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Games Played in 2024

Since 2014 (IT'S BEEN A DECADE!!) I've been documenting every time I play a game and what I thought about it during that session. You can see all the previous lists here.

A session can be anywhere from a few minutes to many hours. Sessions that last longer than one block of time (illustrated below) are counted for each block individually. Sessions that cross over a block (like from 2:30 to 4) count towards the one that more time was spent in.

This will be unedited and likely full of typos and misspellings. The descriptions of my sessions may include story spoilers. Any spoilers will NOT be marked.

Here's the break down of the time of day:

Time	Term	Time	Term
12am to 3am	Midnight	Noon to 3pm	Afternoon
3am to 6am	Early Morning	3pm to 6pm	Early Evening
6am to 9am	Morning	6pm to 9pm	Evening
9am to Noon	Late Morning	9pm to 12am	Late Evening

List items

Indie

This is for all the various indie games that are not in the wiki yet.
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Santrix - https://mslivo.itch.io/sandtrix
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Played: 1/17. PC Browser. Early Evening. Enjoyed.
Watched half a video on this and had to play it! I just messed around with the browser version and had a lot of fun. Really cool game with some interesting strategies. I don't know how deep they could get though.
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Played: 1/18. Midnight.
Got 91 clears which feels like a lot!
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Played: 1/18. PC Itch. Early Evening.
Decided to pick it up and it doesn't play much better with a gamepad unfortunately. It is a really cool concept though. I'll probably play it once and while. The paid version is supposed to have more modes, but I didn't notice them.
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Played: 1/19. Early Evening.
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Phenix Currupta - https://caspercroes.itch.io/phenix-corrupta?ac=qfCyYFQF-yt
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Played: 1/20. PC Browser. Late Morning. Neutral.
This is a very challenging retro metroidvania of sorts. It's not really my sort of game since it has a set jump height and I just can never wrap my brain around that. I might continue to mess around with it though.
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The Adventures of Poppe - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1941740/The_Adventures_of_Poppe/
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Played: 1/28. PC Steam. Early Evening. Negative.
Negative may be a bit strong, but I kept dying in the same place and felt like it this game is probably not for me. I only played like 6 minutes of it according to Steam.
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Cursorblade - https://realpeach.itch.io/cursorblade
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Played: 1/28. PC Itch. Early Evening. Neutral.
Watched a video of this game and it seemed nifty and it is, but my computer kept hitching and that made it hard than it should have been.
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Hot Wax - https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=141756
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Played: 4/16. Mobile. Afternoon. Enjoyed.
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Played: 4/16. Afternoon.
This is an interesting little tetris variant that I found a little tricky to control right on my phone, but really like the idea behind. I'll probably play it here and there.
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Played: 4/17. Afternoon.
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Tetra Tactics
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Played: 4/20. PC Steam. Afternoon. Neutral.
This game is an expansion on Triple Triad from FF8. While it has a lot of cool ideas, it just wasn't really grabbing me for whatever reason.
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Played: 4/20. Neutral.
Finished a run. I don't know if I have the mind for this game to be honest. There's a lot going on that I find hard to keep in check. Cool ideas though.
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Pig Gird (https://cohost.org/adriendittrick/post/5844352-you-can-play-this-ga)
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Played: 5/5. PC Browser. Late Morning. Enjoyed.
This is an incredibly clever little game.
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Played: 5/5. Evening
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Our Adventurer Guild
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Played: 8/5. PC Steam. Evening. Positive.
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Played: 8/5. Late Evening.
I suspect I might add this game to the wiki. I found it by just looking at the dungeon crawler tag on steam. It sounded interesting and had Overwhelming Positive reviews. The art is pretty terrible and the writing is not great, but mechanically it's extremely solid from what I've played so far. I will likely play a lot of this game.
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Played: 8/6. Evening.
The writing is extremely bland. There was literally an "But then I took an arrow to the knee" joke in 2024!!!!
But the game itself is really good.
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Played: 8/10. Late Morning.
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Played: 8/10. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/10. Early Evening.
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Played: 8/10. Evening.
Oops played this game for like 7 hours. The progression is a little slow, but managing everything is a lot of fun. I lost one good character already and now I started to save scum a bit. I'll probably not do it too much except for when I get a case of the bad rolls.
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Played: 8/11. Midnight.
Got a character up to level 8. Not really getting amazing loot, but maybe it's just a slow build up.
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Played: 8/11. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/11. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/12. Midnight.
This game gets hard!!
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Played: 8/14. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/16. Evening.
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Played: 8/17. Evening.
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Played: 8/17. Late Evening.
My power got knocked out while playing. I really should have brought bombs with me to my current mission. I really under-prepared.
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Played: 8/18. Midnight.
Had to fail that mission, but I did get some goodies from it. Now I'm trying to be more prepared, but I did end up losing a lvl 2 gal who was on her first mission.
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Played: 8/18. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/18. Early Evening.
I feel like I've gotten into a groove with this game. I just tried out a bard character and am quickly realizing how powerful a team with two bards on it would be.
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Played: 8/18. Evening.
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Played: 8/18. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/19. Early Evening.
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Played: 8/19. Evening.
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Played: 8/21. Evening.
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Played: 8/21. Late Evening.
Beat the Bandit King so I feel like I'm passed the first Act. Now I can have 6 to a party and am looking to train up more Bards to fit into them. Ideally I would want two per party. Now I understand why they throw some many archer recruits at me.
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Played: 8/22. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/23. Midnight.
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Played: 8/23. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/24. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/24. Early Evening.
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Played: 8/24. Evening.
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Played: 8/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/25. Midnight.
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Played: 8/25. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/25. Early Evening.
My main story mission involves protecting NPCs that have bad AI and if they die it's a failure. THough it seemed like I could still continue the story with those NPCs dead? Probably just fails the mission though.
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Played: 8/25. Late Evening.
Ok. I was able to finish that mission pretty easily by blocking an obvious chokepoint and causing guys to walk back and forth while I took them out one by one. It was pretty touch and go there for a bit while I tried to get the one objective though. Almost lost my main mage. I would have just reloaded if that happened though. She's too necessary.
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Played: 8/26. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/27. Evening.
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Played: 8/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/28. Early Evening.
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Played: 8/30. Late Evening.
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Played: 8/31. Midnight.
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Played: 8/31. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/31. Early Evening.
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Played: 8/31. Evening.
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Played: 8/31. Evening.
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Played: 8/31. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/1. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/1. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/1. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/2. Midnight.
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Played: 9/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/3. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/7. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/7. Evening.
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Played: 9/7. Late Evening.
Getting close to the end of the game I believe. Probably only one or two main quests left.
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Played: 9/8. Afternoon.
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Played: 9/8. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/8. Early Evening.
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Played: 9/8. Evening.
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Played: 9/8. Late Evening.
Ok, I have the final mission unlocked, but I want to finish up the rest of the side quests which requires me to get the one character to max with their friends I think.
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Played: 9/8. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/9. Midnight.
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Finished: 9/9. Evening.
The final mission was perhaps a bit easy. I was able to lock down the final boss and hit him till he was dead. There was nothing he could do. They probably should have given him more reinforcements or a teleport or knockback or something. All and all though, this game was fantastic. It's gonna get super overlooked but it's one of my favorites from this year.
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Dungeon Antiqua
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Started: 10/18. Evening. PC Steam. Enjoyed.
Saw this on one of those new on steam bots and decided to pick it up since I was enjoying Grimstone so much. It's a pretty cool dungeon crawler so far.
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Played: 10/18. Late Evening.
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Played: 10/19. Afternoon.
Got all the Relic armor and I guess now I just go further down. My party is pretty beefy to be honest. This game is alright though. Nothing too incredible, but good at what it's doing.
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Finished: 10/20. Afternoon.
I finished the game I guess? I know there's some post game stuff but I don't think I'll be engaging with it. I have so many other games I want to play. This game was cool though!!
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Humanity

