Another week of heat that has at least been cooling down a bit towards the end, maybe I’ll end up being a bit more awake this week, I’m getting kind of tired of being kind of stupid :p All in all the week wasn’t that bad, but I think I will take a day off probably next week, we will see.

Books

So I’m only 23 percent or so through “Cyteen”, on the other side that is 230 pages or so, so it’s not that bad, it just feels kind of demoralising :p It might also be because this is a bit more of a challenging books than my normal ones. I am still enjoying it, it’s just not as fluffy a read as my normal ones. There are lots of stuff happening, and a lot of politicking both in the government and academic sense. I’m still kind of bewildered about what will happen next as even as far in as I am it feels like it can go anywhere, I wish I had a bit more of a feeling of where it would go at least.

Games

Most of the week I was playing Mary Skelter 2 still, it’s a fun dungeon crawler, and I really enjoy the dungeon designs they have made, they are pretty intricate, and then they have nice shortcuts that you can open when you get a bit farther in.

The systems are fun and everything, but as I got farther in I also started to get a bit tired of it, so on Saturday I decided I will take a little break from it.

I had bought Octopath Traveller II on a sale earlier in the week, so that was what I went over to, and so far with a bit over 5 hours played I am really enjoying it, I’m still working on bringing the band all together, I have gathered up 4 travellers so far, and I am really enjoying the small vignettes that they have when they are joining up.

The classes are pretty fun, I started out with an Apothecary, and I really like her, her story also feels kind of intriguing even though it’s kind of the normal amnesia start of a game. I joined up with a eastern warrior which has been one of the more boring, normal ones, a merchant and a dancer. So pretty much a rag-tag team.

There also seems to be a bit more of a job system than just normal classes, and that’s usually always something enjoyable. So it seems like it does have an enjoyable amount of different systems to play around with. The battles themselves are pretty fun, here the enemies have shields usually 1-5 this far and some vulnerabilities, and you try to hit their shields off, then they get stunned, you also get boost points for each turn that you didn’t use one, and you can use them to attack multiple times, or do stronger versions of your normal attacks. It’s pretty fun, and it seems pretty generous with mana and stuff, so you get to enjoy the pretty effects.

The game looks, and sounds utterly gorgeous, it’s some of the most beautiful graphics that I’ve ever seen, it’s just the right amount of pixelly while still being stylised, So you get to watch beautiful vistas and very impressive battle effects, while you still have the kind of derpy big sprite moving across the screen and stuff like this. It seems like visually this is just catnip for me. I’m already kind of thinking of getting the first one as well, but I will wait a bit, and get farther in this one before I jump on getting more stuff, I have enough things to play anyway.

My shopping spree continued, I got Final Fantasy VII the switch remake since people keep on saying that’s a good one, so I have that in the backhand, it was really cheap so it will very much at least be worth it.

I also got Om Nom Run which is just a braindead endless runner game, because I felt like it, and I played a bit of that, it was enjoyable, and I probably will do some more.

Podcasts

This has been another one where There hasn’t been that many podcasts added, so I’ve been listening quite a lot to older episodes, Video Game Podtimism is going on a two month hiatus since one of the hosts just became a father, so it’s good that I still have quite a lot of old episodes from them still to listen back to.

I hit my usual end of week marker in the middle of the week somewhere, and ended up with 14 episodes in my queue on sunday evening, when it’s usually around 10 more, in one way it’s nice, since it gets me more time to listen to old stuff, which is also enjoyable.

I’m really looking forward to Stay Forever’s Hardware episode on the Amiga, that podcast in general is just extremely enjoyable, they just makes deep dives like nobody else really manage to I think, their episodes feel more like documentaries on the the things they are talking about rather than just surface talking about games, well they do that as well, so that mix of things just makes it really enjoyable to me.

All in all

So all in all it’s been a decent week, it just kind of disappeared in the churn somehow, I think I should probably do something to come out of some of the patterns, it’s just that I need to keep some of them going, so to break the correct ones and not all of them are some times not that easy.

I think one thing that I probably really should let go is that I have been spending quite a bit for games the last weeks, and I have quite a backlog of fun things going now, so I really should let that rest for a bit, at least until I am in a place where I feel like I don’t want to play any of the things that I do have, I now have 7 or so games that I at the moment feel like I want to play, so adding to that is not really doing myself any favours. I should take the time and just enjoy them, and step number one of that should probably be not religiously checking on “dekudeals” for good offers, I’ve been checking there multiple times a day for a month or so, and I really shouldn’t. At least when my plan is to not really buy anything for a while.