March 27th, 2025

Okay, I believe I just have something short for today: I was honestly fully convinced that Deltarune was going to be revealed in the Nintendo Direct today, it was so plausibly laid out by so many ... I'm starting to go crazy, it's been 3 and a half years please don't make me wait longer please I can't take it anymore. I CAN'T, I CAN'T! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. I've never been more impatient over the course of these years than right now. I need this game like I need umm... I don't know, like how I need to poo. Something. I felt it in my blood we were going to get Deltarune within the next few weeks, but now I'm afraid ... what if it's 6 more months?! I don't know if I can cope anymore. I'm going crazy, I'm going nuts. After I learned that the April 2nd Nintendo Direct was just going to be about the Switch 2, I lost hope and shoved it all into the Direct for today. It's been replaced with sorrow. Umm, on the bright side, there's a new Rhythm Heaven and Tomodachi life, which did shock me tickled pink. There was also a Raidou remaster trailer, which I hadn't heard about before, but I been wanting to get into that game, so that's quite exciting too. A trailer for Metroid Prime 4 was there as well, which I know nothing about Metroid, but I thought it looked quite cool. I really need to get into Metroid ... That digital game cart thing that was revealed is also quite awesome, a very rare Nintendo good. But, wow, my heart hurts ...

Sony also did not acknowledge Bloodborne's 10th anniversary at all, not even a tweet or nothing. I'm not really surprised, but wow, not even a tweet? You guys just DMCA'd those fan projects for no reason? I'll never forgive Sony for what they did to Bloodborne and LittleBigPlanet. Oh, a log so full of sorrow should have brightness within it ... I beat Orphan of Kos yesterday, which shocked me that I was on that fight for only a couple days. I was fully convinced I was going to be there for a week, maybe longer. It's genuinely the hardest boss I've beaten in Bloodborne. I'm on Laurence now, wish me luck ... But, the strategy that worked for me was: during his 1st phase, play really weenie-like and stay as far from him as possible, bait him to jump, and walk under him so you can turn and do a charged heavy attack on his back into a visceral. Is it kind of cheesy? Honestly, probably. But it's the only way I could get to phase 2, I never claimed to be the best of hunters XD. Phase 2 is just attack a few times, roll, and pray. Just pray you live. When he does the lightning attacks, lock off and run away ... but mostly just pray. Orphan of Kos is a genuinely great fight, but boy am I glad it's over with. Side note: I changed my Hunter's swag. He's been in the same classic Hunter outfit for the whole game, but I switched to the Yahar'gul set with the hood, cause I thought it looked cool. How fashionable.

Ok, that's all. Deltarune... Tomorrow? In 6 months? Who knows. I'm dying.

March 24th, 2025

And with that, today, Bloodborne turns TEN! It's kind of horrifying to think that 2015 was 10 years ago, but that's the way time works stupid idiot. I doubt Sony is going to say anything about it, but I guess we'll see later today. A Nintendo Direct is on April 2nd [Edit: and apparently March 27th?] as well, which I never usually tune in to Nintendo Directs, but I've heard some theories that Deltarune might get a trailer in it, and I feel it's plausible enough to tune in haha. Another exciting thing making the rounds is that a website domain for a Persona 4 Remake was registered, which is very exciting ... I don't really mind that a Persona 4 remake might come before Persona 6, as long as we get both, both would be incredibly incredible. A new Lain game is apparently set to release as well. Which, I saw some art for it that I didn't really like, and knowing that more recent Lain projects have been kind of rooted in crypto stuff, I'm unsure if I feel all too excited, but I am hopeful. Venom released today, and Robo-Ky makes a reappearance ... I wish he was a separate playable character, but I am glad for this too, because I also quite love Venom and his relationship with Robo-Ky. I also found out about these games called Drakengard through jokes about that closing song with the bells. Apparently, they're games in the same series as Nier, and apparently a lot of people say they suck, but in a bit of a warm way, like when people say older Resident Evil games suck.

