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And presumably no new games until 2026. We're so gonna catch up.

Sorry, life got busy with end of semester and looking for internships. I severely underestimated how much of my time that would occupy. Things got kinda back to normal recently though, I'll try to play today. I do want to finish this before Daybreak (which I won't be getting for another couple weeks anyway).

It comes out on Friday iirc.

Honestly didn't even try back when I played. But I'll save this strat for the future. More optional challenges like that would be appreciated.

Ok, looks like we're getting the Sky trilogy on modern consoles. So you might be able to play them now. Man, what I wouldn't give for a port of CS1 and 2. I don't mind jumping from console to console, but it would be so nice to have the entire series on a shelf for a single console looking all pretty.

I guess now all the Ace Attorney games have been localized huh. And even the older ones are available on modern platforms. Please let this be a sign that new games are coming.

You're right about that one. There's all sorts of weird animals in Zemuria, but if at any point an honest to Aidios mythical creature appears, it's usually safe to assume it's a holy beast.

Wait, 2 years? Really? Hope it's ok if I revive this for a bit... I bought Rise recently and gotta say, while I miss the methodical approach of Gen 4 backwards, the combat is so fun I don't even mind. I mean, the old gens still exist if I want to go back, Generations Ultimate is pretty much an endless game anyway (1300 quests man), I can go back whenever. But the combat here, I thought I would never get used to the wirebugs, but I did, and now zipping through the battlefield is such an addicting experience, I'm genuinely having a hard time stopping every day. Anyway, the reason I'm reviving this is that I just fought Goss Harag and, dude! He's such a joy to fight, so fast paced, dude's so dangerous with those blades of his, it was amazing. He's the first monster to make me cart actually. I'm not even sure how that happened, I could swear I was at full hp... but yeah, possibly my favorite new monster so far.

Chapter 4 might have gone fast, but chapter 5 makes up for that. Good luck man, you're in the middle of one of the best gaming sequences ever.

Ah, so that's it. Yeah I'm on Switch. That's a strange choice really.

Done with the demo! I had heard it included chapter 1 but, guess not? Still over 3 hours though. My boy Battler is Van! That's a nice surprise. I like how quick the story was to establish a sense of "home". The small office above the restaurant, whose owners you are friends with. Cozy. I like it. The battle system takes some getting used to but I like it already. It's pretty fast paced, even in command mode. Field mode is not quite as deep as I expected (hit, dodge, hit, dodge) but it helps with the pacing. The soundtrack has this jazzy feel to it that I'm enjoying a lot. The game as a whole is a lot more cinematic too. Very enjoyable. Going into slight spoilers Oh, and it surprised me. This looks and runs quite a bit better than Reverie on the Switch. The fps count is butter smooth now. So that's pretty cool. Overall very happy so far. Very excited for July 5th.

Demo is up!

I'll be honest, I don't remember. Though I probably wouldn't be much help. My grasp of the combat system was pretty poor back then. I think I made it to CS before I even started using crafts consistently, I just hoarded cp to always have s-crafts available. And my orbment configurations were entirely focused on unlocking arts, I paid little attention to the stat benefits. Now, time to do a little spoilering of my own. I left Reverie hanging halfway through the post-game, but Daybreak is a month away, so I decided to get to it. Tonight I was supposed to do some progress with the dungeon, but I started the penultimate stratum's reverie, and that was a long one. Possibly the longest so far.

This has inspired me to finally take my gif reaction folder seriously. Like it's there but I don't use it nearly enough.

For what it's worth, I just checked my kindle copy, then deleted the download and redownloaded the book. It said "in a year" both times. So clearly my phone has a suitable amount of metal protecting it.

Being interrupted mid-sentence to make an argument about why I'm wrong. Yes, I am aware what I said is wrong. It is wrong because you only let me say half of it.

A while ago I rewatched Alien and while it's still a really good movie, it wasn't as good as I remembered. Today I rewatched Aliens and, well, this one was even better than I remembered. It's just one of the coolest movies ever made. Period. The characters are good, Ellen is an amazing protagonist, the sets are great, the xenomorphs are on point. The build up is amazing. Over half of the movie has this nice and slow atmosphere of suspense, sometimes borderline horror, and yet a lot of people still consider it too be too action-focused. How intense does the last third have to be for that to happen? Very. Not to mention, I spent like half the movie on the verge of tears this time around. Ellen and Newt have so many little behaviors and reactions stemming from just how damn traumatized they are. I don't think I appreciated those nearly enough when I was younger, but I was rooting for them harder than ever. Just, great stuff. All the more reason I can't forgive Alien 3. I mean idk, for all I know it's a great movie, my memories of it are fuzzy at best and non-existent at worst. But uh I do remember the beginning. And killing Newt alone makes me want to pretend that Ellen's story finished with the second one.

