dreaming on

I watched a Youtube video recently about why we don't finish video games, and one of their solutions was journaling about the game. It can be as simple as "stuff I accomplished today, stuff I want to accomplish next time." The key is that you can re-read that and get re-inspired PLUS re-oriented with where you are in the game, so that if you end up on a long break for whatever reason, when you pick it up again you don't feel lost and confused and end up like, what was I doing? what's going on?

So today I thought, "I'd better finish FFVII Remake soon, since FFVII Rebirth will be out in a few weeks." But it's been a few months since I last played it.

If I'd had a liveblog, I would have re-read my liveblog, and I'm like 95% confident I would have hopped right back in where I left off.

But I didn't liveblog it. And instead of picking up where I left off, more than halfway through the game, I was like, "I should start a new game and do actually journal it this time!"

And here I am.


PROGRESS: Heading into Upper Junon
Remake - Pages 1-5; Intermission - Pages 5-6; Rebirth - Pages 6+

I'm frustrated by Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town. I want to vent about the things I don't like, but I don't want to contribute to the narrative that it's not worth anyone's time. It is! It's an okay game. It's fun to play and easy to get lost in.

BUT... Marvelous outsourced the planning, writing, and development of the game to a third-party company. And you can tell.

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It's fun to play. I enjoyed it. But it doesn't feel the same.

Possibly because it was developed by a company called Three Rings Inc. They planned, wrote, and programmed the whole game. Their resume before this is one PSP game, two Nintendo DS games, the Nintendo DS port of their PSP game, and two phone games. Story of Seasons is their first console game. Their only other brag-worthy title is that they made a One Piece game in 2012. And that's... that's not brag-worthy.

Marvelous gave Story of Seasons to some random studio. And despite the high level of disappointment the game they produced has encountered, they've stated that they plan to continue working with that studio in the future.

Harvest Moon isn't Story of Seasons anymore. And now even Story of Seasons isn't Story of Seasons.

It's a little sad to set down my expectations for a franchise. I'll still probably buy the games. They'll be... fun to play. But they won't be GOOD. So going forward, I might be better off looking at the many promising indie developers on Steam that are doing amazing things.

I look to yoooou like a red roooose seeking the sun no matter where it goes

I've become very impatient to play this game and I'm excited to start it yaaaay. I have no idea what house I want to choose. I think I'm going to want all of them.


Currently: Blue Lion done

There is a 50% chance that this journal will be liveblogs and the occasional rant, going forward. I almost ranted about the all-female Lord of the Flies remake this morning, but I've lost interest in it by now.

Does anyone use Discord? Maybe want a server to chat about current events and/or fictional fandoms and/or just be dorks?

Anyway, I was blackmailed by a certain person to download the trial version of Mass Effect: Andromeda, and after a few hours of playing it, all I want to do is continue playing it, even though I only have a few hours left on the trial and by god I will not buy another game before at least finishing FFXV. But here I am...


Current progress: Arrived at the Nexus

The Plain Clothes Roxas medal:



Even in fluffy Twilight Town mode they chose to show him full of pain and rage and fury.
I... I just love my feral wolf baby so much. /sobs

Okay, well, I feel better. But I can't get a gif of Hillary Clinton's adorable shoulder shimmy and I am dying.

GO LOOK AT IT

It makes me smile so much

ETA: YES

Shut up.

I don't think people livestream Nintendo 3DS without equipment and expensive/obnoxious jury rigging, so, screw that, even if I wanted to. I will update this post throughout playing on my commentary etc.


Currently: Chapter 17

Support threads link for my reference

BLEACH IS OFFICIALLY OVER AND I WAS OFFICIALLY RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING

I WILL ACCEPT MY SHIPPING GOLD MEDAL NOW, PLEASE

With a special thanks to slayerofgod for his updates that kept me in the loop.

Stop reading silly vampire romance novels immediately. You haven't made nearly enough progress on FFX-2 or Child of Light. You won't finish them by the end of the year at this rate, and then you'll be behind on your gaming goal for 2015.

...but if I read 7 more books by Friday I'll meet my reading goal for 2015 on Goodreads...

How am I even supposed to deal with this weekend when I have Tales of Zestiria to finish, Master of None to finish, and now Jessica Jones?!