I'm at Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne now, and I don't think I've felt this defeated playing a game since nearly two years ago when I was playing Fear & Hunger 2. I'm supposed to beat this thing ...? His hit boxes are so huge and his combos are quick, each hit takes half of your health, and he takes hits like a tank. I can't even get him to his second phase yet, and his second phase I'm sure is much harder. When I got stuck on the Clocktower fight in the original Resident Evil 3, I started having dreams about killing Nemesis. I had a dream last night that I had Orphan really low, and then my cleaver got stuck in his back, and for some reason that made it to where he healed half of his health bar. I'm going to get stuck on this boss for, like, a week or two, maybe longer ... it's going to haunt me, every boss in Bloodborne pales in comparison to this thing. He was born, like, 30 seconds before, imagine this thing as an adult! I didn't kill your mom! Why are you so mad at me!? Bloodborne overall isn't an incredibly difficult game, the hardest bosses in the base game are optional, and the only required boss I REALLY struggled with was Vicar Amelia. Even the other DLC bosses were challenging but not extremely hard, Orphan is an incredible leap in difficulty. I still have Laurence to beat, which I've heard people argue he's even worse than Orphan ... Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh! Okay, anyways, backwards to where I left off last time: When I beat Wet Nurse, the dream being on fire kind of frightened me, I wasn't expecting it at all. Upper Cathedral Ward was another frightening thing, I kept getting jumpscared by everything popping out from around corners. I beat Celestial Emissary first try, and I found it to be a silly fight that I quite liked. Ebrietas I think might be one of the hardest base game bosses. She was easy to figure out in general, except for her A Call From Beyond ... I still don't know how I dodged it on the winning attempt. I would consistently get her health down halfway, and then get one shot by that attack, it was so bad.

At one point in my many attempts in trying to beat Ludwig, I got a headache from it all and my cat named Dog (though, not said the same way) kept standing infront of the TV. I gave up after that and went to sleep. I got his first phase down pretty quickly, but his second phase was so difficult to understand before dying immediately. Later game, you really can't make many mistakes, cause everything takes half of your health in one hit XD. Ludwig's fight in general, but especially his second phase, is genuinely one of the most epic boss fights I've ever played through. I can't think of any other word other than epic. The theme, the high stakes, everything about it makes you genuinely feel like you're inside the game. At one point, I was nearly dead, and I let out a really guttural "DON'T DIE!" just by instinct. When I realized, it made me laugh. It's just a really good fight ... Living Failures was pretty easy, but very prolonged, I'm not the biggest fan of it. I really liked exploring the Research Hall, though. After that, I fought with Lady Maria, and it is definitely one of my favorite fights in the game. I suck at parrying so I had to learn the "dance" of her fight, which wasn't too terribly difficult to get down, but was very beautiful. I like the cutscene that opens her fight, the theme and overall design of the entire thing just makes it so amazing. I think Bloodborne might share the spot with Deltarune for my number 1 favorite game, it's just such an amazing thing that I wish Sony would do more with. If I huff copium, I believe Sony will make a sudden reveal tonight LOL.

Ok, I believe that's all, goodbye brotatos. If a miracle happens, I will mention it in an edit ...

March 13th, 2025

I've gotten quite far into Bloodborne. But, before I detail that, the Silent Hill Transmission ended a few hours ago, showing new teasers for Silent Hill F, and I have some things to speak of ... I wish we got footage of some actual gameplay, but I'm really interested in what we saw so far. It reminds me a lot of Fatal Frame and Siren, but I can still feel the essence of Silent Hill in the shots that we saw. All of the people working on it seem to be both extremely talented and fans of Silent Hill, so I feel confident in saying that the game is in good hands. I've never played a Higurashi game, but I've heard lots of praise for Ryukishi07 as a writer, so I'm very excited to see what the story might entail. I'm glad that Ryukishi07's work on Silent Hill F will bring in more potential fans that know him from Higurashi. Silent Hill F feels like the Resident Evil 7 of the Silent Hill franchise, or maybe what P.T. was going to be ... a complete reboot of established style, but the roots of the franchise are still intertwined within it in a noticeable way. So, I think it'll be interesting to see such a different take on Silent Hill. I hope it goes well so we get more Silent Hill games after this ... The older Japanese setting reminds me a bit of Pastoral: To Die in the Country, which is one of my favorite movies, so I'm quite the fan. "Find the beauty in terror" was something that was associated with the game throughout the transmission, and it made me think about perhaps the game might go into a feminine horror direction--a duality of both finding beauty in terror, and terror in beauty. I've been playing Bloodborne, can you blame me?! Perhaps it might have a theme, whether a main one or not, about the performance of beauty that is often pressured on women, and the inherent horror that might come with that. With Silent Hill, especially Silent Hill 3, already having themes of the horror that could come with femininity, I don't think its a long shot to say Silent Hill F might touch on things of that nature. ... Also, I used to be upset at the thought of a Silent Hill game not taking place in the actual town, or not having a character really connected to it. It's one of the reasons I disregarded Silent Hill 4 a few years back and a reason for my dislike of The Short Message [Which is a game I still dislike ... but not for that reason anymore, really.] But, in retrospect, you can only tell so many stories in one town. Silent Hill is more than just the town itself, though I do kind of prefer the setting ... I'm still excited to see what Silent Hill F has in store.

