I’ve put 80 ish hours into Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition since it released. This is my third time playing XCX! I adored it on the Wii U so much and I’m loving it again. I was also playing Undertale alongside it. Yet, I cannot bring myself to boot either of them up right now. What’s a girl to do when she’s burned out on her goto games?
Like, let’s take a second and breakdown all of my recent games:
- Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition (RPG, Switch)
- Balatro (Roguelike, Switch)
- Undertale (RPG, Switch)
- Mario and Luigi: Brothership (RPG, Switch)
- Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition (Action-with-RPG-elements, Switch)
- Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 2: Grimoire of the Rift (Tactical RPG, DS)
- Final Fantasy 4 (RPG, DS)
- Final Fantasy Picross (Puzzle RPG, Switch)
- Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Complete Edition (RPG, Switch)
- Get In The Car, Loser! (RPG, Switch)
- Phantasy Star Zero (RPG, DS)
- Phantasy Star Portable (RPG, Vita)
And recently I completed
- Golden Sun 2 (RPG, GBA),
- GRANDIA 2 (RPG, PS1/Saturn)
14 games, 12 of which are RPGs. I’m so tired of RPGs right now. Puzzle games too.
She plays Kirby: Triple Deluxe on 3DS, naturally.
The Kirby 3DS games have always been a blindspot for me. I had a blue 3DS XL back in the day, but it stopped working sometime around 2014 or 2015 and I never fixed it or got it repaired, something I still regret. I finally got a red New 3DS XL last summer, and I’ve mostly used it to play.. RPG and Puzzle games lol. The DS was absolutely an RPG powerhouse, and the 3DS carried that onward in force, so that’s the genre I usually played on it and the genre I still associate it with. But it has some great platforming games like the Kirby series and Super Mario 3D Land and right now, Triple Deluxe is super hitting the spot. It’s a cute game with clever mechanics, but it’s not super technical like Mario 3D Land would be. I’ve always considered platformers to be a favorite genre, and Kirby is one of my favorite characters. Some of my earliest memories of playing games I owned involve Kirby’s Dreamland 2 on the Gameboy (I have much earlier memories of my grampa teaching me to play Super Mario Bros and Mario USA on his mom’s NES), and I’ve been hooked on him ever since. My best friend and I in elementary school would play co-op Kirby Super Star on the SNES allll the time. It was just so much fun!
I’m glad I’m not forcing myself to play games that aren’t hitting for me right now. That’s something I tend to do and I never enjoy the games as thoroughly for it. Branching back out into dormant favorites is something I should do a lot more often.
This is mostly a short little reminder to myself to take a break sometimes and go somewhere else - whatever that means in the moment.