of Fame CONTEST–competing in this may make an additional difference in my play over the next three weeks**
Incomplete Games List 2020
| TITLE | Play Again? | Time Remaining |
| Bad North | Yes | Every Play is 2 hrs |
| CrossCode (XGP) | Yes | 30 hours |
| Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour (NS) | Yes, casually | 5 hours |
| Drake Hollow | Yes | 12 hours |
| Hypnospace Outlaw (XGP) | No | 5.5 hours |
| The Long Reach (NS) | Ugh. Maybe | 1 hour |
| My Friend Pedro (XGP) | Yes | 1.5 hours |
| Tiny Metal (NS) | Yes | 6 hours |
| Ungrounded | Yes | 5 hours |
| Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition (NS) | Yes | 40 hours |
Completed Games 2020
| Game Title | New Release? |
|---|---|
| A Plague Tale: Innocence | No-2019 |
| Battletoads | Yes |
| Carrion | Yes |
| Coffee Talk | Yes |
| The Gardens Between | No-2018 |
| Gris | No-2018 |
| Metro 2033 Redux | No-2014 |
| NieR: Automata | No-2017 |
| Observation | No-2018 |
| Old Man’s Journey | No-2017 |
| Ori and the Will of the Wisps | Yes |
| Panzer Dragoon Remake | Yes |
| Pokemon Sword | No-2019 |
| Quantum Break | No-2016 |
| Rise of the Tomb Raider | No-2015 |
| Tacoma | No-2017 |
| Tell Me Why | Yes |
| Timespinner | No-2018 |
| The Touryst | No-2019 |
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