In Bloodborne, I'm on the Mergo's Wet Nurse fight at the moment, which I think this is one of my favorite fights so far from the theme alone. The lullaby that plays over baby cries, all while this death reaper specter thing is shuffling around in something that reminds me of a Beryozka glide, just feels so haunting. But, back to where we left off: I had beaten Vicar Amelia the next morning after writing that last log. I think I just needed to type out my sorrows to truly unlock my full power, and still so far she's been the boss I got stuck on for the longest. I had brought emergency Molotov cocktails into that fight, cause I knew she was going to heal right when I got her low, in which she did. But, I just pelted her with the six cocktails I brought and it brought her back down to where she was, and then I went in for the kill ... After Vicar Amelia, I went to kill the Witch of Hemwick, which I was quite appalled by the design [gameplay wise] of that boss. It's horrible, and it prompted my cousin to tell me that Micolash was worse. Which, in retrospect I do not agree with at all, but we'll talk about that when we get to him ... Paarl was the next fight, and the only fight I needed to use a summon on. I was considering skipping Paarl cause he was so agile that I couldn't react in time and it was annoying me, but it was almost a horrible itch to even consider skipping a non-chalice boss ... So, I used a summon to distract him while I pummeled his foot, and he died a couple tries later. In retrospect, with things I've learned since that boss, I think I'd be able to beat him now without the summon, but there is no shame in getting help on the hunt! I beat Shadow of Yharnam after that, which wasn't too terrible of a boss if you get them all as low as you can before triggering the second phase. Martyr Logarius was next, and I believe the reputation he has is deserved ... he had me screaming so loudly that I apparently frightened my dad into thinking I was getting hurt in real life. Sorry LOL (-__-') But, once you get parrying his moves down, he gets walloped quite quickly. The attempt before the winning one, I had gotten him down to maybe 2 hits left before dying, and I believe that hurt my heart and soul so much that I became uncharacteristically and personally mystically focused in that moment, indubitably. I continued Alfred's quest after that boss, and seeing him covered in guts was a bit disturbingly cool. Ahh! He died immediately after though. So, RIP. If you like a character in a soulsborne/soulslike game, don't do their quest.

Afterwards, I defeated Rom, which the groaning old guy, Willem, in the chair right before her fight has a beautiful outfit. I wanted to mention that, I think so many characters in Bloodborne have so much effort and care put into their designs, no matter how much of an importance they play into the story or how often you see them in game. I really like Yurie and Valtr's designs too, and many more ... Also, a bit of a side note, I like how Plain Doll claps when you do the Hunter's Rally emote x3 Anyways, I feel like Rom is a relatively easy fight if you are patient with her and don't get greedy when moving in to attack. Kill the first wave of little spiders, do as much damage on her until she teleports, and then avoid the little spiders while moving in to hit once or twice before moving back out to create a new opening. She dies quite quickly with that strategy, and the cutscene afterwards is so hauntingly awesome. After waking up, I stared at Amygdala on the ceiling in fear before running off to get two umbilical chords, which I heard you need to eat three to get the true ending, and to finish Eileen's quest. Bloody Crow of Cainhurst is difficult if you don't parry him, cause his gun does half your health in one shot. But, he's like Martyr Logarius, once you learn to parry him, he goes out easy. I hope Eileen is still alive, but knowing these games, I'm worried on whether she is ... Amygdala picked me up and took me away at this point, and her fight is quite the embodiment of work smarter not harder. I cheesed her, basically. But, hey! It doesn't count if it's not an OP build with a various amount of buffs and overpowered weapons and glitches, OK?! But yes, you can beat this boss basically standing still half the time. Stay behind her. When she jumps, stay completely still, and when she lands, hit her head once or twice before cowardly retreating back to her buttcheeks. Oh Amygdala, Oh Amygdala... I have that stuck in my head XD. The One Reborn was after that, which the walk to the boss was more difficult than the actual fight, but he looks quite cool so I shall give him points. Ahh, and then the fabled Micolash. I actually really liked his fight, the incoherent rambling and howling was a treat. But, seriously, even mechanically I found it to be a fun fight. Running around this foggy, insane labyrinth while this weird idiot is rambling and howling made me laugh a bit disturbed. I suppose it gets a bit annoying if you get lost or if he gets stuck in a loop, so I understand why so many people hate this fight, but that had only happened to me maybe one time out of the four or so attempts I took. When I had seen vague clips and read vague descriptions and complaints about this boss, I was expecting something like The End in MGS3, and I thought I was just going to get annoyed and whine for like 30 minutes, but I ended up really liking it. Ironically, most MGS fans like The End, and most Bloodborne fans don't like Micolash, and I am the opposite XD