Started: 1/1. PC Steam. Early Evening. Enjoyed.
I wanted to get to this game last year, but didn't make the time. I played through the first two areas and had a blast! This game is great.
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Played: 1/1. Evening.
Finished up the 2nd world and the Blue Core. I missed ONE Goldy because I couldn't figure out how to get it I'll have to come back for it.
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Played: 1/1. Late Evening.
Ah HA! I figured out how to get the Goldy I was missing. It was pretty tricky to be honest. Probably the trickiest so far. It was on the stage called "The Wall"
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Played: 1/2. Evening.
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Played: 1/2. Late Evening.
Finished up Sequence 3. There were some real tricky side puzzles in this one. Having to set everything up beforehand was an interesting twist to be honest.
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Played: 1/3. Late Evening.
In Sequence 4 and it's getting tough. I wonder if there's a good hint system. There's a "video solution" option, but I kinda don't want to click it. I'm not the biggest fan of these Competition puzzles. I find them hard to wrap my head around. I'm certain missing something.
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Played: 1/5. Early Evening.
Had to look up some hints for some of the puzzles in Sequence 4, but was able to solve the rest and the Green Orb on my own. Now into Sequence 5. I'm a little disappointed that it went the route with more Others related puzzles since I like just moving the guys around the best, but so far these puzzles have been fun, if a bit easy.
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Played: 1/5. Evening.
On to Sequence 6. I didn't get all the Goldy in 5 yet though. The Follow stuff seems interesting if a bit fiddly.
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Played: 1/5. Late Evening.
I got to a level called "Escort Mission" and DO NOT LIKE IT. It is weird how many of these levels are kinda a stealth game. I think this game is best when it's not that though hahaha.
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Played: 1/6. Afternoon.
Got up to the first Red Core Sequence and it's more stealth stuff which is a little disappointing. I did really love the Yellow Core levels. It is pretty wild that the final one was a straight up boss fight hahaha. This game has a lot of cool spectacle.
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Played: 1/6. Early Evening.
Accidentally completed the last level of the one Sequence because I didn't have the Goldy walking yet. RIP, I'll have to redo it. I don't know if I'll go back and get all the Goldy, some of the are real annoying. But I am enjoying this game quite a bit.
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Finished: 1/6. Evening.
The fight against the Red Core was kinda whatever. More of the same. I did jump into the user made levels and they seem cool. I ended with 5 Goldy still missing. I might go back and collect those or play more user levels. This game was very good.
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Played: 1/6. Late Evening.
Jumped into some of the user levels. Just did the top rated ones that were on my dashboard. They were a mixed bag. One was very clever but most of them were kinda whatever or very tedious.
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En Garde!

Started: 1/7. PC Steam. Afternoon. Enjoyed.
This game is a lot of fun. I like the writing, voice acting (english), and the combat is real good. I do tend to just be overly aggressive which often doesn't work out for me. I'm also still waiting for an encounter that is long chains of parrying against a single opponent. I'm currently in the second episode. Looks like there are 4 episodes.
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Played: 1/7. Early Evening.
Finished up Episode 3. That was the boss fight I was looking for. Too many tries. The Episode 2 boss battle was also pretty good, but not as interesting. The dueling mechanics really shined in that fight. There was a point in Episode 3 where some mini-boss type guy shows up and was like "I will not fall for your tricks!" but I happened to have a turkey on hand and lured him over to a weapon rack, threw the turkey to stun him and kicked him into the rack, one-shotting him. It was very funny.
This is one of those games where you could say something like "This is a like a PS2 game (complimentary)". It's focused on what it is while still exploring the possibilities. It doesn't take itself too seriously, while also being sincere.
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Finished: 1/7. Evening.
This game was a good time. The last episode does a sort of boss gauntlet thing where you refight the bosses from the previous episodes with various twists. I didn't mention it before, but the environmental art is really nice. They have this painting shader for stuff that's off in the distance. It looks real nice! That final encounter was tough, but a lot of fun still. I don't think I'll check out the arena mode. This has been a good way to spend a Sunday.
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Mixolumia

Played: 1/7. PC Itch. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
This is one of my favorite games ever. Unfortunately due to a harddrive failure I lost my highscores so it was a bit melancholy coming back to it. The rust is still there but I was able to get 6.7 million in Endless mode, which is about a 10th of my actual high score.
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Vampire Survivors

Played: 1/8. PC Steam. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
Going through the 2nd DLC stuff.
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Played: 1/10. Late Evening.
Going through more the 2nd DLC stuff. Unlocked Sammy, but can't afford it.
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Played: 1/12. Evening.
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Played: 1/14. Midnight.
Attempting to unlock all the cards. I have one more to good!
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Played: 1/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 1/14. Late Evening.
Attempting to unlock everything in v1.0 and I have two more things on the list. Survive 31 minutes in the Tower and Banish 20 weapons.
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Played: 1/15. Late Evening.
OK, All I needed was the Tower one, which I was able to do in Endless mode. Now I've unlocked everything in v1.0 and have moved on to finishing up the 2nd DLC. I have the two characters unlocked from the Abyss and just got the hyper mode of that level.
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Played: 1/28. Evening.
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Played: 11/2. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/2. Early Evening.
Decided to jump into the DLCs I didn't do. Played some of the Among US and Contra ones. It's cool stuff!! Game is still fun.
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Played: 11/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 11/3. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/3. Early Evening.
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Played: 11/3. Late Evening.
Poked at the new Castlevania DLC. it seems MASSIVE.
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Played: 11/9. Late Evening.
Unlocked more in the Contra DLC.
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Momodora: Moonlit Farewell

Started: 1/11. PC Steam. Evening. Enjoyed.
I liked the other Momodora games so of course I was going to pick this one up. So far, it's a lot more melancholy? I only played up to where I have to find the Fairy village though.
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Played: 1/11. Evening.
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Played: 1/11. Late Evening.
Met the Fairy Queen. She is very big. This game is very pretty and I'm enjoying it quite a bit so far. I think it plays better than 4. I'm also playing it on Easy with adaptive difficulty so that might be why I'm having a pretty easy time with it, but still...
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Played: 1/12. Evening.
Found the Black Bell and teleport Cat. This game has been quite good. I do wish I had a fourth card slot though.
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Played: 1/12. Late Evening.
I must be getting close to the end of this game because I've gotten some achievements for stuff like "collect every X" already. It doesn't really feel like I'm nearing an end though.
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Finished: 1/13. Afternoon
Beat the game! It was very good. I did have it on easy and maybe that was too easy. But ah well. I did get 110%, so there's a companion and relic out there somewhere that I missed. I didn't go back and talk with the fairies or one lady so that's probably it. I'm not going to do that.
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The Last Case of Benedict Fox

Started: 1/13. PC Steam. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
This game is a metroidvania mixed with some adventure game stuff. It uses a number system from 14th century monks that I recognized from a social media post from a few years ago. The combat seems kinda bad so far because there's a stiffness to the movement, though I did just come from Momodora 5 so there's there's that. Still the game seems cool.
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Played: 1/20. Afternoon.
I got stuck for a while after finding the edittable key and device, but after that I've been exploring a lot. This game is really cool so far. I'm really enjoying it.
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Played: 1/20. Early Evening.
I imagine I'm pretty far in this game. Maybe about 50~60%. There's a lot to explore and I have almost gotten all my tattoos. So far the mystery hasn't really grabbed me but the exploration and puzzles are rad as hell.
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Played: 1/20. Late Evening.
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Played: 1/21. Midnight.
I was wondering around areas trying to find where to go, really filling out the map. Then I realized I hadn't when to one place. I figured it would be a little side thing, but NOPE it was the main story. haha. Now I've continued and found myself in a time-loop thing with the inquisitor where I have to slowly get back my abilities each loop.
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Played: 1/21. Afternoon.
I feel like I've gotten through most of the Wife's limbo from what I can see. There's still a lot of puzzles there that I don't think I can solve yet. Like the Tarot ones and the rift at the start. I still have a lot of the Father's limbo to go through now that I have the gun that shoot through the purple walls.
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Finished: 1/21. Early Evening.
The final boss was a bit annoying. Particularly the final phase. I did get all the achievements but one and I'm not going to go back for it. They definitely seem to be setting up for a sequel though.
All and all I enjoyed my time with this game. It's a bit rough but it has some cool ideas and I really liked it's map system.
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Palworld

Played: 1/21. PC Steam. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
I haven't really played a game like this since Minecraft a decade ago and despite the negative press around the devs I decided to check it out. The single player is fine. I'm having fun but it's pretty mindless fun. It's a podcast game for me so far. I've mainly just been sticking to my base making stuff so it can be self-sufficient. I need to find a pal that can chop wood.
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Played: 1/23. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/23. Evening.
I did a dungeon and stuff. This game is not great, but it's OK enough. I did unlock some assembly line stuff sooo....
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Played: 1/25. Evening.
I have a second base now. I guess I could just go and explore instead. I should probably do that, but I just get stuck in the "build build build" mode. The structure building of this game is really bad and awkward. You often have to build temporary stuff so you can remove other stuff.
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Played: 1/27. Early Evening.
Explored the world more and defeated the first boss tower thing.
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Played: 1/27. Evening.
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Star Ocean: The Second Story R

