六月份员工精选：夏日游戏时光_AI阅读总结 — 包阅AI

It’s officially summertime! What have you been playing in the last month?

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Switch Remake), catching up to Dragon’s Dogma 2, Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes, and Final Fantasy XIV. I’m actually always playing FFXIV, but never thought to mention it. Mentioning it now since the new expansion, Dawntrail, is coming out on June 28th for early access. Nothing else too surprising here though, if you’ve been keeping up with the blog.

Some of my friends at work also recently got me into the Nancy Drew games by HeR Interactive, which are point-and-click mystery adventures with a cult-like following. The 34th installment, Nancy Drew: Mystery of the Seven Keys, just came out in May and is the first of the series that has free navigation instead of point-and-click. I picked that one up and also played Nancy Drew: The Phantom of Venice.

We’ve made it through June’s huge slew of gaming news! Did any new game announcements catch your eye?

Infinity Nikki. Listen. I genuinely think this is going to be one of the greatest applications of the “open-world” setting in an RPG. I do not like most “open-world” RPGs because the “open-worldness” often clashes with the underlying story. “Make haste to cut off the villain before they obtain the magic thing that’ll help them destroy the world! But also… go collect 1000 pine cones for this rando in the starting village. While you’re at it, go play 100 hours of this fishing mini-game in all bodies of water throughout the world.”

It makes me feel like I’m constantly off-task (not a feeling I enjoy), and I get taken out of the immersion of roleplaying a hero who was tasked with mankind’s safekeeping. (I can hear the echoes of Matt screaming at me to just play Infinite Wealth already if I want an open world that makes sense with the story). Infinity Nikki might finally be the one where I feel okay and even motivated to stop and smell the roses and gather the 1000 pine cones.

The executive producer for this game is Kentaro Tominaga, who actually directed the Champions’ Ballad DLC for Breath of the Wild and served as staff for various other Zelda titles like Twilight Princess, Skyward Sword, and A Link Between Worlds, which makes me think this dress-up game, open-world RPG might be something serious.

And some others include:

• Kingdom Hearts 4… is what I would have said if there was any news. 🙁 I thought Geoff was just faking us out when he explicitly warned us not to expect news on this.
• Hello Kitty Island Adventure – This is another one that sounds like an ironic pick but is something I’m actually so excited for. As a lifelong Sanrio and Animal Crossing fan, this game seems like the perfect collab-in-spirit for me.
• I might play FANTASIAN Neo Dimension, if not only to support Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu, the “fathers of Final Fantasy.”
• Mecha Break – “Did you ever play Zone of the Enders?” a friend asked me when the trailer for Mecha Break started up at Summer Games Fest. Yes, of course I did. And I also imported and played the heck out of Gundam Breaker 2 and 3. And I will play Mecha Break.
• Metaphor: ReFantazio – I see Atlus and the Persona and SMT director, artist, and composer; I play the game. Simple.
• Kunitsu–Gami: Path of the Goddess – I recently took stock and realized I like a lot of Capcom games. Idk.
• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond – It’s Metroid. It’s 3D Metroid. It’s been 17 years since the last one.
• Disney Illusion Island – I’ve really enjoyed Disney games in the past, going back to Castle of Illusion on the Sega Genesis or Epic Mickey (also, of course, Kingdom Hearts). I’m really interested in the light detective aspect of this game.
• Super Mario Party Jamboree – I always like Mario Party games.
• Mario & Luigi: Brothership – While I haven’t played the other Mario & Luigi games, I like the other Mario 3D platformers. The combo moves seem like a fun challenge.
• I probably won’t pick this up because I played so much of the Wii U version, but Switch owners should pick up Donkey Country Returns HD if they didn’t play the original. It’s an amazing successor to the original DKC series on the SNES.
• This wasn’t an entirely new announcement, but Monster Hunter Wilds confirmed finally being crossplay is revolutionary.
• Most of this list has been from the more established names/teams/publishers, so I want to shed light on some of more indie titles like MIO: Memories in Orbit or Neva (the team behind Gris, so maybe not as obscure as they were before Gris made waves).

I’m looking back at my list and realize you can probably guess most of what I’m going to play by figuring out my unwavering loyalty to certain people, teams, or franchises.

Discord is easier to use with cross-play games than ever before. Do you use Discord to talk with friends on other platforms, such as PlayStation 5 or Xbox, while playing games or just chillin’?

I WILL be playing Monster Hunter Wilds crossplay finally. Now, if I’m the PC or PS5 player for this game, we’ll have to wait and see.

While I was playing Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth in March or Final Fantasy XVI last year, I’d often be on calls with a couple of friends who were playing Smash or something else. Of course, join-from-console wasn’t available back then, so I would futz around with my phone. But I’m excited to do this more often now that it’s easier.