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Up to about 19 hours now. Only played it a couple of times since my last post but I’ll try to make some good progress this week. I’ve been ploughing through the Defiance Bay content in my last couple of sessions. It’s probably sitting on an 8/10 for me. It’s good but it doesn’t do anything spectacularly well. And the writing is pretty bad, especially the text dumps.

I watched Toy Story 4 in the cinema yesterday. It was good. I don’t really remember Toy Story 1 or 2, but it definitely wasn’t as good as Toy Story 3, Wall-E or Coco. It was still enjoyable though, and quite poignant. I loved the final lines of the film, if felt like a perfect way to end the Toy Story saga. Also, it was quite touching when the “in memory of Don Rickles” came up at the end. I’ve become a big fan of his from watching videos of him on YouTube.

Delayed to 2020. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-07-11-psychonauts-2-release-date-pushed-to-2020

I’m sure you probably know this but there is also a 3D sequel that was released in May.

This looks lovely. I’m glad to see Small Saga made it.

Character trailer. https://gematsu.com/2019/07/ai-the-somnium-files-character-trailer The game’s release date has been pushed back to September 20th. I’m way behind on my Spike Chunsoft games so I doubt I’ll get this at launch but it looks like another game that’s going to scratch that itch.

Not much of a surprise but confirmed for release in the West. https://www.rpgsite.net/news/8701-yo-kai-watch-4-confirmed-for-western-release

Sekiro by default for me (I still have to unwrap KH3), although I don’t like to pick games I haven’t finished. I have to go back to Sekiro before the year is out.

If you had asked me when I was 15-20 and discovering a lot of music, I would have said the 70s without a doubt. I loved Pink Floyd and prog rock bands like Jethro Tull, Yes and King Crimson, and I loved the singer songwriters of the late 60s/70s era, and of course Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Brian Eno, Van Morrison, T. Rex...the list goes on and on. You could make a case for every decade but really for the last ten years I’ve been staying in the present. There have been albums every year that I’ve loved. The 2010s have been the soundtrack of my 20s so I’m gonna have to go with that (this decade). Right from the beginning with beautiful albums like Teen Dream from Beach House and The Wild Hunt by The Tallest Man on Earth (not to mention all the great albums that snuck out in 2009), right up to now. There’s been no shortage of brilliant music this decade.

About 15 hours in. I fucking love this game now. I’m already looking forward to playing the sequel. Currently have five party members and combat is a blast. The chanter is a cool character class. I feel already like this is one of the Kickstarter games where they totally delivered on what they promised. The only area where the game lets itself down a little is the writing. As soon as a block of text opens up on the screen I zone out. I didn’t have this with other similar games (Torment, Divinity). In particular the NPCs who have those mini short stories, my eyes glaze over immediately. But the gameplay is on the money. Also, the ability to enchant weapons and armour is a cool feature. And being able to have two weapons sets and change them on the fly.

Unexpected good news. The Langrisser collection is being released in English. https://gematsu.com/2019/07/langrisser-i-ii-coming-west-for-ps4-switch-and-pc-in-early-2020

That’s a cool list. Unavowed is the newest from Wadjet Eye Games (the guys that make the old school looking point and click adventure games like Gemini Rue) and it got really good reviews last year, and Timespinner looks great too. Was only released a month or two ago. Blazing Chrome is a cool looking Contra type game.

First look at some of the characters for The Witcher: https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/1/20677111/the-witcher-images-netflix-henry-cavill-geralt-yennefer-ciri-actress I hadn’t really thought about this but I hope it’s good... First look at some of the characters for The Witcher: https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/1/20677111/the-witcher-images-netflix-henry-cavill-geralt-yennefer-ciri-actress I hadn’t really thought about this but I hope it’s good...

Every single Telltale Walking Dead episode is being released in a complete collection for PS4 and Xbox One. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-07-01-telltales-the-walking-dead-gets-new-collection-featuring-every-single-episode Includes an optional “graphic black” comic book style makeover.

Somehow I forgot to say anything about the one game I actually started and finished in June, Gato Roboto. Ah, and Shenmue too. But at least you quoted me on that, cheers.