Started: 1/28. PC Steam. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
I was a big fan of the original and decided to pick this up even though it wasn't on sale. So far it's very slow but I'm enjoying it. It changed quite a bit mechanically.
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Played: 1/29. Early Evening.
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Played: 1/29. Evening.
Did Celine's cave quest and recruited her, then just went sicko mode in the crafting stuff.
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Played: 1/29. Late Evening.
In full sicko mode. I'm grinding out raising Rena's pickpocketing so I can steal an item by cooking and feeding her a bunch of seafood. Unfortunately she doesn't have any good pickpocketing skills unlike Claude and Celine!!! I did get A TON of money just completing quests though. This game is just asking you to break it.
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Played: 1/30. Early Evening.
Stuffing Rena full of FISH. She still has a 0% chance to steal!!
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Played: 1/30. Evening.
Not just fed Rena FISH but also did some dang FISHING!
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Played: 1/30. Late Evening.
Ok, so I did get her Pickpocketing to like level 5 but still had a 0% chance to get the item. However I got it on my SECOND TRY! I wonder if the chance for it is actually a lot higher.
Then I went ahead and finished up Marze.
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Played: 2/1. Late Evening.
Long session. Too busy doing crafting and junk. Did the optional mountain place for no real reason other than to get some levels. Now in Lacuer.
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Played: 2/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/3. Midnight.
Did the tournament stuff and recruited Opera and Welch. Then tried to roll Goode Boxes to get good items but couldn't really get what I wanted.
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Played: 2/3. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/3. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/3. Early Evening.
Just got to Ell. My party is Rena, Opera, Ernest, Celine, Dias, Welch, and Claude. No Bowman ore Precis because they suck and I want to get Chasto when I get to Nede.
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Played: 2/3. Evening.
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Played: 2/3. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/4. Midnight.
In Energy Nede. Got my dragon and am now visiting towns before doing dungeons.
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Played: 2/4. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/4. Afternoon.
Did some PAs and got the Orb of Courage. the Corbage.
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Played: 2/4. Evening.
Got the Orb of Wisdom.
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Played: 2/5. Midnight.
I looked up a guide to about weapons and had to check if I could make one. Unfortunately I couldn't, but then I looked at the challenge list and decided to take care of a few.
...I might 100% this game...
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Played: 2/6. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/7. Midnight.
Nearing the end. Annoyed I missed some of the earlier special spots since I'm at 29 and I need 30 for Chisato's best weapon. Dang.
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Played: 2/7. Evening.
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Played: 2/7. Late Evening.
In the final dungeon. Lost to the Second of the Ten Wise Men fight. Which was surprising considering how powerful I am otherwise.
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Played: 2/10. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/10. Evening.
Beat the game and got some endings, now to do the POST GAME. I did three levels of the Trials on VR Expel.
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Played: 2/15. Late Evening.
Went around doing about 8 Raid Bosses. Did more of the arena and now I'm half way through the Maze of Trails. My guys are real strong!! But they could be STRONGER
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Played: 2/16. Late Evening.
Getting to the bottom of the Maze. Got so much good stuff. I'm at the point where I need to do something with just two characters.
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Played: 2/17. Afternoon.
Got to the final boss of the Maze and it kicked my ass. haha. not surprising. Then I went and got all the fish!!
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Played: 2/17. Early Evening.
Completed the Maze and am now grinding to get to the max level. Decided to just use the Bloody Armor strat.
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Finished: 2/17. Evening.
Beat the true final boss, though it said "the Truth hasn't been fully revealed..." It has for me!! I really enjoyed this remake and going back to this game after like 25 years. I did not 100% everything but I did what I set out to do!
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Peglin

Played: 2/9. Mobile. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
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Played: 2/10. Late Morning.
Decided to pick this up on mobile after watching Smight play it a whole bunch. it works pretty well on mobile to be honest. I was able to beat it once!
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Played: 2/10. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/10. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/11. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/11. Evening.
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Played: 2/11. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/12. Midnight.
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Played: 2/12. Morning.
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Played: 2/12. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/12. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/12. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/13. Morning.
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Played: 2/13. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/13. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/13. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/13. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/14. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/14. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/14. Evening.
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Played: 2/14. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/15. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/15. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/16. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/16. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/16. Early Evening.
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Played: 2/18. Late Morning.
Had a really good Balwirk/Self Damage run.
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Played: 2/20. Evening.
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Played: 2/23. Morning.
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Played: 2/23. Late Morning.
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Played: 2/24. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 2/28. Afternoon.
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Played: 2/29. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/1. Morning.
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Played: 3/1. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/1. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/1. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/6. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/6. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/6. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/7. Morning.
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Played: 5/31. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/26. Late Morning.
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Balatro

Played: 3/1. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/2. Midnight.
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Played: 3/2. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/2. Early Evening.
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Played: 3/2. Evening.
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Played: 3/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/3. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/3. Early Evening.
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Played: 3/3. Evening.
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Played: 3/3. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/4. Early Evening.
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Played: 3/4. Evening.
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Played: 3/4. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/5. Early Evening.
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Played: 3/5. Evening.
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Played: 3/5. Evening.
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Played: 3/5. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/6. Evening.
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Played: 3/6. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/7. Midnight.
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Played: 3/8. Midnight.
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Played: 3/9. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/10. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/17. Early Evening.
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Played: 3/23. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/23. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/26. Evening.
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Played: 4/7. Midnight.
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Played: 4/7. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/7. Evening.
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Played: 4/8. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/4. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/4. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/4. Evening.
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Played: 5/5. Evening.
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Played: 5/5. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/11. Late Evening. Neutral.
I uninstalled this game again.
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Played: 5/28. Late Evening.
I kinda hate playing this game but also like when Numbers.
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Played: 5/29. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/29. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/30. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/31. Midnight.
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Played: 5/31. Midnight.
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Played: 5/31. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/31. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/1. Late Morning.
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Played: 6/1. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/1. Late Evening. Positive.
Ok.. so I had my best run and now I like the game again.
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Played: 6/2. Midnight.
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Played: 6/5. Evening.
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Played: 6/6. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/7. Midnight.
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Played: 6/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/8. Evening.
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Played: 6/9. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/10. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/11. Evening.
My internet was down so I played this. Almost beat the Purple Stake.
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Played: 6/13. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/15. Evening.
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Played: 6/15. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/16. Midnight.
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Played: 6/16. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/16. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/17. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/22. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/23. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/25. Late Evening. Neutral.
I'm back on "Fuck this game."
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Penny Blood

Hellbound:
Played: 3/7. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Late Evening.
They added some new stuff, but reset all the progress. The early game still feels really rough.
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Final Fantasy VII Remake

Played: 3/9. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/9. Early Evening.
Finally decided to get back to my old save after about a year and half.
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Played: 3/9. Late Evening.
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Played: 3/10. Midnight.
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Played: 3/10. Afternoon.
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Finished: 3/10. Early Evening.
Beat the main story. Still gotta go back and do the DLC. I bumped it down to easy just to get through it, but I really enjoyed this as a mega fan of the original.
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Played: 3/15. Late Evening.
Started the Yuffie DLC. It seems a lot harder than the base game.
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Played: 3/16. Early Evening.
Doing sidequests! Fort Condor!
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Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

