Sunday, February 05, 2023

Games of January 2023

For a bunch of reasons, January just hasn't been a time when I've really wanted to sit down and play much. I've mostly been poking at Tactics Ogre and picking up Xenoblade Chronicles more when I've wanted to play something with more story and activity.


My top five games (by play time) for January were:
  1. Tactics Ogre: Reborn - I'm a sucker for Ogre Battle stuff, what can I say. The game is pretty satisfying, although I do wish it has an easy mode just to make moving through some of the game a little easier.
    Screen shot from Tactics Ogre: The knight Folcurt and a team of others, fight octopuses on an icey lake.

  2. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 - I'm enjoying the replay and trying to get through doing as little side content as I can. Doing all -- most of -- the side quests and stuff was really important to the world building, but as with all of the Xenoblade games it really ruins the pace, so now that I'm seen everything I'm hoping to get a better feeling for what the story feels like when you're keeping your pace up.
    Screen shot from Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Our heroes stand at the edge of a small pond at sunset looking at a huge rock in the distance.

  3. Mario Kart 8: Deluxe - Vrooom vroom.
    Screen shot from Mario Kart 8: Roselina passes through a gate on Rainbow Road on her hover bike surrounded by bananas.

  4. Super Mario World (Nintendo Switch Online)I had 10 minutes to spare and wanted to play something quick, responsive and fun. Super Mario World is one of the best feeling games I actually have installed on the switch.
    Screen shot from Super Mario World, Mario waits for a mushroom to come out of a question block on Yoshi's Island 1

Here's my total play time chart for January:


And here's a chart of how much I've played over the month:


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