Happy New Year, everyone! I can’t get over how quickly the years are moving these days. At this rate I’ll be retiring next month! I’ve gotta work even harder and save even more. This is what I get for spending my twenties and thirties gaming… This year, for the first time in like 5 years, […] Related posts: Happy New Year! + Gaming Resolutions! New half-year gaming resolutions Happy New Year! Plus 2015 gaming resolutions ..read more

Merry Christmas, everyone! It’s a bit belated, but I guess I was waiting to feel the Christmas spirit first. I don’t think it’s coming this time, so I might as well post. December 2024 is probably the blandest Christmas I’ve experienced in living memory, largely by choice. IIRC I came back from church and zonked […] Related posts: Finished Atelier Totori Plus long after running out of stuff to do Atelier Sophie – Garbage. Atelier Sophie – I quit. I’ve had enough ..read more

I used to like the Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side series of otome games. I still kind of do, in my head, but when it came to playing 4th Heart, I realized the games are far too long and the characters are far too childish (or the gamer is far too old, IDK) to make the […] Related posts: Tokimeki Memorial Girl’s Side 3rd Story – First impressions Tokimeki Memorial Girls’ Side 3 – Niina GET! Tokimeki Memorial Girls’ Side 3 – Ruka GET ..read more

So last time I said I was playing Tokimeki Memorial Girls’ Side 4 and I wasn’t sure it was for me. I kept at it, though, and slowly managed to get quite into it again. I was rooting for them like a Grandma watching over her grandkids… which is pretty accurate beecause they’re young enough […] Related posts: Picross DS Finished all 150 Picross S puzzles! Plus other stuff I’m working on Figured out Mega Picross ..read more

Some years ago… wait, how many years is that?! So, uh, many many years ago I played an obscure Princess Maker-like game called Ranshima Monogatari Lairland Story on the PSP. I played it and played it, got a number of endings and had a great time in general, but I never did get the “true” […] Related posts: Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story (1) Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story (2) Ranshima Monogatari – Rare Land Story (3 ..read more

Just realized it’s been almost two months since my last post. Just a few notes so you know I’m alive and still gaming. Quite actively, actually, but nothing really worth writing about. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 – Definitively dropped. I tried to get back into it. Loaded it up, moved a little bit and was thrown […] Related posts: January 2022 gaming roundup What I’m playing at the end of summer 2022 What I’m playing lately (March 2024 ..read more

In case you’re wondering what I’m up to since I dropped Persona 5 Royal, I finished a playthrough of Lair Land Story, tried to get back into Xenoblade Chronicles 3 with limited success (haven’t given up, but the magic is totally gone) and kind of gave up on console games for now. I’ve mainly been […] Related posts: Otome games with Turn-based/Action/Strategy RPG gameplay Started Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space (very early thoughts) Major Spoilers for Another Eden – Found out about the Cat beyond Time and Space ..read more

Press release (June 25, 2024) It is with a not particularly heavy heart that I announce the parting of ways between me and Persona 5 Royal. This is in accordance with the “It is Enough to Play A Little Bit of a Game” Policy that I adopted six years ago to preserve my sanity. I […] Related posts: 15 hours into Persona 5 Royal – Really feeling my age (spoilers) Persona 5 Royal – 44 hours in, tons of fun! (mid-game spoilers) Persona 5 Royal, 74 hours in – Okay they’re dumb, but not THAT dumb (late game spoilers ..read more

I would have been playing Picross (PICROSS S NAMCO LEGENDARY edition, to be precise) anyway because it’s one of my favorite game series and an automatic buy whenever it comes out, but it didn’t help help that the extra dungeon in Persona 5 Royal is just so boring. I don’t care about any of the […] Related posts: 15 hours into Persona 5 Royal – Really feeling my age (spoilers) Persona 5 Royal – 44 hours in, tons of fun! (mid-game spoilers) Persona 5 Royal, 74 hours in – Okay they’re dumb, but not THAT dumb (late game spoilers ..read more

The last time I wrote about Epic Seven, I mentioned that my next goal was to focus on building teams for Nightmare Raid. Hell Raid was starting to feel a bit easy, plus I’m entering into late game territory and I no longer need good gear but rather great gear to take my main units […] Related posts: Epic Seven – Regretfully dropped + newbie tips (spoilers) Gacha gaming update 2023 – Epic Seven Tried Outerplane, but Epic Seven is better ..read more