Started: 3/13. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Evening.
I got the backer closed beta and I played a little bit of this. I'm really liking it so far and have a lot more to say about it, but I'm sleepy.
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Played: 3/14. Late Evening.
I'm passed the intro and now the game was like "Go find and recruit people," and it seems to have really opened up. Like I can just leave the main town and go anywhere, maybe? Also it seems like you can only save at inns or save points, which is an uhhh interesting throwback.
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Played: 3/15. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Late Evening.
Now playing the full release. I'm really glad my progress carried over. I just went through the mine dungeon. It was pretty long. Probably too long since it wasn't super interesting, but I wasn't expecting interesting dungeons from this game. What has been great is the character writing.
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Played: 4/27. Evening.
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Played: 4/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/28. Midnight.
This game is pretty much exactly what I wanted it. It has some roughness and questionable choices (like only being able to save at inns/save points), but I'm really enjoying the story and the world so far.
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Played: 4/28. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/28. Early Evening.
Went through the Proving Grounds and thought I couldn't leave so I had a real tough time with both bosses. Couldn't beat the 2nd one and had to reload, which was before the first one. Then I decide to confirm if I couldn't leave and realized I was wrong. So I went back and restocked a lot of my stuff. Then had little issue with things. That dungeon was pretty cool.
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Played: 4/28. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/29. Midnight.
Went back to the starting area and recruited a bunch of folks from there. Did the two mini games. I'm not very good at the beyblade one but I think that's just because I need better tops. The ones they start you with aren't very competitive. I like the card game more.
Progressing the story and, gosh, I'm just really here for everything. I love the characters. I'm so glad that Nowa is not silent. He has so much good personality even if it's a bit generic hero boy. It's just so incredible that they released a PS1 game in 2024.
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Played: 4/30. Early Evening.
I was so close to getting teleportation in my previous session and now I have it so WOOOOOO~~~!!!
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Played: 5/1. Evening.
So by going off and doing other stuff instead of continuing the story, I think they added some dialogue that was like "Why did you make the King wait so long?" which is pretty good. I don't know if that's 100% the case though.
I did do a lot of fishing trying to get the fish for the fisherman since he unlocks so many other upgrades!!!
I'm also getting better at the beyblades mini game since I was told what the rps mechanic actually is. I also really like the card minigame.
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Played: 5/5. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/5. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/5. Early Evening.
Long session. Looked up some recruitment guides so I can make sure I have all the characters and I only missed a few. The accessory bird was very annoying since he requires a 5% drop that just wasn't happening for me. Did get a lot of mystic lumber from the grind though.
Then had a tough war battle, but won in the end. I'm really liking this game. It's pretty much everything I wanted.
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Played: 5/5. Late Evening.
I'm now at a point where I can switch between Nowa and Seign and that seems pretty cool. I have to go to a desert city but what I'm going to do instead is RECRUITMENT
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Played: 5/16. Late Evening.
Finally getting back to this game after falling into a Hades 2 hole. Just did some stuff that I remembered from the guide.
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Played: 5/17. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/18. Midnight.
Back on the recruitment grind. Got Isla from Rising and her voice direction is weird, which is a shame, but she seems really good in battle. Also tried the little thief girl and the spellsword kid and they both suck haha. I do like the nercomancer girl though.
I unlocked Eggfoot Racing and that shit rules. I love it! I keep wanting to call it Eggbug Racing though.
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Played: 5/18. Afternoon.
Continued with the story and I love these sand sharks. They're a lot of fun.
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Played: 5/18. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/18. Evening.
Finished up pretty much everything with Nowa and switched to Seign but he doesn't have the run fast accessory and is SO SLOW.
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Played: 5/18. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/19. Midnight.
Finished up Seign's chapter and upgraded my Castle to lvl 3 and unlocked almost everything in it.
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Played: 5/19. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/19. Afternoon.
Have Marisa now and fought some dragons. Trying to recruit the trader but it looks like there's a cooldown on the restocking. Gonna hold all my stuff until I see double arrows.
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Played: 5/19. Late Evening.
We got a Neclord guy!
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Played: 5/24. Late Evening.
I'm at a point where I have to make three parties and my strat of completely unequiping everyone is bad for this. I had to reload my save from before and go through and prepare. I saved before finalizing stuff as I'm Sleepy.
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Played: 5/25. Afternoon.
I got my parties sorted and likely didn't need to go through this trouble, but we'll see. Still trying to do some trading, but just haven't gotten those sweet sweet double blue arrows much.
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Played: 5/25. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/26. Midnight.
Got around to recruiting CJ! She seems really good. Continued with the story before that. I am having trouble recruiting Clarke, the theater guy, and Hogan the Trader.
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Played: 5/26. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/26. Early Evening.
Was able to get Clarke. I also did the first of the secret room challenges and that boosted me nearly to level 60. Now I'm being a sicko and made a spreadsheet of all the trading items and their buy/sell values for each location. Gotta do the Data Science!!!
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Played: 5/26. Evening.
Played through a very long story section that appears to be towards the end of the game. Still have a lot folks to recruit though, so I will probably try to do that ASAP.
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Played: 5/26. Late Evening.
Extremely in the end game. Now I'm doing all the everything I can haha. Cooking, recruitment, etc. I gotta do beyblades but I finally got some rank three ones so hopefully I'll be able to crush people. I don't really understand the rules of that mini game too well. And I gotta try to get Scarlett!! the Racing is so wonky. But I think I only have like 6 or so people left to recruit.
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Played: 5/27. Late Morning.
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Played: 5/27. Late Morning.
Finished Momo's quest. He's a weirdo.
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Played: 5/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/8. Afternoon.
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Played: 6/9. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/16. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/17. Midnight.
Was able to recruit the dark knight lady and did more of the TOPS. I just need to get the Flame guy down and then Crash.
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Played: 6/22. Evening.
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Played: 6/22. Late Evening.
Got up to Crash but couldn't beat him. Did recruit Scarlet though! Then I continued the story and got to the duel with the undead guy but couldn't beat him. I'm going to have to look it up.
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Played: 6/24. Early Evening.
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Played: 6/24. Evening.
Beat Crash! Got the one guy I missed in the Proving Grounds and now I'm trying to finish the cooking mini game. Then I'm going to finish this game!!
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Played: 6/24. Evening.
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Played: 6/24. Late Evening.
Ok, finished the cooking mini game and progressed the story to the point where it seems like I'm at no-return. I'm just grinding my guys up a bit while also getting mats so I can fully upgrade the castle. The only issue I'm going to have is the dang plays!!
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Played: 7/1. Late Evening.
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Played: 7/2. Midnight.
Got all 120 characters! I'm pretty sure all I have left is to finish upgrading the castle (which will be annoying due to getting all the plays) and then the final dungeon.
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Played: 7/2. Evening.
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Played: 7/2. Late Evening.
Liberated Eltilweiss and now I gotta be close to the final final dungeon. I did switch my party to the six main folks for the hero combo. I also leveled up Leene a bunch and she's cool, very flexible.
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Played: 7/6. Late Morning.
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Finished: 7/2. Afternoon.
I beat it! Fantastic ending! Definitely my GOTY so far. I might go and do some post-game stuff since there's definitely things I'd liked to clean up, like the theater, eggfoot raising, bigeoma, etc. Love this game!!! It is laser targeted for my specific interests.
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The Case of the Golden Idol

Started: 3/22. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Evening.
Playing this with my partner. Once she knew what was going on she was really into it. I have watched a stream of it while ago, but don't really remember too much about it.
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Played: 3/25. Evening.
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Played: 3/30. Late Evening.
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Finished: 4/5. Early Evening.
We finished the main game! My partner really liked, but not as much as some of the folks in reviews she read. We're considering getting the DLC.
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Divekick

Played: 3/23. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Early Evening.
Played this with my 11 year old nephew. He seemed to enjoy it. He thought the Baz was OP. haha
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Dragon's Dogma II

Started: 3/30. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Midnight.
I actually bought this and refunded a few days ago, but then I realized I could try it on GeForce Now to see how it runs. So I bought it again to give it a shot and got a day pass. It runs pretty good! It did disconnect me the first time I was in the character creator which was annoying but other than that I hadn't any issues.
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Played: 3/30. Late Morning.
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Played: 3/30. Afternoon.
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Played: 3/30. Early Evening.
Had a very long session of this where I went through to the Capital then back to Melve to explore and do quests there.
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Played: 3/30. Evening.
Explored a cave in the north of the map that was massive and had some lich and chimera that I couldn't beat.
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Played: 3/31. Midnight.
Bought a house.
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Played: 3/31. Afternoon.
Did a bunch of the main quest stuff to unlock the other vocations. I'll probably wait until I massive Fighter before I switch to anything though.
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Played: 3/31. Early Evening.
Tried to do a quest in the gaol and they kept trying to arrest me. I think I misunderstood something about it. haha.
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Played: 3/31. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/1. Midnight.
Did the Nameless Village stuff, fought a weird dragon with growths on it, then a sickly woman attacked me when I brought her son home to her.
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Played: 4/3. Late Evening.
Had a kinda frustrating time with this game, maybe I'm just too tired at the moment.
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Played: 4/4. Evening.
Had an abbess arrested and saved a kid.
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Played: 4/6. Afternoon.
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Played: 4/6. Early Evening.
I'm at a point where I'm not really sure what to do. I appear to have a Point of No Return with the Disa stuff. So I kinda want to do as much side stuff as I can around the capital. I did meet Wilhelmina and apparently there are side quests for her, but I think I have to spend a lot of time sleeping with her employees to unlock them.
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Played: 4/7. Midnight.
Walked all the way to the elven village assuming there would be a fast travel point there but there wasn't. Also the archer guy wasn't there. I found him in the Capital after I had walked there. Whoops.
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Played: 4/7. Evening.
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Played: 4/7. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/13. Afternoon.
The Game crashed so I stopped playing. But other than that I made my way to the southern nation and have been exploring the capital down there. Unlocked the Trickster class but I don't think I'll switch to it. Right now I'm going to go see if I can unlock Magic archer.
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Played: 4/13. Evening.
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Played: 4/13. Late Evening.
Got Magic Archer!! It seems really cool. I like it better than regular archer for sure. I don't think I'll be using the healing moves from it though. They seem cool, but only having four slots really limits what I could do.
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Played: 4/14. Afternoon.
The game seems to consistently crash at the Vocation Guild menu for some reason. Maybe it's because I'm playing through GeForce Now? I can't say. More Magick Archer, and it's cool, but enemies tend to target the player character so it's different to use well. I have my main pawn, Lily, as a Fighter now and will give her provoke to help with that.
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Played: 4/14. Evening.
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Played: 4/14. Late Evening.
I think I might be at the end of the game? I got the godsway sword from the research and the ghost man said "If you do this quest you're at the point of no return!" I suppose it feels like I'm getting to a resolution, but there also feels like there's a lot of side stuff left to do. I went back to Melve and freed them. Now they're all going to join Ulrika in Harve. I guess I should probably go down there and fight the drake. I want to go through a cave I found at the north because it kicked my ass and I think I can do it no problem now.
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Played: 4/14. Late Evening.
Had a cute scene with Ulrika that was very sweet. Tried to fight the drake outside Harve, but it ran away!!! Very annoying.
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Played: 4/16. Evening.
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Played: 4/16. Late Evening.
The title screen changed!! I now have to build a town, I guess. Also I destroyed the Dragon with a single Martyr's Shot.
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Played: 4/18. Late Evening.
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Finished: 4/19. Midnight.
Completed the game!! Hell of a good ending sequence! I really liked this game. I think I'm a Dragon's Dogma 2 sicko actually. It's late and I'm sleepy so I won't go into too much now, but WOOOOOO!
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Myst III: Exile

