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Friday Fun Thread for October 14, 2022

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What are people up to that's fun? Myself, I've been playing the recent release of Trails From Zero. It's a game where I already played a fan translation, but the fan translation was pretty rough so it's fun to see what a professional localization effort looks like. The Trails games in general are very long "I hope you like text" games, so this one will take me a bit, but I'm really enjoying it.

I've been doing a no-health-upgrades challenge run of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice the past week. I've made it up to Genichiro (about 40% of the game) after about 8 hours, 3 of which were just stuck on the Blazing Bull. The only other Fromsoft game I played was Bloodborne, which I absolutely loved, and I beat both Bloodborne and Sekiro in their hardest difficulties (or rather, the highest NG+, which are 6 & 7 for them respectively), but I've yet to do a challenge run of this sort, and it's definitely quite something. The enemies may be tougher in NG+, but at least the longer health bar provides decent room for error in fights, whereas on a fresh playthrough with base HP, there's many more one-shot deaths. And having to find/farm upgrades along the way means less access to tactics for cheesing bosses. Only solution is just to get good and consistent enough at the basic deflection gameplay to get through every encounter. It's difficult but exactly the kind of thrill I was looking for when I decided to try this challenge.

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