Playing Metaphore, finished the cathedral and left the main city. Holy crap that first dungeon took forever, I'm glad I didn't try and do mess around before doing it, like I could in Persona 5. But even with that its really fun, the combat is great, the characters are starting to grow on me, the world is interesting. The plot of what we are doing is... well, I kinda wish your group was going in for slightly more selfish reasons but whatever. I also kinda wish the game fucked with the player more. LIke the game is pretty racist against your character tribe but aside from some people being big dicks, it doesn't seem to have any real impact on gameplay, it would be cool and annoying if you went to certain parts of the city and your valuable time was taken up by guards hassling you, or if you went into the wrong shop the shopkeep might accuse you of stealing and get the guards to hassle you. It would be annoying as hell, but also much more fitting for how your tribe seems to be viewed.
Also playing Everspace 2. I initially wasn't sure about it, I enjoyed the first Everspace well enough I suppose, but its combat always felt kinda clunky and you were so limited in how you could interact with the world since you were stuck in a space ship. Everspace 2 does a really good job of getting past both of those, combat is still clunky compared to a game like Chorus which has fantastic arcade space combat, but the new ship types make it much more enjoyable then in the original. Like a gunship will be able to shread anything that comes under its crosshairs, a drone carrier can sit back and let its pals deal with the enemy and one of the light fighters can zip around enemies and pepper them with shots. Really it feels like the default medium ships are the least interesting since they don't seem to really stand out. The game is also good at giving you a variety of side missions and tasks. For instance, pretty much each new zone you go to will have a secure cargo container which usually has to be opened by putting an energy sphere into a slot for it, but doing that can be pretty varied, sometimes its just a simple find where you get the sphere, sometimes you have to race to get it where it needs to go, one time I had to send the sphere down a series of pipes, they are kinda fun little puzzles for good rewards. So yeah, much better then I expected.
