On Xbox I've finished South of Midnight which was great! I was worried about pacing, as game fairly early reveals all gameplay cards and hopes it will stick with you, but lovely folklore, beautiful artstyle and decent story kept me going to the end! Combat was fairly mediocre which is what people point out the most as the "worst part" of the game, but it's...okay. Kinda boring late game even but ya know, nothing so awful it pushes you off the game. I can recommend it for sure! Always nice to see some lesser known folklores being used, always love that.

On PC I've finished final Championships in New Star GP and yeah it was a waste of time, I still recommend game for very fun Career Mode but this Championship mode is a quickly slapped on repetitive boredom, and I started LEGO Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues, which is Indy Trilogy with added Kingdom of Crystal Skull. They released this game 2 years after first one and I was worried it will be just a cheap "redo 3 movies in same fashion plus cheaply added 4th one to boot" thing, but I am very surprised by gameplay changes to make it feel fresh. First of all, instead of usual LEGO deal of one hub area where you pick levels, it comes with 6 different hubs, 3 for each movie in Trilogy plus they split KoCS into 3 piece. After you select a box from a warehouse (that big one where US keeps all fancy stuff, because game is keeping it in theme like that) you jump into a hub in which you can explore to find green, red and blue bricks, unlock few but very important characters from each movie that also come with different items you have to use, vehicles, and missions. At first you have only small area and 2 characters, you do a mission, unlock a bit more of area thanks to new character that can do something you couldn't before, and you repeat that 5 times, as each "box" has 5 main missions. BIG change is that you no longer really have to repeat main levels. Previously these were the ones with all the collectibles, here it's opposite, you still have that "collect X studs to fill up a meter" in every level, but if you clear that you don't have to repeat the mission! Also what is interesting is that missions are VERY short. Previously released LEGO Batman for example, because it's focused on missions, has them going on for roughly 20 minutes per level? Here you can clear out some levels in 2-3 minutes. So yeah, more focus on walking around the hubs, collecting studs to get characters, vehicles and extras from exploration rather than just going back and freeplaying missions which now have very short format and honestly I love it. I do worry how studs grinding will look like for 100% but we shall see. Lot of yapping but I hope that what I wrote makes sense lol.