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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Still working through Shin Megami V Vengeance!

    Finished the second main area, out of 4, I presume. By now the story has established the new group of antagonists and gave more screen time to the previously underused cast. There are enough new demons that I can barely keep up with fusing them all! But I always feel to need to collected them all in SMT/Persona. (Funnily enough, I never did in Pkmn.)


    Finished the first route of AI: The somnium files!

    Got Ota’s ending, which didn’t actually solve the case. Luckily, the game tells you about each branching path and you can freely jump to them.

    The humor is hit or miss, but it did land with me and my partner. The mystery is fun and the characters are all around fun, too. We’ll do the other routes and then jump right into the sequel!




  • Thanks for asking, but there isn’t yet. I’ve dabbled around quite a bit and wan’t to focus on actually finishing something this year. Maybe for the next one.

    Over the last two years, I’ve often lost my drive to continue since there are always new shiny ideas that are far more interesting than doing a lot of the menial work game dev involves. Kinda the opposite of your problem, really.


  • Didn’t game too much this holiday season and I want to focus more on making games instead of playing them this year - let’s see how that one is working out.

    Anyhow, got in a good chunk of SMT V Vengeance! The QoL stuff is awesome, but it’s still pretty similar to the original - just with more quests and demons along the way . I don’t mind since I loved the original game, but if you didn’t it likely not worth it.

    Started Ai: The Somnium Files! Decided to play through some detective games with my partner. This one is a great start! I like the characters, it’s both fun and has a good mystery. I’ll probably go through the entire series + rain code, then do the Ace Attorney games. Are there other games like this?




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    With my limited knowledge of no Mandarin at all, I recognize the vectors to be the 5 chinese elements (metal, wood, water, fire and earth).

    The matrix just combines these symbols into new characters, but no clue how most of them are read. Could make sense in the context of alchemy, could be total bs. The few I do recognize work sometimes, like fire + fire = blaze, others don’t - or I’m reading them wrong.



  • It’s in a similar vein. There are new demons, quests, QoL stuff and some rebalancing changes just like in P5R. However, instead of a new chapter, Vengence added a new route through the game - revamping most of the story. (Or fixing the lack thereof.)

    Currently, it’s still quite similar to vanilla SMT V, but I’ve been told it will diverge a lot more quite early. Don’t know if or how many new locations there are.





  • Finished up Harvestella.

    Overall, I really like the game. The farming and combat are both somewhat simple and the story does start out generic. However, then it speedruns a complete JRPG story within a single chapter and then throws another 5 chapters at you. The characters are fun, the world is interesting and I felt engaged throughout. Even did some more farming after I already bought everything until I hit the money cap at 999,999.

    Finished Pokemon Legends Arceus!

    My initial impression stands. The first area was some of thr best Pokemon I ever played. Afterwards the entire thing kind of fell apart. Too many repeated Pokemon per area; most things didn’t even reach half my level and fhe story never hooked me. The final fight against the hidden antagonist, I guess, was somewhat challanging, but I don’t think the battle system is all that fun. Sometimes, you defeat a Pokemon and the next one just gets 4 turns in before you move again (even using my fast moves!). But still, I really enjoyed that initial catching of Pokemon and think it’s woth trying.

    Just yesterday, I started Shin Megami Tensei V Vengence.

    I love the original SMT V, it’s one of my favorite Switch games. Having played some more SMT games since then, it does show some cracks, but I’m still having a great time and enjoy the new stuff. It’s probably best coming of Persona and I still prefer it over SMT 3 Nocturne, which I think is somewhat uncommon. (Although that’s mostly due to Nocturnes save system. On the highest difficulty, not being able to save for sometimes hours at a time really does suck when you could die from a single random encouter at any time. At full health. Without getting a turn in.)