Well I finally finished the game last night. I thought the Ganon battle was pretty creative. Not terribly difficult especially with all four divine beasts. But it was fun I guess. The ending rather lackluster. But I definitely got my money out of this game. As I've said before I probably haven't spent this much time in a game since FF7. And I played it a ton. I have a master mode save file started from earlier with two divine beasts already done but I'm in no rush to get through it. I'm going to concentrate on something else. Just don't know what yet. But I've got plenty of choices.

I downloaded Alien Isolation on our Xbox1 for $7.50. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Beat Trails in the Sky Second Chapter. Overall I enjoyed it a lot, but I kinda miss the low-level adventures of the first.

SPOILERS for those who want to play this game

In the first game you deal with other humans and some wild non-intelligent wild beasts and robots/tanks/planes controlled by humans as your enemies. In this one, the main villains are still set up well. The enemy organisation has various boss characters, who return at various points and all of them have links to the party members. For a JRPG this is pretty well executed, but once you hit higher levels you get a dragon and a boss character that takes on an Angel-form and that's standard JRPG fare.

There is also a big seperation between story and game; various character in the party pretend to be not as powerful/skilled as they really are. Fair enough, but if you go 1-on-1 with a boss character in an even match that you and 3 other team members were hardly beating 5 seconds ago, it's weird and the game overdoes this quite a lot (at least 3 characters that I can think off). Als you receive 2 party members at the end of the game at a point where I really wonder if anybody would take them along instead of the party members they ran around with for the entire game. (Maybe they are there for people with low-level characters to give them a boost to catch up?)

Still, a recommended game, but it's a direct continuation of the first (the second chapter in the title is completely correct: this is one big story in 3 chapters. Each game does have an ending and this game does not end on a big cliffhanger like the first, but still leaves some plotlines open for the third game to continue the story.

I played a few hours of Alien Isolation a few years ago because of all the praise I heard for it. I think I stopped playing after a section where, if I died, I had to watch the same cinematic every time before I could try again. I might give it another try someday, but that really irritated me.

Adam, great on finally beating Zelda. It's quite an experience, that's for sure. I agree the ending specifically, and overall the story or lack thereof, were pretty underwhelming. It's a great world and physics showcase, but they could have done more with the ethos of it. Very good game, but WAAAAAAAY overrated.

I also picked up Alien Isolation on Steam a year or two back. I tried but couldn't get into it. I might try it again down the line, but the lack of anti-aliasing on PC really pissed me off since I find it so distracting, and there is no good reason my PC couldn't handle that if they had coded it properly on PC.

I'm still digging Dragon Age Origins. Such a huge amount of time to spend and so much story and lore. Too much lore, really, but great if you are into that.

I liked Witcher 2 a lot (3 is better though, but then again 3 was one of those GOTY candidates for loads of critics). 3 pretty much expects you sided with Roche though, even if you import a game where you sided with Iorveth, you'll meet up with Roche and Kes and not Iorveth and Saskia.

- If you side with Iorveth you go the other side of the battlefield in Chapter 2 (the city of dwarves and elves, lead by a Joanne of Arc-style liberator). You really miss a lot of things when you play only half the game and that influences your choices. Whether you chose to spare the dragon at the end for instance, will probably change a lot if you sided with Roche or with Iorveth.

Chapter 3 also has several choices to make (saving the king's last remaining heir (if you side with Roche), saving Triss or saving Philippa (if you side with Iorveth)). I think that chapter works a lot better if you have read the books, because the Lodge of Sorceresses would be mostly unfamiliar to people who have only played the games (apart from Trish and maybe one or two others depending on your path).

I really like that you have the choice whether to fight the endboss or not, because there are enough reasons to decide that you wouldn't.