Gave up on
"Mafia: Definitive Edition" (I feel bad about it because so much love and care was clearly put into it but there is just so much driving and the driving mechanic isn't particularly fun, and it looks beautiful but gameplay felt flat). Maybe I'll pick it up again some day.
I played a bit of
"Persona 5" and I loved it but took a break because I can't really face playing two one hundred plus hour games at once (see below on "The Witcher 3") and it also made me feel a bit sad for stupid, unrelated personal reasons, so maybe need to wait until feeling sunnier generally before devoting time to it. It's so stylish though! But man, I wish they would include the Japanese text on versions of the game bought from the UK store - really appreciate that the audio is able to be changed, and I also appreciate that it's understandably not a big demand to provide source language text, but text is such a big part of the game (especially visually) and I would just prefer not to play it with English text. I guess there are probably logistical reasons they can't include it, though. Was grateful and pleasantly surprised that "NieR:Automata" provided a Japanese text option even with a purchase from the UK store, but the rarity of that sort of thing is one of the downsides to the convenience of digitising games/films/books/movies because things become increasingly region-locked and it's harder to access things in their original language (and it's not just games. For example, if you want a digital Shonen Jump subscription and you don't have a Japanese credit card you HAVE to download the English version - which is why I still end up always getting the physical copies from J bookshops here, which is wasteful and more expensive). Sorry that became a very Indulgent Pretentious Non Problems ramble.
Finally slowly getting more into
"The Witcher 3". I don't like the combat still, and I don't like the ugly labelling text (although I do laugh at the helpful labels like "cat", "goose", "peasant" etc) but the story is becoming increasingly absorbing and I love all the care put into things like character and creature descriptions in the glossary. I love that my actions feel like they have actual consequences. I followed advice from posters here to treat it more like a novel than a game (I cranked the combat difficulty down and play it for thirty mins to one hour chunks a day or in bed), and to try out the Polish audio with English subtitles, which is fun because it sounds really nice.
Currently trying to decide whether I want to play Geralt as a lecherous Samantha or a chaste Charlotte, seeing as beautiful ladies keep throwing themselves at me. I like Yennefer so I'm leaning towards being a good guy and being faithful. But otherwise, after two playthroughs of playing RDR2 with Arthur as the nicest, most honourable version of himself possible, I'm playing Geralt as a lot meaner and I've gone from turning down coin to demanding it. Because look, all the villagers and Nilfgaardians (sp) are so bloody ungrateful and I didn't even want to kill the stupid griffin, I would have been happy just doing sidequests and finding old women's lost frying pans, but I went out there and slayed it and then all the villagers were so ungrateful and like... no. Bye.
Sorry for the tl;dr ramble!
(Also have been constantly playing the "NieR:Automata" soundtrack since I finished Ending E. It's gorgeous)
