This has been kind of a weird week, I don’t quite know how to summarise it, but at least in the end it was quite okay, just a lot of the same stuff as normal, and then a free day on friday, not the greatest day to have off in my opinion. Weekend was okay, but not stellar, it was a bit too wet for that.

Books

With my book I’m still trudging through the same one, it’s still entertaining, but it’s so long, at least I’m over 60% in now, and it’s still good, some action, some fun sci-fi thing, but I’m not quite sure, there is nothing in there really pushing me to go on, it’s okay, and entertaining, but not much more than that, I think I will still go on though, might be that the ending is fun, but judging from the normal ending of Hamilton’s books, they usually aren’t that great, it’s usually more the journey than the destination type of book.

Games

I finished up Persona 3 Portable on the weekend, and what a wonderful game this was, the story was great, the characters wonderful, and I really liked the presentation. I think it helped that I played on easy so that I didn’t really have anything really holding me back in the campaign, with that I could pretty much cruise through and just enjoy the story. I will still come back to this and play the second campaign, at least I’m pretty sure, and I’m a bit of two minds, but then I will probably try and do it on normal instead. It’s pretty impressive how much they got me so invested in something that is 90% just menus, almost everything in P3P is just menus, but they are fun, interesting menus I’ll tell you!

What do you do right after you have finished a Monster long RPG with good characters that you love, well, just jump into another one I guess, or at least that’s what I did, jumped straight into Persona 4 Golden after finishing 3, I did play the introduction a year ago or so, so I could skip the eternal intro section. After having loved the cast of 3, it’s kind of a struggle for me to connect with the cast of 4 They are way more plucky adventurers than the predecessor, and the theming and the vibe of the game just is so tonally opposite that it’s a bit of a challenge to get over. There are things that I prefer with 4, they have more setpieces for story stuff, while I really enjoyed the visual novel style of P3P I have to say that it does help with having more scenes that you can see while people are talking, now the walking around bit doesn’t really pull in this or that direction it’s more or less equal. There is one thing that I do like more with 4 and that is the shuffle time with cards after battle, it just is a lot more fun than the 3 card monty thing that they did in 3, this time it feels more like a simple card game with some risk reward stuff, and I do like how it’s calmer, and less frantic.

I did a mistake in the weekend, I started playing Rift of the Necrodancer right before midnight, and as usual with that thing I just got stuck in a focus hole, and it just overrode everything and I played way later and longer than what I was planning to, and ended up with kind of messing up my sleeping schedule, I should have learned that this will happen, but by now I guess I never will.

Other

It seems podcasts are still hard to come by, but that means I’ve been getting through my backlog which is nice, It’s been over a year since the last time I have been able to see the beginning and end of my to listen queue without scrolling, but now I do manage every weekend, which is kind of an interesting situation to be in.

Into the Aether’s big PSP episode was this week, and I really enjoyed it, these are just so nice and fun to listen to, I love mega episodes like this, and while I understand that it would be unfeasible to have more of them I would love to. I had so much fun with this one.

A theme that Brendon brought up on the podcast, and later in a blogpost really resonated with me, I basically grew up with handhelds, playing handheld games exclusively, and while some elemnts of the games are brought on along, the kind of games that I grew up playing really doesn’t exist anymore. I would also love some kind of real portable system coming along again as well, it was gaming for me, hopefully people will go along with wanting smaller handhelds again.