August 2020 report
I beat another huge game in my library, which was pretty awesome. In the past two months I’ve only added one new game to my library and I finally hit 300 games, so I’m pretty pleased with myself. Currently fostering a litter of great dane puppies and their mom, I’ve only had them for two days but man they are vicious with each other. It’s hard to wean the puppies off the mom (They are 6 weeks old!) and keep them separated because she keeps jumping over the play pen to feed them and check up on them. I hope she gets adopted soon!
One of the puppies unfortunately is a Double Merle - if you don’t know what that is, you should read up on them - So I was really worried about her, but she’s not blind or deaf so I’m pretty happy. She is the smallest of the litter though, one of her siblings is twice her weight. She makes me anxious when she starts to wrestle with her littermates!
Fallout 4 is an amazing game… made by a shitty, greedy company.
It’s 220 years, give or take, after the bombs dropped and life as you once knew it has ended. You are the only survivor of Vault 111, the goal of the game is to find your spouse’s killer, your son’s kidnapper, and hunt everything down that stands in your way while doing it. You will make enemies, friends, and allies. Betrayal is a given.
This game is absolutely huge, and so very rarely are two playthroughs alike. Every named character you meet is interesting, has their own quirks, personalities, personal quests, and you can have so many of them follow you throughout the wasteland, the Commonwealth.
The biggest drawback of the game is the company, Bethesda. Bugs run absolutely rampant in this game despite it being released 5 years ago. Crashes and game breaking errors such as the pip-boy suddenly being unavailable, meaning no weapon swaps unless it’s on your favorites bar, no V.A.T.S, no quest details, no map. Enemies flinging themselves up 100 feet into the air, killing themselves via fall damage. Vital quest items falling through the floor under the map, and companions, vanishing into air. Sometimes, you are unable to turn in a quest, you get stuck indoors and the only way to fix is to reload your last save. Frequently making new save files is essential for playing this game.
Bethesda is also incredibly greedy. The base game typically goes on sale quite a lot, but the DLC’s do not have impressive discounts, leading you to buy the GOTY edition instead. The prices of the DLC’s, Far Harbor and Nuka-World, are almost as expensive as the base game itself. Then there is creation club.
Creation Club, or mods you need to pay for, is Bethesda’s response to people releasing free mods for Fallout 4. If something is made for the game for free, Bethesda will try and find a way to monetize it. Typically, the free mods were available on Nexus mods. You just needed a script extender to play hundreds at a time, but creation club updates kept breaking the script so it disabled a lot of mods, and many older ones needed an update to get around it.
And finally, I want to note that this is the second review I have made for this game, the last one in 2017 was just the base game review and with this one posted, I have officially played all the DLC’s and have 100% achievements. I still hate Preston.
You play as Aya. Your mother passed away a year ago and on the night of the anniversary of her death, you wake up startled to your father screaming! Aya must navigate her way through her childhood manor filled with her father’s evil experiments to rescue him!
Mad Father is a light horror game with a few jump-scares. Explore and collect/use items to further your progress. I’m not much of a fan of horror games but I did enjoy Mad Father and I recommend it to anyone who is just getting into horror games or to someone who plays the genre often. I didn’t have any difficulties playing and there are plenty of guides if you get lost or can’t figure out how to get that one achievement.
Roui left his homeland, Latori, to become a respected jeweler, but fell in love with cyphers and the mysticism of the world Instead. In the ten years he left his country, he became a recognized and popular author, and wrote articles for the Paranormal Patrolman’s Papers. After he got in some hot water with the Mafia, he returned home to his country and got a commission from The Baron to carve a wedding gift for his fiancé, a bracelet made of sacred wood. Strange things start happening after that.
The Crown of Leaves is a rather impressive kinetic novel/point and click adventure made by only two people. The updates are not frequent and as of now the game is unfinished, (should be an update late 2020 with chapter 2/3!!!) But I am very impressed with all the characters, art, and the storyline is intriguing. Absolutely recommend!
In a land far, far away - in a mmorpg, and to be more specific, Asaph Online - Viole the dark witch is the strongest, most fearsome and terrifying foe in all the lands. Offline however, she’s Kotone, a hard-working Lawyer who just wants a vacation from the mundane. Her wish granted by an unknown power, she falls asleep, and awakens inside the world of Asaph! Meet and flirt with Neve, the Darkling Maid! Fion, the puppy thief! Eleri, the righteous (and surprisingly cruel) knight!
I give Sakura MMO a solid “Meh.” The cutscenes are nice and I think it’s well written, even if whoever wrote this does seem to have a limited vocabulary. The MC Viole is a sadistic person but whenever she acts on it, she immediately regrets which is a bit silly for a personality. Neve is really cute and I like her dark character, Fion was a bit too soft and innocent for a thief, and I honestly just hate Eleri. Eleri is the morally good character who is a bit too stuck on her high horse and fancy’s herself as the Judge and Jury.
Although something tells me you don’t want to play this for the plot. Yes, there is a R18+ patch.)
Hopefully Sakura MMO 2 and 3 will be better!
You play as Kotone, a Lawyer from modern day Japan who wakes up as her character Viola, a dark and powerful witch from Asaph Online! It’s been a couple months since a mysterious otherworldly power transferred you over to this new world, and now that you’ve had your fun exploring, it’s time to get serious and find some answers! Your Darkling Maid Neve, puppy thief Fion, and surprisingly-cruel-knight-that-also-came-from-Japan guard dog Eleri, come with you to help shine a light on this mystery. Can you make it back home? Do you even want to?
Compared to the first MMO Violas personality has come a long way, and she’s not as apologetic which shows character growth. What really made me mad about this though was that whoever you romanced in the first game completely forgets in the second one. Why?!?! Should have had an option in the beginning where you picked who you romanced, Neve, Fion, Eleri, or all instead of dismissing it and making everyone forget it happened.
On another note… This VN was completely irrelevant plot wise and ends in a weird spot. Viola and Eleri try to find out who transported them into Asaph online by… taking a bunch of useless side quests? What do they honestly expect to learn from a gathering quest or “go kill x of these.” Quests? This whole VN was them taking a quest to find a missing diamond necklace for a wedding, but they took it on the assumption that “maybe they would find out why they came here.” When they could have done something productive like “go ask another witch.” (which is what they end up doing in the last 5 min of this which finally advanced the main quest.)
Yes, there is an 18+ patch you weirdos.
The Dark Witch Viola and Eleri finally figured out why and how they came from modern day Japan to Asaph Online! The reason it however, is not a good one. Due to some unfortunate circumstances, the world is now ending in two weeks and only those not from Asaph have a chance of saving it! No chance to back out now!
I LOVED this ending to Sakura MMO! A surprising twist and a satisfying ending that I was happy with! The translations are better and the characters showed a lot of growth compared to 1 and 2. Viola is no longer as shy and apologetic and Eleri, the-actually-noble-and-more-respectable-now knight has gotten stronger and shows more confidence in herself! Fion, the-puppy-thief, is still laid back, but she pays more attention now to the important stuff. An overall excellent way to end the series!! Yes, there is an 18+ patch.
AAAAAAAA I MARRIED NEVE!!!