Zelda BotW Finished this at the start of last week after playing a lot of it the previous week, wanted to finally finish it off since there's Mario and a lot of other stuff coming. Thoroughly enjoyed it, easily the best open world in a game I have ever played. While most open world games feel to an extent they are open world for the sake of being open world, in BotW it's so engrained in the game itself. The sense of discovery and exploration was awesome and the game looks really beautiful. I'm not a Zelda fan, but the story didn't really do anything for me. Did about 85 of the shrines which were fun. Tried out the master trials DLC, didn't enjoy that island in the base game that much so I didn't end up finishing that. Fantastic game and look forward to trying the second DLC when that comes.

Shadow of War Picked this up after finishing BotW. Already 24 hours in, incredibly addictive gameplay loop. So fun hunting down orcs, taking control of them, sending them off on missions, helping them with their missions, the pokemon-esque battle arenas where you just watch your guys fight the enemy, sending them to infiltrate the enemies fort and then finally taking over the enemy fort. Haven't got to the defending your own fort yet, but that sounds fun. I did an online fort raid which was cool as well. Quite a nice varity outside of the whole nemesis and fort systems with the quests themselves too. Played about 15 hours and performance was fine, but now I have started getting micro-stutters which is pretty annoying. Seems to be a common problem but unable to find a fix.