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I haven't been playing too many games lately. I've been spending a lot of my free time drawing and writing, but when I have been video gaming, I've been focusing on a few things.

Final Fantasy III (NES) - It's rather amazing just how well this holds up, especially compared to the other two NES Final Fantasies. Mildly annoying how sometimes you are pretty much forced into certain jobs for certain fights but whatever, it's not a huge deal to me. Last I played, I just did the Sewers in Amur. Wasn't all that hard for Siglud, Shanam, Sain, and Duke. Definitely look forward to playing more, which I can't really say about my ongoing, very slow playthrough of NES FF1.

Saints Row - I had played 2-4 around 4 years ago now and I've had the first one but hardly played it. I decided to change that and I've been focusing on the Vice Kings missions for now. Rather annoying how to play more missions you have to earn respect, but unlike Saints Row 2, the only way to earn respect is to do activities and there are a number of rather unfun ones that understandably are not in later entries. Also, it's quite remarkable in that SR2 is better in literally every way. More customization (which goes away in 3 and 4,) actually good radio stations (The Mix, really), there's actually fine aim, there are other ways to get respect besides activities, and the list goes on. I am glad they repurposed the respect system in 3 and 4.

Fire Emblem Three Houses - I finished the Golden Deer route a few days ago and this game was a pleasant surprise. I did not enjoy Awakening that much, Fates... blegh, Echoes was a remake and not completely new, so my expectations were not too high with this one. I had heard that it was pretty much universally liked so that was a good sign. There are some more minor things that bother me, like how for conversations the background is just a 2D image and a rather poor looking one at that, and some classes being unexpectedly gender-locked, as well as the male gay options being... well, not great. Especially compared to the lesbian options. But, it's something. I'll do the other routes eventually, but not too crazy about having to do the Academy phase again.

Secret of Mana - (Re)playing this via the Collection of Mana on Switch. I like the graphics and music, the story is okay, but I don't like the menus at all. I was spoiled by Trials of Mana long ago and it's not easy for me to go back in this case. One thing I do like though is the ability to equip different weapon types on characters, which is sadly absent from Trials. Even if the boy will probably always use the sword because only he can use the Mana sword.
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Super Mario 64 - 81 stars, at Snowman's Land. At the 100 coin star.
Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels - Beat 8-4. First run through so no Worlds A through D yet. Died at 9-2 ;;
Crusader of Centy - Binged it last night and beat it. Fun game, really good Zelda-like. My one complaint is that the story was too simple, but maybe some stuff from the JP version didn't make it over to the US version.
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei 2 - At Shinjuku. Gonna grind a bit to get stronger demons and beat Pazuzu.
Wild ARMs 2 - Back at T'Bok Village.
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I got Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice while it was on sale. I did the first case and I didn't exactly expect it to take as long as it did. It wasn't bad or anything, but it was decent enough. I will say though,
hearing the court constantly cheer for Phoenix's death did get a bit tiresome
.
I made some progress in Saints Row. Judging by how many Vice Kings controlled areas remain, I don't have many missions left with them. I think I might do Rollerz missions next but I am not completely certain.
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Made it to the second chapter (The Island Floating in the Sky, though reading the kanji and kana in the title card is really hard because its brown on brown on a grainy picture) of PoPoLoCrois Monogatari. It's in Japanese but I can read a bit. And what I can't read I'm looking up through Jisho's search kanji by radicals function (basically searching Kanji through the parts that compose them), also using DeepL and Rikaichamp to help me comprehend how some stuff is meant to be translated (though not relying on it all the time as I am trying to learn Japanese), for instance I didn't know ように could be "so that", "in order to". It's very fascinating. I am skimming over a bit of dialogue to speed things along though (the game can be dense in terms of dialogue), but I'm getting a good comprehension of the plot thus far.

