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A weekly post updated every other Thursday detailing my current gaming projects.  I have an account at Grouvee, which is a site you can use to keep track of your backlog, so please feel free to friend me there!

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What I Purchased

• Fitness Boxing – $49.99 @ Nintendo eShop

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What I Finished

Nothing this week.

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What I’m Playing

Title: GRIS
System: Nintendo Switch

Date Started: 2/4/21

I was hoping I’d be finished this by now, so I could at least say I did “one” in February (four LOLOL), but it’s been a few days since I picked it up.  I absolutely love it, but I wish there was a way to manually save.  I have to wait for it to do so on its own, and I don’t always notice when it does and am afraid to just turn off in case I lose like an hour of progress.

Title: Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold: The Fafnir Knight
Series: Etrian Odyssey
System: Nintendo 3DS

Date Started: 9/7/20

I don’t think I’ve picked this up in the past two weeks.  I still need to grind to buy the best weapons and hopefully level my characters up enough to take on the 4th Stratum boss.  I don’t just want to give up on it.  I really like these games, but they are challenging lol.

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What I Played

• Picross S4 – I’m almost done with the Mega Puzzles on this one

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What I Demoed

• Ephemeral Fantasy on Dark – It’s a visual novel otome game. You play as a zombie girl from a “sheltered” town. She has tons of questions about the world and even her race since most zombies commit suicide before they grow old and decay.   That’s what her parents did, so she lives with her grandmother who keeps her face wrapped. Most zombies don’t make it to that age, and the MC has to take a medicine to keep from spreading the infection.  Zombies are also one of the lowest ranked races where mermaids are the highest. I’m really curious about the lore of this game, but I’m not spending $40 on it lol.
• Steam Prison – another visual novel, and I sure as fuck am not paying $65 for this one. I put it on my wish list on the chance it eventually goes on sale.
• The Flower Collectors – This one I’ll pick up.  It’s like Rear Window and the characters are zoomorphic (more like Night in the Woods as opposed to Zootopia, Beastars or even BoJack Horseman i.e. they’re humans who just look like animals, at least that’s what it seems like so far).

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What I Watched

• The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC (Olizandri) – This game and its predecessor are really topical for one that came out more than a decade ago, but as we all know nothing changes and nothing ever will.  I think I’m about halfway through.
• Final Fantasy Type-0 (Keith Ballard) – I watched the third video then decided I was done.  I hate let’s players who are not enthused about the games they’re doing especially when they have an air of derision.  Hopefully I can find someone else who does it; hopefully Olizandri does it at some point.  I can always just look up a plot breakdown of it at some point I suppose, but it’s so much better to either watch or play the game myself.
• Super Mario 3D World (Olizandri) – Ahh, what a nice surprise to find this on my YouTube homepage earlier this week!  I saw this game in my Switch newsfeed, but I didn’t pay that much attention to it?  I don’t know what I thought it was, but it’s something I’d absolutely play.  YOU GET TO BE A CAT.  There’s also the Bowser game, which I know Oliz will do since the King of (not so) Evil is his favorite character lol.  This is something to look forward to on a daily basis.

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Right before I posted this I was watching WandaVision and getting texts from my friend about the next FFVII updates.  They’re releasing a free upgrade of the Remake for the PS5 with an episode about Yuffie (the episode about Yuffie is..not free lol), now I need to murder to get that system since you can’t seem to find them anywhere still.  Either that or I need to put my people on this…or I would if I had people.  There’s also more information on The First Soldier, which is supposed to be a battle royale style game that takes place 30 years prior to the events of the OG, so my assumption is it’s going to have something to do with Deepground, and according to my friend Sephiroth is only 27 in the OG?  See, prior to this he didn’t have a canon age, or rather it was a mystery, but he was said to be in his 30s or something, but 27?  Do you know how stupid I was when I was 27???  Granted, you are psychologically an adult (25 is when the brain fully develops on average), but then there’s also CPTSD, which, um, yeah that bb definitely has.  Anyway, I’m sure there will be some precursor lore in that game, though since he is the first SOLDIER (right?  RIGHT??) I’m even more curious.  Then there’s Ever Crisis, which is a story driven game coming to Android and iOS in 2022.  According to the Verge article EC compiles the entire timeline of the compilation into a chapter structure with emphasis on the origins of SOLDIER, so that will be interesting.

So if anyone has any leads on where I can obtain a PS5 I’m all ears ;p

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