Welp, the review was mostly what I expected. I thought I had more hours in Mario Wonder and less hours in XCX but they were the main two games I knew I had spent time playing this year on the Switch.
The 30 total games is a lie as always. Some of those games were Game Trials that I launched to just get the platinum points. A few were games I'd bought off the eShop but I don't remember actually launching them yet so I'm surprised they showed up on the list.
My top genre was “Action,” which is incredibly vague as a descriptor, but okay.
Based on your games, your top genre should be RPG right? I am curious what the possible game types are.
Based on this part of the breakdown, I feel like these may be all the game types they are using unless someone else has more in their circle chart.
With XCX:DE having 285 out of my 343 hours on Switch and Action coming up as my top gaming style over RPG, I think it's pretty clear Nintendo is counting XCX:DE as an Action RPG and giving both of those tags equal measure.
As for the month-to-month most-played listings:
January - Tetris 99 (2 hours)
February - Tetris 99 (2 hours)
March - XCX:DE (31 hours)
April - XCX:DE (65 hours)
May - XCX:DE (88 hours)
June - XCX:DE (49 hours)
July - XCX:DE (39 hours)
August - XCX:DE (17 hours)
September - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (6 hours)
October - Super Mario Bros. Wonder (9 hours)
November Super Mario Bros. Wonder (2 hours)
December - Tetris 99 (1 hour)
Not that exciting or varied. The sad thing is, I'm still not done XCX:DE. I was at part 2 of Chapter 13 and have meant to finish it as that was part of the reason I was willing to buy it at launch and jump back into that game. I had thought of doing it during Backlaugust and announced it as my intention only to get frustrated at my inability to defeat either Telethia or Pharsis despite having to Ares 90s, an Ares 70 and level 60 Skell with some Ultrafauna weapons and gems attached. Having spent all those tickets and still getting defeated sapped my momentum just near the end like that. Although if I could develop some skill at Overdrive better than maybe that could help but Pharsis has a pool under it so it seems like it has to be taken out via skells.
But now that I'm done Wonder and a couple other games and have had this break from the game, I'm getting a bit more inclined to jumping back into and seeing if I can finally wrap it all up and defeat those last 11 Tyrants I had left on my list and finishing that Final Chapter along with a handful of missions to finally put that game to bed.
Puzzle would also have been a bigger contender if the 3DS was included in this. Last third of the year was spent playing Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy and I put in over 100 hours in that game solving all the content and DLC it had to offer. The in-game hour count in the Professor's Trunk maxed at 99 hours and doesn't seem to be able to go up to or past 100. First time I touched my 3DS in over a year at least. Sadly, I think that had an effect on the thumb nub as it felt odd at first and like it was dried out from not getting regular skin oils on it after years of steady play. In fact, it ended up crumbling and breaking a bit all along the outer circle of it with now just the inner circle left that still covers the moving metal or plastic piece under it. Kind of sad that has happened to it. Could use a new one. Didn't expect the used 3DS market to get more expensive than when the systems were being sold brand new. DS systems are still pretty cheap but the pandemic seems to have had an effect on 3DS availability. Even though Switch pretty much ended that system when it launched, it feels like Nintendo could release a batch of 3DS systems and sell out of them just for people that might want to replace their aging systems.
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