Played: 4/9. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Evening.
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Played: 4/9. Late Evening.
My partner and I got back to this game and went through Edanna. It was not a super difficult age but still pretty cool.
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Played: 6/14. Evening.
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Played: 6/14. Late Evening.
Going though the ball rail Age. This one is pretty cool. We solved up to the Balance Bridge one, which was a little tricky, but I was able to figure it out without a guide!
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Played: 6/28. Evening.
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Finished: 6/28. Late Evening.
We finished it! I love this game. The ball rollercoaster was the best part. We got most of the endings. I think this is my favorite of the Mysts so far.
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Roguebook

Played: 4/21. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Late Evening.
This game has been sitting in my "too play" list for a while and I bought it a few months ago. Finally check it out. It seems like a pretty interesting StS-like so far.
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Played: 4/22. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/23. Midnight.
Got my first victory, hey when did it become 1am?
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Played: 4/23. Early Evening.
Victory with the 3rd character. I hate to say "this game is easy actually" but my StS experience must really help in understanding it. My partner did look over and assumed I was playing StS2 hahaha. She was like "did they sue? This game looks exactly like that one!"
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Played: 4/24. Early Evening.
Turtle Tea witch seems cool, but I lost the run.
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Played: 4/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/25. Midnight.
Can't seem to get a win with Tea Witch.
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Played: 4/25. Late Evening.
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Played: 4/26. Midnight.
Won again with the main lady and frog man. I was just doing the same strat I found earlier. Courage and block build. I was basically invincible once I got it going.
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Played: 6/25. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/30. Midnight.
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Played: 6/30. Late Evening.
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Hades II

Started: 5/6. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/6. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/6. Evening.
Ok so, this is the big game of the month. It's very good, but it's also considerably more complicated that the original and I don't know if that's for the better. Not only is the combat more involved since you have an attack, special, and cast, like in the original, they now each have their own charge action. Then you also have your hex and dash attack. Meaning that you have at least 8 different types of offensive actions opposed to the original's 4.
The new Dark Mirror equivalent is interesting as it takes inspiration from deck-builders, but there's perhaps too much nuance to it.
Anyway, I've gotten to the 2nd area boss and had Chronos teleport back to Asphodel once. Every thing is fantastic, even though you can see the bits that are incomplete.
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Played: 5/6. Evening.
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Played: 5/6. Late Evening.
There's a LOT of game here already. Outside of some temp art, I gotta wonder what they're going to add.
Anyway, I now have the frog following me around.
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Played: 5/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/7. Evening.
Got to the first boss of the surface. That area is interesting. That boss is HARD.
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Played: 5/7. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/8. Midnight.
Whoops, played until 1am. Unlocked Hera and weapon aspects though.
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Played: 5/8. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/8. Evening.
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Played: 5/8. Late Evening.
Got to Chronos, and almost beat the first phase, but couldn't. I upgraded the basic Skull a bunch and that was very good.
Other than that I'm stuck on the surface. I think the boss there needs a lot of balancing to be honest. It's very hard to see all their AOE garbage and that's all they do.
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Played: 5/9. Early Evening.
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Played: 5/9. Evening.
I beat the Surface 1 boss finally. Now I have a cat friend!
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Played: 5/9. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/10. Midnight.
Tried the one Flame Aspect that causes the special to detonate the attack and it was really good. Almost got to Chronus with it. The cat is very cute and very much like a cat.
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Played: 5/10. Late Evening.
Almost beat the first phase of Chronus. I think I'm going to stop playing once I beat him once.
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Played: 5/11. Midnight.
Beat Eris! No more of the surface in this version yet.
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Played: 5/11. Afternoon.
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Played: 5/11. Early Evening.
Almost beat Chronos but I don't full understand the 2nd phase yet. He hit me with something that dealt 999!
I was generating over 4000+ Scorch damage with all my boons. The only reason I lost is due to unfamiliarity with the encounter.
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Played: 5/11. Late Evening.
Finally got Apollo again and beat Eris again.
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Played: 5/12. Midnight.
Tried one of the Skull aspects and it was weird. It took me a long time to get the hang of. I did get to Eris though.
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Played: 5/12. Midnight.
Tried a trial and failed. Was playing like crap.
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Played: 5/12. Late Morning.
Playing like shit today...
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Played: 5/12. Evening.
I had the best build yet but still got killed by his 999 attack, dang.
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Played: 5/12. Late Evening.
Almost got him! he was down to like 25% but I didn't react quick enough and he got me.
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Played: 5/13. Evening.
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Played: 5/13. Late Evening.
I had my best run yet and LOST. I got to phase 2 with full health, 4 death defies, and still LOST. ARRRRGH!
My next run was BAD but I did get to Chronus. I'm definitely getting better at this game.
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Played: 5/15. Late Evening.
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Played: 5/16. Midnight.
FINALLY BEAT CHRONOS! I was playing a lot safer and had stuff that really boosted my damage a ton. Now I can put this game down for now.
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Played: 5/21. Late Evening.
Did a run with the Axe. Almost beat Chronos.
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Played: 6/2. Early Evening.
Beat Chronos a 2nd time! Woooo!
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Played: 6/2. Late Evening.
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Played: 6/3. Midnight.
Now I'm having a pretty easy time of it. I think I will put this game down again and wait for the first major patch.
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Islets

Started: 7/9. PC Steam. Neutral. Afternoon.
Played about 20 minutes of this. It seems neat. A little Hollow Knight-like which I'm not too excited for, but we'll see how it goes. It did give me double jump as the first powerup which is, not exactly a red flag, but ehhhhh...
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Played: 7/9. Mixed. Late Evening.
This game is not amazing. It had a really annoying schmup boss that could only be hurt from one it's own specific attacks and there was like 90 seconds between phases. They intended you to dodge it a bunch but I just enabled invincibility from the assist menu and sat there until it was done. Completely uninteresting.
I explored the 2nd island and got the down stab and the first generator. It has some cool ideas like you don't have set upgrades but get to choose from three random ones when you find an upgrade point, but the moving around and combat are pretty whatever. I'll keep at it for now, but so far I'm pretty unimpressed.
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Played: 7/13. Positive. Afternoon.
I've come around on this game a bit. Mostly because it feels much better now that I have wall run and some more upgrades. I'm on the third island now.
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Played: 7/13. Evening.
Apparently I was doing the FOURTH island instead of the third. I got all the seeds there and was against a boss that felt like they were too hard. I went back to the world map and found the rainy island. I do hate the shmup bosses though. They just suck.
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Played: 7/13. Late Evening.
I got the cloud arrow. I'm enjoying this game more but it's still not amazing.
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Played: 7/14. Midnight.
I'm in the last area and I beat one of the three bosses. I also have collected 100% of the badges and it seems like you can't get every upgrade in this game which is kinda cool.
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Finished: 7/19. Late Evening.
Completed it. It was fine!! I'm more positive on it then when I started, but it's still a pretty middling game.
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Honkai: Star Rail

Played: 7/15. Mobile. Neutral. Early Evening.
With the release of ZZZ I was interested in this game since it's not an action game and is turn based. I doubt I'll enjoy it after a point since it's a gacha which means there WILL be a grind eventually, but that might not even matter because it crashed when I went to look at the menu. Like I hit back and it just was that gal looking at her phone and I couldn't do anything. Maybe a blessing.
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Played: 7/16. Early Evening.
I got a little further into the tutorial before the game crashed on me again. I might try the PC client and just check it out there. The actual combat seems pretty cool all things considered and it's very stylish.
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Played: 7/16. Late Evening.
Played a bit on my phone at home and it makes my phone heat up a lot and I really do not like the onscreen controls. I'm still in the tutorial but I did get the "main character".
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Played: 7/16. PC Stand Alone. Enjoyed. Late Evening.
This game plays pretty well on PC. The controls at still very mobile-like though. I don't know if I'll keep at it. In fact, I'm still at a point where I might uninstall it at any point.
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Myst IV: Revelation

