{"id":127414,"date":"2022-08-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136232"},"modified":"2022-08-20T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T09:00:00","slug":"talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/20\/talking-point-what-are-you-playing-this-weekend-august-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (August 20th)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/521a673deafe8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/521a673deafe8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"13 Sentinels Aegis Rim art book cover\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/521a673deafe8\/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-art-book-cover.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/521a673deafe8\/13-sentinels-aegis-rim-art-book-cover.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"13 Sentinels Aegis Rim art book cover\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Vanillaware<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Are you riding the waves this weekend? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/wave_race_64\">Wave Race 64<\/a> is out now on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/nintendos-latest-n64-game-for-switch-online-plus-expansion-pack-is-out-now\">Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack<\/a> service, so we&#8217;re sure<\/em> <strong><em>some<\/em><\/strong> <em>of you are grabbing that late &#8217;90s nostalgia. Otherwise, you might be tee-ing up for a round of golf with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/round-up-cursed-to-golf-reviews-signal-a-potential-masterpiece\">the well-reviewing Cursed to Golf<\/a> (we&#8217;ll have our own review in the future!). Or perhaps you&#8217;re eyeing up that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/sega-genesis-mini-2-games-list-every-mega-drive-and-sega-cd-game-all-61-titles\">confirmed finalised list of Mega Drive Mini 2 games<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Elsewhere on Nintendo Life, we&#8217;ve got a list of all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/best-3ds-and-wii-u-dlc-you-should-get-before-the-eshops-close-forever\">Wii U and 3DS DLC you should grab<\/a> before the stores close. We also scoffed down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/kirbys_dream_buffet\">Kirby&#8217;s Dream Buffet<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/kirbys-dream-buffet\">in our review<\/a>. And we also joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/cult-of-the-lamb\">Cult of the Lamb in yet another positive review<\/a> for this indie hit.<\/em><em><br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Now it&#8217;s time to chill out and<\/em> <em>discuss our weekend gaming plans.<\/em> <em>A few m<\/em><em>embers of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our entries a read and then join in with your own via our comment section. Enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Kate Gray, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>This weekend, I&#8217;m taking a plane to Germany with an eight-hour layover so I will be playing A LOT of video games. Wish me luck.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/13_sentinels_aegis_rim\">13 Sentinels<\/a> like nobody&#8217;s business lately, and I intend to keep doing it until I understand what on earth is going on in the game. It&#8217;s very confusing!! Just when I think I&#8217;ve figured out a plot point, it&#8217;ll turn out that actually everyone is a robot AND it&#8217;s all a dream AND everyone&#8217;s been dead the whole time, like every single famous movie twist all at the same time. But it&#8217;s gorgeous, it&#8217;s fun, and it&#8217;s weird, and I want roughly ten billion more games like this, so I&#8217;m happy.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"O9NRoLDxE_Q\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Alana Hagues, staff writer<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to sound like a broken record, but it&#8217;s more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_3\">Xenoblade Chronicles 3<\/a> for me this weekend. I&#8217;m now at the end of chapter 6, which means I&#8217;m not far off the end of the game. Of course, beating the game isn&#8217;t the end of Xenoblade 3, <em>but<\/em> I&#8217;ll feel comfortable moving on to some new things. It&#8217;s been phenomenal, and even with a few endgame stumbles, it&#8217;s probably my favourite <strong>Xenoblade<\/strong> game. I&#8217;m ready to weep through the ending and the credits then take down some superbosses!<\/p>\n<p>So things should get a bit more varied now because I need an RPG break! I still have to finish <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/neon_white\">Neon White<\/a> (yes, <em>really<\/em>) so I&#8217;ll spend some time derusting this weekend, but then I think I&#8217;m going to start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/chicory_a_colorful_tale\">Chicory: A Colorful Tale<\/a>. I&#8217;ve heard nothing but amazing things about this one.<\/p>\n<h2>Ollie Reynolds, staff writer<\/h2>\n<p>I honestly don\u2019t think I\u2019ll have time to play anything this weekend, but if I do, I\u2019ll probably jump into a Metroidvania game, maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/axiom_verge\">Axiom Verge<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/bloodstained_ritual_of_the_night\">Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night<\/a>; something I can easily jump in and out of. I might hop into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/danganronpa_trigger_happy_havoc_anniversary_edition\">Danganronpa<\/a> and get through a few scenes here and there, but again, that\u2019s if I have time!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"GW18mx5NTj4\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Jim Norman, staff writer<br \/><\/h2>\n<p>After spending last weekend looking around flats, this week I will <em>actually<\/em> be moving into one of them! This will, of course, call for a bit of the strangely, specifically titled, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/jim_is_moving_out\">Jim Is Moving Out!<\/a> (thanks to Alana for flagging this one), in the ultimate \u2018life imitates art\u2019 demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, it is going to be party times all around. I am expecting to be going back to the classics with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\">Super Mario Party<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/just_dance_2022\">Just Dance 2022<\/a> to truly settle into the new place.<\/p>\n<p>Like most people, I have been watching the frankly <em>enormous<\/em> amount of <strong>Splatoon<\/strong> content this week and may be tempted to give the series another go once I have got some boxes unpacked. I haven\u2019t really got on with this particular franchise in the past, but maybe a fresh start could be the perfect time to go back to it \u2013 we will see.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><em><em>As always, thanks for reading! Make sure to leave us a comment below with your weekend gaming plans!<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"_xLj1oKYGt8\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Vanillaware Are you riding the waves this weekend? Wave Race 64 is out now on the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack service, so we&#8217;re sure some of you are grabbing that late &#8217;90s nostalgia. Otherwise, you might be tee-ing up for a round of golf with the well-reviewing Cursed to Golf (we&#8217;ll have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}