Finished (playing): Dark Souls III
Playing: Earthlock: Festival of Magic
I stopped playing Dark Souls III not so much because of the difficulty (although it IS difficult), but because it's just too demanding of my time right now. I have to spend a lot of time in the game just to make a little progress, because as anyone who's played a Souls game knows you can't just plow through them button mashing. While I was enjoying it and not getting as frustrated as I did with the previous games, it's a time sink that I'm not prepared to commit to right now with so many other games that I have waiting to be played. It's something that I will play again after I've played through a lot of my other games.
I started playing Earthlock: Festival of Magic, and it's a fun little throwback to classic turn-based JRPGs that was developed in Norway of all places. While the graphics aren't anime, almost everything else about it feels distinctively like an old school JRPG. I've been enjoying it for that reason, but it's been a little challenging from the start and there's some modern complexities about it that feel a little out of place for a game that's trying to replicate the somewhat older and simpler times of JRPGs.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice comes out next week:
(Play what you enjoy phase!)