Started: 7/19. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Evening.
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Played: 7/19. Late Evening.
This game seems really cool so far. It's kinda amazing for what it is and that it came out in 2004 considering what else was out around that time. Atrus is such a jack ass and it seems Catherine is also maybe not a great parent. hahah.
We just played until the power is back on the bridge collapses.
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Played: 7/31. Evening.
This game rules! We're still exploring the first age but we found the linking books for Spire and Haven. This Age is so dense with stuff to find though.
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Played: 8/3. Late Evening.
We're exploring Haven now. There was some fiddliness with a weight puzzle that I didn't full understand, but it was actually much simpler than I thought. The guy they have playing Akenar is NOT at all like how he is in the first game. His voice is too deep, but once he goes into crazy mode, it does have the mannerisms down. I appreciate that they recorded the diaries this time around. Also the camera mechanic is a nice addition. This game is weirdly ahead of it's time in that regard.
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Played: 8/10. Late Evening.
We had some issues finding the last totem since the hand doesn't show what is interactable well enough. I didn't really have too much trouble with the call puzzle like some folks seem to. Then we explored the house. It's cool.
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Played: 9/6. Evening.
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Played: 9/6. Late Evening.
We finished up Haven. The guide we occasionally checked said the last puzzle was one of the most BS puzzles in all games but it actually wasn't that bad at all.
Now we're exploring Spire and it looks like a place out of Dark Souls or a JRPG final dungeon. I accidentally summoned a ship without finding anything out about the solution. Just wiggled something back and forth until it happened. We can't go anywhere in it yet, though.
I really like this game.
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Played: 9/17. Evening.
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Played: 9/17. Late Evening.
Looked more around Spire. Got to the other "palace". Starting to make sense of it.
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Played: 9/28. Evening.
Got to through the big puzzle of Spire, it was pretty cool, but we had trouble getting the strings tuned. It certainly wasn't as fiddly as the guide we checked against made it.
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Played: 10/5. Late Evening.
Finished up Spire and got to the final Age. It's very pretty and MASSIVE? It's cool they put live actors in the world.
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Played: 10/29. Evening.
Exploring more of the final age. We got water as our elemental guide. Which is apparently the one you get if you take your time, which we do. I love the amount of actors and how they're fit into the prerendered world. It's so cool.
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Played: 11/1. Evening.
We solved a very annoying puzzle where we had to carry a bubble to the water spirit. It was SO fiddly and annoying!! Definitely the worst puzzle in the series so far. Then there was sort of lights out puzzle on a hex tile sphere that was pretty good. Peter Gabriel was there for like 30 seconds of VO.
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Played: 11/9. Evening.
We got pretty far. I think we have one or two puzzles left. There was a nifty sliding block/color puzzle that I liked it. Then there was a very annoying Tower of Hanoi-like puzzle where you had to move dialogue between various symbols but you can only drop one line off at a time and only pick up all lines at once. It was not great! The most interesting part (figuring out where the dialogue and order) was over done by the boring part (moving stuff around). But it wasn't too too bad. There is another one of those puzzles to go however. We also got like another 10 second of Peter Gabriel.
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Played: 11/13. Evening.
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Finished: 11/13. Late Evening.
We completed Myst 4! I thought it was GREAT! heavily underrated. We got all the endings. The girl playing Yeesha is great when Siris is inhabiting the character. She really nailed it.
The last puzzle was easier than it's one before it and I actually kinda came around to the fiddliness of it.
I'm really amazed by the way this game both did 360 prerendered background AND had pretty convincing FMV characters inside those environments. Really impressive and looks like nothing else.
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Front Mission 1st: Remake

Started: 7/26. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Late Evening.
I was feeling a mech game and had bought this months ago while it was on sale. It's very much a SNES game remade. The combat is pretty basic, but it's not bad. I'm enjoying the few missions I've done.
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Played: 7/27. Afternoon.
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Played: 7/27. Early Evening.
Karen isn't dead? Or is she? The story so far it pretty decent for a game of it's original era. I did figure out how to grind in the arena pretty well too, but I'm trying to resist doing that.
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Played: 7/27. Evening.
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Played: 7/27. Late Evening.
I keep getting more and more guys. It's really hard not to feed to my melee guys too.
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Played: 7/28. Afternoon.
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Played: 7/28. Early Evening.
This game is very basic, but it's good enough for what it is. I hear the 2nd's remake isn't very good, but I don't know the specifics.
I just unlocked flame throwers and they seem busted. I remember hearing they were pretty difficult to deal with in FM3 too.
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Played: 7/28. Evening.
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Played: 7/28. Late Evening.
This game is all about RNG but getting skills that let you target specific parts really helps minimize that. The flamethrowers are especially deadly when you can target specific things.
this game does do the thing where you can grind for the best equipment then the town after the next mission has even better equipment and you can grind for that. Still I'm settling in on a handful of pilots that I really like.
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Played: 7/28. Late Evening.
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Played: 7/29. Midnight.
Missions are starting to get long.
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Played: 8/3. Early Evening.
Losing a bit of interest in this game for whatever reason. I did look up how skills are gained and it's very awkward. I'll probably see it through to the end but not play the 2nd campaign.
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Played: 8/4. Afternoon.
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Played: 8/4. Early Evening.
"Your true mission begins now. Do you understand?"
I'm back on board. The story has kicked into high gear. We got false betrayals, love triangle drama, the works! My guys are extremely good and I figured out that you should just attack the arms with Guide/Duel. Enemies really don't know how to respond to that. I don't need to grind or anything anymore. Just full on story ahead.
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Played: 8/4. Evening.
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Played: 8/4. Late Evening.
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Finished: 8/5. Midnight.
Finished the first campaign. The final boss was basically the boss from Mass Effect 2. The story in this game was surprising sophisticated for a game that originally came out on the SNES in the early 90s. I really enjoyed the last act. It was also pretty cool how they let you bring all over your teammates in the final mission.
I'm curious about the 2nd campaign, but I don't know if I'll do it yet.
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Indika

Started: 9/14. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Early Evening.
This game seems cool as hell so far, but it's very janky. I know there's a chase section coming up and I dread that. I don't like being chased in games.
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Played: 9/14. Evening.
The way in which this game is at times very video gamey in terms of it's puzzles is very strange and kinda jarring considering it's surrealist tone, but I assume that's intentional.
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Finished: 9/15. Afternoon.
This game is cool. So ambitious and interesting. Definitely one of my favorites of the year.
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Rebel Transmute

Started: 9/15. PC Steam. Neutral. Evening.
This game seems alright. Maybe a bit too much like Environmental Spacestation Alpha. Lots of story.
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Played: 9/15. Late Evening. Enjoyed.
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Played: 9/16. Evening.
Got the air dash. Bosses are hard in this game.
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Played: 9/16. Late Evening.
I gave a disk to an orb and may have gotten something? I don't really understand. It showed the item reward screen, but I don't seem to have anything new on my inventory.
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Played: 9/17. Early Evening. Neutral.
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Played: 9/17. Evening.
I beat a big cocoon boss and got the bombs, but I don't know. I'm not really vibing with this game. I'm going to give the map one more once over and see how I feel.
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Played: 9/18. Late Evening. Mixed.
I beat another boss and got a sort of spinning butt stomp ability that lets me bounce off enemies and certain things. I explored a lot more and discovered that I can do a sort of high jump with it if combined with the bombs. This opens up a lot of potential places to be honest. I found I can get to a lava place, but could likely get through other places now as well. I'm now mixed on this game. It has some cool ideas, but I wish it didn't have HK's health system.
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Played: 9/21. Afternoon.
Yeah.... I'm done with this game. It's too execution heavy and demanding in ways I don't find fun or interesting.
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Ultros

Started: 9/21. PC Steam. Neutral. Early Evening.
This game seems weird so far. Kinda cool, very pretty, but clunky, but interesting? It seems like stuff resets and then you have to go back and collect your stuff again which is a bit annoying. I'm not really following the story so far either.
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Played: 9/21. Evening.
Got through the second loop I guess. I don't really know what to make of this game. The seed planting for example. I don't know if I'm planting the wrong seed at the wrong location, etc.
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Played: 9/22. Afternoon.
Finished the 3rd loop.
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Played: 9/22. Evening.
4th loop. I tried to do more exploring after getting the new device, but got chased by the one person.
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UFO 50

