Alastor

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It's a bit random but I've been playing Shadow Hearts: From the New World, the third game in the Shadow Hearts RPG series. Despite it being usually looked down on, I'm really enjoying it and I can't see why it's so divisive, Covenant is held in such high regard and the apple doesn't really fall that far from the tree (positive) in terms of tone and gameplay, suspect a lot of herd mentality if I'm being honest.

Also pacing myself myself on Donkey Kong, it's not that I think it's bad, I still think going on Kong Bananza rampages is crazy fun but I'm not sure I wanna' do it for a single extended session. It's crazy that the banana density is so high that 'one more banana' turns into like an extra hour or two though. I am going to play Mario Odyssey after this and I'll be surprised if it's a worser game overall like I've seen people say. Maybe I liked Odyssey more than most people apparently, but I'm going to bet it's recency bias a little bit.

On my 50th attempt to start Vagrant Story and not bounce off as well.

Want

Metal Gear Solid 3 remake soon, big day for me obviously. Also hovering over the purchase button for Splatoon 3, something tells me I'll love it I just won't get to play it as often as I want or think I will.

The more I think about it, the more I want to go back to Japan more than anything.

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For one, that fucking stupid UK law whatever that is requiring people to use ID for things like social media, I'm not fucking giving my ID to use Discord/Twitter, get the fuck out of here. I hear people are using VPN's to get around this so maybe I'll look into it, if they crack down on those then goodbye I guess. Already on Twitter people are reporting that images have been blocked with a message saying 'Due to UK laws this image has been deemed something or other', it's honestly really shocking to see this actually happening.

I thought Superman was pretty good, both leads were fantastic (in fact Hoult sold me on his Luthor mid movie) as were the actors for 'The League', I know nothing of the character but I've seen particular praise heaped on Mr Terrific and I agree, very good.

I thought it felt a bit like a sequel to a film that doesn't exist though, I think Superman spends way too much of the movie getting his arse kicked and being bailed out by his dog who, I dunno if this controversial to say because you know… Dogs are great, but is a bit too impactful to the movie almost. All these years and several films later and still nothing is as cool as the bullet to the eye and saving Metropolis scenes in Returns.

I dunno' how to say it but something about how the story unfolds doesn't sit right with me, the very first thing we see is text saying 'yeah all this shit happened lol' Then things seem to happen really quickly. Might spoiler tag some things when I'm not on my phone.

Not great, just 'pretty good' imo.

I enjoyed MKW for the most part but after some time apart I think I'd go back to MK8 before it, in future. The only reason I'd probably play MKW right now is because it's on my console and MK8 is on a cartridge and I'm lazy.

I just got that banaza and holy shit it's crazy OP, I know people consider the Bananzas kind of game breakey a bit but I let it slide for the most part because they're so fun but this one is so tempting to spam

I just want to play Dragon Quest X, there's a fan patch for most of the game so it's a case of taking the plunge at some point.