Ok, away from Bloodborne, I've got more things to speak of: I've been seeing a lot about Monster Hunter Wilds, and the cheese naan, cats, and Gemma have caused me to want to play just a bit. I have fallen to propaganda. Another set of propaganda fueled urges I have fell to is the responsibility of Cookie Run Kingdom. I still haven't played it, but I've grown obsessed with Candy Apple Cookie and Black Sapphire Cookie, they're just so sweet. I don't know if I'd even really like the game, I don't really ever play mobile games. The last one I played was South Park Phone Destroyer like 3 years ago, if you don't count Roblox. But, will I fall to the clutches of a gacha game for those two? Maybe. Candy Apple reminds me a bit of Remilia, both her and Black Sapphire are quite adorable and I like how they're a bit of a duo. A couple days ago, I tried out a little bit of the demo for Berserker Khazan. It was very reminiscent of a souls game, so therefore very cool ... I kept trying to play it with Bloodborne's controls XD. Another game I saw coming out soon is Pathologic 3. Which, again, is a series I need to really get into. I quite love how Russian sounds, the Russian voice lines from Pathologic 2 are quite soothing, I think. That's probably weird to say ... But, yeah, I think I will get Pathologic somewhat soon to play, because I am quite curious about it. I'm still not exactly sure what you do in the game, but the look of it is enough to lure me in. The last thing before I depart: I decided to put off playing Metaphor until I can really sink my teeth into it, like during summer break, or when I'm not playing other games. Metaphor joins the ranks of TLOU Part 2 for games I once had in my playing currently list that I removed without beating them ... but I will get around to both, I will!

It's gotten to be late ... I am off like the wind now. Goodbye brotatos.

February 28th, 2025

Hi guys. Rage and sorrow envelops my soul, clutching and twisting upon my heart as the sting of its claws travel and burn my throat. I've been playing Bloodborne, which is probably one of the coolest games ever in existence. I had Vicar Amelia by her hairy butthole, barely a sliver of health, and the moment I let the aggression up a little to heal, she healed half her health bar and I let out a really pathetic, "What.. No.. Stop!" with a breaking voice, and then died immediately. You know it's really bad when you can do nothing but whimper and laugh. I'm in a lot of emotional turmoil. It was like this I guess.

I need to go back to my baby's-first-video-game jrpgs, I'm really hurting. The fight isn't even hard, I think I'm genuinely just kind of stupid. I am physically incapable of not dodging way too early. It's like when newborns come out the vagina they kind of fake drop them to see if they have reflexes. Vicar Amelia is the doctor fake dropping me, and I was born 2 minutes ago. I'm really acting like it. Ok, anyways, I really, really love Bloodborne. I've been a little addicted over the past week or so, and it tricked me into thinking I've become a bit of a baller gamer. I played like 30 hours of Elden Ring back when it came out as my first soulslike/soulsborne game, and I don't think I've had so much trouble with a game ever in my life. I still think Bloodborne is easier than Elden Ring, per 3 year memory, but I had beaten Cleric Beast and Father Gascoigne in the same night, and it really had me out here being like, "Wow, I'm probably a professional or whatever now haha." Well, maybe not that far, but I was feeling pretty awesome. I got kind of washed by Blood-Starved Beast at first, but it wasn't so bad and I got him in a day or so. Well, Vicar Amelia... I've been on this for like 2 or 3 days, it's really hurting my heart. It's not even hard I'm just so buttcheeks at this game bro. But, it's not impossible ... Margit back in my day had felt completely impossible for so long. I should get Elden Ring again and see if I still have trouble with it, that'll be the true test. The only reason I ever quit playing it was because I got 2 kittens. Like, the animal. They are cats now.

What a perfect game to eat chicken noodle soup to. I decked my hunter out in the classic garb, saw cleaver and all. I really love the artwork and design of this game, I will never get over it. A lot of it reminds me of parts in RE4, SH2, and DMC1 & 3, it's really tickling me. At one point, I let my insight get to 0, and Plain Doll was just sitting there not saying anything. I hadn't realized it was because of my insight, and I felt like I had entered a bit of an exe game, or something. I got afraid at one point I hurt her feelings and she didn't want to talk to me anymore, or I killed her or something, I dunno. I got murdered and kidnapped, in that order, at one point as well. I got taken to Yahar'gul, Unseen Village after a little cutscene. I don't know, it's scary ... I started Eileen and Alfred's questlines since I've seen that they have many fans. Getting to murder Henryk with Eileen was pretty cool, but I hadn't realized you could hit Eileen too until my cousin told me, so I was just swinging that thing around willy nilly. I got lucky she didn't get mad at me ... sorry. I've seen a lot of Micolash fans too, I really like that he's got that big cage on his head. It reminds me of Silent Hill or The Evil Within ... which is another set of games I need to play.