Played: 9/22. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Late Evening.
I tried a bunch of them. Most of them are kinda whatever, but some of them are really really interesting.
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Played: 9/23. Evening.
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Played: 9/23. Late Evening.
the Dino/bird Strategy game fucking rules!!!
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Played: 9/24. Evening.
Beat Avianus. Well got the Gold at least. Definitely my favorite of the games so far. I was able to put the Adult ranking on my first try by being very aggressive. I also tried Moon Cat but didn't really vibe with it. The block pushing game with seems cool but Level 6 was very hard and I couldn't quite wrap my brain around it.
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Played: 9/25. Early Evening.
Tried the lizard stealth game. Seems rad.
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Played: 9/25. Evening.
Played around half of the games now. Most of them aren't really my thing to be honest. A lot of them feel like professional devs being like "I have an idea that's too small to be a full game but too cool not to explore."
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Played: 9/26. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/26. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/27. Late Evening.
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Played: 9/28. Early Evening.
I've got gold on 3 games now. The weird race management one (though I did that unintentionally by just playing it for the first time) and Camouflage which is one of the best games in the package. I've tried a lot of them. Only have like 5 or 6 not played yet. I heard there was a metroidvania in here somewhere, but none really give me that vibe. Like there's one that's like Metal Storm, but it's weird. I guess that's the closest thing. I'm intrigued by Divers, but I don't really understand it. I might ask some folks about how to get started there.
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Played: 10/5. Early Evening.
Almost got the Cherry on Avainus. Trail 5 is TOUGH.
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Played: 10/5. Evening.
Got the Cherry on it.
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Played: 10/5. Evening.
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Played: 10/6. Evening.
Got Cherry in Camouflage. Tried out some other games.
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Played: 10/6. Late Evening.
Jumped into Grimstone. I put this one off because I knew it would be my jam and it is. It's really cool so far. I picked Maria, Anne, Pearl, and Umbra as my team. I feel like Pearl is extremely good, pretty fast, beefy, and high damage. I'm assuming she'll fall off later. I didn't choose the dog, Rufus, because everyone chooses them.
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Played: 10/7. Afternoon.
Grimstone is really coooool. Also I looked up how to get the spider in Pilot Quest to work faster and all you need to do is have some workers not working and they'll whistle.
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Played: 10/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 10/7. Evening.
I think I'm pretty far into Grimstone now. Just helped a fort defend itself. I have the trains running. Pearl now has a gattling gun which seems really powerful but needs to reload after being used. I got Focus on Maria and Anne. Anne is really underpowered at the moment. She really needs better pistols, but her dances are extremely good when I need them. She's the only one who hasn't gotten a 3rd or 4th weapon upgrade.
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Played: 10/7. Late Evening.
Reading the comment above I think I forgot to put a LE entry for 10/7, as I definitely had Anne new guns and stuff by the time I was playing on 10/8.
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Played: 10/8. Evening.
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Played: 10/8. Late Evening.
Got the Detonator in Grimstone and my party is now around level 19. The ghost town was cool. Honestly there's so much that's cool about this game. I'm really impressed by it.
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Played: 10/12. Evening.
Got the Scale in Grimstone, but didn't play too much passed that.
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Played: 10/13. Evening.
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Played: 10/13. Late Evening.
Wiped while exploring the poison area...
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Played: 10/14. Evening.
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Played: 10/14. Late Evening.
Got through the Serpent's Pass or whatever it was called. Now I'm grinding for teeth so I could get the best equipment available to me. Some one gave me a tip that there's a person in the first town who wants 100k and that I should do that.
In Pilot's Quest I was looking for the optional boss but couldn't find him. I'm 200 science away from the Ship Fuel and I kinda just want it to be done.
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Played: 10/15. Late Evening.
Grinding for TEETH.
I'm a little frustrated with Pilot Quest because I'm on the cusp on what I need for the fuel and just want it to be done!!
I think once I finish Grimstone I will be done with this game, though I do want to play Night Manor with my partner and haven't played two other games. But I've seen folks play those and I'm not super interested in them.
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Played: 10/16. Early Evening.
Finished up Pilot Quest. I'm not gonna do the NG+.
Also got all the teeth I needed for the guy in the first town and traded in the scale. My folks are around lvl 29 so I'm ready to go into the Cactus Zone. (in Grimstone).
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Played: 10/16. Evening.
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Played: 10/16. Late Evening.
Thought I was in the final dungeon but I am not! I still have one floor of this apocalypse tower to go and then I get flying horses apparently. I didn't mean to spoil myself about it, but I did and whoops.
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Played: 10/17. Evening.
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Played: 10/17. Late Evening.
Folks, I'm in the actual final dungeon and it's RUDE so far. I'm not going to grind but I might stock up on some antidotes and make sure I always have at least one feather on me. I do have the "best" weapons and armor for my party I think.
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Played: 10/18. Afternoon.
Finished Grimstone!! I actually got the cherry on it without intending to. Tried a few other games that I had left over and none of them clicked with me.
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Played: 11/18. Evening.
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Played: 11/18. Late Evening.
Played through and Cherry'd Night Manor with my partner!! IT was GREAT!!
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Played: 11/30. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/14. Early Evening..
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Alruna and the Necro-Industrialists

Started: 10/20. PC Steam. Neutral. Afternoon.
This seems like an OK if fiddly metroidvaina. I like the art a lot, but the moving around is a bit awkward and it does have some Celeste-styled precision platforming which is never my jam.
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Played: 10/20. Late Evening. Mixed.
I'm done with this game. It has nice art, but I can't stand the precision platforming stuff and health system. It's just not for me, I don't enjoy it.
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Gestalt: Steam & Cinder

Started: 10/20. PC Steam. Positive. Late Evening.
This game does a lot of stuff I don't like particular with it's writing, but the moving around feels good and it's very pretty. I just played through til the first boss. There is a bit too much writing for what I'm looking for at the moment and a lot of it outside of the main story is either wink'n'noddy about being a video game or doing very blatant references in a boring way. Like I found some steel that was called "RX-78", you know, like the model number to the Gundam! I rolled my eyes at that. It could be more clever or in-fiction with that sort of thing. I'm pretty sure most of the other item descriptions are references I don't get.
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Played: 10/22. Midnight.
I don't have too much to say. I did a sewer area and now I'm doing a bombed out area. I don't really feel the health potion system really adds much to game and save points that refill your flasks are too few. I wish enemies could be staggered by blade hits, I guess that's what the telsa bullets are for. But I'm enjoying my time for the most.
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Played: 10/26. Afternoon.
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Played: 10/26. Early Evening.
Apparently I'm far enough that I've collected half of the corgis. I got all the abilities listed on the upgrade tree as well. They kinda just give you the charge shot and air dash back-to-back though.
I think there's a little too much story and the story is not particularly well written or all that good. It's fine, but some of the dialogue could have used an editor.
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Played: 10/27. Early Evening.
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Played: 10/28. Evening.
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Finished: 10/28. Late Evening.
This game was fine. I got most of the game. 19/20 corgis, but I'm not going back to get more. I don't care. This game is very much a 3/5. Not a 3/5 (complimentary) or 3/5 (derogatory), but just a 3/5.
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Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Started: 11/2. PC Steam. Neutral. Afternoon.
I had a lot of annoyance with the Ubisoft Connect thing just trying to launch the game, but I was already suspecting that I wouldn't enjoy this game very much after hearing how much parrying is important and how much precision platformer stuff is in it. Turns out that so far my suspicions were correct! You can't rebind the controls either!! I would so much rather move with the d-pad and parry with a different button than L2. Both the Analog stick and L2 have too much throw on them to feel good to me. Like I'll parry but get hit anyway since it was slightly too late.
I'm not fan of parry focused combat in action games. I would rather dodge or tank. It just never feels fun. You just wait around until the enemy decides to attack. It's boring!! It really slows down exploration. This game has the same issue that the recent Metroid Games have due to this.
Using the analog stick to move while doing tight platforming SUCKS. I have to take my thumb completely off the stick because otherwise it'll register inputs I do not intend. It's very annoying.
I'm sure a lot of these issues will be lessened as I get more stuff but right now I'm pretty middling on this game.
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Played: 11/2. Evening. Mixed.
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Played: 11/2. Late Evening.
Got a side quest to get some metal for the blacksmith and I have to go through a room where it completely resets if you get hit. These sorts of challenges have no place in metroidvanias. They just suck. It worst because this game doesn't seem to read inputs well. Like it seems like there's a huge buffer window or something. It constantly thinks I pressed down or up when I haven't and that makes doing any sort of precision platforming extremely frustrating. When I was doing the combat challenges I would have to completely let go of the left analog stick otherwise I could not do the inputs correctly. Very very frustrating! I think I'm just gonna try to mainline it and not worry about any of the exploration, but that's sort of what I come to this genre for.
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Played: 11/5. Evening.
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Played: 11/5. Late Evening.
I got to the Prince and fought the unwinnable boss fight then got thrown in the sewers. I don't know if I'll keep up with this game. I had a better time this session, but my earlier complaints are still there.
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Played: 11/6. Early Evening.
I got down through the depths area and I think I'm just down with this game. I'm not vibing with it. I don't really enjoy the moment-to-moment and the input issues are really frustrating.
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1000xResist

Started: 11/9. PC Steam. Neutral. Evening.
This game seems interesting so far, but I'm mostly just sort of baffled by it. For some reason I thought it had more of an adventure game dealie with puzzles, but it's mostly just story. It's interesting. I finished Chapter 1. I like the art style and the voice direction, but it's not grabbing me a ton.
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Played: 11/14. Positive. Late Evening.
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Played: 11/15. Midnight.
Walked around a whole lot in The Orchard trying to talk to as many "sisters" as I could. I did not find them all. Then talked with BB to do the flashback stuff.
This game has grown a lot on me.
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Played: 11/23. Afternoon.
Finished up Chapter 3. I think Iris kinda sucks actually.
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Played: 11/23. Evening.
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Played: 11/23. Late Evening.
Half way through Chapter 6 now and am questioning what's actually happening and what happened... I guess it's not a play on authoritarianism and revenge?
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Played: 11/24. Evening.
Finished Chapter 6. Totally blew things up. Though I accidentally talked with the cake person first when bar tending and missed out on other dialogue!! I considered reloading, but my save was too far back.
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Played: 11/24. Late Evening.
Finished up Chapter 8. So I was correct in my assumption that the entire game previously was in Communion. I am curious how much branching paths actually occur in this game or not. I'm not super amazed by the story so far compared to some other games I've played this year, but it still is very good. Really glad I checked it out.
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Played: 11/26. Evening.
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Finished: 11/26. Late Evening.
COMPLETED! Well, I got the Blue ending and not the Red ending. I assume the only difference is if you keep Principal around. I also didn't get the Jiao ending, but that's easy enough I imagine. I'm not going to go hunting for that stuff though.
This game is fantastic! I think the overall plot draws a little too much from Nier Automata in terms of like aliens and having a little guy with you, but I really really love it's themes. It's JUICY! Especially when coupled with Indika. They're both playing in such similar spaces while also having their own identities. I do have some questions regarding the plot that maybe I missed.
- What happened with the Sisters who board the train to go see the Allmother?
- Did Watcher really kill the Allmother or was it actually Principal?
Less interesting questions:
- Were there any other survivors or people like Iris besides her Mother?
- What happened to the people that were trying to have children with the Isis clones?
- How did Isis remove the Sisters' Immunity?
These don't really affect my enjoyment of the game nor do I think they're "plot holes". I likely just missed something or didn't get the right dialogue option. They all ultimately do not matter.
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Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance

Started: 11/8. PC Steam. Positive. Late Evening.
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Played: 11/9. Midnight.
This was on a week or so ago, so I picked it up. It sure is an SMT game so I'm probably gonna love it. I was tempted to play it on Hard since I'm very familiar with these games and already do a lot of grinding, but I decided against it. I also apparently chose the Vengeance route. I considered changing that since I've never played this game before, but it felt right in the moment so I went with it. It had a really cool opening and I'm a little disappointed we didn't stay in that version of Tokyo longer, but eh, I'll let the story play out. I'm already really exhausting the first area and I've only played for like 45 minutes. This game will take me 400 hours hahaha.
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Played: 11/9. Late Morning.
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Played: 11/9. Afternoon.
I have a guest character now and unlocked demon fusion. It's very much a SMT game. Feels good.
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Played: 11/9. Early Evening.
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Played: 11/9. Evening.
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Played: 11/9. Late Evening.
I beat Hydra and did more of the side stuff in that area. It's pretty huge. I have died several times to getting Mudo'd when my MC is weak to dark, so that rules (unironic).
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Played: 11/17. Late Morning.
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Played: 11/17. Afternoon.
Finished up a lot of side quests and exploring before heading towards the Diet Building. Got MaMudo'd by a sexy lady. Gonna have to see if I can fuse physical guys who resist or nullify Dark.
I really love how much exploration is in this game. It's cool. I almost beat the bird strong enemy too when it hit me. Got it done to like 10% health.
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Played: 11/17. Early Evening.
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Played: 11/17. Evening.
Finished the desert area as far as I can tell. I'm now back in the past? I think? Maybe?
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Played: 11/17. Late Evening.
So all the sudden this game is a high school drama with a bullying plot for like 20 minutes. haha. Now the school has been overrun by demons.
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Played: 11/28. Evening.
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Played: 11/28. Late Evening.
Finished up the School and am now in the 2nd zone of Da'at. I went back and did some side quests since they were there. Beat the Matador. I should probably fuse him...
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Played: 11/29. Late Morning.
Fused Jack Frost now too!!
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Played: 11/29. Afternoon.
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Played: 11/29. Early Evening.
Defeat the 2nd fiend. I feel like I'm extremely powerful and that this game is pretty small all things considered. It's not very dense for sure.
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Played: 11/29. Evening.
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Played: 11/29. Late Evening.
Fairy Village Time.
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Played: 11/30. Evening.
side questing...
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Played: 12/1. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/1. Early Evening.
Got to the third area. the villains seem to have the right idea to be honest. I now have Alice too, which is the first time I've ever fused Alice in a SMT game. Though she's very low level in this game.
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Played: 12/1. Evening.
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Played: 12/7. Late Morning.
Beat Mara and fused its resistances to my MC. Also fused Black Frost! I feel like there's not a lot for me to comment about during my sessions of this game, but I am extremely enjoying my time with it.
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Played: 12/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/15. Afternoon.
Rocking an all CAT party.
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Played: 12/28. Afternoon.
Did the four gods side quest but couldn't beat the lvl 70 boss at the end. Did better than expected though.
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Played: 12/28. Evening.
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Played: 12/28. Late Evening.
After several attempts and a lot of luck I beat that fucking lvl 70 dragon! There wasn't any real reason to do it now other than for the challenge of it. It was great. I kinda wish the game was always that sort of challenging though my victory did rely on a lot of RNG going my way. It was just the prep than that would have been better.
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Played: 12/29. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/29. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/30. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/30. Late Evening.
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Rounds

Played: 11/30. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/14. Early Evening..
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Deadlock

Played: 12/7. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/7. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/7. Evening.
Forgot to put the first two sessions in whoops. Watched a stream of this game and it seemed like something I could understand. Enjoying what I'm playing which is mostly just versus bots as I figure out what characters I like. So far I like Haze and Wraith.
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Played: 12/7. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/8. Midnight.
Played against other people and got destroyed every time.
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Played: 12/8. Early Evening.
I feel like I'm doing a little bit better against people now. Though I think I'm going to find an Haze build that focuses more on her main gun then anything else.
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Played: 12/8. Evening.
Won some matches. Did my goal of getting extremely well fed. Not sure what to do at the end of that though. Might set up my own build for Haze.
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Played: 12/8. Late Evening.
Tried out Shiv, seems pretty cool. I still like Haze the most though. I will have to stop myself from getting really into this game but it's fun!! I think I'm understanding it more and more. I constantly forget that I have items I can use though.
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Played: 12/10. Evening.
Had a really bad game...
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Played: 12/11. Evening.
Tried out Bebop and his gameplan is pretty straight forward. I like it.
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Played: 12/14. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/14. Evening.
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Played: 12/14. Late Evening.
Lots of losses as Bebop... I tried a few different things, but maybe he's just not for me?
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Played: 12/14. Midnight.
I cannot solo lane against anyone who knows what they're doing.
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Played: 12/15. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/15. Evening.
Played some paradox and really like them I think. I just such at aiming though.
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Played: 12/20. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/21. Midnight.
Had an extremely good game that went back and forth a bunch but ultimately ended in our lose. Very evenly matched. I couldn't aim for shit though.
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Played: 12/21. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/21. Early Evening.
Tried out Abrams and actually, he's pretty easy to use. I didn't get as many kills as I probably should have, but I figured things out well enough. Still had a negative k/d unfortunately.
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Played: 12/21. Evening.
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Played: 12/21. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/22. Midnight.
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Played: 12/22. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/22. Early Evening.
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Played: 12/22. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/23. Evening.
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Played: 12/24. Late Evening.
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Played: 12/25. Afternoon.
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Played: 12/25. Early Evening.
Tried some Lady Geist and she seems fun. Her ult is very close range though and that's tricky.
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Played: 12/25. Late Evening.
Had my best game as Abrams. Went 11:5 with 7 assists. Folks did learn how to parry though.
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Caves of Qud

Played: 12/14. PC Steam. Enjoyed. Early Evening.
Showed this to my nephew. He wasn't very interested.
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