Nioh 3 (Platinum)
Zeus Masters of Olympus (Through Sparta campaign)
Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne
I have been too busy to update this. I have been playing a lot games, but mostly the unbeatable type. Now I want to update this, so here we go.
The first new game I bought this year was Nioh 3. It is an amazing game. But in my opinion Nioh 2 was better. Whether it be Samurai mode or Ninja mode, this game is great fun. I played 99% in Samurai mode, because I love 2h axe. If they got rid of it, I would probably rate the game much lower, but in the end they kept all weapons and will even add more. Gameplay and stats are slightly different from Nioh 2, but easy enough to adapt to, and any respec is free. Either through my own skill or because it truly is easier, the difficulty was not harsh at all. Some bosses gave me trouble but I had a blast getting through it. Eventually you can learn the bosses so well and nearly perfect them. The mobs on the other hand, much easier, no difficulties at all compared to the DLC of Nioh 2. However I am sure Nioh 3 will get some DLC eventually. The platinum was only a couple of hours extra, so I quickly got that as well. Overall a great game and so far GOTY of 2026.
I played Zeus Masters of Olympus campaigns. It is a very old city builder game. However it is still a game worth trying out if you like these types of games. It was difficult to understand things at first, and there isn't really a tutorial so I looked things up a few times. I still don't know how to use the military. I played through my goal, which was the Sparta campaign. Managing the needs of the populace to then build up the economy and make a ton of money to get what you want was great. But the fun must end at some point, the old clunky stuff got old eventually so I moved on to...
Another old game in Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne. This game I was hyped for to fill my Atlus JRPG void. The first thing I was surprised by was by how much story there was. A lot more story than SMT V. The old PS2 JRPG style game with tons of information with the NPCs and worldbuilding. The next thing I was surprised by was that it actually wasn't all that difficult. Of course I only played on normal due to the reputation of this game, but overall it was fine. Anytime anyone could instant kill me I just switched to be immune to that. Eventually I got Last Stand making it pretty difficult to instant die to something. But it happened anyway in the late game. I was very sleepy and used an aoe physical skill against an enemy that could reflect physical , instantly getting rid of my last stand. I then healed myself to full, but the mobs still got some lucky hits in a row on my MC and killed him. Lost an hour of time there. Now I must say this game has probably the worst random encounters of any JRPG I have played, even with Estoma constantly on, taking 2 steps= battle. For that reason along with the age of things I can't rate it as high as other Atlus games. The ending I got was also hilarious, never laughed so hard at a JRPG ending before, but here we are, and I will live with it.