I'll gladly watch this trailer in like August next year.

Oh, if you're going for full DP then yeah. That would require a pretty detailed strat and a good amount of minmaxing I think. This is the era when Falcom was still doing beatable unbeatable fights.

While it's true that the hardest battle of the game is there, that's only if you want an achievement of sorts. Otherwise, it will still be hard, but not that much above anything else.

Watched the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. That was... pretty good actually. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this, a trilogy or something. The fact that it was so thoroughly canned makes the sequel bait at the end all the more painful. Good watch, peak popcorn material.

Done with second half. Ok that was extremely cute but also extremely sad. Kanon and Shannon fighting was an interesting way to end their story. At this point it really is like they're separate pieces with wills and emotions of their own, tied down by Lion's choices. That's pretty sad. No Rosa, oh well. Still, Maria's bit was interesting. Way this was put, every Maria scene so far is there to teach Ange something. Oh and her puzzle was evil. I got it right the first time but it was not immediately obvious that it was the correct answer. It made me believe I was wrong in fact. So there go another 10 minutes of me believing I actually have to solve the thing. Pain. What if Ange is stuck in her own loop Rika style? No? Too much wishful thinking? But like, she's died a couple times in the future already. I think. Neither of those were really explicitly told. Really, I'm just clinging to my only hope of a perfect ending here. Although I get that going the "Ange is stuck and just has to wake up" route may undermine Beatrice's story. ALTHOUGH if Ryukishi doesn't want to state Beatrice's identity, he has to go a different route to wrap up the story, which he is, through Ange. So this angle is still technically possible? Maybe? I'll just keep reading, reasoning time is probably over. Now look. Kyrie is fine, she does the mature thing treating Battler like a son and all, sure, whatever. I'll just never understand why this is something that she had to force herself to do. I didn't understand this with Natsuhi and I understand it even less with Kyrie. No matter how much you hate the parent, the kid is sinless and deserving of love. Actual love, not just pretending. Yes, I'm aware she can't exactly control how she feels about him, you don't choose your emotions. I know I'm being unreasonable here but this is a point I'm unable to let go of, in any context. I disliked Catelyn for the entirety of GoT because of her attitude against Jon in S1. All the cool moments and good deeds in the world didn't make up for that in my eyes, and I'm having an equally hard time here. Now that she knows that it's her son, she looked like she felt guilty. Good. I hope she did. George's puzzle I got right, only because I had heard it before. Probability and I don't get along. I like the message behind it though. It kinda supports the idea that none of this happened and she's letting herself be convinced by Beatrice's tales. We continue along that line and Sayo just wrote the things, sent them ashore, the island exploded, Ange grew bitter, she read the tales, and she believed them. Not the magic parts but the part about it all being a murder case. Ruining the memory of her family within her, which is the actual thing closest to the truth. I loved the scene where she fell asleep, everyone's goodbye was adorable. I really loved Kinzo's. Now, this has been about 7 hours, probably not even halfway through. I can't even begin to guess what happens from here on out.

200 hours into BotW and like 90 into TotK, just found out lynels can teleport. I was testing how good they are at climbing and it turns out they don't need to, so that was scary.

Twinkle paused for a moment, at a loss for words. Well of course he'd be sad, the loss, the betrayal. The killing. Things weren't supposed to be like that in a group. "I think. The others probably feel the same. We should probably be careful of course." Her voice lowered to a whisper at the end. Saying that stil felt wrong after all. She shook her head before coninuing. "But I still want to be there for Ed, well, for everyone. We already got one trai- We. Lost two friends already. I don't want to distrust the ones we have left." After a moment, she kept talking, not wanting to end on such a sour note. "And I mean, this is our job, right? We're not much use going with our knights to prom." She made a sound at the end, hoping it sounded like a laugh.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Pretty big reason not to fail any riddles then.