Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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For the first week in almost a month I'm taking a break from Blue Prince. I'm still enamored with it and am watching a couple or let's plays of it still, but I'm now at the very end-endgame and I have probably only the final puzzle left and I'm stumped. My brain is fried and I'm taking a breather and hoping my sister and her fiancé catch up to me so we can all have a crack at the last puzzle together potentially.
In the meantime I'm continuing my extremely impatient gaming by jumping on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I promise I will get back to my backlog soon and do this sub justice. I have F.E.A.R. installed and everything.
Anyway, Clair Obscur is amazingly good. Actually worth paying full price for and I don't mind supporting small developers either. Could this be the best AA game of all time? I honestly can't believe a small studio pulled this off. The gameplay feels like a fresh take on turn based while still giving Souls-like satisfaction at beating a tough boss. The story has been stellar so far and the voice acting is phenomenal. I'm playing with French VAs because it just feels right for this game and this setting. If you don't mind reading subtitles I highly recommend it, the french voices are fantastic and Maelle in particular is stealing the show. I actually prefer her to the English one.
blue prince frustrates me so much because it just won't let me play. people keep saying you can bypass the rng with things you find but the game still has to let you find the things. it took me almost 40 days to first roll credits despite getting the initial basement stuff done on day 16 because i just keep. getting. shafted.
i have pages and pages of notes and nowhere to use them.
I had the same issue in the late game of Blue Prince.
The RNG is pretty fun at first but it quickly becomes frustrating when you have specific layouts in your mind. You gain some control but not enough to make it fun to restart over and over again until you don't get shafted.
My solution was simple: I cheated. I gave myself infinite dice and rerolled the rooms until I got the layout I was looking for. Much more enjoyable that way.