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Tactical Breach Wizards is good. Very entertaining writing, great gameplay.

Picked up Crosscode again

As I remember it, super fucking polished and smooth on Steam Deck. Gonna finish it this time! In the early hours, haven't been gaming much this week, instead read Piranesi (loved it).

Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis :3

Ogre makes me so fucking happy and I could play it forever. Still absolutely ecstatic that they made a smol one for GBA.

I deleted all of my games because I found them too addictive. RIP the gaming era.

Finished the Ashlands in Valheim this weekend, gotta go back and finish CrossCode

I'm trying to help a partner with some maplestory quest (I've never played this game) and it's going terribly

May play a little Valorant later

Final Fantasy 15 comrades dlc. It's like monster hunter for babies. I totally understand why I'm the lone, singular player on the entire global server at all times. If it weren't for the ffxv lore, I wouldn't be playing it either.

Just finished Dishonored for the first time.

Team Fortress 2, Balatro, and Super Mario Eclipse (Sunshine romhack)

Nothing because I'm too tired

Prior to this though I did some more Victoria bullshit, trying to get the "betray two allies as Italy" achievement but nobody will go to war and it's 1910...

Also tried out Vampire Survivors coop which is exactly as batshit as you'd think. Steam Remote Play's bitrate can NOT keep up.

Haven't actually played anything so far this weekend, but I've been bashing my head up against Malenia on and off for a few dozen hours over the last few weeks. I'll get there eventually (I'm being very stubborn--no summons, no cheese strats, just me and my trusty katana), but man, it's really testing my patience. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not great at Elden Ring, but I'm at least competent enough that I managed to get past every single boss up to this point without too much struggle (maybe spent 2, 3 hours max on the worst ones?). Kinda baffling to me that they've left the encounter in its current state; I saw some pretty compelling evidence that she was originally a Sekiro boss, which would explain why her flurry attack doesn't mesh well with the Elden Ring playstyle. In the last few hours of gameplay I switched from just trying to be super aggressive and hope that I can down her fast enough to avoid her most broken attacks (got very close a handful of times but it felt like pure RNG) to mostly parrying (among other things, playing more defensively makes it easier to interrupt her flurry with Freezing Pots), and while it's a bit of a learning curve it also feels way more consistent and fun.

Also, this isn't playing a game, but I worked through this nice little introductory tutorial on reverse engineering GBA games today and had a lot of fun with it! I really want to contribute to one of the many game dissassembly/decompilation projects out there but it's pretty intimidating, so I'm trying to get the basics under my belt so I don't have to be coddled too much by the main contributors. I don't really like writing programs from scratch that much (I just write some basic utility scripts to automate things), but I love figuring out how things work and I'm detail-oriented, so reverse engineering seems like a perfect fit.

Got a Deadlock invite thanks to Awoo, me and my brother have both been playing it. Tbh it's too addicting, think my brother accrued 11 hours playtime in his first two days of playing. I caught him up at like 4 AM still playing lmao. Can't judge cause I might be doing the same if I didn't have other things to do.

3/4 of the way through Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. Mostly in a cycle of becoming BFFs with my party members, grinding a few levels, then advancing the story for the next batch of new wild shit to do, which usually includes new buddies. Definitely hitting the part of the JRPG arc where just "hit harder" is no longer sufficient and I'm doing a lot more buff/debuff setup to keep fights manageable.

I've been playing Black Myth Wukong. I'm really enjoying it so far. All those years of soulslike's have trained me for this. I really really like the dodge system in this game as it heavily rewards you for doing it "perfect". The setting and lore are absolutely amazing and the vibes are simply incredible.

Come back to finish off lords of the fallen. The game has some pretty major flaws but its still very enjoyable. Got this cool armor that reminds me of the Loyce Knights from ds2.

Halo: Reach firefight and Black Ops 2 bot matches while I listen to podcasts

Made a really fun custom firefight setting that's "lore accurate"ish that I like a lot and Black Ops 2 let's you make the pick 10 custom class system pick 17, so you can deck out your classes with a bunch of perks and attachments.

I'm working so ... same as yesterday!

Still playing the Steam version of Crono Trigger. I just got the Dream Project ending a couple of hours ago by beating Lavos at the Ocean Palace on my first playthrough. One of the devs literally tells you to touch grass:

I suppose I should reload my save, finish the rest of the normie playthrough, and do a New Game+ so I can finish cheevo hunting for the other endings. In the meantime, I'm still waiting on BG3 Patch 7 before I dive back into my Dark Urge Honor Mode playthrough.

Getting close to the end of Chrono Trigger I think, it's my first time playing it and I've been really enjoying it. After I finish that I'm split between whether I want to finally play Disco Elysium (assuming my computer can even run it lol) or give Xenogears a try.

Might try to play and clear off Lone: High Tides tonight. Need something short and chill to play since I got to the end of Elden Ring's non-DLC portion and it's got me mildly stressed and would like to play a game to relax for the first time in weeks.

I started playing Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together and Knight of Lodis (weird situation, I wanted to test SNES emulator). These games are pretty fun, though I'm not familiar with those games at all, so they will take a lot of getting used to.

I also started Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War. Or I tried to. Same reason as starting Tactics Ogre: LUCT, but Genealogy ended up being more shocking than Tactics Ogre. Maps are absolutely massive, there's so many enemies on the field, villages are far away, and so much more that just overwhelmed me. I'll have to get into it eventually, but for now I need to finish Sacred Echoes and Blazing Blade on the FE front, and LUCT and Lodis on the Tactics Ogre front.

Played just a bit of Celeste today on my friend's computer. Other than that this past week I haven't really played anything.

Pathfinder Kingmaker

Been playing a metric ton of Parh of Exile this league, it’s the first time I’m able to do so much stuff with my builds, so I’m super satisfied.

I did a 4 hour endurance race on iRacing and am spending the rest of the weekend recovering, lol.

Tactical Breach Wizards. The final boss was fun, I've got some dream stuff to clear up and then I'll have seen everything this game has to offer.

I did some BG3 with my partner and spent quite a few hours playing Kingdom: New Lands.

Dark Souls 1 (remastered), not a challenge run, just loving the nostalgia

I love this game so much. Might do a randomized enemy/item run next.

My WFRP group sidetracked themselves out of the final encounter for like the 4th time. We're tentatively taking a second swing at it tomorrow.

I finished Nine Sols on story mode and am running through again on standard. It took a while for combat to click but once it does it really sings - fluid, fast-paced, and when you nail your timings you are an unstoppable force of destruction.

The plot is a tragedy of science Going Too Far that veers into cliche sometimes, but the setting is unique enough to make it interesting. It's cool to see the authors' interpretation of Daoism in a video game context and the music is top notch.

I got luck be a landlord for my phone so I've been fake gambling