So far Pietro is heading out to save his mom from the World of Darkness after getting back the Crown of Wisdom, which is the main plot of the game. I've played a bit ahead of the game before (up to Chapter 3), so I know you have to head to Godrif (to get to Canarisia) but I guess you could find out about that from the city folk. I'll talk to some folk tomorrow. Also got two of the souvenirs from Gami Gami City. The Gami Gami-kun is too expensive so I'll leave it for later when I can get better money from elsewhere. I've overleveled a bit in trying to get good armor, the souvenirs and preparing for the difficulties ahead (cutesy game but very hard). I'm like level 11-ish?

As for Wild ARMs 2, I've unlocked Level 2 Magic, gone through Quartly, met Kanon, explored Slayheim Castle,
fought Kanon
, went through Alchemic Plant, fought Antenora and
Brad apparently died
.
He lives so I'm not too worried
. Puzzles are interesting, even if I'm using a guide. I can appreciate the design. I'm currently heading to the Urartu Station to pick up Noel and head to the Emulator Zone (unrelated to the site of the same name).

As for Super Mario 64, Megami Tensei 2 and Super Mario Odyssey, I haven't touched them today.
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Started Mega Man X7 today! Beat Soldier Stonekong, Tornado Tonion and Wind Crowrang thus far. Got 60 reploids (went on a small visit to Splash Warfly's stage to power up Axl's shot), one heart tank (I'm saving the rest for X since reploids also give you health ups, don't wanna use Zero), one Sub Tank (health) and the Ex Tank.

Got all the reploids in Stonekong, Tonion and Crowrang's stages too.

Also played a bit of Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II again. Fused some demons, defeated Pazuzu, explored Shinjuku's underground city, grinded a bit but then decided fuck it, defeated Mammon, recruited Cerberus after getting the ID Code in Nakano (didn't bother doing the Devil Analyzer sidequest because I wasn't paying attention and I kind of got lost trying to figure out which kid was the lying demon and I couldn't find the answer online at the time, I'll try to go through it tomorrow though just for the sake of it), beat the Kourakuen tournament and got the Sun Pillar, went through the trial in Taishidou, beating Vritra and getting the Venus Pillar and now I've been v*red by Zaritan, gotta find the Saturn Pillar.
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Started playing Mirror's Edge the other day. Pretty much reminds me of Sonic the Hedgehog in first-person. There's one part where you have to walk on top of a crane, hundreds of feet up in the air. Not really recommended for anyone who's super afraid of heights. The cops (who are referred to as "blues" and pretty much remind me of HL2's Combine) are trying to kill you, but you do get to beat up and disarm them, so that could be a cathartic experience if you're one of those "ACAB/f the police" type of people.


Also tried the two free games in the Stealth app, one where you blow up planets and another where you're piloting a hang glider and have to dodge trees and hot-air balloons while flying thru rings. The difficulty comes not from the game itself but from using your body in plank position as the game controller (which can make precision harder when your arms get tired). Might have a slight preference toward the hang glider game. Would have been especially neat during lockdown.
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I started playing Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War for the first time. I beat chapter 1, and it took me 5 hours when you count the prologue. I had to take a break from it after that, but the more I think about the game, the more I want to play it some more. I had to let like 3 of my units die because I had forgotten to save, I'm definitely going to turn on that every turn save next time I get into it.

I'm playing it translated on an emulator. fire emblem didn't hit NA until the GBA, so it's hard for me to imagine FE on super nintendo, one of my favorite systems. But here it is and I'm playing it, it's a surreal feeling for me.
Huh, that's interesting. I recently started a replay of Genealogy of the Holy War where I'm doing (some) crappy pairings/no pairings at all. Plus I want to promote Alec because I've never done it and promote Arden because using Arden is always a joy. Both of them are exceeding expectations, like Alec has 17(!) strength at like level 13. I had gotten to Chapter 2 when I last played. I had similar feelings of surrealness when I first played FE4 for different reasons though. I played it on my iPhone without a jailbreak which I had thought was impossible. Fin and Lachesis are my favorite FE characters :)
Sadly I won't be pairing them this time.

I played a little more Saints Row. It's still bad. I want to finish it though even though I usually drop games I don't enjoy.
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I've recently completed the Xenoblade Chronicles Future Connected bonus chapter. It was short, but sweet. I actually ended up enjoying it a lot more than the Torna DLC, but I'm probably the odd one out here, because Xenoblade fans generally seem to love the Torna DLC.
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Had no internet this afternoon so I played some Sonic the Hedgehog again and got all emeralds without needing help in Specials 4&5! Also beat the game of course.

