A most interesting find that reminds me of LucasArts' The Dig. You play an archaeologist who freely roams between moons trying to decipher your way through an ancient mystery. Undoubtedly, the translation mechanic in the game is one of its greatest appeals, but so is the intricate history woven into the many places you visit. The game even provides you with a timeline where you can place all of your discoveries and thus uncover the true history of the Nebula, though the UI is admittedly a bit clunky. The visuals are not particularly great, but I soon forgot all about them thanks to its gripping story (I couldn't stop playing until the end). The game's got a few bugs that the devs are ironing out as I write this, and hopefully they'll tune the (underwhelming) quick travel mechanic (quite) a bit. I mean, traveling between worlds is nice, and the music helps, but you do get tired of it after a while. It's definitely a game where I would recommend at least a second playthrough (there's NG+ where you get to keep all the words you've previously learned, plus you're offered new translations) so you can uncover new things. Indeed, I'm on my 2nd playthrough right now and one conversation with a character I hadn't previously had unlocked a new avenue to investigate. The game took me 12+ hours to beat, but there's enough content here for a second run. The soundtrack's not half bad either.

Definitely recommend it if you're a fan of point-and-click adventure games or if you want to feel like an actual (or more accurate than Lara and Indiana at least) archaeologist.

Someone conned me into playing Doki Doki Literature Club (yes I am actually playing an anime game. Three cheers for me).

Rather...disturbing so far.

Walked back into the "Oh no, I love Grim Dawn" trap. X3 Atmospherically it's the closest we'll get to Diablo til Blizzard remembers the series exists outside of phone games no one asked for in favor of ditching the extra expansion for 3 (I don't hate D3 like so many other people do. Does it have its issues? Oh sure, but Reaper of Souls is a step back in the A+ direction). >.> Running a demolistionist this time and it's fun as hell. Going to see about scooping up the first expansion to it next month if I can (it adds transmog and let's remember that fashion is important....) cause apparently it's amazing and I'm spending most of this month forcing myself not to give in and buy it.

I knew you'd understand. :3c

I recently completed Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom in hard point device mode. Don't ask what my retry counter was at by the end. Can't wait to see how maddening lunatic mode is.

I also have been working on the extra stage a bit more. It's almost like an entire extra game within the game. This stage just goes on forever. I can make it 15 minutes into this without losing a single life and I'm still pretty far from being able to complete it. I realized very quickly that the resources the game gives you are almost just there for show. Bombs are all but useless against the bosses and you end up doing the earlier parts of the stage so many times that it gets to the point where you're so comfortable with those bits that you don't even need to use any resources for them most of the time. It's funny when you hit those moments that feel so hard it's like hitting a brick wall and then shortly after you realize that was actually the easy part of the level >.>

It's a long and slow process but there is progress being made. It can get easy to get frustrated with how hard this is but I find it's also rewarding to see the growth. When I started I could barely even get to the mid boss, and now I've managed to make it to the final boss of the level a number of times with almost if not all my resources. This will be an extremely satisfying box to check off my 1cc chart if and when I finally complete it. As frustrating as this can be it's also been one of the most enjoyable gaming experiences I've ever had.

Just bought Cadence of Hyrule and played about 10 minutes. I suck at it. I knew I would, never had much rhythm. Having fun though.

Rah How's Bloodstained?

Finished Shadow of the Tomb Raider a couple days ago.

The game was good, but honestly overall I'm disappointed in how flat it felt as a culmination of the build up from the two prior games. Not a huge fan of them having all those outfits and mix & match armor pieces to equip, but then you're restricted to just wearing one of two outfits for seemingly most of the game.

FURIOUS with them setting up Jonah with a girlfriend.

I ship the shit out of him and Lara, ok?

I've been attacking my backlog.  5 games down and a whole lot more to go!