Another game that is a bit gothic with themes of illness and things that I need to get into is Pathologic. I see a lot of Fear & Hunger fans also quite like Pathologic. I think I'd end up really liking it, but I'm saving my money for Deltarune ... Pathologic and Touhou will have to wait. Dark Souls 3 and Postal 2 as well, I've been thinking of those. Ahhh I wish I was rich! Berserker Khazan comes out later in March, but again I probably won't have the green for it ... a demo came out that I have yet to play, I need to get on that. But, what if I like it so much that I can't bear not to play it, and I spend my Deltarune funds ...? I can't let that happen, but I'll probably still play the demo sometime soon haha. Some little rumors I heard before I depart: Shihoko Hirata said she was recording for an unannounced game, and so Persona 4 remake rumors have been crawling everywhere. Persona 6 or Persona 4 remake, or even better, Persona 1 & 2 remakes, I don't care! It's hype no matter what we get first! I hope they keep the voice actors for Yosuke and Adachi at least, I can't imagine a different voice coming out of those characters. A new portrait for Adachi would feel uncanny too, no matter if it was similar to the original or not. I drool and jump around in excitement, I think a Persona 4 remake would be so very awesome xP ... There's rumors about another Silent Hill remake after Bloober said they're continuing to work with Konami. The only ones that'd really make sense to remake next is Silent Hill 1 or Silent Hill 4, which I think both would be really awesome. I'm hoping they remake Silent Hill 1, not because I think it needs it, but because I really need people to care about Silent Hill 1. I need to try out Silent Hill 4 again after it's been some time, I do think I'd end up liking it nowadays. Ahhh, really truly so much to play ...

OK BYE CURSED BEAST!

February 22nd, 2025

Hi bros, I've gotten to be ill again. Unfortunate I believe, but It's ok ... I have more time to get school work done so I have more time to shart fart around haha. I'm writing this while procrastinating on an assignment actually, whoopsie poopsie. Over the past little while, I met a dude around my age who had Adachi's exact haircut. He always kind of smells like dog hair based off the two times I've seen him around. We fought together (friendly, combat sport. So sparring, really. But everytime I say spar while outside the actual sport I feel like I sound like a try hard wannabe mortal kombat styled sensei, even known that's technically the right term ...) and at the end of the fight he said "gg" which truly wrapped the mystique of this character up into a big red bow. I'm not kidding at all about his hair being exactly like Adachi's, it's not even me being a deluded Persona fan or nothing. He genuinely has the same haircut. But I just wanted to mention that guy, cause I keep thinking about how I truly hope to meet more characters like that in my life. I feel like this sounds like I'm trying to backhandedly insult this random stranger on my little blog, but I genuinely mean it when I say I thought that dude was cool. Even him smelling like dog hair I think added to it all. When you're in a sport where you gotta get all up close with strangers, I'm just grateful when someone doesn't smell like an anime convention. Trust me, I've smelled people who smelled like they rolled in pure, extracted-directly-from-the-pore, testicle hotdog sweat before coming. Smelling like dog hair is just a slightly funny quirk to me at this point. But, anyways, also over this past little while, I have been incredibly excited for Deltarune's release. I've been watching a bunch of theory videos while shaking around as to try not to puke in excitement. I was deprived of Deltarune for so long, I'm genuinely really ecstatic. Reminding myself of all the possibilities has only made me more pumped up, I really like the theories that Kris knows what happened to Dess, Kris might've died before we took control of them, and the Angel is either us or Noelle. I'm not all too sure on how plausible they are, but that kind of intertwined, mysterious, 4th wall break narrative is what im really excited to see continue.

I've replayed Chapter 2 probably three or four or five times over the years, but one thing I never played was the weird route. I remember trying at one point, but I gave up before I even really got anywhere. I couldn't bring myself to do it. Maybe one day I'll be horrible, but you're spared for now Berdly, Kris, and Noelle ... you're spared for now X - ) . But, with excitement for Deltarune, I started to think about how I should probably get into some Undertale inspirations, like Earthbound, Cavestory, and Touhou. I started researching some stuff about Touhou earlier this week, and I've gone nuts, I think. So many cute characters and cool soundtracks, I've grown to become a bit of a fan. After getting into JoJo and Touhou, I've realized everything is a reference to those two things, and It's blown my mind a bit. I had no idea Teto Territory borrowed from Cirno's theme until I was sifting through EoSD's OST and wondered why I recognized the song. Touhou even references JoJo, wow...! Before I talk more about Touhou, about JoJo references: I saw a clip from a game called Hi-Fi Rush where a character does a bunch of JoJo poses. With that, and upon learning that it's a "rhythm based hack n' slash," I've grown to really wanna play it XD (I should start using XD more) ... I actually wrote all that stuff last night, I feel like crud now, good morning. I slept horribly, I kept waking up in the middle of the night and trying to listen to some videos to lull me back to sleep as I tried to power through all dat snot and pain, and something in one of the videos that shot me awake was I learned that Xander Mobus, the voice actor for Joker in Persona 5, voiced Freddy in FNAF the Musical by Random Encounters. I just needed to mention that, it really made me lol through it all. The only thing getting me through this illness is pretending I'm a training RPG protagonist, and this is just a challenge to endure. It has me eating toast with nothing on it, what have I become? But, back to Touhou:

