I’m on somewhat of a gaming hiatus right now, relaxing before this winter’s spate of new releases. (The next Digimon game is only a few weeks away!) But I have been playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and it’s been slow going. I’m really taking my time with the game, going through sidequests and sometimes just wandering…

Mostly been playing FTL. I feel my fundamental limitation with Rogue-like games is with most of them, this included, to actually win you have to really buckle down and be very careful with every choice you make, but at the same time I play it because it’s easy to jump into. I’ve been having some frustrating runs as of…

Girlfriend gave me a Switch for Christmas, and then immediately downloaded Enter the Gungeon on it so she can play while I’m involved in a game on the PS4 (oh hey Matt! I was BoomShaka on the old AVC boards, so you might remember Gungeon has been a theme in 2017). But I’ve also got Marios Odyssey and Kart for it for…

Will be playing a couple 3DS games on our flights this weekend. Super Mario 3D Land and one of those 2D Mario & Luigi RPGs.

After a holiday in Iowa, I’ve returned to playing Bloodborne again- this time I’ve gotten further than ever, defeating Mergo’s Wet Nurse and most of the DLC. I basically have four bosses remaining before the end, but my god is Orphan of Kos stomping me hard to the point where I’ve put it back down again for a minute.…

Between travel and work, I didn’t get to play very many games this holiday season. Now I’m taking full advantage of sales and have purchased the new humble bundle exclusively for Aragami and also bought Shadowrun Hong Kong and Undertale during the Steam sale. Additionally, Nier: Automata will be arriving by post…

I haven’t hopped in this pool in a while, but it seems like the water is warm enough to give it another shot. After wrapping up a pretty mediocre trip through the final Final Fantasy XII remaster on PS4 towards the end of the year, I took a brief, somewhat unintentional hiatus from gaming, mostly due to being…

First of all - Check out DrFlimFlam’s post announcing January’s Mario Kart 8 on the 8th Tournament (for Switch)! The Tournament Code is: 4818-8770-6667. The time and date are the same, only the console is different - as you know, the end of the Miiverse meant the end of MK8 on the 8th with Wii U, but I am sure a…

For some reason, I’ve been playing through Bloodborne again. I think of all the Souls games, this is the one I enjoy returning to the most. And the nice thing about coming back to it now is that, since I’ve already finished it, a good chunk of the difficulty has been sanded off by familiarity. It’s still hard, but the…

Over the holidays I finished the DLC for BOTW, and am a little sad to be done with it all. (I never got all the korok seeds or played more than 2 hours of master mode, but I don’t feel like I’m missing out on anything. Well, besides defeating a gold lynel.) But all good things must come to an end, and so I must move…

I got Xenoblade 2, Mass Effect Andromeda, and Uncharted Lost Legacy for Christmas.

Hi everybody! I’ve missed you all during the winter break.

I’ve been playing a ton of Destiny 2 lately, and I don’t see that stopping this weekend. But I am going to try to make some time to continue on in Prey, Okami HD, Metroid: Samus Returns, and/or Pokemon Ultra Sun.

In Cuphead I haven’t made any progress this week, unfortunately. On the plus side, that’s because my side-scrolling time has been entirely taken up with Metroid: Samus Returns. This game is flippin’ fantastic, and so much better than I anticipated. It really does manage to capture the spirit of earlier titles…

I, too, am worried about the eShop becoming overcrowded. I feel like I’m pretty informed and so know what games to keep an eye out for or check on, but even then I miss some things. I wonder if a rating system could be implemented. I know that’s caused a lot of headache on Steam, but maybe one where you have to have…

First and foremost, Mario Kart 8 on the 8th is back for the new year on the Switch! You can join with the above tourney information OR join anyone already in the match (like me!). My Switch Friend Code is 6396-2171-3331 if we’re not Switch friends yet under the handle Jarathen.

I deleted my Twitter cuz it was melting my brain, and thus had to redo my twitter-connected Kinja so I might be gray’d out. Boo!

Took the Switch with me on the holidays, and played a few things:

I picked up a load of new games over Christmas and New Year and basically haven’t played any of them yet. Most of my time has been spent getting shot at in PUBG, which is effectively the only game I play on my PC now. Well worth buying a new rig for :/

Since son of limey visited last weekend and saw the Star Wars: Armada box on our gaming shelf, he wanted to play that. We did the learning scenario: