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All other video games not related to the main farming series - Pokemon, Stardew Valley, My Time at Portia, and other indie-developed games.
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simside wrote: Oct 01, 2022 8:05 pm Well, I'm still kinda hoping to jump back in and finish Portia once I wrap up more DQ11. I'm also looking to start Taiko no Tatsujin Rhythm Adventure this week, for real this time. I need to stop playing Picross or I'll burn myself out, and a rhythm game might tear me away. ^_^; I bought a cartridge version of it, but I just realized it isn't a US cartridge, so if there's DLC, I probably won't be able to get it. Note to self if I get the newer one.
Yeah Picross is another one I enjoy! Rhythm games can definitely fill a similar need in my experience too. I’m not sure if this game will be the same but I have a European cartridge of Taiko no Tatsujin Drum ‘n’ Fun and I’m able to buy content on the North American eShop and use it, so there’s a chance it might work?

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I beat the second arc of RF4S! I was stuck on the boss for a while thinking it was my equipment but I just hadn’t realized there were teleportation panels I was supposed to use in the room (I had to look it up…). On to the third arc!

I don’t usually talk about mobile gaming here since it’s a separate category for me (I mainly play some ongoing gachas that I don’t count for backlog purposes), but I recently redownloaded some old games due to nostalgia. I actually ended up beating all the levels in a game called Sneezies so I decided I might as well count it as a completed game.
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Good lord has the Pokemon bug hit me hard this year. Started off the year with Legends Arceus, then I picked up Ultra Moon and finished it, and then once Pokemon Home integration was available for the most recent titles, I played through Shinning Pearl. Told myself to cool it before Scarlet&Violet come out (LITERALLY NEXT MONTH NOW? WHERE HAS 2022 GONE!?) but I'm now staring at my Switch screen with a brand new copy of Let's Go Pikachu and Pokemon Shield redownloaded. Why? I don't freaking know at this point. Apparently Pokemon is what I'll always fall back on in a gaming slump. Honestly, I have been looking for an excuse to play LGP for awhile as it's the one modern mainline Pokemon game I never played. I played the Eevee version when it launched, but never got around to the Pikachu one, so why not now? Playing a remake of the first game just before the newest in the series arrives sounds kinda fun ngl, AND I can take some of my shinnies with me this time!

As for Shield? Well, I miss it tbh. The majority of the fanbase seems to loathe Sw/Sh, but I really enjoyed my time with it, 130 hours worth according to my playlog. I can also use to de-gigantamax pokemon in the DLC as they're unable to be moved to never games, so if anything it's at least a helpful tool. I don't think I'll end up replaying it, but it'll just be fun to bum around in sometimes. I wonder if shiny hunting raids are still a thing?

I'm spending around 1ish hours each in FFXIV and Genshin lately as I don't feel like tackling anything too big right now. I dropped Ys IX like I said I would and everything else in my backlog is either a giant JRPG, or a long VN, or MMO grinding and I am certainly not in the mood atm. So, time for junk food!
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Tetris stresses me out :) I can't deal with any game that forces me to do things at a certain speed. If the blocks weren't actively falling and you had as much time to fit them in as you wanted, I'd like it, but since the challenge is to place things quickly, Tetris has never been for me. That's why I love Match-3. You have as much time as you want, to look around and consider all your possibilities, before deciding which items to match, to clear them away and get new ones. But yeah, same principle! Intense focus with little to nothing to do with reaction time, and no fussy details to remember. Games that work like that are great pain-killers, emotionally, and physically as well! (I really did play mahjong for HOURS when I had kidney stones, because the demerol didn't do anything, lol.)

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I managed to save those stupid children without Ryu getting a single scratch when I put the game on Easy, lol...though I had to grind my CP up to do that even then! You've gotta be able to unload some max-power S-breaks to win without damage. You just have nothing to work with in the prologue on a first play! I don't see how it's possible to do it on Hard mode unless you reset several dozen times until you manage to just get lucky. Well, I always like playing on Easy my first time through (I probably would have with Xenoblade, too, when i first played it...but that was long before XC2 came out, or the Definitive Edition, so difficulty modes didn't even exist, at the time.) Personally, I think Hard and Nightmare are to rebalance NG+ runs if combat being too easy makes things boring for you. (Though it doesn't, for me, since I'm only playing for the story anyway!)

I really hope the neurology nurse gets back to me this week. I feel like I'm stepping on big round stones whenever I put my right foot down, at the moment. I'd at least like them to tell me if it's better to completely avoid exercise or not, and if so, for how long. Am I hurting or helping if I go for a walk right now?? Or does it not make much difference? I want to know! Do I even dare to get on my bike, which I got fixed up right before this all happened?

As usual, feeling a bit sucky makes me want to fall back on comfort games more than try new ones (AKA: DQB1/2, XCX, Farm Together.) even though the new ones are great. Still, I'm slowly edging Zero back to where I had it when I started on Hard mode. (I took some bad advice, lol.) I don't think I have the energy for Graveyard Keeper, atm. That game needs some mental vigilance, and I don't know enough about it for it to be instinctive, yet. It's a struggle to think clearly, atm, and I'm too tired to struggle. It feels ridiculous to have so many great games (on a pretty new screen!) but to not have the oomph to play them. Well...it's nice knowing they're there if I catch a breath of fresh air at any point.

I think I need to go for a walk for some mental refreshening, even if it does aggravate my muscle tension. I'd like to know if it really does or if it just seems that way, so please tell me, therapies nurse!
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Hi guys, it's finally a new month and that's pretty exciting cause I do love fall and October/November. It's still pretty warm though right now sadly, but I'm praying things will cool down.

Anyway, this week wasn't the best progress wise. I did play three games and progressed, but sadly not in ways that were very good for two of them.

For one, I stupidly restarted my Animal Crossing New Horizons file. Reason I did this was because when I transferred my old file to my new switch, some things seemed to be a bit buggy. Mainly, my hours stopped recording. To fix it, I thought making a new town on the switch itself would fix the problem, but sadly I found out too late that the time will only be recorded once I played the same amount of hours on the new switch. So yeah, i'm on a new town now sadly and lost progress on my old one. Still, it's on my old switch so I still have a part of it. Anyway, for most of this week I've spent my time grinding for nook points. At first it was okay, but I found myself not having much fun. I kept having to go back and forward in time, and I quickly realized that it sort of was not how the game was meant to played and I had a lot more fun when going with time naturally. But the reason I did play with the time was because I was looking for certain villagers. I sort of got one that I wanted, but caved in for the last tow (villagers 4 and 5), because I couldn't take it. Grinding for nook points wasn't relaxing or fun, and I felt like I was doing wrong with the whole time thing. The big part for me though was how unrelaxed I was. So yeah, I just gave up and settled. I don't think the two villagers I have now are bad, but we'll see if I can get attached. I may just go back to my old file. Still, I did play the game yesterday and it was relaxing again. I realized grinding for nook points really isn't fun for me personally.

I also got in some Digimon Cyber Sleuth this week. Again, I had to grind, but this time it was fun. See, I do like grinding and training, so for here it was easy. Problem was it took me 10+ hours to get my Digimon at a good spot and I was starting to get frustrated because it felt like I was never going to be able to win against the optional boss. This is my third time playing this game (though I haven't beaten it yet), and I hoped my understanding of the game was better. It is for the most part, but I had to admit to myself that training 10 to 15 hours in a game outside of Disgaea was too much. Luckily my work did pay off here and I was not only able to beat him but also got some cool new digimon forms. Still, the training session I did this week took a lot out of me when I was able to play and so I ended up needing a break. Hopefully now I can advance in the story.

However, this bring me to my final game Xenoblade and how all the grinding in Animal Crossing and Digimon burnt me out to where I can not level grind in Xenoblade right now. Haven't made much progress and am struggling with the combat, but I did play some of it. Had fun despite having trouble with getting some things, but have gotten help and I'm really grateful for it. I'm hoping that with this new week I can put more gaming time into Xenoblade. I'd like to get farther. May have to put the game on casual mode though. This will depend on how I do in the next few chapters.

And finally, Trails in the Sky....I didn't make it in terms of playing it last month. However, I'm not going to drop it just yet. I'm gonna give myself another week to see if I can play it again. If not, I may drop it for a bit and go to Zero.

Anyway, that's all the gaming I did this week. Not the best, but I least a made some tiny progress. Never though, will I restart my town unless I really want different villagers.
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Restarting ACNH is really fun. The beginning is the best part, when you're first planning out your island and it's all possibilities...but it's also hard on the nerves to think of just how much work has disappeared into the ether...all the money you made, items you catalogued, hybrids you grew, DIYs and recipes you collected...

I hope when there's a new Nintendo system, they'll do a new AC for it, and that it'll go even harder into customization than ACNH.

Zero really is super fun. I find myself grinning while playing it, because the characters are SO GOOD. (And this souped-up edition looks really nice, with not a visible pixel blob anywhere.) Cold Steel is my favourite, no doubt because it was my first as well as because Rean is exactly my type of introverted MC, but I do think Zero has this over Cold STeel. The main cast is much stronger when it's SMALLER. They make such rich characters when they're only concentrating on 4 of them rather than a dozen or so.

Went for my walk, loved it...then had extra muscle clenching when I got home. I still think I SHOULD do at least that much exercise and just be careful not to overdo it, which I know I'm prone to; maybe I just need to be on corticosteroids or something to control muscle overreactions. I guess for now...do a little mild exercise and put up with the side-effects and angle toward getting on something that actually staves off all these contractions or whatever they are. I'm going to start doing more super-chill exercise like Tai Chi, which is essentially impossible to overexert yourself on. I think you might be able to overdo it on drinking water, or breathing, faster than you could overdo it with Tai Chi. I think it's closer to meditation than exercise, tbh. But it just feels so cute, gonna try it out anyway!

Then I can sit down in my newly arranged bedroom in front of my new monitor and play my spiffy new games. Maybe with my window open to enjoy the gorgeous early-October weather.

EDIT: I'm in the part of the day where the sun is streaming vigorously through the window, onto the TV screen...and it's not got even a hint of glare! This is its most awesome feature. The higher definition doesn't even matter (basically nothing I have can give me anything over a 1080 image anyway, whether Switch, PS4, etc.) compared to that. And I'm gonna see about attaching my laptop to this monitor, too, to try some Tai Chi videos on YouTube
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On the subject of restarting ACNH...I think at some point I'd like to brave it myself. It's been so long since I've seen the beginning of the game, I think I miss it? While everything is new and difficult (or tedious?), it's probably at its most fun. Trouble is, I don't like the idea of giving up my clothing collection or my recipes...or my fruit. That's not fun. :lol:


Just picked up The Last Campfire... (It's 70% off on Green Man Gaming right now, they're doing a big sale.) I've been curious about it since I first saw it on whatever Nintendo indie direct it was on and the Steam reviews are really good and 70% was enough to sway me. It'll probably boot Luigi's Mansion 3 for this as my spoopy game, since I'm pretty happy just playing Genshin and Dorfromantik right now. Once I've spent a little more time with Dorf I'll trade over.

I've just played a few short games in Dorf in the last couple days. I think I'll burn out on it if I play too much. It's fun, but very simple. Good for an exhausted brain, but that's about it.


Genshin is doing what's very clearly an Oktoberfest event now, and it's pretty cute. I appreciate it every time they write stories to bring back characters from the early parts of the game. Work for the VA's, and a hint of "we didn't forget you".

The desert area is turning out to be a BEAST to explore. There's far more underground areas than I realized, and the overworld is already big enough. I wish I was nearer to unlocking quests/bounties in Sumeru though. I want that wood harvesting tool thing, it looks great. If I'm lucky I'll have all the bugs I need for Cyno's final ascension tomorrow. He needs the levels, unfortunately, he's just way too squishy. I won't get him beyond level 6 talents any time soon though, I haven't even touched the rest of the main quest...

Some time before the end of the year, I think I'd like to break the WiiU back out, and play a little Breath of the Wild. It's been so long since I've played, I'm really curious to more objectively compare it to Genshin. Recency bias is heavily favoring Genshin, though I have a feeling the major thing holding BotW back is having to match up to what Hyrule is supposed to be. Nintendo devs are creative enough, the setting is probably the bigger issue. If anything it bodes well for...I can't remember the name. BotW2.
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I'm almost at chapter two in zero, and I've played twenty hours so far. I didn't play as much this weekend because I started playing so late each day, or else I would have finished the chapter already. I would come back wanting to play some more before I went to bed but too tired to play and focus on what was happening. It's hard to put the game down though, when I do get playing.

Still trying to figure out whether Reverie will be better on switch or ps4 once It does come out. I don't have to worry about it yet, but I will have to think about it soon. The only real concern i have is whether a game crashes and freezes or anything like that. If it looks a little prettier on the ps4 but runs great on switch I'll always pick switch.
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The Divine Force (Star Ocean 6) has a demo. Yay! My PS4 claimed to have 20GB of space left. The demo is nine point something (9.?)GB. Yet it won't fit. I deleted another 20GB of stuff...still wouldn't fit! Makes no sense, but went ahead and deleted another 50GB and finally it fit. Wth? It's downloading now. Verrrrrry slooooooowly. I think my PS4 is feeling elderly. I hear the text in Divine Force is too small for some. Haven't seen it for myself yet, though!

I hurried out before 8AM this morning to get to the chiro as early as possible, to avoid missing a call from my neuro's office...and somehow, they called before I got back. I didn't even know they got into the office that early! Well...I'm glad they called back, but I MISSED it. *cries* I don't know if that means they're vigilant and will call back again soon, or if it means I missed my one unbelievably lucky shot and am now out of luck again, as I normally am in the game of phone tag. (Please do call back today, Tammy!)

I was encouraged to grind for tokens/medals in the casino in Trails from Zero...and I rather regret it. It wasn't fun, but I did it and got all the 'free' armor and shoes for my party. But the shoes are actually « Puppy Doodoo »? They were only an upgrade for ONE of my characters, and about a draw for one other character. They were a downgrade for two others. Well, at least the body armour was an actual upgrade. Still, that was tedious. I couldn't have afforded the better armour in mira, though, so I guess it'll be useful at least for this chapter (just into Chapter 1...I finished the prologue yesterday evening.)
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Last week was otome week for me, haha :lol:

1. I finished up Even if Tempest. It was very unique and I liked it, especially the character writing. But it was a bit annoying that the game crashed a lot for me. I could barely play a few minutes without the game closing on me.
I really liked Crius and Zenn. Lucien was cute but his route didn't meet my expectations for the last route to be unlocked. And I found Tyril's epilogue so disappointing, personally, that it soured his route for me.
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I really liked Ish though... wish he had an actual route. On another note, I loved that the game had me go through unsatisfying endings at first before I could get the happy epilogue. Though I wish Crius and Tyril could have regained their memories, it felt odd that they weren't on the same page as Anastasia.
Anastasia herself was an absolute delight for me as a protagonist and I loved reading her story.


2. I got and played through Derek's dlc in Our Life and it was super cute and adorable and gave more depth to the character.

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Finally, I also got Trails from Zero on launch day, obviously, cause I love Trails. But I stalled on it for a little and only finished the prologue so far. It looks and feels great though, and I adore Lloyd already and look forward to continuing. It's easier to get attached to the characters cause there's only 4 so far. I think I'll really love it again, and I'm so happy to finally be able to play the Crossbell arc. :)
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Kikki wrote: Oct 02, 2022 1:25 pm Restarting ACNH is really fun. The beginning is the best part, when you're first planning out your island and it's all possibilities...but it's also hard on the nerves to think of just how much work has disappeared into the ether...all the money you made, items you catalogued, hybrids you grew, DIYs and recipes you collected...

I hope when there's a new Nintendo system, they'll do a new AC for it, and that it'll go even harder into customization than ACNH.

Ah sorry, I see I worded my post in that section weirdly. I didn't mean to say don't restart because the beginning is bad. I really just meant don't restart with just planning on grinding for nook points. I did this for my second town and ended up super stressed and progressing time ahead and back, something I never did in my other file. Playing this file hasn't felt very fun due to me just wanting to get as many nook points so I can look for villagers, and it soon became very frustrating. When playing the game normally and how intended, it's great. You are very right about the beginning as well. I just meant the way/reason I started a new game didn't work out well for me. Once I settled though for the three villagers, the game became fun.
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Mikodesu wrote: Oct 02, 2022 9:26 pm On the subject of restarting ACNH...I think at some point I'd like to brave it myself. It's been so long since I've seen the beginning of the game, I think I miss it? While everything is new and difficult (or tedious?), it's probably at its most fun. Trouble is, I don't like the idea of giving up my clothing collection or my recipes...or my fruit. That's not fun. :lol:
Like Kikki said, the beginning is very good and relaxing when not doing what I was doing. When you go in intending to rush things, and especially when wanting to get lots of nook points, it can be stressful and frustrating. However, going in and just wanting to begin a new game is very fun even though it can be difficult or tedious. Sorry for the confusion with my post about this part. I just didn't have fun with the grinding for nook points thing.
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First off, I want to pre-apologize, as lately I've nearly called several people 'kiddo' before I knew what I was doing. I call my cousin (she's 17 and family, so it's not unreasonable in her case) that all the time, and sometimes I go to do it to some of the people on Fogu as well before I remember that it's not really appropriate. I'm old enough to pull it off with quite a few people here, maybe, but it's more that I'm an 'olddo' than that the people around me are actually kiddos! (Kiddoes?) I don't actually mean to do it but sometimes it slips out. I think I've successfully kept it contained in text so far, though. (I also warned a friend of mine that I might accidentally sign off with 'Love, Kikki', even though we're just casual friends, because I'm SO used to signing off that way with my family. Didn't want to weird him out if it slipped out without me noticing until after I'd hit 'send'! I'm getting worse...more close calls, lol.)

