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Still playing this every day, must be close to 30 hours now. I think I have all of the classic FF soundtracks so I’ve been enjoying the trip down memory line while driving around. Listening to the old soundtracks does highlight how utterly forgettable the music in this game is though (when there is music). There’s way too much Hawaiian acoustic guitar fluff which just sounds so cheap, in two places in particular. I’ve been completely focused on driving and sidequests but I’ll get back to the main game soon. I just discovered a random dungeon, I haven’t gone inside yet so I’m not sure if it’s connected to a quest or not. It makes me wonder how many more dungeons are hidden around the world.

When I first got a job I bought tons of games on Steam and ebay. These days, not so much. I pretty much only buy a game at launch if I’m going to play it straight away (e.g. Silksong). But buying games at launch is super rare for me. I mostly play games from my backlog.

Mewgenics is finally out. Reviews: PC Gamer - 92% IGN - 9 Gamespot - 9 Polygon RPS I guess it’s good then!

I thought of a couple others: The Longest Journey - Dreamfall: The Longest Journey The Witcher - The Witcher 2 Not that The Witcher 2 was a bad game, I was just much more impressed by the first one. Dreamfall was…ok. But the first game is one of the best point and click adventure games.

I can think of a few games where I loved the first one and not the follow-up. I didn’t hate the follow up but it didn’t have the same magic for me. Kingdom Hearts - Kingdom Hearts 2 Mass Effect - Mass Effect 2 Black and White - Black and White 2 Hollow Knight - Hollow Knight: Silksong FF Tactics Advance - FF Tactics Advance 2 Jak and Daxter - Jak 2 Renegade I could probably think of a few more.

Or just make a thread, doesn’t have to be a hot topic!

I think I already own Ace Combat 7 but if not, I’ll grab that. I‘ll pick up Below Zero as well but god knows when I’ll ever play it.

On to chapter 3 now, around 14 hours in. I like it, I think in its weird kind of way it feels like a Final Fantasy game in a way that XII and XIII didn’t.

I recently finished watching 28 Years Later (the last third or so, watched most of it around 2-3 months ago) and went to see The Bone Temple in the cinema. I remember liking 28 Years Later well enough but I have to say I really loved the last third, it really elevated the film for me. In the end it might have ended up being my second favourite film of 2025 after Weapons. The Bone Temple is brilliant too, a great film to start off 2026 with. It’s a very different film to 28 Years Later, but the central actors again are brilliant in it. Worth it for the Iron Maiden scene alone.

Around 5 hours in, really enjoying this. I like setting a location and cruising along in the car listening to old FF music. Mostly I’ve just been doing Mob Hunts, but now I’m back on the story. One thing I like about the game is the Breath of the Wild style way you can see cool looking places in the distance.

Tomorrow being…5 years later. I started over. Whatever I gained from watching Kingslaive has been long lost to the passage of time. I’m sticking to my plan of only playing Japanese games in Japanese. Kind of a sidenote but 5 years ago my Japanese was in theory much better than it is now, as I was fresh off studying like crazy for the JLPT at the end of 2020 and still taking lessons. But the fact that I can play the game relatively smoothly without too many problems is probably a sign that I did a reasonable job of holding on to my Japanese. Anyway, I really like the start of the game. It’s fun, it has character. It’s a beautiful looking game. Battles are pretty fun.

I’m totally addicted to a quirky Japanese show on Netflix. The title roughly translates to something like “Eating Alone”. There’s very little dialogue or action. It’s about an old salaryman who goes to (real) restaurants and orders food and mostly just comments on the food he’s acting. But it’s really quirky and funny and not at all as boring as it sounds. The main actor in it is brilliant. I’m watching a special 2024 season where other real life Japanese celebrities appear, apparently in the regular seasons it’s just him. Like I said, I’m totally addicted.

Like I said, my plan is to get a PS5 when GTA VI comes out so I can’t really get excited about any new AAA games until then. But a few things that would be cool: The next Zelda being shown Dragon Quest coming out of hiding The developers of Outer Wilds showing their next game (tbh I would lap up a similar game) The Witcher 4/Cyberpunk 2 being shown Elder Scrolls VI coming out of hiding

Valkyria Chronicles Got back into a little bit and I’ve nowhere near hit a wall with it or anything but, I’ve about 15 hours into it and I think that’s enough. The battles are fun but they are starting to get long as well. Given the limited gaming time I have, I don’t want to spend another month on this. I have VC4 in my backlog as well so I’ll be back for more at some point.

Mina the Hollower not coming out fucked me, and Primal Planet not getting a score. Oh well, it was fun.

Nope, they don’t. It just stops.

Binged through it quickly enough, enjoyable show. Shame it’s only half of the story though.

Yeah it’s amazing how much worse the internet has gotten. Almost every website I like has gotten worse.

Similar to others, I drew up a backlog list last year that I barely scratched the surface of, so I’d like to make a bigger dent on that this year. Maybe ten is a reasonable goal.

Watched Eddington in the cinema today. It’s an interesting movie, hard to describe. It’s not bad, but I agree with Mark Kermode when he said it’s Ari Aster’s weakest movie. Worth a watch if you haven’t seen though, but not necessarily a movie that needs to be seen in the cinema. I’d give it a 7 maybe.

Four months later, picked this up again. Luckily it’s not a complex game to pick up and play. Currently on Chapter 7, The Battle at Baryios. I didn’t make much progress with my backlog list last year (this was the second game after Astral Chain) so let’s see if I can get through at least ten games on my backlog this year.

Watched the Minecraft movie, good stupid fun. For some reason I seem to remember the movie getting panned by critics but I enjoyed it, the whole thing just flew by. Maybe paying to see it in the cinema would have been a bit much though.

I’m also someone who doesn’t really follow the current cycle of releases anymore, and mostly just play games “whenever”. But next year I would like to get a PS5 and GTA6, probably as a Christmas present to myself. That will allow me to play games like Clair Obscur and FF7 Rebirth that I have also missed out on.

Wasn’t there something where one of the writers (Jon Denton?) stopped posting on the forum or got angry about something, I can’t remember. I can’t remember the last issue of Gamestm I got but the first one I got had Halo 2 on the cover and I think it had their 10/10 review of Burnout 3.

About 6 hours in now. It’s not compelling enough to make me play for hours on end (maybe playing on a TV instead of a monitor would help) but it’s enjoyable enough. It’s an enjoyable enough world to wander around and do busywork in.