Saturday, January 1, 2022

State of the Game

List of Current Games 

The Yakuza Journey

  • Yakuza: Like A Dragon
  • Lost Judgment

The Witcher Journey
  • Witcher 2 - Assassins of Kings

The Pokémon Journey
  • Pokémon Shining Pearl - A Competitive Drafted Nuzlock
  • Pokémon Crystal - Nuzlocke
  • Pokémon Brown - Fan Game


Friday, November 12, 2021

Week in Review - 11/12/2021

 


  • Pokémon Crystal (3DS)
I started a Crystal Nuzlocke this summer and I picked it up again to chip away at it. I left Eruteak and made my way all the way to Cianwood. Gym Leader Morty took out some of my best Pokémon, though. It felt a bit impossible to recover. Sure enough, Gym Leader Chuck defeated me in Cianwood. My newly caught Gyrados, Satya, defeated his Primeape easily enough, but then his Poliwrath tore through the rest of my weakened team. Even MVP Magnemite, Quartz, was taken out in a single Dynamic Punch. 

  • Pokémon Sword & Pokémon Shield (Switch)
It has been a while since I fired these up. Anticipating the Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl in two weeks, I decided to do a bit of Poké-maintenance. Deez was kind enough to get me codes for Shiny Zamazenta and Zacian, Shiny Celebi and a Dada Zarude. I had been sitting on the codes for a while and decided it was time to add them to my collection. Pokémon Sword is the first Pokémon game I've completed the entire Pokédex since - I daresay - Pokémon Silver. This includes the DLC. It's one of the few good things about the Dexit Controversy. It made collecting a bit easier again. 



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Friday, November 5, 2021

Week in Review - 11/5/2021

 


  • Gloomhaven (PC - Steam)
Gloomhaven has been my board game addiction for a few years now. The PC version has never really managed to hold my attention for too long. Now that the full game is out and the campaign is available, I booted it up to give it a try. I've played through the first two maps on a tabletop and on Tabletop Simulator so many times that playing it again in a video game format feels really weird. I really couldn't give it much more attention than that, right now. 



  • Kingdom: Classic (PC - Steam)
A new Norse expansion for Kingdoms: Two Crowns is coming soon. It reminded me that this franchise exists and I had a blast with it many, many years ago. I'm pretty sure I beat Classic back then, but for the life of me I can't manage to pull off a win anymore. This is where I sank the most hours early this week, trying to get my kingdom into shape for the final assault, but every time was met with disaster. 


  • Labyrinth of Refrain: Coven of Dusk (Switch)
I've had this game kicking around my Switch for a while, but I never bothered to try it. I bothered to try it this week and it didn't hook me. I'm not a huge fan of the Etrian Odyssey style dungeon crawling / dungeon mapping genre, so it's really not surprising that this isn't an instant hit for me. I don't love it. I don't hate it. I'm not sure if I'll fire it up again anytime soon.



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Friday, October 29, 2021

Week in Review - 10/29/2021

 


  • Book of Travels (PC - Steam)
Asan came to Braided Shore with practically nothing. Now he has commissioned the artificers of Crossings to fashion him a sword and a cane. He is now a formidable force on the battlefield again. Asan spends his leisure time fishing and peddling swords for glassware. He doesn't have any other strong ambitions, but he has been interested in learning a few potent tea recipes. I tried to find a secret market the other night only to find out that real life time zone issues interfered with my exploration. Frustrating since it's a weekly occurrence. I will have to try again next week. 


  • Diablo II Resurrected (PC - Battle.net) 
My brother's friend at Blizzard worked on this game and we try to set aside some time on Sunday to play through it together. It is an official Bunker Hill Bros. event for the first time in a long time. This week Deez started a new character (Assassin) while I continued to push forward on my Necromancer. We re-covered Act 1 of the game up until the final boss which we will hopefully tackle this upcoming weekend. 

  • Metroid Dread (Switch)
It should be little surprise that Metroid is an important foundation in my life. If it is a surprise, you should read some of my early articles. That said, I feel like I've only really played about 50% of the franchise. Super Metroid and Metroid Prime are two of the greatest games I think have ever been made. I have never beaten Metroid Zero Mission or Metroid Prime 2 & 3 but I just can't seem to get into Dread for some reason. I'm trying to pin down why I feel underwhelmed.

  • Monster Train (PC - Steam)
Definitely got less runs in this week than last week, but I got some runs in nonetheless. After clearing the game with every faction at least once (though certainly not on the ever-increasing difficulty), I decided I was invested enough to get the only DLC available at this time. It introduces a new faction and some new mechanics - that I can't resist which I think is why I started losing when I was previously on a ridiculously long win streak. I can't pass up the opportunity to use the new DLC mechanics to make super powerful units or spells - which in turn makes the enemies ramp up in difficulty, too. I should really try to scale it back ... or should I just "git gud?" 



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