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It pretty much being Fire Emblem meets Octopath, this game was right up my alley. I did one play through and jumped to other games that were out at the same time, but I did enjoy it quite a bit. But between finishing what I’m playing now, actually playing TotK, and then with the Pokemon Scarlet/Violet DLC likely releasing just after that, I don’t know when I would have the time to go back and do a NG+ to play the extra content and go for the “golden route”. I didn’t try for it the first time since IMO part of the fun of the game especially on a first play through is seeing where your own choices based on your own assessment of the situation take you (if anyone’s curious I ended up with the Liberty/Benedict ending).
Good to see a win and a sweep, even if it was only a 2 game series. I was a little puzzled on the decision to use Jax as the closer, but glad it worked out.
I think part of the Pokemon situation is that there is still a strong competitive scene for at least some older generations on legitimate hardware, for gathering Pokémon if not for battling them (you need a gen 3 cart to get a legitimate Jirachi off of Pokemon Colosseum/XD, for example), so there is still high demand from the competitive community for many of those older games. Some pokemon can still be very difficult to get legit versions of without the older gen games due to them being only limited releases otherwise.
Redundancy (multiple instances making communities on the same subject) is a thing that’ll happen. I’m already subbed to communities on several instances dedicated to the same subjects. That can have an advantage, though, in that communities on the same subject but different instances can provide different perspectives on the subject depending on the makeup of the community in each instance (membership, modding, etc). Don’t like the community in one instance? Unsub from that one and hop on over to another one. Having one account able to access multiple instances allows for that. It can also help if one community or instance goes down for whatever reason, there may be another community/instance open where you can keep interacting. So I don’t see the redundancy thing as necessarily a problem.
Almost at the end of the vanilla portion of my 100-hour journey through Persona 5 Royal. That’ll leave just the extra semester/true ending left to play before I can finally move on to Tears of the Kingdom, lol. I tend not to play more than one game at a time, especially not really big games like P5R or TotK. Each deserves my full attention or I’d never finish them.
Let’s get Gray some run support for a change. He’s kept us in so many games that he’s ended up taking a no decision on because our silent bats can’t back him up. He’s a legit Cy Young candidate who may be overlooked because of that.
I used the same Ubuntu install since at least 18.04, possibly back to 16.04 (can’t quite remember if I upgraded to 18.04 as a fresh install), up until my upgrade to 22.04 from 20.04 failed. I took that opportunity to try a different distro, which eventually led to my current KDE Neon install.
Well, no FE4 remake this time. Probably too much to hope for so soon after Engage, even if Engage was just sitting complete on the shelf for 2 years. Just gotta hope for the next one. Still some fun games coming soon though, like Sonic, Batman and Persona 5 Tactica.