I’m so deep into summer vacation that I forgot it was the weekend! I got some Father’s Day gaming in today! I played Clank Catacombs with my oldest. Due to some crazy bad luck, he was killed twenty minutes into the game, so we started over. In my heart, it’s like we got to play twice.

Later, I played an Unlock (escape room in a box) with my wife and youngest. It was a mini-adventure, so it was only supposed to last 40 minutes. We had some trouble at the very end, so it was a good family hour.

I also bought Fortune Mill, an incremental game by the maker of IdleOn (an idle MMORPG). It sucked up almost all of my Sunday for only eight dollars!

We ended up playing Dominion and Ark Nova. Dominion was a quick deck-building game. Ark Nova was zoo-building game that was a beast that took five hours of learning and playing. That said, I loved it. I hope to play it again soon before I forget the rules.

I’m on the FFVII Rebirth train; Gold Saucer on the rear view, I’m just puttering around looking for Zonai Towers. Eventually, this game will drive me to finish Tears of the Kingdom. The local public library has the switch 2 edition for check out, so might as well borrow the upgrade that way.

Enjoyed the Lord of the Rings Adventure Book game with my wife and my youngest. It’s a fairly simple, fun, cooperative game that plays through the Lord of the Rings experience one chapter at a time (with some compression).

I ran tween D&D again. We are still in the lesson learning part of the game, so yesterday’s lesson was how during a battle, your attention should be on the threats of the combat to your allies.

Finished another Picross E+ DLC. I’m avoiding buying another while I have so many games open right now, but nothing joyfully passes the time like a podcast and a Picross.

Tomorrow I’m driving far to a fellow teacher friend’s house to celebrate the start of summer. I’m bringing my favorite board game Fog of Love.

“New” beginning? Knowing MonolithSoft, it’s going to be overflowing with callbacks. I know I recognized some of those environments!

I thought that too! Mostly environmentally…. Still haven’t played Three Houses. Maybe it is time to watch a play through.

I got the feeling they were inside a Dyson sphere. It felt like the ground was curved toward the sun, you know?

Also, did anyone else get the feeling that the school building looks like the building at the beginning of Xenoblade Chronicles 3?

By step back, I supposed I mean in art-style. I loved the look of Jet Set Radio and Wind Waker.

My secret wish is that Majora’s Mask is just included in the game. But more likely it’ll be a quick turnaround to capitalize on the live action movie.

I was a Final Fantasy teen when the N64 came out. I missed the whole generation and came back for GameCube.

I did have the GameCube special edition of Ocarina and Majora’s, but they felt like such a step back from Wind Waker and I was so busy with college that I just shelved it and never looked back.

This is definitely my worry, too.

Missed Opportunities Thread

If there had been one announcement I would have wished for, it would have been something in the Ace Attorney universe.

Maybe I’m seeing things, but during the trailer, I asked my son why they were dressed up like Bayonetta.

I was so excited to see and hear the original ninja game in this trailer!

But no launch date, right?

I was a little bummed about a remake instead of a new game announcement, but I just remembered I’ve never played any of the N64 lineup. Put me in the “looking forward to it” group!

I’m just happy to be on summer vacation and that I got to watch it live with my kids. The oldest won with his bet that they’d show off two or three farming sims (as opposed to the youngest’s bet of one or four).

I was really glad to get a release date for Big Walk. I thought Final Fantasy Resonance looked familiar: it’s a retelling of a mobile game’s story. Still looks good, though.

Hooray for Genesis!

Happy you got your wish!

My biggest take away from the new FFVII is how I wish I was playing Xenoblade. I’m right there with you, Rancher.

I came to Danganronpa as a Phoenix Wright superfan. For me, the draw of the trials was everything. But something weird happened partway through the first game as I found I was enjoying the parts outside of trials even more than the trials. I think it is because I cared about Phoenix right away, but in Danganronpa I grew to love the characters without realizing I cared.