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No worries, infel, you didn't word anything weirdly. I didn't think you meant the beginning was bad :) I restarted my island once, too, and was just remembering it when you mentioned that you had. I love restarting, as it's the most fun part, but it's also a big burden to think about everything you lose.

I normally really don't enjoy turn-based combat, but it's fun in JRPGs like Zero in the beginning, when you're going up a level every five encounters or so. Low effort for high reward...I like that :)

Anyone had a good look at the protagonist of The Divine Force, btw? (AKA: Star Ocean 6) Why are his arms so VEINY? It's not just one image, either...they ALWAYS draw him like this. Not that I don't like a nicely corded forearms, but Raymond's arms are borderline unnatural. I guess he's supposed to be really muscular/low body fat, and this is showing it off? It's a bit freaky. I'm looking forward to opening up the demo tonight and seeing if they look that veiny on his model or in-game portrait, when/if one is used.
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Hey, everyone. In Doraemon: Story of Seasons I've played over 15 hours. I'm in the end of Summer, Year 1. I'm really enjoying it. I finally got a chicken and I'm growing grass/fodder by the livestock barn.

In Little Busters, I've played nearly 6 hours. I'm still on the common route for that as well.

In Pocket Card Jockey, I'm on the last horse, but I'm not performing really well. I probably need to breed it and win that way.

Also, Kiki. I tried/played Hope's farm. I agree that the match-3 game is really fun. I started the game in relaxed mode and easy mode, just in case. :)

I started Hokko Life. I can't say much about the music and sound effects as I was watching/listening to Youtube videos at the same time I was playing. I did notice some graphical glitches, and instructions going by too quickly if you press A/continue either too quickly or if you have to do some other action (like swing the axe). So far, I can say the dialogue of characters/villagers is average. I don't know if the first two or three villagers you get are random or not, but I got Niko, Orleander, and Benny. I'm still relatively early as I'm on Spring 6 (after over an hour of playing). So far, I'm having fun with it.

On Friday (October 7th, 2022), I'm getting Chaos Head Noah/Chaos;Child on the Switch. It's a 2-in-one visual novel game(s). I'm pretty excited as no version of Chaos;Head (Noah) has ever been officially translated/available in the West.
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Kikki wrote: Oct 03, 2022 12:37 pm

No worries, infel, you didn't word anything weirdly. I didn't think you meant the beginning was bad :) I restarted my island once, too, and was just remembering it when you mentioned that you had. I love restarting, as it's the most fun part, but it's also a big burden to think about everything you lose.

Thanks so much :). I just felt like I made a mistake with starting over and rushing things so much. Like you said though, it can be a burden to start over. One has to time it right and have enough patience.
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Yeah; I did a lot of prep before restarting...I loved all my stuff and money to my Switch Lite island, sent all my other three residents there as well, then picked it all back up with my new player character on my main Switch once I'd restarted. It took forever, but it meant I kept a lot of my money and catalogue. Some day if I go back into ACNH, I'll probably send those other three resident characters to my new town.

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Glad you're enjoying Hope's Farm, Harvest Moon kawaii. Best purchase I ever made for $0.39 or whatever ridiculously low amount of pennies it was that I paid for it, on 98% off. Just a Match-3 with a farming skin, but I liked it. Finished all 100 levels and never thought of it as anything but fun.

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The therapies nurse at the MS Clinic in the city called me back today and asked me if I could come in tomorrow morning. It's a 2 hour drive, but...gonna do it. I feel like I'm making a big fuss out of nothing, but SOMETHING is wrong, and I want to be able to find out if I should be blaming MS or not, since how I have to tackle it is a bit different if it is. (I figure they'll have to send me for a spinal MRI before they can be sure of that, but I guess we'll see!) I need to know what I should and shouldn't be taking, and how much exercise I should be doing, etc. I hope she can give me a little more clarity. I just want to know what I should be doing, since some of the things I'm trying seem to make things worse, and I don't know if I should persist or not.

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Lloyd & Co are still levelling up rapidly. I missed a book, phooey...I hate when they put a book into a chapter in a TINY slice of time between one-time events. Oh well, it's not possible to get everything in one playthrough anyway.
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