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Hope the full game clicks more than the demo...🤞

One of my favourite games got a sequel, has eventually got an English translation, and got a physical release in the US Touch Detective!

Yea boi!

new Steam games the Dark Void games are being delisted, and while I have the main game on PS3, having a sensible way to play it isn't the worst thing. Gotham was like £3 on cdkeys if anyone else is curious

Got my PC built now really pleased with it. CPU - Ryzen 7800x3d GPU - Amd 7900xt MEM - Corsair Vengence DDR5 6000mhz MBD - Msi B650 Tomahawk SSD - 2tb gen4 wd black sn850x Deepcool LT520 cooler Fractal North case with addex wood effect vinyl over the shroud😎

I bought the Grand Slam edition on CD Keys for £75 with a five pound discount code (it's £105 on the Microsoft store/PSN), and have put around 8 hours in already. 👌

I'm only playing 6 from the 2d entries. I wanted to try one at least but, although I'm enjoying the characters and the sheer history of the thing, I find myself being pressured by it in a weird way. There's just too much to worry about with all these characters, remembering what they do, the pressure of keeping them levelled, the knowledge that just around the corner may be some unassailable road block where lack of genre knowledge might end my game (as was close with that double boss on the way to the floating continent). My experience with FF is from 10 onwards, and it's always been a relaxed and magical experience. Remake was a bit of a slog at times but I never felt I could ever make a critical error and lose hours to grinding. My old school credentials are a bit wanting, but, luckily, the remaster has my back in some ways.

Cloud Game Pass is doable on Steam Deck, it works fine. MS said they were working on getting GP running on Deck, but that was ages ago, so who knows. I know they've said they want it on everything, but maybe not if they're about to launch their own handheld at the end of the year

Yeah, it's badly explained. Might just hoard whatever invisible points I'm collecting for the final boss or something. I think I stumbled upon an optional character today, The Esper I found shortly beforehand and which was the real reason I went to that area is super good though. Always feels like a double jackpot when you find one that has cool spells and boosts the stat you're looking to increase.

I think you were probably too young for the OG PS1 Maf? Those things were really unreliable, we had one where we basically had to realign the laser every day Anyway, if the question is "should I buy a Dreamcast?" then the answer is always yes. I have an sd card reading one, but I don't use it a huge amount because I've got a lot of physical games, and it's easier to just play them than it is to download and move over a rom. I have a HDMI converter for it too, so, yeah. Perfect console innit

Watched 3 episodes of Shogun, it's a 10 episode miniseries which is a sorta remake of an older 80s miniseries by the same name. That older one has Toshiro Mifune in it, the guy who's in like every Kurosawa movie, which had me well interested until I read they kinda do it from the perspective of the main character (who's an Englishman) and don't sub or dub any of the Japanese parts. Sorta a 'Lost in Translation' kinda thing, which sounded a bit dated This new show isn't like that. This new one has Hiroyuki Sanada playing Mifune's old role, who I mainly know from Ring but checking his wiki he's been in tons of action blockbusters like Avengers and John Wick. It interweaves all the different perspectives. The premise is it's set around this period in Japanese history which I've a vague idea of, this civil war that happened between the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (he's a baddie in Onimusha, that's how I know his name) and the rise of the next shogun. The way they do it here though is they take a leaf out of the book of Pro Evolution Soccer and change everyone's name and loosely adapt real history into its own fiction. The main dude, Yoshii Toranaga is based off a guy called Tokugawa Ieyasu (if you're inclined to view history as being a 'spoiler', maybe don't click that link, but it's interesting imo). Meanwhile, there's some intrigue from the colonial side with Portuguese Catholic missionaries trying to establish their own sphere of influence through the region. For some reason, all the portuguese speak English. I suspect it's a decision they made cause an entirely subtitled show is a hard thing to get eyeballs on in the anglosphere. It's fine, no biggie really. So it's all about this political power struggle, and this English guy called Blacktorn gets mixed up in it. It's pretty good, got lots of exciting action in it but requires a hefty upfront investment of your attention span for the first episode and a bit as it lays out the power and political structures. However it balances that out with some violence and nudity, so you know. I'm not entirely on board with the insane hype it's gotten but it's solid and kinda dovetails with a lot of stuff I've been watching recently anyway.

Got the entire FF13 series on X360. might see if I can get some replacement boxes as these ones are in bad shape. £20 for the lot, though, so not bad

Went over my screenshots folder the other day, there's just something about Atlas Fallen's look that I find incredibly pleasing to the eye. Also a good case of how stylised, manual lighting can still impress in the age of RT imo.