The Touhou games that most interested me when I saw them (cause I think they have the coolest characters) were the first three in the Windows canon: Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, Perfect Cherry Blossom, and Imperishable Night ... and none of those are on Steam, LOLs my luck. I've heard if you want to play them officially, you can still buy them through CD-ROM discs and download some fanmade patches to get them to work on modern Windows OS. I might do that, cause it'd be quite fun to start a CD-ROM collection. But for the games on Steam, I was stuck between playing 10 or 11 first. I heard 10 is a good starting spot, and 11 is a horrible one due to how difficult it is. I like difficulty, and Koishi seems like a sweetie, but I'm leaning more towards 10 at the moment ... I'll decide. Koishi and Satori remind me of Bedman and Delilah, also XD ... Oh, also, another cool game I found was Eternal Poison on the PS2. I don't actually know anything about the game, and I heard it's kind of poo, but the artwork is really unique for a PS2 era game. I'll have to check it out some more. I've played a bit more of Metaphor about a week ago, and the little cat in More's room is quite sweet. Little Plateau, I like the voice lines Will has when you pet him. There's this specific sound effect in Metaphor that sounds nearly exactly like the menu sound effects in MGS1, and everytime I hear them I point at the screen. I miss MGS a lot, particularly MGS2 ... I should get back to playing MGS and DMC sometime soon. I gotta play TF2 and more Sonic games also ... I still need to read TF2 comic 7 and watch Sonic Movie 3 too. Ahhh I'm lagging behind.

Before I go, as a kid, around 9 or 10 years ago, I'd always play the first Garden Warfare game. That and Little Big Planet 2 are games I really miss that I can't really go back to in the same way as before. Maybe Garden Warfare has servers up still, but I doubt many are playing nowadays. I feel a bit sad about it, I miss playing those games with my cousin and sister. But, yes, now is the time in which I must depart. Goodbye mr amigos.

February 11th, 2025

Hello friends ... young adulthood is a bit difficult, I think. It will only get harder. I still haven't had all the time in the world to play much ... especially since yesterday, but there's always the weekend. I have some things to mention though, and my website's 1st birthday is coming up, WOW! It feels like just yesterday I was laying sick on the carpet of my room trying to figure out how to center a div. If I had The World, I would've used it to figure out how to stop time for an hour or two so I can get all my school done, and then piddlefart for the rest of the day. But anyways, onto the little scraps of things I've written over the past little while: Some week over now and then, it snowed. Which, is something that truly never happens where I'm from. Last time I saw snow before recently was when I was in elementary school, which was awhile ago. But, the reason I'm mentioning this is 'cause I felt like I was Harry Mason, and it made me really miss Silent Hill a lot. I think perhaps I should replay some Silent Hill titles and get Silent Hill 4 for my PS2, since I am quite curious if I'd like it nowadays. I didn't a couple years ago when I played it for an hour or two, but distance makes the heart grow fonder. Speaking of PS2 things, I played some of GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, and it's actually genuinely fun. I mostly wanted it because I thought it looked funny, it's JoJo, and the artwork for the manual and box was fashionable, but it's actually a good game haha. Speaking of JoJo, I'm about halfway through JoJolion now, and I bought All Star Battle R. I downloaded the demo a couple days ago to see if I liked it, and it was pretty epic. It went on sale yesterday for about 10 dollars, so I bought it and I been playing it in little increments when I go on break. I been playing as DIU Josuke, and I think just the roster alone makes the game worth it if you're a fan of JoJo. The game is still fun to play against COM, so I think ... even known the netcode is puke, if you're a fan of JoJo and just want something fun to mess with, either by yourself or local co-op with friends, I say buy it on sale.

