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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

• Deemo – $14.99 ($12.99) @ Nintendo eShop

Total: $12.99

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What I Demoed

• Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars – I kept running into the word “Advent” left and right a few weeks ago.  I was watching The Sinking City, a Lovecraft inspired horror game where one of the main throughfares was Advent Avenue.  Then YouTube kept recommending I rent/watch Advent Children, Tales of Berseria had an event called the Advent, and then this game has a Castle Advent.  Granted this is a Squeenix game, which of course means the music is fucking lit.  The voice acting is excellent, too.  The narrator sounds like a crusty, old storyteller.  I’m 100% buying this when it comes out on the 28th.  It’s like Final Fantasy meets Magic: The Gathering (not that I know anything about Magic: The Gathering.  It’s just Final Fantasy with cards).  I spent around three hours playing through the entirety of the demo, and I’ve been playing the in-game card game almost every day.  I like it almost as much as I like Triple Triad, which has long been my favorite FF card game.

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What I’m Playing

Title: Tales of Berseria
Series: Tales
System: PlayStation 4 (PlayStation Vita)

Date Started: September 17, 2021

Haven’t played nearly as much of this as I wanted.  I’m still in the first dungeon, but I’ve made sure I talked to all the people with side quest indicators.  I really wish I could play this on a handheld because a it’s often late when I can actually start playing and, well, my PS4 is in the bedroom so it’s inconvenient when my husband wants to go to bed.  What I might do is try to finish up The Lost Child and then I can have more time for this.

Title: The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
Series: Ace Attorney
System: Nintendo Switch

Date Started: September 12, 2021

It is so difficult not to go bonkers on Pinterest and especially tumblr in looking up Lord Barok van Zieks omg.  I want to read ALL the fanfic and look at ALL the pictures of him so badly, but I don’t want to be spoiled.  I’m in the final case of the game now, and I know that’s where all of the tragic back story is going to be revealed, so I just have to bide my time.  Ace Attorney games always wind up being about the prosecutor’s redemption, but knowing that doesn’t remotely take away any of my enjoyment.

Title: The Lost Child
Series: El Shaddai
System: Nintendo Switch

Date Started: July 31, 2021

I’ve been trying to make progress on the optional (?) dungeon R’lyeh Road.  It has 100 floors and I’m on the 10th?  Each floor has a gimmick to solve in order to collect a jewel, but once you do the latter that releases Nyarlathotep (which is really just an enhanced version of a regular enemy) whom you either have to avoid or fight.  The last floor he appeared right behind me and the room door locked until I beat him, so it always helps to be prepared.  I think you can find some items to unlock certain Astrals (collectible monsters) that you couldn’t anywhere else, at least that’s the limited information I’ve found on GameFAQS.  There’s really not a lot of info about this game and no walkthroughs at all.  I usually play this while doing my desk elliptical since it makes that time go by quickly.  I’m in the very last main dungeon of the game, too, but I only just got to the second floor.  I don’t know how much of R’lyeh Road I’m going to walk before I finish.  I might just see what floors have the items I need to unlock the Astrals.

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What I’m Playing

• Deemo – It’s been on my wish list forever and finally went on sale so I picked it up.  Because I had some points to cash in, I got it for even slightly less than the sale price.  I love rhythm games and this one is really cute and whimsical.

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What I Watched

• CJUGames
  • Baron Wittard: Nemesis of Ragnarok – Kind of your standard point-and-click horror game using Norse Mythology…loosely.
  • Barrow Hill: The Dark Path – I will never forget how I almost passed out from laughter watching the first Barrow Hill where the dude was killed by moving rock in a gas station.  This is the game I’m currently watching.
  • Scratches – I’m still in the midst of this but I saw the LP of Barrow Hill: The Dark Path and just got into that.  I’ll come back to Scratches afterwards.  He refers to the game so much in his other let’s plays I had to see what it was about.
  • The Building 71 Incident – This was a weird “don’t look at the moon” game, which…it’s also really weird that that’s its own subgenre.
  • Hatch – Creepy game about a random hatch and evil doubles
• Olizandri
  • Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars – Always a fun watch.
  • Ys 2 Chronicles
  • Ys Origin – They made a creative decision to have the opening of the game in French.  I thought it would be in Japanese if anything else.  Also this game has cursing in it.  The Spirited Girl character literally calls Yunica Tovah (your character) a “little shit.”  I wasn’t expecting that.  I haven’t watched much more of this though.
  • Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap – Oliz is currently only playing posting The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles and Tales of Arise, a game I’m currently playing and one I want to play.  After I finish the AA game I’m going to watch his LP, but I have no idea when I’m going to play Arise.  Part of me just wants to watch it, but I much prefer playing a game first then watching it.  Once I get through Berseria I can watch his LP of that, too.  I’ve been re-watching Minish Cap on sort of a whim to unwind because it’s my favorite Zelda to just watch.

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Remember I said I was going to use this as my “what am I watching” update, too?  That’s not happening this week either, but I have been obsessed with Ted Lasso OH MY GOD.  Ted Lasso is so fucking good.  I’m trying to catch up as fast as I can .  I was watching this show Ragnarok, but I stopped after the firt episode of season 2 for some reason.  A bunch of shows just came back though since it’s fall now, so I have a bit to catch up on.  Spoiler alert: they’re all cartoons on Hulu.

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