Shadow of War Finished this over the weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed it and the general core gameplay loop was really addictive, although ultimately it's a standard bad AAA open world game with the awesome nemesis system on top of it. Just makes me think how cool an actual good game with the nemesis system would be. Movement is a little janky, had some stutter issues that seemed widespread and apparently the story is bad (not interested in LotR personally). The nemesis system itself made it 100% worth playing to me though, whilst the fort seiges weren't anything special, the most fun was just encountering your nemesis in the open world, recruiting and leveling up orcs etc. When I got to act 4 though, after doing about 5 of the defence sieges I had enough. Feels so transparrently tacked on for the sake of trying to drive people to buying loot boxes. Very repetetive essentially defending waves of enemy commanders, gets expensive and since your level is tied to orc max level seems like you'd have to end up grinding. I'm sure some people enjoyed it, but for me it felt very thrown together for the sake of articifically extending the game to funnel people into purchasing boxes.

Hearthstone Started playing a bit of HS again recently. Such a good game to play before you play games, just to wind down. Tried a lot of other games since I stopped playing it before, as well as a lot of CCG's but didn't get into as much. Enjoying it for now.

Fire Emblem Warriors Haven't played much yet but what I have has been really cool. So happy they included the performance mode. Dips below 60 sometimes but still. The Fire Emblem mechanics incorporated into the game, whilst some would argue have already been in mainline Musou games before, such as commanding units on the map to go attack/defend this, the weapon triangle and such really lend themselves to the Musou formula and what makes them so enjoyable to me. Definitely promising.