Persona 3 Reload's 1st birthday was earlier this month, and a sweet anniversary drawing with Makoto and Aigis was posted online to celebrate it. I really miss Persona 3 particularly, I need to play FES and Portable sometime soon ... I wonder when Persona 6 will be revealed, I'm starting to eat at my fingers like Kira during that one time he beat that kid's head in. Same thing with the next Deltarune chapters, everyday I wake up and wonder "is today the day?" ... It's kind of crazy to me that Undertale is turning 10 this year, it doesn't sound right. But, about Toby Fox, I found out that he's composing for the new OFF remaster, which makes me incredibly excited for it. The original OST will always be in my heart, and I think if it was anyone other than Toby Fox replacing Pepper Steak, I would be mad. But, OFF is another game I quite miss from childhood, so I'm gleeful to see it come back with a fresh coat of Toby Fox paint. Another thing I heard is that the MGS3 Remake got a release date for August 28th, which is quite exciting as well. A new trailer for the Guilty Gear anime came out recently too, which is another exciting thing! I quite miss Guilty Gear, I need to get to playing it again. Something poop that happened, though, is that all the Parappa tunes on Spotify got removed ... my playlist has a horrible lack of Parappa now. I hope it comes back soon, I really need to get the OST for the games on CD. I was watching a video that was about video game references in songs, and Childish Gambino once referenced ToeJam & Earl in "Bonfire," which is a game I've never heard of before. It's an action game for the Genesis about alien rappers, which tickled my fancy, and I've grown quite a desire to play it. Other things I've grown a desire to play is the Ninja Gaiden series, Gitaroo Man, and Katamari Damacy. All that new stuff is coming out for Ninja Gaiden and I'm getting a serious case of fomo, and Gitaroo Man just looks cool. But, with Katamari, I actually have a sticker of it on my computer because it came free with a Fangamer package, so I probably should stop being a fake fan.

OK that was just a short little update so it wouldn't be so long with nothing. I must depart, goodbye good amigos.

January 20th, 2025

There's blood coming out of my mouth, my eyes are crusty and bloodshot. My hair is disheveled and I look like I've crawled out of a cave. Happy belated new year dear folks, I've been so horribly captivated by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure that most of what will be written today is a near month old. I have limited free time since school began again, and a good gulp of it has been sucked up by JOJO! Nothing but JOJO! I think I might be going crazy. If you have been reading my logs for a little bit, you may remember quite the gap in logs around spring time when I got into Dungeon Meshi. It's happening again, but better now because JJBA has video games for me to slobber on. I want to play All Star Battle R and Eyes of Heaven so badly, even if the netcode is booty poop. [About fighting games, I heard Venom got delayed. Boo...] I finished Vento Aureo last night, the ending was quite insane and I think Giorno has become a favorite JoJo alongside Josuke ... and Joseph, I guess. Diamond is Unbreakable is probably my favorite part, but speaking about Vento Aureo ... In 2002, a PS2 game that retells the events of Part 5 was released in Japan. It was called GioGio's Bizarre Adventure, and I thought it looked quite bizarre. I bought it, but it has yet to arrive. I await impatiently, I want to play it on my CRT. The manual and box art I thought were quite stylish, the disc is golden and is decorated with Bucciarati, also. Even if I didn't want to play the game, I think I'd still buy it just to have something cool to look at. There's a 1998 fighting game that I saw as well. It released on the PS1 and seems to have a focus on Stardust Crusaders, which isn't my favorite part ... but I thought it looked quite fun and I'm thinking a bit about buying it too, since it's equally as stylish and cheap-ish as the GioGio game. I'm not sure if it was just me being really antsy to get to Part 4 or what, but Stardust Crusaders I think was really good at the beginning, then horribly boring for the majority of it. But, by the time gamer D'arby and Vanilla Ice showed up, it picked back up and got glorious again. DIO using The World during the opening, the entire ending fight, and just Polnareff in general made watching Stardust Crusaders worth it.

Now I'm revealed to be a faker. I decorated my website with Steel Ball Run but I'm still on Stone Ocean ... Haha, I'm just anticipating it, obviously I quite like cowboys. My username is a reference to Cowboy Bebop and space western in general, actually. That's a fun fact ... Anyways, yes, now time to take a bit of a dive into the past. I haven't been playing much at all recently, except for a day long roblox session with my roblox bro yesterday, in which was quite fun. I miss my PS Vita, JoJo gotta hurry up LOLs. Before I dive deeper, I found this Nancy Drew game that has quite the cool cover to it. I know nothing of Nancy Drew or even what type of game it is, but it's called Nancy Drew Shadow at the Water's Edge. The cover reminded me of an old survival horror game, something of Clock Tower, Siren, or Fatal Frame types. I beat Silent Hill 2 Remake on ... the 28th I believe. It was foggy that entire day, I think it was a rather appropriate time to beat it. I really loved the final bosses, I've mentioned this numerous times, but the way Bloober changed the boss battles really tickled me greatly. This remake, despite some flaws, I think really nailed it and completely improved on faults of the original. Though ... nothing will replace the original in my heart for being the game to scare me so bad that I had a nightmare after beating it. I somehow got the Leave ending, and I looked at the other endings on Youtube. Stillness and Bliss are some new ones exclusive to the remake, and I think they fit quite nicely in with the others. The change to the UFO ending made me laugh quite greatly, but I do miss Harry. I hope they remake Silent Hill 1, so people actually start caring about it ... In the Maria ending, the tone that James had when telling Maria to do something about her cough was quite haunting, very cold. It's just something that stood out to me, I think Luke Roberts did a really good job with portraying James. He sounded almost like he was threatening her, and with the context of what he did to Mary, he likely was. Lastly, I really like how, in the dog ending, James speaks Polish instead of Japanese. Quite the silly nod, it made me laugh.