Started Altered Beast and I'm currently trying to get through Stage 4 (Weretiger stage, I assume it's Neff's Temple?). I've learned the gator baby's pattern more or less but carelessness keeps striking me down.
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Played some more Popolocrois Monogatari. Made it through Godrif and Canarisia and wound up in the Godrif Mines. Rescued Naguro, then grinded a bit to get the Lil' Gami Gami, Daruma, Bear Ornament and Maneki Neko souvenirs (already had the Pennant and Lantern). Made it to Pasela and bought a Member's Card for the Black Market. Will grind to upgrade my gear tomorrow.

Also beat Quick Man and Bubble Man in Rockman 2 Claw by Tsukikuro-. Very hard hack, level design and enemy placement is too chaotic.
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I never played any Rockman 2 hack that I really liked, all the ones I played had pretty trashy level design that at some point felt unbeatable. A shame, since they had good visuals and music for the most part.
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I just completed the Danger Mario challenge in Paper Mario 64. It was a fun way to revisit the game after many years since the last time I beat it (thanks Sayuri for the suggestion!). It was a tad easier than I expected to be honest, but that's fine considering I just wanted a fun little challenge and nothing too brutal. I guess I underestimated the danger/peril badges, which make Mario really powerful and put things more under control, even at 5 HP. Similarly, Chill Out proved to be quite useful as it works on pretty much anything and gives you plenty of opportunities to set up your strongest moves. To be fair though, I was quite a bit lucky with Close Call, so there was that too, lol.

Maybe in the future I'll attempt a run with further restrictions, such as no Power Rush and no evasion badges, although at the moment I'm more interested in doing a similar challenge in Thousand-Year Door instead, like FP Only or BP Only, although for latter I'd go with an extra clause to not abuse stuff like Power Rush stacking. It's also a good opportunity to do the Pit of 100 Trials, which I've never done, admitedly.

I also have to get back to Bug Fables, which I only paused because I had controller issues and ended up only having my GameCube controller with adapter to use on the PC, and unfortunately, as much as I wanted to play Bug Fables with it for the TTYD feel, it didn't allow me to remap the buttons to something playable. The GC controller is excellent for N64 games though (Project64 fully recognizes it and gives full control over the mappings) and Bug Fables reminded me of playing PM64 again, so that's what I did.
Started Croc: Legend of the Gobbos yesterday and I made it to stage 2-5 today. The level design feels kinda bland so far and the bosses are pretty effortless, plus the controls and camera are just jank (it was in development pre-Mario 64 I believe, but came out after), so... It's a respected game on the PSX but, I dunno, I'm not jiving with it as much as a lot of people, but it's not a bad game. A few of the five gem room bonus challenges for the final Gobbo are pretty challenging I'll give it that.

I also beat Altered Beast today. I got to Stage 5 (Golden Werewolf, the Underworld) a few days back but I put it in the backburner because tired. The stage is pretty tough! But I pulled through :) I was on my last life too, I got kinda lucky!

I also got through Heat Man's stage in Rockman 2 Claw the other day. Bubble had no effect on him ;; I might do Flash Man next? SaGa Frontier 2 music, yo.

Also played a bit of Sonic Adventure 2 on Steam, until Hidden Base. Leveled up my Neutral Hero chao a bit too. No races beat yet.

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I never played any Rockman 2 hack that I really liked, all the ones I played had pretty trashy level design that at some point felt unbeatable. A shame, since they had good visuals and music for the most part.

A lot of Mega Man hacks are meant to be played with savestates which blows. I'm doing it toolless, but I'm allowing myself a midpoint due to how long the stages are and how MM2 only has one checkpoint.
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Got to Arid Canyon Act 1 in Sonic Robo Blast 2 as Sonic. Had to burn through my continues in Castle Eggman though.

