Earthborn in Eastward. It’s a rogue like turn based rpg, and it’s sick. Also you can use money you collect in Eastward to buy capsules that contain items that you can use inside Earthbound. Really cool idea executed perfectly. I played more of Earthborn than I did Eastward.
Eastward is one of my favorite games I’ve ever played. My only significant criticism is that I spent most of the game looking forward to how all the loose ends to the story would be explained and tied together and then it just ended without that really happening.
I have a love/hate relationship with Nethack’s Sokoban levels.
It’s always fishing.
Loved the fishing in FF15.
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Burger Flipper in Selaco.
You need to find a datapad with the game on it, and it’s just a stupid auto-clicker, but damn if it doesn’t scratch that itch in the monkey brain for “number go up.”
Plus, Selaco, the base game, is really damn fun.
Triple triad from Final Fantasy 8.
Triple triad + Card mod ability = broken game
It might have had a factor in my not enjoying the Triple Triad mini game, as I sometimes get bogged down in just collecting cards to convert into spells and items. Also, the Queen of Cards is a huge pain. And the CC Club sidequest.
CC Club side quest and Queen of Cards spoilers
Completing the CC Club side quest is necessary to complete prior to Disk 4 if you want to have access to them on Disk 4 (they’re inside the Ragnarok). Queen of Cards is available on Disk 4 by default (she’s on the Lunar Pod crash site in Esthar), so you can just play her there for a quicker access to the cards only accessible through her.
I loved Triple Triad, and loved the way it broke the game!
Shout out to all the hours I wasted soft resetting so I could eliminate the Random rule from Ellone. Honorable mention to the Laguna card, which refined into 100 Heroes and made every single fight after it complete child’s play.
I always found the Gilgamesh -> Holy War conversion far more useful for the Omega Weapon fight, especially if the fight is over before I even manage to use half of the 10 items the conversion gives me.
With a low enough level, and a powerful enough junction setup, every single fight (even the final boss fight) is complete child’s play. Too bad I didn’t already know that on my first playthrough.
Never bothered with Queen of Cards quest, as the walkthrough of that is… Sizable, to say the least. Also, there’s only one relatively decent reward out of it (Doomtrain).
As for CC: they are a source of all rare cards besides the ones Queen has. Thus, if you want to have Vit/Str/HP Ups - they’re your best bet (also, getting enough of those makes Omega Weapon fight a breeze, you can reliably kill it without ever reaching Megido Flame and foregoing Holy War usage).
EDIT: also, if you have the patience for it, you can get 3x100 Flare on your entire party on the first disc, but it’s a major PITA to get (iirc, 300 Red Dragon cards, so good fuckin’ luck). So yeah… Triple Triad brekas the game if you have the patience for it 😄
Oh, I know! 😅
In my current playthrough, I used just a few of the techniques I know to get 3×100 Flare for my party to junction to STR and 3×100 Thundaga to junction to Elem Atk (you can get two of them, and the Siren has the third IIRC–it’s been a while since the SeeD exam and the playthrough proceeds at a snail’s pace) before the SeeD exam in order to defeat the “Crab Mecha” on the first available opportunity. All that, while keeping my levels at a minimum (under lvl 10, ideally).
I have the patience for it, but it still gets incredibly tedious and dull.
There’s a pretty good Solitaire game built into the Zachtronics game Shenzhen IO.
Almost every Zachtronics game had some kind of solitaire. There’s an android app that has a collection of them.
Who are you so wise in the ways of gwent?
borderlands science in borderlands 3 is probably my all time favourite mini-game in a video game
Nobody mentioned Yakuza? Any modern game in the series? (Edit: Ok, one guy did)
A guilty pleasure of mine is Majima Construction from Yakuza Kiwami 2, which is one if the few RTS I like. It’s unbalanced, and not even functioning properly, but it’s simple fun. I associate most RTS with commanding large squads of units and resource management, and a watered down version with few specific characters and one/two resources felt like a less overwhelming entry point into the genre.
The Wolfenstein 3D minigame contained within Wolfenstein The New Order is probably the best one I’ve come across. I may be biased though since Wolfenstein 3D is probably one of my Top 5 all-time favorite games.
In DOOM Eternal you can play through all of DOOM and DOOM 2 at the Slayer’s desk in the fortress. I dig that
That’s a really nice touch
Everything runs Doom, even Doom!
I honestly really liked the Zen garden in Plants vs Zombies
Sonic Adventure 2 has a pretty decent adventure platformer built into it
The surprisingly deep copy of Balatro in “Dave the Diver” is pretty good.
I loved the Showtime crashes in Burnout Paradise. I know most people would say that it was a sorry excuse for a replacement to the Crash mode that came before in the previous Burnout games, but I never played any other than Paradise so I can’t compare