I started playing Bloodborne as well. I really missed soulslikes, and the aesthetic is quite wonderful. I really love Plain Doll, her dress and overall design is beautiful. I named my hunter "Louis Ingrid III," originally dubbed Fart Guy. I wanted to go with something more on theme, though, so I picked some random gothic European sounding names, or whatever. Should've been Fart Guy, I regret it now. I started playing Metaphor also, another quite European game, in which I'll detail in one moment. But, last log I talked about how I fixed the PS5 that was originally in the living room. Well, I lied ... While playing Metaphor, it shut off and died out and I was so terribly determined to make it work that I tore the entire thing apart and cleaned the vents to the power supply, which I forgot to do before. It would shut off after playing around 3 hours of games specifically, and I haven't played Bloodborne or Metaphor long enough to see if clearing the dust from the power supply did the trick. At least it turns on still, I was really sweating about the ribbon cables. I would watch GameBoy repairs all throughout childhood, and every single time, people would desperately stress being careful with the ribbon cables. I suppose that never left me, even if it isn't a GameBoy. Anyways, about Metaphor: I really like the main character. Coming from Persona, it's a pure treat to hear him completely voice acted. Though, I find the name "Will" to be odd for him, he just doesn't strike me as a Will. The enemy designs are insanely cool, and I'm quite excited to learn more about them being humans. The 4th wall break at the very beginning makes me quite curious as to what may be coming as well, it reminded me of quite the similar occurrence in MGS2. I mention that Louis reminds me of Griffith, and that I quite like the voice acting of Gallica, as she sounds quite casual, if that makes sense. Metaphor borrows a lot from Persona, I noticed. With More and Archetypes, it almost feels like I'm playing some "Persona 0" game, or something.

Something I quite dislike, though, about newer Atlus games is how easy they are on normal. I understand that you can change difficulty throughout the story, and I don't think the entire game neccessarily has to be difficult, but final bosses should always pack at least a little bit of a punch. If not final, then second to last. And if they aren't difficult, then narratively driven out like Nyx in Reload and a couple fights in Royal. Otherwise, I don't feel like there's truly any pay off in beating them. You don't feel excited or relieved, it's more like: "Ok, what now?" Innocent Sin is one of my most favorite Persona games, but I think it particularly, at least for the PSP version, struggles with this. The final bosses were excruciatingly easy and short, with nothing unique to add compared to every other boss. I just don't think it let the ending really shine through and left a bit of a sour taste to an otherwise excellent game ... I don't feel like you should have to change the difficulty manually to feel the payoff of a final boss. But, about Persona:

PERSONA PROGRESS PART 6: I haven't played barely nothing, again cause of JoJo, but let me detail what thoughts I have so far about Eternal Punishment: I thought it was quite funny that the Persona 1 characters have their localized names from Revelations, [Saeko is Ms. Smith], and then everyone else kept their original Japanese ones. The battles are quite unique, I like how each party member is moving around the battle area, and how the attacks look quite impactful. I feel like it's what a turn-based JRPG fight in real life might actually look like. Maya's original voice sounds quite strange, and the bleeping of Ulala's swear made me laugh greatly. I like Katsuya a lot, but why did Katsuya and Tatsuya's parents do that to them? Why did they name one Katsuya and then, many years later, the other one Tatsuya. It's like naming your kids Ron and Don and they're 8 years apart in age. You couldn't think of something new in that time frame? Anyways, Tatsuya showed up at the clock tower in his ugly tracksuit, and I clapped in excitement as it seems he has turned into some cool delinquent vigilante. Later, Maya burns the emblem ... which feels a bit stupid to me at the moment. But, overall, I really like the scene where they're all at the dinner table, I do quite like Baofu. Mifune trail's music was so nasty that I had to quit the game out and cry, it's so beautiful. It doesn't sound like a song that would play in the woods at all, but I really don't care. I'll twerk to it.

Ok, that is all amigos. But, PS: I was thinking a couple days ago who would win in a fight, Kira or Adachi? Bites the Dust and Sheer Heart Attack are quite impossible, but I feel like Adachi has speed and range on his side. I think someone should make them fight in Mugen, if not already.