Also started a replay of Final Fantasy IV (not Easy Type) in Japanese for language practice and leisure. Currently at Kaipo, haven't spoken to the couple that
took in Rosa
yet. It's not mandatory I think, you just have to get Edward/Gilbert and head to the Antlion's Den but...

Lastly, I've beat Super Street Fighter II as Chun Li and Ken, also in Japanese. I felt like I was better with Chunners than with Ken but that could also be tiredness.

Sorry for slacking off instead of remoderating patches :C

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Been playing more Final Fantasy IV in Japanese and the story feels a bit more coherent in its original language, but that could also just be bias from not being as used to speaking the language. I do know taking the time to just read and reflect on the opening sequences the other day was kind of surprising in realizing how darkly the game starts out. It's also giving my ego a bit of a whooping with the amount of visits to DeepL and Denshi Jisho I've been doing to help myself understand the dialogue.

I'm currently at the return to Baron, fought Scarmiglione, Cecil became a Paladin and Tellah, Porom and Palom have joined my party. I can never keep track of which is Porom and Palom, all I know is that they're literally Bart and Lisa. Gonna pick up Cid and then
have the twins get benched
. Also fight Cagnazzo.

People also talk a lot in circles in dialogue scenes and I've never realized it before. Apparently that's just a huge anime/manga thing but like...
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Clubhouse Games on the Switch is a great little package. It's missing the hangman game from the DS entry but it's otherwise a really nice and charming little thing. I absolutely love the "guest version" idea and how it makes the game so much more accessible for my family members who want to join. The Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles remake seems to have something similar to it and I'm actually pretty interested, as the lack of accessible multiplayer is the main reason I didn't give the original a shot.

I finally made and uploaded a new Mario Maker 2 level today (Q1J-K3Y-85G). I'm pretty proud of it, even if it starts getting a bit derivative of another level of mine around the midpoint. I have many more levels in mind but I just can't get myself to actually come up with engaging designs for them.

I tried out Min Min yesterday and I think she's really neat. She's definitely a lot more input-heavy than I'm used to but I think that the possible tricks are really fun. I'm definitely going to have to play around with her more.

I've been playing even more Etrian Odyssey 2 Untold lately because I've been developing a hard mode patch for it. I'm actually having a lot of fun trying to think of wicked new ways to challenge myself with new enemies, skills, and encounters. I wonder if it would be an interesting thing to show off at C3.
Finished Mirror's Edge the other day. Absolutely hate any part that requires you to turn around and wall-jump to an adjacent platform in the middle of a wallrun (the biggest reason why certain parts of the Boat chapter weren't very fun).
That climb up the under construction mall near the end of the Kate chapter is absolutely not for anyone with an intense fear of heights, even when playing it normally as opposed to with VR.
IMO the armored cops ambush near the top of the Shard right before you get to the roof was more of a final boss than the actual final boss.
The "final boss" is literally jumping and grabbing on the helicopter and kicking him out of it.
The elevator ride leading to is absolutely stunning and kinda reminds me of HL2's Citadel. Actually the whole building itself kinda reminds me of HL2's Citadel.

Also find it amusing that the end credits song is also called Still Alive (so was Portal's).
Also found out from a Jacksepticeye video that yes, you can play it in VR, and apparently falling feels like you yourself are actually falling.
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Been playing lots of Minecraft Dungeons as well as messing with my datapack in the 1.16 update. Really love the new Nether Update!

And some music in Minecraft Dungeons is just so good!

I have started to get into Kaizo. Nine months ago I played Kaizo Kindergarten (but I cheated) just to get some basic knowledge on the mechanics. I learned a lot, and just yesterday I decided to put my skills to the test, with no cheating. I downloaded Quickie World, which was a little bit of a challenge, especially that second castle, but I ended up completing the game today. After that I downloaded Quickie World 2, finishing the first world (all exits, no cheats) with relative haste. I'm currently "Kaizoed" out right now, so I haven't made any more progress today, but regardless I have had a mostly fun time. I do have to say though, I still really enjoy standard hacks, even the easiest of them. Anyways, I am looking forward to playing more Kaizo (and more standard hacks)!
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